What are Tags and How are they used?

Some people may not know what tags are and whether they’re important or not.
Well here is the long and short of it. Let’s start off with the definition. Tags
are a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information,
such as a  blog entry. This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows
it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags can be chosen by the
creator or by its viewers, depending on the system of course.

Within a blog tags allow authors to add free-form tags to a post, along with
(or instead of) placing  the post into categories. For instance, a post may
display that has been tagged with “concert and tickets”. Each of those
tags is usually a web link leading to an index page listing all of the posts
associated with that tag. The blog may have a sidebar listing all the tags
in use on that blog, with each tag leading to an index page. To reclassify a
post, an author edits its list of tags. All connections between posts are
automatically tracked and updated by the blog software; there is no need to
relocate the within a complex hierarchy of categories.

So in layman’s terms these tags can be used to find your article when the words
you used to describe your topic are typed in a search engine or within the
blog search tool. Very simple concept but really needed when your looking to
be notice. What’s important here is to use descriptive words that shed light
on the subject of your topic.

For example for this article I chose, blog, tags, how to, meta, spiders, SEO,
and keywords. Tip: no matter where you use your tags blog, website, youtube,
if your not sure what one to use remember the internet is an open book, just
look for an entry close to yours in subject to get some ideas.

~ by dreamteammarketing on October 9, 2008.