Comments on: Tagging With Emotions Not Common Sense http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Mon, 20 May 2013 15:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeneane Dot Net » Blog Archive » Context-Based Tagging http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-907619 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:52:48 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-907619 [...] Allied, March 2006) From Lorelle on my exploration of context-based tagging: What do you think of that? It made me a little ill, and [...]

]]> By: taxonomy versus folksonomy at meta BLOG http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-796120 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:01:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-796120 [...] well, if the user enforces a discipline on themselves. Ultimately, a gigantic cloud of tags is as useless as an enormous list of categories, but either one applied consistently and selectively results in a [...]

]]> By: Are Tags Working For You? « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-652336 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:42:08 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-652336 [...] use a serendipitous method of using any combination of words that someone might just stumble upon and discover their blog while digging through tags. The odds [...]

]]> By: Tags Arrive on WordPress.com Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-623091 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:57:19 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-623091 [...] Tagging With Emotions Not Common Sense [...]

]]> By: Are Tags Working? : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-422437 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:35:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-422437 [...] seen many bloggers tag without common sense, using strange combinations or words or concepts or just mindlessly coming up with some [...]

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Keywords « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-33224 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:03:01 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-33224 [...] Tagging With Emotions Not Common Sense [...]

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Tags, Tagging, and Categories « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-32308 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:09:45 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-32308 [...] Tagging With Emotions Not Common Sense [...]

]]> By: Lorelle on WordPress » Abuse: Keyword Spamming versus Tag Spamming http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-13621 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:21:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-13621 [...] In other words, trust and self policing. The tag services and social bookmarking services are relying upon you, the user, to add tags that “make sense”, relate to the content, help the visitor, and don’t abuse the system. They also work hard to promote the myth that in order to be effective, the tags must link back to their services. Eventually, like everything else, there may be rules, but right now, it’s a free-for-all when it comes to tags. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-3549 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:50:32 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-3549 I found your idea of categories as TOC and tags as index immensely helpful as I started tagging last week, and I also weeded my categories from 16 to 8–and I think I need to narrow them down a tad more. So far, my strategy for tagging has been to look through the post and think about how I would describe the “big ideas” in one or two words. Then I also think about names of people or other keywords that I want to use that regularly show up in my other posts so that the “related posts” generated by UTW are useful. That’s works so far–and I’m hoping to refine the process more as I write more (I’ve got 61 posts so far).

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-3546 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:41:42 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/tagging-with-emotions-not-common-sense/#comment-3546 1. “Matching” with the millions of “tags” found by Technorati doesn’t matter. When you publish a post with WordPress, a ping goes out to Technorati (and others) through Ping-o-matic. Technorati comes crawling your site looking for tags. When it finds one, it adds it to its database.

2. Matching tags with Technorati isn’t important. Matching tags with what people are searching for, like keywords, is more important that what tags are in Technorati. When choosing tags, think about people will search for the content in your post.

3. Providing links to Technorati in your tags invites users to leave your site to find help elsewhere. Links to Technorati helps Technorati. Just remember that.

4. Tags, categories, site maps, most recent posts, and most popular posts, all of these are navigational aids. You can use them however you want. Personally, I like the idea of using categories as an outline table of contents and tags as like an index reference. From there, it’s up to you.

Search engines find all the words, whether or not they are tags, in your content when they crawl your site. Tag services used to find only tags, but now they are also crawling for keyword content, so tags are losing their importance by the actions of Technorati. Use them however you wish, now. They are all just content.

I’ll have more on this topic that will help you understand how keywords and tags are, and aren’t, different. That might help clear things up. Good luck with your new blog and let me know what you come up with for your tagging and category plans.

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