I recently read a post in the Cool Cat Teacher blog that gave 10 tips for effective blogging. Although I wrote about this article in the discussion last week, I decided to take one of those tips: tagging, and explain it in more detail. Tagging is commonly used in blogs, the poster creates a list of adjectives or keywords to describe, identify and/or to classify images or text within their post. The difference between regular classification and tagging is that the blogger creates the tag and uses it to identify how he or she wants their blog to be classified.
Webpages and blogs with identiacal tags will then be linked together, allowing users to search for similar content. If the blog iis made public, then the tag can act as a bookmark so that users can return to your content by searching for the keyword or tag or label placed on your blog. Of course, you want to make your tags relevant to the subject of your post, otherwise your post won't be very relevant for research purposes!
I've added a few tags at the bottom of my post. How would you tag it?
References:
http://www.webopedia.com/tagging
http://www.coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/10-habits-of-bloggers-that-win
I think your tags were perfect choices for your post. I never quite understood why we had tags except that they helped organize posts so we could search. I never even thought of how the author would want it to be classified or used by readers. Thanks for explaining!
ReplyDeleteCool. I always wondered what those were for.
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