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[|Ayana Anderson]

[|Tags] (as it relates TO blogs): are keywords by which you can describe the content in the [|blog]post you write. These can be keywords which people use to [|search], mis spellings, alternate spellings etc..

What are tags used for? Tags are used to classify and identify an item. The difference in a typical directory classification though, is that tags are user-created, meaning //**YOU**// decide who gets grouped in whichever way suits you. You might 'tag' MyBlogLog as **cool**, **social**, **blogs** and **friends**. Or, you might tag it something less flattering. Sure, it would sadden us, but the tags you use to classify items are entirely up to you. As more people tag an item with the same word, the tag will grow larger and **bolder**. When you see a giant tag, you can be sure that the word is in some way relevant to the item it is being used to describe.

[|How to create a tag in your blog?] When you create a blog post, right after you enter the title, you'll see a box labelled "tags". Tags are keywords and short phrases that you can use to describe your topic. Be sure to separate each keyword or phase with a comma. (In the example above, one of the keywords we've added is "bloggingforchange".) And if you want to check out other posts that use the same tags as you do, have a look at the "hot topics" block at the bottom of the left-hand column. Each of the words or phrases in that block is a tag; the bigger the type, the more people have used it. Click on one of the tags, and you'll see all the blog posts and changes linked to that tag.

How tags were made for blogs: Technorati was the driving force behind the push for tags on blogs. Its goal was to take on Google and Yahoo and change how we searched for information. Instead of just putting in a specific keyword or phrase, we could actually drill through related content with tags. Tags would be nested under general to specific to help you find the information you needed. While in theory this is great, drilling through random tags and groupings didn’t speed up the search process, only bogged it down.



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