Re-tagging comments welcome
I still have a couple surprises left from when I talked about several upcoming site changes in my 100th post. They are underway and I think you will like them both.
One of them has to do with a change that should make it easier to find more posts on the site you want to read. Thinking through that change also got me to thinking on my current tag structure.
As you know, tags are another way to group blog posts to help describe the content and facilitate searching. In fact, tags are very similar to categories and the two can be very hard to separately define for most Internet users. Without getting into a debate over it, the combination of categories and tags gives bloggers a great degree of flexibility over how to segment, present and organize their blog content.
On this blog, I’ve tried to keep the categories tied to major content themes for the most part (Entrepreneurship, Personal Excellence, and Positive Leadership).
Tags then I tried to use to offer a finer segmentation of information under each of those themes. The trouble with tags is much like the trouble with tribbles, they just seem to grow and grow and never do anything.
So I have two general questions for readers of this blog:
- Did you ever pay attention to the tags used in blog posts? If so, did you ever click one to see more posts with that tag? On other blogs that you read, do well-crafted tags offer value to you as a reader?
- If I were to re-think the tags I use on this blog, would you have any input or thoughts you would like to share? More tags? Less tags? Hey Dave – I’d like to suggest the specific tags you should use for a category.
I am serious here that I am looking for your input. I know I won’t get many comments or responses, but if you have an opinion or comment, please share it with me via a comment on this post, or my contact page.
Another way of asking this question would be: “For the category that most interests you, what kinds of specific sub-topics would you most like to read about?”
As always – I thank you in advance for your replies. For those of you that would like to contribute a quick thought, but don’t have the time to leave me a written comment or reply, following is a quick poll whose responses will help me think how to approach the topic. (Feel free to check multiple options).
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Dave the tags are helpful for browsing articles in your tag cloud. I don’t pay attention to tags when reading an article.
They serve a useful purpose.