One of the oft overlooked promotional tools in blogging is tagging. Tags are words or phrases that you use to associate to your blog post. An article on the Kizuna Satellite for example could be tagged with Kizuna Satellite, satellite internet, or plain Kizuna. Sometimes folks can be quite lazy in tagging their posts so some very smart guys came up with ways to make tagging blog posts easier.
If you’re a wordpress user, you’re in luck, there’s a wonderful plugin called Simple tags. This is a really cool plug-in that will automatically suggest tags for your the blog post you just created.
If you’re with blogger, then it’s just too bad. Well, not really. Zemanta is your solution for those tag suggestions. I have been using Zemanta for a while now and has been satisfied with what it does.
One important tag that a blogger should always associate with their posts are Technorati Tags. This allows your post to be categorized under Technorati. You benefit from having Technorati tags in your posts via tag searches made in Technorati. Here’s a very good discussion on Technorati Tags that I’ve read.
Again, if you’re a wordpress user, here’s a Technorati Tag plugin that makes life very easy.
For Blogger users, you may have to follow the instruction in the above linked discussion or, you could use this nifty service where you just type in the tags you want, click on the make code button, and then copy-and-paste the resulting code in you blog post.
The thing to remember really is to ensure that you don’t get crazy lazy and not put in any tag in your posts. By so doing you miss out on one of the simple promotional tools out there.
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i used to be lazy in putting tags on blog posts. when i changed blogs for the nth time, i decided to might as well do it. it does help in “filing” entries, though i really don’t know much about proper tagging as my labels tend to be so specific sometimes, and so broad with others. still lazy to do more research on that. hehe! but maybe i can read on your links sometime. thanks though for shedding light on tagging.
Hey Anj, no problem. I think tagging your posts would pay dividends in the long run.