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Just Tag It!
Tags - Revolutionary or Just Folly?
Just another trend or something else?
Trends happen overnight! Some catch on fast and explode very
quickly into our every day use.
Most of these trends you can ignore as silly folly or at the
most fine amusement. Anyone remember pet rocks, Farrah Fawcett
hairdos, or last year's killer fashions?
Others, you have to pay more attention to: cell phones,
digital cameras, mini-sites, optin lists, or email.
Right now, there's another trend you should keep your eye on:
'tags'.
What are tags? And why should you care about them?
Tags are a way of sorting and linking all that information in
blogs and RSS Feeds. It groups together all the information on
one particular subject.
It's a democratic 'search engine' for blogs.
Think of a 'tag' as a 'keyword' to be used in blogging and RSS
Feeds (Feed tags are still in the works).
Tags have hit the radar lately because Technorati, which
indexes 4.5 million blogs, started sorting blog posts by using
tags.
They have created a folksonomy, drawing tags from different
sources, mainly Flickr.com which sorts or groups pictures and
from del.icio.us -- where you create a tag when you bookmark a
page.
Or if your blogging software has categories -- this will be
recognized by Technorati as a tag.
If you want to create a 'tag' it's very simple; just place
this code in your blog:
Computers (remove asterisks in actual code)
and you will have created a tag for computers.
A tag makes it easier and faster to find information on your
favorite subject. It gives you a cross section of real views and
opinions floating in the ether.
There are some inherent problems in this system; will the
posts grow so quickly and so large -- it's like 'finding a needle
in a haystack' or will you have to dig thru a lot of muck to find
the scattered diamonds. Or maybe a ranking system will be put in
place but this goes against the 'democratic code' of
blogging.
Regardless, the traffic and marketing potential of 'tags'
could be very beneficial to those who use it to their
advantage.
A marketer with a product to introduce or promote could
aggressively target tags as part of their advertising budget. As
blogging increases in popularity -- it's something to watch!
As a website owner -- tags could be a great source of targeted
traffic. And the keyword here is 'targeted'.
It's the kind of visitor you want coming to your site or blog.
It can only lead to a better quality visitor. Similar to a
visitor coming from the major search engines. One that is really
searching for your information.
The next big question, how will marketers exploit these tags
to make a few bucks? Everyone knows that's coming!
Will we have a 'tag search engine' that can rival the quality
of a Google or Yahoo? Or do we need one?
As with any new trend -- you never know how it will play
out.
Some interesting questions have yet to be answered:
Tags are basically keywords for blogs -- but as everyone knows
the quality of links to these tags are not all equal. Will
someone step in and rank these or will they remain
democratic?
Just how will tags work for building content or links to your
site? How will the search engines use these tags? How will
marketers and advertisers exploit the potential of all this
content and the content's viewers?
Will we have tag-spamming? (Just what we need another form of
spamming!) Someone flooding these tags with thousands of links to
get traffic or sell a product.
Not to hype it too much but there's a real 'we're entering
unknown territory' feeling with blogging and RSS lately. Heady
days for those keeping a close watch on the events unfolding.
There are countless applications probably already in the works
for tags!
It could be the start of something big or it could just
fizzle.
In any case -- keep your eyes peeled to that cursor! There's
probably a tag on the end of it!
This trend may just offer more than fine amusement.
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To Create a blog within minutes - visit this link:
RSS
Report and Create Blog Guide.
Copyright © 2005 Titus Hoskins of bizwaremagic.com.
This article may be freely distributed if this resource
box stays attached. Visit http://www.bizwaremagic.com
for more simple solutions to your online marketing tasks.
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