Technorati Tags
Technorati can be a great tool to use for blog promotion. It’s simple to add tags to your blog. You can either check to see if your blog software supports tags, install a Wordpress plugin, like Simple Tags, or add tags manually to your post. Using Technorati tags will ensure that your blog post is filed and indexed with them. Not everyone is sold on the idea that Technorati is worth the extra work needed to tag their blogs. Deceth over at WebDevNotes talks about his feelings on the subject of using Technorati tags.
Tags can be thought of as categories. In fact, if you are not tagging your stories, your category might be used as your tag. This can be fine for some posts but if you have a “general” category or “MISC” then it really doesn’t tell what the post is about. Tags should be short and sweet, usually one word will do the trick. I like of tags to my stories this way. I think of the game show Password in the final round where the one teammate can only give one word clues to get their partner to say the phrase on the big money board. If I write a post about a subject, what words have I either used or what words would get person to think of this subject.
I believe Technorati is here to stay, or at least as long as blogging is around. So, using tags in your post could be a wise move to garner traffic and exposure through Technorati.
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