Effective Tagging For Both Usability & SEO

... In this era of Web 2.0, it seems that blogs, mash-ups, RSS feeds, and wikis have been the buzzwords occupying most of the limelight. But personally, tagging is the Web 2.0 technology that excites me the most, because of its versatility and wide applicability. A tag, according to Wikipedia, is " ...
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Nov. 15, 2007 at 8:10am Eastern by Stephan Spencer

Search Friendly CMS Does Not Equal Search Optimized One

... as tags. I have witnessed first-hand the power of tag pages to help boost search engine-referred traffic: within several months of implementing tagging across our corporate website, we saw a doubling in our page views! This sort of approach could be applied to many other types of websites&mdash ...
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May. 17, 2007 at 8:46am Eastern by Stephan Spencer

Search Illustrated: Tagging Explained

Tagging is the Web 2.0 version of adding metadata to web content, but with an interesting user-generated twist that the earliest forms of metadata lacked. A W3C recommendation document defined a set of meta tags for web content, including the "keywords" tag. This tag allowed a content owner ...
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Jun. 5, 2007 at 8:35am Eastern by Elliance

Will Tagging Replace The Dewey Decimal System?

I've long held the view that while tagging can be useful for improving some types of searches, tagging also has problems that can inject noise or ambiguity and actually muddy search results. Nonetheless, tagging is clearly not a fad, and it may even eventually replace hierarchal indexing systems used ...

Feb. 5, 2007 at 1:14pm Eastern by Chris Sherman

Tagging Isn't Indexing: A Study of Del.icio.us Tagging

... an image in Flickr, a link in Del.icio.us, a video in YouTube? Have you used tags in these systems to find similar pictures or pages or videos? Is tagging is taking indexing away from professional indexers, and putting it into the hands of amateurs. Have you used a tag to indicate that you want to read ...

Jan. 4, 2007 at 1:40am Eastern by Bill Slawski

Spock: People Search With A Man + Machine Approach

... language processing with machine learning and they augment this with human involvement—both community input and editorial oversight. Tagging provides a unique twist on the search for people. As Singh points out, your search can turn into a discovery. You may initially search for information ...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 4:29pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Mine The Web's Socially-Tagged Links: Google Social Graph API Launched

... know what apps will make use of this data, it's a bit early to worry. One chief advantage that Glazer said that may emerge is that if people do more tagging, it may be easier for them to go to any social platform and have their profiles be autofilled. Indeed, even if they don't tag, this could happen ...

Feb. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon Founders Headline Search Marketing Expo - SMX Social Media

... >Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites >Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites >A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging >Effectively Leveraging Social Networking >Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM See the complete agenda or register today and save $200 ...

Aug. 9, 2007 at 5:59pm Eastern by Search Engine Land

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 2008

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Aug. 6, 2008 at 4:55pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

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... - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites • Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites • A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging • Effectively Leveraging Social Networking • Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM See the complete agenda SMX Social Media ...

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