Good Touch, Bad Touch; A How-To On Tags

Consider the world wide web. Consider specifically the amount of words printed each second within the web. How can we organize the relevancy of the online content flurry as it pertains to our own interests and how can we connect it with the interests others?

My post today intends to provide leadership amongst many explanations on the Internet to the better sources I found on what is a tag and how to use tags in your blog posts. But first, to differentiate between an oft-referred to idea of tagging; I don't mean this kind of a social tag!

We need to filter what we're interested in and share what may be of interest to others? Using tags is a good place to start. Tags are what the 'fancies' call meta-data which, simply defined, is data about data.

To use tags correctly, we must understand that the HOW and the WHAT of tags are mutually important; what tags are and how to incorporate them into our online work.

What's a tag? For example, if I published a post about the Haiti earthquake but specifically, I'm interested in what's happening to the needs of women with small babies or pregnant women imperiled by recent events. I would write and publish my blog accordingly but at the end, I could use some key words a.k.a. tags such as Haiti earthquake, pregnant women, or urgency so as to lead readers to my post and to organize keywords within my own blog.

This concept explains well what tags are and how they can be used effectively in our blogs. I liked it because it is simple and practical. Some people may need to top-up their understanding so, for a more in-depth written explanation on the what of tags, CLICK HERE.

Next is the HOW. Although tags are essentially very simple to input, we all learn differently so I've attempted to include the best how-to's for different learning types. This is the simplest pictorial explanation I found on how to input tags.

For a video explanation on how to tag, check out this video posted on YouTube.

Now that you're an expert, where can you practice your new savvy Internet tool? You can tag most things that you publish on the Internet. Other sites you can tag in addition to your blog include Twitter, Facebook, your mobile phone and most online sites that allow you to leave comments include a place to tag.

Here's what other two tagging pros have to say on the subject. Check them out as well!
Juggernaut Jaymes and Racey Rachael.

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