Business Blog Advice

In my last post, I shared a blog post from the CEO Blogger’s Club. In it, Linda Zimmer explained the technical how-to of tagging, as well as the benefits.

So what is tagging, anyway? I’ve offered a simple definition below, as well as links to related resources (including another great blog article by Linda Zimmer):

Tags: According to Wikipedia, a tag is “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.”

Tagging: So tagging is simply the act of assigning these keywords to certain pieces of information, such as your blog posts.

More information than you ever wanted to know about tagging:

• Tagging: What is it Good For?
• Tagging Gives Web a Human Meaning
• The Future of Blogs: Tagging
• Tagging Questions Answered
• Secrets of Tagging and Social Bookmarking in 2007
• Categories and Tagging in WordPress
• Why Do People Tag?
• Cognitive Analysis of Tagging (highly technical)

My take on tagging - Aside from creating blog posts like this one, I don’t give tagging much thought. As is always the case with technology in general (and blogging in particular), there’s a smarter way to do things.

I run this blog on WordPress, and I categorize my blog posts using WordPress’s built-in category features. This serves the same purpose as tagging, but it also benefits readers once they reach my blog, allowing them to quickly and easily search information by topic.

Hope you found this helpful.

~Brandon