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Old 02-10-2008, 12:10   #1 (permalink)
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I for one don't really use the tag field on posts.

Why should I ?

on wordpress there is a nice little plugin that gets suggested tags from yahoo.

Any thoughts on that ?

What are the benefits of me adding tags manually ?
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I don't see all the fuss over tags, anything the user can control is just something else to fill searches with spam
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well as was pointed out to be ... tags allow deep linking ...

So I understand them. Do I agree with them from the end users point of view ... no idea ... I only fill them out on my blog posts from time to time cus it gets automagically added to the Meta Keywords I think if I do
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If you don't set tags manually on your posts I've a script running every few hours that will automatically tag the posts for you.

The tags are a very handy for categorising posts on a topic basis
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The other thing with tags is that they help for pulling in deep crawls from the likes of Googlebot
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