Does putting Technorati and other tags on your blog help

Sep 04, 2006

Right now I have no idea. On Google I was looking for a plugin to add Technorati tags to individual posts. Then it came to my mind, I haven’t read much on why do people put such tags on their blogs and websites?

So I searched for “what’s the use of technorati tags” and I found this very interesting post – the post had been triggered by this post on BuzzMachine. Anyway, the first link led me to this link and this further led me here, a post written to basically debunk this post. Before I write more I must mention that these are old posts.

All this scholarly discussion led me to a post about microformats.

So now do I know whether I want Technorati tags on my blog posts or not? I’m more clueless now. So the idea postponed for a few days.

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5 Responses to “Does putting Technorati and other tags on your blog help”

Rico
September 7th, 2006 at 2:49 am
Design-wise, I think it’s ok to place “Digg This” at the very least, but not more than two tags.

I believe these tags really do help, because if a reader likes your post, and he wants to tell people about it, all he’ll have to do is click the link. I’ve always believed that a blog’s success depends on how easy you make it for the reader.
Yuri
September 21st, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Hello there.

I was just been suggested using tags here.

I was wondering if Technorati tagging helps at all, because I don’t notice much traffic on the other blog I am running.

You setup tagging yet?
Yuri
September 21st, 2006 at 5:40 pm
“here” is here:
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com
/forums/index.php?showtopic=41151
&st=0&gopid=199171
Amrit
September 26th, 2006 at 2:36 am
@Rico:

I believe these tags really do help, because if a reader likes your post, and he wants to tell people about it, all he’ll have to do is click the link. I’ve always believed that a blog’s success depends on how easy you make it for the reader.

Hi Rico. I agree too many tags look jumbled but it doesn’t harm to put the important ones, even more than two, if you can put them without causing obstructions.
Amrit
September 26th, 2006 at 2:40 am
@Yuri:

I was wondering if Technorati tagging helps at all, because I don’t notice much traffic on the other blog I am running.

You setup tagging yet?

Hi Yuri. I don’t have enough data to make an educated guess about the traffic trend as I’ve just about started monitoring the stats. I haven’t set up the Technorati tags yet, as at many places I’ve read the categories do the needful. Thanks for the forum link