Library & Information Services » tagging http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis We Bring Knowledge to You Wed, 22 May 2013 02:21:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No. http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/13/does-tagging-content-make-it-easier-to-find-with-search-no/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/13/does-tagging-content-make-it-easier-to-find-with-search-no/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:11:09 +0000 Ian McBride http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=27522 Continue reading →]]> I’ve received this question from several people now. Below are two videos from Matt Cutts who works on Google’s Webspam team explaining how tagging content mostly does not affect their search results. This also means that tagging largely will not affect how results appear on Middlebury’s site, since we use Google to provide our search results.

Tags

Tag Clouds

This does not mean that you shouldn’t tag content at all. Tags can still be useful for humans who want to find other posts and pages on a topic. However, if you want your page to be easier to find, your time is better invested in making sure that the content is well written, structured and relevant to a particular topic.

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/13/does-tagging-content-make-it-easier-to-find-with-search-no/feed/ 1 CTT Bookmarks Delicious tag widget http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/07/08/ctt-tag-delicious-widget/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/07/08/ctt-tag-delicious-widget/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:08 +0000 Bryan Carson http://sites.middlebury.edu/liscurriculartechteam/?p=6 If you use Delicious, can tag interesting things on the web and have them flow into the widget (at right) in our Curricular Technology Team blog.

How?

Tag the item “for:ctteam” so it goes to the ctteam Delicious account.

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