Does the tag option HELP or HURT?
@revellanotvanella (4033)
United States
July 12, 2008 10:11am CST
I was thinking to myself about this one for some time where at one time I tagged every one of my discussions but now I have stopped altogether. I wonder, is tagging everything making my dicussions TOO organized in a system that still has a long ways to go--maybe its better letting my discussion float the place here at mylot so people RUN into it and dont have to FIND it--someone correct me on this one if Im wrong but thats the only way I can gather it works. Do you take your chances and tag your conversations or do you feel like your conversations are better left alone and have a better cahnce of getting a response without a tag?
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
12 Jul 08
You have probably left out tagging this one Revellanotvanella. Did you notice that it has no Similar Discussions? This is the main purpose of tagging so that our discussions will appear at similar discussions - more exposure to our discussion and the more chances that our discussion will attract responders thereby increasing our earnings.
The right choice of tag words play a very important role here so adding a wrong one wont do this discussion any good just like you haven't added a tag. Let say you have tag this as 'tag' and I responded to another discussion which has the same tag 'tag' of course this discussion would appear at that discussion's 'Similar Discussion', your discussion would now have a chance to be responded.
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
15 Jul 08
My friend Ms Paid2write beat me in landing the 1st responses and I saw you haven't have tags and no similar discussions before responding. I notice just now that your discussion don't still have similar discussion?? I think the first tag has to do something with this, it must be a single word, so you see it has that effect. Since tag is one word, discussions with tag 'tag' like this may appear on the list as well as a discussion which refer to tag price which was tag 'tag, price'. Depending on how the word was use, it may list also unrelated ones, but it has the same effect - our discussion exposure which when responded means we earn more.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
13 Jul 08
This tagging thing is really serious, huh. How did you know I did not tag this discussion? Wouldn't tagging discussions together just by their similar words entangle discussions to unrelated discussion as well though?
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@paid2write (5201)
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12 Jul 08
I add tags to all my discussions and to all my responses. It will help other people to find them and it will bring the discussion up in search engine results.
Don't forget that if you don't tag your discussions, other people can add tags to it, and some of those may be misleading, so I always think it's better to get my own tags in first.
At myLot most people find discussions by email notifications, by their interests and by seeing them underneath similar discussions, so I don't see how leaving it without any tags would help a discussion, I think it would be more likely to get lost in the lists without being seen if it has no tags.
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@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Thanks all of you for getting me back on track. I was honestly starting to lose faith in the whole tagging thing. I also worried that if I tagged a discussion too much I would be limited my viewers but you all showed me that I was wrong in my assumptions. I was adding 10 tags to every discussion and will go back to doing so, do you add the maximum amount of tags to all of oyur discussions?
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@paid2write (5201)
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13 Jul 08
I try to add at least the first five tags and then people who respond can add more to the discussion.
@snakequeen (1299)
• India
12 Jul 08
It is my habit to tag all my discussions, irrespective of whether it is a one line or two line question! It helps the responder to quickly grasp the central theme or point of the discussions. Some times when respondig to people's discussions also, i use tages, but not always.
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@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Thanks for telling me that, I wondered if people even used them in this way as I would try to describe them in the best way possible.
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