What planas said. They're supposed to help with SEO. My two cents, I think the tags should be entirely relevant to each article. TDF as a tag on every single one would be superfluous. Adding the tag to an article that doesn't talk about TDF would do very little for the article's SEO since other words in the article wouldn't be very relevant to it. Google, for example, is pretty smart about ignoring that kind of tagging.
However, using it as a tag on software announcements like the recent beta -- that would make sense. ~Elliot On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM, planas <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 16:32 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: > > > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 16:23, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > > > To: documentation@libreoffice.org > > > Sent: Sat, 14 May, 2011 7:06:17 > > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts > > > > > > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 06:36 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> ________________________________ > > >> From: Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > > >> To: "documentation@libreoffice.org" <documentation@libreoffice.org> > > >> Sent: Sat, 14 May, 2011 2:44:54 > > >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts > > >> > > >> On 14/05/2011, at 11:31, John Shabanowitz <john...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > I think we're all still learning. I'm not sure either. When you make > a post > > >> > there is a box on the right side where you can click categories that > assign > > >> > categories to the posts. I think that is where that is coming from. > On my > > >> > computer it is "below the fold" of my browser window. If you don't > scroll, > > >> > you won't see the selected, recommended categories. TDF is selected > by > > >> > default. > > >> > > >> Ah, okay. I think we should untick it then on individual posts (when > choosing > > >> the tags we do want). Would be good if there is a way to stop it from > being > > >> ticked by default. > > >> > > >> > > > >> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> >> I notice that the last two posts on our blog have as one of their > tags "The > > >> >> Document Foundation" and I wondered why. Neither post has anything > to do > > >> >> with TDF. Was this a mistake, or am I still confused about what > tags are > > >> >> for? > > >> >> > > >> >> Jean > > >> > > >> > > >> Hi :) > > >> I think the tag "The Document Foundation" is still relevant because > people > > >>might > > >> > > >> be searching for TDF to try to get everything about LibreOffice. I > think that > > > > > >> in this sort of context TDF is the umbrella or think of it this way, > > >> LibreOffice is a sub-set of TDF. Obviously LibreOffice is the only > reason for > > > > > >> TDF to exist so it's a lot more important then that but outsiders > might not > > >> appreciate that. > > >> Regards from > > >> Tom :) > > >> > > > > > > Tom, it's the "LibreOffice Documentation Blog" -- why would they be > > > looking for items tagged with "The Document Foundation" on this blog, > > > unless they were looking for a blog post specifically related to TDF > > > itself? This is a genuine question. > > > > > > If I were looking for info on TDF, I wouldn't appreciate getting a > bunch > > > of posts about LibO with no info on TDF itself. > > > > > > Jean > > > > > > > > > Hi :) > > > Hmmm, i see what you mean but i think that the type of people that > would find > > > the blog most useful are likely to be people that have not heard of > OpenOffice, > > > LibreOffice or TDF ever before, ie well over 95% of office workers in > England > > > and the USA or well over 80% in mainland Europe. It's going to be a > few years > > > before any of those names are known more widely but people might notice > an > > > article about TDF or LibreOffice and just want to know more. > > > > > > > > > The blogs look like the sort of thing that increases people's > confidence in > > > giving LO a quick try, especially since it gives links to > documentation. > > > Blogging is a marketing tool. > > > > But if everything in the blog is tagged with TDF, what's the point? > > > > I don't know a lot about tags, but I thought their purpose was for > > finding things once you had reached the blog, not for finding the blog > > in the first place. I may be totally wrong about that, of course. > > There are other ways to help outsiders find the blog, including those > > who might stumble upon it by accident (by seeing a tweet about it, for > > example). > > > > --Jean > > > > > I believe tags are more search engines to use for indexing and blog > categories are for internal "filing" of the blogs. If I was looking on > the blog for information specifically about Impress I would find all the > blogs about Impress or whatever topics I was interested. The tags allow > search engines to know what the relevant search terms are for the blog > for someone using Google > -- > Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
