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Tags. Are. Useless.

September 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

There.

I said it!

Next, I shall explain why..



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There Are 11 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Don on 11 September 2008:

    Well? What are you waiting for? Get to explaining! :lol:

  2. Comment by EelKat on 12 September 2008:

    I was just thinking the same thing!

  3. Comment by pyrmont on 15 September 2008:

    C’mon mate, are we for real? Or is this an attempt at Link Bait.

  4. Comment by cchiovitti on 18 September 2008:

    SearchMe spiders the tag pages and I was shocked to find just yesterday some recently crawled tag pages on…..GOOGLE. No kidding.

  5. Comment by Chad Timms on 18 September 2008:

    Interested to see what you have to say about tags and why they are useless.

  6. Comment by Kandi Humpf on 19 September 2008:

    I would love to know why you think tags are useless. They’ve always been difficult for me to write and the Google spider gets hung up on the html files that Blogger creates for labels.

  7. Comment by 0ctavias0fferings on 23 September 2008:

    LOL I feel like you got us here under false pretences ;)

  8. Comment by Timewarp on 27 September 2008:

    Thems some mighty big claims you be makin there, theres gotta be a hitch because Tags are far from useless, they’re essential for getting good exposure within squidoo even if google doesnt use them.

  9. Comment by gia on 8 October 2008:

    Is there a sequel?

  10. Comment by Roo on 12 October 2008:

    Well, we’ve waited a month now! The suspense is killing me!

    Tags maybe argued as of low value now search engines take the content into account much more than any metadate when indexing pages. But within squidoo there is still some good reasons to have tags, as they will help your lens get exposure on related lenses using the Discovery Tool.

  11. Comment by Sandy Davison on 17 October 2008:

    Tags are very helpful. One of my first lens is out there and I am sure it had a lot to do with the tags I entered. I am still learning and what I have paid more attention to lately is my statistics and what it says about tags. Thanks for this lens. Great job.

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