I just finished organizing the See More Green blog a little better by tagging all blog posts. Tags are topics or subject categories that you can add to a blog post to give readers an idea of what the post is about and make it easier for them to find it later. I went through all of the past blog posts and tagged them, and also introduced a “tag cloud” that displays on the blog home page showing all the tags that have been used with the more popular ones in larger fonts.
Now when you make a new blog post you can add your own tags to it. On the “Add New Post” page, you can add “Post Tags” to the right of the post. If you start typing in a tag, the blog will suggest other tags that start with the same letters, which you can select if these are the tags you want or you can add new tags. The key with keeping tags useful is to not have too many and to not end up with multiple tags that mean the same thing. That means if “bees” has already been used, it’s best to use “bees” again instead of adding a new tag called “honey bees.”
You also don’t need to add a tag for every topic mentioned in a blog post. Generally the rule that I followed when deciding what to tag in the See More Green blog was to only add a tag if information was being given that would be useful to people a few months down the road or longer. So, if a post announces a workshop on composting, I would not tag that post “compost.” But if a post gives information about how to make compost, I would tag that post “compost” because that information will be useful to people in the future who are researching composting. Remember that people are going to see the most current information on the blog when they go to the homepage or the schedule, so they likely will not be searching through tags for information about upcoming workshops.
If you’re searching for information on the blog, you can use the Search box or scroll down to the tags on the right side of the page and select one that interests you. When you click on it you will see all of the posts about that topic.
Please comment here if you have any questions or suggestions about tagging or organizing the blog in other ways. Happy gardening!
