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As an SEO experiment, I started tagging (in addition to the categories at left) my blog posts about, I don’t know, 15 months ago. It’s impossible to measure precisely, but I don’t think it’s had a significant effect. Last month tag-based pages only got 823 page views, and a mere 123 visitors came from Technorati. There may be unknown ancillary SEO benefits to tagging, but now I just enjoy inventing peculiar descriptors for my posts (see, for example, .

Thanks to Ultimate Tag Warrior, here’s a quick tag cloud of the 200 most popular tags on this site. Keep in mind that this only reflects, maybe, one-eighth of all the posts on this site. There’s no frickin’ way I’m going back and manually tagging the other 4000-odd posts.

malta vancouver travel gozo video marketing hockey morocco apple cbc Canada web20 photos movies flickr tv nhl movie ebook music google gharb twitter toronto pr youtube wikipedia social media facebook Essaouira contest canucks web design victoria soccer rss review hotel green football weird water slate seo photo itunes conference book villa sports media history environment dublin capulet bc user experience shopping podcast ireland gnomedex climate change wired windows web 20 USA trailer theatre survey social media marketing second life search restaurant real estate question photography new york times laundry Italy iraq ipod hungary global warming future fun flash game education cinema chicago budapest boring site note books blog africa writing world of warcraft widget web game wacky voip telephony technology tags speaking seth godin school rabat q poll playoffs os x online northern voice microblogging mashup marrakesh mahalo living abroad links internet gender game fruit france food flash film expat eighties community commoncraft comment spam college clothing christianity charity cat canada day building bollocks blogging advertising zombies virtual worlds vienna vancouver canucks vancity valetta university tsn travis trailers tracking toilet telus talk sponsorship sicko rangers questions politics police pants once numbers novels myspace men macbook lolcats lazyweb laptop jellyfish invitation idea hollywood holiday harbour air frames flowers email ecommerce driving digg desmogblog comino clothes clever cats cars brands brand blogger outreach bbc babies austria article apartment addiction 2008

I’ve tried to be disciplined about not tagging entries with the same terms as I categorize them, but clearly I sometimes fail. I guess what happens is that I start writing about something, tagging each entry. Eventually I decide that it merits its own category, so I upgrade it. I might go back and remove the tags for malta, gozo, vancouver, travel, video, morocco and marketing to make the thing more useful.

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