Re: tagging for dummies?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Akkana Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Edgar Luna writes:
>  >                        Then what you _may_ need to do are two things:
>  > 1) If that site reads from a rss or some kind of xml you create (or
>  > edit) a _template_ that provides with <tags> or something that it
>  > understand so you advertise that certain entry has some tags and make
>  > that site point to that template, just like you provide your rss or
>  > the index of your blog.
>  > 2) Or you make a script that runs on top of some clases of pyblosxom
>  > (that eludes web stuff maybe) and get the metadata in your entries and
>  > send on whatever way that certain site requires that you send.
>
>  I don't have one particular site that's asking me for a specific
>  template format. I want to have tags that are a normal format just
>  like people use on livejournal, blogger, blogspot etc. so that the
>  search engines who index my blog already will see my tags just like
>  they see tags on those other blogging sites.
>
I think that this article could be useful to you:
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931
I was talking about the implementation in pyblosxom (to get tags
working) that is the next step after that article. For example in my
head.xhtml I have:
<meta name="keywords" content="$tags" />

To use the $tags variable in my template I needed to configure a tag
plugin for pyblosxom (I had to tweak the one I use long time ago, I
can't answer how the actual options works).

The indexers (google) use that html-tag (meta) to get information from
your page, but what you says could be used too, is not in any standard
or something but could be used.

>
>  <a href="http://site.com/tag/$tagname" title="$title" rel="tag">$tagname</a>
>
>  except that wordpress uses rel="category tag" instead of rel="tag".
>  Some of them put the link inside a <li>, some inside a <div>, but
>  it seems like the <a ... rel="tag">$tagname</a> is the important part.
>
Sounds nice, maybe I could add it to my template too, doesn't hurt to
configure your meta too.

Regards,
-- 
Edgar A. Luna

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