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Getting Your Lense Noticed In Search By The Use Of Tagging

I was trying to figure out how to locate the highest value tags the other day and noticed there was really not an easy way to find out the best ones on Squidoo. What do I mean by this? Well, certain words are better than others and make it easier during a search to locate what you want. Higher value tags will appear larger when doing this search. Apparently, this had been a home page link at one point and then was put onto another page. Why did I want to do this you might ask?

Tagging along with the title seems to be a really important way to increase your search strength within Squidoo. This is commonly known as search engine optimization. These are not the only things that help search engine optimization, but they do help a lot.

In Squidoo, you are going to have to choose a primary tag and then you will also have the option of using what are labeled other tags. The primary tag should be close to your lense title. What is funny is that when I check the "health" of my lense, I still notice that even if I use a lot of the words in the title and put them in the primary tag, that it still might show up as "needs work"

See the links in the Cloud Tagging section for further reading.

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So What is a Tag?

A tag is a keyword (also known as metadata) that describes some sort of information. It can be used with any media; text, audio and video. The tags are created by the individuals who created the media or those that have viewed it. On a website where many individuals contribute to the tagging, the collection would be known as folksonomy.

The tag is used to help organize and manage your data. Instead of placing a lense in a folder you tag it and then people that search using those tags and effectively have a better chance of finding it.

Cloud Tagging

Here you will find the hottest tags
1) in the last 24 hours
2) in the last week
3) and of all time (Squidoo)

Another option is to use an add-on tool for Firefox which will help you find potential tags when searching on Google and Yahoo. Load the tool and restart your browser. Use a keyword from your lense and enter that into Google/Yahoo for some other ideas to put into your lense.

Here is an example of a cloud tag from Squidoo for the last 24 hours on a specific date. Notice that in the last 24 hours that affiliate marketing,books and squidoo seem to be the most popular. This is based on the size of the words.

affiliate marketing amazon art artist book books business children diet education food free gifts health home business internet marketing kindle make money online marketing mb7art money music network marketing shopping squidoo thewholeedcatalo travel weight loss work at home work from home

Here are links that will help with identifying keywords based on the use of tags.

Squidoo Cloud Tagging: How to find the best tags for your lense on Squidoo.
Firefox Add-On :Search Cloudlet for Google and Yahoo 0.6.2.50: How to find additional tags for your Squidoo lense.

Identify The Best Tags To Improve Your Search Results

Once you have reviewed the tags, identify the best ones and use either a word or short phrase. I like to try and use what I think will be the minimum number of keywords that will also get me the most specific hit in search that matches what I am looking for. Now, go back and look at your title and see if there might be a tweak or two that can be done to improve that even further. I do not know the search criteria used by Squidoo, but generally there should probably be a higher weight to the tag and still some weight to the title itself.

If you use all the ones that are offered in the lense, click on add more tags to create another box.

These tags will become meta tags for your page and will also picked up by the search engines.