Are tags beneficial? Browsing current options, there seems to be three options at the moment.

1. WP categories.- A basic tag system (picked from a dozen or so). Broad scope, clicking will return all posts that in some way fit the description.
2. Technorati tags.- Tag with anything you want, clicking will take you to the relevant Technorati page.
3. WP tags.- Again, anything can be used as a tag, clicking returns similarly tagged posts.

Option 1 is currently in use and I am not going to drop them. If I happen upon a post that interests me, I am likely to click the category link to see if there is anything else interesting and broadly related.

Option 2 will be useless for finding other posts by me, but helpful for finding those written by others on similar topics. It should also increase readership a bit, though if search results are anything to by, the increase in constructive readership is unlikely to change.

Option 3 seems pretty useless to me. The chances of reusing tags in sufficient numbers to make them work is unlikely, and they won’t help me find other articles.

I’ll try 1 & 2 for a while, after all I can always can the tags if I don’t get on with them.

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