The Truth Behind The Tags on MyLot

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On MyLot I have noticed some people are confused about the tags they use for each discussion. I have decided to try and help all of you out. This might help you to better understand tag and classify your work. The tags we use under our discussions are considered specified tags. The more each individual uses a certain tag it is considered a commonly-used tag or tags. So here is how tags work. If you use a tag “mylot” for one of your discussions it is added to the indexing or discussions that use the same tag “mylot”. Tags help to classify your discussions on the site. Furthermore, tags make it easier for search engines to find your discussion/post or site entry. The main reason any sites uses tags is to help them categorize your discussions. Tags help the site to organize their entries to keep the site neat and tidy. Furthermore, tags are important for search engines such as Google. Your blog tags help to group your discussion together with other like discussions. On a website or social media site such as MyLot the tags we uses are important. The site looks at our tags and classifies our discussion. So whoever used the word “MyLot” as a tag will be grouped with other discussions using the same tags. So why do we see the same discussion each time we hit Explorer? The reason for this is your tags. If you look on your dashboard under “:Me” you will see a section called tags. These are the tags you have used on this site. You’ll see I have used the Tag – MyLot 82 times. MyLot uses these tags to understand us. What are our interests and what we write about most often. Therefore, they see that my top 3 discussion tags are MyLot 82 times, Garden 78 times and Dog 56 times. So now when I go to Explorer the first thing that MyLot displays for me is discussion they think I might be interested in based on my tags. So when you tag your posts, tag them correctly. Don’t try to use tags that don’t relate to your discussion. This not only hurts the site but you too. Search engines relay on these tags to find the different sites. If you use a tag like “unicorn” and your post is about garden then Google misclassified your post. This hurts the site’s efforts and gives them a black mark. Why because when the public is asking for information about “unicorns” and your discussion is displayed this hurts the site. People want to see a post about unicorns and not a post about something else. In the rules and guidelines MyLot addresses this issue. • Spammy, inappropriate or irrelevant tagging - Tagging your discussions, responses and comments is a great way to get more exposure for what you write! However, any tag you create should be on-topic. So if you don’t tag your posts correctly they can be reported and removed from the site. Currently I have seen a few people using irrelevant tagging on their discussions to see if they can get more people to read them. This isn’t how it works and considered inappropriate tags or tagging. Image source screen shot