A couple days ago, we had a brief discussion in a sort-of related thread about using tags. I just realized that that thread was in the Back Room. While it's open to anyone who wants to join, not everyone chooses to enter the Back Room. So I'm bringing this out into the general forum for everyone.
One way to get more 'hits' one the search engines is to use 'meta tags'. More hits means more folks finding us, and hopefully liking what they see, and staying around for a while.
Making tags is easy, especially for the original poster. Right below the box where you type your post, there is a section called (SURPRISE!) "Tags". You can put up to 5 key words in there to help the search engines find your post. This especially useful with recipes and food questions.
For example, if you make turkey nachos you could put in turkey, nacho, ground turkey, Mexican food, turkey nacho, appetizer.
Anyone can add 2 tags, but the original poster can put in 5.
If we all try to remember to put in tags when we create a thread, I think it will help more of the search engines to find us. If you are reading or responding to a thread that doesn't have any tags, (you can tell by the little blue price-tag-looking-thing in the index) feel free to add some.
I've been trying to add tags to anything that I come across in Today's Posts, but if we all try to do this, we may find our membership growing!
Ya'll gonna try???
I don't see a place to add tags .