If you still don’t get what tags are, the best explanation I’ve seen is this oldie/goodie post at Boing Boing. In simplest terms they say:
“Technorati Tags are like Del.icio.us Tags and Flickr Tags — they’re keywords you assign to your stuff. If you tag a Del.icio.us link with ‘Toronto’ and I tag a link with ‘Toronto,’ Del.icio.us will figure out that we’re both talking about the same thing and feed both links to anyone who’s searching for new links about Toronto. ”
Read more from this January post: Boing Boing: Technorati Tags: three great services on one page:
Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.
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