tags specific to your blog
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I noticed that the tags that I put on my posts are not specific to my blog – anything with a general tag such as “funny”, “music”, “random” etc. are thrown into a giant list of everyone who has tagged their post that. Is there a way to set the tags so that you only receive those specific tags from my blog, not everyone else’s?
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Only way I can think of is to have a totally unique tag. But the purpose of the tag system is for other people to find similar blogs so having yours lumped in with everyone else’s isn’t necessarily a bad thing. With extremely popular tags there’s a lot of noise. Can you set more specific tags (like technology jokes instead of jokes)? That way you’d be lumped in with blogs that are more similar to yours.
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Yeah, I figured having unique tags would do it, I was hoping there would be a setting or something that allowed you to make it for your blog only. Oh well!
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The tags under the titles of each blog entry are ‘global’ to the system, but if you use the tag cloud widget or just the normal categories in the sidebar, they are specific to your own blog. It is just the tags under the title of your blog entry that go to the global system!
Trent
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Believe me, you don’t want to disable the global tagging on your blog; it’s where your googlejuice comes from. It’s a very powerful tool for boosting your blog’s standing in search engines. As well, it helps people who are likeminded to find your blog. I’ve found and blogrolled many blogs through using it.
If you come up with a unique tag name you still get a global tag page for that tag, but there are no listings on it except for your blog. That isn’t guaranteed, though: a few months ago I saw another blog was using my patented “Operation Global Media Domination” tag!
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