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  wineandgold · Member · Mar 3, 2010 at 4:50 am

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  can someone explain what tags are? How do you put them up? Also I am blogging about the Cavs and was wondering how I make my background a cavs picture????

  JD
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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2010 at 5:19 am

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  On tags:
  Tags and Categories are keyword terms that are used to index, locate and retrieve information in libraries or by using search engines.

  External search engines “see” tags and categories as being the same thing. Read more here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/

  Categories are like the Chapter titles on a Table of Contents of a book. Tags are like the index terms that are found in the back pages of a book. Both are based on keywords or keyword phrases that naturally occur in any written language.

  Whenever you get confused about categories and tags pretend you are in a library looking for a book on a specific topic. Ask yourself this: What words would I use to find the correct book on that topic in that library catalog?

  Change the word “book” to blog and you will know how to find a blog on any specific topic by typing keywords into a search engine and getting back the results.

  When you assign a minimal number of categories and tags to a post you are selecting the keywords that you think other people would type into a search engine and find your blog with. They are important. Choose them carefully and do not overuse them.

  I don’t know what “cavs” are but if you can make a header image you can upload it into your theme.

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  wineandgold · Member · Mar 3, 2010 at 5:27 am

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  Thank you and Cavs are short for Cleveland Cavaliers ( Porfessional Basketball team).

  JD

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  wineandgold · Member · Mar 3, 2010 at 5:30 am

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  Make sure to check out the blog also.

  JD

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2010 at 5:39 am

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  I hope you understood my explanation. When assigning tags and categories never think in terms of “more is better” because it isn’t. The aim is to use the least number of relevant terms as are possible to accurately describe the contents of any post and more than 10 tags is overkill.

  P.S. I despise team sports but thanks for the invitation. lol :)