Dear Ron Patz & others,
It was observed here that many blog entries which are added to your excellent website are actually lacking a category. Some do however have such a category/label. So it is assumed here that the editor on duty is assigning a category manually every time a new blog entry is added to your database.
It is much easier for readers of your great website to use those labels for selecting a topic. Otherwise there is a large pool of blog entries with no categories and users of your website may never find what they are looking for.
Since it might not be that easy for your editors to find out what label a new blog entry should get it is my suggestion that authors can add something like this to their new blog entries for instance at the top or the bottom of their new piece:
cat=eurozone or
cat=eurozone, france
out of a choice of valid labels from your website. (which can be published somewhere e.g. under your section "FAQs" and please mention how many labels can be attached to one blog entry)
At least for the time being as long as the automatic crawling process of your website isn't fully operational. When it works one day those categories can be 'hidden' in HTML metatags.
Proper tagging is the very least that should be done, given the resources.
ReplyDeleteI first posted some ideas in 2010 and updated it last January to 'celebrate' its 3rd birthday, both to explain why (I think) Bloggingportal is not evolving and to set out some of the technical solutions (federated search, machine translation, semantic web) which should be added to the human curation.