Comments on: Review of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:27:29 +0000

Gamespot was referenced in my review, so I figured I would add them as a tag. I thought it would have been a good way to cross-reference and maybe gets some hits, lol. This was before I researched “good tagging practices” and before I really had any idea what my keywords were. Tags really should be search phrases or keywords that I want people to find the post off of. Categories are for inter-site navigation. If someone only wanted to see anything posted as reviews, they could click on the category up top, then subscribe to that particular feed by clicking the RSS button
and selecting the category view. Then they’d not have to worry about the other posts getting in the way.

Honestly, the flash tag-ball is a bit of visual flair. Neat little flash movable thing that people can play with. Not everything has to be business on the site. Good to have a little superfluous fun.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:02:24 +0000

This is the only article tagged with “Gamespot”… Why is it tagged thusly? Shouldn’t all your reviews be related to “Games”? Seems like setting the Category to “Games” or “Game Reviews” would make more sense… Or offsetting all non game posts with a tag “Personal” because the assumption is that those posts happen so infrequently that the end user of the site would not be bothered by the occasional personal post getting in the way of drilling down to the item they seek.

Also, the tag-ball thing is not helpful because even though it shows size relative to the count of tag usage, the 3d effect nullifies any information it carries. I wonder if WP has an alphabetical-tag widget thing rather than the popular “cloud” implementation. In that case, you could create a new WP page that simply displays the widget as an Index of subjects…

-Mike