hi all im new to blogging and am unsure of some of the terminology. so what are tags and how will they affect / benefit my blog? cheers
Here is a good FAQ "The difference between tags and categories". http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/the-difference-between-tags-and-categories/ It talks about what tags are and how to use them "...They are free form words and generally describe your post in more detail."
Tags are like smaller parts of categories. Example, my category is Nokia Themes and my tags can be and are N95 Themes, N81 Themes, N80 Themes etc. All these are like subsets of my Nokia Themes Category which is a bigger, more generalized term. It helps you to spread your blog in the search engines because most search engines use that to categorize their incoming content. Also, it can act as your default Meta Tags to search engines
well i would say it is More effective .. from my point of Views Tags are just small CLusters of Words Which is easier to navigate from.
Tags are a feature of Wordpress 2.3 and above. This has been created to make your blog posts more and more content related.
True. But even you can use del.icio.us to create a TAg Between you just went Off the Topic. as the topic starter Asked something else. isnt