Yeah if you put the tags in the content of the posts they will get indexed and search should find them, keep in mind the body of the posts are searched when you search in "posts" so if you are only searching for titles they wont show up.
Thinking more about TAGs...
-
TAGs is very useful and powerful for helping user discovery contents.
I am thinking about 2 new Tag features which may be useful for many use cases:
(1) Category-specific Tags : when user go to a specific category, we can show a set of Tags relevant to that category only (if we have more than 1000 tags , it's not good to show some unrelevant tags for that category).
(2) Tag navigation: for example - we have 2 tags: one is "New York CIty", another is "Sushi", how do we support the use case like this: user click tag "New York CIty" -- it show lots of topics being tagged with "New York City", but the user want to further narrow down to see all posts being tagged as "Sushi" -- but only those topics/posts also being tagged as "New York City". our current tag navigation seems not support this kind of use case yet.
my 2 cents.
-
-
@julian for #1, "top tags" in a category - just show top N in case too many tags in that category. that's great. i am wondering how to let user specify a category-specific tag when user post a new Topic.... or maybe only allow admin to pre-define a set of category-specific tags.....
for #2, "NY" tag and "sushi" tag intersect.... the issue i am not clear is when it start and end the tag intersect/combination when user navigate the tags in a session... -
-
@miluo Well in that case, tag A and Tag B would point to the same topic. If Tag B is being displayed when you're browsing through Tag A, then tags A & B are contained in the same topic. Perhaps at the top should be something like
Tag A x
Tag B x
, if you don't want Tag A anymore, close it, and you're left with just tag B. Then you can define a different Tag instead. -