For sometime now i’ve been meaning to investigate Christine Davis‘ plugin “Ultimate Tag Warrior” for wordpress. The main reason for this is the benefits¹ that can be acheived by participating in things like technorati.com.

The main concept of things like technorati is that by tagging and searching using tags more acurate searches with more reliable results can be found, instead of relying on plain language search string matches through content that may or may not be relevant. You can be pretty sure an article tagged with seo is going to be about search engine optimization, while one that is tagged as audio probably won’t be. This kind of search is particularly more useful when searching blog content, and more inline with the way a network of blogs works then the “conventional web”.

Installing the “Ultimate Tag Warrior” was mildly straight forward, there is plenty of info out there that helped to solve a few of the problems that popped up. I still have on problem with re-writing URLs so that I can have my “tag” archive pages appear under jaredquinn.info/tags/sometag instead of jaredquinn.info/index.php?tag=sometag - but I’ll get this fixed up soon.

If you do need assistance installing UTW, you can try these sites:

• Jarrod Trainque’s “Turning Wordpress into a tag based blogging app”
• Lorelle VanFossen’s UTW Info

If you need assistance with a UTW installation, I am available, Contact Me and we’ll discuss your requirements.

Whats Changed at jaredquinn.info?

The “Blog Archive” page has been renamed to “Browse Archive”, and now lists the Tag Cloud (or balloon) at the top, the Date Archive list and the Category Archive list. These may one day be seperated into seperate pages, when or if it becomes required.

Each previous post has been tagged with some relative tags, this will help eventually when I am able to claim this blog at technorati.com, which I have been unable to do as yet.

Wrap Up…

Again, there is no point attempting to drive additional traffic to a site unless there is useful content for people, firstly no one is going to point links at useless content, and unless the content is relevant, useful and fresh, you may as well have a static page that gets updated once a year and not a blog. At least that is my theory on it.