By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

Tagging has become the ultimate way to externally describe a web site using metadata.

Services such as YouTube, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! MyWeb and del.icio.us use tagging to let users or visitors of that site define it beyond the content and met tags used by the publisher.

Essentially tagging is what people are saying about your business, and in terms of SEO, what better way to define a site’s relevancy or authority by cross comparing the on-site content to the tags given that site over multiple channels.

Del.icio.us has taken tagging one step further by letting its users add a Description to a tag. The original intent is to let users define the nonsense, slang, or web centric (think MySpace and txt lingo) terms they use for tagging.

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