About Tags_delcious

What are tags?
Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on del.icio.us to help you organize and remember them. Tags are a little bit like keywords, but they‘re chosen by you, and they do not form a hierarchy. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and rename or delete the tags later. So, tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders.

For example, if you save an article about how to make a certain kind of cake, you can tag it with recipes sweets yogurt or whatever other tags you might use to find it again. You don‘t have to rely on the designer of a system to provide you with a category for French cake recipes. You make up tags as you need them, and use the tags that make the most sense to you.
This is great for organizing and finding personal data, but it goes even further when someone else posts related content using the same tags. You begin building a collaborative repository of related information, driven by personal interests and creative organization. For instance, to view everybody‘s bookmarks about sweets, visithttp://del.icio.us/tag/sweets. To see the most popular items tagged as sweets, visithttp://del.icio.us/popular/sweets.
If you don‘t get it right away, that‘s OK -- you don‘t have to. Tagging is pretty intuitive and can take some practice to fully understand. Try it and experiment a bit! There are no wrong tags.
How do I tag?

When saving or editing a bookmark, there is a field for tags. In this field, enter as many tags as you would like, each separated by a space. You may notice lists of tags underneath this form. Popular tags are what other people have tagged this page as, and recommended tags are a combination of tags you have already used and tags that other people have used. You are under no obligation to use these! They are only there to help you. What tags or words would help you remember this page a few years from now? That‘s a good place to start.
Learn more about saving bookmarks.Some examples of tagging
You can use tags describing an article or website‘s subject, location, name, category, people, places, ideas -- pretty much anything you can think of. The more tags the better! (Well, most people use from one or two up to five or six tags for an item.)
The only limitation on tags is that they must not include spaces. So if your web page is about a two-word place like "San Francisco", you may want it tag it as sf, san-francisco, SanFrancisco, san.francisco, or whatever else makes sense to you. You probably don‘t want to use commas, though, since a comma will be become part of the tag.
You can also use tags to describe metadata about the bookmark. For example, you can use asterisks to rate bookmarks. So a tag of * might mean an OK link, *** is pretty good, and a bookmark tagged ***** is awesome. You can tag something toread, or via:friend. Items that you want can be tagged wishlist, and links that might not be safe to visit at work can be tagged nsfw. A tag can be anything you want.
The most popular tags on del.icio.us
Here‘s a neat place to start exploring tags:a cloud of frequently-used tags on del.icio.us.