Suggestions for new tags

Do you have a suggestion for a new tag on the forum? First, review the master list of tags to make sure it is not already included on the list (either directly or encompassed in a broader tag). If it is not included, post your suggestion in this thread.

Because of something called "thin content" we won't be able to add too many new tags. As of this writing, we have 237 tags. In about a year, we will probably have closer to 300, but it will take a lot of work to get there. Coming up with the list we already have has been a lot of work indeed.

With that said, it never hurts to make a suggestion, and when it comes to making tags, the more feedback I get, the better.

The master list of tags is here:
http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/tags/
I also maintain a categorized list of tags that may be easier to get your head around:
http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/thread...t-way-to-help-this-community.8201/#post-45209

 

Hi Ellen, thanks for the suggestion!

Those sound like positive additions to the list. Here's what I came up with for wording. For each of the three, I tried to "keyword stuff." What I mean by this is that most people will search for keywords by just starting to type, and since we don't know what words they will type, we want to "stuff" the tag with different keywords, so the tag pops up no matter what they choose.

• cultivating positive emotions such as happiness, kindness and love
• the psychology of thriving - positive psychology (I put "the psychology of thriving" first because I'm concerned that people might not know what positive psychology is. I don't want people to apply it to threads that aren't actually about positive psychology, so I put "the psychology of thriving" first to be safe. This does seem like an important topic that is worthy of it's own tag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology )
  
• relationships attachment connection

How does that sound? I'd be interested in feedback on additional things that people might type when one of the keywords above is what they are looking for. (i.e. more ideas for keyword stuffing.)

 

Good idea. Resilience is such an important topic - for those who aren't familiar with the topic yet, it describes how well people "bounce back" after a challenge:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/resilience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience

To keep things quick, I went ahead and made the following three tags:

• cultivating positive emotions such as happiness kindness and love
• relationships attachment connection
• positive psychology - the study of thriving and building resilience

The final phrasing I used for the third tag just felt right and I bet that you would really like it, but if you want to offer feedback, feel free. There is only one thread with the tag so far, so it would be easy to change it.

Currently, there is only one thread each for the three tags, which is way too few for them to be useful for visitors or for Google. For example, if a visitor sees the tag on the thread and clicks on it, the only link they find will come back to the thread where they started. Likewise, Google will look at the tag page for them as "thin content" because there just isn't much there. If it decides that we have too much thin content, it would penalize us as a "content farm." However, these are important enough tags that we will need them eventually, so I'm confident that they will fill up over time. If anyone wants to search for appropriate threads to apply these tags to (just use the search box in the upper right and add the tag if you find a thread about the topic), that will help fix the thin content much more quickly.

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

Indeed. And they seem to like us. As of today, they include 10,834 pages on our site in their index. The number they include is actually always changing as they change their algorithms.

The most important thing to get them to like us is to focus on "quality." They have ways of measuring how long people stay on our pages and whether people like our site. Specifically, whenever someone clicks on a link to our site, Google can measure how long it takes before they do another search. This is referred to as "dwell time," and it is a powerful measure of how useful people find the site. If they hit the "back" button immediately and look for other sites, it's an indication that they might not have liked what they saw, so Google might not show that same page to other people. However, if they spend a long time, Google may conclude that they found what they wanted and show it to many more.

Likewise, if we develop a reputation for high quality content, this may increase our "click through rate" (CTR), another strong signal that Google uses.

The bottom line is that whenever someone types something into Google and one of our pages comes up as an option, we have an opportunity to impress the visitor from Google. If we impress them, Google will send more our way.

So far, we do pretty well. After all, just about everyone reading this probably found us via Google.

When it comes to tagging, this will help Google identify our best threads and show them to people who will find them helpful. This means more people get out of pain. We just have to be judicious in applying tags, because if we apply tags to threads where it won't help people, they will click the back button, dwell time will be low, and we won't have the opportunity to help as many people.

 

I just added forgiveness and letting go of anger

In general, I'm finding a number of important topics that need new tags.

 

Thanks, Ellen, that's a good idea. I made one tag for both the ANS and its two subsystems, the SNS (which helps us respond to stress) and the PNS (which helps us relax after stress has passed). The tag is "autonomic nervous system - ans - includes sympatetic sns and parasympathetic pns"