This is the second and final part of our discourse on the practical use and application of tags in our Hive posts.
In the first part we explained what tags/topics are and we gave different samples of tags as seen on Hive. We also gave the different Categories of Tags, and this includes: Community Tags, Tribal Tags, Relevant Tags and Popular/Trending Tags.
For Tribal Tags we said you can use the following tags for any content of good quality and plagiarism-free:
| Tag | Token |
|---|---|
| #neoxian | NEOXAG |
| #pob | POB |
| #vyb | VYB |
| #palnet | PAL |
| #archon | ARCHON (but best in photo related contents) |
And we also said there are some Tribal Tags that can only be used for Specific Contents:
| Tag | Token | Content Specification |
|---|---|---|
| #leofinance | LEO | finance and crypto related contents (posting through leofinance.io frontend is highly recommended) |
| #sports | SPORTS | For Sports related content |
| #stem | STEM | For Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths related contents |
| #ccc | CCC | Creative Coin – For contents that have to do with creativity such as crafts, art or photography, among others. |
| #diy | DIY | Do It Yourself (DIY) – For contents that deal with creativity also |
| #splinterlands or #spt | SPT | For Splinterlands related contents |
| #battle | BATTLE | For blockchain games |
| #ctp | CTP | For contents that deal with marketing, business and other financial contents |
| #food or #foodie | FOODIE | For food related contents |
If you haven't read that post you can do so by clicking the image below.
From our last discussion, we can see that there are different categories of tags. All these categories should be considered when we want to make a post.
In my opinion, you can follow the order this way:
You can put out only 2 or 3 tags, or you can put out more, but ensure to make it maximum of 10 tags.
You cannot publish a post on Hive without a tag, hence your first tag is your primary tag. From ecency.com and leofinance.io frontend, the first tag will be the community’s unique id or real account name (as we have seen earlier). It is very important and it cannot be modified after posting your content. Hence, ensure that it is either the community’s tag, contest tag or very essential to your post.
Your first five tags are also important as they help in categorizing your posts on Hive. In other words, if you intend to search for the post later on, you can only find the post using the first five tags you use. That is why using Relevant tags will come in handy at this spot.
NB: You can use only one or two relevant tags if you want. But they should be placed within this position (as members of the first 5 tags)
Whereas peakd and leofinance frontend allows you to select a total of 10 tags, some other frontends may be different. However, I advise that you stick to maximum of 10 tags.
For the other tags, you can place other related tribal tokens, popular tags and optional community specified tags.
Let us try out some examples:
NB: I am not all perfect in my use of tags!
In my post titled HOW USELESS ARE YOUR NFTS, these are the tags I used:
#nft #blockchain #neoxian #oneup #wavio #ctp #vyb #pob #leofinance #india
In the Splinterlands Battle Challenge I made, titled: Tenyii Striker: The Deadly Sneak Lord, these are the tags I used:
#splinterlands #spt #leofinance #neoxian #oneup #ctp #thgaming #pimp #pob #hivegc
Let us create sample placement of tags for the post: "LOVE AT FIRST KISS," a post for Dreemport & ecency & scholarandscribe challenge. The challenge tag is "des" (representing all first names of the project organisers). To be posted in Scholarandscribe Community
NB: I just created this challenge -its a fiction, based on what happened earlier
Suggested tags arrangement
#hive-199275 #des #romance #love #dreemport #ecency #scholarandscribe #writing #neoxian #pob
I guess you can analyse why I chose those tags.
I hope by now, you have a better understanding of what these tags are and how to use them efficiently in your posts.
At this juncture, it is important that we know the uses of these tags so that we better appreciate the use of tags, and we use them deliberately.
Using the right tags gives you audience and visibility and it does this in the following ways:
I clicked on the #introduceyourself tag
The contest tag is #hive-extreme, searching for the tag will show the entries.
When you make a post and use some tags, your posts can appear in other frontends on Hive.
For instance, my Splinterlands Battle Challenge titled: The Lost Battle with the Soul Strangler: My Regrets – What I should have done better, I just made a single post from my peakd frontend with the following tags.
#splinterlands #spt #leofinance #oneup #neoxian #palnet #thgaming #nft #ctp #hivegc
Because I made use of these tags, my posts gained visibility on those frontends. This implies that, people who are used to accessing those frontends will definitely view my posts.
Below the post, you can also see that each frontend has its unique tribe token in the voting side. Hence, a vote from any frontend, will give you a vote from all front end, if your voter has staked tokens of those coins.
If you don’t know about this frontend, you can visit them. Your Private Keys will grant you access to these frontends. However, verify all frontend before you use them, so that you don’t fall a victim of scam.
Hence, while you earn Author Reward for your Hive/HBD tokens when you make posts on Hive, you earn Author Reward for the Tribal Tokens when you use the tags. For some tokens you may earn 50/50 liquid and powered up; and for others 100% powered up.
Also, while you earn Curation Reward when you vote posts, which its power is based on your Hive Power, accrued by Staking up your Hive, you also gain Curation Reward when you vote posts that use tags which you have the Staked Tokens of that token.
Hence, staking up your second layer tokens will do a great good to you.
So, here are some of the frontends on Hive, if you care to check them up.
Hive Blog – www.hive.blog
Peakd – www.peakd.com
Ecency – www.ecency.com
3Speak – www.3speak.tv
Leofinance – www.leofinance.io
Splinterlands – www.splintertalk.io
STEM - www.stemgeeks.net
NEOXIAN – www.neoxian.city
Palnet - www.palnet.io
ARCHON – www.archonapp.net
TRIBALDEX – www.tribaldex.blog
PROOF OF BRAIN – www.proofofbrain.io
In as much as tags has so many advantages and benefits accrued to using them, it is important that we learn to use them at the appropriate time.
Using them carelessly or inappropriately may get your post to be muted or downvoted. You can also be queried by Hive Watchers for doing so, and get your account in the blacklisted book. I know you don’t want this to happen.
For instance, we all know that tags like #myintroduction #introducingyourself are used when Newbies make their first post. There are different persons and projects that look out for tags like this, to welcome newbies and give them little support as they make their first step on Hive. When we begin to use this tag carelessly all in the sake of dragging people’s attention to get upvotes, this will show that such a person is dishonest.
Remember, I told you that you have to be deliberate about your actions on Hive and your post. Hence, such actions will be regarded as deliberate and you will be seen as a dishonest person.
So, learn the right thing, and use the right tags in your post.
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