Comments on: Simple Tagging Plugin for WordPress: Highly Recommended

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:07:02 +0000

Hi Rory,
Sorry for replying late on this. Using any kind of tagging plugin that gives you the ability to add tags easily and recall existing tags at the time of adding tags to the posts is what I consider as the single most important factor. If UTW suggests the keywords from Yahoo, it hardly matters to me as Google brings in majority of traffic to my website. Yahoo is still learning to index stuff from blogs, so it really doesn’t matter if you use UTW or Simple Taggin, just make sure that it’s easy on you to use it in long run.

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 26 May 2007 05:40:19 +0000

Sorry to be so late on this - I am intrigued by this plugin, and yours seems to be the only site making a lengthy comparison with UTW.

My question is this: Isn’t the major difference between the two the fact that UTW bases its tag suggestions on the Yahoo Search Engine? So it scans your post for relevant words, compares it to relevant Yahoo keywords, and delivers a list of suggested tags based on those keywords. I would have thought that puts it streets ahead of Simple Tagging, which basically suggests tags based on the post alone.

Any thoughts on this?

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:21:18 +0000

Yes Binny, Simple Tagging does support that. Importantly, it does not slow down your blog like UTW does.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:53:31 +0000

I use the UTW Plugin in Txt - it has a feature that was very important for me - the abilty to specify the tags in the content. You can put the tags in [tags][/tags] inside the post and the post will be tagged with those tags.

Does Simple Tagging support this option?