META TAGS
I've added meta tag indexing to Daypop. It's commonly known that Meta Keywords enjoyed some success in the early days of the Internet before sites started gaming the search engines by spamming the keywords meta tag. As a result, I don't know if any of the search engines even index keywords anymore. Google probably never even did to begin with.
Well I figured going old-school might give Daypop a couple more uses than originally envisioned. By indexing meta tags that fit within a certain criteria (more on that later), Daypop can effectively serve as a blogring database. Or more generally, Daypop can allow the formation of groups of bloggers easily. You know, now that I think about it, I suppose it's blogchalking without predetermined categories, and without the need to visibly display text on the page.
The categories are up to webloggers to decide on.
Here's how to do it.
Daypop indexes Meta tags that look like this:
<meta name="blogring" content="SFBloggers">
You can substiture anything you want for blogring and anything you want for SFBloggers. The important thing to note is there is a 19 character limit on both of these and they must consist of characters A-Z or 0-9. No spaces.
You can then search for these meta tags with a search for:
blogring=sfbloggers
Searches are not case-sensitive so notice SFBloggers doesn't need to be capitalized in this case.
blogring=sfbloggers is just like any other word so you combine this term with other terms and search for:
blogring=sfbloggers golden gate
and Daypop will bring up all blogs with that meta tag that also mentions Golden Gate.
Of course, you can search for multiple meta-tags so you could search for:
blogring=sfbloggers blogring=antiwar
to find webloggers who belong to both blogrings.
Since you can use anything for the name and content of a meta-tag, it means it's totally up to you to create your groups.
One example of meta-tag searching in action is with this search:
http://www.daypop.com/search?q=pagetype%3Dsecurity&t=a
I picked a page at random and looked for existing meta tags to come up with this example which only brings up one page, but it should demonstrate the concept.
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blogchalk
I thought this might work for blogchalking, but "blogchalk=Canada" does not return any replies -- what did I miss?
