For The Delicious Love of Tags

If any of you were to take a look at my bookmark bar on my Google Chrome, you would see that it is absolute chaos. I mainly bookmark three different types of websites: recipes I like, fitness and workout regimes I want to try, and fashion based sites. But, navigating through these bookmarks is an utter disaster. Everything is all mixed together, I can never find the specific site I am looking for, or I simply forget that I have bookmarked a site all together, and forever it sits in my bookmark bar, unloved by the click of my mouse. Therefore, I end up making the same salmon recipe every night for dinner, or doing the sam ab routine at the gym, when I could be using some of the awesome sites I have come across and bookmarked for later use. If any of you want to see what I am talking about, here:

They're all shouting "click me! click me!" - sorry guys, you're too hard to find!

Since I am officially sick of salmon (and terrified of mercury poisoning) , and have accepted my lack of abdominal muscles, I decided to register for Delicious (shout out to Kadie for bringing this site to my attention). What Delicious allows me to do is organize my bookmarks on the web, and tag them for ease of use. What this means is that rather then just having lists and lists of bookmarks on my one computers, I can access my bookmarks from anywhere through my Delicious account, and organize them through tags. I now have tags for everything! Recipes can be categorized into "breakfast", "lunch", "dinner", "dessert", while fitness sites can be organized by "cardio" and "strength training". Now whenever I am looking for something, lets say, a good dinner recipe, all I need to do is simply sign onto my Delicious account and click the "dinner" tag, and all my favourite bookmarked recipes that fit into that tag will pop up, nice and easily for me! It really simplifies navigating the web and makes organizing my favourite sites a lot easier. Tonight I am making an eggplant lasagna recipe I found, yum!

This got me thinking about how else I can use tags. Voila - this blog is a perfect example of a place to utilize tagging! By tagging each of my blog posts with specific words, it makes it way easier for a user to stumble upon my little 'ol blog. By tagging this very post with the words: tag, tagging, bookmarks, delicious.com etc. anyone who searches for those key words, or anyone who uses Blogger and is looking for something to do with one of those tags has a better chance of coming across this blog! So let us begin this tagging journey, and see how it goes. It will be interesting to see if my page views go up, which would look good on my analytics assignment  make me feel so loved!