It's a bit redundant, yes, but might catch the odd reader who goes tagging for lesbian instead of just looking in the lesbian category. But since you can search for tag combos, if someone specifically is hoping to find lesbian + 'X' having both will put it closer to the top of the results compared to just being a partial match for only tagging it with 'X.'
It's apparently a more popular tag than I would have thought, although the three pages of results include anything with that word in the title or the tagline, so it's a bit inflated.
Yeah, I probably phrased that poorly. The more generic 'encounter' tag will make the story a bit harder to pick out of the list than 'lesbian encounter,' but it will probably pop up in more searches, assuming the searchers start with more generic terms and try to narrow things down. I have no idea if people on the site are more likely to make a beeline for their specific favorite tags or try to cast a wide net and winnow it down based on taglines or other criteria.
Beats the fuck out of me. Oh, not that wouldn't be light BDSM. Sorry, not sorry.
I've learned that you should go to the category list of stories and look at the list to the right for "Popular Tags" for that category. Pick the ones appropriate for your story. Then click on the link at the bottom of that list for "More Tags" and you'll get even more ideas of what you should add to your story tags.In the spirit of community good-will set forth by our wholesome friend, @EmilyMiller , a bid you all a very good day.
I'd like to talk about tags.
They're not something I've paid much attention to beyond picking the obvious tick boxes but a comment posted a few days ago on one of my stories has drawn my attention:
"Lovely stuff. You can use more tags and let more people find this, it's really good. I wouldn't have found it if I needed to use the tags." (On Standing Room Only , which will soon be removed and replaced by a 2023 Redux with rewritten dialogue in the second half.)
Hmm. The story in question has two tags - 'Romance' and 'Encounter'
It's a lesbian story posted in the Lesbian Sex category, so I omitted a 'Lesbian' tag thinking it redundant. I can't honestly think of what tags I would add, nor what potential audience they would draw. I'm neither a sales person nor someone swayed by advertising so maybe I'm under-thinking it. Thus far in my Lit career I kind of expect little more than handful of scattered views after the story falls of the 'New' page anyway.
I know some people don't tag their stories at all. So how would I tag that story better? How do you tag your stories? What details are you cherry-picking to use as tags?
I think it would, since the algorithm seems to include results where the searched string is located in the title or tagline, but it might well treat tags differently.
Crappy search system - surely it would be obvious to have it pick up on category as well.
I'm sure any of the words inside the tag is going put the story in their cue.
I suppose you could always tag it as both, unless you run out of slots.
I don't know if they are or not. They aren't cuckold stories is why you like them.
Not so shit as you were led to believe as it worked.
