Tip: Tagging Photos and Videos
Tonight, I’m going to give the sevenload Community something to read. A lot of users have been asking about how to properly tag photos and videos lately. Tags are the search terms and keywords with which you can “collaboratively index” your photos and videos in the sevenload Community. The search function on sevenload can only be optimally used by other users when well selected and relevant tags are used.
Your photos and videos can only be found on sevenload when they are linked with tags. Tags may be added to photos/videos even while they are uploading. In addition to serving a search function, tags also help describe the photo/video in a way that doesn’t always show up in the title. But it’s actually such tagged “moments” in a video for example, that make it catch a user’s attention. *Something important to note here: this is why it is so important to properly and relevantly make tags for the actual contents. Irrelevant or biased keywords such as “sexy”, “women” or “funny” are not reletive to a photo of a white beach and though it might make the user happy to have some many views of their pics it is actually tag misuse and is misleading to the other users searching for particular contents.
Whoever misuses tags (and let alone doesn’t tag at all) makes their photos and videos difficult to find for their friends and other users. Your content viewers could quickly lose interest in viewing your photos/videos when they discover that the actual contents of your works are not as they were described. A beautiful landscape photo can be something truly moving, but when such as photo is tagged with “funny“, well it just doesn’t fit. In fact, in some cases, our Support Team will delete such misused tags for you- and sometimes, in more extreme circumstances, they might write you a warning about misusing tags.
However, correctly tagging is the best way to share your photos/videos with other users and for the whole world to be able to find them. Because of this, sevenload has made it possible for any user to add tags to a photo/video- however, the photo/video’s user has the ability to delete any other users tags at any time. sevenload’s large Community is all about togetherness and we are always happy to see new results pop up in search results- sometimes tagged by the user themselves and sometimes by their fellow user.
P.S.: You can find further information about tags on Wikipedia (here too).
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