Questions tagged [tags]
The tags tag has no usage guidance.
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A tag for Google Domains
There are several questions concerning Google Domains product but no google-domains tag. One of them even contains a remark
FWIW I'd like to tag this "google-domains" and/or similar but I don't ...
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Should we merge [social-networks] and [social-media]?
Should we merge social-networks (x 64) and social-media (x 127)?
They seem very similar in the ways that they are used to tag questions.
If merged, I suggest social-media as the canonical tag.
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Can the tags "web" and "website" be blacklisted?
web and websites don't add any value. This site is about websites and the internet, so practically every on topic question could be tagged with those two tags. I've been discussing getting rid of ...
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The [webmaster] tag applies to every question ever asked?
We're all webmasters on this site, and all questions asked here are regarding a webmaster trying to master their website.
So wouldn't this tag apply to every question ever asked? If so, the tag ...
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Tag: google-webmaster-tools to google-search-console
Google officially renamed "Google Webmaster Tools" to "Google Search Console" and the tag issue came up when we discussed this in chat:
w3d So, errrm, who's going to retag the 1000+ questions ...
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IMO Incorrect "on hold", maybe add a tag to indicate not code, but concept thinking is requested
I have posted the question App opening standard browser instead of active browser in the normal ProWebmaster forum.
This has been marked as off topic, which is IMO incorrect. I think my question is ...
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Tag rename request: file-manger
Unless we're talking about baby files lying newborn in a manger, could we rename the file-manger tag to file-manager?
:)
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Tag merge request: [advertising] and [advertisement]
Right now advertising has 420 questions, and advertisement has 23 questions.
I propose we mark the latter as a synonym for the former, since afaik they mean the exact same thing.
This also has the ...
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Synonimize [titles] to [title]
I came across the titles tag when searching for the title tag.
Questions tagged titles: 13
Questions tagged title: 208
It seems like an uncontroversial synonym to make (from titles to title).
(If ...
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Synonyms: [site-deployment] or [website-deployment]?
We have two tags that appear to mean the same thing:
website-deployment - 10 questions
site-deployment - 35 questions
Making one of these a tag synonym of the other seems like a no-brainer to me. ...
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Tag for Demo/In-Development sites
I have a question about my Webmasters Stack Exchange post: Ways to show a demo site to a client without a server
Just wondering whether the community thinks a tag for demo and/or in-development sites ...
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What are the differences between [index], [indexing], and [google-index]?
What are the differences between these tags?
index
indexing:
The process of recording where particular words occur. In the web context search engines crawl the web and make a list of which pages ...
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Retire the tag "google-adwords", replace with "google-ads"
The name "Google AdWords" has been deprecated for several years. You do still hear google-adwords or just plain adwords every so often tho - mostly out of habit. Those could become synonyms.
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List of possible tags that are synonyms
This is to list tags that may possibly be synonyms:
asp.net = aspx
blog = blogs
browser = browsers
customer-service = customer-support
dns-server = dns-servers
domain-name = domain-names
font = ...
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Can some tags be merged?
Is there a way to merge some tags. For example, there is an 'adsense' tag and a 'google-adsense' tag. It would make more sense if they were one tag. There are a few other tags like that, but cannot ...
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the [domains] tag versus [domain-names]
Is there any difference between domains and domain-names? If there is, I'm not following the distinction.
Should these tags be merged?
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Company-specific tags
Would it be appropriate to create a tag for questions about a specific hosting or domain registration company?
In the last 6 months there have been, on average, one relevant question per month: ...
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Can we get a wildcard asterisk for selecting multiple tags to include & ignore?
Can we get a wildcard asterisk for selecting multiple tags to include & ignore?
If I want to include "search-engine" & "search-engines", can I use "search-engine*" to highlight both in the ...
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Creating a new tag on a question that wasn't asked by me
Just a little question about tagging.
If I create a new tag by editing a question wasn't asked by me, the tag is considered as created by the question's owner or created by me?
My question is ...
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Please retag memcache as memcached
The memcache should be memcached. This is a very common mistake. However, the right name is memcached.
I also suggest to add memcache as synonym of memcached, as in StackOverflow.
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Is there a general preference for tag plurality? (Also involves synonyms)
I just suggested a synonym for domain and domains with the singular as master.
I'd personally lean toward the plural being the master, but it's only got one entry versus the other being well-...
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Is the transfer tag too broad?
Is the transfer tag too broad? It seems to add no value compared to just using the transfer keyword in a title or body. Right now this is the barebones tag info:
To move something from one thing to ...
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New tag request
Please can we create a GDPR tag as this may be useful in the lead up to May 2018 where the regulations will come into affect: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-...
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Definition of customer-service tag?
Just saw a question with a customer-service tag and it seems to me that the tag is not well-defined. I would expect that tag in a Pro Webmasters setting to relate to serving the "end users" of the ...
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Should we have a way to "red flag" an answer that becomes incorrect with passage of time?
No doubt any technology forum has the problem of old answers being potentially incorrect or less useful with the passage of time (except SQL, ha-ha). ;-)
Seriously, though, I think that SEO answers ...
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Single use tags and synonyms
We had a great grand opening, now we need to work on cleaning up all of the confetti on the floor. If you have a few minutes, please take a look at where single use tags begin and work your way to the ...
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Which of these "internationalization" tags should be merged?
I just merged "i18n" into "internationalization" (which seems straightforward).
We now have several related tags, some of which should probably be merged:
multilingual - 61 Questions
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Could we merge two tags together.
The tags optimization and optimizations are candidates for merging in my opinion. There is only a handful of questions under each of them but having them both splits searching and browsing results.
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Adding [xml-sitemap] as synonym for [sitemap]
We have two tags for sitemaps:
sitemap
a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
xml-sitemap
XML files created to make it easier for Search Engine crawlers and other bots to ...
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Tag for placeholder pages ("under construction", "under development", "coming soon", …)
I think it would be useful to have a tag for placeholder pages, i.e., pages that are "under development", announce a launch ("coming soon"), or show one of those classy construction GIFs like it’s ...
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Which of the "design" tags should be merged?
design × 55 - a broad term for something that has been created from a plan, there are thousands of types of design types (Web Design, Graphic Design, 3D Design, Etc.)
website-design × 275 - the ...
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Renaming [piwik] to [matomo]
Followup to https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/363733/renaming-piwik-to-matomo
The Open Source project piwik has recently been renamed to "Matomo".
https://matomo.org/blog/2018/01/piwik-is-now-...
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Rename tag [google-apps] to [google-workspace] and synonymize [gsuite]?
According to Wikipedia, Google Workspace was formerly known as Google Apps, and later G Suite.
We've been getting some questions tagged google-workspaces, but most of them are tagged google-apps. I ...
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What is the tag wiki mentioned in the badges?
While looking at badges, I saw something called edit wiki tag. Although I searched the site a bit, I couldn't find anything like a wiki. Actually, I don't quite understand what a wiki is.
My question ...
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Tags - [serps] are the same as [search-results], right?
Are the tags serps (search engine results pages) and search-results (search results) the same?
If so, should (edit) serps be synonymized into search-results?
Doing a spot check of the tagged questions,...
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Rename [hidden-text] to [hidden-content]
Suggestion: Let's rename the tag hidden-text to hidden-content.
I don’t think there is a need to handle text differently from other forms of content (images, videos, …).
Example question (to which I ...
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Retag - Get rid of meta tags
I've removed all traces of the subjective tag from Pro Webmasters. Fortunately, no questions had this tag as the only one.
I also re-tagged one instance of poll to visitor-poll.
Can anyone else find ...
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Should we create a Google My Business Tag?
Maybe it is just me, however, when posting my last question, odd as it is, I noticed that there was no tag for Google My Business.
Should we create a Google My Business tag?
I imagine that there is ...
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Why are some tags changed automatically?
Sometimes when I edit a question, I choose a tag but it doesn't taken into account. Is someone can tell me why some tags are changed automatically?
For example, I have edited a question by addind the ...
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Dealing with tag overlap for 'ranking'
Consider that we have the following topics:
Page Rank (Google's trademarked rank indicator)
Alexa Ranking
Over-all ranking (in general, not specific to any service or SE)
This would mean three very ...
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100 Upvotes = Bronze badge?
I have the SEO badge for having 100 up votes in the SEO tag. I just noticed I have over 105 up votes in the google tag but do not have a badge for that. Did the number of up votes go up when the ...
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Remove "gwt" synonym from "google-search-console" tag
Looks like "gwt" was a synonym of "google-webmaster-tools", then this was merged into "google-search-console" and now "google-search-console" has "gwt" as a synonym.
But, "GWT" is the official name ...
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The error tag is too vague. What should we do about it?
After seeing a suggested edit for the error wiki I concluded that this tag is too vague to be useful. I checked Stack Overflow and they have specific tags for specific error types. I believe we should ...
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Should "spiders", "robots", and "web-crawlers" tags be merged?
spider × 22
robots × 68 - A computer program that accesses web pages for various purposes (to scrape content, to provide search engines with information about your site, etc.)
web-crawlers × 160 - (No ...
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SSL is dead. What should we do with the HTTPS, TLS, and SSL tags?
I asked a question today and Martijn let me know that I was using the wrong terminology when I was using HTTPS and SSL interchangably.
SSL version 3 was recently found to be insecure and now websites ...
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How to specify a non relevant tag?
I recently saw a tag link-buliding what has been created with a spelling mistake (second "l" before the second "i").
It's not a big deal but how can I specify this tag must be replaced by the good ...
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Should the tags tag and the tagging tag on meta be merged?
Should tags and tagging be merged? They seem to be about the same thing.
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Which image/picture/photo related tags need to be merged?
We have several related tags that have significant overlap:
image × 78 -- merged into "images"
images × 175
photo × 10
pictures × 6
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There's a bunch of wierd tags, can they be cleaned up?
The ip tag seems to be a synonym of ip-address, though it could also stand for intellectual property.
address also is a synonym of one of the above.
The recommendations tag looks like it should be ...
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Should we get rid of [wordpress]?
A few minutes ago, I saw this question which was closed as "off-topic for this site." A comment stated that it would be better on WordPress.StackExchange.com.
But if these questions belong ...
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