We recently introduced a feature called "tags". A lot of people are using the feature and really liking it, but others have told us they're still not quite sure how tags work or why they should use them. We thought it might be helpful to say a little bit more about tags and what you can do with them.

Let's start with the basics... what are tags, anyway? It's really simple. Tags are keywords you can use to organize your posts and make it easier to find what you're looking for, especially when you have tons of stuff on your site. Using tags is similar to using folders on your computer to organize your documents. The main difference between folders and tags is that a document can only be in one folder, but you can categorize a post using many different tags, by adding multiple tags to a single post.

Check out Peter's Greek Easter photos for an example of a post with a few tags. While you're there, scroll to the bottom of the album and click on the Dimitri tag to see all the other stuff Peter's posted about his cute kid!... and to see how tags work.

Not only do tags help you organize your stuff so it's easy to find things, they also make it more fun and interesting to visit someone else's site. Suppose you saw Peter's Greek Easter album on the Messages page, and opened it. Maybe you agree with Peter that Dimitri is the cutest kid in the world :-) so you clicked on the Dimitri tag when you saw it. You'd have seen all those tons of other Dimitri-related posts - journals, photos, whatever - that you might not have otherwise known about without taking time to look around Peter's site.

If your posts have tags, people looking at the posts will see them, just like you saw Peter's tags in that album. By default, we also list all of your tags in the Welcome message on your site, so you and visitors to your site can always have an easy reference to all your stuff (see the image below on the right). Some tags will appear in a larger font size than the others. Bigger sizes mean more posts are tagged with that word or phrase.

You can add tags to any post you put on Multiply. Just look for the "Tags" text area as you're uploading your post, and add your tags there (separated by a comma if more than one). If you want to add tags to older posts, just go back and edit them and you'll see the same Tags text area. See the image below on the left for a visual.

Hopefully this gives you a good idea of how tags work. If you have a question about tags that wasn't covered here, feel free to send a message to customer service and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!