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Hacking Hacker Noon: How To Maximize the Value of Tags
by Hacker Noon Help and SupportMay 28th, 2021
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Tags (short descriptions of content) are the internet's indexing system. They are the foundation of organizing and distributing content on the internet. When you submit a story to Hacker Noon, you get not three, not five, but EIGHT tags.People Mentioned
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Tags (short descriptions of content) are the internet's indexing system. They are the foundation of organizing and distributing content on the internet. When you submit a story to Hacker Noon, you get not three, not five, but EIGHT tags. Tags work for you, as a writer, in two important ways:
- Tags help
Google,Bing,
and friends find your content, in order to serve it to users searching for those terms.DuckDuckGo - Tags help Hacker Noon distribute your content to top trafficked pages, as well as the most subscribed tags via our customizable newsletter, The Tech Brief.
In the below screenshot of the editor story submission workflow, you can see there are 8 tags that have a maximum of 30 characters per tag.
More short writing about the longer piece will create better automated curation and distribution. Each story is linked to internally from 8 tagged pages (the ones you choose).
The order of tags drives curation and distribution. The first tag appears next to the story when it is curated on tagged pages and the homepage. The first two tags serve as hashtags for the three tweets from the @HackerNoon Twitter account. Overall, the order of the tags drives the priorities of our curation.
Hereโs a version of the tag page:
Writing Hack: Target the 22 Most Trafficked Tag Pages on Hacker Noon
You can use your knowledge of
to better plan and promote the how tags work around herefresh content you submit to Hacker Noon
.Below you'll find a list of the 22 tag pages that attract the most readers on Hacker Noon
.Targeting your content to these pages is as simple as drafting a new submission
Pro Writing Hack: Cross reference your targeted tag pages with Hacker Noon's Leaderboard to see which headlines are generating the most engagement in your content category.
Naturally, if you choose to include two or three of the most viewed tag pages on Hacker Noon in your eight tags, you're in a better position to level up your story's reach significantly. Let's dive in to those top 22 tag pages:
๐คฟ #javascript
"Not a real programming language" since 1995.
๐ Read javascript stories on Hacker Noon.๐ #programming
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook, The Wizardry Compiled.
๐ Read programming stories on Hacker Noon๐ #python
I have this awesome Python library that โ wait, are you on 2 or 3?
๐ Read python stories on Hacker Noon.๐ธ #cryptocurrency
๐ Read cryptocurrency stories on Hacker Noon.๐งโ๐ป #coding
โAny fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.โ โ Martin Fowler
๐ Read coding stories on Hacker Noon.โ๏ธ #blockchain
"Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly." โ Vitalik Buterin, Creator Ethereum
๐ Read blockchain stories on Hacker Noon.๐ค #ai (#artificial intelligence)
Humans with irrational brains, writing about machines with rational brains.
๐ Read #ai stories on Hacker Noon.โฟ #bitcoin
Not only the birth of digital currency, Bitcoin is also the mascot of decentralized and reliable digital currency.
๐ Read bitcoin stories on Hacker Noon.๐งโ๐ฌ #data-science
The science of using computer programs to sift through thousands of data points and then using computer programs to present that data in a visual format.
๐ Read data science stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฆ #startups
"It takes humility to realize we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels, and to know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don't, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place." โ Cher Wang
๐ Read startups stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฅ #react
๐ Read react stories on Hacker Noon.
๐ฟ๐ป #software-development
Stories for when it's been 7 hours and you still can't understand your own code...
๐ Read software development stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฆพ #automation
๐ Read automation stories on Hacker Noon.๐ด๏ธ#business
Stories from those who've made it, and/or those who are probably listening to Drake a lot while trying to make it.
๐ Read business stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฉโ๐ผ #entrepreneurship
๐ Read entrepreneurship stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฃ #marketing
Because "if you build it, they will come" has always been bullsh*t.
๐ Read marketing stories on Hacker Noon.๐ณ๏ธ #nodejs
The most hated language powering web servers since PHP.
๐ Read nodejs stories on Hacker Noon.โ #c++
๐ Read c++ stories on Hacker Noon.๐๏ธ #software-architecture
๐ Read software architecture stories on Hacker Noon.๐๏ธ #decentralization
๐ Read decentralization stories on Hacker Noon.๐น๏ธ #gaming
๐ Read gaming stories on Hacker Noon.๐ฎ #technology
โAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.โ โ Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
๐ Read technology stories on Hacker Noon.What to do with this information
There you have it! The top 22 tag pages on Hacker Noon.
Use them wisely.
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