What are Keywords?

Keywords Describe

Keywords are words that describe content. When you give a page a keyword, you are making a statement about what information is on that page.

Keywords Classify

Keywords help organize information. By giving pages that discuss similar subject matter the same keyword, you associate those pages together, letting the system (and users) know that the pages are related.

Keywords Work Together

Keywords work both singly, and in combination. When pages have more than one keyword in common, they are more tightly related together.

Keywords are Links

Almost all links created between pages on AllAbout are made by referring to keywords, not specific pages. AllAbout is an Associative Web of information. Keywords are the threads of the web.

Keywords Group Pages

For organizational purposes, groups of pages on AllAbout will use the same keyword, often a site-specific keyword such as Site:Recipes. By including this keyword in all of the pages in this group, it is easy to determine which pages are part of the group, and which are not.

Keywords Are the Heart of AllAbout

Consider this thought: If we have a database of recipes with keywords like beef, pork, chicken, entree, appetizer, and so on, we don't need to know how many recipes there are, or what they are called, or what their page number is. It just doesn't matter.

When we want to find a recipe, we just describe it by what keywords it has: I want a chicken entree. Given that simple piece of information -- those two keywords -- AllAbout will retrieve the chicken entrees. Adding more keywords will narrow down the results.

Use the Keyword Navigator to see this work in real-time.

Making the Best Use of Keywords

• When you are adding a new page, be sure to give it useful keywords.
• If you are contributing to a "site" that already exists, there are probably some recommended keywords that you can choose from. You should also feel free to add more keywords if you feel they will help describe the page better.
• If you are creating a new group of pages, be sure to give them all a unique Site: keyword so it will be easier to handle them en masse.

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Sets of Keywords

When you create a keyword link, AllAbout will link to every page that has all of the keywords in the link. This may be one page, or hundreds. A keyword link looks like this: [[keyword]]. Every page that matches that keyword will match it, and be shown.

Often, this will capture pages you didn't really want to link to. To narrow down the scope of the link, add more keywords to the link. Instead of [[Car]] you might write [[Car Sedan Honda]].