Useful to have multiple links that provide the same tag?

Hi Folks,

Suppose that my web page contains information about juice
machines. I
want to tag my web page with "juicer".  There are
several "tag spaces"
that I could use:

<a href="http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/juicer"
rel="tag">Wikipedia entry
for juicer</a>

<a href="http://www
.technorati.com/tag/juicer"
rel="tag">Other web
pages with a juicer tag</a>

<a href="http://www.xfront.
com/juicer" rel="tag">Costello's pithy
web
page on juicers</a>

Would it be meaningful to put all three links into my web
page, i.e.,
tag my web page three times with the same tag?

/Roger

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On 24 Dec 2006, at 14:04, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> <a href="http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/juicer"
rel="tag">Wikipedia  
> entry
> for juicer</a>
>
> <a href="http://www
.technorati.com/tag/juicer"
rel="tag">Other web
> pages with a juicer tag</a>
>
> <a href="http://www.xfront.
com/juicer" rel="tag">Costello's pithy
web
> page on juicers</a>
>
> Would it be meaningful to put all three links into my
web page, i.e.,
> tag my web page three times with the same tag?

I believe that the uniqueness of the ‘tag’ is the URL. So
what you've  
got there are three different tags. The URLs they link to
can be used  
to disambiguate the meaning (less so with ‘juicer’, but with
other  
tags like ‘windows’ linking to the Wikipedia article on the
Microsoft  
Windows operating system will disambiguate from the kind
that I'm  
looking out of and from the GUI concept that I'm typing
into.)

So yes, you can provide meaning because linking to certain
tag spaces  
can disambiguate. Whether that's useful for every tag or not
is  
debatable though and probably comes down to personal
preference and  
whether you think it will be useful for the users of your
particular  
site to be linked to aggregators like Technorati.
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