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 HackerNoon, you get not three, not five, but EIGHT tags. Tags work for you, as a writer, in two important ways:
- Tags help Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and friends find your content, in order to serve it to users searching for those terms.
- Tags help HackerNoon 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 writing will create better automated curation and distribution. Each story is linked to by 8 tagged pages.
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 the @HackerNoon twitter account. Overall, the order of the tags drives the priorities of our curation.
Here’s a version of the tag page:
Writing Hack: Target the 22 Most Trafficked Tag Pages on HackerNoon
You can use your knowledge of how tags work around here to better plan and promote the fresh content you submit to HackerNoon.
Below you'll find a list of the 22 tag pages that attract the most readers on HackerNoon.
Targeting your content to these pages is as simple as drafting a new submission and using the tags in Story Settings to select your magic eight.
Pro Writing Hack: Cross reference your targeted tag pages with HackerNoon'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 HackerNoon 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:
🤿 #javascript
"Not a real programming language" since 1995.
🍕 #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.
🐍 #python
I have this awesome Python library that — wait, are you on 2 or 3?
💸 #cryptocurrency
🧑💻 #coding
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” ― Martin Fowler
⛓️ #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." — Vitalik Buterin, Creator Ethereum
🤖 #ai (#artificial intelligence)
Humans with irrational brains, writing about machines with rational brains.
₿ #bitcoin
Not only the birth of digital currency, Bitcoin is also the mascot of decentralized and reliable digital currency.
🧑🔬 #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.
🦄 #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." — Cher Wang
🔥 #react
📿💻 #software-development
Stories for when it's been 7 hours and you still can't understand your own code...
🦾 #automation
🕴️#business
Stories from those who've made it, and/or those who are probably listening to Drake a lot while trying to make it.
👩💼 #entrepreneurship
📣 #marketing
Because "if you build it, they will come" has always been bullsh*t.
🕳️ #nodejs
The most hated language powering web servers since PHP.
➕ #c++
🏗️ #software-architecture
🏝️ #decentralization
🕹️ #gaming
🔮 #technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
What to do with this information
There you have it! The top 22 tag pages on HackerNoon.
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