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[laura]

Folksonomy: Anyone have any input on Folksonomy & relationship to search marketing? Implementable in search marketing plans, detrimental to search marketing efforts, not related whatsoever?

From Wikipedia:

Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. This feature began appearing in a variety of social software in 2004. Some examples of online folksonomies being social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Jots  which are bookmark sharing sites, Flickr, for photo sharing, 43 Things, for goal sharing, GenieLab, for music recommendations and associations, and Tagsurf, for tag-based discussions. Gmail's labeling system is somewhat similar to the use of tags, but it is not a folksonomy as users cannot share their categorizations. Folksonomy is not directly related to the concept of faceted classification from library science.

[Jill]

I never heard of it. From what you posted it doesn't sound like it's related to SEO.

[Haystack]

If search engines see folksonomy as a way to improve their results, it could end up playing a role in SEO, but I don't think it does today. I could see how something like social bookmarking could provide a high-level personalization, but that's all that comes to mind right now.

[randfish]

I surmise that eventually folksonomy will become part of SEO. For many of us, it's a great way to get a new site spidered and have a few backlinks built up on a new domain before we start work on it in earnest.

I'd venture to guess that much like meta-data, however, it will not become a part of the algos, although there may eventually (or even currently) be a private folksonomy system for SE engineers or editors.