Do You Tag Your Assets and Galleries? Why Not?

We’ve all heard of tags and have most likely used one or two in our lifetime. But how can we take advantage of tags for organizing, sorting and displaying media assets in our Cincopa galleries?

As a reminder, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as a video, an image, a podcast or a gallery). This specific kind of metadata helps you describe the item/media asset in the best way, increasing the likelihood of it being found by browsing or searching.

So, here’s how to most effectively use the “tagging” feature with your Cincopa assets and galleries.

Let’s say you want to create a gallery promoting your carpentry atelier. You want your customers to find your “wood” related images on your website, so assigning “wood” or “chair” tags to all your photos will return only and “wood/chair” photos in the search query. Pretty simple, right?

1. To add a search box above your gallery for users to search by tag, use one of these galleries:

2. Select your photos and upload them to your Cincopa gallery.

3. After your images are uploaded, add tags that best describe the image, video or audio track

4. After adding individual tags to your images, add tags to the gallery, as well – increasing the possibility of having your assets discovered during both on-site search engine searches.