Once More About Labels

I have spoken before about the use of “labels” in this blog.  “Label” is the term used by Blogger, the platform for this blog, to denote search keywords for subjects which are discussed in individual blog posts.   For the recent post, Film Comment: The Road to Perdition, the following words are listed as labels: acting, assassin, comic book, crime, damnation, Daniel Craig, family, graphic novel, Hell, Jude Law, kill, Latin, murder, perdition, sin, Son, The Road to Perdition, theology, and Tom Hanks.

Choosing any of the labels will direct the reader to all of the posts which have been assigned this label. Some labels, such as marriage (26 posts) have numerous associated posts.  Other labels, such as animal rescue, have only one.  As of today, there are 2443 labels.  A few of the subjects are vampires, numerology, grace, pedophilia, abortion, NASCAR, textiles, Schoolhouse Rock, geometry, Hebrew, eHarmony, weight loss, free will, Klingons, Mickey mouse, infant baptism, religious humor, verbal inspiration, baseball, and Betty Boop.

The full list of labels occurs at the bottom of the page on which you are seeing this post.  Scroll down the page on the right hand side of the page to access the list.

Using Labels to Search This Blog

This post will help you to get more value from this blog by showing you how to search for specific subjects.  This is a very eclectic blog which can touch on almost any subject, from Star Trek ; to the Lakota war-chief Sitting Bull ; to NASCAR ; to what is probably the world’s best-known hymn, Amazing Grace ; to comic books ; and doctrinal subjects like sanctification and obedience .

The labels follow the posts in a separate section.  To search for a subject, all you need to do is select a label (keyword) and click on it.  All the posts which mention the subject will come up as group.

Using This Blog: Labels

To enhance the usefulness of this blog to readers, I will from time to time explain some of the features available.  Today, I will tell you about the LABELS function.

The labels represent topics or subjects discussed in the body of the text of a post.  They are keywords which trigger search engines to find the individual posts and display them as responses to web searches.

On this blog, the labels appear in two places: 1. directly under each post is a list of keywords specific to the post, and, 2. at the end of the display page,  following the list of blogs and webpages I often view, is a complete list of all the labels used in this blog since its inception.  Clicking on a label word in either listing will display the posts which feature or mention that topic.  Some labels have only one related post while some have as many as thirty.  For those with multiple postings, you can view more posts by clicking on Older Posts.

In keeping with the nature of this blog, the topics discussed have been quite eclectic.  A sampling of labels from the list includes: archeology (3), Barack Obama (8), sexuality (10), manure (1), film commentary (36), death (4), cloning (1), Mr. Rogers (2), light bulb jokes (30), baptism, (5), and sports (10).