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When I first posted my thoughts on auto-tagging I expected it to be mostly uncharted territory. As it turns out somebody not only already had the idea, but also realized it.

I was contacted by Paul Young, Marketing Director at Wizag.com, who showed me their solution, which you can see now in this blog at the bottom of every post.

The auto-tagging and discovery plugin will automatically assign informative tags to the entire archive of your blog. … They also have consistent meaning across the blogosphere.

The auto-tags are of high quality and are discovered from the context of millions of blog posts and news using linguistic processing, contextual analysis, statistical and co-occurrence analysis.

One of the most interesting things about Wizag‘s service is the fact that it does not, as I proposed in my original post, analyze your article and extract relevant words using search-engines’ technology but it uses “conceptual search” on your blog’s feed which provides much more accurate and pertaining results.

The service doesn’t simply stop at generating tags for your articles but it also makes sure to use tags from Wizag‘s “tag-base” as much as possible so to associate the post on your blog with other relevant articles on external websites using the service. Consequently making it easier for readers to find related information through the “Discovery” window.

At this point the service is still in an invitational beta and only a WordPress plugin is available, however, Wizag confirmed that plugins for all the most famous blog platforms are under development.

To request an invitation code simply contact Wizag using their contact form or email directly info at wizag.com.

I think the idea is simply smashing and Wizag didn’t only manage to provide a simple and effective auto-tagging solution but also monetize its service by inserting some unobtrusive ads in the “Discovery” window thus transforming a great idea in a sustainable business.

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