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You knew tagging was important for SEO, but you never knew it was so important. Skills is a platform that is based on tags. It is good that somebody thought about this because this is a new idea that sounds exciting.

Skills is a website where anybody can tag himself/herself, their friends etc. with Skills and interests. Yes, there needs to be specifications otherwise it could all go out of hand. Skills is a community for professionals. You got the idea from its name.

On Skills, you can add as many interests as you have and as many Skills as you possess. It will not do good to exaggerate or fantasize here. Stick to what you can do and what you are really interested in. That will help to attract like-minded people and fellow professional in your field.

What is great is that you can even tag your friends with their Skills and interests. On Skills, you can search for tags to find interesting people. If you are a writer and want to know other writers, you can search for writers and reach them. When you see somebody whom you want to interact with, you can go to their profile page and get more information about them. You can see the people whom they have tagged and been tagged by. You can follow them with the click of a button.

Tagging helps in identifying instantly those people who have similar interests. It is like the merger of Facebook and LinkedIn. You can find friends and also get to connect with people in your industry.

You can anytime remove a tag that you thought would be appropriate, but now you don’t. Skills have a Chrome browser extension that allows you to see Skills tag directly in your Twitter feed. There’s also Firefox add-on that you can enjoy.