Tag and Ping are the interesting new words that you keep hearing about at the moment. You may however not know what these word mean or how to use this method. If done correctly, tagging can bring your site a lot of targeted traffic.
The tag and ping concept has its roots in the social bookmarking explosion. More of these sites are being created every day, taking some of the market share away from search engines. The key difference is that social bookmarking sites organize their listings based on the votes of actual people while search engines organize their information automatically according to their own algorithm.
If you create an account with Technorati, you will then need to enter your blogs URL and they will verify that you are the real blogs owner. You can do this by inserting a small piece of code somewhere on your blog or input your username and password.
(Because of privacy concerns, Technorati claims that they do not store this information anywhere.)
Once you’ve claimed your blog, you can set up your profile information, with a customized description and up to 20 tags of your choice. Your blog will be listed when people search for these tags. Like any search engine, you’ll probably be listed lower for the more competitive phrases until you get several incoming links for those keywords.
Once you start writing your blog posts, think about your keywords that you would like to “Tag” on the page. One of the greatest benefits of tagging is that you can tag several keywords in one article. Unlike search engines, social bookmarking sites will list your page under different keyword topics.
The goal of these social types of sites is to help web surfers find relevant quality sites that match their search terms, so you can get listed under many different tags. The tag word itself does not have to be used on the page, but you should try to stick with related terms so you don’t get flagged for spamming.
All you need to do now is add tags to your blog posts, there are many programs on the web that have useful logins to help with the tag code. With the Wordpress plug-in, you can add [tags] keyword, keyword [/tags] while you’re writing the post and you’ll get a list of tags at the bottom. You can also add the [tag] code to words inside your post and they will be added to the list of tags.
When publishing your posts, make sure Technorati is in your ping list and your posts will be automatically be listed under the tags you selected. If web surfers like your blog, they can vote for it and increase its popularity. Try to focus your tags on the tightest niches possible to get the most narrowly targeted traffic.
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