Uses of Tagging and Social Bookmarking in 2007

Social bookmarking has become an immense force for both in internet marketing
as well as www world. There are a few bookmarking sites out there but for the
purposes of using them for internet marketing we are going to focus on a few of
the more popular such as Del.icio.us, Furl, Digg, Spurl, blinklist, reddit,
yahoo, google, newsvine, socializer, Magnolia, Stumble upon and the one which
everyone love, Technorati.

Let me give you a short and simple definition of what is social bookmarking?
Simply, it is a way for people to bookmark their favorite places (i.e. their
favorite websites) online instead of on their own personal computer. The main
difference in this method is that instead of having your favorites sites saved
in folders on your own PC you have saved them online under certain 'tags'
or 'tagging' or simply 'keywords'. In addition
you can also set multiple tags for an item. For example if it were a jokes site
you may have 'funny jokes, blonde jokes, free jokes, short jokes, political
jokes, cartoon jokes etc.'

Now you have a basic understanding of social bookmarking, so moves onto
tagging. Tagging is an act of bookmarking a site or a web-page with one of the
services and a tag is nothing but a keyword. Here are some samples that you are
into 'horticulture' and you find a really great site on 'horticulture', you
could 'tag' that site with the tag of 'horticulture' as well as others and then
share the page from your chosen bookmarking service with others. This is the way
that tagging is used by the general public to share sites with each other.

When it comes to the use of social bookmarking and tagging for web promotion
or internet marketing you can place tags on your on site which are then crawled
and placed in the social bookmarking directories and search engines and you can
also tag on your own 'authority site network' that you have created or
associated on one or more of the services which is a method strongly espoused by
Sean Wu of Tag and Ping.

Uses of Tagging and Social Bookmarking in 2007

Social bookmarking has become an immense force for both in internet marketing
as well as www world. There are a few bookmarking sites out there but for the
purposes of using them for internet marketing we are going to focus on a few of
the more popular such as Del.icio.us, Furl, Digg, Spurl, blinklist, reddit,
yahoo, google, newsvine, socializer, Magnolia, Stumble upon and the one which
everyone love, Technorati.

To utilize the tagging on your own site or blog you will need to use a
blogging platform such as Movable Type, Wordpress, or Blogger. I can not
recommend using Blogger for business purpose due to their censorship. Blog have
a built in functionality which allows you to on the alert the major blog
directories of new posts when you create new one. And the whole process is
referred as 'pinging'. You can place your tags like:

[a href='your url' rel='tag']Internet Marketing[/a] (instead of <>
& "",I used here []& '') Or like this: [a href='your url' rel='tag']website
promotion[/a] which will link back to page for website promotion.

Now, once you have done this and you publish the post it will notify or
'ping' the social bookmark services and article directories that you have set up
in your admin area. The benefit of doing this is that it gets you high PR
backlinks from right sites which will greatly help in the PR of your own site.

Remember before tagging the popular keywords because that you will have more
competition from other bloggers. My suggestion is to mix up high competitive

key-phrases along with the longer phrases so that your blog will stay more
visible.

And place this code in your head tag especially for yahoo so that when
crawlers visit your site, they find rss feed properly. Place this HTML tag
between your part of your web page

In conclusion, there are few tips important to understand:

1. It is important to remember that mix up high competitive key-phrases along
with the longer phrases so that your blog will stay more visible.

2. It is suggested to use this technique completely SEO ethical way and use
your tag properly.

Babul Paul
http://www.netprophetsglobal.com

How can you use TAGGING to get more visitors to your website? For example, if you run a website about selling handbags, you could write a nifty article about handbag styles and colors. In fact, you could TAG the article with "handbag styles" and link the tag to the appropriate page on your site. The tag must have something to do with your product to work.

You could improve results by using a "long tail" key phrase in the TAG, such as "inexpensive and beautiful handbags". Using a less often used keyphrase can sometimes be the best choice since you won't be competing with as many people using the tag.

There are tools to find out the most often searched key phrases. Here is one good tool:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Use Technorati. They have an area where you can "claim" your blog to a specific tag. This should help you pick up some treasured traffic. You can also bookmark pictures on Flickr.

You will want to put tags on your website or blog that will be picked up by the crawlers and find their way to social bookmarking directories. Consider setting up an "authority site network" on one of the major bookmarking services. This is highly recommended. I recommend WordPress.com for this adventure. Buy a nice domain and host it on the domain server. This will provide an excellent appoach to accomplish your goals.

Blogs have a cool way to notify the major blog directories when you make a new post to your blog. This is called "Pinging." Simply put the tags into your post and you will see quick results and indexing by the blog directories and the social bookmarking sites.

This is the process referred to as "pinging". You can insert tags like we talked about within your posts which will result in an almost immediate indexing of the post by the social bookmarking service or blog directories. I almost exclusively use Technorati for this. The standard practice for doing this is at the end of the post.

Technorati will produce tags for you if you alert them. Visit http://www.technorati.com/tags

After you set up your tags on your blog, the blog will "ping" the Technorati and other social bookmark services and article directories that you have designated. This will generate nice backlinks from authority websites.

IMPORTANT: Your tagged post will show up in Technorate within a half hour or so and then this will eventually be picked up in the search engines that crawl Technorati unceasingly.

Put this tag into your blog to alert Technorati with a keyword:
[keyword]

You can also create a tag without creating the outbound link to Technorati by using a tag like this:
website promotion

For your Wordpress posts to appear the best way for SEO in the search engines as well as for tags to work properly you should go to Options, then Permalinks in the Admin area of your Wordpress blog and change the permalink structure to:
/%post_id%/%postname%/
You also need to make sure that the .htaccess file on your server has the permission set at 777.