Tag and Ping, these three words have suddenly become the mantra that everybody seems to be chanting. Its almost reminiscent of the days when Blog and Ping was being sold as the sole panacea for indexing and getting traffic to your sites.
The “Tag And Ping” method that every body is talking about is nothing but taking social bookmarking and leveraging it for SEO.
While social bookmarking has been around for quite some time and was originally intended to help users categorize and store their favorite links online, SEO professionals soon saw the potential for utilizing this to get their sites to rank high.
Tag And Ping can be used to promote any type of website, whether its a website monetized with Google Adsense, your Blog, Your sales page or even a site promoting affiliate products.
The following strategies will help you get an unbelievable avalanche of traffic to your sites and the Tag Automator software suite will multiply that many times more.
What Is Social Bookmarking ?
Social bookmarking is utilizing a web service, where users create a public repository of bookmarks pertaining to sites that they like.
The concept of social bookmarking dates back to 1996 with the launch of itList.com, followed by services like Blink and Hotlinks and many more. But, the popularity of Social Bookmarking increased with the advent of the most popular bookmarking site till date, del.icio.us.
Social bookmarking sites organize their content using tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging and inferences drawn from grouping and analysis of tags.
What is a Tag?
A tag is basically a keyword. It is a label that you categorize a website under. For example if I was tagging this website, I would tag it under “tag and ping”, “tag”, “ping” etc.
Tagging is simply a way to find a website that I bookmark without remembering where you put it. You can just enter a tag to find websites that you have marked with certain tags.
The tags act as a way to quickly find your bookmarks without remembering where you put them. This is why the bookmark sites allow you to assign more than one tag.
These bookmark sites allow you to share your personal bookmarks with the public. This is where the term “social” comes into play. When you bookmark a site other people can also find the site that you bookmarked if they enter the same tag that you classified the site under.
Not only can you find the sites that you tagged under certain keywords but so can everyone else.
These bookmarks and tags may seem like geek-speak, but from an SEO standpoint these can build you a massive amount of backlinks which seem to originate from authority sites.
What is “Tag And Ping”?
Black hat SEO experts in the quest to get one way backlinks till now relied on various methods like blog comment spam and referrer log spam.
The latest technique is using social bookmarking to get one way backlinks.
And “Tag And Ping” – comes to help. So what’s tag and ping?
It’s a simple process, first you create tags on on social bookmarking sites and then you ping various aggregator services to visit, index those tags and include links back to your sites.
So you get high PR backlinks to your sites, in a jiffy!
Using Social Bookmarking Explode Your Site’s Traffic
The secret lies in building your vast network on the various social bookmarking sites and use it to get your sites indexed fast.
You simply sign up for an account and then post your urls. Each post requires you to enter the url, a title for the anchor text, a short description and of course the tags under which you want your link bookmarked.
Most search engine experts agree that links from authority sites like the various bookmarking sites are favored by the search engines over links from other regular sites.
Building a large number of accounts on such authority sites will make the search engines think that your site is special!
Each Social bookmarking site has tag pages, which can be thought of like a category, and each of these pages also have a high page rank.
For example the tag page for the tag “maps” at del.icio.us has a page rank of 5
Now when you post your url, with say the tag “maps”, your link gets posted on the tags page for the tag “maps”.
What this means is that you get a PR 5 backlink to your site.
07/31/2011 UPDATE NOTE:
This post from 2006 has become very popular lately but unfortunately, the free software/service originally referred to is no longer available and all references have been removed. However, there are many other free and paid services or software now available along with plugins for WordPress. A simple search online will yield many results and the WordPress plugin database also lists many that are available.
Two popular recommended services can be found here:
OnlyWire.com (free & premium, WordPress & browser plugins available)
Pinglr.com (free & premium, WordPress & browser plugins available)
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