Tag & Ping : Is This the Secret Behind Getting Traffic?

Day 24 Is here… Today, we’ll look at Tag and Ping Secrets.

There is a very good chance you might have heard about this and scratched your head about it. About a year ago, tag and ping was touted as “The Secret” to getting loads of traffic. Now like always, tons of people tried this game of tag and ping without understanding anything about it.

If you think tag and ping is your untold secret key to truck loads of dollars, think again. Why? Because all of these people who thought like you bought into this trend and tagged and pinged the heck out of their blogs. All of them ended up over abusing this simple technology. Exactly same happened with blog and ping when it was made it to local marketing news.

So today, I’ll break lots of myth surrounding this secret and enlighten you. Tag and ping started with the thought of sharing, Yes, its about social bookmarking. What you can do is choose n pick your keywords and then save it under your social bookmarking websites.
It helps with these sites organize and check out which keywords were tagged recently or popular.

So to make it short, the definition of tagging is “The act of tagging a web site or blog with one of the services like technorati, del.iocio.us, flurl etc”.

Now let me explain what exactly is tag and ping. I’ll try to make it easy for you.

For example, if I am writing this post under tags “tag and ping”. I’ll create a tag with “tag and ping” keyword and the social bookmarking sites will know about it’s activity with tag and ping method. Now if you check that particular bookmarking site and click on the tag, you’ll find all the posts and webpages that are saved under that tag.

Now blogs have an inbuilt facility which is called pinging which basically alerts blog search engines about its updating. If you include tagging with this facility you’ll get Tag and ping. This is what it’s called tag and ping.

These posts can be belonged to you or anyone else who have shared the same tags.

The after effect of these techniques is that you can get your blog pages indexed faster. Plus you can create an authority site network just by tagging. More tag that links to your blog page, higher the authority of it will be for search engines. In non geek talk, this basically means lots of links back to your website and good rankings.

Now The question arises how can you utilize the information?

First of all what you can do is use few keywords that you want to target. Now you have to create tags for bookmarking websites. You can target either just a couple of those or may be use all of them. My recommendation is to select only couple of them (social bookmarking sites) and target them.
For example here is code for tagging technorati.
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Here is a way to tags using your blog URLs:
<*a href=”http://www.yourblog.com/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[keyword]<*/a>
(remove asterisks in actual code)
Example:
<*a href=http://www.Yoursite.com/Internet+marketing rel=”tag”>Internet Marketing<*/a>
You can do like this for almost any number of social bookmarking sites or keywords. There is no such restrictions on that, but you can always go overboard. So keep that in mind. Don’t tag spam.

Any ways if you think coding is headache then you can use either http://www.keotag.com/tagger.php to create tags for you. This little tool will help you if you don’t have plug-in for tagging.

Or you can use wordpress plug-ins if you use wordpress blog platforms. WordPress has Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin: This plugin will help you create tags for your major sites like technorati, icerocket etc. Again this is a must have plugin for your blogs.

You can download this plugin at http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/06/30/ultimate-tag-warrior-fin-the-end/

Now armed with these tools you can easily create back links whenever you post a new posts. My strategy is to focus on couple of keywords per post and update my blog more often. Normally I don’t like to go after Highly competitive keywords.

Use these tools and strategy to increase traffic. Don’t tag spam otherwise you’ll be just adding to existing problems. I’ll share some ideas in other article on tagging.

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Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.

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