To drive traffics to your site, you need to share/expose your content to public over the internet. In order to do so you need to create certain keyword that they’re looking for or interest in. These keyword which acts like a subject or category is also called ‘tag’. This tag is used to organize webpages, subjects, and objects on the Internet.
What you’re really doing is organizing each of your posts so that people can find and search them. By tagging each of them with specific keywords you’ll come up faster when someone searches those keywords than if you left your site blank.
How can this be done? You can do it by either imbed your post with tags using services like Technorati or you can go to social networking sites (ie. digg.com, Del.icio.us) and tag your blog as well.
Social bookmarking is a way of “bookmarking” favorite sites so you can easily share them (via tags) with the Internet community and especially people who are searching on your search term.
Simple steps to tagging:
1) Create a post: don’t worry about doing anything else.
2) Identify some keywords you’ll want to use: just pick some keywords, as many as you want. Don’t worry about getting too scientific with this, just be thorough.
3) Create your tags: to help you to do this, head on over to http://www.egmstrategy.com/ice/tag-generator.cfm and generate tags. You can easily generate the code that you need to post it right into your posts. Always put this code at the end of your posts.
If you use Wordpress I should recommend you to use Social Bookmarking Reloaded plugin. It will do the job much easier.
4) Social bookmarking: simply put, you want to tag each of your blog posts in one or all of the following social networking sites. The one slightly time consuming piece is that you’ll need to set up accounts for each of these but once you do, it will take you a minute or so per post to add a social bookmarking tag to each of them. Here are some of the most popular social bookmarking sites you’ll want to use: Digg, delicious, blinklist, spurl, reddit, furl, and stumbleupon.
5) Start bookmarking: each of these sites has a different set of criteria for bookmarking your blog post. If you’re blogging everyday this might seem pretty tedious. If it’s too much work to tag and bookmark each of your posts, handpick a few each week and focus on those. The idea is that you want to get these keywords out in cyberspace so people can find you.
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