Some months ago a young guy from Thailand by the name of Sean Wu revealed what some big name gurus have been quietly doing for years already to get almost immediate traffic to their sites and to get them noticed by the search engine spiders. Of course, I am talking about Tag and Ping…
What exactly is Tag and Ping?
You may have heard the term Blog and Ping before. That’s a method which was a perfect way to get the search engine spiders coming to your site very quickly. I say “was†because it has become less effective than it was 2 years ago. The search engines do not value blogs that much anymore if they are pinging the blog directories extensively. But you can still get permanent links on these sites if you submit your site to their directories using a tool like my Blog Promoter.
Tagging is another, similar way to drive laser targeted traffic to a website. Basically, tagging means that you want your posts to appear on social bookmarking sites (sites to organize your bookmarks online) under certain keywords or categories aka. “Tagsâ€.
Apart from social bookmarking sites there are a kind of hybrid sites as they combine social bookmarking with blog posts. The most popular site in this category is Technorati.com. As these sites have thousands of regular visitors looking for regularly updated content, it is a much faster way to get traffic to your website than waiting to get listed in the search engines.
What are the benefits of Tag and Ping?
- it’s free
- not too complicated
- you don’t have to buy additional software to do it
- you can get high PR backlinks to your website
- almost immediate traffic to your site
Unfortunately, some spammers have been using these techniques to such an extent that several social bookmarking sites had to take countermeasures to protect their integrity.
So it’s important that you don’t use it an unethical manner like Sean Wu suggested in his ebook (by means of creating multiple profiles for each of these sites). This will destroy the effectiveness of that method. But used ethically, Tag and Ping and the use of social bookmarking sites in general is a great long-term strategy and will enable you to achieve permanent and long term exposure for your websites and blogs if you’re playing by the rules.
Click here if you want to learn more about Tag and Ping
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I think the importance of posting comments in social bookmarking that are of some value, rather than ‘thanks great post’ cannot be overemphasized
I just wanted to say that this was a informing blog and I would like to know how to accomplish the same things with my blog…
You are going into very tech stuff here Detlev, and while I believe it works well for you, how does an old geezer get to know this method well enough to benefit from it ?
The link above is really just my splash page which leads into the actual opportunity. Would it work for something like that, or is it really only for blogs ?
Hi Bertold,
I’ll be making a free video available about it today. It is called “Social Bookmarking” and this is basically the same as tag and ping (tag and ping is used for blogs while social bookmarking can be used for any kind of website).
I’m sure it will help you understand the whole process….
Detlev
That was a good post I just started my blog less than a month ago,and I was ping ok did not know why it was just there so I did it.The SEO’s came fast and they keep coming back now too.
Keep up the great posts.
David Mosley