Tag and Ping, Social Bookmarking, etc. the positive effects of social bookmarking for blogs and other web sites are noteworthy. Social bookmarking can present the sites that you own or you revel in to others with the right targeted interests and tastes, can rush traffic to your site, and create favorable backlinks to your content like flies congregate to stench.

What is Tag and Ping:

Fundamentally Tag and Ping is a potent strategy using bookmarking to procure traffic and backlinks to your site. To altogether accept this strategy you first have to have an appropriate familiarity of what bookmarking is.

Bookmarking is:

? Bookmarking is the common act of sharing links (aka tags) and resources by the internet populace.
? Social Bookmarking sites include Technorati, Furl, Deli.icio.us, Flickr, etc. etc..

1. Users are deciding the flow of traffic and backlinks more and more by the agency of the use of these sites and their applications.
2. Social Bookmarking as a rule has a viral traffic producing effect.

Example:

For instance if you were to go and subscribe for a Del.icio.us account you would have admittance to your own page where you can deposit bookmarks (your links) to your favorite internet sites and resources. What's fetching to note, is when you construct this bookmark on your nonpublic page it also becomes syndicated (it gets posted outside as well). It will be created on one of Del.icio.us' public tag pages.

All other Del.icio.us users who observe this tag page may then inspect your links and decide whether they want to add it to their pages which will expand the popularity of that unique bookmark causing it to rank and post higher.

The greater it ranks in popularity the greater the chance others will see, use, and adapt this bookmark as their own. This is the viral temperament of bookmarks. As long as your content that you are linking to is bookmark worthy material, your links should fountain in popularity in a viral fashion. Your traffic explodes as a result.

So  are:

Tags. (once again we are using the Del.icio.us site as our example) are categorically nothing more than a keyword you appoint to the link. It is a way to look after your links and keep track of them. For instance if you had links about gardening and links about cooking you could organize all your gardening links by assigning them the tag "gardening" and your cooking links the tag "cooking" all your links for each subject would be catalogued and found under the accompanying tag name. So if you clicked the tag "cooking" in your account then all the links that link to cooking come up. It's a manageable oranizational thingamabob.

Tagging and Pinging your Blog:

 Use your WordPress blog to fashion tags for your posts. A tag is little more than a specifically formatted link that you locate in your blog. As soon as you tag your posts and post them on your blog you want to ping the social bookmark websites.

A ping is mostly a short instruction that is sent out from your blog and tells a site such as a search engine or a social bookmark index site like Technorati, Icerocket, etc. to visit your site and inspect your content crawl through your blog find the tags index them and revise their sites. By way of explanation a computer spiders you site finds your tags and content and then updates the tag pages on their site for their users to see and use.

You're receiving instant backlink love from an authority site of appreciated popularity ranking. Because these bookmarking sites are so popular and because they offer such outstanding user data about sites, keywords, tags, and their popularity, the big search engines regularly spider these social bookmark sites for data. When they spider these sites and index them they run into links to your sites and follow them. Are you taking into account the potential here?

Setting up Your Ping List:

To assemble a WordPress ping list, go to "Settings", and then click "Writing." Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will run into an "Update Services" box that will allow you to affix your ping list. You will want to add social bookmark sites that accept tags and that will crawl your blog posts.

You can compose all your tag URLs by hand but why bother. If you are using WordPress and you ought to be be, prepare your blog to do this automatically for you. You want to go to your plugins and add Simple Tags to your plugin list and activate it. SimpleTags lets you to easily make Technorati tags that work for both Tecnorati and Icerocket.

Setting up Tag and Ping:

Conduct some keyword research or even some tag research on some of the social bookmark sites and find words about your content pages and contents that will make for competent tagging and pinging.

This is how to tag and ping in WordPress:

1. Compose your content.
 2. Add applicable "tags" at the end of your blog post with simple tags.
 3. Publish your blog post.
 4. Ping the bookmarking sites. Your blogs ping list does this automatically or you can use www.pingdevice.com
 5. When you have finished, the social bookmarking sites will then crawl your blog post and index it under the tags that you have provided. Social bookmarking sites are heavily spidered, so your pages will be quickly spidered by the major search engines simply because they are present in the index.

Making Sure that Technorati and Icerocket Pick Up Your Tags:

You will need to register your blog with Icerocket and Technorati go to their websites and register.