Tag'nPing using Social Bookmarks increases coveted Inbound Links

How to use Del.icio.us | Social Bookmarking to Instantly Get Hundreds of Backlinks





Using tags in Social Bookmarking to instantly get hundreds of high PR back-links to your website will not only assist with page rank and high rankings for your website, but will result in a boost to your targeted traffic.



I thought I'd share with you the little known SEO technique of using social bookmarking, or the popular buzzword ?Tag 'n Ping?, to get a plethora of one-way back links to your site (such one-way links from related authority sites carry far more weight with Google, than those that are reciprocated.)



What is Social Book Marking?



Users create a public repository of bookmarks relating to blog posts/sites that they like via social bookmarks in web services like Del.icio.us.



This concept of social bookmarking began as far back as 1996 with the launch of itList.com, followed by services like Blink and Hotlinks to name a few. Undoubtedly, the popularity of Social Bookmarking has increased with the advent of the most well known site of them all; Del.icio.us.



From a SEO standpoint, social bookmarks can build you a massive amount of back links which for all intents and purposes, appear to originate from authority sites? and we know by now that inbound links (non-reciprocated) to your website from related authority sites is paramount on Google's requisite list to propel you high in the SERP's.



How to use Del.icio.us social bookmarking services to gain related Inbound Links?



Easy! it's as simple as signing up for an account at Del.icio.us and posting your urls under the ?post? tab in your account. Each post requires you to:



* enter the url

* a title for the anchor text

* a short description, and

* of course the tags (all important) under which you want your link bookmarked



Adding posts to Del.icio.us can also be fully automated and accomplished in a matter of seconds by installing the Firefox ?del.icio.us? extension, that allows a one-click inclusion of the current webpage you are viewing directly from your Firefox browser. As you browse the web and find a page you want to save, click the ?Tag this? button that appears in your Firefox toolbar, next to the ?My Del.icio.us? button ? after installation of the Del.icio.us extension . You may also add the required description, notes, and tags to the page directly in Firefox, before saving it? pretty neat!!



In addition to bookmarking great related content from other webmasters at My Del.icio.us page, I also add a variety of my select articles and posts on a daily basis.



To gain up-do-the-minute information in your chosen niche and field of expertise, you should also subscribe to quite a few del.icio.us tags. Some examples: To see the most ?popular? posts, try: popular to which you would then add the name of a field you want to track after the field ?popular?. Then to see ?popular? posts in the field of ?seo? this is what you use: seo. Be sure to add all the sites tagged with those keywords into your RSS reader.



Learn how to become a connected Del.icio.us user by utilizing every facet in this gem of social bookmarking sites. For instance the ?inbox? is a mystery for many, but it's a powerful tool that allows you to track what's been added to particular tags and to track what particular users have bookmarked.



Here are a couple of excellent posts to clear any remaining mystery in using social boomarking, which will turn you into an accomplished Del.icio.us user:



The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users at Slacker Manager.com



and



Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tools Collection which is constantly updated at Quick Online Tips.com

The Importance of a Tag in Social Bookmarking



Firstly, allow me to explain what a tag is. A tag is:



* A keyword which acts like a subject or category

* Each user ?tags? a webpage or image using his own unique tag

* An image or webpage may have multiple tags that identify it

* Webpages and images with identical tags are then linked together, and

* Users , if desired, use the tag to search for similar webpages and images



Most of the book marking services give you your very own personalized book mark page that displays all your bookmarks - AND- even though in the early stages, the page rank of your personalized page might be zero, it will build up over time. You thus are constructing your very own ? high PR ? personalized bookmark page which will form part of your crucial SEO arsenal.



Another optimization factor is; the page rank on each ?tag? page of a site like Del.icio.us is naturally passed back to your site. For example the inclusion of your link tagged ?seo? at the appropriate http://Del.icio.us./tag/seo page will pass back the PR4 of that page to your website.



List of popular Social Bookmarking sites with associated page rank:



Below is a list of various social bookmark services that you can utilize to boost your page rank



Del.icio.us : is one of the most popular of all social bookmarking sites that has rapidly taken off in popularity since being purchased by Yahoo. Del.icio.us has earned its healthy pagerank of 8.



Digg : is a technology news website where users submit an article for review, but it is the users who decide which articles get valuable coverage on the home page. It appeared a bit strange to me that you are allowed to comment on the very same ?Digg? site you submit to them. Digg has a pagerank of 7



Slashdot : is the original social bookmarking site. Slashdotters can submit stories or links they find interesting and then users comment on them. A drawback of Slashdot is that stories and sites have to be pre-approved; which has driven a lot of hardcore Slashdot users to other social bookmarking sites such as Digg. Dream of the huge tidal surge in traffic you will experience if you are ever Slashdotted on the home page which bears the page rank 9.



Furl : a service offered by LookSmart that allows you to save copies of any Web page and search within your own personal archive of Web pages - and - share what you find. People use Furl to create their very own personal shopping lists, real estate directories, job searches, student research papers, etc. Furl has a page rank 8



Listible: Fairly new, but rapidly gaining in popularity and is basically a list for Lists. Here's how Listible works: it's a brilliant combination of tagging, voting, and listing. Tagging for organization, voting for relevancy, and listing for ranking purposes. Anyone can make a list, and anyone can add to that list (free registration required). Here is an example of the excellent lists that are added daily at Listible : Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users: A long list of tried and true Firefox extensions submitted by Listible users. Listible which is currently in beta has page rank 2, with a page rank 4 for many of its list pages



Reddit : page rank 7



Blinklist.com : page rank 6



Simpy : contains a lot of technology related stuff mixed in with a lot of very eclectic links. Simpy has a page rank 6

Social Bookmarking Services, Resources, and Plug Ins



A great way to get the visitors to your websites to instantly bookmark your articles and posts is by using a service called Socializer at Ekstreme. After adding the small snippet of code they provide, when a visitor clicks on this link they are provided with a large list of social bookmarking sites which they can add your blog post or article to.



Anders Bergman has written a customizable Wordpress plug-in version of the Socializer Bookmarking system .



Another similar Wordpress plugin is the Sociable plug in at Push.



The Social Bookmarking plug-in currently used on the Marketing Defined blog (see the icons under ?Spread The Word? at the end of each post), is the "Bookmark Me" Wordpress plug-in -- created by the publisher of the Semiologic Wordpress theme (Semiologic is the current 3 column CMS theme in use on the Marketing Defined blog)



The professional Tag n Ping Automator allows you to easily master/maximize this under-utilized SEO technique. Access to the Tag Automator Software suite lets you create an unlimited number of accounts at social bookmarking sites and lets you tag and ping on autopilot. This exciting software includes Wordpress Plugins that will get your Blog backlinks from social bookmarking sites. Simply upload the files and activate the plugins from your Admin dashboard. Simple as that!



Tag and Ping Automator also includes software that will let you create your own Social Bookmarking sites and Tutorials on what tag and ping is all about and how it helps your sites get indexed and ranked.



Use social bookmarking to discover hot new sites, become an expert in your field and share knowledge with others. The clever use of Tags instantly gives you coveted backlinks from authority sites.



If applied properly you will not only help improve the ranking of your website, but improve your credibility as an authority in your chosen niche. ALSO ? What better avenue to keep up to date with crucial changes in your field of expertise and gain publicity for your own articles.