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It won't. Not that
Tag and Ping is some magic marketing formula that will deliver
untold riches. If you're just heard the phrase 'Tag and Ping' and scratching your
head in puzzlement --- this article may be worth your time.

It will boost
your rankings and increase your sales. Tag and Ping will deliver plenty of
very targeted traffic to your sales pages, it will help put your site on the Internet
map and if done right. It is just one more marketing tool professional online marketers
are using to give their site or sites a competitive edge over
their competition.

Links and sales to your site, and how all these
can work in sync to deliver traffic, tags, blogging, you will have to know some basic background
information on keywords, to truly understand how Tag
and Ping works. Yet relatively unknown
marketing techniques savvy Internet Marketers have been using
and trying to keep quiet for years, tag and Ping is one of those simple.

What are Blogs?

And many professional marketers use the free WordPress
software which they can host on their own websites, liveJournal, the most popular blogging systems
are Blogger.com (owned by Google) Bloglines (owned by Ask Jeeves). Links)
on any subject that interests them, info, views, most web users will know a blog is an online journal where bloggers
post their daily or hourly entries (their opinions.

The next version of Windows will have RSS embedded into its operating
system. Or MyYahoo to access their favorite RSS feeds, google Desktop, they use the FireFox browser, or more commonly. These
RSS feeds broadcasts the information in the blog posts to all
concerned parties -- those who have subscribed and use an RSS reader
or aggregator to view the posts. Each blog has its own RSS feed -- RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
although its original acronym stood for Rich Site Summary.

What are Tags?

A way of classifying
and accessing all that content in all those countless blogs, tags work in the
same way and are a form of social bookmarking. Most surfers will know
keywords are the exact words Internet users type into search engines
to find what they're looking on the world wide web. Tags are really another name for keywords.

One simple technique
to create a tag in Technocrati: Many major blogging directories such as Technorati use tags to
serve up the information to its patrons.

Laptops
(remove asterisks in actual code)

This will
be recognized by Technorati as a tag; or if your blogging software supports categories.

What the heck is a Ping?

You call up or ping your
blog post. A ping is a simple way to notify the different search engines to let
them know that your blog has been updated.

Many blogging systems will automatically
ping your blog updates. Flickr ---
you go to these sites and click your blog or tag to inform them
you have updated your blog, blinklist, del.icio.us, furl, you bookmark or place an entry in any one of the countless blogging
sites such as Technorati.

For example Technorati's ping form
is here: http://www.technorati.com/ping or you can do this manually,

Simple Way to Ping

One simple way to ping your
tags/blogs is to use a site like: http://pingomatic.com/ if this is still confusing to you,

And it will automatically ping your blog in many of the most
popular blogging services.

Enter The Online Professional Marketers and It All Hits the Fan

One great marketing system delivering
targeted traffic to their products and services. Pinging -- is an excellent
marketing vehicle, tags, rss, online marketers have long discovered that the whole
blogging system -- blogs, of course.

Tags to give their sites a slight competitive
edge in a very competitive world, rSS, it just uses the backbone structure of
blogs. ) are using blogging systems like WordPress
to create mainly marketing sites that may have little resemblance
to a real blog. Many professional marketers (the author is pleading
the fifth, but the whole blogging system is
so lucrative! It really is a corruption or commercialization of blogging
and this surely wasn't the idea the original designers of
blogs had in mind.

Always will be! Content is
still king no matter what tricks the professional
marketers want to use. Usable content
-- then most sites will want to link to your site anyway, so if you are going to use
Tag and Ping make sure you're creating valuable. As we saw with the 'comment spam' there is a great
likelihood that Tag and Ping will be misused and further
antagonize the blogging purists.

Using a Simple Tag and Ping Marketing Technique With Technorati

One of the most popular blogging services, lets just
walk through a marketing system you can quickly create using
Technorati. To explain further the whole idea of Tag and Ping.

Then you have to
place the Technorati code on your blog for a link back. Make sure these
are keywords you're marketing with your blog. Register your profile with
your 20 or so tags relating to your blog. Doesn't have to be of
you -- your site's logo will do, just upload a photo. This is quite a
simple procedure. Sign your blog up with Technorati, first.

This page is made up of
four parts: You must understand that Technorati creates a landing page
for each tag in their system, next.

- Flickr Photos

- Recent blog posts tagged with that keyword or phrase

- Who's Blogging About sidebar which links to any profiles of blogs

That those same keywords or phrase in their profile

- Links from Furl for the same tag

Your aim is to get
your links in all four spots on this Technorati landing page
for your tag or keyword. So to take full advantage and to use this marketing technique you
have to sign up with both Flickr and Furl.

Pick your tags and description for the product. You can use a photo of the product they're promoting
to get a link from Flickr in the top spot on the landing
page. Just use a dash instead of a dot in
your site's url, many marketers use their site's name
for their Flickr username, when signing up for Flickr.

Bookmark a few
sites to get the hang of how its done, set up a Furl account and download the Toolbar .

Now You're Really To Put Everything Together To Tag and Ping

1- You can start with the Flickr photos at top of the Technorati page.

Example: Link it to your landing or affiliate page url. Making sure you tag it and use a catchy headline in your description, just post a photo or cover image into your Flickr account.

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Your entry will appear on the top of the
list for that tag shortly in Technorati. Product information or free downloads, reviews, make all your posts good content. Making sure you tag it with your keywords and
then ping Technorati, make the first of your blog posts on your particular subject
or product to your blog, 2 - Next.

3 - Furl your blog post and your landing/affiliate page with your tags
to make sure your entry/post is listed the bottom section of the
Technorati page for your tag.

. . Weblogs, icerocket, moreover, blinklist, here are just a
few good ones: del.icio.us. For better results you can sign up for countless
other social bookmarking sites and bookmark your pages. Plus Furl your posts, tag and
Ping, add another blog post every few hours, to work this system.

Furl ping, tag, blog, flickr,

But the information given above should get you started
on your own Tag and Ping marketing system. Professional marketers have
countless systems and sites working many variations on this relative new
marketing technique, this is just one Tag and Ping method.

Use WordPress if you
can -- Blogger will do in a pinch! You must
have at least one blog on your site. Make sure you're
geared up to take advantage of all they have to offer, blogging and RSS are the wave of the future, remember.

Furl - Rinse and Repeat, ping, tag, blog, just
remember to Flickr! This is one marketing technique you should now be using. Traffic and sales for your site, just make sure you're using some Ping and Tag marketing techniques
to harvest all those links.