Tagging your content is an important step in optimizing it for social media sites, Technorati-type tag engines, and regular search engines.
Using the WPM system means that when you finish writing your post and hit “publish”, amazing things happen. All the services on your ping list get pinged, and those services come to your site within minutes to get your content.
Search engines check these services for new content, find yours, and index it.
Technorati and Icerocket place your tags in their tag pages.
Your tags help all of these services and engines categorize and rank your content.
If you’ve got your content right, you should see traffic coming to your blog very quickly and the effect builds with time. And the very best thing of all is that the more you do it the better it gets.
If you don’t already have Simple Tagging installed, go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tagging-plugin/ and follow the instructions to download and install the plugin.
If you don’t already have Tagalizeit installed, go to http://www.Tagalizeit.com and follow the instructions to download and install the plugin.
Tagalizeit gives you a shortened form of tag code and allows you to insert several different sorts of tags within your posts.
http://www.Tagalizer.com is a membership site run by the same software developer as Tagalizeit. The beauty of Tagalizer is that it lets you see what actually happens to keyword tags in different social bookmarking sites:
Using Tagalizer before you start to write will help you pinpoint the best keyword to tag and provide you with ideas for keywords to write your article around.
One point to watch out for – after you finish tagging – hit update and scroll down the page to see what will be displayed on your site. In most cases the tags will show as links but sometimes self-tags do not display properly until you actually publish the post.
It’s always a good idea to check the site after you publish to make sure all tags are correct and the code is not displaying in the text.
Assuming you already have an account at OnlyWire, with your new post open in your browser, you can add it to OnlyWire by clicking on the “Save Page (std)” button in your toolbar. (If you haven’t got this button, go to OnlyWire and drag and drop it into your toolbar – it’ll save you time in submitting.)
Then complete the submission form that opens in OnlyWire, inserting your post description, title and tags. Click to submit the post to the social media sites OnlyWire posts to.
Be very careful not to click more than once since you may end up submitting the post twice, which could be regarded as spam. If you make a mistake, go to your bookmark page in each of the affected social media sites and delete the duplicate post.
Once you’ve published and submitted to the social sites, all you need to do is sit back and watch for results. Check out your stats at MyBlogLog and in your website's cPanel, and go to the social sites to see how your article is doing there.
Don’t expect to hit the jackpot with everything you write. In some niches you may find you dominate the keyword for weeks – in other more competitive areas you could only last about 30 minutes.
Remember to hone your keyword choice more and more by using Tagalizer and by browsing in the social bookmarking sites to see for yourself what gets rated.
Expect to see a steady trickle of additional traffic from social media sites, with some sending you more than others.
See the tagging videos in the “Marketing Videos” section of the ASC Video Training Center.