Tagging SEO vs Social Bookmarking SEO

Tagging SEO

Tagging allows the user to label content they find on the web in a way that will be easy for them to remember. The social bookmarking sites.

It's year 2005

First of all, what's this tagging business all about? Like RSS and podcasting, tagging is a buzzword.

Idea of tagging

For anyone working as part of a group engaged on any kind of research, tagging allows online reference materials to be shared between group members.
Tagging could be better than bookmarking if the person uses more than one PC. With tagging, they can get the same list of their favourite sites in one of locations.
A person who finds a useful page on a particular topic is willing to recommend it to the wider world by tagging it.

Tagging sites

There are tagging sites del.icio.us furl.net sitetagger.com (out of business 2011), blinklist.com connectedy.com (out of business 2011), technorati.com, bibsonomy.org, mylinkvault.com, a1-webmarks.com, backflip.com (out of business 2011), url.org jumptags.com mister-wong.com. These are sites which make it possible for users to 'tag' any web page. They are like online libraries for the web, and their members are an army of voluntary librarians, classifying the Internet as they go.

Is there any SEO benefit from tagging?

A backlink, with the user name in anchor text.
An SE could use tags as an extra contributing factor in their algorithm. If for example, a user entered a search term of 'cars', the SE could look for sites that have been tagged the highest number of times with the tag of 'cars', rather than looking exclusively at backlinks with anchor text of 'cars'. Since a tagging site user can only tag a site with a particular tag once, it would make spamming search engines that bit more difficult.

2005: Tagging SEO is sometimes called social bookmarking SEO.

Tagging in year 2011

2011: Social bookmarking SEO is sometimes called tagging SEO.

What is social bookmarking good for? Social bookmarking is a tool in the hands of Social Bookmarking SEO, to get traffic and backlinks, to boost websites in search engines. Actually it's more a link building strategy than pure search engine optimisation.

...social sharing link building strategy...

Create a delicious.com account and install delicious add-on.
Bookmark a set of pages, 3 groups.
Import delicious bookmark collection into other bookmarking sites.
Submit RSS feeds to RSS directories and ping them.
Open another account and repeat the same with different set of pages.

2. Bookmark the site.

No hype, stay neutral descriptive.
Categorize the topic with tags.
Bookmark few, 10, or 20% of pages.
This is the first group.

2. Second group of bookmarks

The second group is everything that links back to the site
Article submission sites webwire.com, prweb.com; press releases, squidoo, homepages, blogger, submitted to directories software, ebooks, images, powerpoints.
Bookmark as many pages as in the first group.

2. Third group

Third-party top sites on the same topic.
Google search.
Delicious search.
Bookmark as many pages as in the first group.

3. Replicate

If some other bookmarking site doesn't allow import delicious bookmarks directly, import them to your browser, and then to the destination.
Prefer do-follow places.

4. RSS feed

Delicious generates a RSS feed containing the links bookmarked.
Submit to RSS directories. RSSsubmit. feedage.com, 2rss.com.
Ping feeds with pingler.com.

Sources and learning further

2011

Tagging SEO or the social bookmarking SEO is one of the search engine optimisation strategies.

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