Bloggingtricks

Tags:

This post is part of my series on promoting your blog and increasing your blog traffic. Read Part 1, Part 2, Read Part 3, Read Part 4 first, then follow-up with this post.

If you're new to the world of blogging you will want to know about tags. Tags are category names. They help people know what you're blogging about and more importantly, they help bring people interested in those subjects to your site.

I like the way Technorati organizes and uses tags. Accordingly, at the bottom of this post you will see a link to the Technorati tag "blogging."

To associate a post with a Technorati Tag all you have to do is tag your post by including a special link in the body of your post. See the tag tutorial at Technorari.

You should only use tags that are relevant to the post. Make sure to include rel="tag". You do not have to link to Technorati. You can link to any web page that ends in a tag - even your own site! Once you have posted the tagged post, there are two ways to have your post included on a Technorati Tag page:

If your blog software is configured to ping Technorati, congratulations! You're done!

If your blog software does not support automatic pinging, or if you haven't set it up yet, or if you're not sure, you can manually ping Technorati. You might also want to configure your blog software to ping us automatically so you don't have to do that every time.

Technorati Tags: blogging