Tagging is the essence of the social bookmarking sites I outlined in the previous Social Bookmarking Explained article.

Tags provide you with a way to categorize your image, post, or web page. Keywords are virtually always used to organize topics on the internet. Tags are really just more of the same. The users tag a web page or an image with a keyword (or key phrase). By doing so, all the other web pages, posts, and images with the same tag can be organized together. This means you can find things easier. The related information is compiled together for you so you don’t have to search all over for it.

So tags aren’t really any different than keywords. Just in case you’re still not sure what I’m talking about, here’s a real simple example. Let’s say you write an article about cell phones. You would use the tag “cell phones” to help categorize it. This is hardly rocket science at all, so please don’t fret over it. Tags equal keywords.

I’m sure you already know the importance of keywords and key phrases and how you should go about finding them. If not, please review some of the Keyword Research articles I’ve put together for you.

The difference is that organizing information by tags the way some of these innovative sites are doing turns them into more of a browsing tool than a searching tool. Many people find it a little bit messy, but at the same time, that’s what so many like about it. It’s free structure is a breath of fresh air compared to the rigidity of the search engines. Type in the wrong keyword in Google and you’ll just get pages of results related to something you’re not interested in at all.

But with tagging, you get to browse through the information. Most of the tagging sites will display a list of related tags for each search you make. This way if you don’t see what you like with your first search, you can keep browsing.

If you want to see tagging in action, I suggest visiting Technorati or Delicious.

On May 25th, 2006, I wrote a report called ‘Tagging Secrets’ that I sold on Clickbank. The report sold really well because it was one of the first infoproducts released to discuss tagging and social bookmarking. It made it to the top 10 for a few categories on Clickbank. So I was happy about that.

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If you’re going to use Wordtracker to generate a keyword list, then you should start with their Keyword Universe Tool. I’ve put together a short tutorial for how I use Wordtracker to quickly build a keyword list here…

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I just want to let you know that we have completed the transfer of DoFollow Diver from it’s previous location on www.linkbuildingbible.com. You may find DoFollow Diver at http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver

If you happen to go to the old url, you should be redirected to its new page. So it’s fully transferred.

I plan to do my best to keep it updated so it is still a valuable resource for you. I’ve also considered the idea of adding a DoFollow Forums category to it.

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I just want to let you know that I’ve purchased www.linkbuildingbible.com (a blog dedicated to link building information) and will be importing the posts and comments from it into this blog.

I believe linkbuildingbible.com to have excellent content and think it will be a great addition to what I have planned for InlineSEO.com. In addition to a great discussion on link building, I’ve also acquired the Do Follow Diver tool and will be promoting it here.

I’ll let you know a little about the plans for this unique tool which will allow you to search do follow blogs shortly.

Purchasing linkbuildingbible.com will allow me to gain more exposure here as well as provide good, high quality content without having to write it all myself. As the author of all the content on linkbuildingbible.com, R.J. will be getting full credit for his works and will be considered a guest author who is welcome anytime here.

Part of the reason I chose to purchase an already existing blog and import the posts is for the shortcut it will provide me. I’ve been spending most of the last month working on launching 2 very big educational sites. As I’ve been launching these 2 sites I’ve been keeping very detailed notes on exactly what I do to get high search engine rankings. That means you’re going to benefit when I put this information together.

One of the biggest problems with SEO is that can seem like an overwhelming amount of work. I’ve never seen anyone try to put it into a truly step-by-step strategy. Once I get things sorted out with linkbuildingbible.com and the Do Follow Diver tool I’m planning to get to work on putting my strategy together for you. I also have a few more market research reports planned in the next month or two.