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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You’ve probably heard of social bookmarking before. If you haven’t, it’s not all that complicated. It’s just a way for users to store their bookmarks online. And here’s why this is hot for the end-user…

Basically, if all your favorite webpages are online; they aren’t limited by the computer you’re on. You can access them from your work or home computer just as easily as a public computer at the library.

Also, instead of putting them in folders you create (like the old fashioned way you’re forced to organize things in your Internet Explorer favorites tab), your bookmarks are accessible by tags. That means you can assign a single bookmark to multiple categories (in case you’re like me and forget if your Mambo Templates site was in the CMS Folder or the Blog Folder).

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What is Social Media?

Before the Internet, the main media types consisted of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, Yellow Pages, and catalogs. 

While many of these media sources are still alive and well today, the Internet has added a new source, one that is called by many people as social media. This InlineSEO.com blog you are currently reading is an example of social media. 

Here are some examples of what social media (like this blog) can do compared to the ’static media’ of the past.

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People LOVE social media sites, and if people can find dofollow social media sites for link building, then they jump all over it!  I have previously written about the top dofollow social media sites, and two up and coming dofollow social media sites.  (For those who don’t know what dofollow is and why dofollow is important, please read my article entitled: What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.)

I have a few more of these dofollow social media sites for you to enjoy.  Some of you may already know of these sites.  Sorry in advance.  But, there are many people brand new to link building and seo and sem, and may not know of these sites.

Just submit your article to these social media sites for some nice backlinks.

Mylinkvault.com
Bibsonomy.org
Mister-Wong.com

Hope you enjoy these!