Using Technorati Tags makes it much easier for Technorati and other blog search engines to index your content and organize it into the proper category. If your post is about ‘make money online’, you should create a tag for ‘make money online’. There is an extensive lesson that shows you how to create Technorati tags here: Get More Traffic - Technorati Tags. Here is a tool that you can use to generate the code you’ll need for the tags: Tag Generator.
The tags will display as links at the bottom of your posts, and will usually link to the Technorati category page for the perspective tags. There is of course an alternate methods that allows you to create Technorati type tags pages within your site. The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress allows you to do this. The plugin is a beast to install but is very powerful for blogs that use it.
Blog and ping used to be a wildly effective tactic for link building. Now that it isn’t the novelty method, is it still effective? I can say emphatically that it is still very effective. Making sure that your blog is set to ping is one of the most effective methods you can use to get links.
When you publish a post on a blog, the blog platform - such as WordPress - notifies blog search engines that there is new content on the blog. The blog search engines will then go to the blog and index the new content. When they publish the content, they will link to it. Other webmasters are able to easily find the new content at the blog search engine, and some of them will also link to it.
If your blog isn’t set to ping, you’re definitely losing links that would be nearly automatic if you changed your settings. I would recommend setting your blog to ping the following services:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Each of them notifies other sites and search engines that there is new content, and by using each all your bases should be covered. 
If your articles are the most helpful in your niche, they will naturally get linked to often. On the other hand, if your articles don’t help anyone they won’t get linked to at all! Most of us tend to forget this fact altogether. We focus on SEO but forget that the quality is what will take us to the top.
Reasons Why Creating More Value Creates More Links
- People want to naturally talk about the best content.
- People get excited when they learn something new. They want to tell everyone what they learned, which will usually lead to a link back to where they learned it.
- Everyone likes a winner. If your site is the best, it will be talked about the most.
Start providing the value and you’ll start getting the link love.
By adding a simple blog to your site, you can increase the amount of inbound links you get significantly. Blogs have natural, link building properties that can really help increase your site’s PageRank and link popularity. Here are some reasons why adding a blog to your site can really help you in this area:
- Blog search engines are updated in real time and link to blogs.
- Other bloggers can easily find your new content and will link to it if they like it.
- Blogs are very friendly to search engines, which makes their pages rank well. This increases your exposure to other webmasters who will link to content they find useful.
If you don’t have a blog on your site, you’re definitely missing out! Start a blog today and have more links tomorrow!
