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Tags
& Folksonomy: Latest Internet Trend
There is a new branch
of the Web growing like a well organized storm cloud.
This recent trend on the Web can be used to strengthen
your presence with major search engines and reach an
active audience that is highly interested in your content.
Welcome to the world of "folksonomy" and "tagging."
What is Folksonomy and Tagging?
Folksonomy is a combination of the words
folks and taxonomy meaning "people classification
management." This allows users some level of control
over how the web is organized. One of the most popular
tools of the folksonomy concept is tags. Tagging, in
the context of this article, is the process of labeling
a piece data with metadata.
Using Tagging & Folksonomy to Advertise
Three of the most effective sites currently
using tags and/or folksonomy are: Del.icio.us, digg.com,
and technorati. Each of these sites is a major player
in the folksonomy world.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking
web application that is growing very fast in popularity.
With a free account, del.icio.us users can submit and
access all of their bookmarks from any computer with
Internet access. By submitting and tagging your own
web pages, you instantly give access to thousands of
other users with interests in the same tags. Encouraging
site visitors to submit your selected webpages to their
own del.icio.us bookmark page is a very good way to
get more exposure to del.icio.us users. Submitting to
del.icio.us is instant and it creates meaningful relevant
links important to the major search engines.
Digg.com is mostly a technical news
site. If you are familiar with the Web phenomenon Slashdot,
then digg will remind you of that geek culture. The
difference is that ALL of digg's content is created,
submitted, and judged by its audience. If your page,
blog or online article is good enough to be "dug"
by digg users, you could receive literally hundreds
of unique visitors immediately. Virtually any participation
(comments, submissions, links in your profile) can get
your site traffic from digg. The beauty of digg is that
it is so popular that many submissions to digg can instantly
dominate some keywords on search engines such as google.com.
Technorati.com is a power house in the
world of tagging. If you have a blog, Technorati should
become one of your favorite search engines on the World
Live Web. Many Technorati Tags are beginning to dominate
the Web by having constantly updated, fresh blog content
on highly focused subjects. The beauty of Technorati
is that blog application such as blogware and others
are completely integrated with it allowing blog categories
to be instantly tagged and syndicated into the blog
search engine. Any blog can be manually added as well
to technorati's very open tagging system. Like digg,
even if you only happen to get a trickle of traffic
from technorati itself many times the link value alone
will sky rocket the speed in which your site rank in
the search engines.
There are many other folksonomy sites
that can help you with "tag syndication."
With its encouragement to get users to submit their
own RSS feeds as content, My Yahoo! is a great way to
increase traffic and links. Web applications like TagCloud
integrates RSS and tagging while wikipedia.org is method
of allowing social webpage and content development.
All these methods and many more have two great things
in common 1) they are free (as of this writing) and
2) they give the power to reshape and categorize the
Web to the people. If content is King then content management
is the the kingdom.
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