Take a quick look at a tag page on Technorati. See the ladybug tag as an example.
Near the top, under "Tag details" is where I post content to (if it doesn't already exist) where I include PERMANENT, DO-FOLLOW, KEYWORD RICH, CONTEXTUAL backlinks.
Closer to the bottom you will see a section that says: Latest blogosphere posts tagged "ladybug".
Those links are TEMPORARY. Those are basically the "latest news" about the term "ladybug". They leave that page just as fast as they arrive. How do they get there?
If someone tags a piece of content on their web site or blog with the term "ladybug" they should eventually show up in that list, even if it is just briefly.
It used to be that when a piece of content was tagged, the actual tag would be a link back to Technorati with the tag name as the anchor text. Some sites will now link internally but a lot will still link to Technorati in addition to, or instead of linking to an internal tag section.
This means lots of backlinks to these tag pages. Couple that with the high authority and Page Rank of 8 for the main Technorati page and you have some very powerful tag pages SEO-wise.
Read this post to see how to find tag pages with PR.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
How To Find Out If A Tag Page Is Available
Once an article is added to a tag page, the tag page is no longer available for me to publish content, and therefore backlinks, to.
If you look at the top of the tag page under "Tag details" and it says something like "Welcome to the '{tag-name}' tag page at Technorati..." then it MAY be available. Or, it could just mean that I, or a co-worker, "claimed" that tag internally for use later.
The best thing to do at this point is put together a list of the ones you want and send them to me. I will claim the ones that are available and get back to you letting you know which ones I have reserved for you.
Contact me here or on DigitalPoint.
If you look at the top of the tag page under "Tag details" and it says something like "Welcome to the '{tag-name}' tag page at Technorati..." then it MAY be available. Or, it could just mean that I, or a co-worker, "claimed" that tag internally for use later.
The best thing to do at this point is put together a list of the ones you want and send them to me. I will claim the ones that are available and get back to you letting you know which ones I have reserved for you.
Contact me here or on DigitalPoint.
How To Find Technorati Tag Pages With PageRank
This post describes how to find Technorati tag pages that have PR. I would like to point out that if a tag page does not have PR it does not mean that it wouldn't be valuable to get a link from it. Tags that are becoming popular (trends) and tags with a large list of "blogosphere posts" (volume) are also valuable. But of course, having PR makes it that much more valuable.
Here are the steps:
First, install the SEOQuake Plugin for Firefox. Get it here -> http://www.seoquake.com/
Next, you want to make sure it's on. The icon in the bottom right corner of your browser will indicate whether it's on or off. See the image below.
I like to just turn it on as I need it, then turn it off afterwards because it seems to hog resources or have a memory leak or something. If I keep it on throughout the day for regular browsing, I end up having to reboot my machine.
Go to Google.com and change your settings to allow for 100 results per page. That option is under "Advanced Search".
Now do a Google search for:
{niche} site:http://technorati.com/tag/
- of course, replace {niche} with a keyword or phrase
Near the top you will see some sort options. You'll probably have a lot more than me. Find PR and click the down arrow like in the image below.
Now the list of tag pages will have the highest PR near the top. You'll find that some of the tags aren't necessarily related to your niche. That's because there the word or phrase you chose happened to be within a "blogosphere post" the last time Google crawled the tag page. Try different keywords to see what you come up with.
You can now create a list of the tag pages that you are interested in and send them over to me. If you want, you can check to see if the tag has already been taken by someone else. Find out how in this post: How To Find Out If A Tag Page Is Available
Here are the steps:
First, install the SEOQuake Plugin for Firefox. Get it here -> http://www.seoquake.com/
Next, you want to make sure it's on. The icon in the bottom right corner of your browser will indicate whether it's on or off. See the image below.
I like to just turn it on as I need it, then turn it off afterwards because it seems to hog resources or have a memory leak or something. If I keep it on throughout the day for regular browsing, I end up having to reboot my machine.
Go to Google.com and change your settings to allow for 100 results per page. That option is under "Advanced Search".
Now do a Google search for:
{niche} site:http://technorati.com/tag/
- of course, replace {niche} with a keyword or phrase
Near the top you will see some sort options. You'll probably have a lot more than me. Find PR and click the down arrow like in the image below.
Now the list of tag pages will have the highest PR near the top. You'll find that some of the tags aren't necessarily related to your niche. That's because there the word or phrase you chose happened to be within a "blogosphere post" the last time Google crawled the tag page. Try different keywords to see what you come up with.
You can now create a list of the tag pages that you are interested in and send them over to me. If you want, you can check to see if the tag has already been taken by someone else. Find out how in this post: How To Find Out If A Tag Page Is Available
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