Posts Tagged ‘tag-and-ping’

That Tag and Ping Thing

I know what you expect me to say. You expect me to say “oh, all that tag and ping stuff is rubbish, I taught you that already and if you buy that package it’s rubbish and you’re wasting your money.”

But that’s not what I was going to say at all. And I did teach you about tagging and pinging in 2004 and early 2005.

And I’ve been harping on responsible pinging since then, and I told you repeatedly that abusing pinging would not even bring quality short term traffic, and could get a site banned.

However, having bought the package so I could review it, and see what the fuss was about, I can’t bring myself to say it’s rubbish. Far from it. I actually think it would be useful for a beginner who just can’t wrap their mind around pinging. I couldn’t at first, and if I’d had it, it would have helped me. I think it’s overpriced, and I think that if you should try and figure it out on your own first.

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Search Engine News: Yahoo MyWeb gets more features

Just in time for all that talk about Tag and Ping (I’ll write a short blurb about that later.)

Yahoo officially announces changes to MyWeb. In a post to their MyWeb blog yesterday, they shared with us some of the updates they’ve been making.

Top Tags and Interesting Today
We haven’t figured out how the save the world yet, but we *can* show you what the world is saving. Specifically, our “top tags” section and “interesting today” tab show what’s hot in the system, and are a great way to start if you’re new.

Finding Friends
We’ve also turned up the “social” in social bookmarking by helping you connect to the people who share your interests — here’s how:

Those two are my favorites, but I also liked the new export feature, which makes it a lot more useful as a bookmarks management tool, not just for social bookmarking.

Yahoo Makes My Web, Uh, Your Web

Thoughtskies ==> Yahoo gives you two more ways to create repeat visitors. First, you can now put a “Save to My Web” button on your site. Secondly, there’s a bunch more fun stuff you can do with tag clouds in My Web, My Web feeds, and the like.

Clipper==> “Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website. Users click to save your content and add it directly to their stored pages on My Web 2.0. From there, the page is easy to retrieve, and easy to share with others. You can try it out using the button below.”

“Want to do more cool stuff with your My Web links and tags? Extend My Web to your own web site and impress your friends with a My Web badge. You can display a feed of the stuff you’re saving publicly in My Web, or show off your My Web tag cloud. Or, you can show what everyone’s been saving and tagging.”

Linky ==> Yahoo! Search blog: From My Web to Your Website – A Button Share! from the 27th of October.

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