Importance of Tagging Your Blog Posts

One of the oft overlooked promotional tools in blogging is tagging. Tags are words or phrases that you use to associate to your blog post. An article on the Kizuna Satellite for example could be tagged with Kizuna Satellite, satellite internet, or plain Kizuna. Sometimes folks can be quite lazy in tagging their posts so some very smart guys came up with ways to make tagging blog posts easier.

If you’re a wordpress user, you’re in luck, there’s a wonderful plugin called Simple tags. This is a really cool plug-in that will automatically suggest tags for your the blog post you just created.

If you’re with blogger, then it’s just too bad. Well, not really. Zemanta is your solution for those tag suggestions. I have been using Zemanta for a while now and has been satisfied with what it does.

One important tag that a blogger should always associate with their posts are Technorati Tags. This allows your post to be categorized under Technorati. You benefit from having Technorati tags in your posts via tag searches made in Technorati. Here’s a very good discussion on Technorati Tags that I’ve read.

Again, if you’re a wordpress user, here’s a Technorati Tag plugin that makes life very easy.

For Blogger users, you may have to follow the instruction in the above linked discussion or, you could use this nifty service where you just type in the tags you want, click on the make code button, and then copy-and-paste the resulting code in you blog post.

The thing to remember really is to ensure that you don’t get crazy lazy and not put in any tag in your posts. By so doing you miss out on one of the simple promotional tools out there.

Online Blogging Resource Store

I was playing around with Amazon.com’s new concoction the aStore and I came up with my own online store. Since I am absolutely crazy about blogging these days, I can only come up with a store selling all kinds of blogging books. It’s amazing how many blogging books are out there.

Anyway check out the store I created and see if there’s any book there to your liking. You don’t really have to buy any of those books, it’s just for your reference should you wish to advance your blogging knowledge in the future. And if you decide to buy any of the books listed there, well, that’s money for me and thank you very much.

Latest News On The Kizuna Satellite

155MBps - that’s the confirmed downstream speed of the Kizuna Satellite to super small earth stations (these are 45 cm diameter antennas that can be used in homes) according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This speed is the fastest in the world.

JAXA conducted their tests from March 28 - April 7, 2008. See full story here.

This is awesome news for Asia Pacific countries that are plaqued by lousy Telcos who charge an arm and a leg for their crappy services. With this development, we are one step closer to being liberated from the third world curse of slow internet speed and crappy connections.

Let us all hope that this is the start of something great.