I am way overdue for a new blog post, especially because there appears to be some confusion from time to time about the selecting of an appropriate title for a Technorati tag page article. Not that I wouldn’t love to write an article titled with some of the great titles that you send me, but the Technorati tag page articles, where you get your backlink inserted, are quite simply just generic topical-type of articles. Wait, let me back up. I would never write anything generic! My articles are interesting and captivating, if I do say so myself. I spruce and spice and sprinkle with humor and lively creativity 
But,to further clarify, I am writing for you what I call a “snapshot” article that only gives a short glimpse into the subject material.
So, for example, if you have a website that is centered around interior decorating, I can’t have a title like, “Interior Decorating: The Total Home Makeover.” Remember, Technorati is a blog search engine– the way it works is this: people “tag” their blog entries with a keyword such as “interior decorating.” Then if they are lucky enough to have a high enough authority ranking on Technorati (of 100 or greater), then their post shows up on the tag page for that keyword. Where I come in is I write the tag page articles that you see at the head of these “tag pages.” My article comes first and then below it you will see a dozen or so (depending upon the popularity of the blogged-about subject) entries from people’s blog posts that have been “tagged” with that keyword or keyword phrase that I have written the article about at the head of the page. Getting back to the titles– if your website’s central theme was “interior decorating”, I would write the tag page article entitled just that– “interior decorating”, “interior decorator”, or something similar. We stick to simple keywords and keyword phrases for these Technorati tag articles. The freedom comes in the anchor text. As long as it is relevant to the title and subject, we can have a little bit more leeway with your chosen anchor text that I place in the body of the article that links back to your website. In the example given, the anchor text could be the same as the title of the article, or it could be “interior decorating supplier” or a wide variety of other phrases that you are trying to optimize for in the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages).
To find out if the keyword title would be appropriate for a tag page (remember, they are usually only 1,2,or 3 words long), go ahead and type in: http://technorati.com/tag/whatever-you-want (the “whatever-you-want” part of the url is a keyword that you want an article written about with your backlink in it). So, for example, if you wanted me to write a Technorati tag page about motorcycles, you might type into your browser http://technorati.com/tag/motorcycle and you would see that this page would probably be a good choice because there is a lot of content on this page of Technorati where people have blogged about things having to do with motorcycles. If you typed in http://technorati.com/tag/motorcycle and there was only one or two entries on the page or you came up with a “Page Not Found,” you would want to rethink the title for your tag page article. Remember, Google loves content!
Let’s say that you picked http://technorati.com/tag/animals. You can see that on this page there is already an article. It is taken. I cannot write another article entitled “animals” because there is only one article for each tag page/each keyword. Another example– say you want article to be written with your backlink on this tag page: http://technorati.com/tag/airplane. As of this writing it appears to be available because you see no article there, only: “Welcome to the ‘airplane’ tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have “tagged” with ‘airplane’.” This means it is available for me to write an article for you there and get it published with your backlink in it. So you then ask me to check if it is really available, because sometimes it may have no article there, but when I log in to my BlogCritics account I see that someone has already claimed it. If it has not been claimed, I claim it and write the article for you. If it has been claimed, we look for something else, such as the plural– “ariplanes”, or even a two-word phrase with “airplane” in it.
I hope that this can speed up the process of getting your articles published and avoiding confusion. I really appreciate working with all of you. This has been a fun, exciting, and successful venture!
Patrick at SEOTagWriter.com
As I get further into this venture, I become more learned and aware about what will and will not be accepted as a link in a tag page article for Technorati. As a general rule, I found that I cannot include links to a website whose url is named after a person. The editor has mentioned that this is because he has no way to verify the credentials of the person whose service or product is represented.
Another thing that is not allowed is to promote a particular brand as an anchor text or a tag page article title. I slipped one through before knowing this, but had a “warning shot” fired at me, gently reminding me that I am not to be promoting a particular brand, that this is too close to advertising.
Also, some few of you have been wanting me to include the name of a city with your main keyword as the anchor text in the tag article. Generally that is a tip off to the editor that I am front and center promoting a particular service, and he doesn’t like this either. I personally think that the best idea in this case (take for example Houston Lawyer, or whatever) is to optimize for Google Local Search. I write a bit about it here.
In general things are rolling along just fine, however more people should be asking if I have a high PR tag article title keyword that is relevant to their niche! Don’t forget that the tag article title keyword doesn’t have to be the exact same as your anchor text. They should certainly be related, but do like one of my customers does, and target the high PR tag articles, and I can still work in your chosen anchor text keywords. I had somebody pass on my suggestion of this for a very relevant keyword for his niche, but I guess he just didn’t understand the value of a link on a PR5 of a domain 9 website!
It is obvious that in terms of SEO the tag pages of Techonorati.com is a “lovely piece”. First of all, because Techonorati.com is a web site with many years of very nice reputation in the eyes of search engines – and reputation is becoming more and more important today. A backlink from SEO trusted site can be worth dozens or even hundreds of backlinks from hundreds of web sites that are fresh and green and just start building their reputation.
Among other advantages of Technorati tag pages (for SEO) it is possible to mention that you can build from these pages:
- one way links
- links without “no follow” attribute (that kills all SEO value of any backlink)
- links of super high relevancy
The list of SEO advantages of getting a backlink on the Technorati tag page can be huge, but…
There is One Serious Disadvantage
About Technorati Tag Pages
Your backlinks on these pages will last hours or maybe even minutes. And this is a big problem in terms of SEO. Just imagine Google saw a backlink to your site from a lovely tag page: Google is happy, you are happy. Several minutes have passed – no backlink. Google starts thinking “What the heck?!!”
Definitely this does not add to the value of your site in the eyes of Google, if a backlink lastes only few minutes.
Why Does that Happen?
You see, TRADITIONALLY you get to the Technorati tag page when you put a certain keyword or keyphrase into the tag line of your blog post. Once you publish this post, it automatically gets “digested” by Technorati and your post gets to the tag page of this keyword.
For example, if into the tag line of your post you entered “make money online”, it means a sneak preview of your post is published on Technorati tag page “make money online”.
The problem is that whenever any other blog on the planet publishes a post with the same keyword in the tag line – this post gets above you on the tag page, and pushes your post down. Naturally that on the popular tag pages – and this is exactly where everybody tries to get – your post in “flushed down” in a matter of minutes.
How SEOTagWriter.com
Bypasses this Problem
AND
Gives You a Permanent Backlink
From Technorati Tag Pages
This is about a new possibility added by a team which works together with Technorati, and I have become one of the authors of this team – just read what their editors say about me: “…please don’t stop or slow down” [in reference to writing the tag articles], “Thanks…and keep the xxxxxxxxxx [keyword omitted] tags coming! Love em’!”, “xxxxxxxxx is right now one of our most reliable tag writers and I’d hate to lose him.”
So, what I am doing within the framework of the SEO service offered on SEOTagWriter.com is the following: I create a unique piece of text for a keyword in your niche and get it published on the Technorati tag page.
Not in the publications of blogs, but in a special text area that stays on this tag page PERMANENTLY and is not flushed down in a matter of some minutes or hours. This piece of text is created by me for the Technorati site as a review of this topic (the topic of the keyword that you need, be it “LA weight loss”, “work from home moms”, etc.), and once their editors approve this text (with your backlink inside!) – this text stays permanently on the tag page.
In such a smart way SEOTagWriter.com helps you to get a permanent one way link from Technorati tag page – and your competitors will be “flushed down” the tag pages.
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