Danny Sullivan asked Google, “If an article is re-tweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal, outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?”

Google Said: “Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings.”

Not only is Google watching signals from Twitter, they are looking at a wide variety of social network signals as an indicator. They even created their own social signal called Google Plus One (+1).

You might not know this, but BlogPiG very nearly had the answer to the automatic bookmarking and backlinking of your websites with a plugin we were building called SocialPiG.  But after the initial excitement and successful beta testing, we wrestled uncomfortably with this PiG and we’ve come to the tough decision not to release this software.

But given what great influence social signals have on the ranking and therefore the earning potential of your websites, I do not want to leave you without a tool to leverage social media. I’ve therefore considered very carefully what product I could honestly recommend in place of our own.

The tool is SYNND and I am happy to endorse it because we have been using it for some time to get our own content ranked and to get traffic.

SYNND is a powerful mix of advanced software combined with an incentivised community of active members working to promote your content. Essentially, it’s like having thousands of people and computers bookmarking, distributing, ‘liking’ and ‘re-tweeting’ your content – completely leveraging your time and allowing you to work on the money-making end of your business.

With SYNND you can:

1. Get your content bookmarked across over 105,000+ live bookmarking accounts: prove to the search engines that your content is valuable and should be ranked well!
2. Gather votes via social news campaigns: votes, comments and backlinks can all be yours – more signals for those search engines to rank your content
3. Get your content re-tweeted: build more followers and get more traffic!
4. Generate Facebook likes: social proof to humans and search engines alike that your content rocks
5. Syndicate your articles: take an article, turn it into ten, turn those into dozens or hundreds of submissions, generate backlinks
6. Prime your comments: real live humans from the SYNND community leave real comments on your blog, encouraging more comments and also more proof to the search engines that your blog is relevant

You can read the full details about SYNND Pro here.  This will explain how SYNND Pro works and what would be involved to use it. BUT if and when you decide to sign up to SYNND Pro, make sure to use the link below because we have been given access to a 31% discount for you!

Use this link to get SYNND Pro at a 31% discount!

SYNND offers a legitimate and sustainable means of gathering social votes – it gives the search engines exactly what they are looking for. It leverages your time, allowing technology combined with thousands of people to promote your content.

SYNND is scalable. For those of you with a large armoury of websites, there is the facility to purchase more ‘promotions’ for your content e.g. Facebook likes, bookmarks or votes as you need them. You could also consider the larger SYNND Enterprise solution, essentially outsourcing your use of the SYNND tool to account managers (email me directly (fiona at blogpig dot com) if you are interested in SYNND Enterprise, we’ve negotiated a small discount for that too).

So, of course I am disappointed not to be emailing you about a solution with our name on it…

…BUT…

I am confident that SYNND can plug any gap you have in your social bookmarking and online marketing efforts. It is an ingenious solution from an outstanding company.

If you are still looking for a tool to get social votes, get ranked and get traffic, and you want an automated way to do that, I cannot recommend SYNND enough.

Use this link to get SYNND Pro at a 31% discount!

Kind regards,
Fiona

P.S. If you decide to go one step further and sign-up to a SYNND Enterprise package, email me directly. Charles Heflin, co-founder of SYNND Software, has agreed with me a small discount for that too. You can reach me at fiona at blogpig dot com

you and I both know that ‘votes’ from social media like Facebook, Twitter and Digg are now vital to the ranking of your websites. They act as proof to the search engines that your content is worthy of high rankings, and therefore traffic. Google even admits as much:

Danny Sullivan asked Google, “If an article is re-tweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal, outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?”

Google Said: “Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings.”

Not only is Google watching signals from Twitter, they are looking at a wide variety of social network signals as an indicator. They even created their own social signal called Google Plus One (+1).

You might not know this, but BlogPiG very nearly had the answer to the automatic bookmarking and backlinking of your websites with a plugin we were building called SocialPiG.  But after the initial excitement and successful beta testing, we wrestled uncomfortably with this PiG and we’ve come to the tough decision not to release this software.

But given what great influence social signals have on the ranking and therefore the earning potential of your websites, I do not want to leave you without a tool to leverage social media. I’ve therefore considered very carefully what product I could honestly recommend in place of our own.

CloakPiG, our auto link cloaker, has been the first PiG to benefit so far and among a couple of bug fixes, based on your feedback we have added the following options and features to the product:

New Features Which Give You More Control

• Preloading of cookie only for the affiliate networks you specify, allowing you to be selective about which networks you do or don’t pre-load cookies for
  • If this option is selected, CoakPiG will only preload cookies from the domains which are listed in the “Manage Network List”. Click the affiliate network list link to add domains on the list

• Pre-loading of cookie if mouse-over event occurs, allowing you to be even more targetted with your cookie pre-loading
  • If selected, this feature will preload the cookies of every affiliate link over which the visitor’s mouse hovered, because it’s likely they were either thinking about clicking the link, or viewing the URL to see if they could change the affiliate ID

• Fully functional wildcard feature for all domain list, so you can target the domains you want, where you want
  • You can now use * as a wildcard character for the domain that you want to specify in “Domain Exemption List”, “Domain Cloaking List”, “Manage Network List”, “Edit Safe List” in CloakPiG
  • Example: *.clickbank.* – this will match http://anything.clickbank.anything
• Link a keyword up to n time(s) per URL
  • Using this option, you can specify the number of times you want a keyword be linked to the same URL, per page

• Labelling of manual links, enabling you to manage them more easily
  • You can now label each link using a description field.  As the label is included in the search functionality, retrieval of manual links from the system is easier
  • You can now also filter the results to show only manual links

• Include or exclude keywords within header tags “<h1>, <h2>…” from autolinking
  • This option allows you to specify if you want the keywords inside the header tags to be autolinked or not

On top of these new features, our guys took care of a few bug fixes too. Among other things, keywords which are auto linked now retain the case of the anchor text i.e. they’ll match the use of upper or lower case letters.  More importantly, links generated by the ‘Auto Keyword Link’ feature are automatically cloaked now.

If you are a current user of CloakPiG then you can get the benefit of version 2.2 immediately using our new ‘automatic update’ feature.  See this post on how to upgrade within a couple of clicks (for free, of course!).

If you’re not using CloakPiG already, you can find out more here.

So, thank you for your feedback, people and we hope that CloakPiG now provides even more benefits to you and your WordPress websites.

All the best!

Fiona

BlogPiG plugins now update automatically!

The auto-update feature of BlogPiG plugins was introduced just recently so that the process of updating to the latest versions of our products is much easier for you!

Plugins that now have the this feature are:

• CloakPiG 2.2
• CommentPiG 2.1.5
• CSVPiG 2.4.12
• TagPiG 2.2.7

How This Affects You

We’re updating our products all the time based on your feedback so take a moment to read the information below on how you can upgrade your product versions in a couple of clicks:

Update notifications will be visible in the admin sidebar (Updates, Plugins) as well as in the Plugins list table.

Users can then view info about the latest version and can perform the update from within WP-admin.

The update is performed by WP via FTP. The user is then required to enter her/his credentials (for her/his FTP server).

Users should note that that when entering information into the “Hostname” field (on the FTP credentials page), they should enter “localhost” (not the domain name).

Below are some screen grabs to illustrate the update notifications:

Update Notification in Plugins List Table

Update Notifications in Sidebar and Updates Page

Status Box in BlogPiG Plugin with Auto-update Feature

Plugin Info Modal Window

FTP Credentials Page

I’ll admit, I honestly thought I was pretty clued up on how to squeeze the most income out of being an affiliate.  But I haven’t revisited my thinking on it for a while now, haven’t tried anything much new.

But it turns out I know someone who is totally clued up and is using the most up-to-date methods.  That person is Andrew Hansen and he and his partner Josh Stanton have put all of their knowledge and latest techniques into a series of over 50 training videos in a product called ‘Unstoppable Affiliate.’

Even people on Warrior Forum (in the product reviews section) are saying how up to date the techniques and tools are in the videos. It really is a current product.

The aim of Unstoppable Affiliate is to enable you to set up websites which genuinely have a chance of earning you $300 to $3,000 a month.  No, I didn’t miss off any zeros there or any ‘random’ numbers. Those are the realistic amounts Andrew and his partner Josh say websites built with their formula can earn you.  I trust Andrew, I believe those numbers.

The Unstoppable Affiliate video tutorial course costs $67 and here’s what that gets you:

Over 50 videos and their transcripts, covering:

• Research
• Site Strategies
• Conversion Strategies
• Traffic Mastery
• Outsourcing & Scaling up
• Resource List

The videos average 10 minutes a piece, so that is a lot of content and, as I said, there are PDFs of the transcripts available too.

I know Andrew, and I know his work, but over the last couple of days I have seen even more evidence of what a genuine person he is and I have read testimonials about his products and how he deals with customers. I feel even more confident recommending this course.

Now, if you leap on the video course, there is an up-sell in the purchase process – in fact, there are two . So you’re aware, here are what they are:

An 8 Week Unstoppable Affiliate Coaching Mastermind

Have you ever considered the value of a mentor?  I have to say, Andrew has a point here – the majority of the successful online marketers have had, or still have, mentors. Even when I worked corporate side, the company had an internal mentor scheme – it was a key way to learn and to boost your career – just by signing up for a mentor you were marked as someone who was going to get ahead.

So, the coaching mastermind is a mentoring scheme for those who want more intense guidance with getting ahead with affiliate marketing.  The program offers:

• Weekly live webinar masterminds – live Q&As, reviews of websites etc.
• Personal email access to Andrew, Josh and other experts
• Advanced training videos
• PDF ction checklists
• Expert interviews
• Special “fast income generator” modules
• Private member forum and more

The mentoring scheme runs from 3^rd August to 29^th September, roughly.

Coaching Mastermind – Materials only

On holiday during this time?  Well, then you can buy the mastermind materials instead for $197.  But, I would not underestimate the value of that 1-2-1, live interaction on the webinars and over email.

I’m telling you about the up-sells, firstly, because I like transparency.  Secondly, I think these are good options in themselves. $62 a week for direct access to Andrew and Josh?  And the other people they’re plugged into?  Seems like exceptional value to me.

So, if you are looking to leverage affiliate marketing to make more money from your websites then jump at these videos and if you know you will make use of it, grab the coaching too.

You can find out more about the course and sign up here: Unstoppable Affiliate

As always, I am interested to hear your thoughts, especially if you sign up and watch the videos.

All the best,

Fiona

P.S. In my last email I said I would get this course and the coaching for my little brother if he wanted to get going with affiliate marketing. I stand by that statement with even more conviction today.

• Produce quality products and promote them truthfully and honestly
• Shine their torch on other people in the industry who are doing good things

Today I am going to shine my torch on Andrew Hansen. His name ring any bells? The last time I mentioned Andrew was back in November 2010. Gary and I met him at an event and found that we were very much kindred spirits – upset by where the industry was heading; wanting to produce genuine products.

We met up with Andrew again a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned he was producing a new course to launch in the middle of July. He didn’t say much more than that (he’s actually quite a quiet chap), except that the course’s aim was to help people actually, truly make a realistic amount of money online – no BS figures, just a way to make income as an affiliate.

From what Andrew’s partner said, it sounded like an awful lot of work and preparation had gone into the course (not the launch, the actual course and its contents). Months of preparation and hours upon hours of recording and re-recording the content, trying to ensure no stone was left unturned.

Last week I got to preview the course. It’s called ‘Unstoppable Affiliate’ and is an in depth insight into how to crack affiliate marketing. Basically, a blue-print for making money out of the websites you love to build.

Now, I’ve been involved in affiliate marketing for years – I was an affiliate for a time, then I was responsible for a huge affiliate program for a corporate. I was more than a little humbled last week to find myself learning new tactics for being a successful affiliate.

Unstoppable Affiliate completely challenged some of my views, too. For example, as an affiliate don’t just start by choosing a keyword with high search volumes, start by choosing a product or offer you know you can actually get paid good commission for (and where to go to find those offers and payouts in one place).

Before I go any further let me give you the hard facts about this course:

• It’s a video tutorial course, with transcripts available
• There are over 50 videos averaging, I would say, 10 minutes a piece – so long enough to be useful, concise enough to digest
• The modules covered are:
  • Research: Find your profit center – some methods which were new to me!
  • Site Strategies: Create the perfect mini site based around the offer and keyword market you’ve just found
  • Conversion Strategy: Convert visitors into buyers AND simultaneously please the search engines
  • Traffic Mastery: Get the right kind of visitors to the right pages on your mini; extremely current search engine strategies
• The delivery style is friendly and informal. It’s kind of like Andrew is sitting next to you and navigating you through his world
• It costs $67 one time

Now, when I found out the price (I had thought it was $67 a month, not one time) I was a bit shocked.  For $67 it totally over-delivers and I wondered if Andrew was off his rocker a little bit to be selling that much content for that price.  I actually thought it would cause a problem, because I always say if something sounds too good to be true, it is, so it could make people sceptical about the quality of the course.

But Andrew explained, and here’s the deal: Andrew and his business partner Josh Stanton are hoping that some of the people who take up the video course will also sign up to an eight week coaching program which costs $497.  In the coaching program they will hand-hold and get people up and running through intensive input and hopefully have them earning more in super-fast time. So, longer-term Andrew hopes to make back his investment in producing the video course.

So that presents an opportunity in two ways to anyone interested in learning a whole new chunk of actionable information on affiliate marketing:

• Simply grab a bargain and get over 50 training videos for a mere $67. You can’t fail to learn something new from these videos, even if you’ve been doing affiliate marketing for years.  Buy the videos, set aside a day or some evenings, sit down and watch them with a notepad at your side – action even just one thing you learn and you’ll be further forward
• If being mentored is a route you’re interested in and will honestly make full use of (and you can afford to invest the $497 without risking your rent or mortgage payment) then take up that option.  $62 a week for coaching?  Seems like good value to me. Otherwise?  Just ignore it and enjoy the videos

I can vouch for Andrew.  He’s a straight-up, genuine guy and he cares about what he does and how he does it.

If my little brother came to me and said he wanted to get into affiliate marketing, I’d get him this course (and the coaching to boot), that is how useful and genuine I think it is.

You can find out more about the course and sign up here: Unstoppable Affiliate

As always, I am interested to hear your thoughts, especially if you sign up and watch the videos.

All the best!

Fiona

P.S. Don’t forget that even a seasoned affiliate marketer can learn something from this course!

In spite of the 3,500 miles between us, Mike Johnson and BlogPiG have been getting closer over the last six months.  Discussions about the state of the industry, the testing of each other’s products and offerings, the sharing of ideas…well, we’ve found we have  a lot in common.

For those of you who don’t know Mike and what he does, Mike is the oracle on all things auto blogging.  His knowledge and experience is immense, but what sets him apart is his ability to share this goldmine with the members of his Auto Blog Blueprint course in an honest, straightforward way.  Mike is able to translate his experiences into excellent training and he is one of the most supportive experts on the net, providing one-to-one advice on his very active forum.

So, what draws together a man like Mike and a bunch of techies, lead by Gary Prendergast, at BlogPiG?

Well, I suppose the main thing is that we share a mindset – both parties want to deliver something good and fair and genuinely useful in an industry which is increasingly leaving a bad taste in our mouths.  And we want to help turn the tide, to move the industry forward positively.  At BlogPiG we aim to do that through quality software. Auto Blog Blueprint does it through training, advice and community.

But imagine if we combined forces.

Imagine a single trusted resource which provided you with everything you needed to either get going in internet marketing, or to up your game in internet marketing.  Software, tools, training, advice, community…all in one place….reviewed, tested, built, videod, documented…all in one place.  Delivered by people you trust.

On 26th October, Profit.fm will launch.

Profit.fm is the result of a brand new partnership between Mike Johnson and Gary Prendergast and will be the one-stop course for anyone looking to build a business online, not just auto blogs.

Profit.fm will consist of the best training, constantly updated, and the best software, constantly updated, all in one place. This will be backed up with a great support team. It will be huge.

What does this mean for BlogPiG?

Well, BlogPiG.com will continue, business as usual!  We’re still going to maintain and develop our existing base of WP plugins  and develop new ones. For those people who simply need a top plugin to take care of certain tasks on their WordPress site, this will be the place to come to.  Gary and I continue to work with our ever-expanding team of developers on new versions of our plugins and as an exisiting member, you’ll get all the updates as usual.

I don’t have any more details about Profit.fm but nearer the time will post about the finer points.  But, really, I am about BlogPiG and I’m looking forward to bringing you some great new and improved tools for your WordPress blogs.

Thank you for being part of the journey of BlogPiG and helping us improve the Internet Marketing industry.

We’ve just released CSVPiG 2.4.11.
The key changes are listed below:

• Added support for WP auto-update mechanism
• Fixed publish stalling issues

From now on, you can update CSVPiG directly from WordPress. Updates are supplied by our servers.

Your BlogPiG Team

One of our members, Erika, asked for a new feature to be added to CloakPiG and a week or so later we delivered it.

One of the current features of CloakPiG is its PageRank hoarding functionality. PageRank Hoarder solves one of the key problems with affiliate and datafeed websites – too many outbound links. Every outbound link on your website bleeds a little bit of your PageRank away. PageRank Hoarder prevents this by giving you complete control over exactly how many links you display to search engine spiders. A human visitor would see all 20 of your outbound affiliate links on a page but Googlebot would see only three.

Erika wanted more control over exactly which links were visible to search engine spiders and human visitors, so we developed a the new Spider Safe feature within the PageRank Hoarding functionality of CloakPiG.  By marking your existing or new links as Spider Safe you ensure that they are always shown to both human users and search engine spiders even if PageRank Hoarding is active.

You can download the latest version of CloakPiG from your member’s page.

TagPiG

A few weeks ago I posted some helpful tips on how to get the best out of TagPiG, our auto tagging plugin.  What I didn’t do was tell anyone I’d posted these tips. Not so helpful. Anyway, I’m telling you now. If you use TagPiG already or plan to in the future, take a look at the blog post.

Change to BlogPiG Affiliate Program

You probably know that BlogPiG products are sold via ClickBank. BlogPiG has been running an open affiliate program via ClickBank since we started, so it’s easy for anyone to sign up and promote our products and make some money.

ClickBank provide a great service to affiliates with accurate and punctual payments. We will continue to offer our affiliate program via ClickBank but the program is becoming a ‘closed’ program, i.e. new affiliates will have to be ‘white listed’ by us before they can promote our products.

Why have we opted for a closed program?  Because our affiliates work really hard for us and they deserve to be paid the commission they have earned.  By operating a closed program, we can ensure that hard working affiliates get credit for the sales they have generated.

The partner page is currently being updated so if you would like to promote BlogPiG products and earn 50% commission, just ping me an email and we’ll get you set up.

Customer Support

Customer support is a key area of the BlogPiG business. We want our customers to be happy with their BlogPiG product or products plus we are a community driven organisation. We aim to develop our products based on customer feedback and input.

I’m pleased to introduce you today to a new member of our team, Benjie, who will be responsible for the smooth running of customer support.

Benjie is a technically minded but supremely friendly and helpful chap, so I know he’ll be a great asset to the team here and to our customers. You can check out his smiley profile pic in Support!

So, that’s all the news I can share with you for now. Forgive the slightly loose use of the name ‘SpiderPiG’ at the start of this post but being the high-brow individual that I am, I took inspiration from Homer.

You might have one blog, or 100 blogs which each focus on a niche i.e. a sliver of a market which you can get a website to rank well for on Google and make some money from – potentially.

Finding a niche you can confidently go after involves several steps:

• Painstaking keyword research to find a keyword or niche which generates enough searches to make it worth targeting
  • Are there 10 searches a month on Google for this keyword or 10,000?
• Checking the level of competition to decide if you can elbow your way in
  • Are there 3 PPC ads showing or 30 for this niche?
  • Are there 36,000 results in Google or 3,600,000?
  • Are the sites which already rank on page one optimised and back linked?
• Researching suitable domains for the keyword or niche
  • Are there any keyword matching domains available?
  • Any unclaimed Facebook fan page URLS?
• Determining if there is any money to made from that niche
  • What could AdSense earn you?
  • Any other advertising?
  • Opportunities as an affiliate?

So, before you’ve even thought about building a site and building revenue streams, you might have used days of your valuable time already!  Without earning a cent yet!

Personally, in the very early days of my career online, I found keyword research weirdly exciting and even addictive – all that hope and optimism (I’m gonna uncover a hidden goldmine!) mixed with a load of data (I love data and stats.  I’m so rock ‘n’ roll).

But the novelty or keyword research wore off pretty quickly.  When your keyword doesn’t deliver in spite of your days of research, it’s pretty demoralising, especially when you don’t have another niche lined up to take its place.

And as time has gone on, it’s got an awful lot harder to unearth a nugget to work on. ‘Long tail’ keywords are no longer the reserve of an elite group of online marketers.

But, what, all those people who claim still to be making a mint out of online niche marketing are lying?  Heck, no!  But what they’re not doing is spending a load of time doing keyword research and exploring niches.  Nope, they’re working at the money-making end of the machine.

They’re building websites – quickly, automatically. They’re building a revenue model and cookie-cutting it from one site to the next. They’re banking their cheques. And they’re able to do this over and over again because they can move like lightening from one niche to another.

Got that niggling feeling reading this? Got that impatient itch? Feeling like you’re in the same race as these guys but you just can’t catch up?

Well, there is a product about to launch which could give you a head start.

Conceived and built by Gary in conjunction with Matt Garrett, this product is not a BlogPiG product, it isn’t a WP plugin.  This product is positioned way earlier on in the life of WP site – before the site is even a twinkle in your eye.

The product is Niche Reaper and, as its name suggests, it reaps the web for untapped niches.

Make no mistake, though, this is no simple keyword research tool.  This tool will find and evaluate keywords and niches.  Every day it adds about 20,000 new keywords to the database and as well as telling you the obvious stuff like search volumes, its complex algorithm:

• Groups like keywords to form niches – so you can build authority sites
• Assesses the competition – so you know where you have a fighting chance
• Reports available matching keyword domains – so you can snap up domains which will rank
• Lists Facebook fanpage URLs – so you can snare your share of the Facebook  goldrush
• Calculates a potential monthly revenue figure per keyword – so you know if it’s worth investing
• Colour codes niches – so you can see instantly what to disregard and what to jump at

Within minutes you can have a niche in the palm of your hand which you can get a site up for and start monetizing. And you can repeat this again and again so that you build a portfolio of niches to master.

Mike Johnson says of Niche Reaper:

“It is the ultimate answer for finding what Niches to promote.  You don’t have to “look” and “research” anymore.  Niche Reaper does it all for you.

This is the first product I have seen in Internet Marketing that actually (and legitimately) finds high quality Niches that you can start making money with. Instantly!”

JP Shoeffel says:

“10 seconds after logging in Niche Reaper pointed me to a great niche and a few keywords I could dominate quite easily. 2 minutes later I registered a domain for that niche and I was in the game to dominate this niche!

It simply replaces ALL of the tools I was using (niche/keyword research, keyword analysis etc.) and it provides results that will allow ANYONE to take action almost instantly.”

This product has been in the making for two years. I’ve personally witnessed the programming and genius that has gone into getting the results Niche Reaper delivers.

As a user of BlogPiG software, you’ve already made the decision to focus more on the revenue generating aspects of your WP sites and to outsource some of the essential but time-consuming tasks to software.

Let Niche Reaper take care of another vital task, one that you need to get right in order to give your chance at success a head start.

You can read more about Niche Reaper here.

Kind regards,

Fiona

P.S.  You know that at BlogPiG we hate hype.  We’ve never done a traditional IM launch, we’ve never promised you can earn (pause while Fiona gets out the standard issue IM random number generator) $23,467 a month using our plugins  We just build software which does what we say it does and, if you want to, you can buy it.

Niche Reaper is outside of the BlogPiG brand and has been delivered in conjunction with someone who Gary has known for six years and who we respect.  It is being ‘launched’ in the traditional IM format but please note that there are no empty claims made, there is no unfounded hype.  No randomly generated revenue figures are being bandied about and the ‘big names’ you might spot who will promote the product have never done business with Gary before. They are promoting this product because, shock, horror, they actually think the product is excellent.  Which it is.

Here is what he asked:

What are the advantages of the four tagging sources (Yahoo, OpenCalais, Zemanta, Alchemy) over each other?

Which one (Yahoo, OpenCalais, Zemanta, Alchemy) will work best if I bundle it with the WP Robot plugin and let it auto tag all new posts?

How many sources should I use for Auto Tag Sources – should I pick one or a few or all auto tag sources at a time on a blog?

The answer to all three of this customer’s points could be summed up thus: it depends! It depends on the subject matter of your blog or blogs.

Different sources can deliver better or worse results depending on the niche of the site or blog post you are tagging.

I’d say most people employ all the tagging sources. On blogpig.com, for example, we use all the tagging sources – I just delete any tags I don’t like (if there are any), it takes a few seconds, but then I’m not dealing with multiple posts every day or even every week on this site.

TagPiG Tactics

If you really want to hone TagPiG’s performance on a particular blog, you can employ this tactic:

Take the time to switch each tag source on individually to test the quality and  relevance of the tags for your site.

By testing them, you will get an idea of which sources to enable and which to disable for your niche.

You can speed up this process by hitting the ‘Add Tags Now’ link within the post after each source has been turned on, so you can see immediate results. This button can be found under ‘TagPiG Tags’ on the top right of the edit post page. Then delete the tags and try a different source.

So, this up front work can take a little bit of time (maybe an hour to test the sources?) but then you can leave TagPiG to run automatically in confidence.

Don’t forget you can also add your own tags manually.  It’s very quick and easy: just go into the admin of your post and scroll down. On the left hand side is the section ‘Post Tags’ – just paste your list of tags in there.

Implementing good tags are important for the search engines, help create a good experience for your website visitors and, if you use CommentPiG, also help steer that plugin to search for on topic comments, so do make sure you make the most of what TagPiG can do for you!

All the best,

Fiona