Notice I said "sprinkling in". Treat this as you would a blog - you don't want post your sales page. You'll just get put on public link lists that collect sp@m entries - bad publicity may be great in Hollywood, but online it's an income killer. So again, do not gratuitously begin to link to your entire site and think you're helping yourself.
What typically happens is one of three things.
1- Your link will be displayed on sites that share these tag lists with the world,
2- your site will be visited by someone who is interested in the tag you've chosen, or,
3- your link library will be so diverse, varied and helpful that other users will subscribe to your tag to find new links to add.
I find it a good practice to use your real name or your site name as your login because it shows up as part of your link collection's name. You can also use your own name or very targeted keywords to create custom tags.
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As you're adding the links to your collection, be sure to add a topic or tag to target your desired type of visitor. As an added bonus, if you use FeedBurner.com to study your feed statistics or to reduce your bandwidth load, you can integrate these link collections into your own feed as well.
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So should you use Furl or del.icio.us for this? If you are going to be making personal use of this link collection, want the 5GB archive space and a place to save an archive snap shot of a web page, Furl is for you. Want to keep it simple? Stick with del.icio.us.
You can also use the Bloglines clip service, with or without Feed burner, to achieve similar ends - if you're more focused towards blogs than RSS, you'll probably have more success here. The Bloglines clip service is more geared towards the verbose user, as it is set up much like a blog.
The third tool you can use to draw traffic is at a site that blatantly asks you to use it, and they've created it solely for that purpose - to connect certain kinds of web readers and publishers.
The catch? Unlike the other three services, this really can only be used by bloggers - you'll have to verify that you own the blog in question just to participate.
Good news if you blog though, or plan to - the web resource in question is run by one of the most important sites a successful blogger needs to be visible in.
In mid-January 2005, Technorati.com took the idea of tags to a global level.
If you're writing about travel, you can appear on their travel tag page automatically. You can bet that your post will cross the paths of blog enthusiasts who are specifically interested in travel. This works on any claimed blog in the blogosphere, on every platform. And it's so easy to do.
If you have the category capability built-into your blog software, you need only claim your web log and ping Technorati with updates using your blog software, if it's set up to auto-ping, or their form: http://www.technorati.com/ping.html. How easy is that?
If you use Blogger or some other system that doesn't include categories, never fear. You can come to the party.
From now on, when you post links to your blog, you'll want to include the special tag code. It works with any link, or you can link to Technorati - see an example of it on their site: http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html.
With a little time and patience, Bloggers especially can use any of these methods to bring free-targeted traffic to their doorsteps. Bottom line: don't be tempted to cheat at traffic generation - there are so many ways to get better results honourably.
