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Republish by Kabonfootprint.I wanted to spell out how to create and market a blog post with a Web 2.0 twist. There are, of course, several different ways to market your latest blog post. Below I have outlined a step-by-step strategy for marketing your latest blog post using Web 2.0 sites.

1. Your ping list has to be in order. Check out the recommended ping list if you don’t have a ping list you are happy using. The first part of marketing your poststarts with your ping list. Plain and simple.
2. You must tag your post. Simple Tags is a required plugin for Wordpress blogs. (Wordpress 2.2+ has tagging but the general consensus is that it “sucks”) Simple Tags will allow you to categorize content based on a tagging engine. Without a doubt, Simple Tags is one of the most powerful Wordpress plugins. Each time you make a post add your keywords as tags at the bottom of your post as well as to your Wordpress pages.
3. Tag Technorati throughout your post. For example,this post is about Web 2.0 and blog posts. Using this approach will keep your posts at or near the top of the list at Technorati. There’s a really killer plugin called Tagalize-It that makes tagging throughout your posts really simple.
4. Your post is pinged and tagged properly. Now what? Time to syndicate your post and generate some immediate traffic. Some clarification is necessary here. Web 2.0 sites normally have 2 types of functions. Either they act as bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us or they act as story submission sites like Digg where users vote on the quality of story.

Make sure that when you sign up for accounts at places like StumbleUpon.com or Propeller.com, you look for the buttons they give you to put on your browser so you can easily submit content from your site and elsewhere without logging in to each site manually. (Kabonfootprint)