You probably realize that creating focused pages at Squidoo and Hub Pages is a good way to add to your keyword neighborhood. But, like me, you may not have thought much about the importance of tagging your pages to get the most impact.

In social networking sites tags identify your pages with other pages sharing similar themes. For instance, if your Hub Page, Squidoo Lense or Youtube video is about “muscle building” or “golden retrievers”, tagging it with a broad range of related tags will get your hub, lense or video featured in the list of “related” pages that almost always accompanies a viewing of a page sharing your tags.

It is not always clear in these sites how the “related” items are chosen, but you can be sure that it has a lot to do with tags. So tag your items with as long a list of tags as you can get away with – for Hub Pages you might use as many as 40 different tags.

A Simple Tagging Strategy

Don’t deliberately use unrelated tags just because they will get traffic. Instead, find pages in your niche that are already getting a lot of traffic, and then use the same tags as they do. This will immediately give your items a chance to come up when people view those high traffic pages.

 For a more complete description of this tagging strategy see

The $5 Traffic Trick