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It’s not often an opportunity comes your way and you’re in the right place at the right time to find yourself in pole position.

But I found myself in that position with Tagfoot.

I was invited to sign up to be part of the private beta test. My first impression was good. It was a little like Digg, though upon closer inspection it was not being powered by Pligg or a similar clone application. These guys built it themselves.

The design and layout is very inviting. It has strong elements of cool and not only visually appealing but comfortable as well. Often the programming tech types miss the mark on the overall design and layout, but not so with Tagfoot. It felt right.

The community, though new and small, are a friendly bunch, as they too put the site through its paces. As the Tagfoot Admin Team sit and wait and watch for bugs, crashes and other unexplained weirdnesses. The more I played and toyed with the site the more I realized the power of the site.

The benefit is twofold. For the average surfer it’ll be a great place to bookmark, even set it as your homepage to find the freshest and most popular links that is of the greatest interest to the majority (because the links on the homepage have seen the most most votes from the community). Many of these will never feel inclined to register, or if they do they may not be active partipants, but they are valuable. They enjoy the site. They have no motives except for clicking on things that interests them. They are the traffic that we (Lensmasters, Hub Authors, Content Publishers, Webmasters, call us what you will) seek.

The other benefit is of course, we have the opportunity to not only bookmark our favorite sites, but also to link to our own articles. This can benefit us in two ways: 1) it counts as a backlink, 2) we have the chance of getting real traffic.

Discussions can also take place on the page which your submission now lives on. So you now only can link to your article, but you could very well publish a mini-article of your own right there on Tagfoot, and thus increase your chances of Search Engine indexing.

In fact, I encourage you, even when linking to an article, to avoid copying and pasting your introduction verbatim into your description. Rejig it. Freshen it up. Summarize it. Right something new and fresh. Do something that’s not a direct lift from your linked page. Search Engines will love you for it, and reward you accordingly. More so, human beings who are reading it will appreciate the fact that they’re not having to REREAD what you’ve written when they get to the other page.

In addition to Bookmarks and News there is also Videos, where you can submit links to your favorite Youtube videos. Which makes for a great way to create a playlist (in your Sidefoot) of your favorite songs, or to share your musical taste with the world.

The list of features goes on, and grows, but I won’t cover each point of it in this blog entry. It’s the type of site that you need to experience. It won’t reveal all its secrets in just one sitting, you need to experiment. The bonus is it is also entertaining and quite enjoyable.

The site is yet to launch publicly, but when it does it will be HUGE. However you can get in early and be a part of the Private Beta Team and get all your links in place before the doors are open to the public by signing up through this link.

I’ve also written a run down of the features and benefits in this article if you’re more inclined to information overload before you take a plunge into the unknown.

A little later I’ll blog about the revenue aspect of Tagfoot. Yes, you can add your Adsense Publisher ID and get 50% of the ad impressions. So sign up now to not only get your foot in the door but to also be a part of the cool crowd.