Socialmatic - Problematic or Super Clever? We Test, You Decide
We’ve talked about social bookmarking in earlier posts, but this evening in quite a roundabout fashion, I arrived at the Socialmatic website.
To be 100% honest, anything that could make some of the aspects to being online and growing a new (or existing) website or blog easier… hey I’m all for it.
Unfortunately, our own experience to date has been Onlywire, and we’re sorry to say it ain’t been good (or worth the effort) 
However, that aside, we are aware of the pros and cons of using “automated methods” to post to social bookmarking sites. In a contest of mastery, doing things the good old fashion manual way most likely would win hands down. Primarily for the fact that you know it gets done, and also nothing ever really takes the place of real human interaction.
That said, we’ll be gearing up to run an experiment of sorts with this “newly re-discovered” social bookmarking tool.
There is also another factor to consider prior to bookmarking anything, and that is should it really BE bookmarked? Social bookmarking for the sake of doing it is (in our opinion) a complete waste of time - you could be out there doing so many other things really. Also, just because it’s marked doesn’t mean it will be found, there’s no guarantee.
The exception to this rule would be a site that indexes their submission quickly. Getting a good, solid backlink is worth the time and trouble 
But all in all, be honest with yourself and think … should I or shouldn’t I, is this worth it or not…
I digress… Back to the experiment at hand. We’ll be taking selective posts we stumble across out online, and testing this service (maybe throwing in a link or two of our own to check the backlink thing in say Google or Yahoo!, too).
On the plus side, if you’re going to use a service like this, Socialmatic isn’t a mass submitter per se. When you find something worth bookmarking, and log into the SocialIt area, their engine is suppose to randomly select five spots (not all 30) and do its thing. This also sounds more like a winner.
It will be interesting to test, and if you’ve already tried it and like it or hate it, please do let us know (might save us some shoe leather LOL!).
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March 27th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I would be interested to see the results of your testing with this software also.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Thanks Bob! Time will tell
June 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
My update! After trying this a few times, it went against our nature to do things (the easy?) the socialmatic way since we know for a fact that just the simple act of bookmarking in one to four spots - quickly and easily by hand - is pulling in tremendous results for us in the search engines.
Therefore, while we are not discounting this service, we personally have gone back to the “tried and true” method of doing it ourselves - and we’ve got a greater selection of bookmarking choices, too, doing it ourselves.
BTW, pinging properly makes a world of difference… hmmm… I see a post coming on