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It’s amazing what you find when you believe you are searching for something else, and today was no exception.

Actually I was busy checking up on our bloggers using Whole Hog Blogs, doing some backlinking research, etc., when I stumbled upon Blog Carnival (thanks to Linda at ForcedGreen. She may not be aware, but it was tracking down her search engine placement that led me to this unusual website).

So with all the preamble, what is BlogCarnival? The best way to describe it may be to tell you what it ultimately “looks like” with the finished product.

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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!).

PLEASE DO LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK – We Follow and CommentLuv back, too!

Today I stumbled across a website that is really very cool and very useful:

Digg Friend Finder SEO Tool

(Suggestion: Using the Firefox browser loads the page much faster, IE can hang up sometimes.)

The search results (where they show up) had me confused at first – (okay it’s Sunday and Easter so maybe that’s my excuse) – but once I understood where to look, well – it’s amazing! The results show right on their webpage (or the entire thing requires no download to do your searches).

Just enter a phrase – I tried “marketing” and “blogcatalog” (without the quotes) and search for either Profiles or Submissions posted in Digg that match your term.

Then DOWN BELOW the couple paragraphs of explanation, after you click on the “Show Friends” button, you’ll get a list out to everyone who’s either put the term in their profile or made a post using the term.

Now I put in terms related to what I’m interested in, but if you have a website about “dogs” or “knitting” or whatever, this will also work for you!

Enjoy and Happy Easter to All!

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Dear Blog Visitor,

We’ve been reading a lot about the Web 2.0 in generallately, including it’s history and all of it’s uses…

There is VAST potential out there we are not using yet!

For instance, there is a very famous Marketer by thename of Seth Godin who pretty much pioneered Web 2.0, and he went on to found Squidoo.

One of the fundamental thoughts driving Web 2.0 is a quote of his; “Everyone is an Expert.”

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Keywords out there are dedicated to you, 24/7/365. You’re the go-to person on several such subjects that could be searched in google for at any time!

(Scary, huh?)

We realize that it may be hard to think of this simple mindset for being responsible for all of Web 2.0, including the many big sites like YouTube, Squidoo, MySpace, Facebook, and Digg, but that is exactly what drives them and allows them to be profitable.

We already had a system in place to spread the biggest news’ out there. It’s called the Press and their AP newswire.

Web 2.0 makes YOU the new press and it is in fact cutting into a HUGE chunk of the profession’s profits…

Nearly half of America, for instance, reads Digg.com daily, so therefore isn’t turning on the Channel 4 news as much!

(TV Advertising rates have been dropping ever since Web 2.0 was created!)

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That’s right, you can get PAID to report about your weird toenail clippings now… And in fact you really should have been paid for it all along, according to Luke!

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Press for your business is another kind of news, and Luke makes tons of cash every day doing just that! We’ve been watching his Surefire Success System since it was just a ‘Version 1.0,’ and it was pretty impressive stuff already… But starting tomorrow at 11am EST, it’s graduating to full 2.0 status…

He’s added all kinds of tools and beefed up his strategy even more, so we really are looking forward to learning all about it ourselves!

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