I will be the first one (okay maybe not the very first one, but…) to tell you that commenting on blogs is an excellent, free way to potentially expand back links to your own website. Not every blog gives out “link love,” but those that do (like this one) I salute you. Those that don’t, depending on who they are and how they are doing, are still invaluable.

The reason is simple. People read the comments almost as much as they read the post itself. In fact, I’ve spend literally an hour or more going down through the comments of some posts totally intrigued on the back and forth that happens. Some truly strike my fancy, and I am apt to right click on a name (this way I control how it opens – in a new tab or a new window) just to see what that particular person is all about – what they are “into.”

Yet, logging into the admin area, there is also the inevitable spam comments. With good plugins, they are kept to a minimum, but on occasion the software doesn’t quite know how to classify the remark. Thus, the yellow box (in WordPress) tells me someone has said something and WordPress needs my hands on assistance to decide should it be posted or tossed in the trash. (more…)

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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