I don’t have much to say today. I thought I’d start typing and see where it takes me. As you know I’ve been using Utility Poster over the last few days and I must say I am a fan. If you have blogs and need to be able to add content quickly and get ideas for writing content then this tool will help. I am one of the 31 million webmasters with a golf blog. I care nothing about golf (sorry Griz) and know even less about it. But my blog makes money in the niche. I have a rough time coming up with content for it (Though I do have some PLR) and have an even less interest to do so. What to do? Open up Utility Poster and search with the keyword I’m targeting. I do a search at nichebot for a long tail, search UP with a short to medium tail keyword, write my title with the long tail and use the long tail keyword in my opening intro paragraph and drag in a couple blog posts from the blogosphere. Time spent: About 5-8 minutes, depending on how long it takes me to get a decent keyword phrase. But here is where it gets even better: If I post from Wordpress blog I get a trackback. A nice little backlink to my site which the owner is happy to have because I have linked to his blog as well. And the topic is relevant. Everybody is happy. Blogging the way it’s meant to be.

And speaking of blogging. Wordpress.com is on fire in Google. I have built a nice little stable of Wordpress hosted blogs and they are fully indexed in Google. Every. single. post. No they aren’t spam. No they aren’t affiliate blogs. No they have nothing to buy on them. They are simply random blogs that I write on topics from cycling, celebs, movies, politics or anything else on my mind that I want to start a blog about. I ramble a post and every few posts I will work in a keyword anchor text link to a BANS site, or WPDFI script site or a lens, or XSP site. I dunno WTF is up with Google but I do know it is licking up my WP hosted sites like a drunk coed who spilled her booze on the dorm floor.

Speaking of Google. I am now the proud owner of PR 4 websites. I have no idea why. It’s not like I do a ton of link exchanges. It seems the ones that I did do link exchanges for are still sitting at PR1-2. If you do a backlink check from the Google toolbar on this one site of mine that is a PR4, there is virtually no backlinks. I think it has to do with the Blog directories I submitted to. I do all the social voting and shit for it so it stays in the top 50-100 for top blogs.

That’s all I got. Probably wasn’t worth your time but I thought I’d document the efforts.

I bought Utility Poster. I need help keeping my blogs updated with some content so I thought I’d give this little gizmo a try. It’s not a bad tool. It does exactly what it is supposed to do. I went to my Wordpress blogs, wrote a quick little BS opening paragraph, used UP to search for some related blog posts, then pulled a couple into my blog. Now supposedly this will benefit both me and the blog owner. If you are using WP blogs I guess the pingbacks, trackbacks, maybe even halfbacks, throwbacks and slingbacks are all in play. Hell if I know. What I do know is I created a groovy little blog post in about 3 minutes.

With UP you simply do a search on your topic, it finds relevant blog posts quick (very quick) and you simply drag it over to your blog. Grab as many as you want. I grab 2 or 3 and make it relevant like the stupid posts matter. Pretty slick. Yes I know it appears that it is simply a fancy scraping tool and that you are dropping duplicate content on your blog, blah, blah. Real social blogs do this all the time. They link back and forth. Grab links for their readers to go to. Have a little blurb introducing some snippet they are referencing. It’s all good. I have some good blogs. I just need them to stay dynamic and not be static. This will help.

Back to basics: blogging.

I gotta tell ya, promoting all these websites sucks large. I have websites dropping in and out of Google like visitors to the Bunny Ranch. This includes Blogger blogs, Squidoo lens and Hubpages too. Nothing is consistent. Nothing stays upright. Nothing stays in. Nothing stays out. It’s all crap.

I’ve been using BMD. Hell if I know if it will ever do any good. It hasn’t done a thing for me yet. Maybe if I was running scuttle site postings all day and using 20 different proxies to post to the major bookmarking sites it would matter.

Squidoo isn’t working for me. None of my new lens are getting indexed. And the lens that were ranking big, like within the top 1,000 have just been crushed by Google lately. I had a lens go from around a lensrank of 500 to over 80,000 within two weeks. Completely gone from Google. It was ranked top 10. Hubpages aren’t doing me much of a favor. I’m not building them like I had been because frankly they can be a bit of a pain. I just don’t have the time to create unique content for blogs, websites, lens and hubpages, etc. ad nauseum.

Blogger blogs. Dunno what to say. They aren’t treating me any better either. If I’m not updating them they are falling. I can’t update all the blogs with fresh content. It would be a full time job now.

The only thing that is getting indexed for me right now… and I find this rather hilarious and kind of sad are Wordpress.com blogs. Remember when I told you that I had started a bullshit blog network on Wordpress.com? Well they are the only thing working right now. So what I do now is write shitty little posts and link to all the different sites. I somehow work the anchor text into whatever I’m writing about so I can get my BANS sites, lens, hubpages and Blogger blogs indexed or re-indexed or something. Effing stupid.

Speaking of anchor text, I went back through my sites and decided I would anchor text hammer the shit out of them. I re-did my keyword research at nichebot. Then I picked two or three keywords that I could compete for (from SEO Elite results) and am working the backlinks as hard as I can.

I got rid of Comment Kahuna. What a piece… I cranked up G-lock Blog Finder and made a ton of comments across the blogosphere earlier today. Here’s hoping that nonsense works. And by the way, the free version of that software blows CK away. I might buy the paid version. It finds relevant blogs way better than CK.

I don’t know about all these efforts in the Web 2.0 party anymore. It seemed to work like a charm…like 2 weeks ago. Now I feel like I am wasting my time. I have too many lens, hubpages and Blogger Blogs that aren’t indexed or that have fallen out of the index lately. It sucks large. I can’t believe the only thing that is working for me is Wordpress.com blogs. I am writing them about nothing. Yet they are all indexed. Every. single. post. In every. single. blog.

Eff it. Maybe I’ll shut down writing hubpags and lens for a while. Keep the ones I have freshly published and see if they recover. Maybe they are sandboxed. I don’t know. But if writing about anything, or nothing, at Wordpress.com is what it takes to get sites indexed then so be it. I tell you, it’s a lot easier to write a post about Kate Beckinsale’s legs, the Dallas Stars, high gas prices and GTA 4 than it is about typical niches like anti-aging colon acne cleaning. An anchor link is an anchor link. I’ll work it in.

I wrote a new hubpage today. It has nothing to do with IM. Nothing to do with making money. It’s just about a guy, his bike and people in cars who seem to have no problem with ending his life as we know it. Have a read if you like. I Am a Cyclist.