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.
5 responses so far ↓
Dinheiro // May 8, 2008 at 11:52 am
Seems interesting splork. But you can do that for wordpresss blogs with two plugins, one that pull rss feeds, and other that do some rewrites.
Is this tool the same thing, or is for any kind of blog (like blogger, wordpress, etc.)
Splork // May 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I have RSS2B if all I want to do is grab feeds and post. And I don’t like rewriting published content. That isn’t cool. No this is for any blog platform that has an HTML editor.
The search is very slick and fast. The tool sits off to the side docked to your browser. You do a search and simply drag the blog post over to your blog.
Look at Lifehacker.com. That is one of the biggest tech blogs out there. They write a simple intro and then reference an article or blog post elsewhere. UP assists me in doing just that.
I simply do a quick paragraph ramble then reference the content with a couple of other similar posts from UP. The writer is happy because they get a link. I’m happy because I get fresh content for my blog. And because of the way WP works with Pingbacks I get a link back.
Dinheiro // May 8, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I see, so it’s very different from what i was thinking. it seems a good tool, how much is it?
Rick S. // May 9, 2008 at 12:36 am
Any particular reason you didn’t try TrackBoost instead? I saw the videos, and figured TrackBoost did everything Utility Poster did, and more.
It just seemed to me the better deal. Of course, I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Too many tools, not enough time.
Splork // May 9, 2008 at 9:38 am
UP does what TB does in a simpler way and costs $120 less. I updated around 10 blogs yesterday in about 45 minutes. I manually checked the trackbacks and I had gotten 4.
That’s cool in that it served to 1)help me quickly write content. I can quickly check the search results for content to post AND write about in the form of an intro and 2) I got a link back to my site with anchor text relevant keyword titles.
The Trackbacks are the most important regardless of follow or do follow. I can knock out two things with one throw: fresh content and a link.
The cool thing about TB is it keeps track of the trackbacks. Did they post or not, etc.
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