Bookmarking Sites
I’ve been using BMD quite a lot lately. I tend to hammer the scuttle sites quite frequently. If my account blows up or my sites get banned I really don’t care. I just move on to the next. There are so many of them. But the big social bookmarking sites are a different story. They make me paranoid.
I’ve been doing a BMD run to the so-called “driver” sites about once maybe twice a week. New accounts each time. Different sites bookmarked. Hiding my links. Just being very low-key about it all. I went out and checked one of my accounts at the Mister-Wong site and found some of my sites were made private. With no way to change them to public. Well, that’s annoying. But what would be really annoying is if any of my websites/domains are black-listed from MW.
Now when I did the run I also submitted some very high level sites, popular sites, that were also made private in my account. No way they are getting blacklisted.
But what was interesting was all the Squidoo lens and Hubpages I submitted are still public for that account. All other websites are forced private. So it got me thinking that I may get even less aggressive about submitting my websites to these major bookmarking sites. I think I am solely going to submit the crap out of my Squidoo and Hubpages sites. Maybe I just forget Mister-Wong. Maybe if I care about MW I just submit manually. I dunno. But if this MW site is this anal then the others have the potential to be that way as well.
I find it quite odd as the sites I submitted are hardly spammy. None have Adsense on them. I’m just not certain what caused the flag. On all the domains, mine or otherwise. But not including Squidoo and Hubpages.
Commenting on Blogs
On another note, I cranked up everybody’s favorite free comment software to get some backlinks this morning. I just don’t get that tool. The blogs it pulls up on search are kinda, um, what’s the word, crap. I’m just not enamored with this thing. The search capability to me is junk. I like the autofill but I still feel like I have to personalize my comments, so simply blanketing all the blogs with the same comment is stupid. You still have to surf through the blog to see if you can, or want to, comment. The tool’s browser is buggy. For every version released I kept getting that editor debug thing pop up. I find it no quicker than doing a Google blog search and making comments by doing a cut and paste, if needed, and a quick blurb. Maybe that’s why it’s free because you can do essentially the same thing by using Google and browser autofills. Oh wait, if you didn’t use it you wouldn’t get to be on the special email list though.
XSitePro Version 2
Just got an email that version 2 of XSitePro will finally be released to those upgrading on May 20th. I can’t imagine I wouldn’t opt for an upgrade. I love XSP and figure this release to live up to my expectations.
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Splork, mister-wong it’s a bit more difficult, but useful. When you create the account with them, you need allways to login first time and edit your profile to make the bookmarks public. But now in the last days it’s not possible, most of the bookmarks (all legit ones) become private. I don’t use mister-wong anymore.
I got the Xsitepro email as well. I too will most likely purchase the upgrade, as I have found it to be an important tool in my IM efforts.. I wish they gave some sort of indication as to what the new features are though. I guess we all have to wait and see.
Hey Splork,
You’re not alone. We may all have a reason to be a bit paranoid this year.
I read an interesting post a few weeks ago that’s related to your line of thought about bookmarking-web2.0 promotion and being low key. http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/myBlog/Page-4.html
Yes indeedy doody. I’m looking forward to X2 myself. I imagine its CMS capabilities have been greatly enhanced in order to counter WP.
I haven’t used my original XSite too much as I tried to learn some html site building and WP.
I know why people blog now. The damm file maintenance on an html site is a pita. But it reminds me that Xsite didn’t seem to organize the files well either, just lumping them all together in the domain’s folder. Then again, maybe I did something in error. I was very raw when I bought it.
I bet the template/graphics support will be a lot more customizable, too. Should be sweet, regardless. Hope the upgrade don’t cost too much.
Glad you like the article.
We have a neat digg tool, the Digg Friend Finder, and an even super-cooler one in Beta test.
-OT
Let us know how that XSitePro upgrade is.
I, for one, will NOT be upgrading. I think he really blew it big time by waiting so long for his upgrade.
The rest of us went out and discovered that WP does it all better and faster. And with the new professional-looking themes, I can’t imagine paying for an upgrade to XSitePro.
I’m busy trying to convert all my sites off of it.
Yea, I just like the diversity. I don’t want to stick with just WP sites.
It didn’t matter much to me about the delay. We’ll see what the feature list shows and how much he’s going to charge for the upgrade.
Are we talking about Comment Kahuna here? I thought I was the only one who thought that was crap.
I think FastBlogFinder is much better.
We are.
You’re not.
I do too.
I don’t feel comfortable just building sites in WordPress. I feel Xsitepro still packs a punch, and hope to get it one day.
Splork, you’re right on Xsitepro. It’s a great tool.
As for Comment Kahuna, used the free version and thought it was crap. Gave me wrong results too. No follow became do follow.
Yea, I never understand when people would say that they wouldn’t use XSP anymore because it was so much easier to update WP blogs. All I think to respond was, huh? At least with XSP I can build a site without Internet access. When it come time to publish an new article the process is the same with WP and XSP. You type. You press publish.
You know, I don’t know this for sure but if you have a blog, I think the search engines are looking for updates. Like some consistent pattern. I mean that is what “blogging” is. But with static HTML sites, I don’t knwo that they are expecting updatres. I have XSP sites that are, what, 3 years old that are still hanging around the SEs without me having touched them in a lloooonngg time. With my blogs, if I don’t add something they disappear. At least that is how it seems to me.
Yea, I can’t see me not upgrading. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed version 1.60 for a long time . I can’t imagine not liking number 2.