Taking the traffic highway is easy with Auto Social Poster installed as a plugin for your WordPress Blog… 

Over the last two years, the ceaseless search for high search engine page rank as an Internet marketing strategy has expanded to include publishing weblogs to social bookmarking sites.

Clued in by the fact that Google’s search engine algorithms place a high value on web sites that have many others linking to it, “white hat” or legitimate SEO focused almost from the very start on building many links, affiliates and references.

This effort has expanded to “web logs” or simply “blogs”, which became popular starting around 1997. The number out there is vast: Technorati, a blog search engine, reported there were 71 million on the Web in May 2007.

Writing a journal and updating it regularly is one thing. It can be tedious, however, to publish the blog and establish links with so many relevant sites as to suggest that countless Web surfers encounter them and “click through”. This is where publishing software or services like WordPress and gaining entrée to social bookmarking sites comes in handy and now especially with this cool plugin Auto Social Poster.

The value of social bookmarking sites lies in the fact that they are for Web surfers sharing fairly similar interests to keep, categorize, pass along and search bookmarks. For the first time, users could refer to, and click on, a “webmark” anywhere they had access to the Internet. Some of the more popular social bookmarking sites are spurl, del.icio.us, furl, Digg, Google bookmarks, StumbleUpon, simpy, and Yahoo Bookmarks.

Whether as a blog host or feature-rich download, both free, one interesting facet of WordPress is the abundance of plug-in’s and themes that users create, share unstintingly or sell.

Occasionally, a plug-in comes down the pipeline that holds out the promise of freeing the blog author from the drudgery of publishing to dozens or even hundreds of link sites, affiliates and social bookmarking sites. Such a benefit is well worth almost any price tag. One such plug-in is Auto Social Poster, an enhancement of “Tag and Ping”.

“Tag and Ping” was written to ease the task of including tags in the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed of any blog. Tags are vital because blog search engines icerocket.com and technorati.com list a blog on the relevant tag page and link with it based on tags they find. In the SEO field, every such link is one more reason to expect a higher page rank on Google and other search engines and this is where Tag and Ping helps the Webmaster.

One criticism thrown at “Tag and Ping” was a heavy-handed reliance on setting up links with popular-tag pages, blogs that had been tagged more. Given that the profile of visitors can change from day to day or even hourly, “tagged” rankings can be very fluid so Tag and Ping still can be beneficial.

Though touted as the next generation of the plug-in to WordPress, Auto Social Poster skirts this shortcoming and addresses itself to the challenge of publishing dozens of blogs to about 130 important social bookmarking sites out there. Certainly, registering all your social bookmarking accounts once in Auto Social Poster, finishing off each post, typing the tags in once and having the program submit them all at once is unparalleled convenience.

Beyond the unmatched convenience of one-click publishing, Auto Social Poster also permits randomized submissions. This solves the other problem of spamming numerous sites by publishing the same post or comment all at once. To avoid being banned for using “black hat” methods, Auto Social Poster lets one post to a few social bookmarking sites at a time. Or publish one post to one account and a second post to another account with the same site, for example. Even randomly choose from a selection of appropriate tags you give it.

Tags: Tag and Ping, Social Bookmarking, Auto Social Poster