Autosubmitting to Blogs and Forums
The thing about this that really chaps me is that marketers who profess to be honest and caring people are selling software that autosubmits to blogs and forums, under the pretense that this is an effective or legitimate way to market.
Not only is it entirely unethical, it is also totally ineffective, and will waste your time and land you in potential legal trouble.
Nobody likes a spammer, and that is what you will undoubtedly be if you attempt to use software to submit to blogs, forums, classified sites, etc. Here is what happens:
The software cannot possibly submit in any way that sounds remotely human. It will create a post that says something like, "Gee, loved your site." and then it lists your sig line. It may be able to create other impersonal, sometimes nonsensical messages, all of which are easy to spot by any blog or forum owner who has a grain of intelligence (don't underestimate that, most of them have enough to detect this tactic!). This means that your post will be deleted promptly from any reputable forum.
Once you are identified, your account will be deleted if it requires logging in. If not, then your IP address may be banned.
Even if you use tactics to get around IP banning, a forum owner will NOT allow someone to take over their forum if they run a reputable one! Believe me on this one, they'd rather close it down than allow it to be overrun by inconsiderate and lazy people who have not the intelligence to do things the right way!
If your post does not get deleted, then it is being posted to a blog or forum that CANNOT maintain any kind of search engine rank. The whole purpose of this is to try to find an underhanded way to get good search engine rank by getting lots of backlinks. Well, if the only sites that your link stays on are disreputable ones, then it is not doing you any good at all, because the disreputable sites have already (or will soon be) banned from the search engines.
Reputable sites (the ones that are indexed by the search engines, and the ONLY ones that do you any good using this tactic) are almost always either closely monitored, or moderated. This means your post will be almost instantly deleted, or that it will never be seen by the public (or search engines) at all. The only sites that it will stay on are those that are neglected. And neglected sites are almost always banned by the search engines, because they fill with Spam posts (Like YOURS), and the search engines have no use for such worthless tripe - nor does anyone else!
AutoSubmitting is Rude, and a waste of time. It takes someone who is either very uneducated, or of low intellect to persist in such a counterproductive effort.
If you want to post on blogs and forums, then do so honestly, by participating. Follow their rules, contribute meaningful comments or suggestions, and take the time to do it effectively by building your credibility and dropping your signature line discreetly.
Contributors: Laura Wheeler
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