You’re welcome. I hope it answered any questions you had.

As to the have lots of tags, it’s something I’ve been testing to see if/how it helps. I’ve still gathering data but my results are inconclusive so far.

Have you tried it? If so, what results did you get?

David

I made the blog post and through some circuitous route, mostly RSS I expect, it automatically got to the above comment (via Technorati) and I got a link, certainly one I would not have gotten otherwise.

I haven’t found that website directories or submitters help me very much anymore, at least in the niches I’m in.

Social media really is it right now, until the next big thing I suppose!

Anyway, that doesn’t answer your question.

In my opinion, submission software and services can help save a lot of time and effort (the obvious appeal to them) and judicious/cautious use of them should be just fine. So if you want to use them go ahead but “slowly”. Track the results though and see if they make a difference.

I do use submission software for certain things (not directories, I don’t do that) but I am careful how I use it. Some submission software I use is smart and actually submits some each day so it looks natural.

With the social media sites so powerful now and with RSS everywhere there, I use RSS most of all (including in the Social Media Domination Machine I mentioned above).

With the right setup, and it can take a while to get everything just right, it becomes trivial to spread information and links through the Web; in fact, I rarely remember that it happens but I get lots of new links each day by doing only one thing (for me mostly that one thing is a blog post but it could be a Tweet or even an e-mail).

David