Ultrabookmarker is a monthly subscription package, currently costing $20, It may be that the price increases for new subs at some time in the future and that Wendy Woudstra grandfathers in the existing users at the old price - that is pretty normal. There are quite a few bookmarking sites included with the program but some appear to be used almost exclusively by Ultrabookmarker users, this is not, in and of itself, a bad thing as long as the sites are getting spidered.
Of course most of the biggies are there.

A nice touch is the auto account setup, this makes life for webmasters and marketers much easier. Some bookmarking sites have captchas and of course most sites want you to verify the membership. It took perhaps ten minutes to log and do all the applications.

When you have registered you can start to submit sites. Unlike SocialBot there is no spidering system - this is a big bummer. But the system picks up the metadata from any URL that one puts into the system. If this does not happen then check that your site’s metatags are correctly written.

One can cut and paste a list of URLs (and metadata) or import them as Excel/CSV files. There are settings to allow for delays between posts so that one does not appear too spammy.

The submission process seems rapid and effective, no hitches, each URL seems to take a little over two minutes to be submitted to all the sites. If one has more URLs and a speedier solution is sought then it is possible to submit to fewer sites, whilst still getting the pages in front of viewers and search engines.

The system is updated quite regularly with new sites and according to the blog there are some interesting things coming along to help with functionality

Oh, nearly forgot, the system allows and makes it easy to have multiple accounts and to use a proxy server. This is very cool. A concern of bookmarkers is that an account or ip address can become associated with spam links and be banned. The ability to use proxies means that banning will not permanently cease the activity of bookmarking.

This is, for me, a preliminary reading of the software. IMHO if you have a low number of sites/pages to index this is great as it is, try it and see if you like it - for $20 for a month you won’t go wrong.

If you have a lot of pages then the choice is less clear cut. One needs to be able to have a list of URLs, if your sitemaps have a URL list then no worries, if you have good meta tags then this is going to help the automation.

Given the way in which Ultrabookmarker makes submissions one could probably get away with a generic description of the pages and use the same tags for all the pages in a site, relying upon the page name to differentiate. Of course given the Excel/CSV capability there are all sorts of ways to manipulate the data before you pass it to Ultrabookmarker.

If you need to generate URL lists then look at this site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/  they will make text URLs of your sites for free - but no metadata.

Conclusion - for $20 a month Ultrabookmarker is well worth a look. It will not take many extra clicks for the cost to be amortized. Other systems are VASTLY more expensive than this and charge extra for the signup functions. If I were to buy one tool today, I think I’d go for Ultrabookmarker. I already have Socialbot and like it. But this is a subscription so one can use this one and wait and see. Socialbot will be almost $100 when it comes out again.

This is a neato trick that you can either pay a lot of money for RSS2Blog to achieve, or do for free.

I prefer free.

Here are a couple of examples of blogs
I set up in the last couple of days that use autoposting of RSS feeds to provide relevant keyword and LSI content.

http://socialnetworking.knowhow-now.com/blog
and
http://mentalillness.blogfeeder.org/health

If you look at the calendar you can see they are nicely ‘aged’ with posts going back, in one case, about a year. (the blog did not exist until yesterday!)

The static content goes in as pages on the right and I’ll be doing some ‘real’ posts as well.

The magic pixiedust is provided by virtue of a plugin I found on my search for an autoblogger that would relieve me of the chore of setting up a cron job.

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/06/wp-autoblog-a-syndication-plugin/

This little beauty will automatically scan your RSS feeds for new content and then update your site with it. But that is not all:
You can choose full or partial posts
You can choose how often the toy will scan for new content
You can choose to attribute posts or not
You can do automated find and replace, so that if a feed has a consistent text coming through, you can replace them with different text.
Also, keywords can then trigger an affiliate link insertion where none existed before…

One mixed blessing, it also passes through categories. The mental illness site I set up has a Flickr feed running. ALL the tags that folks use for their pics come through and I have to manually remove some of them. I might replace the categories with a tag cloud widget which should give the benefit of tags as keywords but not look so damn ugly.

So, that is it.

I love it!

There are some others a little more polished, but this one has the functionality down.

I have worked with RSStoBlog and have found that I prefer to use this plugin with some other toys for its functionality. But the ‘big boy’ app is nicer in that I can do everything from a central control panel: one panel, multiple blogs.

If you don’t want to use an expensive blogging tool, then this one is really the dog’s danglies!

The way it works with a built in plugin called WP-cron to give the slight degree of randomness is just way cute and it is so easy to set the feeds up with new keywords.

It’ll never be perfect at keeping all the posts relevant, but it can be pretty good. I set up a site dealing with comics (the graphic literature, not comedians) and a few posts slip through about funny guys. The main problem comes when the thing is loading up the ‘aged’ posts, then one has to go through and remove the duff stuff. After that it is, seemingly, just a case of a quick delve through every few days, if one bothers at all.

I am thinking that a Wordpress article uploader, a datafeed parser (some free, others $90 and up) and WPautoblogger (free) plus a few free support widgets and plugins is pretty close to autoblogging cash generating nirvana!

A question was asked about pinging of articles - the questioner was worried about a whole load of pings hitting the ping sites all at once. Here is my reply:

The ping list is activated with each post. What I do is to remove the ping list as I am populating the site and then when the site is ‘aged’ with old posts I replace it so that as current posts arrive they are then pinged.

Another couple of small issues in respect of the choice of feeds:
1)You can choose to turn off attribution in the setup, I think that you should leave it on,e ven though it costs you an outgoing link, it is fair and right to give credit for the words that you are using -the author has chosen to make his posts public as a form of advertising. IMHO a link is a small price to pay!

2)You might want to consider NOT using Google’s feeds. They are set up such that the link to the source always goes through a Google URL, thus Google can always know when and where a Google syndicated source was used. I don’t like that.

I was thinking about my previous post about a recent internet market announcement.
A picture came to my mind of people sitting round a table, they have been having a friendly game of poker and the mood seems to have stuck. One guy says ‘betcha I can get $400 for a pile of Cd’s of my old internet marketing courses’

Another says ‘betcha I can do better and get $800 for a pile of Cd’s of somebody else’s list business building and self affirmation courses and a forum that I’ll turn into an add-on subscription‘

That gets them quiet for a few minutes, then another one says - ‘Top this. I’ll get $800 for some old courses about Adwords arbitrage and membership to a PPA network that I get 5% overrides on AND I’ll get $300 a month for a forum run by somebody else and to cap it all - there will be no affiliates!’

Well, that gets a thoughtful silence. Until one man, the quiet one, says with calm assurance ‘I can get two thousand dollars for an old course about building an on-line business and some freeware AND, I’ll get $300 extra for split payments and call it a discount’.

Low whistles and respectful nods from the table. Nobody could think of a way to get more money for a bigger pile of crap than that!

A few seconds later the first of the guys to have spoken asks if he can be a JV partner as he has just the list for this kind of value offer. Within minutes ALL have asked to JV on the deal that they are now calling ‘The Biggest Pile of Crap Ever -1′ - of course that is until somebody else comes up with a new and bigger tool to polish an even bigger turd and gives it the name ‘The Biggest Pile of Crap Ever -2′.

All went back to their bedrooms and using their Crackberries sent out the first message to their lists, preparing them for the scalping to come.
To the list:
…I have just finished the most exciting mastermind group session ever… We learnt so much and, of course I wanted to share it with you guys just as soon as I could. All I can say for now is get ready for something really big!