I came across this nifty tool called Free Auto Blogger while surfing the internet. As the owner of multiple blogs, I surely can appreciate the hard work needed not only to maintain the blogs but also to network and build backlinks and popularity while trying to raise the Page Rank.

However, I do not get it why would anyone cheat the system, and importantly, himself, by using such a tool, helpful it may be, by building a blog or even blogs not by his own effort?

It is very satisfying when we see the many backlinks pointing to our site all by own own hard work and see the Google Page Rank rise with every Google update every three months or so.

Maybe I am just a sucker for hard work but I get a kick out of seeing my Technorati ranks go up all because I did some homework the night before. So while it is certainly tempting to use this tool, it is after all, free, I don’t think I will ever be using it.

I came across a new widget on the blogosphere which I think bloggers should embed on their blogs if they want to know how popular their blogs are. I used to wonder why bloggers are like one of a kind species because they feed their ego with traffic, comments and votes from their readers.

With a blog rating widget powered by Blogorator.com, they can actually SHOW their popularity on their blog itself.

I used to run website that requires readers to cast their vote as well and found that I had to explain to them that the first star on the left is actually the lowest score that one could give while the first star on the right is the highest. I was surprised that something as logical like this escaped some people.

Therefore, with this Blogorator widget it would be great if the stars increase in size from the left to the right.

I also found that when we hover our cursor over the stars, only the first star will show 1/5 while the others do not show 2/5, 3/5, 4/5 or 5/5

Over at the website, although we could customize our widget by changing the colors to suit the layout or theme of our blogs, I feel that we should be provided with a palette of colors. I had to search for HTML color guide on the internet and copy the code over to match the color of my blog. With a palette readily available, members would find it easier to change the color of the widget.

AnitoKid told me that this is yet another way to try to build backlinks.

Let me try to get it on my blog. It’s kinda tricky from what I see! But all for backlinks!!! Urggghh

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———

Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!

Viralink

New Addition: When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from here will also link to your site!

Rules
No Porn Sites
Only 1 link per person (i.e don’t hog the viralink!)
Please don’t tamper with other peoples url’s

Yay, I got it already. Now, if you also would like to build backlinks to your own blog, copy the Instructions and the ViraLinks, add your own link inside as well, and publish on your own blog. Then encourage your readers to do the same. And add more *** to the grid when necessary. Remember, you have to do this quick because the next Google Page Rank is said to be some time in late July which is only one month away!

Get it done now, if possible!

A few days ago, when I wrote my post, I Participated In A Blog Carnival BUT …… , I thought that I would be excluded from participating in my very first blog carnival with my entry, My New Blogging Efforts. I was rather disappointed because I thought I wrote a pretty good piece but I was unfortunately late in my submission.

However, there is good news! The new round of carnival of struggling bumbling newbies was just published on June 23, 2007 on SuccessPart2.com and my entry was first in line to be introduced Yay!! Jon, the organizer, did tip me off so I was looking out for it! Thank you, Jon!

Now that I have participated in a blog carnival, what is next? Do I continue to search for more blog carnivals to participate? There aren’t that many topics that I am passionate about. Moreover, I am so lazy to keep tabs on new carnivals.

I think what I am going to do it to continue with building backlinks. I heard that the next Google Page Rank update is just around the corner! Oh, boy, can I do with a little more Page Rank!