Matt at Mass Automation.com is offering a limited time discount on all his products. The discount will save a whopping 50% of the ticket price for anything on the site. Several of the tools have been upgraded recently, headlines as follows:

- AutoSocialPoster - version 4.2. Updating bookmarking sites support.

- RssBookmarker - version 3.5. Updating bookmarking sites support.

- Mass Account Manager - version 2.8. Minor settings upgrade.

- WP Auto Installer - version 3.2. Improved workflow

- WP Cloner - version 3.9. Adding a feature to detect automatically firewall issues that sometimes block FTP connections

- WP Anchor Link - version 1.1: adding support for 2-word keywords

All plugins are compatible with latest Wordpress version: 2.8.6

There are a couple of new releases to take a look at:

- Synonymizer 3.0:

This is a brand new, fully recoded version of Synonymizer. It is faster and much more robust. The ’synonymizing’ process has been streamlined with much better memory management than in the past. Synonymizer is now an excellent tool to efficiently publish your articles across your visitors’ network of blogs, particularly when used together with WP Blaster.

- WP Membership Tool 1.0:

This new plugin will add *membership* support to your visitors’ Wordpress blogs. They will be able to restrict specific pages or posts to their  subscribers and start collecting recurring subscriptions from their members. Main features are as follows:

- Easy-to-use tags to separate free content from premium one

- SEO optimized

- Support for unlimited user levels

- First click free feature

- No change needed at blog level

- Payments: support for ‘Subscribe’ and ‘Buy Now’ Paypal buttons

- Registration: seamless integration with internal WP user system

- Terms & conditions approval feature.

- Feedback from members feature

- Membership and subscription cancellation automation

Now is probably a good time to take a look at adding some of these serious tools to your toolbox!

To use the discount you need to use the following coupon name: 48HPROMO
Discount is 50% and applies to all Mass Automation products and you have about 24 hours from the time of this post!
Click here to purchase and get your discounts!

Today I came upon a very useful blog post describing several tools (almost all free) designed to help social marketers and optimizers to gain an insight into what real people are doing, are interested in and are writing about.

These tools will help internet marketers, search engine marketers and social marketers to do research, find niches and to some testing of their ideas almsot all for free. The cool thing is that Marty, the author takes care to explain the utility of the tools and provides links, for those less clear about the concepts, to learn from.

The site is very useful and well worth a read with a cup of coffee or two.

I have been a fan of Rss Bookmarker and AutoSocialPoster from Mass-Automation but both cost a chunk of money.
The products work very well but are not inexpensive and so cost conscious folks, particularly newbies may like to know of an alternative automated bookmarking solution that can cost as little as $0.00.

Anyway, I came across a solution to bookmarking from WordPress blogs that is almost free and uses a proven reliable system.

Onlywire provides a semiautomated bookmarking service to about 16 sites. One only needs to make one selection and the bookmark is forwarded to many different services. Problem is that one actually has to do the work and, well, we are all a tad lazy, right?

Well, I have found a WordPress plugin that promises to automate the Onlywire process leaving only the need to set up accounts at each of the bookmarking sites.

As far as I can see this is not a solution for those who have large numbers of posts coming onto their blogs each day as every post is going to get bookmarked and to a single account at each site. The good thing is that Onlywire take care of the sites and logins so there should be no need to update the plugin, unlike with ASP and other similar tools.

It looks like a useful alternative to some expensive offerings.

Onlywire is free if you link to them from a site you own or costs $24.99 for a year if you choose to not promote the site.

The plugin is free and can be downloaded here: http://www.lionstarr.de/onlywire-autosubmit-a-wordpress-plugin.html
Onlywire lives here: http://www.onlywire.com/

Of course with most free products the level of support is commensurate with the price paid so Matt and Mass-Automation may still be the best choice for quite a few potential users. Put it this way, I will not be giving up AutoSocialPoster for Onlywire but if I was starting out the choice would be much easier.

Matt at Mass-Automation.com just sent out news of his New Year promotion. This is valid for just 48 hours so the clock is ticking right now!
All of the Mass-Automation WordPress and social bookmarking products are covered by the promotion which is a 50% discount on all normal prices.
Here are just some of the products included in the discount offer:
WP Auto Installer - version 1.6
WP Cloner - version 2.2
RSS Bookmarker - version 1.6
Mass Account Manager - version 1.6
Auto Social Poster - Gold - version 2.6
Virtual Silo - version 1.4
WP Blaster - version 1.2
Synonymizer - version 2.2

To take advantage of the 50% discount on these great software products just visit any of the pages listed below and place your order. You will need to use the coupon code ‘48HPROMO’ coupon twice: once in the shopping cart and once again in Google Checkout before confirming payment.

http://www.mass-automation.com

AutoSocialPoster

http://www.wpcloner.com

http://www.wpautoinstaller.com

http://www.massaccountmanager.com

http://www.rss-bookmarker.com/

http://www.mass-automation.com/products/webthumb/

http://www.mass-automation.com/products/wp-users-sync/

http://www.mass-automation.com/products/wp-links-builder/

http://www.cb-rss.com/

http://www.auction-affiliate.com/

I use several of these tools and can happily recommend them as class leaders, this is a good opportunity to fill your boots with useful tools. I have written before about some of them.

Matt over at Mass Automation, the guy behind the really good AutoSocialPoster and RssBookmarker social bookmarking tools has been doing a little refresh to the product lineup and it all looks good to me!

Here’s the lowdown:

* A new Joomla installer, JL Auto Installer, is now available. This is their first software focusing on the Joomla! platform. JL Auto Installer is to Joomla! what WP Auto Installer is to Wordpress: a one-click auto-installer. This looks good to me as Joomal users ahve been somewhat ignored in this market niche. I think this will go really well! The pricing is pretty competitive too!

* Matt’s second offering on the Joomla! platform is now released as well! A Joomla! version of Virtual Silo, their new WordPress SEO plugin. As a result, Virtual Silo is now available for both the Wordpress and the Joomla! platforms - very cool!

*As can be expected a new version for RSS Bookmarker: v2.4 has been released. Minor bugs were corrected and there was an update to the list of bookmarking sites.
The BIG news on the Rss Bookmarker front is that you may now purchase RSS Bookmarker either on a one-off basis or -and this is new- on a monthly subscription basis. This will bring RssBookmarker to a much wider audience who could not go for the high one-off price but who can see the benefit in their businesses.

REALLY GOOD NEWS: Mass Automation are offering a coupon worth $20 off Virtual Silo or JL Auto Installer during August.
You can use the voucher when purchasing Virtual Silo or JL Auto Installer for $37 instead of the listed $57 price. When you use the coupon, please remember to enter it twice: once in our shopping cart and once more before paying on Google Checkout.
The coupon is WPNEW

I am an affiliate for Mass Automation who gave us AutoSocialPoster (ASP), RssBookmarker, Scuttleplus, WordPress Auto Installer, WP CLoner and many more. These internet marketing and blogging tools are all best in class and the price reflects this - they are not cheap giveaways.

My WordPress blogs use several of these tools to drive traffic and search engines and to help me to build better websites.

Well, for a few hours you can get any of Mass-Automation’s tools for a discount of 50%!

Anyone serious about blogging knows some or all of these great tools for WordPress bloggers, some of us would not do without them - I am one of them.

Matt, from Mass Automation has given me a coupon code to enable you take a massive 50% discount on AutoSocialPoster, half off Rss Bookmarker, WordPress Auto Installer and WP Cloner buy both for half price - a perfect pair of blog building and maintenance tools.

In order to get your discount on all products use this link: Mass-Automation
This link goes straight to RssBookmarker
Here for AutoSocialPoster

To get your discount follow these instructions:
This is a 50% discount coupon, available until 15th May 2008:

–Name of coupon: 24hpromo
–Products: applies to all our products
–Discount: 50%
–Validity: the coupon expires on 05/15/08.

Please note that the coupon needs to be entered twice: once in the shopping card and once again if paying in Google Checkout

This is a great offer and if you are serious about making money with your blogs you should be checking out these offers right now!

As I keep mentioning, a cornerstone of the site promotion for our automated blogs is social bookmarking, we do bookmarking automatically using RssBookmarker and we now add a copy of AutoSocialPoster ‘Lite’ to all our installs.

However, when choosing sites to bookmark at it is worth thinking about whether or not the bookmark site will actually give any credit, in SEO terms, for your bookmarking efforts.

Just to recap, we use social bookmarking for the following reasons:
To pass Pagerank from external pages to our own pages.
To build traffic to our pages.
To provide a path for search engine spiders to our new pages
To improve ranking for our keywords by using anchor text linking

I found a list of bookmark sites that DO pass PageRank and Do send spiders to your bookmarked pages. They do not use the ‘No Follow’ tag on their pages.
So, if you have limited time to be making bookmarks and want to be as effective as possible then these might be worth a look: Social Bookmark sites that pass PageRank
The original post with the list is at: http://www.earnersblog.com/social-bookmarking-list/

Just a thought… Many of these sites are available within Rss Bookmarker And Auto Social Poster as well so those of you who already use these tools might want to check that you have accounts on these sites and focus your account building on them.