Yesterday's Tools Just Don't Cut It

I knew that there were automated tools available, so I decided to look into them.  I read reviews and recommendations from other marketers and settled on one of the cheaper tools to buy (I'm not going to name it here).  How did it work out?  Not so great.

I will say one thing in it's defense: it posted more bookmarks to more sites in less time than I could accomplish manually.  But it was far from perfect.  Half of the sites that were built in didn't seem to work, and it was constantly getting errors.  On top of that, it was really slow which made it very hard for me to get anything done.  It was a minor improvement, but it wasn't great.  Plus, it still felt like the amount of time and effort I had to put into getting each link was too high.

So I returned the product and decided to buy a more expensive one instead.  Guess what?  I ran into all the same issues.  There were more fancy features, and it connected to more social bookmarking sites, and there were fewer bugs overall, but it still failed a big percentage of the time and it was only linking stuff from my accounts.

At this point I realized an even bigger problem:  When I went and logged into my account, it had all of my sites and pages listed in one place.  It didn't look very natural and it certainly wasn't hard to tell that I was just bookmarking all of my own sites.  Needless to say, I hadn't imagined it going this way.

I was out of options and at my wits end.  I needed links, but I couldn't afford to spend the time to do it manually and none of the regular tools were very good.  I needed something better, something that apparently didn't exist yet.  So I did the only thing that any self-respecting programmer would do: I built my own.

I had a whole list of problems to address, and I set out to build a system that would take care of all of them at once.  It needed to be super easy.  It needed to take almost no time to use.  It needed to generate an avalanche of backlinks.  And I didn't want it to load up my account with tons of my own pages.