ShareThis

I noticed ShareThis on several sites including Technorati and decided to add it - glad to report it was a snap. I registered as a publisher, chose Blogger, and it took care of the rest.

At first it looked like it was adding a widget to my sidebar, but the ShareThis icon does appear at the end of each post. The code itself was actually added to the sidebar - how crafty! I just went back and deleted the title and nothing appears in the sidebar.

ShareThis only offers 14 social networking sites as a default, but it includes the most popular ones which is fine with me.

I give it top points for ease of installation, and for how it fits in nicely without taking up much space.

Bummer - Tagenie test result

Well it didn't quite work out as planned. When I clicked on that Tagenie icon I landed on their main page with the list of social bookmarking sites.

Clicking on any of the icons on this page would theoretically save me the step of having to manually add my post to each one, saving me a few precious minutes each time.

I tried Technoraty, and was presented with a final step inviting me to add some tags before saving it as a favorite. Unfortunately when I clicked save, it did not recognize my post..

Oh well. If I'm missing something maybe I could use a couple of pointers. It was worth a try!

Testing Tagenie

This is a test of the Tagenie mass social bookmarking system. This is a mandatory test required by the state of my anal retentiveness. This is just a test.

It's also a bit screwy just because I can't figure out where to add it to the blog template, RSS wizard that I am. So I pasted it directly into the post template and we'll see what happens.

Obviously this post is not very worthy of being submitted to all these wonderful social bookmark sites, but please don't ban me. This is just a test. If it doesn't work, I promise to never bother you again.

Page Rank: -1

I'd say having a PR of -1 is worse than terrible! This blog is running in the negative numbers, meaning that instead of adding to the web's collective wisdom, it's actually taking away. [I just realized -1 actually means 1. Still slightly confused.]

Website: http://e-kettle.blogspot.com/
Page Rank: -1 / 10
Alexa Ranking: 0
Indexed Pages: 0
Back Links: 0
(from http://www.whatsmypagerank.com/)

Thanks to web guru 100cute, all this may change. On her blogcatalog group, Web Guru Exchange Market, she introduces us to a powerful tool:

I am going to introduce a Genie for Social Bookmarking and a gold mine for PR3 to PR9 one way links to your web site, It can bring massive traffic and high link popularity to your web site.

Yes it is - www.Tagenie.com

Tagenie, here I come. Bring on the -9.