Want to announce a Blog? Why don't you try the free Allscoop RSS feed software. When testing I didn't get one single spamy email back from my automized announcement.

Using Allscoop RSS feed saved me 2 hours of work, that I needed announcing a blog manualy. Less then 5 minutes and I was all set.

A simple click on action brings you to all blogs you listed so far. A click on + allows you to add your blog.

Complete the form an click on okay. Click on the + again and select all the blog engines you want to announce your RSS feed to. Then select the feed you want to announce.

Allscoop rss pro starts to submit your feed.

Some blog engine will require you to manualy fill out some additional information.

After completion you'll get a report telling you where your feed has been added, or it's expacted that your feed will be added.This includes:

• Yahoo, BlogStreet, Syndic8, NewsIsFree, DayPop, Feedster, BlogDex, Popdex, Moreover, RDF-Ticker, BlogDigger, Bloogz, HeadlineSpot, Diarist.Net, easyRSS, NewsXS, Feeds Farm, Newstrove, Sourceforge, FeedPlex, Feed Shark, Blogwise, Boing Boing, Rub Hub, Fyber Search, Technorati, Postami, WeBlogAlot, Feed24, Ice Rocket, Swoogle, Blogz, NewsMob, Complete RSS, 4GuyFromRolla, Feedzie, Loomia, Truth Laid Bear, Rocket Info, Rocket News etc.

Optilink is a nice tool that allows you to do link analysis for websites. It helps you understand why certain websites are popular for certain terms, all based on link building, not simply content or meta-tags.

Within Optilink you decide which searchengines you want to track. If you want to see the alexa rank for each linking page. If you want to see the google PageRank of each linking page. If you want to messure inbound links aswell. Optilink is a java based link analysis tool used by most well known SEO's. The interface could look better, but hey, it's not a design tool. Data can be exported, but only half as good as with LinkSurvey.

Some screen shots

Since August 31st WebSite Clinic (Switzerland) and Suchmaschinenmarketing.Com, organisator of Search Engine Marketing Conferences in Switzerland, started a study about search engine marketing usage in companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

So far over 900 companies participated on the study.

Requirements for participating companies

• Based in either Switzerland, Germany or Austria
• Website online
• Fluent in german to fill out the forms