Create WEB2.0 Structures Yourself - A Simple Method - Part 2

It's a reaction to all the posts and discussion about the "glamour" tools.
I like the idea of having WEB2.0 sites made automatically but.

a) Not one tool has made them properly (with full profiles to help disguise the self promotional nature of the tool)

b) They are expensive. - If I charge my time at $20 an hour, (minimum) then it's touch and go if I get value from these tools. I make 9 or 10 link rings a month at 30 minutes a time. That's $90-$100 dollar value for a $130 dollar tool.

c) The extras these tools come with are (frankly) shit. The keyword tool, article marketing, RSS, Bookmarking,Video submission and even profile making sections of Nuke - even when it was actually bloody working properly (something It has failed to do to an acceptable level for some months now) are all pretty crap - stand alone, one off cost solutions are available that are no only cheaper in the mid term - but do the job a hell of a lot better (A HELL of a lot better - if you bother to see how Nuke's keyword tool works out whther to go for a site or not you'll realize it's just ever so slightly shuffling the data straight out of Googles tool and expressing the result in words rather than number or diagrams. AN idiot could write a better tool in Excel or VBA in 30 minutes)

People are then left with these shoddily constructed WEB2.0 structures, and many then sit back and wonder when the traffic is going to pour in.

In most cases it's never going to come - bacause the REAL hard work is getting gazillions of links to these structures and dozens more good quality ones to their money sites.

This is where the attention needs to be for most people.

But that's not as much fun as coming back to your desk and seeing some software has "created" a few websites for you. There is no immediate "wow" factor in paying someone for 200 backlinks or a Xrumer blast or whatever. But at the end of the day, creating WEB2.0 structures and doing just about everything these "total solution" packages do is a piece of piss and can be done low budget and quick.

I realize most don't want to hear this, and want the flashy toys with fancy names and loadsa advertising,but this post was just for the newcomers who are contemplating where best to put their resources.

If you are time rich and cash poor (as probably most IM newcomers are) Then learn to make these structures yourself - it's quick and easy.

Spend you cash on quality links to power your network instead.