ping.fm is a great tool to update and track your ‘social presence’. You can create multiple aggregators that target specific social networks within the same account. You can submit your Blog RSS feed to Ping.fm and the feed will be submitted to quite a few of the major aggregators out there making it easier for people to find your site in the search engines by searching for the keywords your post is focused on.

yoono is one of the lesser known aggregators out there with a fair reach among the other little known networks along with the “Big 5″. Fairly easy to use and allows for multiple setups to target different networks separately.

Scoop.it is one of the newer aggregators out there that works in reverse. It allows you to curate your content for your readers by using materials suggested to you based on your keywords chosen or from your own content. Scoop.it also comes with a toolbar icon to make it super easy to add content from your daily browsing into your newsletter. I give this one a Two thumbs up without any reservations!

Gizapage is another promising aggregator. It says it’s an integrated social hub bringing together your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and more so that you can share with all networks at the same time, and you can pick and choose which networks too. It also lets you view your full profile from one spot. The problem with it is that you have to ask for a quote. It looks really great but that automatically makes me think it will be expensive. I put in for a quote but haven’t heard anything yet.

Social aggregators aren’t new, they’ve been around as long as social media has been around. If you do a Google search on social media aggregators you’re likely to find a lot of them both working and defunct. You’ll find free aggregators, and premium fee based services. They come and go so choose a popular one that is widely used so that you don’t have to start over. Part of using an aggregator is to save time. Setting one up takes some time and work but is worth it in the end so no matter which one you choose definitely make sure you do choose one in order to stop wasting time duplicating tasks.

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