I have started spending my time were there is nothing to do on my site posting on blogs and forums but unless someone clicks on my posting on the link back to my site there is no way to tell if this is effective. Having said that are thee any of you experienced web site builders who can give me an average number of blog and or forum post a day, week, or month it takes to have a positive effect on link popularity. I realize link popularity is not just posting on blogs and forums so this may be hard to do. I know I have various backlinks to my site but when I check I never see any forum or blog post linking back to my site. I want to make it clear that I am also doing article submissions, fresh content, some directory submissions, social book marking and so on.. I filigree that the number of postings that would help depends on how those other link building strategies are going but it there is some kind of way to tell how manual postings need to be done in order to manage my time I would appreciates someone giving me some guidance. I am just looking for a ball park sentiment.