Alternatives to WP-O-Matic?

it seems like the best one, at least free is omatic. Why not downgrade your WP version to a compatible version?

Don't believe everything you read :confused:
WP-O-MATIC works fine with all versions of WP from 1.5 right up to currently.
It hasn't been supported for a year or more but it's easy to figure out with very few problems.
WP-O-MATIC has features with true Bl*ck H*t potential that even the paid software doesn't have.

Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) is what I typically use instead of WpOmAtic.

Have you wondered why wp-o-matic was not updated? Do you come across many autoblogs in your every day work?

Autoblogs are pipedreams. All the time and effort can be put to much better use. It's not like you just set them up and money comes pouring in. But good luck, one more distracted person is one less traffic competitor.

Maybe the vending machine business is a better alternative. You just set them up and the money pours in. I've never in my life met a single person who owns vending machines but I see them from time to time.

My experience is that WP-Omatic and Feedpress both work fine with all versions right up to 2.8.5

Never had aproblem with them. I also use Redirection, and I'm not sure how or why it broke your blog. But it works like a charm. It may have been another plugin that was not agreeing with Redirection at that moment.

You can also try AFlinker. It turns keywords or phrases that you have into automatic links that you can cloak in the same spirit as Redirection.

AFlinker is also free.

Pretty Link works well, and as an added bonus will also track the number of clicks and the number of uniques. I have it working with WP 2.8.6.

Now that Google has been testing Hadoop for 2 years, I believe you will see auto-blogs and other sites using black hat techniques de-indexed and/or penalized faster. Even gray hat stuff will come under scrutiny. Even white hat ways to get around stuff will be ignored by them.

I am sure you have seen sites with teeny tiny font list of 'keywords' in the footer (or header). If you inspect the properties, they are using H1 tags set to 6 or 8 font size to list them. It gets around the fact that most SEs ignore meta keyword lists. These are not even cloaked in most cases so 99.9% of the time even pass human review unless they take the time to inspect the properties. (Which they rarely do). Because they are not cloaked, everything is 'technically' in line with Google's 'rules'. But SEs hate this technique.

Now with Hadoop, the bots will have time to inspect CSS files more closely and when they find an H1 tag with a font size under 12 or so, it will raise a red flag. (Even though no cloaking is going on, the practice is just a way to get around inappropriate keyword stuffing). Google is famous for penalizing 1st and asking questions never. Though in this case, they may decide to just ignore whatever ranking the keywords would help with since it is technically white hat.

Lately many auto-bloggers are finding their auto-blogs de-indexed at much faster rates than just a few months ago. (Mentioned in this forum). As Hadoop is used more and more, it may become impossible to build auto-blogs faster than Google can find them.

Caffeine is basically just making Hadoop system wide. Once that happens, the game changes completely. With Hadoop, Google has enough computing power at it's disposal to run several worlds of governments. Outwitting that kind of computing power will take an unusual amount of creativity. Personally, I see the day of auto-blogging and a ton of other techniques becoming useless. Even many that are technically up and up but that get around something Google has found useless in it's quest to deliver relevant content such as tiny H1 tags. In many cases, they won't penalize or de-index, they will just stop counting H1 tags under a certain size, in the example I give.

(Build a suspicious back-link campaign with 1,000 back-links using the same anchor in a week, Google, just ignores the back-links. No de-indexing, no penalization, they just ignore them. That way you can't hurt your competitor by back-linking 2,000 using the same anchor, Google will just ignore them and everyone stays at the same rank.)

Auto-blogs will be even easier for a bot to detect without having to refer the site to a human.

This is my personal opinion only. By January or February you can say, You heard it here 1st, folks.
Lol.

I love the design of wordpress but gave up my wordpress blogs a few months ago due to excessive spam even with IP banning software. I'm so much happier with javascript and html or PHP

I just use feed wordpress plugin, not much documentation but I found it a tonne better than WP-o-matic because it actually retrieves the full post after finding it through the RSS feed rather than just copying the RSS feed direct like wp-o-matic, this is especially useful considering most blogs don't publish full feeds.

I just upgraded my Wordpress and now I can't access WP-O-Matic from the admin section.

Adam

*Hint* My niche blogs include one license for autoblogged. I have a developer's license.

Is it true that all automated blogs got de-indexed by Google recently? I used to work with blog networks in the past for backlinks and was thinking of doing it again.