Check out my automated niche blog business model (it really works)

[Chris Lagarde]

Most of us probably already know about how to search for a phrase using Google. Highly relevant phrase searches can be tuned even further with negative terms. Below is what I found from Google's website. I'm not up to 15 posts so I can't paste URLs yet . Only one emoticon allowed each day, right? :-)

Negative terms

If your search term has more than one meaning (bass, for example, could refer to fishing or music) you can focus your search by putting a minus sign ("-") in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid.


For example, here's how you'd find pages about bass-heavy lakes, but not bass-heavy music:


bass -music

[Chris Lagarde]

...(and if you've read my Google Reader thread you will know a technique to do that)....

Thank you for pointing this out Tim. I have not rigorously read through your Google Reader Parts 1 & 2 yet but that will be corrected shortly.

[jrsencio]

Is anyone having problems with these plugins?

I installed them on a new 2.7 WP blog..

- could not get the wpomatic link feature to work
- could not find the gocodes management panel on wordpress

Did anyone encounter these same problems?

[jrsencio]

Good news.. finally got gocodes working... problem remaining now is to figure out why the word replacement and linking does not work

[jrsencio]

Here's the answer to the other problem... the substitution or relinking of a word occurs only at the grabbing of feed data and populating of the blog. Otherwise if the posts are already posted you can no longer change the word unless you delete the blog posts and then go to wpomatic and reset and fetch again.

[wealthmaker2008]

I have 2 questions:
1. Is my yahoo auto tags isnt working properly, when i hit add it just trys to link to another page and then stops. Is there a better way to tag the automated feeds you have coming in. Lets say you have 500 posts going back and manually adding tags could take awhile and i thought thats what yahoo auto tags did but i guess im wrong.

2. with the wp cloner plugin that clones the site, does it allow you to have a different theme or are you copying word for word the same thing

Thanks guys

[NewBeing]

Keith thanks for sharing your blueprint with us...

I've just found that if you go to Google videos you can create a feed which works with wp-o-matic which includes a small image of a video and some text!

You can use the advance search to get exactly what you want, the RSS feed is on the right hand side next to the search number results.

Stewart

[Tim Dixon]

Originally Posted by NewBeing

Keith thanks for sharing your blueprint with us...

I've just found that if you go to Google videos you can create a feed which works with wp-o-matic which includes a small image of a video and some text!

You can use the advance search to get exactly what you want, the RSS feed is on the right hand side next to the search number results.

Stewart

Good find.

You can also do much the same with YouTube videos by searching using the standard search box and then using your browsers Feed button to create a feed.


Tim

[Louie D]

Thanks for your help guys.
I have a simple question that I've been trying to solve for a couple of days now.
When I try to fetch a feed, it only posts the title of the article (no content at all). Does anyone know why it's doing this?

tnx

[kevinw1]

Louie, it could be the feed only includes the title. Some feeds do that, some include a snippet, and some the whole article/post - you can only get what the feed provides.

[dferrara]

Keith,

Could you answer this for me...I've created many different niche blogs over the years but none seems to grow. I use RSS submit but not sure why my blogs plunge instead of grow. Can you give me an idea of what you may be doing that causes your blogs to grow over time instead of die over time.

How many RSS sites do you submit to? As I mentioned, I use RSS submit and it submits to many, many sites.

Thanks,
Dominic

[Alminc]

Keith,

You said you are writing an ebook about this method.
When can we expect it to be offered ?

Almin

[Sean A McAlister]

Keith,

Great Stuff...and my apologies if this is a duplicate question...i got through 3 pages and wheeewww.

My question is about the Go-Codes

What do you enter in this box
Redirection Key ----------------- The text after /go/ that triggers the redirect (e.g. yourblog.com/go/thekey/).


And is this where you Enter Your Affiliate Link?
Target URL ---------------- The URL you wish to redirect to. "http://" is required.


Now...Once those boxes are done...how do those links show up in the aggregated feed on my site? In other words, 10 Auto Posts were just updated on my site. and all links point back to the Origin of the Feed.

Thanks Man
Sean

-----If anyone knows this answer...great :-)

[Louie D]

kevinw1,
Thanks for your reply.
However, I can view the feed page with full content. I know some of the feeds only have snippets on them. I choose not to use those, rather use the ones that have the full article on the feed.
But I'm still having problems pulling the full article. It just pulls the title of the article.

tnx

[Tim Dixon]

Originally Posted by Louie D

kevinw1,
Thanks for your reply.
However, I can view the feed page with full content. I know some of the feeds only have snippets on them. I choose not to use those, rather use the ones that have the full article on the feed.
But I'm still having problems pulling the full article. It just pulls the title of the article.

tnx

Louie.

On the options tab of WPOM, are you using a custom post template? if so it could be that the template is not set up correctly.

Tim

[edman]

Great post Keith, I've just scanned through quickly, and I already see some valuable info in here. I'll take some time out o read the whole thread after the holidays.

Warrior Forum always rocks

Edward

[Steve Porcaro]

Sean,

Check out these tutorials I did hopefully it will clear up some of the questions you have regarding the GoCodes and Wp-o-matic

Here it is Warrior Forum Auto Blog Thread

All the best

Originally Posted by The IM Reporter

Keith,

Great Stuff...and my apologies if this is a duplicate question...i got through 3 pages and wheeewww.

My question is about the Go-Codes

What do you enter in this box
Redirection Key ----------------- The text after /go/ that triggers the redirect (e.g. yourblog.com/go/thekey/).


And is this where you Enter Your Affiliate Link?
Target URL ---------------- The URL you wish to redirect to. "http://" is required.


Now...Once those boxes are done...how do those links show up in the aggregated feed on my site? In other words, 10 Auto Posts were just updated on my site. and all links point back to the Origin of the Feed.

Thanks Man
Sean

-----If anyone knows this answer...great :-)

[chamilj]

Hi Keith
Why don’t you create an EBook about your method & sell it via Clickbank or directly from your site.

[Daniel Scott]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the only thing this method will generate is what are basically "internet trash" that no one really wants to read, and only clicks the links to get out of there?

I'm not saying it's not profitable. All I'm saying is that I think we should, perhaps, think about whether or not we're making the internet a better place or not.

-Dan

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the only thing this method will generate is what are basically "internet trash" that no one really wants to read, and only clicks the links to get out of there?

I'm not saying it's not profitable. All I'm saying is that I think we should, perhaps, think about whether or not we're making the internet a better place or not.

-Dan

I appreciate the contribution to my thread (which you clearly didn't bother to read completely). It would be awesome if you had followed your own advice. Thanks for nothing! Jerk.

For the rest of you who aren't so in love with the sound of your own self typing: more positive news, I am back from my holiday travels and family obligations and will be posting again soon.

But it's late. Back to it tomorrow or Monday.

[Daniel Scott]

Keith,

Such a slanderous tone is not necessary. Why not show me how I am wrong, instead of calling me names and acting immature?

If I'm proven wrong, I'll apologize. I have no beef with you. It's entirely possible I may have missed the part where this discussion already came up. Nine pages of discussion is a lot and although I tried to make sure I skimmed it for the important bits, it's possible I may have missed one.

Regardless of how you feel about me, or my post to this thread, name-calling is unprofessional, immature, and uncalled for.

Maybe not the best way to handle criticism.

-Dan

[Steve Porcaro]

Daniel,

The intent of these sites is to become an authority site..in other words a resource..there are many popular sites that are nothing more than aggregators...

That effort is worth money...I know myself though I doing this on affiliate sites I go back and see what gets posted and I delete total irrelevance and total junk...yeah that may not be so automatic however that is what I do even though I am using pen names.

I want quality traffic...It is a model how you determine to use the model is up to you..sure there are people that will abuse this model

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the only thing this method will generate is what are basically "internet trash" that no one really wants to read, and only clicks the links to get out of there?

I'm not saying it's not profitable. All I'm saying is that I think we should, perhaps, think about whether or not we're making the internet a better place or not.

-Dan

[Daniel Scott]

[QUOTE=Steve Porcaro;363838That effort is worth money...I know myself though I doing this on affiliate sites I go back and see what gets posted and I delete total irrelevance and total junk...yeah that may not be so automatic however that is what I do even though I am using pen names.[/QUOTE]

Steve,

First of all, thankyou for a well-thought out and polite reply.

The fact that you're putting the effort in to make it a good site is what makes the difference. Any big site has a human touch, it's not just software!

I appreciate a little more where this method comes in now, since you have mentioned that it can be adjusted. I've never really played with RSS (apart from using it to syndicate my OWN stuff), so I'm a little wiser I guess.

I just know from my own personal web-surfing experience that so little of what is out there is any good. This tool DOES have to be monitored because 99% of what people write on the 'net is crap!

Thanks again for your reply Steve.

-Dan

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Keith,

Such a slanderous tone is not necessary. Why not show me how I am wrong, instead of calling me names and acting immature?

See previous nine (NINE!) pages of discussion where this has come up before. Also, slander is spoken, LIBEL is written. Besides that, it would only be libel if it were false, but the only statement of fact I made is that you didn't read the thread, which you admitted just below.

I'm sorry your feelings got hurt (and I did thank you for contributing), but don't expect to step into a thread which myself and others have worked very hard on, passive-aggressively **** all over it, and then demand we change your opinion when you can't be bothered to read thoroughly before riding in on your high horse.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

If I'm proven wrong, I'll apologize. I have no beef with you. It's entirely possible I may have missed the part where this discussion already came up. Nine pages of discussion is a lot and although I tried to make sure I skimmed it for the important bits, it's possible I may have missed one.

You missed SEVERAL times where this has come up. Myself and the previous posters bothered to write the info and have the reasoned discussion. You're the one who comes late to the dance, craps on the parade, and THEN admits not having read the whole thread. I don't have to prove anything to you.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Regardless of how you feel about me, or my post to this thread, name-calling is unprofessional, immature, and uncalled for.

Good thing your previous behavior makes it so I don't care what you think. Otherwise my feelings might be hurt. But seriously, you think what you said is okay because you couch it in subtle language and sentence forms, but all you did was call names. I just had the courtesy not to couch my own words when responding.

You clearly have a grasp of the language, which is why I said you're in love with the sound of your own self typing. It's not easy to write so that the insult must be inferred rather than directly delivered. That's why I find it even more insulting you didn't bother to read the whole thread.

But you know, like you said. Nine pages is very long, and I'm sure you're very, very busy. Not too busy to wax clever though.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Maybe not the best way to handle criticism.

But you didn't criticise, you attacked. You didn't say "I'm concerned about the quality" and ask a question or do some research. You didn't even say why you thought this might be the case. You didn't give an example or a reason or a quotation. Therefore it's not criticism, it's commentary.

You said that you think the method generates "internet trash that no one wants to read" and then questioned the ethics of the method based entirely on speculation, rather than what has been discussed here. On top of that, you phrase things in such a way that you ask for support from a dissenting voice. (Anyone else here?... Anyone?)

I respond very well to criticism. I'm just not inclined to accept veiled attacks by the uninformed.

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

Daniel,

The intent of these sites is to become an authority site..in other words a resource..there are many popular sites that are nothing more than aggregators...

That effort is worth money...I know myself though I doing this on affiliate sites I go back and see what gets posted and I delete total irrelevance and total junk...yeah that may not be so automatic however that is what I do even though I am using pen names.

I want quality traffic...It is a model how you determine to use the model is up to you..sure there are people that will abuse this model

Thanks for sticking up for the method, Steve. I KNOW you read the thread, because you know the point (and my own use of the method) is to create quality, authority resource sites.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Steve,

First of all, thank you for a well-thought out and polite reply.

The fact that you're putting the effort in to make it a good site is what makes the difference. Any big site has a human touch, it's not just software!

Yeah, Steve was nicer than me, but again, the fact that you credit him for this response only shows your ignorance of the preceding discussion. The "human touch" is key, as has been stated over and over before you barged into an ongoing discussion to posit your uninformed opinion like a petulant child invading the conversation of adults.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

I appreciate a little more where this method comes in now, since you have mentioned that it can be adjusted. I've never really played with RSS (apart from using it to syndicate my OWN stuff), so I'm a little wiser I guess.

You would be a LOT wiser about the method AND RSS in general if you would READ THE THREAD before you post. What did you think ensued during the pages and pages of discussion? Not only has this method been elaborated on and expanded here, whole other threads (like Tim Dixon's) have spun off and expanded possibility even further.

It really is an insult to everyone who has posted here that you can't bother to read what's come before, and the only statements you can accept are ones that are in direct response to you. It's a very selfish and self-centered mode of operation. It pains me even now that I'm catering to it. Instead of my first and this second response to you, I should have just said "READ THE THREAD" and have done with it. After all, that's the extent of time you spent before posting in the first place, so you certainly don't merit the thought I've put in here.

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

I just know from my own personal web-surfing experience that so little of what is out there is any good. This tool DOES have to be monitored because 99% of what people write on the 'net is crap!

Theodore Sturgeon once said that 99% of everything is crap. That's a fact of the universe. And it also happens to be the VERY CORE OF THE METHOD. Why do you think it's worthwhile to even make these aggregator sites if you're not going to weed out the crap and post only the good stuff? That's the whole point, which you have missed entirely.

This thread is CERTAINLY in the 1% of non-crap on the internet, but you won't bother with it, so it won't do you any good, will it?

But again, Daniel. Thank you for your wonderful contribution to this discussion. We're all very enlightened by your reasoned and well thought out post...

Oh wait, that's not what happened. :P

[Keith Kogane]

Now, onto some MEAT!

Originally Posted by jhongren

Hey Keith,

Thanks for sharing. I believe this outline is clear enough for anyone who wants to make money from niche blogging.

I think the hurdle for most will be how to select the keywords and based on what criteria should they filter the keywords.

Wrong keywords = wrong traffic = no sale (or even negative cashflow)

Anyway, this automatic system only works for those who want to get their hands dirty by starting off the manual way by investing their time, effort and money.

Automation can be done after the system is fully set up

Thanks alot Keith!

John

Awesome point John. Matching the right keywords to the product you're promoting is important. You can shortcut this by using SpyFu to research your selected products, that way you know what keywords are making money for those products, and just use those. I've heard that Affiliate Elite would be good to use with this as well, but I don't use it, so I don't know for sure.

Originally Posted by kingcatdaddy

Keith - be sure to include these points in your upcoming WSO!

I snipped the rest of your post, but wanted to thank you for contributing. I'll certainly keep those points in mind as I (slowly) put together the full writeup. Your generosity is much appreciated!

Originally Posted by dferrara

Keith,

Could you answer this for me...I've created many different niche blogs over the years but none seems to grow. I use RSS submit but not sure why my blogs plunge instead of grow. Can you give me an idea of what you may be doing that causes your blogs to grow over time instead of die over time.

How many RSS sites do you submit to? As I mentioned, I use RSS submit and it submits to many, many sites.

Thanks,
Dominic

There are way too many variables to come up with a blanket reason. I don't use RSS Submit, but rather submit my sites manually. I don't know if that makes a difference. I also only work in niches that have a lot of "chatter" - meaning they have ongoing discussion and content creation. If during my niche research, I don't see enough content to sustain a blog, or even enough separate sources to make sense as an aggregator/authority site, I either try to "back up" the niche ladder and go broader, or just move on. Hope that helps. If not, ask away and I'll answer as best I can.

For your other question, I submit to as many as I can find (there are plenty and more pop up every week). I'm not 100% meticulous with this, but I have a spreadsheet with all my RSS sites, and all my blogs. I just put a little X at every intersection where I've done a submission. I don't really blanket the whole list for every blog (though I probably should). Instead, I just try to hit a big chunk of them, and then occasionally when adding a new blog or new RSS site, I'll go back and hit a few more until I get bored. Not very scientific I know, but small amounts of effort can add up over time (especially if you do it systematically so you can track, hence the spreadsheet). Hope that answers your question!

Originally Posted by Alminc

Keith,

You said you are writing an ebook about this method.
When can we expect it to be offered ?

Almin

Hopefully soon. I had a LOT of stuff done, but WordPress 2.7 came out in the interim. I know I need to include material that will work with that, but I haven't had too much time with the holiday to start a few 2.7 blogs and learn my way around. If it weren't for that, I'd probably be done with at least a basic PDF right now already. But I want to do some videos as well, so anyway - hopefully soon.

Originally Posted by The IM Reporter

Keith,

Great Stuff...and my apologies if this is a duplicate question...i got through 3 pages and wheeewww.

My question is about the Go-Codes

What do you enter in this box
Redirection Key ----------------- The text after /go/ that triggers the redirect (e.g. yourblog.com/go/thekey/).


And is this where you Enter Your Affiliate Link?
Target URL ---------------- The URL you wish to redirect to. "http://" is required.


Now...Once those boxes are done...how do those links show up in the aggregated feed on my site? In other words, 10 Auto Posts were just updated on my site. and all links point back to the Origin of the Feed.

Thanks Man
Sean

-----If anyone knows this answer...great :-)

You use your GoCodes in the Replace feature of the WP-O-Matic plugin.

Originally Posted by tonythomas

Keith,

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Awesome post!

Thanks, again,
Tony Thomas

You're welcome!

Originally Posted by iris

Great information, Thanks

You're welcome!

Originally Posted by edman

Great post Keith, I've just scanned through quickly, and I already see some valuable info in here. I'll take some time out o read the whole thread after the holidays.

Warrior Forum always rocks

Edward

Thanks for taking the time to comment Edward. I know you'll find a lot of value here from your fellow warriors. Best of luck with the method!

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

Sean,

Check out these tutorials I did hopefully it will clear up some of the questions you have regarding the GoCodes and Wp-o-matic

Here it is Warrior Forum Auto Blog Thread

All the best

Thanks for that resource, Steve. I know people will find it useful.

Originally Posted by chamilj

Hi Keith
Why don’t you create an EBook about your method & sell it via Clickbank or directly from your site.

Working on it. Thanks for your interest!

[Sean A McAlister]

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

Sean,

Check out these tutorials I did hopefully it will clear up some of the questions you have regarding the GoCodes and Wp-o-matic

Here it is Warrior Forum Auto Blog Thread

All the best

Hey Steve.....GREAT STUFF THERE! Thanks for putting that together..answered all my questions!

And to Keith....Again a Great Post Man.

-------Sean

[Sean A McAlister]

Ok Steve,

I got the .htaccess done.

Followed you vid to a "T"

No luck on the Redirects.

Anything that you could think of that i am missing?

Just to clarify....in the Wp-O-Matic when you edit the "Campaign".......
the "relink" should be to your own site ...Right? The the "GoCodes" redirect to the Affiliate link ?

[Steve Porcaro]

Sean,

I also answered your PM. Is your .htaccess set for permissions to 666?

Did you remember to put in the http://? Both plugins

Yes the go code holds you affiliate link

The wp-o-matic redirect should go back to your site http://www.yoursite/go/keyword

Originally Posted by The IM Reporter

Ok Steve,

I got the .htaccess done.

Followed you vid to a "T"

No luck on the Redirects.

Anything that you could think of that i am missing?

Just to clarify....in the Wp-O-Matic when you edit the "Campaign".......
the "relink" should be to your own site ...Right? The the "GoCodes" redirect to the Affiliate link ?

[Sean A McAlister]

lol..how could i forget the http:// You made that very clear in that awesome vid....but to be sure i doubled checked.

I got the .htaccess taken care of.

Will continue to trouble shoot...but i am stumped as i think i got everything.

thanks for the help

[Daniel Scott]

Keith,

You are obviously set in your opinions, and that's fine. But for the record I wasn't using "thinly veiled attacks" or anything like that.

You give me too much credit. I'm not clever. I say exactly what I think. There is nothing that you have to read between the lines here. I meant exactly what I said, and I certainly meant no harm or disrespect.

I asked a question. Steve answered it. I learned something. Isn't that what a discussion forum is for?

I'm not sure if you've read other posts by me, but I would never expect anyone else to follow my views on things. Lots of people do things I don't think are cool, and I'm sure vice versa - live and let live, right?

I'm sure you've made mistakes in the past as well, Keith. There's no need to act the way you are about it. Especially in a public setting.

And for the record, instead of the condescending post you made, a simple "Hi Dan, we have already discussed this a couple of pages back, maybe you missed it - check there again, we covered all this" would have sufficed.

-Dan

[TheAtHomeCouple]

Originally Posted by Keith Kogane

This is my current business blueprint. This is something I've built up over time, and I actually really hesitate to give it away because it works so well. I've been doing this for about a year now with fair success. It really works for me, because you just set up the site once and then you hardly ever have to touch it again. It just runs itself and gets better and better over time.

Absolutely awesome, I've bookmarked this nice little layout of a proven method that I've currently began using, and will cross reference some of my own methods to what you've laid out for everyone.

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by Daniel Scott

Keith,

You are obviously set in your opinions, and that's fine. But for the record I wasn't using "thinly veiled attacks" or anything like that.

You give me too much credit. I'm not clever. I say exactly what I think. There is nothing that you have to read between the lines here. I meant exactly what I said, and I certainly meant no harm or disrespect.

I asked a question. Steve answered it. I learned something. Isn't that what a discussion forum is for?

I'm not sure if you've read other posts by me, but I would never expect anyone else to follow my views on things. Lots of people do things I don't think are cool, and I'm sure vice versa - live and let live, right?

I'm sure you've made mistakes in the past as well, Keith. There's no need to act the way you are about it. Especially in a public setting.

And for the record, instead of the condescending post you made, a simple "Hi Dan, we have already discussed this a couple of pages back, maybe you missed it - check there again, we covered all this" would have sufficed.

-Dan

I'm happy to call it water under the bridge if you like, but I stand by my hostile response. Sure, you did ask a question, but it was an offensive question (anyone else think this method is garbage? The people who use it should be ashamed for making garbage!).

I could also tell by the nature of the question that you hadn't spent much time looking for an answer here before positing the negative opinion, albeit cloaked in a non-question.

But I appreciate the advice on tact, I sincerely do.

However, I would think that the possibility that such a question being already answered would have occurred to you, and had you looked for it, would have found it (had you really wanted to).

Since you obviously didn't (and admitted so), and your initial post didn't posit that you had even tried unsuccessfully to do so, I deduced that you were just a thread-****ter troll.

I don't think it was a very large logical leap I made. But agree to disagree. I'll take you at your word that I misunderstood.

Enjoy the wealth of information here in the thread and no hard feelings coming from my end. Nearly any question you can think of has been answered here already, so if you keep an open mind and actually read the thread, I hope you will find it informative.

Take care!

[msalada]

I have been following this thread for about a week and am trying to duplicate this process. I have everything installed. WP-O-Matic is pulling posts. The problem I am having is with the links.

GoCodes is redirecting, so I am guessing the problem has something to do with the setup of the redirects tab in WP-O-Matic. I have filled everything in as directed, but I am not getting any links or keyword replacement. I have inserted the necessary code in the htmaccess file, but something is not working correctly.

Any help would be appreciated.

~Marj

[Chris Lagarde]

I've been poring over this thread, implementing the ideas, and I've still run into a few snags but with your help I'm sure I'll soon be able to show my wife that I'm on the right track with this project!

1. I am now getting the wp-o-matic (WPOM) plugin to hyperlink my chosen keyword with the matching GoCode URL. When I hover the mouse over the hyperlink, the GoCode URL is what is shown. And the GoCode does redirect to the affiliate sales page BUT after the redirect what shows in the address bar is my affiliate hoplink instead of the GoCode redirect url

Isn't the GoCode redirect URL supposed to stay visible in the address bar?

2. The search terms I used in setting up the RSS feeds are coming through in bold. Any ideas on how to turn off this "feature"? I believe my feeds are coming through Feedburner. Is this a setting in Feedburner?

[Carm]

Keith

Just found this post last night, was a teeny-bit ( LOT ) late to bed, wonderful info :-)

Thank you so much for sharing your blueprint, I have already included it on one site that I was wanting to auto update. Now for the others and some domains that I've had parked. Looking forward to your ebook.

Steve

Thank you too for your tutorials, they are just great, a huge help to the tech impaired like me.

Awesome stuff guys!

Thanks again

[Louie D]

Originally Posted by Tim Dixon

Louie.

On the options tab of WPOM, are you using a custom post template? if so it could be that the template is not set up correctly.

Tim

Tim, tnx so much for your help. That fixed it. I just checked the "custom post template" leaving it with just the content tag made it worked. If I don't click the checkbox if seems to pull just the title. I don't know why it's doing that but that fixed that problem.

Another snag however that I hope u can help me with. When I first do a fetch for the 1st post it works, but after that anymore succeeding fetch via manual or automatic would not fetch anything. It says on the log that it tried to fetch for the set time but no new posts. I tried to fix this for a couple of days now but couldn't find the fix. It's not the feed because there's 25 items there.

I hope u can help.

tnx again,
Louie

[Tim Dixon]

Originally Posted by Louie D

Tim, tnx so much for your help. That fixed it. I just checked the "custom post template" leaving it with just the content tag made it worked. If I don't click the checkbox if seems to pull just the title. I don't know why it's doing that but that fixed that problem.

Another snag however that I hope u can help me with. When I first do a fetch for the 1st post it works, but after that anymore succeeding fetch via manual or automatic would not fetch anything. It says on the log that it tried to fetch for the set time but no new posts. I tried to fix this for a couple of days now but couldn't find the fix. It's not the feed because there's 25 items there.

I hope u can help.

tnx again,
Louie

Glad to have helped.

Re. your next problem, I would hazzard a guess that on the options tab again you have the 'Max items to create on each fetch' set to 1.

That will mean when it reads the feed it will fetch only the latest item and ignore the rest. You say there are 25 items in the feed, but if they are all older than the one you already fetched then WPOM is not going to look at them.

HTH.

Tim

[Graham Maddison]

HI keith,

I have just launched a new niche site winningways.eu and have been struglling to get some quantity of content. Then I came across this thread.

FANTASTIC! a VERY BIG THANK YOU.

I have set up wp-o-matic and have succeeded in getting some posts. However, when I get the posts, they are just two liners ie first two lines of the original but with no link to the actual original full post. In this format they are obviously worthless It is obvious to me I am missing something important. I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

Graham

[Steve Porcaro]

Hi Graham,

I am not Keith I think this is more dependent on your feed not something you set up wrong.

I have one feed on a affiliate site I set up and it gives me complete content with pictures and video. The other keyword and feed I target is exactly whay you get.

So I think it is more feed dependent so it is time to get to work.

It is funny when this was shared by Keith I looked at one of my old blogs and I had the very first version of Wp-o-matic on it and it worked beautifully and with much simplier setup, however less features.

Originally Posted by Graham Maddison

HI keith,

I have just launched a new niche site winningways.eu and have been struglling to get some quantity of content. Then I came across this thread.

FANTASTIC! a VERY BIG THANK YOU.

I have set up wp-o-matic and have succeeded in getting some posts. However, when I get the posts, they are just two liners ie first two lines of the original but with no link to the actual original full post. In this format they are obviously worthless It is obvious to me I am missing something important. I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

Graham

[Graham Maddison]

Thanks Steve,

I think you are right, I have been playing around abit - I'll rephrase that lol, I have been trying various things, the more I try the more I like it. This awesome.

Thanks again.

Graham

[Dan.Thies]

Amazingly great post, Keith. Great discussion too.

It would have been even more helpful if you would have picked a great niche for me, done all the research, built me a site, set up all the affiliate programs, and started mailing me a check every week.

But for now, I guess we'll all have to settle for some great information.

[Chris Lagarde]

That's right Dan. And Keith, it would be nice you threw in a nice back scratcher. Nothing expensive mind you. Certainly I don't want to be seen as an ingrate.

[cathfan]

I had problem input the feed url. i tried most of your list but still could not add my campaign. I don't know where I got wrong. I already tried every possible way for the last 2 days. I don't whether I should continue trying this WP-O-Matic.

[allenjohn]

Hi - Great post! Well done. I would also like to recommend Wordpress Plugins | Fruity Plugins as part of this strategy. I think it fits perfectly.

All the very best, Allen

[Steve Porcaro]

HA HA...I was reviewing my posts on a dating site I use as an affiliate under a pen name. The posts from wp-o-matic RSS feeds.

And I had to laugh I found three posts linking back to my content!!!!

It sounds like someone grabbed my RSS feed and puts a few sentences explaining what my content is about...HA HA

I love it, as I take it as a compliment though the content is PLR I only try to put up good content not junk......

Remember from the beginning Keith has always stated that the intent is to create qaulity authority sites...

This is why it is necessary to put in the work in terms of research and keywords.

Also monitor you feeds and make sure they are providing good information. Keep working on your site every now and then improve it.


I am a subscriber to Safari at Oreilly the publisher of technical books, and there are many books on SEO that talk about using RSS feeds as content on your site..

However it has to be relevant and you site also needs to add value...You are making your site a one stop place for people to find information...

If I want a quick glance at the news I go to the drudgereport..all he is doing is being an aggregator of news sites and putting up the top headlines.

To me it is a one stop...if I go to CNN I might miss something good on Fox as they are treating content differently... may not be a good analogy but I think you get the point...

Make 2009 a productive and quality year!!!!

[Tim Dixon]

Originally Posted by Graham Maddison

HI keith,

I have just launched a new niche site winningways.eu and have been struglling to get some quantity of content. Then I came across this thread.

FANTASTIC! a VERY BIG THANK YOU.

I have set up wp-o-matic and have succeeded in getting some posts. However, when I get the posts, they are just two liners ie first two lines of the original but with no link to the actual original full post. In this format they are obviously worthless It is obvious to me I am missing something important. I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

Graham

Hi Graham.
I'm not Keith either, but it sounds to me like you don't have the box ticked on the options tab 'Post title links to source?' - you need that ticked to make the title of the post as it displays on the front page to link back to the source instead of the actual post page.

If you want it to link to the post page (as per most normal posts) then you will need to set up a custom template (again accessed on the options tab) which includes a link back to the source.

Here's one I often use:

{content}
Check out the source of this item <a href="{permalink}">{title}</a>

As for your posts being just 2 liners, what is in the actual feed you are pulling from? is it just a title plus those 2 lines or does it show more?

Quite often people assume that WPOM will pull the whole article even if it's not shown in the RSS feed, but that's not how it works. WPOM can only make a post with what it finds in the RSS feed, which is quite often just a snippet of a couple of lines or so.

Tim

[chamilj]

Hi Keith,
I wanted to PM you but not allowed because I don’t have enough posts to do so. How can I contact you?

[msalada]

I have pretty much got everything working the it is supposed to, with one exception. When I go into a category there is only one entry, instead of a list of the posts that are in this category.

Has anyone else had the problem and how did you fix it. It is going to be hard for me to submit category feeds, if they only contain a few lines.

~Marj

[anwar001]

Where can we find affiliate feeds in order to implement your strategy?

[BigSexy]

Thank you for all the info and your efforts to keeping help people in this thread, Keith.

I'm gonna implement this technique on one of my rarely updated site for sure.

BTW, since it's some time this thread has been created, is there someone who is starting to see some $$$ using this strategy? I know it's a long-term business model, but you know, it would be encouraging...

P.S.= Keith, if it's not you in your avatar, is he some sort of well-known businessman I can't recognize?