PART 2 - Turn Google Reader into a semi-automated blogging machine!

[jhiggins]

Tim,

Thanks for the time and effort you put into this. Nice way to pay it forward. Have you tested the results of doing this? Or has anyone else reading this? A case study would be really nice!

Regards,

Jonathan

[Tim Dixon]

Hi John.

The problem with a case study is that it depends on what your end goal is.

To take my system for example, I use the blogs I create for niche and product market research rather than for the residual monetization through Adsense etc. Although that still takes place it's not necessarily the primary purpose for me.

The best case studies are those that you do for yourself. It doesn't take that long to set one of these type of blogs up and feed it from Google Reader as described here. Then it's just a case of tracking it and seeing what works and what doesn't.

Tim

[Dave Earley]

Originally Posted by freetime

Tim
Is this Thread an RSS feed if so would like to add it to Google Reader to stay on top of this Thread, I don't see any feed for it,thought I would just ask.
Thomas

If you click on thread tools, you can subscribe to this thread. I don't see any RSS, but you should be able to get them via email.

Update: Didn't realize there was a page 2. Doh!

Dave

[Kenttay]

Cool! Thanks.

[Enquirer]

Thanks for this part, Tim.

I have no experience with blogging so it will take some practice until I become familiar enough with it to fully appreciate your efforts. I followed the theory in part 1 easily although I've never used google reader. That, too, will become clearer when I start using it. I've never used IE favourites nor Firefox bookmarks - I'm with AOL and use their favourites (when they don't lose them for me, that is) but I'll experiemnt with FF bookmarks.

Until I do learn how to use all these things - including Word Press and WPOM - I'll probably just copy and paste from GooReader directly into my first blog, add some of my own content and then let it loose into the world. With just one or two blogs, that should be easy.

And, I was thinking of setting up a blog with Blogger but there seems to be a preference for WP amongst you enterprising lot. I may as well take that as a hint.

[Tim Dixon]

@Enquirer - Just stick with it and read through all the information here and in the first thread.

You can learn most of what you need about setting up Wordpress blogs right here on the forum as well for free. Just use the search function to find the best threads.

Tim

[Enquirer]

Thanks, Tim.

Will do. Am doing.

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[ChrisLang]

Great info Tim, I am a huge users of Google Reader and the social applications Google is building into all of it's properties.

One thing I did not see mentioned is that the links you share are hard coded a tags and out going links to the parent posts in Google Reader shared items. Many Google profiles now are seeing PR in the toolbar. Who knows what PR Google is really applying to these shared items feeds.

So, while many of these links from casual users are not going to pass link juice from your Google Reader shared items, I do believe that the more users sharing a particular blog post of yours, the more Google will look upon this cumulatively. Just like the more votes on Digg story for a blog post the more Google sees that as a positive indicator to the blog posts quality.

I believe Google is going to eventually look upon this as a very important indicator of blog quality: How many RSS subscribers you have in Google Reader and how many times a blog post was shared.