The Easiest WP AutoBlogger Ever, And It's Totally FREE!

[MKyle]

Originally Posted by jcaviani

I have every plugin known to mankind - free and paid. Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For Wordpress is the cream of the crop - period.

Another thing....too few people have really investigated Carp, Grouper, (geckotribe) and Yahoo pipes. Let's stop talking about all the popgun plugins out there and get into discussing some real mashups. With a bit of elbow grease, one can collect, collate and massage all kinds of data into a CUSTOM usable user experience.

As O'Reilly said (perhaps not in this exact context) Data is the next Intel inside.

Agree about Yahoo pipes. I started using it when the service was first released. I have recently revisited and I've got some great things in the works. It does take some time investment, but the return and possibilities are much greater than plugins IMO.

[Clyde Dennis]

Nice, this looks promising. I've looked at a few of the other free plugins and was about committed to go the paid Caffeinated Content route but YAAB sounds like it may be 'the one'

[Gabby12]

I have been testing this plugin for a few days and have a couple questions.
Where can we find rss feeds to add and if a website has a feed is it ok to use any sites feed? On the first and second run it posted 100 post per time, any way to set a limit per day?
Mark

[cliffmaster]

Gabby, you can set those limits in the settings panel.

[carmene]

Satheesh,

I really dislike that I can't use IE to administer this plugin on my site. Any possiblility of fixing this?

[Simon74]

Thanks alot to Scot that told us about this amazing free tool and more thanks to Satheesh that invented and giving away for free. I new to the forum, but I have to say I am loving it.

Thanks to all of you Warriors

Simon

[sloop324]

Thanks, Scott I needed the info on blogging to shrink my workload. AND Thanks for the Niche Ideas link and the free software. I'll be following your traffic suggestions also. Overdelivered, sloop324

[Scot Standke]

Simon & sloop32,

You are so welcome. I just hope that you use this tool to your advantage
and go on to create some amazingly profitable blogs.

I just wish this tool was around a few years back when I was just starting
out, it would have made things a whole lot easier

Scot

[Melody]

What's the best source for feeds that are okay to use on your blog - without copyright problems?

[Scot Standke]

Originally Posted by Melody

What's the best source for feeds that are okay to use on your blog - without copyright problems?

Off the top of my head, pretty much any government site.

Another great place is Universities

Dang, should keep that one to myself.

Scot

[shukes]

Hi,

I recenly installed the yaab plugin, initially I thought great clicked FETCH and everything seemed hunky dory, however, when I checked my blog posts, 12 posts had been submitted from the the one feed I had included in the inital project and all were summaries, lasting no longer than 70 characters.

Is there away of getting entre posts submitted via the yaab plugin.

thanks in advance,

Peter

[Nitro]

Nice, thanks for the share.

[tommygadget]

Originally Posted by shukes

Hi,

I recenly installed the yaab plugin, initially I thought great clicked FETCH and everything seemed hunky dory, however, when I checked my blog posts, 12 posts had been submitted from the the one feed I had included in the inital project and all were summaries, lasting no longer than 70 characters.

Is there away of getting entre posts submitted via the yaab plugin.

thanks in advance,

Peter

That happened to me too. I was trying to scrape from article directories. It shot over 160 posts of summaries and tons of dupes.

TomG.

[ezinewriter]

Great information. Thanks

[Carl Pruitt]

For those complaining about the summaries - this is an issue with the RSS feeds. This type of plug-in isn't "scraping". It is re-publishing the RSS feeds. It takes a whole different type of script to scrape the content from a site. Many if not most article directories and quite a few other sites only include summaries in the RSS feed. There are quite a few sites that are actually very successful publishing the summaries. Even some which only publish the titles! Of course, summaries give much less opportunity to put in extra affiliate links and much more chance that the reader will leave your site.

You will find that there is a large group of RSS feed owners who are very happy to have their feed published all over the internet as long as links to the original are included. They consider it a benefit. Similar to article marketing. It is actually what the term syndication really means.

There is another very large group who regard the feed as something only for the convenience of readers inside a feed reader. This group will feel that you are stealing their content. If they feel that way, then you are. If there is any doubt, just ask them politely.

You can throw in some original content, or the Google Reader technique for adding commentary that you will find in another thread and even a plugin like the free UAW plugin to keep from just duplicating somebody else's blog.

For those above hoping for some reason to find a plug-in that creates good original content, you need to hire a writer.

[xga]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

That happened to me too. I was trying to scrape from article directories. It shot over 160 posts of summaries and tons of dupes.

TomG.

Most of the article directories only give article summary in the RSS feed. I encountered the same problem, so that's why I modify my own article directory to output the full article in the rss feed.

So if you are looking for a full article feed, you can get it at my article directory:

Full Article RSS Feed

[Jim Burney]

What a great thread.

Thanks Satheesh for designing the plug in and Scot for sharing the information

Jim

[Jim Burney]

Originally Posted by xga

Most of the article directories only give article summary in the RSS feed. I encountered the same problem, so that's why I modify my own article directory to output the full article in the rss feed.

So if you are looking for a full article feed, you can get it at my article directory:

Full Article RSS Feed

xga

Thanks for your input.

Having trouble deciding what the feed path is when using keywords.

Any help

Jim

[shukes]

Hi,

Whats the point of receiving auto blog content, if it only comes in the form of excerpt, via the RSS feed and not the full article.

Is there away via something like yahoo tubes that woyuld make this possible

Peter

[Blondmoo]

That sounds interesting I will check it out, Thanks!

[xga]

Originally Posted by Jim Burney

xga

Thanks for your input.

Having trouble deciding what the feed path is when using keywords.

Any help

Jim

Hi Jim,

I am not sure I fully understand your question, so let me know if my answer is way off.

After entering your keywords in the rss builder page. Hit the "Get Feed'" button and you will be redirected to a page showing the content of the feed.

If you like what you see, go to the address bar at the top of your browser and copy the URL. That will be the rss feed URL. You can then paste this URL into any application/plugin that can take a rss feed.

If you don't like what you see or see no content, go back to the rss builder page and fine-tune the keywords or check for any typo.

[Ivancho]

This plugin works the way that I wanted and it's working over wp2.7

[ironwood]

Thanks Satheesh for your generosity with the plugin. I have been using it with BAYRSS to automatically place eBay ads under each post. It works really well. I just put the BAYRSS code in the footer box of the YAAB set up page and it lists the ads neatly under the posts as they come in.

I tried it also with the PHPBay plugin but it does not seem to like the .htaccess file that PHPBay requires. It will not display the gallery photos and when you click the links it brings up an error page. I need to do some more experimenting with it. However with the BAYRSS it just cruises right along.

If it is true that giving brings you blessings, you will certainly be a very well blessed person as are many others I am sure from this forum many of whom have posted in this thread.

All the best.

Chet Hastings

[P.A. Smith]

Cool, I hadn't ever even considered something like this for blog content.

What a great idea. Thanks for sharing!

-P.A.

[ironwood]

Just a quick follow up to my previous post regarding using PHPBay with the YAAB plugin. If you don't use the SEO URLs or the mod_rewrite features when you set up your PHPBay plugin then PHPBay works very well with the YAAB plugin. Without those features enabled it eliminates the .htaccess problem and brings in the eBay and Amazon ads automatically.

Chet Hastings

[cliffmaster]

I haven't tried using phpbay tag with it just yet. I dont see why it would be a problem with SEO links enabled. Do you have the Visual Editor disbaled in your profile ?

Anyhow I have included my adsense tag in the context box and that works just fine. Now my adsense ad's are displayed within every feed posted.

[kevin1mil]

Thanks for the recommendation.

[kaybee]

I have downloaded and installed this plugin after spending a morning trying to make feedwordpress work with my custom feed generator.

Yaab is working, but it is not pulling down the pictures. Is there a way to make the interval before the timeout longer. Hope that made sense.

[iMerickz]

hi,
i have finally installed this and try out.. think this will be a much better option then WP-O-Matic. but i need some help on the layout.
i have installed on the blog with simple feeds (used only 2) but the output of the feed onto my blog looks kind of weird. there is a huge gap/ spacing between the post title and the post content. is there any way to rectify this issue? anyone having same kind of issue?
also, the plugin seems to repeat the title again in the post content, which means users will see post title twice. any advise please?

[templarjustice]

What is the drawback, pros & cons vs. WP-O-Matic?

[Samuel Lee]

Great post! Automated content is always a good thing! I've had a go with the latest version of wordpress and it seems to be working fine. All that's left is getting the traffic to your blog and indexing! Top post and saves a heap of time, thanks!

[nhynes57]

Nice looking plugin, I have been using Wp-O-Matic but could not get it to post youtube videos.
I will give this a try.

Thanks

[Keith Kogane]

Guys, I have to say, I've been the biggest advocate of WP-O-Matic, but once I figured out how to use the regex part to do my link replacement, I've switched to YAAB. If he gets the post to email part fixed with the next update, I'm 100% switching to YAAB instead.

I don't like the little graphic dude in the plugin, but functionally, it's comparable to WPOM but better because it's actively developed by a dude who hangs out here.

[Richnana]

I will download this quickly... thanks.. purchased one recently so this is a good thing. Lots of hard work on your part but we appreciate it.

[Carpe Diem]

Thank you both for the hard work and follow up in the thread.

[kevinw1]

Originally Posted by Keith Kogane

but once I figured out how to use the regex part to do my link replacement, I've switched to YAAB.

Keith, are you still using Gocodes to cloak the links and then plugging them into YAAB?

[maddog]

I just want to say THANK YOU Satheesh for making YAAB freely available!

As a newbie, my blog was becoming a ball and chain, weighing me down. Not anymore!

Again, Thank You!

[Keith Kogane]

Originally Posted by kevinw1

Keith, are you still using Gocodes to cloak the links and then plugging them into YAAB?

Yes. Same as before. The only thing I swap is WPOM for YAAB. If he gets that email to Blogger thing working on the next update... (look out).

[MarketingZen]

Do any of the auto-blogging plugins scrape the whole posts rather than just title and summaries or is this an unrealistic expectation?

Also could somone explain how you can send the feeds to draft before posting on your site?

Cheers,

[Taylor French]

Originally Posted by Labno

Do any of the auto-blogging plugins scrape the whole posts rather than just title and summaries or is this an unrealistic expectation?

Also could somone explain how you can send the feeds to draft before posting on your site?

Cheers,

I'd like to know this, too. I have installed the plugin on a blog, but all of the RSS feeds I've tried are just summaries. I have about 200 posts on this blog now that are only 5-20 words long. Any idea where to find some quality RSS feeds that are full text?

I'd love to find an article directory that posts FULL articles to their RSS, including the author's resource box. Any ideas?

[Kenneth Holland]

Someone else on this thread (I couldn't find it) mentioned that there's a big space between the title and the story text. Anyone have a fix for that?

Also, The originating source link only points to the home page of the site of the feed I'm using. Does anyone else have this problem? Could this be due to the fact I am using Yahoo Pipes to aggregate my feeds?

Thanks!

Ken

[xga]

Originally Posted by Taylor French

I'd like to know this, too. I have installed the plugin on a blog, but all of the RSS feeds I've tried are just summaries. I have about 200 posts on this blog now that are only 5-20 words long. Any idea where to find some quality RSS feeds that are full text?

I'd love to find an article directory that posts FULL articles to their RSS, including the author's resource box. Any ideas?

Check out the article directory in my sig. You can build yourself a full article RSS feed (with resource box included) based on your desired keywords. The RSS builder URL is : Full Article RSS Feed

[cliffmaster]

Originally Posted by Satheesh

Dear friend, The new Yaab (psypo.com/yaab) has a rewrite option far better than wp-o-matic.
You can replace anything using plane replace commnads like

To replace all links with another with "foo"
REPLACE anylink WITH http//foo.co.gd.

Does anyone know how to replace just one particular link instead of all links within a feed ? I have tried several methods and all fail.

REPLACE <a href="http://dot.com"</a> WITH <a href="http://my.com"</a>

Does not work.

[nvs74191]

Wow, Satish. Glad I found this thread today.

YAAB works like a charm, and I am having fun taking my blog to the next level.

Thanks again.

[zehron]

Great thread! I had been looking into auto-blogger plugins including Caffeinated Content, which I heard is no longer supported by the creator. I'll give YAAB a try. Learning a lot from this forum. Thanks.

[Freegolf]

I have tried the link in the first post and receive a message to say that the domain expired on 12 July 2009.

Does anyone know if there is there another link

[RedMatrix]

Originally Posted by cliffmaster

REPLACE <a href="http://dot.com"</a> WITH <a href="http://my.com"</a>

Does not work.

Well, first of all, those are not valid HTML tags.

I'm sure this is what you want:

<a href="http://dot.com">

[KenS]

looks like the domain expired. Is there anywhere else this plugin might be hosted?

-Ken

[KenS]

Ok, looks like I answered my own question (WF rocks!)

I found a copy on "scribido." It's version 1.3 so I'm not sure of that's the latest or not.

scribido.com/yaab/2008/12/yet-another-autoblogger-for-wordpress-is-out/]Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For Wordpress Is Out - Scribido

Ken

[profitsouth]

Hey, Ken, thanks.

I found the URL at: Yaab Autoblogger ( Download ) - Yaab