OK - LEMME JUST SPILL THE BEANS! From 0 to 2000+ hits per day in 10 (TEN) minutes. 99.9% Automated.

[ChrisByrns]

I just had another personal meltdown (lol) and i thought i'd give away a lil' secret of mine:

How to get at least 2k hits per day in a matter of minutes.

"Can't be done", i hear you say.. well, check this out!

• create a twitter account
• set up a wordpress (2.5.1 works best) blog on a generic domain.
• install "wp autoblog" or "wp-o-matic".
• install twitter poster ( WordPress › Twitter Poster WordPress Plugins )

Now, (do this each day, takes about 10 minutes) have a look at search.twitter.com and note down the hot trends..

Head over to Google's hot trends and note down their hot trends.

Nnoooow, go to the google blogsearch, perform a search for those trending topics and get the RSS feed of the search results.. copy the rss feed's url and insert it into your blogs wp-autoblog feature.

WHAT THIS WILL DO:

• your blog will aggregate the hottest trends
• your blog will auto twitter the aggregated headlines with a link to your blog
• people search on the twitter realtime search, find your tweet and click through to your blog
• you get mad traffic

I started this as an experiment three weeks ago and i get a constant 5k unique hits per day, according to awstats.

Why am i sharing this?! Dunno, perhaps i'm just stupid (Not really, i have other sources of income - i just thought it was time to share some stuff).


CHEERZ,
CHRIS!

[TLTheLiberator]

You're a good man.

This looks like it's worth a test.

Won't we bump heads?

Thanks,

TL

[MikeAmbrosio]

So, let me ask you the "magic" question then...

How many sales/How much money have you made from the traffic? How are you monetizing? Affiliate/CPA offers?

Driving traffic for the sake of driving traffic makes no sense to me. Interesting method you have though I will say that.

Maybe I will try this myself and see...

Mike

[ChrisByrns]

You can also niche it down a lil' - like do some kw research, grab the keyword rss feeds and aggregate only those. This will get you heavily targeted traffic on autopilot.
(this would probably be the best option)

[ChrisByrns]

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

So, let me ask you the "magic" question then...

How many sales/How much money have you made from the traffic? How are you monetizing? Affiliate/CPA offers?

Driving traffic for the sake of driving traffic makes no sense to me. Interesting method you have though I will say that.

Maybe I will try this myself and see...

Mike

$300 in the first week $150 in the second - but i won't share my sponsor ..this really started just as a traffic experiment. (but think along those lines: "what does *everybody* need/want?")

[Edgar Moreno]

Hey Chris,

Are you currently using JustHost for your domain? Just a question because I saw you were using awstats and am wondering if other web hosting sites use that same tool.

[ChrisByrns]

Originally Posted by Edgar Moreno

Hey Chris,

Are you currently using JustHost for your domain? Just a question because I saw you were using awstats and am wondering if other web hosting sites use that same tool.

I'm on my own reseller.. i think there's plenty of hosts out there, offering awstats?

[MikeAmbrosio]

Thanks Chris. I have a few ideas of where to try this myself. I'll let you know my results...

Mike

[petevamp]

This is far from a secret. I have been doing this for months to one of my blogs if I see the traffic is not up to my standards. I also use tweetmyblog as my plugin to send out tweets to my post automaticly. I am also able to do this with everyone of my ads as well through Pyrabang. I make a simple what looks like an adsense add that cost me 1/10th of a cent to make. After I have completed posting my ad on pyrabang I can then go out to the main menu click on my link which should be in the top ten post. Then I click on share post I have an option to share with myspace facebook stubleupon twitter and many other social sites. I now site back and relax that 1/10th of a cent that ad costed me to make now just made me money for twittering it. As another note though too. For your strategy it does not have to be a hot trend I have doubled my followers sticking with my niche. Only added the rss feeds to blogs close to my niche or categories on my blog. If you add a simple hash tag to your post or use a keyword at all in the title. Anyone who does a search for that keyword in twitter can now see you posted something about that keyword.

[petevamp]

Oh and the other thing about this is how many followers do you have. I only have 100 or so followers since I just started my twitter account about a month ago. Yet I can still get well over 200 visits to my blog doing this exact method. You will also notice that if you are using adsense as your income for that blog. It really does you no good you will get no clicks onto your adsense ads that are placed on your site. They may be reading the post but that is all they are doing.

[ChrisByrns]

Originally Posted by petevamp

This is far from a secret. I have been doing this for months to one of my blogs if I see the traffic is not up to my standards.

Cool thing, you beat me to it. Good for you!

[ChrisByrns]

Originally Posted by petevamp

Oh and the other thing about this is how many followers do you have. I only have 100 or so followers since I just started my twitter account about a month ago.

I have 600+ followers, started 3 weeks ago. But this technique/strategy is *NOT* about followers (and not about adsense)..

[MikeAmbrosio]

Pete,

The one immutable truth I learned since I started in this business is that there ARE no "secrets". Only stuff you do not know.

Then, you read about it and you know.

It's all about learning and earning...

Mike

[blogginvixen]

Thank you for sharing! I will certainly give this a try.

...sort of reminds me of another method I heard of, expect it involved Digg and not Twitter.

[The Schwa]

Well... just at a quick glance... it looks like wp autoblog and wp-o-matic are both dead... unless I'm looking for love in all the wrong places...

Wow... this is annoying... I got a version of WP-O-Matic to install... but it requires I run Firefox to use it???????

Firefox has a nasty bit of instability on my PC... unreliable at best

[d0rhk]

Yeah but how can you monetize this traffic if it's just everyday hot trends?!

[Dave Kingston]

Originally Posted by d0rhk

Yeah but how can you monetize this traffic if it's just everyday hot trends?!

Use CPA network offers that appeal to the masses.

Financial, weight loss etc.

Stay away from using adsense...seriously.

Been doing this for a while now with a twist...it's cool.

[d0rhk]

Yeah I dont even have an adsense account.

I guess you could also use dating, quizzes, etc cpa offers and promote those...

Good stuff Thanks.

[dwooding]

Nice share.

It works. Just setup a blog, tweeked wp-o-matic (it doesn't handle feeds too well), installed the twitter plugin and ... 21 uniques in a few minutes off of NBA related info (Laker's just won).

[mmurtha]

You can also do the same thing with VB forums, some of their Mods, and a twitter account - Plus html, feed agrigate and twitter. You use basically the same principles as Chris mentioned earlier.

Btw, it is better to narrow your keywords/phrases down to mico niches, then run the feeds. You get better traffic and ROI that way.

I've been doing something similar by using Kurt's Bombs for a year or so. Using Twitter just adds another dimension to the strategy.

Chris - good post!

[grover69]

I love this idea and I setup a test blog to try it out, but I can't WP-o-matic to pull any feeds. I set up a chron job. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[IMcruiser]

The concept is a good one but you really need to do one of two things:

Narrow your traffic down by targeting keywords or your conversion rate will be less than 1%.

Or use pages with no links so that the visitor has tp press back, x or an adsense ad to go somewhere else, then target high paying adsense niches. This encourages people to click the ads

[VegasGreg]

Hey Chris, excellent post!

I have a question for you, when setting up the auto-blogger with the RSS feed from Google's Blog Search, do you make each item from the feed an individual post to your site or one post with all the headlines grouped together?

I didn't know if it would be good or bad to send out 5-10 tweets on the same topic each time the feed fetches.

Thanks,

Greg

[dwooding]

Originally Posted by grover69

I love this idea and I setup a test blog to try it out, but I can't WP-o-matic to pull any feeds. I set up a chron job. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

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[Droopy Dawg]

I just gave this a whirl... check this out:

I had a domain that I have that's already ranked for a "MLM" that I had recently cancelled.

About 4 hours ago... I threw a wordpress blog onto it (was built in ColdFusion before), and got a free theme from the web.

I then threw some CPA ads onto it... maybe 5 or so.. all in the "home business" realm.

I then created a Twitter account

I then used wp-autoblog and the Twitter-poster plugins and activated them both, and I went to EZA (for shyts and giggles) and I got feeds from the "home business", investing, and something under "internet marketing".

I then went back to twiter, and did a search for "home business", and it came back with about 40 users... I followed the all.

Then I loaded these 3 feeds into wp-autoblog and it created the posts on my site... and as of now there are 94 posts created.

I just checked and as of now I have 121 followers, and as of now I've had 146 uniques (1400+ pages viewed).

I'll check again when I get home tonight (I have an hour drive home, and I'll do more testing then)

My questions are:

- Is there a way to use Permalinks for the post titles? I had to turn permalinks off in order to get the posts to show on my site.

- It appears EZA only shows excerpts of their feeds because I only get a preview of the articles when a link to a post is clicked.... I have wp-autoblog set to show the entire feed, so is this EZA or is there something that I can do to change it? I'm thinking its EZA, but I want to be sure because I will not use EZA for the duration it was merely a test.

Thanks for this post... I knew there was a way to do this but the plugins that I found i the past were not free, and I didn't want to pay for something if it wasn't effective.

DeShon

[JonStein]

You forgot to spill the beans on the fact the plugin spams your posts and twitter account! (Black Hat? seems suspicious you did not mention that)

Of course you can remove this problem by opening the twitter-poster.php file and find the line that starts with eval(base64_decode..etc

expand this line using a base 64 decoder (google it) and then remove the following line of code.

http : / / 72. 9. 228. 239/get_link_info.php? source=$encoded_link&
version=$version&allowpost=$allowSponsorTweet

(I broke the code up, so it does not show up as a link)

Then delete the entire eval(base64_decode.. line and insert your expanded code with the url removed (as above) in it's place.

This will eliminate any chance of the plugin spamming your blog and twitter account.

You may also have to set your PHP.INI file in your root directory to allow_url_fopen = on for it to work.

[ChrisByrns]

Originally Posted by JonStein

You forgot to spill the beans on the fact the plugin spams your posts and twitter account! (Black Hat? seems suspicious you did not mention that)

BlueFart shmackhat.

[VegasGreg]

Originally Posted by JonStein

You forgot to spill the beans on the fact the plugin spams your posts and twitter account! (Black Hat? seems suspicious you did not mention that)

Of course you can remove this problem by opening the twitter-poster.php file and find the line that starts with eval(base64_decode..etc

expand this line using a base 64 decoder (google it) and then remove the following line of code.

http : / / 72. 9. 228. 239/get_link_info.php? source=&
version=&allowpost=

(I broke the code up, so it does not show up as a link)

Then delete the entire eval(base64_decode.. line and insert your expanded code with the url removed (as above) in it's place.

This will eliminate any chance of the plugin spamming your blog and twitter account.

You may also have to set your PHP.INI file in your root directory to allow_url_fopen = on for it to work.

I emailed support for that twitter plugin, because you are supposed to be able to turn off the "sponsor links", but mine did not turn off. Their response came back as they were investigation the issue and said it only worked sometimes and they should have a fix by Monday. So, look for a new download then.

thanks for the tip about how to edit the code myself. I may try that.

[TheRichJerksNet]

Originally Posted by JonStein

You forgot to spill the beans on the fact the plugin spams your posts and twitter account! (Black Hat? seems suspicious you did not mention that)

Of course you can remove this problem by opening the twitter-poster.php file and find the line that starts with eval(base64_decode..etc

expand this line using a base 64 decoder (google it) and then remove the following line of code.

http : / / 72. 9. 228. 239/get_link_info.php? source=&
version=&allowpost=

(I broke the code up, so it does not show up as a link)

Then delete the entire eval(base64_decode.. line and insert your expanded code with the url removed (as above) in it's place.

This will eliminate any chance of the plugin spamming your blog and twitter account.

You may also have to set your PHP.INI file in your root directory to allow_url_fopen = on for it to work.

Yeah I was looking through the code last night, not very professional to force spam on someone elses twitter account.

Besides what you posted I also seen the code was NOT wordpress compliant either, which indicates a security issue to begin with.

James

[nix288]

Awesome information, many thanks!

One question - Is anyone else having trouble with the fetch results from wp-o-matic? They're no errors when I submit my feed url but it won't fetch a single result for some reason.

[JamesHughes]

Good post, thanks for sharing this.

[Muhammad Hassan]

Originally Posted by nix288

Awesome information, many thanks!

One question - Is anyone else having trouble with the fetch results from wp-o-matic? They're no errors when I submit my feed url but it won't fetch a single result for some reason.

Not sure if its the same issue that I had in the past. Anyways here's how I solved my problem.

1) go to tinyurl.com

2) create a tinyurl of the feed that you you cannot get results from

3) put the tinyurl code into wp-o-matic


Hope it helps, sorry if it doesn't.

[pearlydean]

Just a quick question...is it best to change the theme on the blog or leave it as the standard one? I have other blogs with great themes but don't want to spoil the traffic if changing the them has any impact?

Cheers Keith

[Seans0n]

This is a very intelligent and interesting technique which I understand.

I have a few questions and appreciate any advice:

1. Google Blogsearch and almost all other RSS feeds only give you the first sentence or at best first paragraph. I assume making a WordPress post which contains 5 or 6 chunks from your RSS source is the best way to go?

I understand that the actual post content isn't too important and that you're monetizing this, most likely, from CPA or perhaps AdSense, but if your content is simply garbage, wont Google eventually drop you?

2. Could you give me an overview of how you set up WP-o-matic? I assume it's best to set up a few campaigns each week which will target the twitter trends and each campaign will create perhaps 2 posts per day? Or is this far too dense and twitter will twig it's automated?

Just trying to get a feel for how to monetize this system really. Thank you though, this is very interesting if nothing else.

[nix288]

Originally Posted by Muhammad Hassan

Not sure if its the same issue that I had in the past. Anyways here's how I solved my problem.

1) go to tinyurl.com

2) create a tinyurl of the feed that you you cannot get results from

3) put the tinyurl code into wp-o-matic


Hope it helps, sorry if it doesn't.

Many thanks bud! This did the trick.

[Barry Walls]

How do you ID trending topics in your niche?

[Barry Walls]

anyone else having issues with WPomatic? It isnt pulling info from teh feeds for me? Nor is it going out to look without being forced.

[jimmytron]

Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator

You're a good man.

This looks like it's worth a test.

Won't we bump heads?

Thanks,

TL

Im going to try this out later on today, and see how it goes. Thanks for posting this technique you discovered.

[dwooding]

Originally Posted by Barry Walls

anyone else having issues with WPomatic? It isnt pulling info from teh feeds for me? Nor is it going out to look without being forced.

Not anymore, WP-o-matic Wordpress Plugin Does Not Fetch Results

[CBSnooper]

Originally Posted by Barry Walls

anyone else having issues with WPomatic? It isnt pulling info from teh feeds for me? Nor is it going out to look without being forced.

I had this problem when trying to get an ebay feed. I ended up setting up the feed in feedburner, then importing the feedburner feed into wp-o-matic.

[Rieke09]

Thanks for the info

[Tom Brite]

The questions about monetizing on this are simple...

If you go more targeted then find some products and also adsense and ppv

If you go just all out just have adsense and ppv and maybe a more generic cpa offer for say a free ringtone or something similar.

Tom Brite

[TheRichJerksNet]

What really amazes me is how quick people are to install a plugin that is Base64 Encrypted (cheap encryption that can be decoded easily, which indicates the plugin was probably made from one of those free generators) and they have no idea who the person that created the plugin is and they have no idea what is behind that encryption. Let's not mention the fact that it violates your rights and spams your twitter account.

Then some wonder why their wordpress blog gets hacked ..

Just my 2 cents, be careful when it comes to a plugin from someone that you do not know...

James

[Tortue]

Ok... Call me an idiot, but since I have normally used only plugins such as Caffeinated Content to pull full articles from, I am not familiar with how to get the RSS feeds to display the full post and not just a 1-2 line snippet.

Am I missing something here?

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by dwooding

Not anymore, WP-o-matic Wordpress Plugin Does Not Fetch Results

Nice fix...but still a little issue....

Your full fix downlaod has no header, according to wordpress...and I tried your manual fix and it didn't change anything...still didnt grab the feeds.

I think the answer for me is to use pipes, feedburner or friendfeed...but still would like to have the full fix you showed if you can fix the header issue.

Thanks again

Barry

[SheriffBen]

Very clever! I will add this to my next project idea. Thanks! I just have to find a way to niche target it to build a new list with this traffic. Just following the hot-trends alone wouldn't be very targeted. Still a valuable share!

[dwooding]

Originally Posted by Barry Walls

Nice fix...but still a little issue....

Your full fix downlaod has no header, according to wordpress...and I tried your manual fix and it didn't change anything...still didnt grab the feeds.

I think the answer for me is to use pipes, feedburner or friendfeed...but still would like to have the full fix you showed if you can fix the header issue.

Thanks again

Barry

Hi Barry,

Not sure I understand the "no header according to wordpress" comment - what is the exact message you are getting? For the manual fix, are you referring to changing the feed url in phpmyadmin?

If you want to continue this conversation via PM so we don't distract from the thread ...

Dave

[Barry Walls]

I got it.

Uninsatalling in wordpress wasn't getting it all...so maybe that was the issue. I got it all from the server and re-uploaded your file and it worked.

One issue...when I reuploaded, it didnt take me back to the initial config options to set the server times etc.

Am testing now...will let you know if I have any issues.

Liked the video BTW. If you were any more laid back, you'd be horizontal. Nice yawn just before you signed off...made me laugh.

All the best

Barry

[dwooding]

Barry,

Glad I could make you laugh ... it was somewhat early in the day when I made the video ... wife was sleeping and doesn't appreciate my charming voice early in the morning, hence the mellow voice.

The reason it didn't take you back to the options is that they weren't removed when you uninstalled the plugin.

Regards,

Dave

[LIndaB]

Intriguing idea, Chris! I can think of a number of twists that could be added to this strategy. I did want to mention for those complaining about the Twitter plugin that there are others available that do the same thing. I just browsed the Wordpress official plugin directory and here are 2 that I came up with fairly quickly:

Tweetable:
WordPress › Tweetable WordPress Plugins
"Tweetable is intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can automatically tweet links to your blog posts as they are published. It can display your lastest tweet in your sidebar and add a tweetmeme widget after your posts. You can even use it to share a Twitter account among a blog's author's if you wish."

Twitter Tools:
WordPress › Twitter Tools WordPress Plugins
"Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:

* Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
* Create a blog post from each of your tweets
* Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
* Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
* Post a tweet from your sidebar
* Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
* Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)"

The same is true for rss posters. These have been around for years, starting with RSS to Blog and many others. I read great ideas in this forum all the time. Keep in mind that you don't always have to do everything exactly as the poster lays it out. Investigate other similar tools. Add twists to the ideas. But let's don't chase away those who spend their time sharing just because everything isn't perfectly laid out to our specifications.