WP Robot Version 1.3 - Powerful Automation Plugin for Wordpress Blogs Updated, many new Features!

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by WillDee

With respect, Thomas, I disagree. The Amazon module is still not working properly, as there are still issues with the exact vs broad match options in the options page. I've posted details on the forum, and have done some digging to isolate where and how these problems are occuring.

In addition there are fatal errors when using one of the post tags available in the options page according to the documentation on the site. I've got this running on several sites, all of which have been upgraded, and all of which display the same errors.

It seems like this is only happening to you (since you're the only one posting about it in the forum) and I am trying to resolve this on the support forum, so I'd prefer it if you'd keep it there.

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by Glenn72

Hi Thomas, I'm actually very interested in this. There's just one thing that concerns me. Can the affiliate links be cloaked automatically? Currently I'm using Pretty Link to cloak my links, but I have to do it manually for each. I've had a few blogs in the past that lost their page rank and serps as soon as I added affiliate links.

No, link cloaking is not currently possible. I plan to add that in a future update, until then you will need to rely on 3rd party plugins.

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by harimon

1.
If I make a mix post with eBay and Amazon products for keyword 1
Do I need to repeat posting for this keyword every several days to have curent products, or because we use rss feed every keyword page is updated automatically and I don't need to post again for this keyword

A self updating RSS feed can only embeded for the eBay part, the Amazon product would not get updated. But since WP Robot works on total autopilot you would not need to come back to create new posts each few days (for example).

Originally Posted by harimon

2.
Regarding automatic update of rss feed -
Is it updated only when one reloads the page or it's not needed, and when the SE bots come they see new content even if no one visited the site from last check.

The feed always displays the latest eBay auctions and is updated on each page load.

Originally Posted by harimon

3.
Do I have control on the location of feeds in one post?
Is it possible in one post to post articles and ebay products in center, amazon products on right side bar, and videos and clickbank products on left side bar ?

No, there is no posting to the sidebar or something like that (not possible in Wordpress). You can specify how your posts will look by using the Template Option. With that you could for example choose to display a Flickr thumbnail on top, then an article and some eBay auctions below. I suggest you have a look at the demo blog for examples.

[Glenn72]

Originally Posted by Lunatic

No, link cloaking is not currently possible. I plan to add that in a future update, until then you will need to rely on 3rd party plugins.

Good to hear. I'll keep an eye out for that update, thanks.

[GreenEyes]

Can someone explain cURL, meaning how to I get it? I have the WP Robot free version until I can bring in more income, but it's not working...apparently I don't have cURL. I'm with Hostgator if that helps. I tried googling to figure it out but to no avail.

Thanks

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Update:
Nevermind... dummy here just needed to asked the hosting company instead. Voila! I have cURL.

Thx anyway!

[leesr]

I don't have WP Robot, but I do have Hostgator.

It says here that they include " curl "...
Web Hosting - Shared cPanel Web Hosting

...under " Supported Web Hosting Features".

[GreenEyes]

Originally Posted by leesr

I don't have WP Robot, but I do have Hostgator.

It says here that they include " curl "...
Web Hosting - Shared cPanel Web Hosting

...under " Supported Web Hosting Features".

Thanks leesr,

I really appreciate it. I just updated my post, feeling silly for not checking with them in the first place. lol. Well, I suppose it's good to have the info here in case someone else has the same question.

Cheers!

[dockrue]

Can WP robot create a site in a different language than English?

Thanks,
Brad

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by dockrue

Can WP robot create a site in a different language than English?

Thanks,
Brad

Yes, the following modules of WP Robot can also retreive content in another language than English. To see which languages exactly please have a look at the modules page on the WP Robot site.

- Youtube module
- Amazon module
- eBay module
- Article module
- Yahoo Answers module

[aclacy]

Hi Lunatic, I love the software, I would like to know what you have installed for any future updates. Great work!

[WillDee]

Update on the amazon issues - he's done a sterling job on getting the issues sorted, and has in fact delivered some additional functionality that was unexpected and very helpful.
Still a great product (and worth every cent). Previous rant was made when 40+ autoblogs stopped working properly, so I was a titch grumpy.

WPRobot = autoblog nirvana!

[Bobru]

I love WP Robot. Great Plug-in...worth every cent!! The only problem I've ever had with it is it sometimes pulls in an item repeatedly, and I have to go through and edit the extras...

[John Dales]

Hi,

I have very bad experience with the Amazon Autoposter plugin, which I think is part of the whole WP Robot Plugin. My sites made with the help of the Amazon Autoposter are dropping like stones from the Google SERPs. And I do not think this is a problem which is specific to the Amazon Autoposter. I think this problem is generic to all pure Autoblogs. And by pure autoblogs I mean those blogs wherein the site owner never added unique content to the site.

So I ask this question to Lunatic, CAN YOU SHOW US SITES OR BLOGS WHICH ARE CONSISTENTLY RANKED ON THE FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE and which is a Pure WP-Robot Autoblog?

John

[promo_guy]

In either the free or paid version, can you set the postdate so posts are published in the future? Or do you have to set this manually?

Thanks,

Scott

[promo_guy]

I'd be curious if others are experiencing any problems such as dropping from SERPs with this plugin.

I'm sort of interested in getting it but I noticed one of my Amazon sites using another but similar plugin is dropping from the SERPs too.

Anyone else experiencing similar to me and John Dales? I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

Cheers

[Lunatic]

@ promo_guy, John Dales: I do have several autoblogs using WP Robot that do quite good in the SERPs for several months already but I won't show the URLs here and I don't even need to because I don't promise any particular SERP results with using WP Robot (and anyone who does is a fool). All I do promise is that WP Robot will add targeted content to your site on autopilot, how you use this content is up to you. Still, here are some of my thoughts on the issue:

1) Seems like both of you were only using Amazon products for your autoblogs, which is a big mistake. From my own experience I can say autoblogs are doing much better if they use and mix different content from different sources to look more natural. This is part of why I created WP Robot in the first place and why it adds content from many different sources.

2) It is not really the point of autoblogs to get to the top of Google for competitive keywords because, let's not fool ourselves, it is more or less impossible. Google is not stupid and ranking on 1st page there for a competitive term with a 100% autoblog with barely any promotion done (which is usually the case for autoblogs) just won't happen. Because of that the trick with autoblogging is to:

1. Rank for "not so competitive" keywords by building blogs for small micro-niches or long tail keywords.
2. Building many of them.

Most of my autoblogs only get 50 to 100 unique visitors (the most successful get 300 to 400), but since they are no work at all that is already enough to make them profitable. And once you get there it is only a matter of repeating the process and scaling it up.

[MrEyeconic]

Does WP Robot pull a lot of keywords from one root keyword, and write one post on each keyword?

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by MrEyeconic

Does WP Robot pull a lot of keywords from one root keyword, and write one post on each keyword?

No, you enter each keyword and WP Robot then writes lots of posts for each of them.

I don't think automatically deriving keywords from a root keyword would be a good idea because the content would never as accurate and targeted (important for SEO purposes) as with keywords you have selected yourself.

[frank-dang]

Nice product. Keep it up Lunatic!

[justinw]

Ah, I just bought this off the web without seeing this special offer. Its certainly a great piece of kit. Good to know that I can use this code for people reading my site.

Keep up the good work and will be awesome if and when you can add a search function to your forum and if you can allow us to use rss feeds of affiliate products too!

[Bobru]

For my own clarification, if I buy a developer's license, and flip a site utilizing WPR, is the new site owner entitled to free updates? And, if they are, do I take on the responsibility of getting the updates to them, or do they effectively have their own WPR license key to do the updates themselves?

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by Bobru

For my own clarification, if I buy a developer's license, and flip a site utilizing WPR, is the new site owner entitled to free updates? And, if they are, do I take on the responsibility of getting the updates to them, or do they effectively have their own WPR license key to do the updates themselves?

The new owners are entitled to free updates but you would have to provide those to them.

[Lozzer100]

Hi Lunatic

I'm considering getting this plugin but I have one question before I buy: won't Google be able to detect the plugin footprint on your site and then start deindexing blogs built with this software?

Thanks!

Loz :-)