[DELETED]

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

Good point.

It's exactly for this type of tactic I've set up a spam captcha on my twitter account just today.

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

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

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

Use CPA network offers that appeal to the masses.

Financial, weight loss etc.

Stay away from using adsense...seriously.

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

this is what i love about you established guys. you can test this quickly.
when i read that , i realised that it would take me days to correctly adjust even one of my blogs to co-operate properly.
and i have something like 18000 followers, so i could make money within a day or two. but doubt that i really could, as i will very likely crash my blog or something silly.
i am sadly going to have to keep on plodding along doing this all in the way i set out to do, 6 weeks ago.

How To Get WP-O-Matic to Work With Yahoo Pipes! | ChaseSagum.com

blackhat shmackhat.

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

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

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

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

James

Thanks as my twitter account ban due to this spamming way, so now i open new account but still not post any tweet because i dont want to ban again, but after reading your this post i am going to try as you saying.
Again thanks

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

1) go to tinyurl.com

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

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


Hope it helps, sorry if it doesn't.

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

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

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

Am I missing something here?

Can't we just use twitterfeed . com instead? I use that for one of my blogs, currently. It feeds your posts to twitter with no ads and it's not a plugin.

Exactly.

How to Serve Man - IT's A COOKBOOK!

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

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

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

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

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

Basically, is it possible to create quality content, therefore quality visitors to your site? I want to build my list and make affiliate sales if possible also.

I guess it could be good to biuld a list if you have all this crazy traffic.

Get a plugin called External Links. Adds a class="external" to all outbound links, with various effects that are configurable under Options / External Links.

Look at my new blog for example. This is a link to the CATEGORY only set up for RSS feed: http://fitnessworkoutessentials.com/...gory/articles/
Each article title opens in a new window. My blog stays on the bottom.

i drink a l0t. (really)

You can make the wpomatic plugin give a title link to the author

How were you getting FeedWordPress to work? When I try to submit the RSS Feed for a Google Blog Search it gives me this:

Diagnostic information

HTTP request failure

:

HTTP Transports available:

wp_http_fsockopen

Yeah, same here.

I've been using this system (with niched keywords) for the past 2 days, and while I am getting traffic, not a single one of them clicked any of my adsense links. It doesn't look like I got any clicks on my clickbank links, either.

Looks like it's back to the drawing board, for me.

Since the traffic is arriving directly through Twitter, why not just get a bunch of reprint rights articles from directories? That way, even if you care about duplicate content, it won't matter, because you're not trying to rank in the serps. You could do a keyword search there on the article sites and try to match them up with the keywords you're trying to target. Should be easy.

That could work pretty well, I think. Also, sure, they may click away, but instead, an ad may catch their eye, or you might have another article in your post roll that they may want to read, etc. If they leave, who cares? You got a shot at them. If you don't have anything else there that they seem to want, test something else.

Besides that, if you're using someone else's content, it's only fair you link out, and unless you have permission, using full posts from another feed is probably not a good long-term strategy.

[DELETED]

I am interested in your last sentence:

"But is a great overall technique. I think I just need to fine tune my targets and this could be great."

Why do you say that when you have made just 19 cents?

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, is anyone making any real income from this to justify setting it up?

I hope you all do, I am just asking a genuine question.

Thanks,
Sam

19 cents is better that 0 cents
But yep, it's all about fine tuning targets.
If everything fails, use a cpm sponsor that pays for raw impression (yes, they still exist).

Yeah, there are a number of things you can do. If you just want the actual blog post itself to redirect somewhere else, you can use a WP plugin called "Page Links To" I think it's called.

It'll let you redirect any page or post in WP to any other page of your choosing.

If that's not what you were asking, let me know more specifically what you're thinking of doing, and I can probably make some more suggestions re:plugins.

I'm interested in something like this but with a little twist:
Is it possible whenever people click on my tweets / posts, it goes directly to a different website/URL. but also I want the clicks in that url to count as unique visitors?
I hop I explained it enough if not let me know and I will try to rephrase it.

Big thank you to all the people who contributed to this awesome thread.

So you want EVERY post on your whole blog to point to the same URL? First, I wouldn't recommend that - it looks very spammy and won't work for you for very long.

But if you WANT to do it this way with "Page Links To" there's another plugin I've come across that will let you set a default custom field for all posts. Since PLT uses a custom field to store the URL you want to redirect to, that's one way.

Another way is to alter the posting template in WPOM - but actually, I'd recommend Yaab for this method instead, because I like the way it handles "carnival" style posts better.

In that case, just alter the posting theme to be something like <a href="your url">[title]<br/>[content]<br/><a href="[link]">[source]</a>.

I think that's the right code, but double check the variables in the instructions. If you use the above code and set your RSS feed to do multiple entries in a single post (carnival style) the above will make the headlines point to your specified URL, but will still give a small source link to the author (which is just good manners).

If you want to be a dick and build an even crappier site, you can just leave out the credit link altogether, but like I said, that method will not work for you for long. You'd have to keep making these over and over because they WON'T tend to stay in the SERPs if all your backlinks point to the same place. And it also won't be a pleasant experience for your visitors, because they won't get what they think they are clicking on, and when they click multiple times, they will see that they actually have no choice, and will not visit your site any more.

But if you INSIST you want to do it as you describe, you COULD.

Yeah, you're right that for this primary action, organic is not the main traffic vector. But if you're already building a WP blog, which is EASY to get rankings with, why not try? You may not get the actual pages to rank well, but if they show up in the index at all, they are worth having for building backlinks to any of your other properties as well.

Consider too that if you're getting the info to build these sites from Google Trends, those are the trends collected from ORGANIC SEARCH - if you're building pages to target that, I wouldn't point all page to the same URL because then you definitely won't get anything, not even the ACCIDENTAL traffic you might otherwise get.

If you make a shoddy blatant spam-trap site, you'll get dumped out of the index, and not be worth anything to you unless you're sending traffic directly to it, even then, you're talking very low conversions and no return visits.

Think of every site you build as real estate - multi-purpose is better, and you should avoid deliberately building a shoddy structure if you can just as easily build something that will last and benefit you long-term, just as easily, with only a little more effort and a little less greed.

Just a little bit of ecology can go a long way.

Consider following this method then, but set it up on a WP install that you DO NOT publicize. You can use Platinum SEO plugin to make your whole blog invisible to Search Spiders.

Then you want to use Subscribe2 plugin and use that to set up a blogger blog to be postable by email, then subscribe that email from your WP-Plugin.

I know that's a brief explanation, but look around at the plugins and you should get it.

Basically, you'll be pushing this content to a Blogger blog, then promote THAT via Twitter. You will have a VERY hard time crashing blogger.

NOTE: A word of warning, I've never tried getting a traffic surge to a brand new blogger blog that is blatantly promotional. That may irritate Blogger and they may lock you or close you. Following the ecology vibe from above, you'll probably get a better long-term result if you establish a traffic pattern on a purely non-commercial blogger blog for a while, so if you get checked out, you'll look legit (because you will be) - then just mix in commercial content on occasion, you should be fine.

P.S. You can automate ALL of this in WordPress, the Twittering, the scraping, the reposting to multiple sites, even bookmarking and backlink building for the whole thing. It's kind of what I do.

To eliminate the <b> tags, which come across in Google RSS feeds when I use Yaab Plugin, I find using the Atom version of the feed instead of RSS does it automatically.

If that doesn't work for you in WPOM, try using the re-writing feature of the plugin. I can't remember if WPOM will re-write the titles, but I know for sure that Yaab will let you.

Don't flip out about trying Yaab instead of WPOM if you want to switch - Yaab is based off WPOM and they are very similar to each other in layout and function. Except for the silly giant cartoon doctor graphics, I much prefer Yaab for the time being over WPOM.

But no need to change for you unless you can't fix that <b> problem.

Also, I wrote up some answers to a couple of earlier questions some folks had:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...lly-works.html

There's a link to a very long thread in this forum detailing lots of ways to do the "automated content to your blog" part of this system. I started it, but tons of other Warriors contributed, but I think a lot of that thread could be used with this method as well.

To answer specifically, yes, you can do this on an established blog. If you're worried about unrelated topic leakage, I recommend setting WP-O-Matic to post in draft form for a while and you can manually edit which to publish. Every time you get a false positive, find a negative keyword you can add to the search that generated the results for you.

I use Google Blog Search fro this kind of thing, and it allows all the neat variables that Google search does. So for example if I was doing a site about "Bass Fishing" and I got an article about "Bass Speakers", I would go back to my original feed URL and add "-speakers" to the search string.

That way, I'm pruning it, and if after a few posts it looks to be behaving, I'll let it run. If you keep getting mismatches, just keep refining the search until you don't.

Yes, it's possible to build quality, useful content with this method, particularly if you're trying to build niche authority sites. However, the issue is that it's hard to monetize "Trend" content, because it's not overtly commercial in nature.

But it's about BUZZ. One thing I've been experimenting with this week is using it as an indexing driver. For example, I make a video blog that pulls videos based on trend keywords. I also place backlinks/anchortext back to my money sites on these pages.

Chances are, my video content might get reposted, and thus spidered, and thus, backlink credit.

That approach could be worthwhile, but I haven't been using it long enough to see the benefit, but I figure if building links to your own backlinkers works, this is kind of the same principle.

Well, i used the top 10 twitter trends + plenty of google's hot trends (25 to 30) keywords/phrases.. then i waited 24h's and added some more feeds.
I checked my stats the first time after like 48h's.

When it comes to monetizing - it's *really* better to target niche-specific terms.. you won't get xxk uniques per day, but those you get may at least be interested in the thing you offer.

Saying that, i can tell you that i now make a bit over $40 per day using this method (one domain) - so there IS money in this setup.

Interesting, wondered at what point that would happen... I'm starting a spin on this whole experiment to see what can be had from not doing the automated scraping but still leveraging the hot trends and affiliate products with an existing WP blog. Will let you know how it turns out...

Quick question......and not sure how important it may or may not be.....do you guys do "Fetch it Now" from Wp-o-matic or Yaab? Thats what i do, but im not sure if i should be doing so, so im asking for your opinion.

twitter stops you following more people once you get around 2000, if the number of people following you isn't over 2000...something like that. Mass unfollow of 200 a day over the next few days should sort the blockage.

George: You can't follow more than 2,000 people on Twitter without having 2,000 followers. It's a rule on Twitter to prevent massive spamming.

Set this up in an hour or two yesterday. Got 1,100 uniques in the first 24 hours, although CTR on my ads is awful. I'm thinking it's due to the fact that I didn't set the blog up for a niche, but based on a current event. But still, the traffic's pretty impressive.

So let me ask this, is it crucial to have alot of followers for this strategy to work? Because I currently have none at the moment, on a brand new twitter account after my last suspension, and ive seen only about 100 uniques so far.

@genius: No, you don't need any followers.

@George: Mass unfollow here h ttp://dossy. org/twitter/karma

(Sorry for the spaces, I only have 2 posts)

How did they manage to post to my twitter account? Is it through this plug in? Have disabled twitter posting for now till I get to teh bottom of this.

All the best

Barry

I've ran a test during the NBA final game - took my server down. The reason for that was that the twitter plugin has posted 30 tweets which on a hot trend resulted in way too many clicks at the same time. It died off quickly though as the tweets were pushed down leaving the actual stats at 50 visits.

For this model to work, I figure you need a plugin that would re-post tweets at a rate that wouldn't reach your twitter quota (whatever that is). The tweets have to be constantly at the top for people to see them - they get pushed down very quickly and blog feeds don't update often enough.

I got my isnare article script to work with Wordpress 2.8. It's posting the full articles, resource boxes and auto-creating the categories nicely. Now I need a Twitter plugin that will work with WP 2.8

Check it out here, isnare looks like they're posting 6 or 7 articles an hour.

I'm experimenting with a redirect by sending all the /category/massage/ articles to one of my Associated Content articles, but there lot's of creative things that could be done with this.

Click here to how the redirect work

PM me if you're interested in working with me on this

At least they let you know. Mine have just disappeared with no reason or notice. Course their site, cool with me

Could you go about explaining every step you went through to be getting your numbers and how long it took you to get that many uniques a day starting from scratch?

please PM me your blog url. I am in the process of creating completely automated module for this thing and would like to see how should it look like

thanks, Uncle Dimitry

Okay I tried this , but I have hundreds of duplicate posts????

Help.

Tina

STOP PLEASE STOP !!!!!!!!
You people are killing me with these great new topics and posts I cant get nothing done ......


Now my brain is all a twitter with ways to adopt this technique and I cant finish the project I was working on because all I can think about now is how this could explode my new site project into the stratosphere .

gawd I really do have to stop coming in here till I'm done with what I'm doing
note to self " find a good course on how to stay focused "

Peace

That's not actually a "problem".

How many people are you following?

Could Someone Who's Done This Successfully go through the steps?

I've tried a lot of these plugins but they all seem to have problems in one way or another...

Whats the optimium way top set this up?

Thanks.

A.

Y'know, if this doesn't work for you, then don't use this technique. I can only tell you that it works for ME.. and from what i've read it also seems to work for GeorgR. What else do you need? I can guarantee you a heavy influx of hits if you do it just the way i did. It's really not rocket science.

EDIT: by saying "do it just the way i did" i mean this: i don't use wp-o-matic, i use wp autoblog. Thats why i listed that plugin first in my original post. Just wanted to clarify this.

This works great for me, too. My coders created 100% automatic system, which does everything. It uses keywords and brings only targeted visitors and followers. 5 minutes setup will make it going on its own for years. It needs no plugins and no manual labor.

I might move that feature to paid area shortly, but meanwhile you can use it
for free. Just join the Blogomator and fill your blog and twitter in "Trends catcher" section.

Use it for free and for your own benefit

Best, Uncle Dimitry

I did this a few years ago, setting up an elaborate blog network, fed each site to Google and kicked back.

The biggest problem is lack of any substance. Most people can spot these types of things a mile away, and just close them anyway. My visitors were spending 5 seconds or less on the page, and not clicking many ads.

If someone were to do this on a larger scale, say 1000 sites or so, you could probably do pretty well if you could cover the bandwidth bill.

The key is to look as "real" as possible, and not auto generated stuff. Insertion of some Wikipedia articles or people's tweets might help legitimize it a bit.

Ok, I'm convinced. TIme to go and give it a try.

IntroducingPrologue Blog WordPress.com

I like this one.

Any tips on where to find these kinds of offers?

I have a private wordpress installation that I use to compile and control content for my whole network. I've had similar problems as what you describe, and in that case what I would try is to use Yaab to create posts in a certain category. Then I would take that feed and jam it back into another Yaab campaign set to post to another category and use THAT one with the Twitter thing.

I haven't had your exact experience, but this double-layering of Yaab has come in handy for me. Not sure if you can pull it off on a public-facing blog install though.

For anyone messing with this kind of thing (auto harvesting/posting) I highly recommend building a private, hidden WP install for controlling content from a central location. MUCH easier.

If you put AdSense on a site full of scraped content I guess Google won't be too happy.

You guys should try the setup I described earlier where you let a private, hidden WP install generate the posts and tweets, and publish the posts and direct the tweets to a separate blog, so that way the traffic load and the RSS pulling/publishing load are not tied together.

[DELETED]

I have a question? Do you create different twitter accounts for each keyword or just keep your one account?

I've been fooling around with this for a few days now... getting 20-25 followers a day and 150-200 visitors to the blog. The traffic is holding steady and not growing, so it's nowhere near the thousands that the OP and a few others are talking about. I'm not sure what part I'm missing.

In my experience, WPOM (and Yaab) both tend to bog down if you frequently publish a campaign that contains multiple feeds. And if you're using the WP Cron, every time someone hits your site, it's running that check, and pulling all those feeds.

What I was suggesting is that you have a non-public WP install with WPOM or Yaab to collect all the feeds and create your posts.

Then have your public-facing blog use WPOM or Yaab to republish ONLY that single feed, so your resources on the traffic blog should be significantly less.

Another thing you could try is setting the public-facing blog to post via email, and then have your feeder blog post to it via subscribe2 plugin. That may also take some of the load off.

I should clarify that I'm not using this method with Google Trends so I'm not getting these kinds of traffic spikes you're seeing. The suggestions I'm making are just things I've done on my own blog network - I run about 50 blogs off of a single private install the way I describe it above. It seems to keep the server load at a manageable level.

I do the OP's method not with trends keywords but with my niche keywords. It's way less traffic, but it's automated and grows those sites over time. For those not seeing the instant amazing results some posters are getting, be aware that if everyone's doing the same thing, you're all competing with each other, and the method will be less and less effective the more people try it.

Don't let that keep you from doing it - the automation part of the method is sound as can be, and can be used for ANY blog that you want to generated an automated Twitter presence. If you're posing relevant stuff regularly, you'll draw an audience for sure.

[DELETED]

[DELETED]

What are incentive offers exactly?

You can get RSS feeds from Google news also.

[DELETED]

that's correct my dear friend Jonathan

yeah I've been wondering about that - does anyone know what the URL of their feeds is? I'm sure the feed still exists... just might not have a link to it.

[DELETED]

The problem anyone trying to scale this will run into is that even though you're going with trends, everyone trying this is using the same ones, and there are only so many. Add to the there is really only a finite pool of people interested in this information, and that every other person trying this method is fighting for a thinner piece of that same pie.

I don't think it's sustainable with strictly an advertising based model for the exact reason you state.

However, with much lower, but much more TARGETED keywords and traffic, I'm finding that it's slow but steady, fully automated traffic and list building.

I uploaded the Feedwordpress and wp-omatic files to the plugins folder and unzipped them. Activated in the admin panel. The only problem is there's no configuration link for any of them. I also did each one separately thinking they were clashing with each other. Still the same. Has anybody seen this problem?

I tried YAAB and there's a config link I set up a cron job per day but I don't see any action on the site.

Does anybody have experience with these problems. :confused:

Thanks

Thanks Uncle but I am trying to figure out what my problem is and how to fix it. I'm sure your blogomator would be fine for someone else but I'm an "under the hood" type so I need to be able to implement this on my own.
Cheers

It would be good to know if it's still effective.

Would this work well with a content locker so people have to fill out a survey before viewing the content? I know people will only fill out surveys if it's something they really want access to so im wondering if it would be effective or not.