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brizzad · 10-02-2007, 12:34 PM

Is it really worth it to take the time to set up a bunch of sites for this? Does this technique still work?

I know it can depend on the niche, but how many sites would you recommend setting up for a starter's goal of $200/week?

Aequitas · 10-02-2007, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brizzad

Is it really worth it to take the time to set up a bunch of sites for this? Does this technique still work?

I know it can depend on the niche, but how many sites would you recommend setting up for a starter's goal of $200/week?

This will depend on a few factors for instance how much do you have to spend, if you want $200 a week then set up 30 sites each making you $1 per day through contextual advertising.

Then you have to figure out how much time/money you want to invest in link building and getting your site ranked so you can get traffic to that site, in order to make $1 per day you'll need about 150 to 200 unique each and every single day with proper ad placements, plus you will want longer feeds and you'll have to do research into beating Google's Smart Pricing.

P.S. A little tip is that duplicate content is a way to beat smart pricing but the content has to be related to your sites topic and it has to be a decent length so I stress full text feeds and not summaries.

brizzad · 10-02-2007, 04:03 PM

With proper link building and search engine indexing, and judging by your own personal experience, about how long does it take to reach that $1/day mark per site?

Aequitas · 10-02-2007, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brizzad

With proper link building and search engine indexing, and judging by your own personal experience, about how long does it take to reach that $1/day mark per site?

Well honestly the sites don't have to be big, nor do they have to be unique but they do have to be targeted, the only real problem with a site with no real unique content is they are hard to get indexed.

Have a look at one of my sites Hannah Montana that site has no unique content, its been up for just over a month and is not indexed in Google but averages 100 unique per day just from type in traffic from video submissions to YouTube, the audince are girls who like to chat and my return visitor count increases each and every day.

This particular site only makes about .50 cents per day and takes less then 2 minutes to update each week so .50 cents per day for 2 minutes of work per week isn't bad, you scale that up and your making decent cash for sites not even indexed.

How long is a real tough question, if you have a strong link building campaign and you can get your sites indexed for longer tail terms (A couple of them) which will eventually add up your traffic to get to that $1 per day mark it can take anywhere from 1 month to 6 months (Assuming your only waiting to get indexed).

If your paying for your traffic then your basically doing the new age arbitrage model and traffic will come a lot faster but with this model requires constant monitoring, you can take traffic from the 2nd tier and 3rd tier search engines you'll get cheap traffic but if it converts you only need to break a profit, for instance if you pay 5 cents for a visitor lets hope that click is worth more then 5 cents but also remembering your not going to have a 100% CTR, to be safe average your CTR to around 30%.

Its all about the math per time when doing this, you can do your math 100% correct but if you don't take into account the time required to pull it off you'll get frustrated after 1 month and not hitting your goal and give up.

Tip: No matter what happens don't ever give up. Let me rephrase that to something more strict. DONT EVER FUCKING GIVE UP.

Ok this may be a bit confusing cause its coming out of my head and my thoughts get twisted most times so I'll try to clean some things up.

Lets say you have an initial budget of $500 and you want to earn $200 per week, what you can do is spend $300 to buy 30 domains (Don't jump the gun here), and use the other $200 for traffic and some link building.

Now when you reach your goal of $200 per week the $500 initial investment will be very small on your part and you can use any additional cash to scale from there.

The time factor with this type of thing is something most don't talk about but if your going to do it right you'll have to spend your pre-research, this means you have to research each niche for each of the 30 sites, for each niche you'll have to research longer tail terms with almost no competition but with the highest search volume, every once and awhile you'll find some Gem terms by doing your research before buying your domain names.

I'll stop there but to put it simply if you have a good model you can earn that inside of 3 months assuming your aim for traffic is on the search engines, paid traffic is a bit more tricky but you'll get much faster returns.

Its an art and in order to capture that art you have to take time. Everything above is assuming you can code, design, and SEO your own sites (I do it all on my own it took me a long time to learn everything but it also saves me tons of cash, plus the skills gained earn me cash).

If this seems like too much and you consider yourself to be confident and have half a brain try looking into membership subscription sites, something you can charge $30 per month for, think about user generated content, think Friend Finder, Think Dating Sites, Think FaceBook, Think MySpace, then think of a niche that people will pay money for, will you charge them this fee for a service or to provide them content.

This is what I do now I don't really do any of the scaling tons of sites anymore I focus on stable longer term goals which continue to earn me money each and every month. If you can build your own sites, SEO them, and Design them yourself and you can do your niche research then you can easily think up a working membership model type of website which is more of a stable income.

Scaling sites can be a stable income but there are lots of factors these days which inflluence there success or failure.

I'll stop there cause I might as well just write a book on the subject. Ask questions if you want I'll try to keep my responses shorter then this one.

brizzad · 10-02-2007, 10:14 PM

That was an amazing post and more than answered any questions I had. Thanks so much

springer · 10-02-2007, 10:28 PM

Aequitas,

Do you have to put those videos in manually or do they come with the feeds? Is there a plug-in for the videos or will they work OK just being inserted into a post?

Thanks!

Aequitas · 10-03-2007, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by springer

Aequitas,

Do you have to put those videos in manually or do they come with the feeds? Is there a plug-in for the videos or will they work OK just being inserted into a post?

Thanks!

For the particular site I've used as an example that one was all done manually, the initial start up time took a little longer (A Full Day) to catch up on the content, videos, seasons, wallpaper, ect...

I'm using wordpress and i don't like using plugins to really host or add my videos unless they are my own plugins but the #1 rule when adding videos by hand and using wordpress is to disable the WYSIWYG editor, under My Profile or My Account link in the top right hand side of your admin account.

The reason for this is because the WYSIWYG editor in wordpress will mess with embed codes (I.E. Videos) all editors like that mess with your code, unfortunately wordpress fucks up the code and your videos won't play so disable that function, take the time to learn a bit of XHTML if you have to and then toss it up.

Basically when I do things manually I try to do as much as physically possible in the first day then after that I slow down and add content as needed (Mostly when the traffic takes a slight dive is when you should post new content). That way they come back for more.

razorboy · 10-05-2007, 08:04 AM

you should re-title this thread............how to quit your job on 50 cents a day (sounds like the title of an ebook)

bam bam · 10-10-2007, 06:28 AM

I have one blog setup which Scrapes Google Blog Search results for certain keywords, Google news, yahoo news and a few well known blog sites.
I put some Adsense in there and left it running (i ping it with Pingoat every few days)

At the minute i'm making about $6-$8 per day from it and its only been around for about 3 weeks.

In my noobish mind i'm doing pretty fucking good!

I'm going to set up around 3 - 5 more in the next few days and see how they perform.

Oh and i haven't SEO'd it or used any kind of Traffic buying / PPC!

Aequitas · 10-10-2007, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

I have one blog setup which Scrapes Google Blog Search results for certain keywords, Google news, yahoo news and a few well known blog sites.
I put some Adsense in there and left it running (i ping it with Pingoat every few days)

At the minute i'm making about $6-$8 per day from it and its only been around for about 3 weeks.

In my noobish mind i'm doing pretty fucking good!

I'm going to set up around 3 - 5 more in the next few days and see how they perform.

Oh and i haven't SEO'd it or used any kind of Traffic buying / PPC!

Excellent Work man, you have found a profitable niche now just try to scale that shit up to 10 sites and your making a steady $60 to $80 per day which works into $1800 To $2400 a month.

I'd say thats good for a noob.

trentiles · 10-10-2007, 03:33 PM

Lots of good info in this thread! Now I just need to light a fire under my ass and get moving on things.

springer · 10-11-2007, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aequitas

For the particular site I've used as an example that one was all done manually, the initial start up time took a little longer (A Full Day) to catch up on the content, videos, seasons, wallpaper, ect...

I'm using wordpress and i don't like using plugins to really host or add my videos unless they are my own plugins but the #1 rule when adding videos by hand and using wordpress is to disable the WYSIWYG editor, under My Profile or My Account link in the top right hand side of your admin account.

The reason for this is because the WYSIWYG editor in wordpress will mess with embed codes (I.E. Videos) all editors like that mess with your code, unfortunately wordpress fucks up the code and your videos won't play so disable that function, take the time to learn a bit of XHTML if you have to and then toss it up.

Basically when I do things manually I try to do as much as physically possible in the first day then after that I slow down and add content as needed (Mostly when the traffic takes a slight dive is when you should post new content). That way they come back for more.

Thanks for the answer.

I have a plug in that enables posting videos to WP from several video hosting sites but, it's not automatic. Want a copy to see if you can make it post them via RSS? If you can, you can give a copy back, then sell it.

-------------(my fake sig)---------------

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You're both a bunch of fucking idiots

bam bam · 10-11-2007, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aequitas

Excellent Work man, you have found a profitable niche now just try to scale that shit up to 10 sites and your making a steady $60 to $80 per day which works into $1800 To $2400 a month.

I'd say thats good for a noob.

Cheers dude.

Do you think i should stick with the same Niche or try something else and see how it works out?

Aequitas · 10-11-2007, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

Cheers dude.

Do you think i should stick with the same Niche or try something else and see how it works out?

I would very the niches just so your not competing against yourself after you dominate the one your in.

Aequitas · 10-11-2007, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by springer

Thanks for the answer.

I have a plug in that enables posting videos to WP from several video hosting sites but, it's not automatic. Want a copy to see if you can make it post them via RSS? If you can, you can give a copy back, then sell it.

-------------(my fake sig)---------------

haha send it over and I'll have a look at it.

badboyant · 10-11-2007, 02:36 PM

Hey Aequitas, I would like to have a word with you via IM if possible. its about splogpress and also a few other video plugins/scripts which I have which I think could be put to better use by you. Have tried to add you via IM. Hope you get my invite. (Using Pidgin)

bam bam · 10-15-2007, 05:38 AM

I'm finally going to break the $100 mark today, it's a big moment for me!

I would like to thank God, my mum, my dad, my friends.... *sobs*

FUCK YEAH!

bam bam · 10-15-2007, 06:04 PM

Today is a good day.

I now have 7 RSS Scrape & Blog sites working, should start to see some better results soon!

trentiles · 10-16-2007, 09:13 AM

bam bam, what type of promotion are you doing to get traffic to your blog pages?

Vic · 10-16-2007, 10:09 AM

bam bam, that's awesome, bud. Who'da thunk that scraping and autoposting would still work?

Well, maybe you guys did, but I thought that crap was DEAD.

Vic

bam bam · 10-16-2007, 11:14 AM

Yo, all i do is create a site, submit it to Eli's QUIT tool and ping it with Pingoat every now and then. I think i've found a really good niche with this one, so it might be a one off thing. My others are perforing that well at all.

So i might have just got lucky this time. Lets hope not!

bam bam · 10-22-2007, 11:21 AM

CLICK ME BITCH!

OK, so if anyone still wants to give this a try, here's my wordpress stuff for you to use. I used Eli's custom install and added some plugins, themes and tweaked the auto blog plugin.

This one won't unzip into its own directory so make sure you create one first. I'd suggest using Sub Domains as apposed to Sub Directories.

i.e. create the Sub Directory "Niche.example.com" and upload the zip file to the Niche root.

Create a new database for the install and add a user with full permissions to it.

Extract the Zip file and edit the wp-config-sample.php to reflect the new user and database.

Then run the install and you've got yourself a shiny new Wordpress install complete with a mountain of themes and plugins.

From there you just have to activate the plugins and play around with the options.
Let me know how it goes!

Red_Virus · 10-24-2007, 02:21 AM

Hi Bam Bam, thanks so much for sharing this, I will be working on this one now

tweak50 · 10-24-2007, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

CLICK ME BITCH!

OK, so if anyone still wants to give this a try, here's my wordpress stuff for you to use. I used Eli's custom install and added some plugins, themes and tweaked the auto blog plugin.

This one won't unzip into its own directory so make sure you create one first. I'd suggest using Sub Domains as apposed to Sub Directories.

i.e. create the Sub Directory "Niche.example.com" and upload the zip file to the Niche root.

Create a new database for the install and add a user with full permissions to it.

Extract the Zip file and edit the wp-config-sample.php to reflect the new user and database.

Then run the install and you've got yourself a shiny new Wordpress install complete with a mountain of themes and plugins.

From there you just have to activate the plugins and play around with the options.
Let me know how it goes!

What tools are you using to automate your blogs?

bam bam · 10-25-2007, 04:58 AM

In that Zip you've got wp-autoblog and wp-o-matic, enjoy!

tweak50 · 10-25-2007, 10:22 AM

Well I'd like to say thanks, after about 2 months of lurking these forums I'm just gonna say fuck it and give this a try!

JPJedi · 10-25-2007, 11:06 AM

Bam - Thanks for the zip. I have downloaded it and it looks like it will be very helpful. I will let you all know how it goes once I play with it tonight.

bam bam · 10-25-2007, 11:50 AM

No problem

Red_Virus · 10-26-2007, 05:42 AM

Hi Bam Bam,
I just installed the latest v2.3 of wp on my blog & used the wpomatic plugn provided by you.

When I activate the wp-o-matic plugin, I get the following error.

PHP Code:


			
WordPress database error: [Table 'anyamtab_auto.wp_wpo_campaign' doesnt exist]
            SELECT * FROM `wp_wpo_campaign` WHERE 1 = 1 AND (frequency + lastactive) < NOW() ORDER BY created_on DESC

But I just cannot make it work & I am getting the f

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

No problem

bam bam · 10-26-2007, 06:14 AM

hmmm, i think its not installed correctly. Try deleting it from the Plugins folder and downloading it again from here - http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-o-matic.zip

Then follow the standard WP Plugin installation stuff and let me know how it goes.

Red_Virus · 10-26-2007, 12:27 PM

I have just sent you a pm for help.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

hmmm, i think its not installed correctly. Try deleting it from the Plugins folder and downloading it again from here - http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-o-matic.zip

Then follow the standard WP Plugin installation stuff and let me know how it goes.

Dave_IL · 10-26-2007, 01:39 PM

A lot of plugins broke with 2.3 release... you might want to check on compatability issues

lazyleo · 10-27-2007, 04:43 AM

2.3.1 is out you may want to try now many plug ins working now

emp · 10-27-2007, 05:09 AM

Wp-o-matic works fine for me.
I just uploaded the plugin to a fresh WP install though.
(One click install, me is too lazy for anything else)

::emp::

emp · 10-27-2007, 05:12 AM

Some rss directories (I am sure there are better ones out there, feel free to share)

RSS Network
2RSS.com :: RSS feeds, directory, software, scripts, articles, syndication, RDF, news, & more
RSS Feeds, Directory for XML / RSS related data
FeedPlex
Search4RSS >> Welcome
Syndic8.com - Welcome to Syndic8.com - RSS Feeds, Atom Feeds

::emp::

powell1 · 10-27-2007, 05:08 PM

does anyone use the blog solution or rss 2 blog for any of their auto blogging?

parushing · 10-27-2007, 05:57 PM

I use rss2blog for certain things. I am trying it with a MU install now I will
let you know how it goes!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by powell1

does anyone use the blog solution or rss 2 blog for any of their auto blogging?

LazyHippy · 10-27-2007, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emp

Some rss directories (I am sure there are better ones out there, feel free to share)

RSS Network
2RSS.com :: RSS feeds, directory, software, scripts, articles, syndication, RDF, news, & more
RSS Feeds, Directory for XML / RSS related data
FeedPlex
Search4RSS >> Welcome
Syndic8.com - Welcome to Syndic8.com - RSS Feeds, Atom Feeds

::emp::

Haha!! Eli mentioned Syndic8 for feeds and I thought it was a typo!!

Login

Aequitas · 10-27-2007, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powell1

does anyone use the blog solution or rss 2 blog for any of their auto blogging?

I use the untimate plugin known as Splogpress haha and no you all can't have it yet cause its not done but so far I can generate any amount of subdomains as I want at a click of a button and add any amount of rss feeds and posts at the click of a button.

Now just need to target things and tweak some core MU files, I'll keep you all updated.

vitalize · 10-28-2007, 02:50 AM

Would this still work, get traffic if i was to use the one domain and just create sub directories for each niche. e.g celebrities.eblogging.com, randomniche.eblogging.com (not my domain, just an example)

or would you recommend a new domain for each niche?

Aequitas · 10-28-2007, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vitalize

Would this still work, get traffic if i was to use the one domain and just create sub directories for each niche. e.g celebrities.eblogging.com, randomniche.eblogging.com (not my domain, just an example)

or would you recommend a new domain for each niche?

I would say get super creative but still try to stay somewhat on topic, for instance try to go a bit broader of a niche like blogging instead of wordpress, then you can have domains about all types of blogging like blogging.wordpress.com ect.. but this also brings the challenge of finding a proper domain for it.

Basically its all about getting as much pages indexed as possible and getting the most click possible while having enough content on your site to get around Google's Smart Ad System.

bam bam · 10-29-2007, 07:13 AM

I've used a script from the Squirt forum to search for blog posts in Google, Technorati, MSN and Blog Pulse.

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';

$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>';

$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>';

$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';

?>

All you have to do is create a .txt file in the same folder as the above script with a keyword on each line and run it.

It's not optimised in ANY way, i'm a total newb at PHP, but it works well so i'm gonna sleep happy at night.

Hope it helps.

Bam

emp · 10-29-2007, 07:54 AM

Introducing this line to have the application wait a few secs before another kw, so you dont have the Google anti-bot system kick you out:

sleep(rand(2, 15));

::emp::

SCapitalist · 10-30-2007, 12:04 AM

This is an excellent thread! EXACTLY what I was searching for...

People were asking about rss2blog, anyone have any feedback? Looks promising, would really appreciate any thoughts or alternatives to research

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 03:10 AM

emp: it doesn't contact Google as such, it just replaces . $keyword . with one of the kw from the list.

Should i still add it?

emp · 10-30-2007, 05:18 AM

Should have looked at it more closely....

So it just outputs a bunch of search-adresses with the keywords in them?
The I can use that list to search?

::emp::

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 07:07 AM

once its generated it will look like this - http://thegeekyblog.com/keywords/keyword.php

Then you can copy and paste that list into wp-autoblog and generate an Uber amount of posts.

emp · 10-30-2007, 09:06 AM

Damn, me stupid.

Damn fine script. +rep
::emp::

emp · 10-30-2007, 09:07 AM

Stupid double post bc. of tabs.

Nothing to see here, please move on.
::emp::

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 09:40 AM

lol, cheers dude.

10-02-2007, 12:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
brizzad Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 63 iTrader: 0 / 0%	rss scraping and 'auto blogging' Is it really worth it to take the time to set up a bunch of sites for this? Does this technique still work? I know it can depend on the niche, but how many sites would you recommend setting up for a starter's goal of $200/week?

10-02-2007, 10:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
springer I AM the shit! Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 700 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Aequitas, Do you have to put those videos in manually or do they come with the feeds? Is there a plug-in for the videos or will they work OK just being inserted into a post? Thanks! __________________ I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings!

10-22-2007, 11:21 AM	#22 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Wordpress Install CLICK ME BITCH! OK, so if anyone still wants to give this a try, here's my wordpress stuff for you to use. I used Eli's custom install and added some plugins, themes and tweaked the auto blog plugin. This one won't unzip into its own directory so make sure you create one first. I'd suggest using Sub Domains as apposed to Sub Directories. i.e. create the Sub Directory "Niche.example.com" and upload the zip file to the Niche root. Create a new database for the install and add a user with full permissions to it. Extract the Zip file and edit the wp-config-sample.php to reflect the new user and database. Then run the install and you've got yourself a shiny new Wordpress install complete with a mountain of themes and plugins. From there you just have to activate the plugins and play around with the options. Let me know how it goes!

10-25-2007, 11:06 AM	#27 (permalink)
JPJedi Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: GA Posts: 208 iTrader: 1 / 67%	Bam - Thanks for the zip. I have downloaded it and it looks like it will be very helpful. I will let you all know how it goes once I play with it tonight. __________________ JPJedi

10-27-2007, 04:43 AM	#33 (permalink)
lazyleo Fucking LAZY Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 192 iTrader: 1 / 100%	2.3.1 is out you may want to try now many plug ins working now __________________ Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

10-02-2007, 04:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
brizzad Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 63 iTrader: 0 / 0%	With proper link building and search engine indexing, and judging by your own personal experience, about how long does it take to reach that $1/day mark per site?

10-02-2007, 10:14 PM	#5 (permalink)
brizzad Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 63 iTrader: 0 / 0%	That was an amazing post and more than answered any questions I had. Thanks so much

10-05-2007, 08:04 AM	#8 (permalink)
razorboy Underworld Overlord Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 39 iTrader: 0 / 0%	you should re-title this thread............how to quit your job on 50 cents a day (sounds like the title of an ebook)

10-10-2007, 06:28 AM	#9 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	I have one blog setup which Scrapes Google Blog Search results for certain keywords, Google news, yahoo news and a few well known blog sites. I put some Adsense in there and left it running (i ping it with Pingoat every few days) At the minute i'm making about $6-$8 per day from it and its only been around for about 3 weeks. In my noobish mind i'm doing pretty fucking good! I'm going to set up around 3 - 5 more in the next few days and see how they perform. Oh and i haven't SEO'd it or used any kind of Traffic buying / PPC!

10-10-2007, 03:33 PM	#11 (permalink)
trentiles Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Washington DC Posts: 26 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Lots of good info in this thread! Now I just need to light a fire under my ass and get moving on things.

10-11-2007, 02:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
badboyant Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 10 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Hey Aequitas, I would like to have a word with you via IM if possible. its about splogpress and also a few other video plugins/scripts which I have which I think could be put to better use by you. Have tried to add you via IM. Hope you get my invite. (Using Pidgin)

10-15-2007, 05:38 AM	#17 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	I'm finally going to break the $100 mark today, it's a big moment for me! I would like to thank God, my mum, my dad, my friends.... sobs FUCK YEAH!

10-15-2007, 06:04 PM	#18 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Today is a good day. I now have 7 RSS Scrape & Blog sites working, should start to see some better results soon!

10-16-2007, 09:13 AM	#19 (permalink)
trentiles Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Washington DC Posts: 26 iTrader: 1 / 100%	bam bam, what type of promotion are you doing to get traffic to your blog pages?

10-16-2007, 10:09 AM	#20 (permalink)
Vic Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 iTrader: 0 / 0%	bam bam, that's awesome, bud. Who'da thunk that scraping and autoposting would still work? Well, maybe you guys did, but I thought that crap was DEAD. Vic

10-16-2007, 11:14 AM	#21 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Yo, all i do is create a site, submit it to Eli's QUIT tool and ping it with Pingoat every now and then. I think i've found a really good niche with this one, so it might be a one off thing. My others are perforing that well at all. So i might have just got lucky this time. Lets hope not!

10-24-2007, 02:21 AM	#23 (permalink)
Red_Virus Social Bookmarking Ninja Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,524 iTrader: 263 / 100%	Hi Bam Bam, thanks so much for sharing this, I will be working on this one now

10-25-2007, 04:58 AM	#25 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	In that Zip you've got wp-autoblog and wp-o-matic, enjoy!

10-25-2007, 10:22 AM	#26 (permalink)
tweak50 .NET/PHP dabbler Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 407 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Well I'd like to say thanks, after about 2 months of lurking these forums I'm just gonna say fuck it and give this a try!

10-25-2007, 11:50 AM	#28 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	No problem

10-26-2007, 06:14 AM	#30 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	hmmm, i think its not installed correctly. Try deleting it from the Plugins folder and downloading it again from here - http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-o-matic.zip Then follow the standard WP Plugin installation stuff and let me know how it goes.

10-26-2007, 01:39 PM	#32 (permalink)
Dave_IL Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Lockport, IL Posts: 42 iTrader: 4 / 100%	A lot of plugins broke with 2.3 release... you might want to check on compatability issues

10-27-2007, 05:09 AM	#34 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Wp-o-matic works fine for me. I just uploaded the plugin to a fresh WP install though. (One click install, me is too lazy for anything else) ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-27-2007, 05:12 AM	#35 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Some rss directories (I am sure there are better ones out there, feel free to share) RSS Network 2RSS.com :: RSS feeds, directory, software, scripts, articles, syndication, RDF, news, & more RSS Feeds, Directory for XML / RSS related data FeedPlex Search4RSS >> Welcome Syndic8.com - Welcome to Syndic8.com - RSS Feeds, Atom Feeds ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-27-2007, 05:08 PM	#36 (permalink)
powell1 RTFM Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 211 iTrader: 1 / 100%	does anyone use the blog solution or rss 2 blog for any of their auto blogging?

10-28-2007, 02:50 AM	#40 (permalink)
vitalize Self Props Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Would this still work, get traffic if i was to use the one domain and just create sub directories for each niche. e.g celebrities.eblogging.com, randomniche.eblogging.com (not my domain, just an example) or would you recommend a new domain for each niche?

10-29-2007, 07:13 AM	#42 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	I've used a script from the Squirt forum to search for blog posts in Google, Technorati, MSN and Blog Pulse. PHP Code: <?php $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); $keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>'; $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>'; $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>'; $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); $keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>'; ?> All you have to do is create a .txt file in the same folder as the above script with a keyword on each line and run it. It's not optimised in ANY way, i'm a total newb at PHP, but it works well so i'm gonna sleep happy at night. Hope it helps. Bam

10-29-2007, 07:54 AM	#43 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Introducing this line to have the application wait a few secs before another kw, so you dont have the Google anti-bot system kick you out: sleep(rand(2, 15)); ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-30-2007, 12:04 AM	#44 (permalink)
SCapitalist Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 21 iTrader: 0 / 0%	This is an excellent thread! EXACTLY what I was searching for... People were asking about rss2blog, anyone have any feedback? Looks promising, would really appreciate any thoughts or alternatives to research

10-30-2007, 03:10 AM	#45 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	emp: it doesn't contact Google as such, it just replaces . $keyword . with one of the kw from the list. Should i still add it?

10-30-2007, 05:18 AM	#46 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Should have looked at it more closely.... So it just outputs a bunch of search-adresses with the keywords in them? The I can use that list to search? ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-30-2007, 07:07 AM	#47 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	once its generated it will look like this - http://thegeekyblog.com/keywords/keyword.php Then you can copy and paste that list into wp-autoblog and generate an Uber amount of posts.

10-30-2007, 09:06 AM	#48 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Damn, me stupid. Damn fine script. +rep ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-30-2007, 09:07 AM	#49 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,067 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Stupid double post bc. of tabs. Nothing to see here, please move on. ::emp:: __________________ "We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles

10-30-2007, 09:40 AM	#50 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 904 iTrader: 8 / 100%	lol, cheers dude.