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WP Robot Review: Automate Affiliate Content Posting

Jason Oconner — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:47:35 +0000

This is my review of the WP Robot Wordpress plugin that can be used to automate affiliate content and posting to your blog. You can also use this plugin to enhance building a Wordpress Affiliate Store. Disclosure: If you buy WP Robot by clicking on the banner above, or the link at the end of this article – I will make a commission for referring you. It’s nice to make a little extra money for all this free information and content I give away – this blog takes hundreds of hours to maintain, and when you buy through me it validates I gave you a good review and my content is useful to those of you trying to earn money online. In addition – I actually use WP Robot, it’s a great product.

WP Robot is a Wordpress plugin that has features no other plugin (I’ve seen so far) has. It’s main function is to “autopost” content to your blog so you don’t have to. To many (including me) that spells one thing: SPAM. I’m going to show you how I use WP Robot as a legitimate way to monetize my blogs, create new content, and augment my affiliate stores.

First of all – don’t make me tell you (again) that I don’t believe in blogs and sites that have nothing but affiliate links – and no real content that provides value to anyone. I mean, if you want to setup a wordpress blog or web site with nothing but affiliate links and just push PPC (adwords) traffic to it all day long – more power to you. In that case, you won’t care if you’re ranked in search engines or not. While I do manage adwords campaigns for my clients, most of my time with my own wordpress affiliate stores is spent building authority to rank for targeted organic search terms. To do this, and do it well – you need a quality site with quality content that provides real value to visitors and that doesn’t come off as spammy. If you just installed WP Robot out of the box and started autoposting stuff – you would have created an instant spam site.

What WP ROBOT does

Before I go any further – here’s a list of features this plugin can provide (I think you’ll find it MOST impressive):

autoposting in “draft” or “published” status
randomization of post creation times
automatic tag creation (you can turn this off)
add Amazon products with affiliate links automatically
post reviews for amazon products as post “comments”
ability to post all products in specific amazon categories
create post content from one of two article directories
pull and post items from clickbank with affiliate links
pull products from eBay and embed RSS feed in posts with affiliate links
pull and post content from Yahoo answers (any country)
pull and post content from YouTube by keyword
post YouTube comments as post comments
pull items from flickr based on keyword
translate any created posts into 9 different languages
automated link cloaking
ability to post content from Yahoo news
ability to backdate and schedule posts
ability to publish content from any RSS feed

Choose How Much WP Robot Does

Another unique feature of WP Robot is it’s modular nature. The base core plugin manages keywords (which I’ll explain in the next section). The free version of WP Robot manages 20 keywords, the advanced version manages 50 keywords ($15), and the elite version manages unlimited keywords ($30). Once you have a “core” – you can add “modules”. Add the “amazon module” for $40. Add the YouTube module for $15. You can mix and match modules to make the plugin do as much (or as little) as you want. You can get it all with the elite version for $169 (currently you can get $20 off elite with the keyword “robots” at checkout), or you could just get the free core and YouTube module for only $15!

WP Robot has options Galore

Here’s the general options for WP Robot. You can choose from draft or published posts, how many hours between random posts, and tagging options.

These are the WP Robot Amazon options, and there are lots of choices here such as broad or exact match, the number of words to get from the description, you can skip products if there’s no description or picture, and even control the posting “template”.

These options are for adding articles from either Articlesbase or Sooperarticles, and Clickbank. You can control the template for either, and choose to filter ads from Clickbank items.

This option is for adding eBay items where you can control country, language, whether or not to add RSS feeds (or hardcode the auctions), and the template for posting the eBay items as well.

With Yahoo answers content you can choose to leave the attribution link back to Yahoo (or not), which country, and the template for posting questions.

With the YouTube and Flickr modules you can control, language, video size, templates, images size, content type, and relevance.

The last options available are for translation. You can not only choose what to translate (auctions, amazon items, articles, etc.), you can choose to only translate post titles if you want, and you can translate any post into 3 additional languages. This is a great feature for multilingual or multicultural sites.

How does WP Robot work?

Well, now that you’ve seen all the features and modules that you can use – it’s time to see how this whole thing works. You enter keywords into WP Robot, and setup options for each keyword.

This is the entry box for adding keywords. Chose a keyword, and “category” are your wordpress categories. Choose how often to post (in days or hours), and what to post. The options you have available are the modules you have installed. You can choose one (or all) available items to create posts for. If you choose more than one option for keyword, WP Robot will choose an item randomly based on the “probabilities” you entered in another setup screen – where you choose what percentage of the time to use each item. The items in the third column are specific catetgories and departments for Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo Answers.

Once you have entered keywords they are listed in the main plugin admin, showing what category they are posting to, how many posts have been created with what modules, and when the next post is scheduled for. By adding in multiple keywords drawing content and affiliate items from multiple areas – posting in multiple categories, you can build up content in a Wordpress blog pretty quickly.

What About Duplicate Content and Spam?

I know, now you’re drooling at the mouth from all these features, but you remember what I said earlier about a “spam” site – don’t you? You should, don’t buy this plugin and create yet another useless garbage site. Also – don’t buy it, put it on auto-pilot, and expect to be the next online millionaire automatically either. If you autopost everything you’ll probably get deindexed by google and get no where.

Here are some rules for success that I follow with this plugin:

Set all auto-posts to “draft” status on creation
don’t auto-create tags
don’t publish anything with this plugin without 2-3 paragraphs (100-500 words) of your own original content
don’t be afraid to add additional content to posts (add say YouTube video by hand to an amazon post
post a mixture of both content and products
not all posts have to be monetized
post something original you wrote each week (not generated by WP Robot at all
build backlinks and authority to your site slowly
create supporting “pages” in your wordpress site (that aren’t posts) with rich original content
never use the auto-created title, write your own for each autopost

Conclusion

I can’t imagine anyone that wouldn’t benefit from this wonderful plugin. Just make sure you use it, and don’t abuse it! Like I said, you can buy as few or as many modules as you want – so you can’t say that this isn’t affordable, and you can use it for monetization OR content building purposes!

Even though this is billed as an “autoposting” plugin, I can honestly say that’s not why I wanted to use it. I set my keywords to create one post per day – and then I know I have to go and rewrite and “publish” them. I don’t have to find products to review anymore, or come up with content ideas AT ALL! I just login to my dashboard, go to my “drafts” – and there they are just waiting for me! Some days it took as long (or longer) to find something to write and blog about – as it did to write and monetize a post! Now – I don’t have to worry about that anymore! I hope you enjoy this plugin as much as I do!

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Creating Residual Income Opportunities In Real Estate.

Jason Oconner — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:03:56 +0000

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Freedom Lifestyle Income Program.

Jason Oconner — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:37:18 +0000

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Social Media Marketing With Social Bookmarking Sites – Build Links For Free

Jason Oconner — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:34:54 +0000

You’ve probably heard the buzz about social media marketing (SMM). One of the components of SMM is social bookmarking. With the right advice and the right strategy, you can use social bookmarking to boost links to your company site and increase your site’s relevance for the keywords that pertain to your business.The Opportunities in Social Bookmarking
Inbound links to your website are tremendously important to your search engine ranking. In fact, most search engine marketing experts believe that Google’s ranking algorithm is weighted far more heavily towards links than it is to keywords.
SMM offers many ways to generate these links for little or no cost – articles, social media sites and blogs are just a few examples. Social bookmarking is another.
With bookmarking, you save bookmarks to blog posts, articles and web pages (including your own). You tag them with a “keyword” of your own choosing (preferably related to your business). You can then add a “tag cloud” to your website. The tag cloud contains the tags you have created and directs users to the bookmarks you have saved for that tag.
What is the benefit for your business? Each bookmark links to your website or blog. With tag clouds, each keyword appears on your site, increasing the site’s relevance. Between the bookmarking site and the tag cloud on your website, you have a really great cross-promotional tool that opens up myriad opportunities for people to find you.
Consider the website of a Toronto marketing firm. They have a tag cloud with words like Toronto, search marketing, social media, blogging and so on. Each time someone visits their site, that person can click a tag and find the company’s bookmarks. They can then share those bookmarks with other users, which will point those users back to the marketing firm’s site.
Going in the other direction, people searching a bookmarking site may find the marketing firm’s bookmarks. Seeing that the company has posted some interesting and valuable articles on online marketing, they decide to visit the company’s site and add it to their social bookmarking network.The Challenges of Social Bookmarking for Businesses
Like any kind of social media marketing, social bookmarking is low-cost, at least in terms of money. Where the “costs” escalate is in time. To do social bookmarking right, you need time to evaluate the various sites, add your bookmarks, comment on them, and interact with other users who share your interests. It is a big job.
Let’s look at the first step – deciding which sites to use. If you do a search for the top social bookmarking sites, you’ll get a huge list, like the one published on ebizMBA. So which ones do you choose? Delicious is one of the biggest, but would it be better to go for a smaller site, like furl or faves.com? Is it better to use all three, plus some social news sites, like Digg or Reddit?
Once you have made that decision, you need to decide how and when you will create the content you want to bookmark. Blogs, articles – what is the right amount of content and how often do you need to create it? You can really only answer that question by looking at social bookmarking as part of your overall social media marketing plan.Answers to Your Social Media Marketing Questions
Social bookmarking and social media marketing are powerful marketing tools. To make the most of them you need to devote a lot of attention to the sites and create content regularly. You also need a comprehensive social media marketing plan that incorporates all of your content initiatives and your efforts to create bookmarks that direct people to that content.
A marketing agency that specializes in SMM can get you started. They can help you navigate the sites, schedule your content and get involved in the social media sphere. Even if you just sign on for a short-term contract to get started, you will find the SMM firm an invaluable partner in your “new media” marketing plans.

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Article Marketing Strategies: Discover Top 7 Article Promotion Tips To Make Minimum $100 A Day

Jason Oconner — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:30:30 +0000

Article marketing strategies may vary from one article marketer to another. But there are proven ways to make $100 a day just from free article promotion. So read on to find out tip 7 tips to start making money online through article marketing just today.

Article Marketing Strategies: Top 7 Tips To Make Minimum $100 A Day:

1.   Write Clear And Concise Content.

This is the first important step to successful article marketing. Keep your articles to the point offering fast solutions. Your readers are always in hurry and want to read concrete, necessary tips.

Tip:

Give really valuable information in each your article to gain expert status in the eyes of your readers.

2.   Answer To People’s Questions In Your Articles.

Your each article should a useful guide answering to a few questions that your niche consumers’ might have in their mind. So it would be better to write articles in Q&A style. Practice shows that this type of articles convert better and you will really notice how the CTR of your resource box has increased.

Tip:

Include a few questions as a subtitle in your article to have a more professional article format.

3.   Focus On Promoting Your Articles Only On A Few Top Directories.

From my own experience, I know that articles written daily should be immediately submitted without any delay. Otherwise, those high quality articles collected on your PC are useless.

I understand, it is hard to submit your articles to top 10 or 50 sites every day. So it would be smarter to publish your content only on to 3-5 article directories.

Tip:

Submit your each article to top 3 directories like ezinearticles, articlesbase and goarticles.

4.   Submit Your Content To Niche Article Directories To Get Highly Targeted Traffic.

As you know, it is important to generate targeted traffic to your sites. The more targeted your traffic the more sales you will make. So certainly consider a few niche directories to publish your articles on them too.

Tip:

To find niche article submission sites just search for “your niche + article directories” in Google.

5.   Send Your Articles To Ezine Publishers.

I’ve tried this method and this works not worse than article marketing. Ezine marketing can earn you thousands of dollars literally in a few days if properly done. It is at your choice to choose free or paid ezine marketing.

Tip:

Go to ezine directories and send email each publisher about your offer regarding unique content delivery to the ezine on a monthly basis.

6.   Create A Strong Call-To-Action Resource Box.

This article marketing strategy should be also seriously taken into consideration by every article marketer. Professional article promotion cannot be imagined without a strong, intriguing resource box. Why? – Because all your success, especially the amount of sales directly depends on how better your article resource box converts.

Tip:

Call to action your readers by offering them to download paid product for free or note intriguing fact or reason why they should click your site link.

7.   Create PDF Reports From Your Articles.

This is another technique to leverage your article marketing. Many gurus often use this method to benefit of their previous content again and again. So you try too. You can sell or give away these reports.

Tip:

Collect a few of your best articles and compile them into a useful PDF Guide with Attractive Name.

Conclusion:

The only secret of successful article promotion is the above-mentioned 7 article marketing strategies. So put them in action just today to become a successful marketer.

Why Publish an Ezine?

Jason Oconner — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:25:37 +0000

Why Publish an eZine?

On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter.

In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a periodical basis.

As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an ordinary individual.

In other words, you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.

Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and broadcast feature to go with, enabling you to reach out to your massive subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.

All in all, if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.

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RSS: The Wave Of The Future For Ezine Publishing

Jason Oconner — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:00:25 +0000

A powerful innovation, known as RSS or really simple
syndication, is destined to revolutionize the way ezines are
delivered to their subscribers.

In fact, Microsoft’s plans to add RSS to the new version of
their Internet Explorer and Longhorn operating system means that
RSS will become mainstream very soon.

How can publishing your ezine in RSS profit you?

By using RSS to publish your ezine, you’ll be able to completely
bypass the email filters that cause many ezines to lose their
profitability.

You’ll also be able to have complete control over your ezine’s
content, making your messages much more effective because you
won’t have to worry about your ezine getting blocked.

In addition, you’ll never lose subscribers due to them changing
email addresses.

As long as your readers continue to subscribe to your feed,
they’ll continue to get your RSS ezine, regardless of which
email they use.

Now, the key to creating a successful RSS ezine is providing
your readers with valuable content.

First and foremost, your readers are going to want useful,
informative content from you, and by giving them what they want,
you’ll be on your way to:

a)more sales of your products b)more commissions when you
recommend your affiliate programs, and c)more repeat ad sales,
because you’ll have a very responsive subscriber base.

An excellent way for you to add your own winning content to your
ezine is to write articles on the topic your ezine covers.

Through your articles you’ll be able to:

- build up your reader’s trust in you. – increase your status as
an expert in your field. – add your own unique voice and style
to your ezine. – successfully promote your business through your
resource box at the end of all your articles.

In addition to writing your own articles, you can ask your
readers to send you their articles, or you could publish “free
to reprint” articles in your ezine.

Some article writers also make their articles available to their
affiliates to earn commissions.

You simply join their affiliate program and then publish their
articles with your affiliate link in the resource box.

By doing this, you’ll be able to easily increase your
commissions.

And if you have an affiliate program, you can also use this
strategy to get more new affiliates that will successfully
promote your products and add to your bottom line

Ken runs the Net Pro Marketer where you’ll find informative
articles on business, marketing, and ezine publishing. Browse
through the articles or submit your own at:
http://www.netpromarketer.com To get started publishing your
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“10 Powerful Reasons You Must Start Ezine Publishing Now!”

Jason Oconner — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:31:20 +0000

In today’s competitive world, one of the easiest, creative and most proven methods to attract more clients to your business is to be recognized as an authority or as an expert in your industry. There are easy marketing techniques that utilize the right balance of educational information and self promotion to elevate you to expert status.

By positioning yourself or your company as a leading provider and sought out expert, you will be able to:

· Command greater fees and charge more for your services – people will want to pay more to work with one of the leading experts in the industry.

· Achieve greater visibility, respect and support from your industry peers, partners and clients – deals will start coming to you and people will begin to seek you and your company with opportunities for business and business growth.

· Create a community of people who will not only champion your products and services through promoting you to everyone they know and referring you to anyone who asks, but will buy from you over and over again creating a loyal following!

While there are many things you can do to accomplish this – speaking engagements, board appointments, and editorial opportunities, most of these take a lot of time and a lot of money. THE fastest, easiest, and most cost effective method to BLAST you to expert status by publishing an e-mail newsletter or “ezine” — pronounced “e-zeen”.

Here are 10 powerful reasons to start your own ezine right now.

1. Exponentially BLAST your business to new heights with increased sales, online and offline through enhancing your credibility and providing you opportunities to enter into new markets.

2. Establish yourself as the industry expert and attract more qualified leads, speaking engagements, editorial opportunities and potential strategic partners

3. Create a community of people who will not only champion your products and services through promoting you to everyone they know and referring you to anyone who asks, but will buy from you over and over again creating a loyal following!

4. Maximize your sales efforts by demonstrating your unique value proposition to your clients each time you send out your ezine while justifying your profits!

5. Increase your brand awareness and corporate positioning by effortlessly spreading the word about your business. – Great content will become viral!

6. Achieve greater visibility, respect and support from your industry peers, partners and clients – deals will start coming to you and people will begin to seek you and your company with opportunities for business and business growth

7. Save thousands of dollars in design, printing, postage and labor. Sending out your newsletter electronically eliminates all those expenses. (NO stamps or envelopes to lick and NO printers to hire.

8. Increase customer loyalty by communicating on a regular basis. If your customers don’t hear from you regularly, they will forget they are important to you and an ezine can increase your client communications seamlessly.

9. Promote your products and services on a regular basis and when the time comes for your clients to buy, your name will be at the tips of their fingertips and they’ll buy from – YOU!

10.Share your knowledge and expertise by reprinting your tips and articles in other publications, trade magazines, association newsletters and local papers for additional exposure and traffic.

Kellie D’Andrea is the creator of the Build a Better Ezine System and publishes “The Marketing Edge” a FREE award winning ezine for small business owners who want to gain the competitive edge with strategic marketing and branding techniques that actually work. Interesting in starting your own business, sign up for a FREE mini course “The Empowered Entrepreneur” and learn how not to make the 23 Common Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs make with a FREE report offered at http://www.kelliedandrea.com .

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The 5 Ws Of Newsletter Or Ezine Publishing

Jason Oconner — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:37:14 +0000

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8 Steps to Ezine Publishing

Jason Oconner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:38:15 +0000

Ezines have overtook the traditional magazines in the aspect of commercial importance as the popularity of internet and the web has grown over time. The ezines or magazines, newsletters through email that promote your business can be a lot more helpful and productive if you deal with some aspects of them carefullyâ¦ the key aspects to be aware of are

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