Thursday, January 28, 2010

Step by Step Guide on Autoblogging On WordPress

It is a no BS guide. This is another super spoon feeding guide on how to create autoblogs. And this time it is on WordPress. And if autoblogging is not your game, then stop reading this.This guide is not for people who hates autoblogging. This is the basic method I use in autoblogging in WP. My first autoblog was sandboxed actually last year. I would like to thank  shylesson for posting this guide on BHW.

1. Create a folder on my desktop that says "100 blog setup" (yep it really says that)
2. Create a folder in that folder that says "plugins"
3. Create a folder in that folder that says "themes"
4. Create a txt file that says "important information" in the main folder
5. Create a txt file that says "blog_logins" in the main folder
6. Create a txt file that says "emails" in the main folder
7. Create a txt file that says "twitter logins" in the main folder
8. Add the robots.txt to my main folder:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

9. Create a txt file called "pinglist" that holds your pinglist [duh]
10. Create a folder in the main folder called "keywords"
11. Create a folder in the main folder called "completed themes"
12. Create a php file in the main folder that is called "functions.php" and contains:


<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>


[This is because some of the themes you choose will not be widget ready and you will want to make them widget ready later on]

13. Go register your domain names, and setup your hosting account etc. IE. Get a domain, configure your nameservers, and login to your account[s].
14. Setup blogs on your first 3-4 domains using Fantastico in your cpanel.
15. Copy the login information and paste it into your "blog_logins" file.
16. Open your ftp client and add the 3-4 sites to it [assuming different hosting accts]
17. Go to your first site, click on the www, and add the robots.txt to the root index
18. Go to wp-content then delete the plugins folder. Replace it with your plugins folder. [oops missed that step--once you set up your plugins folder, put all the plugins you will need into it and unzip them all. Remove the zipped files. The files I use for basic autoblog setups are:

About Me widget
Advanced Excerpt
Akismet
All in One Adsense and YPN
Caffeinated Content for WordPress
Global Translator
Google XML Sitemaps
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Platinum SEO Pack
Privacy Policy
SEO Post Link
SEO Smart Links
Sociable
Twitter Tools
Unique Article Wizard
WordPress Database Backup
WordPress WriteAgain! [or some other wp rewriter plugin]
WP answers! [from the maker of WP VideoTube--this mate is spot on with his shit and a member here!]
WP VideoTube
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

19. Login to the blogs [use a tabbed browser and have them all open]
20. While you are ftping your files to each of the blog's plugin folders, go to Settings--> Writing and turn on your XML-RPC publishing options if you want to use BlogSlammer! with these setups.
21. Go to Settings--> Permalinks and set your permalinks to Custom:/%postname%/
22. Go to Posts--> Categories and create about 6-7 if not more categories. The more, the better.
23. By now at least two of your blogs have their plugins installed. Go to them. Select all. Activate all. Update any out to date ones that you missed. Then activate the other two blog's plugins too.
24. Go to Settings-->Max Blog Press ping optimizer and activate it by putting your name and email address in it. Copy and paste your pinglist from your pinglist file no less into the box, set the settings to where it will only post 1 time every 120 minutes or more or less in order to control excessive pinging.
25. Go to Tools--> WP Videotube and click on the link at top that says "here" to edit your template. Delete the {video_description} line and edit your height and widths to around 320*230 [just some arbitrary numbers here, but you need to reduce the width of the videos as they will overflow on some templates; you only need to do this part of the step if you have a plan to use such a theme].
26. Configure CC under the Settings--> CC link
27. Go to Post --> CC Management and run it at least once per blog so you have some content on your site to play with while editing your themes/widget/codes.
28. Go to themes and choose your theme and activate it. **You should have ftped these earlier too but I forgot to tell you =P***Edit the files of your theme with your adsense pub numbers if applicable to your theme
29. Go to widgets and edit your sidebars. You will want to add your global translator, text, tag, and recent posts in the very least, but mix it up from blog to blog by adding different others ones too. For the text one, use it to put adsense in your sidebars. I use the Old Adsense Code Generator from here:

http://oldadsensecode.com/Default.aspx

for fast code generation.
<--Use next step before the above step if you find that your theme isn't widget ready-->
30. Click on sidebar.php and at the top where it says <ul> begin the list of one of the sidebar contents and add this line right below it:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>


Then find the close tag and add this right above it:

<?php endif; ?>

Then edit the functions.php to include this:


<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>


And if your theme does not have a functions.php, add the one you have in your 100 blog setup folder to it via your ftp client. **As some themes have two sidebars, make sure that you are putting that line above the proper sidebar's end list else your theme will be messed up.

31. Go to Settings-->global translator and adjust the settings so they look better in your theme as it sometimes does not look right.Try the div option first, and if that does not work, go to tables option with the option to show 5-7 flags per row.

32. Go to Settings-->Sociable option and configure those options the way you like. I take it a step further and only have a few key main ones and then adding random others to mix it up...cause yes I am weird like that. I usually just blind click these cause I don't really care about the sociable options really...

33. Go to Settings--> Adsense and configure your adsense settings. I put min to only show the 300*250 and 468*60 ads in the top left or top center parts of my posts with around 5-7 pixels of space. I then look at the themes and see if it will look better with ads not showing on the front page and click that option if it does. Otherwise, just save. To make picking the colors easier, just open up Themes-->Editor in another tab and view the css file for the color scheme or the file that contains the add units if they are adsense ready themes and use the colors from there.

34. Go to Privacy Policy and configure to your liking. I don't like the links on them, so I update my first options to show no links. Then I have it generate a page for me.
 35. Go to SEO Post link and activate the settings there.
36. Go to UAW and configure the options there. I always add custom div titles and click all categories EXCEPT THE UNCATEGORIZED. Activate it.

37. Go to CC and finish finding more content. For what categories you cannot find content in, go to the Tools --> WP Answers and setup campaigns for your other categories [add to the ones you did find content to for more content on those if you want to as well].

 38. Go to Tools --> WP Videotube and add a few video posts [I find that videos attract a lot more visitors] across 3-4 categories. ***MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE USING ONE HOSTING ACCOUNT TO HOST A LOT OF BLOGS THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO HOW MANY PROCESSES YOU HAVE RUNNING AT ONCE....at least that is my theory (http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...-thinking.html)

39. Go to Settings--> YARRP plugin and configure those settings the way you want.

40. Go to Settings --> Platinum SEO and configure it with a title, description, and keywords that you should have generated from w/e keyword generator you use while doing steps 1-39 but I forgot to tell you too. I use KW Elite most times.

41. Go to Twitter Tools and add your login info to the twitter accounts that you created with your awesome twitter account creator (or manually...) that I forgot to tell you to do but you can still do at this time (man, what a run-on!). Save those details.

 42. Change your blogroll links to referral links on clickbank or other products/programs. 43. Once you have a network setup, interlink your blogs with posts and links in the post titles as well as in different posts posting to different posts.

44. Drive traffic to your sites/link build. I did do this before and only slowly started lately, but it does help with traffic.

45. Rinse and repeat with your profits. =D

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

99% Step by Step Autoblog Setup On Blogger

This guide is the most easiest guide on building autoblogs on Blogger. This guide is a spoiling post on how to set up such autoblogs. No domain names and paid hosting required, no single penny spent. Other people think that they need to spend some bucks just to setup an autoblog. Although paid autoblogs exists, you can do it on your own.

How to Setup Autoblog


1.  Navigate to Blogger.com. Log in your existing account or you can simply log in your Google account. Well, if you don't have one just register.

2.  Create a blog with your account. Customize them a bit to make them look legit; change the template, put privacy policy page, etc..etc..One thing you should not put is the About the author or anything that make visitors contact you. Autoblogs are occasionally ban if they are REPORTED. So don't put such things.

Note: To make your autoblog searh engine friendly, you can SEO optimize them; research keywords, use keywords as your blog url, use keywords on your blog title, etc.

3. After creating a blog go to  Settings > Email & Mobile. Create an email that you will use as "mail-to-blogger" email. This should look like this:  yourbloggername.whateveryoulike@blogger.com. Then under the settings click the "Publish emails immediately". What ever is sent to the email will be posted on your blog. Are you getting the picture? 


4. Find blogs to subscribe with. What you do is to subscribe to a blog via email using the email you just have created on step 3. Every time that blog publishes a post, it will be also automatically posted on your autoblog.


Drawback
*  Duplicate post
* Dirty post. Why? some blogs that you have subscribe just doesn't fit your autoblog. They are sending only summaries and bunch of links. This happen every time. So you must choose a good blog that you will be subscribing. I recommend blogger blogs. Or blogs that uses feedburner in subscribing via email. Post are not dirty but another problem is the title. The title of your post will be the blog's title. For example, if you subscribe to my blog to create an autoblog, every time I post, it will also be posted on your autoblog. And every single post will be titled PC Holics!.


Where to subscribe ?


Do you hate mailing lists? If you do, now you will love them so much! You must subscribe to mailing lists! Why? 90% of the time, the emails are created by the bloggers. So most of the time you get unique content. But mailing lists are limited, in fact they only send you 2-4 emails a month just to keep on subscribing. No problem! Just subscribe to couple of mailing lists. Subscribe to 2 or 3. 


Done! your first autoblog is perfectly running! Now create more autoblogs! Create 5 autoblogs in one account. This will only take you less than an hour set up. Autoblog is  number game. Create many of them now!


On my next posts, I will be covering how to promote these autoblogs into nearly set and forget situation. Also i will be posting on how to do it on WP. so stay tuned! 

Sunday, January 24, 2010

My Paypal Wishlist Payment Proof of $94


I've received the payment a couple of days ago. You must have forgotten about this on Facebook or maybe you never had known about this are you? This is a proof that Paypal Asia Team paid me. Easy money from Paypal and Facebook. However this is not available anymore. Here is the proof.





To all who said that it was a scam, im sorry for you. You have missed a great oppurtunity to earn with less effort.

Friday, January 22, 2010

I Never knew This Feature Exists on Blogger


Im talking about the scheduled post feature in Blogger. Yesterday I was thinking how will I do it. I am so busy at school so from now on I will be writing future posts and just scheduled them all out. Wondering how I would do it, I asked Google. Luckily Google has the answers. For the sake of newbies who doesn't know about it yet, here is how you do it.

1. First write your post the way you do it as normal.

2. Above the Publish Post button, there is a link called " Post Options". Click it.

3. A box will appear with options to choose from. Check on the Scheduled Post and then set the time and date you want your posts to appear on your blog.

4. Hit the publish button and its done! You will get a confirmation message that your posts will be scheduled at the time you specified. And when the sheduled date arrives, your posts will be automatically publish.

Honestly, I never knew about this on Blogger cause I never thought doing it. Just this time cause im busy.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What is an Autoblog and How do it works

A lot of people were asking what is an autoblog all about, how it works, how to do it and how to make money from it. Do you know that autoblogs can make you lots of money as if you are having a regular blog? Especially if you have many of them. What we are talking about here was an "automatic blog" not a blog for cars or autos.

So what is an autoblog?
An autoblog is a blog that automatically generates content. Most of autloblogs are in WordPress Platform because of the plugins that can be use to generate contents. But you can also create a Blogger autoblog using some scripts. The plugins or scripts do the work; writing contents, posting videos, photos etc. You set the blog and forget it.

Why do people create autoblogs?
People create autoblogs to make money online. They monetize it through Adsense or any other CPC networks. You can also monetize them using affiliate offers. Autoblogs are also used in backlink building. Autoblogs are easy to set up, imagine having a thousand autoblog and imagine how many backlinks you can get. People create autoblogs to drive traffic to another site. Some autoblogs rank good in SE, and now you get the point on how to drive traffic.

How do autoblogs get traffic?
Autoblogs are usually set and forget. You set it and forget it. If you created your autoblog using WordPress, you can use plugins to submit your contents to social bookmarking sites and SE to get them index. Your traffic will come mostly on search engines. But you can also pay for some backlink building services if you wanted to.

On the next articles about autoblogs, I will teach you how to create an autoblog on WP and Blogger. Some tips and tricks on autoblogging and some legal issues to talk about them. So stay tune!

Monday, January 18, 2010

How to Earn $50 a day Cashout on Neobux

First and foremost, I've read this strategy on PinoyMoneyTalk and I just wanted to share it to those struggling to earn on Neobux. And if you haven't heard of Neobux before, it is a get-paid-to-click website which pays you dollars clicking ads on the network. This website is the most real paying ptc site. And this guide teaches you to earn real money with it. Here is how.

1. Register and account first on Neobux. Also have a Paypal or an Alertpay account. This is where you will receive your payments.Click the banner to get one.


2. After successfully registering, you are now ready to click ads. As a standard member, you are eligible to click 4-5 ads a day which costs $0.01 per click. Multiplying that in one day its $0.01 x 4 = $ 0.04 and in a month that is $1.2. But your earnings doesn't stop there. Refer friends to click and earn even more. Referral clicks costs $0.005 per click.

Example earnings with referrals and a standard account:

Standard account(4 clicks x $0.01) + 25 referrals($0.005x4 clicks) = $0.54 per day! 


But how do I get Referrals and Earn atleast $50 a day?


This strategy is for the ones who don't invest money. 


Note: You can invest using your verified Paypal account if you want to rent  more referrals. 




1. Click your ads until you reach the balance of $3. Why $3? Usually you can rent 3 referrals for $0.75. The reason why it is $3 is that the referrals you will rent sometimes are inactive. So you can use the remaining balance to recycle the referrals and don't lose your money. Recycling costs 8 cents and keeping a referral for a month costs 30 cents.


2. Transfer the $3 on your renting balance and Turn the autopay on. Instead of you paying for the referral, they pay for themselves as long as you have autopay turned on. What it does was to subtract one of the advertisements your referral views each day and puts it towards the 30 cents that referral needs to stick around for another month. So you get one less penny from each referral, but they will be your referral as long as they are active.


3. Don't cash out too early. Just rinse and repeat the method. Keep renting referrals by increments of 3 until you reach 500 referrals. Painful? yeah but its worth your time. Maintain the referrals that are active and if you reach $100 upgrade to a golden account. Golden account earns you double per click. 


4. Don't cash out at all until you reach 2000 referrals and you will now earn $50 a day! 


Remember to never cash out until you reach your referral goal. Just like blogging it will take some time to earn with this. But it is worthed!  Take it seriously if you want to earn. 


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

8 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic


Everybody seems to be blogging nowadays. Either a way of living or just blogging. But without traffic, our blog is useless. We need readers to read our blog. So  I've prepared a no BS guide in increasing blog traffic.

Write good content. If people like the contents of your blog, there are more likely to return to your blog. It is always important to give useful information to your readers. Because nobody wants to read a blog with a garbage content. That is why content is always king!

Update often. Readers are coming back for more if you update your blog regularly. Not only your readers but also the search engines. Update regularly but do not rush to blog.

RSS feed. Provide a RSS feed for your blog. If you don't have better go to FeedBurner. Using RSS feed keep your readers updated.



Search Engine Optimization. Optimize your blog for the search engines. Search for your keywords and build relevant links for every pages of your blog. That will help your blog rank high on the search engines.

Use Social Bookmarking Sites.  Increase the exposure of your blog by submitting your articles to socila bookmarking websites such as Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc.

Comment on related blogs. Comment on blogs related to your topic. A single comment can help you gain thousands of visitors to your blog. Always leave useful comments and do not spam. By commenting, you are also building quality links to your blog.

Forums. Forums are the best place to promote our blog. People in forums interact and share informations on each other. Build relationships and connect with other people to promote your blog.

Guest Blogging. Writing for someone else's blog can help you get traffic. Especially if you are writing for a popular blog. This way you can also gain lots of backlinks and readership.

These are only basic ways in driving traffic to your blog. Feel free to try them all.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Google PR Update last December 2009 Inaccurate


I think Google's latest PR Update was on December and I am sure it is inaccurate. Why? Mark,a member of the PMT forum, shares his accomplishment from the latest PR update that time. He announced that he has a PR of 3. The posts that followed after Marks' also reveals their websites PR and everyone has a good PR ranking except....me!

Mark's PR was 3 and the others were 4. And mine was 2 despite of my efforts in link building with dofollow blogs with high PR. Then I began to wonder.  So I've checked on their sites stats. And I don't find their sites having links with high PR sites.

The others are also  not sure of this PR update. This is from Yellowminded
I'm not sure about this new PR update. I have a blog that zoomed from PR 0 to PR 4 but I have not even done much link work on it while my other sites with decent backlinks were demoted a notch or two. Lol. Oh, Google. I expect that there will be another "corrective" PR update pretty quickly...
Other blogs that are only less than a month old achieved a PR of 3. Its a wow. If you want to view our full discussion about it you can head on to this topic.






Friday, January 1, 2010

MyBlogLog is Closing this January

MyBlogLog is a famous blogging community. MyBlogLog was founded last 2005 and was bought by Yahoo in 2007.Yahoo bought MyBlogLog for $10M . And now Yahoo is shutting it down. There is no specific reason why Yahoo will shut down the site but according to what I've read from other sources, its traffic is decreasing overtime so Yahoo has no option but to shut it down.




Yahoo have killed Geocities and now its MyBlogLog. What is next to be killed from Yahoo?