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There’s a new plugin called “Newsletter Booster” I’m reviewing today which is an Opt-In WordPress plugin with a twist. I think that you’ll like it, I’d hadn’t seen one that performed this function until I was told about this one.

All the online and Internet marketing gurus have a “list”. They spam all their unwitting list members with all kinds of garbage offers for crap that makes them rich for promoting it. It’s all hype, hype, hype – and mostly crap, crap, crap. They count on people that are down and out looking for any way to make cash online and prey on this particular demographic with long and very drawn out emotional please designed to “convert” to believers so that they will by the “next best thing” to make them rich online. If you’re getting the picture that I pretty much hate listbuilding and the “squeeze page” aspect of online marketing – I do. It’s only because those products never deliver what they promise at all – because if they were worth anything in the first place they wouldn’t have to hype it sooooo much. For gosh sakes, even the slap chop didn’t have as much hype as some of the garbage going around online.

Now that I’ve said that – let’s go over some of the positive aspects of listbuilding. Believe it or not, email based newsletters are still a viable source of marketing. It is, and it always will be. People generally don’t mind email they signed up for (unless they’re idiots that signup for everything), and you can’t beat targeted marketing. For example, I just signed up for AWeber last month to start managing my email based lists. You can find the signup form on the home of this blog. The majority of my visitors come to this site for one of two things – WordPress, or something to do with Online Marketing. I don’t feel a bit bad about building a new list through my site, because I won’t be sending the latest “Cash Cow Money System” garbage most sites do. I’ll be sending real tools, with real reviews, real results, and some of my own ebooks and products that I’ll be launching in 2010. Damn, now I sound like a hyped up marketer!

Ok, back to this plugin and why I like it so much. “Newsletter Booster” is a WordPress plugin that’s so simple you’ll kick yourself for not thinking of it before. Check out this image:

The image above is my comment form on this site. It’s been updated and you can see in the image above there’s a new checkbox entitled “please add me to your newsletter” and a spam disclaimer. You’re probably thinking – that’s it? I have to tell you – this could be the most profitable thing I’ll do in all of 2010! And here’s why…

This site has been online 2 1/2 years so far. I have 262 posts, 33 pages, and 2,795 comments to date. If I had had this plugin installed 2 1/2 years ago I could have potentially had 2,795 people on a email list. That would have been an incredible targeted list for people looking for WordPress products (free and premium), and honest online marketing materials.

So, when I got my hot little hands on the Newsletter Booster plugin the other day here’s what happened.

Here’s the main configuration screen of the plugin admin. You can choose whether to activate the checkbox on the comment form, the registration form (or both). I don’t take signups to this blog – so I chose to use the comment form option. If you had a membership site, it’s good to know this option is here. You can also choose whether or not to “pre-check” the box (not a good idea, and pretty shady I might add). You can choose to ignore suspected spam (and add them to the list anyway), I left that unchecked.

Next you can choose to only signup immediately approved comments (people that have commented before that are approved), I chose not to check this because I approve every single comment in this site by hand anyway (I trust no one, lol). Next I chose to be emailed every time somebody signs up for the newsletter. You can choose whether or not registered users see the signup checkbox, but for me (on this blog) I have no registered users so I left it blank, and the last option on this screen is submit to API.

Newsletter Booster has the ability to collect emails on it’s own inside the plugin. You can’t email them from the plugin, but you can export the emails and import them into another tool for emailing if you’d like. The API functionality is great because it allows you another method for collecting email signups for a marketing list, and like I have in this example – just enter the URL to your list formatted correctly and the signups with go directly to your service, like AWeber, MailChimp, etc.

The next tab in the plugin admin is the control of the comment form:

You have the ability to have the checkbox for newsletter signup above the comment field, or below it. You have total control over the pitch line and the disclaimer text and style. You can highlight the signup area by using html or style code before and after the checkbox and text. You can control the exact same things if you choose to place the checkbox on your registration form – I won’t show that screenshot since it’s exactly the same options as the comment box.

The signup tab shows the last 25 newsletter signups:

It records the email address, name, time, comments, post, comment ID, and IP address. There’s an export tab where you can export all signups in a CSV file, and it even saves a log. The log is handy because it shows whether or not the signup was forwarded properly (if you use the API feature), and you can see if a visitor has been signed up once – and checks the box again – it just says “[email address] has already been registered” – so you don’t have to worry about duplicates.

So, if you want to know my opinion of this plugin let me show you one last image:

I installed this plugin yesterday. Today I have 11 newsletter signups. That means by the end of the month I should have about 300 new subscribers to my list. Hopefully I’ll have 3,000+ by the end of the year. I just love premium plugins that do a job and do it well, but for $37 you can’t beat this one with a stick. If you’re building a brand, or a following – this plugin is a must have.

*Disclaimer: This is a premium plugin. If you click on the link below and buy it I will get a commission for the sale. That’s how we pay the bills around here.

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As you read in the last post, just days ago over the weekend I started the HAHD challenge, writing 100 articles in 100 days to submit to Ezine Articles. This first day I submitted 2 articles, and since then I’ve submitted 5 more – that are awaiting review.

Here are the articles I’ve written to date that have been published for the HAHD challenge:

Article #100: eBay Quality Click Pricing Model: Good or Bad?

Article #99: Free Ways to Build More Backlinks

If you’re interested in taking part – it’s still not too late! Read my Original post about the HAHD challenge. Another great reference is my Guide to Article Marketing. Get writing!

I’m taking the HAHD or “Hundred Articles in 100 Days” challenge from Christopher Knight of Ezine Articles. Will you do the same? The challenge starts tomorrow on January 1st, 2010 – and you can signup here. There are some very small prizes involved, but surely that’s not the reason to signup at all.

Article marketing can generate massive amounts of authority and backlinks for your web site or blog. You can get more exposure, more traffic, and this is something you can do for FREE! I have a story I often tell about the largest diet affiliate program on Clickbank. Out of $12 million dollars paid out in the last year to affiliates, 95% of the commissions were paid to less than a few dozen people (from thousands of affiliates). When surveyed, the main difference between the successful and those that didn’t earn much – it was article marketing. Nearly all of the handful of successful affiliate marketers had performed article marketing to build links. The shocker is they all submitted from 100-500 articles EACH for their target sites!

Have you ever submitted 100 articles? Odds are you never submitted more than a dozen or more (if that) for the same project. I’ve had my Ezine Articles account for about 2 years now, and I’ve only submitted 40 articles in all. I’ve received over 99,199 views for them to date, imagine my exposure if I would have submitted 140?

I’m going to do it, I’m committing to the 100 articles in 100 days. Follow the link above to signup – blog about it, tweet about it, comment below about it – and follow my blog as I’ll be writing about it every step of the way!

Read my Guide to Article Marketing if you’re ready to get started! It will teach you all about how article marketing works, and the best ways to write and submit content!

The SEO Booster Pro plugin for WordPress can help you boost your rankings a little bit in the SERPs, and it saves you time by automating a few processes you might normally do by hand (or not do at all). There’s nothing black or grey hat about it, although people tend to be confused about whether they should be using a plugin like this at all – and whether or not it will “piss off” google enough to get you a penalty in the index or not.

Search Engine Basics

Search engines send your traffic based on a multitude of factors – ranging from authority, to pagerank, the power of your backlinks, the amount of your backlinks – and even the sites you’re associated with. When someone types in a search google attempts to give it’s “best match” of relevant original contet results. Sometimes the results are people that actually “targeted” and tried to come up for that search, and other times it’s just a bunch of pages that accidentally ranked for that result. Did you know that 60% of all searches entered in google have never been entered before? That’s because more and more people are treating it like a question and answer portal and asking it a query as if google were some magical oracle.

Linkbuilding Basics

Even if you were smart enough to find and target keyword phrases for your site, over time you end up getting ranked for all kinds of “long tail” searches and broad match terms you never thought about. Simply linking to your own internal pages, or creating your own “inlinks” (deep linking) can often times be enough to change your SERPs for some keywords from say the 2-5th page of google results to the first page! Just tagging complementary pages with the same tag can be enough. Linking a page or post in your sidebar dramatically help as well.

Enter SEO Booster Pro…

SEO Booster Pro is a premium WordPress plugin that costs $39.95, and it’s purpose is very simple – to help you do better in the SERPs. It doesn’t do anything you can’t do on your own manually, and it shouldn’t raise the ire of google in any way. Once you install it, it monitors your incoming search queries. So far it’s captured results on 31,000 incoming searches for this blog.

You can view the top 10 incoming searches, it records the SERP page, your position on the page, what they keywords were, and which page it’s ranked for:

It also records the last 35 SERP visits. This is pretty handy, as it records the last top 35 that came in – and it really shows you that nearly all your incoming traffic comes from the first page of google results. You also get the total visits and the landing page they went to, but I think the handiest thing is the fact that you also get the link to the google results page in case you want to see what other sites were listed for that search, etc.

It has some very interesting settings. You can choose what SERP positions you want to try to boost higher, and how often you should run the cron job so the plugin can do it’s work:

It has some nice auto-tagging features as well. It can tag posts with phrases you might want to boost your search ranking for, and all the related posts as well. If you want, it can even re-write your post titles with incoming search phrases. The plugin creates a long and extensive log of everything it does, it will show you the last search positions it researched for you, and any rankings that have changed.

In addition to the tagging, it also has a widget functionality that you can use to put keywords in your sidebar (you choose how many) which helps your inlinks and boosts your SERPs as well.

Conclusion

SEO Booster Pro can help you get better search rankings, but the level of reporting and analysis you can get in just a few minutes (without digging through data in google analytics or some other stats) is awesome. There’s nothing grey hat about it, it’s not wrong to use it, you could create your own inlinks yourself to do the same thing (many people do). In my opinion, spending $39.95 one time (free lifetime upgrades) is well worth the money in the time alone it saves me – let alone the increased incoming traffic I’ll get from using it.

*Disclaimer: I’m an affiliate for SEO Booster Pro, and if you buy it from the link below I get a commission. That’s how we pay the bills around here!

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High pagerank directories can generate some great quality (and free) backlinks for your blog or web site. Often, directories are ignored as part of a linkbuilding strategy – but they can be a great source of link juice over time. Most people that start a directly start (like most of us) from scratch with little or no pagerank. Over time, as the directory matures – the web site gains authority and pagerank, and usually even the internal deeper linked category pages attain their own pagerank as well. You could submit your site to a PR1 site today, that will turn into a strong PR5 backlink 18 months from now. There are also lots of high pagerank directories (PR4 and PR5) that are free (some require reciprocal link back). There’s no reason not to spend a little time to submit your web site or blog for these backlinks. Here are 14 (almost) general directories that you can submit to:

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC): Pagerank 8 directory accepting free submissions. Many directory listings are Latin American – but many are just good resources.

Kelly Search: Pagerank 6 directory accepting free submissions. This is a great business to business directory. I like the fact that you can submit to different categories with different descriptions and URL’s if you want when you signup.

Canlinks: Pagerank 6 directory accepting free submissions. This directory is nice because once you submit the form your blog is automatically listed – you don’t have to wait for approval.

Free Links Directory: Pagerank 6 directory accepting free submissions, but only if you reciprocal link

Pegasus Directory: Pagerank 6 directoy accepting free submissions. Also accepts reciprocal and paid submissions.

Skoobe.biz: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free and paid listings.

Surf Safely: Pagerank 4 directory accepting free submissions, but you must have a PICS label and family safe.

Flookie: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions, very easy to submit to.

Resource Help: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions for reciprocal link back.

Zoomdir: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions, but if you do reciprocal link you’ll get listed in just days (vs. months with no link back).

Zico Sur: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions, very easy submit.

Sufficed.com: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions with reciprocal link back.

A2Z Web Index: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions with reciprocal link.

Directory World: Pagerank 5 directory accepting free submissions with reciprocal link back.

Also – as an honorable mention – I’d like to throw my own hat into the ring. You can submit any WordPress powered blog or web site to my WordPress Directory.

How to find Quality Directories?

If you are interested in finding more quality directories to submit your web site to, I can give you a few links that will keep you busy for hours – if not for days.

When we SEO has a list of 560 PR4+ directories to submit to. Some are paid, some are niche, some are free. My list of free directories above was generated from a few hours of going through this list.

If you’re wondering how I found such a list, you can always google for this kind of thing – but often times webmaster type forums are the greatest source of free information. Check out this forum post of directory lists and information that will keep you busy for days. In fact, the digital point forums has a forum specifically for directories.

If you like this article, you should check out my ever growing Link Building Cheat Sheet page!

If you need to get ranked in top search engine results, but find linkbuilding and building backlinks to hard or time consuming – consider getting a linkbuilding quote from me.

Announcing the “Re-launch” of JTPratt’s Free Niche Site Script! My mashup script allows you to create an adsense, YouTube, Amazon, eBay site in minutes! Install it on a domain you’re not using, or in a sub-folder of an already successful site.

I’ve seen niche scripts like this before for sale for $35-75 all over the Internet the last few years. There’s no sense paying for functionality this basic when you can get it for free. This script was available for download for about 18 months and then Amazon and eBay updated their API’s and the whole thing broke. Now, this free Niche Site Script is sponsored by ebay plugin WP-EASYBAY, and I would like to thank WP EASYBAY™ programmer Fredrik Ahlen for updating and making all the necessary changes for it to work again!

Here’s what my example niche mashup site looks like:

Click here to view it live: Guitar Review Video Cafe

It’s really fun to play with and could be a cool addition to any niche based site or affiliate store. It has easy to use templates, and doesn’t require a database or installation at all! It even has a small caching system so the API’s aren’t called each time a page is rendered. Download your copy now on my official Free Niche Site Script page, and let me know what you think of it!

Have you ever needed a good WordPress theme for a children and toys niche store? This is the type of theme you need if your selling kid’s clothes, toys, etc. I needed one desperately recently for my new site Thomas the Tank Toys. So I partnered with Brian over at Templatelite.com (who has some of the most incredible free WordPress themes by the way), and he created “Wooden Fence v2″ for me. Here’s a screenshot of the theme:

I absolutely love this theme! It’s so perfect for this kid’s niche, and exactly what I was looking for. If you’d like to download it and try it out, just visit my page for free WordPress themes that I offer.

Where do you find your favorite free WordPress themes?

Well, if you’ve been following along faithfully in your RSS readers, you already know that last month I started an Online Marketing Intership program here at jtpratt.com. I was originally going to accept 4 applicants – but only found 2 that were really well suited to what I had in mind for the program. Bill Field and Prince Singh have been faithfully working away at their assigned web sites for about the last month. Why would I accept a late intern applicant only 3 weeks into the project? Well, let’s just say I can spot a good candidate when I see one, and after talking to LaShae over the phone I was convinced she would soak up every bit of information I could dish out. Enough from me, I’ll let her tell you why she signed up for the internship in her own words…

Hi, I’m LaShae Dorsey and I’m one of John’s Interns at JTPratt.com and so far it looks like I’m the only female in the group.

I’m not new to computers as my high school was one of the first in the state to have a fully functioning computer lab, with a working modem and 15 Apple IIe’s. This was the mid 80′s so for us it was a really big deal. I learned BASIC and then graduated from high school.

My educational and professional background are varied. I’ve yet to complete my Bachelor of Art Degree, just a couple more classes to go. I’ve worked as a tutor and mentor, a tutor coordinator, a construction contract administrator and commissioning and inspection agent and if you asked them, most of my bosses wouldn’t hire me again, even though they appreciate what I did while I worked with them. Many of them are now good friends. They managed to recognize something I didn’t see, until recently, my skills are better suited to an ever changing landscape.

I am curious by nature and driven to know and learn, which is not always a good combination in the corporate world. I’m also developing my ability to recognize blessings, even when they don’t look so much like blessings.

I currently maintain two blogs and work with online newbies offering them hand holding and helping them understand how to bring their service or product into an online space. Plus I help them stay away from the scams. I also work with businesses as a website coordinator.

I’ve used WordPress.com, Blogger.com and WordPress.org since 2005 when I first learned about them. Now I’m slowly starting to increase my use of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendfeed. In fact if you google my name, those sites will come up before my blogs do.

If it sounds like my life is all about online business, that’s because it is. If I’m not in front of the computer, I’m reading something I think will help me work better in an online business and in life. If I’m not reading I’m interacting with other people and business owners at conferences. I’m always watching human nature, peoples buying habits and infommercials. YES, infommercials.

I might be just a little obssessed, but in a good way.

I have a really big dream and I know internet businesses are the very best way to make it reality.

The opportunities for us to support ourselves in non-traditional ways is right here in front of us, if we get the right help.

I found Johns’s blog back in September, while I was researching some plug-ins for a client. I spent almost 16 hours reading and note taking. I’ve implemented just a few of of the things he mentions on the blog and the intern program. I really like the results. If I’d known about him 2 years ago, you and I might not be having this little introduction.

I didn’t see the application until after Bill was introduced because I spent most of my time in the archives of the blog.

I’m glad I completed it anyway, just to see what would happen, even though it was weeks after he originally posted it.

I’m definitely excited to be learning, curious about doing and ready to share what I learn with you.

I’ll leave you with this. Never believe what other people think you can’t do.

LaShae Dorsey

It seems like just yesterday I announced my Online Marketing Internships, but it’s been nearly 3 weeks now?! Wow. It’s been so busy I hadn’t been able to post this all week, but for those of you reading along to watch the progress of my interns on their quest to learn online marketing, and what it takes to turn an idea into a money making web site – here’s a first hand account from my second inter Prince Singh:

It was about 2 weeks ago when I started with John here at JTPratt forums as an intern. I was assigned the site http://bestgiftfor.com, and the goal was to build it from scratch to Google first page ranking site, and learn as many new things as possible during the course of the site development. John is a great guy, and a great instructor. Even though I have spent an entire year already trying to learn the WordPress and everything else that goes with it, on my own, I knew that I would learn a whole entire another years worth of learning in a few months if I end up as an intern. And I was right about it. BTW, the last year that I spent learning on my own, was not quite really “on my own” as I had been a regular reader of JTPratt Forums and have learnt so many things from it already.

Well, anyways, I will get down to the point here and share some of the things that I have learnt in the last 2 weeks being an intern:

Site Analysis

John taught us (step-by-step) how to properly setup a WordPress blog so it is done right from the beginning. This is something so important that if not done right, all the effort of setting a site up can be a complete waste of time and energy, and money!

Site analysis was the step number one. Site analysis consists of setting up the robots.txt file, sitemap setup and proper way to submit to the search engines, RSS feeds setup, and the site security and search engine engine access control. Learning the robots.txt file basics and it’s use for site security and search engine access control was something that I was not very familiar with. Similarly the .htaccess file and the Robots Meta plug-in. John showed us in a few easy, but very useful steps on how to properly configure both these files, install them on the server, and then use the plug-in for fine-tuning. I know there is a lot more to learn, but I also know that whatever I have learnt so far is already way more than most professionals even incorporate in their blog setups, and the rest don’t even realize what they are missing out on.

What good would be a perfect site, especially if it is making money for you, and you do not even realize that someone else is using your hard work and making money for himself, for free! Just the thoughts about this gives me creeps now, and now I realize why it is so important that you secure your site at the initial setup time, before you put all the hard work into it. Just like a bank account. It has to be secure before you invest anything into it. And this is something that I would not have learnt on my own, until after getting robbed.

Also, using the above tools and scripts, we can enhance the SEO rankings by easily controlling the search engines’ ability to index and crawl – the way we want it! This is absolutely amazing. I always knew that there is a way to do this, but never imagined how easy and doable it really is. I was under the impression that you need to hire expensive super coders to hand-write the entire code for this for your site.

Competitive Analysis

Competitive analysis was the second step of setting up a WordPress site – so it is profitable and can compete even with the big guys. There was so much learning and teaching involved in this step that if I have to sit here and write everything about it here in this post, it will take hours. In a nutshell, John taught us both the manual and the automatic way to do the following:

• Keyword research – here we learnt how to properly research the keywords that can make us money! That simple. And no, we can not go with the instinct, . Instincts here would be a complete gamble.
• Identifying the competition – I never imagined that it is not the “gut feeling” but proper professional steps that will identify your site’s competition. How can you compete, and win, when you don’t even know who your competition is. And in this step we also learnt how to pick and chose the proper competition to go up against…obviously we can’t and we don’t want to compete with  just about everyone out there.
• Competitive intelligence data gathering – using competition’s source code, meta-data, site description and so many other things, like alexa rankings, yahoo backlinks etc.
• It’s funny how John showed us that we can either use a bunch of paid tools to gather all this data, or the free resources already available on the internet, and still get the same results. I like this approach of John. A true professional is never dependent on any one tool of trade.

In these 2 weeks I think I have learnt enough to put a lot of paid professionals to shame. And I can say this because I have hired and paid these kinds of professionals in the past, and I have experienced their work and results on my dime.

Now we are moving towards applying all that we have learnt so far to the actual site. And I am looking forward to all the exciting new things that I will be learning this coming week. Once again, I am grateful and feel very lucky to have landed this opportunity to learn from a true professional and a generous teacher.

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

View two autoposts I rewrote for my test site:
Engines of Sodor T-Shirt
My Thomas Videos

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! Click here to visit the official WP Robot web site. I hope you enjoy this plugin as much as I do!