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A ping from your blog tells other places around the internet you have put up a new post. Some sites collect these pings and are always being followed by the search engines robots which are looking for new content. These ping services such as Pingoat.com often also link into other sites which will add your blogs link to their pages.

I am a hoarder, if I can find something to collect I will. That goes for online marketing goodies too, like domain names, ebooks and anything else I can get my hands on. It was this hoarding which has lead to me having far too many domain names to keep track of, therefore some get left behind. One of those blogs was ArticlesAnd.info, recently found languishing with an out of date wordpress version and a dead front page due to an expired plugin.

I decided I quite liked the look as it had been made to be an article repository and for articles to be added by authors and used by others on their sites. It looked like an article directory due to the plugins and a great theme which was intended to do so. But it also looked dead, 9,000 + articles had been scraped up until the scraper plugin or the site it linked to went AWOL.  So the look was staying, but what else can you do with a site called Articles And Info?

Now I had to decide what I was going to do to try to monetize the blog, and keep it adding content. The first parts was discussed when I wrote about the uContext plugin I had discovered which monetises the blog with links to keywords going to Clickbank Products. The second part was key to keeping the search engines and hopefully people coming back for another look, how to add content regularly while remaining lazy.

The answer came in another handy plugin, the Smart Autoblogger currently available for just $7 as I write this post. This plug in will add posts it creates from a zip file you point it to which contains txt files. As I personally collect all sorts of stuff, I had tons of PLR articles (Private Label Rights) which means I have tons of content for lots of different subjects.

With that in mind I added the Smart Autoblogger plugin  to ArticlesAnd.info and looked at some of the empty categories. I searched for some articles on my hard drive and then found a little more work had to be done. The Smart Autoblogger plugin uses the txt file name to create a title, so I had to ensure they would look ok, a quick Google found a small program which will rename batches of files by removing numbers and hyphens from the filenames, and replace the hyphens with spaces. Perfect for renaming the articles to make good looking titles.

I rezipped the files and added them to the blog using the Smart Autoblogger plugin which then found the txt files, and automatically scheduled them according to some rules I set. I added several sets of txt files to be scheduled over a few weeks in various categories (did I mention autoblogger lets you choose categories for each set of articles?).

So with automated dripfed content, and automatic Clickbank product linking with a touch of Google Adsense added for good measure my scattergun blog will hopefully make a little money from its various categories. Even if that one doesn’t I can leave it alone and start another WordPress blog on another of my hoarded domains and automate it in a similar way. It doesn’t take long to setup and if they fail well it’s all a learning experience.

P.S. the links to Smart Autoblogger go directly to the sales page, I make nothing from any of the sales it might get, this link is to help you and only you dear readers.

WordPress Plugins Which Are Better Free Or Premium?
It sounds like a bit of a stupid question really, we are bound to expect more from something we buy because it then holds a value we can measure. But there is a good reason for asking this question at this time, because blogging in general and WordPress in particular are huge money makers for some people.

If you want proof of the amount being made from WordPress Plugins, sign up for some internet marketers emails and you will quickly understand what I’m getting at. In my experience over half the emails I get are promoting Warrior Special Offers (WSO) offering WordPress plugins for marketers to automate someof their blogging chores. The demand must be high, or there wouldn’t be marketers spending time to promote them, but for us the people buying them are they worth it?

I’m going to sit on the fence a little here and say maybe. The reason for my non comittal stance on this is because some of the WSO WordPress Plugins are worth their asking price  and some(see our reviews of  WP Simplicity and WPSalesAutomator ) because they do something that is difficult to do with a free alternative as in the case of WPSalesAutomator  for which I hunted high and low for free plugins to do the same job and most were either extremely complicated or plain didn’t work. In the case of   WP Simplicity it does so much and saves so much time when creating and running blogs it’s worth the cost as opposed to the time you’d spend otherwise.

On the flip side of the Plugins coin though, some of the offers I’m getting are really not worth buying as there are free plugins available from right within the WordPress add Plugins search which will do the job more than adequately. I’m not knocking the products being offered at a price, because I haven’t tried them all but those I haven’t bought are not missed in my blogging campaigns because of the freely available alternatives.

A little research for what you need the plugin to do could save you some cash which could be used elsewhere in your blogging empire. In most cases a simple plugin will do what you need quickly without lots of bells and whistles which you’d pay extra for in a premium plugin. At the end of the day though you pays your money (or not) and takes your choice, but a little time spent doing the research could find just the right plugin for free and it pays to remember that because something costs money it is no guarantee it will be right for the job either.

Easy Link Exchanging With your WordPress Blogs

If you didn’t already know it, one thing which can help your blog get more traffic is backlinks. Backlinks are any link which points to your site. The more links you have pointing to your site the better, not just in the hope someone will click on the link from someone elses site, but also for Search Engine rankings.

Search engines (some of the major ones anyway) use the amount of links going to a site as part of the algorithm for deciding its position. That oversimplifies it somewhat as they also take into account many other factors but for the benefit of brevity and staying on topic we’ll just say that more backlinks will help your ranking in the search engines.

There are lots of ways to get links back to your site, such as writing and submitting articles, which is highly recommended as it gives you one way inbound links which count more towards your score. Another way which can help is by exchanging links with other site owners.

As the phrase “link exchange” implies, you will be exchanging a link for a link. So in other words you find someone with a similar site to yours, link to them and they in turn put a link on their site back to yours. With a blog this can seem a difficult and time consuming occupation, as you’d need to post a new page for your link exchange partners, and edit it each time you add a new link.

WordPress comes with a built in link system called a Blogroll, which shows the links you add to it on your site. Obviously this could become unsightly and take up a lot of space in the sidebar as you start getting more and more link exchanges made. Because WordPress blogs are easily upgraded to perform new tasks with “plugins” it isn’t as hard as it may seem to deal with link exchanges using the Blogroll.

You can download the Blogroll Page Plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-links which turns your blogroll sidebar widget into a full blown links page. Each time you add a link to your blogroll it will be added to the page. It even allows categories to be used to segregate the links however you wish.

Increase your sites visibility start your link exchange process today, it’s easy now you know how to make WordPress Blogroll work for you.

Article by Douglas Titchmarsh (c)