SUBJECT: Autoblogging Lesson #4 - Creating An Autoblog

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So now you know the theory of autoblogs, it’s time for the
practise. You will see the exact instructions in the
accompanying videos, but the basic approach is to :

1. Find some keywords to target

2. Register domains based on those keywords

3. Set up Wordpress

4. Install Autoblogging plugins

5. Drive traffic

6. Move on to the next site

The basic installation of Wordpress out of the box from
Fantastico is just fine for an autoblog. You will want to change
a few settings to make your blogs better suited for the search
engines.

Firstly you need to go to Settings and Permalinks and change the
Permalink structure to custom and %postname% as shown below: You
will need to remove the default post and to create the
categories you want for posts. These will depend upon your
keywords. You will also need to change the Link categories and,
again, make those relevant to your website.

You need to edit the About page and make that relevant to your
site and then you are ready to start installing plugins.

For an autoblog you will need the following plugins:

• Google XML Sitemap

• All In One SEO or Platinum SEO

• All In One Adsense And YPN 

• WP Backup

These are enough to set your site up so that it is ready to go.

There are some other plugins you can use which will automate
your site even further. These are paid plugins but will do a
good job. You don’t need all of them, just one of them is enough
to get yourself creating high quality autoblogs.

• WP-Robot : The preferred plugin with a lot of flexibility will
allow you to create a good looking blog from multiple sources
and monetize it in a number of ways

• ReviewAzon : Takes Amazon reviews and uses them as content for
your site. Another good way to build a fully monetized site on
autopilot

• Caffeinated Content : Pulls content from multiple sources to
build a site.

All of these allow you to drip feed content over time. Which
ones you choose to use is up to you and there are many others
out there.

The most basic form of autoblogging is for you to create content
and add it as a post and use the scheduling feature that comes
with Wordpress. This is located on the right hand side of the
post screen under the Publish section. Where it says public
immediately, click the edit option next to it to post date your
content.

You can add plugins such as Twiogle WP Twitter Commenter to your
blog as this will help with integration with Twitter, which is a
good source of traffic, particularly if you have created a good
list of followers.

A plugin such as the Kontera Wordpress plugin will allow you to
seamlessly integrate Kontera ads with your blog. This can be
useful if you do not have an Adsense account or can’t get one.
It also proves useful because it’s another form of monetization
for your website.

If you really want to take your autoblog to the next level then
a plugin such as the SEO Smart Links plugin is worth its weight
in gold.

Basically, this plugin does two things for you, both of which
are extremely useful.

Firstly, it will automatically link keywords and phrases in your
posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories
and tags on your blog. This is very powerful from an SEO
perspective because search engines love to see interlinking
within websites. It demonstrates the site takes its content
seriously enough to link with it as well as ensuring the search
engine spiders find every page of your site.

Secondly, it allows you to set up your own keywords and set of
matching URLs to link to. This means you can set up your blog to
automatically take certain keywords and either link to your
other websites in that niche or to link through to affiliate
products.

Combine this with something like the Pretty Link plugin to cloak
affiliate links and you could be on to a real winner.

Then once this is done you are ready to drive traffic to the
site. You can use traditional SEO techniques for this or perhaps
some of these will work well for you:

• Submit the RSS Feed of your autoblog to the RSS Directories

• Social bookmark pages from within your autoblog

• Submit your autoblog to website directories

• Submit press releases to press release sites / directories

• Create videos to promote your autoblog and submit them to the
video directories

• Article marketing

• Forum marketing

• Yahoo! Answers

All of these are good ways to get your website up and running in
the search engine indexes. If you’ve done some good keyword
research and have a good domain name then it shouldn’t be too
hard for you to rank and start getting traffic.

The aim of the game is to get these sites done quickly and to
roll them out as fast as you can. You need to look at automating
this process as much as possible of even outsourcing it to speed
things up.

You want to repeat this process as many times as you can to
create multiple autoblogs that earn for you on autopilot. The
more you repeat this process, the more money you can potentially
earn. 

To Your Success,
YOUR NAME
YOUR LINK