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Hey again, this post is kind of a part 2 of my previous post on autoblogging, and here I have compiled a list of few autoblog plugins. Some are paid, some others are free. There are many more but I think that list gives a nice overview of what you can get for free or a bit more.

• WPRobot

I think this one is one of the most popular out there. It grabs content from many sources (articles, videos, Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, CJ, LinkShare,  Yahoo Answers, Twitter, RSS and even more) and publish on autopilot. There are tons of features that makes it incredibly powerful.

You can edit templates so the layout of your posts are customized to your own likes, you can mix different sources in the same post… WPRobot can also rewrite or translate posts giving you even more unique content.

WPRobot uses different modules. There are several packages you can buy,  the full version that comes with everything ($169) and certainly the most recommended one, the content version (for adding various content and medias), the money version with all making money modules.

You can also customize your order and select only the modules you want. And you can also get the devleopper license if you want to sell your websites later. It may be a bit pricy but it’s certainly the most complete autoblog plugin on the market.

Check out WPRobot.

• Caffeinated Content

This is another powerful autoblog plugin at just $77. It will also publish RSS, articles, videos, Yahoo Answers. These are less sources than WPRobot but you can still monetize with AdSense and other affiliate offers. Caffeinated Content also use a template system so you can customize your posts.

It can also rewrite and translate posts. This is a great plugin. Check out Caffeinated Content

There are some more, but I won’t list them. The two above are the most recommended and used by pro autobloggers (yes it seems you can be a pro doing nothing). Many other plugins will do the same, more or less but these ones are constantly updated and are stable.

Now you have other options, and I’m talking about FREE autoblog plugins. I’ve not tested them since I think you can do it yourself. I will try few ones on this list though I already own few paid autoblog plugins. But really, when something is free, just try it and see if it’s good enough for you, don’t wait for someone to do all the work for you.

• WPArticleFetch

You don’t even need to subscribe to download this. But you should know this plugin removes all links in articles. So if you find it unethical for authors, don’t use it. They say on the download page they will update it with new posting capabilities: YouTube, Yahoo! Answers and re-writing. A training video walk you through the plugin functions on their site.

• WP-O-Matic

This one is known by many. It will grab RSS sources and publish content on your blog. I’ve seen it may not be working very well on WordpPress versions above 2.6 but some others also said it does work… So, you’l have to try and see.

• EazePress

Another plugin that posts from RSS feeds. It extracts full text from feeds so you can have full articles posted. You’ll have to check if it works with your version of WordPress. Update : it’s actually a modified version of WP-o-Matic, didn’t work for me, only partial feeds were posted.

• WP-YA Grabber

I was amazed to discover this one was free. This is a Yahoo! Answers grabber, it will take questions from YA and publish those. Questions become the title, the description becomes the body of the post and answers become comments. Really great. You will have to set up a cron job at your host so it automatically posts new content, they show you how to do it. But you can also run it when you want to have new posts publish on the go. Watch the video that explains how o make it work but it’s really easy.

Update! Found some other autoblogging plugins for you. Test these too.

• Multipress Content Lite

Okay this one is probably the most complete of the free autoblog plugins I’ve found, remember I didn’t test it but on the paper it sounds really good. The download page mentions a full version but this may only available once you have installed it as I didn’t see a link to the paid version.

Anyway Multipress Content Lite can publish articles from the 3 largest article directories, YouTube Videos, Rss feeds, Flickr and Yahoo! Answers. That sounds pretty good, right?

I may give it a shot myself, I have few domains that I do nothing with so I’ll use these to setup autoblogs and test these free plugins separately. I’ll post an entry then with my results.

Update2

• Unique Article Wizard WordPress plugin

I can’t believe I missed this one the first time I pubslished this post. Well here’s the fix. So Unique Article Wizard plugin is the plugin that allows you to receive on your blog, for free content submitted by subscribers of Unique Article Wizard. The system generates unique version from submitted articles and you get yours. There’s actually more version of this plugin for various platforms (Drupal, Article directory scripts, blogspot by email…)

–End of update–

With the two plugins I mentioned in my previous post to optimize duplicate content, these free plugins may get really better than free.

Okay that’s it for now I hope you’ll do good use of these autoblog plugins and start profiting a little bit of autoblogging. Don’t be lazy, these will do much of the work for you, but few backlinks here and there will be worth the extra effort. If you can get some search engine traffic, then your AdSense clicks should be paying higher too.

You can of course monetize your traffic with anything you want providing you don’t break any rule.

Hope you’ve enjoyed that post. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Tom

Okay, so my last post was about making money with duplicate content and we saw that if your website had more authority than others (like article directories), then your website is going to be prefered by search engines and voted the most relevant. That’s actually how article directories are ranking in Google for the same exact content.

Now, if writing content is not where the work is since you don’t have to write a sing le word, then your work is to build backlinks so it gain a bit of trust and become the authority. It would be better to have specific niche autoblogs so all your content is relevant, and you don’t go compete with eZineArticles, at least for your domain, instead of tons of different topics (I may be wrong, I know). For inner pages (or actually posts) you’ll still have to build backlinks there.

Again republishing content is not going to get you penalized, banned from Google index. There is no duplicate content penalty in that way. Your version is simply not going to be listed in the results since it’s the same as the original and no more relevant for the user.

If you find content that is ranking well without too much backlinks, then you can republish it and build few backlinks there to see if you can outrank it. Try it, make your own experiments and conclusions.

Or you can optimize that content.

Remember, you can’t change anything in the article itself. But you can change things around or in the background to have your site ranks in place of the original versions. So, here are  two autoblog plugins for WordPress that will take care of it for you, they are both different but boh effective.

WP Unique

Okay WPUnique is not really an autoblogging plugin. It will not publish articles automaticall on your blog. But this one is a kind of magic.

WP Unique is a plugin by Steven Fullman, and what it does is encoding your blog posts so they look unique to search engines. To the reader both version are exactly the same but in the source code the content is not readable, at least by us. But to search engines it is.

WPUnique has been launched a year ago, and is regularly upgraded and still works like a charm. I encourage you to watch the videos on WPUnique website to discover the features. You can now choose to make all your posts unique, convert keywords to affiliate links automatically, and even auto-spin the content. So each time you refresh a blog post it appears different.

This is an awesome plugin. If you want to build some easy niche blogs without hard work then get this. It will work with any auto blog plugins. I think I’m going to get it since it’s quite cheap and I will make it work with an autoblog plugin that publish Amazon products. So I’ll try to rank better than Amazon for products people want to buy!

Check out WPUnique, there are videos explaining it all.

There is an upsell for the developper license at $127, so you can sell your websites! Now this can be a huge opportunity to create sites super quickly with no content writing work on your part! It they rank and get traffic then you already can sell it for some nice money, even without revenue!

WP Easy Content (aka WP Content Re-Optimizer)

This one is a great one too that I’m probably going to buy before November 1st. Because I know from the author price is going to raise at this date. The author is Oz, I’ve told you about him and his great RAMOS report (still under $2) and free SEOn Trial report.

What WP Easy Content does is reoptimizing your content. It will republish articles with just adding a paragraph or  two before and after the article.

“But I thought you have to leave the article intact.”

That’s correct! And the plugin does it for you automatically, it comes with preset text blocks that you can modify for your keywords. Between these text blocks is the title and the article completely untouched. But you have a bit more optimized content around it. It doesn’t break any TOS and your content looks better, a bit more unique, for search engines so you get some better rankings.

In the new version of WP Easy Content everything is done automatically. Importing content from multiple sources, yes this one is a n autoblogging plugin) and adding the text blocks. If you think about it you can do this manually too! That’s what Oz tried before releasing this plugin, and it worked.

So even if you don’t purchase the plugin, you can build few sites very easily and very fast. Just write a couple paragraphs, copy and paste an article in between and you’re done. In one day you could have 2 or 3, and even more sites completely done if you do it manually.

With WP Easy Content you build them in minutes.

Get WP Easy Content now, currently at $47, it will increase to $67 or $97 on November 1st.

Okay so the two plugins above are taking content and make it look more unique to search engines. They are both warmly recommended. I’ll give you my review soon of both but I can assure you they received great feedback from users and both authors provide excellent customer service.

In my next post I’ll tell you more about other autoblog plugins, some paid… some FREE!

Nope! I didn’t fail on my challenge, of course it’s not over. But if you were waiting for my new post yesterday, you saw… nothing! Iactually wrote the pot and saved it as a draft ’cause I wanted to make few additions and start to write a part 2 for the next day… today. And I forgot about publishing the first part.

So in my previous post we talked about ranking duplicate content. So I thought it was a good idea to talk about autoblogging, and if you read carefully you’ll see you can quickly build sites and add content that ranks with very little work, no plugins needed.

Of course plugins helped and I’ll let you read the post in few minutes. I just want all posts to get pinged and I set my blog ping optimizer to ping only once every 15 minutes. So in 15 minutes from now you’ll see what you should have seen yesterday. And a bit later, the second part.

Have a great day.

Tom

Yesterday I blogged about article marketing and duplicate content. So we viewed that you can market your website with articles and have the same content on your website. If the articles link to your website then it shows search engines your website is the original version and they should favor your version in the results.

But can you use others content and build a website that can make you money. The short answer is yes. People who make autoblogs usually use and exclusively use duplicate content. Plugins grab content from different sources and publish these on your blog. This can be articles of course, as well as YouTube videos, Yahoo! Answers, Amazon products, eBay listings…

All this content is of course duplicate content. If you manage to get traffic to your website you can make money. And if you can’t afford autoblogging plugins (I’ll post about some later), you can publish articles yourself, manually. For articles, republishing suppose that you keep the articles intact, keeping all the text and links.

You can then promote your duplicate content sites normally as you would for your own unique content. If you build good quality backlinks to your website,

You can own a mini article directory in a specific niche. If you think about it, article marketers submit their articles to multiple article directories, so there are duplicate content already out there. Your website is just  hosting this content at another place. Of course, your job would be to make your website the authority for this content so it receives traffic.

Now, you can already know what content is already ranking. If you can see an eZineArticles article ranking on the first page of Google for a keyword, you could tryto outrank it. Just check the number of backlinks. Use SEOQuake (a firefox plugin) to know how many backlinks are pointing to the EzineArticles, and maybe you can republish it with more backlinks on your website.

It would be interesting to make a case study. But basically, you know that search engines serve the most relevant results for a given search. Then it determines which has enough authority to rank. If that content ranks well elsewhere, it should rank well on your site, so build backlinks.

Your monetization methods:

• AdSense (can pay good money if you target high paying keywords, take some with at least a $0.50 cpc)
• Other contextual ad networks
• Amazon
• Affiliate programs
• CPA offers

…actually, any kind of monetization that you would use for your own site.

I’ll have to expand on this further, with a case study as I said, and talking about autoblogging plugins too. Also, on ranking with duplicate content, you may also download the free SEOn Trial report which will show you a website could rank with no content.

See ya soon!

Okay so my post about article marketing super basics was just that, basics. I want to talk about article marketing and duplicate content. I don’t know what you know about it but you may be scared about duplicate content. However I can assure you, it will not eat you, it’s not a big hungry monster.

So what can you consider duplicate content?

Well this is the same content published at different locations on the web.

Is this a problem?

Yes and No. Yes, if you publish twice the same article on your website or blog. There is actually no point for you to do it, and Google may think “Hmm, is this guy trying to spam the index?”

So, don’t publish the same content on your website twice, once is enough.

No, it’s not a problem if you publish your article on your website and then to article directories, as long as these articles will point to the original version on your website.

Why?

Well, if Google finds that the original first version was on eZineArticles, then your blog post is the copy, even if it’s not true. But eZineArticles may get indexed faster than your blog post. So some people will prefer to wait that there blog post is indexed before submitting the same content to article directories. I’m not sure it is necessary.

If all article directories link to your blog post, then they are passing the authority to the blog post. They’re telling Google, we’re “voting fot this website”. And Google should favor your blog.

Now, remember if you’re marketing your website with articles, the purpose is to gain backlinks, so actually, even if the content is the same, you don’t really care if the articles don’t show in the results for the search query.

Let me explain with an example.

You have submitted the same article to 300 article directories, you have done what it takes to optimize the article at its best. The article got approved everywhere and you did what it takes to have Google find out about every location it is on. Cool.

Let’s say your article is the most relevant content in the eyes of Google. Then the article is going to rank first for the keyword you optimized it for. But since it is the most relevant content, it could also rank number 2, 3, 4 etc. until 300 article directories are listed.

Well it doesn’t work like that, FORTUNATELY, or search engines job would be worthless. Search engines job is to serve the most relevant content to your search query. By showing you 300 times the same content they’re not really optimizing your experience.

So Google determines which article has the most authority for that same content. Let’s say it finds out it is eZineArticles, and the article there rank first. Google still knows about other article directories and has counted them, with the backlinks to your blog post.

However it will not include the other article directories, since you already got that information served.

Then, all the backlinks have shown your blog post was the authority since 300 sites were linking to that version of the article. You get the boost and become the authority. You may not rank as high as eZineArticles because of the domain power they have (age, backlinks, content indexed…)

Of course, SEO is a consistent game.

You can of course submit the same article to article drectories and have different and completely unique content on your website. That’s certainly the best thing to do, though it requires more work.

What about article spinning?

Spining content was made to have enough unique content so search engines can serve multiple version of your articles.

As we saw, Google will serve one version of your content, if it finds the same version elsewhere then there is no interest for the end user, this result is omitted.

So spinning an article allows you to make your article unique enough so Google doesn’t see it as a duplicate version. So for the same keyword, your article can be listed more than once. You may see eZineArticles on first page, ArticleBase and ArticleSnatch on page 2, Goarticles on page 3.

The purpose is to get more traffic.

Is it worth it?

Again, Yes and No. Yes you may get more traffic, but it takes time to rewrite and spin an article. If you focus your time on how to write articles in 10 minutes or less then you may have more articles to submit. If you decide to spin all your articles, you’re not writing for another keyword.

Basically you optimize for one keyword, so the same people who saw your eZineArticles will see the one on ArticlesBase, etc.

I have to admit I used content spinner and they certainly are useful, I know many others will say it’s not but I think they can be very effective. The best spinner is… The Best Spinner. It’s $84 a year I think, there are many others but this one is super easy to use and is super fast at creating multiple versions.

I came accross another product: Content Professor. It seems to do the same but it is web based. It’s still in beta version so you can join for free and use it. I’m trying it now and it seems to work well.

Now for simple article marketing use, I’m not sure it is al worth it if you want to link to your website. Sure your article will show more than once but with time, rankings start to fade.

EXCEPT IF you boost them. Now this is how spinning can be interesting. See it like this:

You write only one article. Spin it. Distribute it. Backlink 5 to 10 versions. If you think you can acquire 100 backlinks for each version of your article and these versions are all unique enough, then they may all rank very well. If you can get these 5 to 10 locations to rank on page one and 2 that’s certainly a great thing.

Now you also have to keep in mind that when you write one article, you do it to optimize for one keyword, maybe two. So you certainly want to choose keywords that get enough traffic, buying keywords with good traffic even better.

There is also some other use of article spinning that we’ll see in a future post.

BUT I hear you say, why not acquire backlinks for my own website. And you’d be right too. You can certainly write 5 to 10 articles to publish on your website and acquire 100 backlinks for each. You may need more backlinks depending on the competition you’re facing but this way, you’re promoting your website, your business. That’s a smart thing to do.

So what to do? Well I’ll send you back to the article marketing super basics post. I told you it depends on what you want to do. If you want to build an authority website, you’ll need quality content and backlinks to your pages. If you want to boost your articles, you’ll need to backlink them, and may not need to optimize your website for search engines. You’ll get traffic from article directories.

• To sum up, you can submit the same article to multiple article directories
• You can’t publish twice the same article on your website
• You decide what website should get a boost, your own or the article directory, depending on your goal

Enough for today.

Hello world, since it seems I’m blogging a bit these days, maybe I should challenge myself to write at least one blog post per day here on Internet Marketing Trip. I wanted to announce it yesterday, before my article marketing super basics but I forgot to. So the first day is today and the first post to count will be the next one.

Welcome to the 30 Days Blogging Challenge

This is something I already thought about in the past and maybe I even already tried it. Anyway, making a challenge public is supposed to force you to achieve it because you don’t want to fail publicly. If you’re starting online and have a blog, why not do the same? You can tell me about your blog in the comment and we can motivate each others.

If you don’t know what to blog about, you may simply tell your readers what you’ve been doing the previous day and share your progress as you go. If you’re not really into internet marketing and don’t really care about making an online income, you may have to do some keyword research and check what people interested in your topic are looking for.

Why not ask them in your challenge announcement?

What do you want me to write about?

Of course you need some traffic to have people answer your question.

• Do you have a facebook, twitter account? Then ask your friends to visit your blog and give you ideas.
• Visit article directories such as eZineArticles and search for your topic it will show you what others are writing about.
• Visit forums related to your topic (search Google: your keyword forum) and see what people are talking or are asking about. You may even join the forum and engage in conversation. Then tell them you have written that post on your blog to help them.
• Go to Yahoo! Answers. There are tons of people questionning about any kind of subjects. This will give you ides, you can of course answer those questions and provide the full URL to your blog post.
• Go to YouTube. Informative videos can be considered as articles, in another format. But still they are giving information to people. Why not write an article from the knowledge you get there.
• You can blog about other blogs. Maybe you are subscribed to a newsletter and the guy pblished a very interesting post that you know will benefit others. You may also visit a certain blog frequently and want to mention the author that does a great job.

Okay this should be enough to provide you some ideas, I should have titled that pos how to got tons of ideas for your blog posts or articles

So I engage in blogging every day for one month, and on November 22nd I should have 30 more posts added to this blog which currently counts 143 published posts, 144 with this one. So my goal is to show you 174 posts next month. And maybe there would be some unexpected results too.

An habit becomes a habit when you repeat it enough so it becomes a routine. The average is 21 days, so by doing it every day I may become a blogger…

See you in the first step;)

Tom

If you are an affiliate, then building review websites is certainly something you already have heard about, and even been doing for some time. As I already mentioned sometimes here, I build my websites with WordPress. I have even created a little pack of rating stars you can download and use for your reviews on your sites.

But to make things easier, there are some plugins that you can just… plug in to WordPress that let your visitors rate posts or pages. Actually they rate a product or service, and write their review in the comment box. What does that mean ? Well the post to describe the product is written by you, with your affiliate link. But reviews are written for you, by users.

Of course you can write your own in the comments, maybe to have at least one review, if you have used the product yourself. In any case, your post would then only have to describe the product.

The plugins let you rate products on multiple criteria that you define yourself. There are 3 plugins you can use to do this. You should visit their respective site to decide which one is the best for you. There are 2 paid plugins and one free that I have to show you.

• WP Review Site : $97 for one site, $199 for multiple site. You can see how it looks on http://www.awardwinninghosts.com/, where web hosting companies are reviewed. You can define your affiliate links for the keywords, there’s also a widget you can use in the sidebar, so the products listed show the average rating.
• WFReview : $139 and you can install it on unlimited websites. It has more features than the other ones, just see the video on the home page and you’ll see all the things possible. You can automatically generate reviews for example, scrap directories to make automatic posts, define affiliate links for specific keywords…
• GD Star Rating : This is the free one. You are able to use multi rating, and there are also many graphic sets to download. So if you want to rate with hearts or thumbs up instead of stars, just download a set you like. I guess you can even design your own set to use the plugin. You can also add ratings for the comments. There is a widget you can use in the sidebar too. You’ll find tutorials on customization, graphics, widgets… The plugin is free, however the premium support is paid ($25.00 per hour), but with the tutorials you may not have that much problems. Of course you can comment on the GD Star Rating website and the creator will answer your questions.

So if you’d have to go for a paid one, I guess WFReview should be preferred as it is cheaper for a multiple site license use. Both paid ones have a forum support. But GD Star Rating is free and certainly worth a try as it offers what most affiliates need.

It’s been a while since I didn’t post here, my last one was “Happy New Year”. So, 2 months later I may have a few things to say. I think I will not be able to tell you everything I’ve done in one post now, but I promise that the very next days and posts will be more detailed and, I hope, informative. I think I’ll also write a post on “what I’ve learnt since I started Internet Marketing”.

What I’ve done ?

Principally, I’ve used the Conduit Method, by Chris Rempel to build and markets few websites. This is something I already mentioned here, I know, but this can’t hurt to tell you again how simple and profitable this is.And again the Chris Rempel’s VIP reports are cheap and can immediately be put into action. Now, just a tip, if after you buy one of his VIP reports you get an upsell that allows you to get all others VIP reports, even the ones that are not released yet, then take this opportunity.

(I don’t want to sound like I’m hard selling, but if you are looking for simple and smart ways to make money online, then I hugely recommend you buy Chris Rempel stuff, at least take the Conduit Method, it’s only $14.95.)

There was a comment recently on this blog about Chris Rempel stuff I promote, someone said it was good to say a product is good but you have to use it. I replied that I am using it and am making money with this. I’ve always wondered if I should add screenshots of some affiliate networks accounts to show proof. I’ve always thought there will be people who say you edited your pictures with Photoshop, or you’re just bragging about your earnings. Also I am not sure it helps anyone to show a screenshot.

Plus, by outsourcing few tasks like article writing I’ve been able to do much more things. My productivity increased and speaking of this…

Productivity

I’ve joined the Wake Up Productive program by Eben Pagan. By the name you have guessed this course teach you how to be more productive. This is a good course that is spread on 12 weeks. It’s $297, and currently closed. It was opened for a very short time at the end of december, or maybe start of January.

However, just after I joined, I downloaded a free interview Jazon Katzenback (aka JohnCow.com) did with Mark Joyner. Mark Joyner is a big name in the Internet Marketing industry. The report was about planning in 2009. And (I’m sure many of you already know this website), I discovered Simpleology. Believe it or not, I didn’t know about this website 3 months ago, but this is an extremely high value resource.

Simpleology 101, the simple science of getting what you want. Create an account there, it is free. You’ll get a full course on productivity and how to manage your time better and get many more things done. And you know what ? I prefer the Simpleology website than the Wake Up Productive course. Why ? There is a community forum, support, and tons of free resources, and a lesson (video, ebook to print, audio) to learn and practice everyday. With Wake Up Productive, you have one lesson (video too) each week (12 weeks) to practice and integrate to your routine. The only way to communicate with others is via comments, just like any other blog

Don’t get me wrong, Wake Up Productive is very good too, Eben style is great and there is a high value in it that’s what I stayed in this program too, but I guess this is better to take these kind of programs one by one, and not at the same time.

Since Mark Joyner is an internet marketer too, be prepared to receive some emails that promotes many of his products. However, you will receive more free stuff from Simpleology, you don’t have to buy anything more if you don’t want too. But I suggest you keep the emails he sends you, because when he offers something this is at a discounted price, if you then want to buy it from Simpleology you may not get this same discount.

Now something that you MUST read too : I got an email for one of his book : Mind Control Marketing. The email said that this book was so big that he had to stop selling it. And people started to resell their version on Amazon Marketplace or eBay for something like $500. I didn’t believe it really, so I checked Amazon and eBay, and searched for Mind Control Marketing. And indeed, this is the case. But you can now get the ebook version for only $27 if you create an account with Simpleology.

As for the free resources I mentioned, these are the ebook version of his bestsellers “The Irresistible Offer” or “The Great Formula”, still selling well at Amazon.

Damn I’m not even getting paid for telling you about this ! There is something inside Simplology 102, the simple science of money ($97 but you’ll get an offer to have it free with another product that you can try for $1, I did), and this is about “Word of Mouth”, that is the most powerful marketing model for your business.

Thinking about creating my own product

I don’t know really if it will be about Internet Marketing or launching online business, if I’ll write it in French or English and many other things. I’ve signed up for an InfoMillionaire membership, this is a course by Frank Kern, and a good one. Basically, you send traffic to a squeeze page that redirects to an affiliate program. You then create your own product, and market it to the list you just built. You need to create a product that is better than the one you are promoting, and of course you now have a targeted list to market to.

I don’t know if I will stay in the InfoMillionaire membership, I have received 2 monthly issues for now. This is very good yes, but I know there are other courses that can teach you how to create your own product and how to build your list. And oh, the 2 last Chris Rempel VIP reports are The Rapid List Profit Formula, and the 24 Hour Hot Product Formula.

The 24 Hour Hot Product Formula hast just been released, it is live from yesterday. I didn’t have time to read it, but I can tell you it’s 28 pages, and that this is the method Chris Rempel used to create $76k in December 2008. What he says is that Affiliate Marketing is great, no inventory, no customer support, but then you have all the promotion and traffic generation work to do. Creating your own product can be done in 24 hours, and doesn’t take that much effort, even less than being an affiliate. And all the promotion and traffic generation is done by… affiliates. When I will have read it I’ll provide a review as always.

Video Marketing

I joined Easy Video Sales few months ago, a course created by Jason Moffatt, and thus have started a bit of video marketing. Video websites receive high traffic and why not have some more exposure for your websites ? So I have made a few videos for some offers but I was concerned by getting more traffic, not just YouTube.

I have tried Video Post Robot, a software that automates your video submission to 18 video websites. It used to be more but some repeated bugs lead the team to remove some. Is it good ? Well, yes it is. How much ? $197. I said I tried, this means I asked for a refund. Now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t really have to stay with it.

I wanted a refund because it always failed to upload to YouTube (and Yahoo Videos and MSN). I’ve checked many times my settings and “Status = Failed”. YouTube being the BIG one, I thought it was really bad if it can’t upload there. But actually, it would have been only 3 websites where I would have to upload manually. Anyway, I think you should check it out for yourself, and don’t worry, you have 30 days to try it, if you want a refund you just ask the customer service team and they are very friendly.

Maybe you will have more success with your uploads, there are other automation softwares I want to try. When you need to get more things done you need to automate some parts of your business, and you either do it by outsourcing or use the tools that can do it automatically.

This post is a bit long now and I still have things to say. But I’ll finish with this :

Free Stuff

Just because I like free stuff and I know we all like it, here are the things that I have came accross recently that may help some of you :

Simpleology. Again that’s free and will teach you how to get more productive and manage your time better. That’s cool !
2009 Planning – The Mark Joyner interview by Jason Katzenback.
(I just visit JohnCow.com for the link above, and that reminds me he wrote a nice free ebook : How to Build a Business Not Just A Blog, you’ll find it easily there).
CPA Marketing – I got an email, I don’t remember who sent me this, but this is a free report that would certainly be useful to those who want to try CPA Marketing, it has been very hot recently. So if you want to do or already are doing some Pay Per Click marketing then grab it. This is written by Gauher Chaudhry, from PPC Classroom.

I’ll post again tomorrow. Have a nice day, or night depending on where you live.

One question first, do you know G-Lock Software ? This company creates small softwares for webmasters/internet marketers that can really be useful and a nice alternative too expensive solutions.

Their main product is G-Lock Easy Mail, it’s a mailing list management tool, which you can send your newsletter or promotional emails with. There’s a free, a personal and a business version. That’s cool to send to your list, but you first need to build it.

Now the title of this post is Free Ultimate Email Marketing Guide, so go check their free. Actually you have the choice to buy and download it for $19 or read it completely free online. The guide is available on the G-Lock Easy Mail website which actually is a great resource blog for email marketing. They have many posts for getting a list and take the maximum out of it.

They have created a free WordPress plugin, named WP Double Opt-In List Management Plugin (available on the G-Lock Easy Mail website too). You can add it as a widget to your blog, the users who register will be added to your WP database and you will be able to manage your list from WordPress, sending an automatic confirmation email and welcome email. You can then export your list or link it to G-Lock Easy mail, I don’t know if the list, once exported can be used with another email software, but I think that should be possible.

Two other G-Lock softwares may interest you :

• Fast Blog Finder (download – homepage)
• Fast Directory Submitter (download – homepage)

Both have a free trial and paid version. The first will search the internet for blogs related to yours, so you can go and comment on them for backlinks. The second is an automatic directory submission software. There are currently more than 2800 directories it can submit too, but it’s for the paid version. You can still use the free version and submit your website or blog to 150 directories.

Finally you can check G-Lock Software website if you want more details about them.

I got 2 emails from Dean Hunt this week and I now take the time to spread the word about the possibility of your WordPress blogs getting hacked. Actually, Dean saw his rankings dropped for no visible reason until he discovered some hidden links in his footer. You can’t see these links, but Google can and hundreds of links saying “Buy Viagra” in your footer isn’t really good for SEO, especially if you don’t have a Viagra website.

The full story can be read here : Has Your WordPress Blog Been Hacked ?. It will tell you how to be protected.

Dean was in the top 25 make money online blogs when it happened to him, so he created a tool that checks your Google cache. It will show you the external links from your website, so if at the bottom of the list you can see some spamming links, then something is wong. The tool is the cache checker.

See the following post Dean made : Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs Hacked. Dean checked the top 100 blogs to find if there blogs were hacked, and he found anoter one, Affiliate Confessions.

What’s the end of the story ? Getting hacked gets you backlinks ! Hmm, just kidding. Use the Cache Checker tool and see if you’re safe, and read the posts from Dean to be protected.

For those who were wondering if I’m still alive (about 0.6 person), I’m still busy with my review works but almost done. They will be the base of some case studies as I am combining some of the few techniques I learnt to make and use reviews (and make a bit of cash).