Was recently exposed to a new sub-set of Internet marketing involving automatic content generation. A quick review of some of the tools available in this area suggests the content is generated from RSS feeds you program into the tool’s back-end/configuration area. (Disclaimer: I suggest you read into these tools a bit more — I have not personally used any of these programs as of yet.)
A few of these programs you may be interested in:
- WordPress AutoBlogged – http://www.autoblogged.com/ (did not respond to an e-mail inquiry of mine regarding links to sample sites created with this tool but still might be legitimate — saw them advertised on Facebook ads)
- WP AutoBlogger – http://www.wpautoblogger.com
- AutoBlogger Pro – http://www.autobloggerpro.com/
The tools are a bit pricey but they may prove to be an excellent investment if leveraged appropriately. But before opening your wallet, you may want to take a look at an open source alternative — which I consider an excellent CMS designed for a niche group involved with onling news publication. This program is called Pligg (www.pligg.com) and appears to have a solid community base supporting further development of the software. If this program does not have all the features available with the commercial applications, you should have no problem finding a freelance PHP/MySQL programmer on the web that can implement those features for you.
On the subject of blogging, you might be interested in visiting http://www.problogger.net/ for useful tips and resources geared to help you become a successful blogger. The author of this site apparently is able to make a living blogging full time so you should be able to learn quite a bit here.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Nice article. I hadnt heard of pligg before.
There’s another content generator thats getting alot of buzz lately called datapresser (www.datapresser.com).
I havent tried it, but I did some reearch on it and there are a ton of good reviews. It looks like it doesnt use RSS feeds or anything like those other ones you mentioned.
January 10th, 2010 at 7:03 am
Pretty good article about autoblogging. However, my advice is to visit http://www.wordpressrobot.com and see what all the features are. For sure the most advanced autoblog plugin available! There is not an plugin that brings such a lot features.