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Tips For Creating Autoblogs With Wordpress
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Are you looking for ways that will help you in creating autoblogs with WordPress? But before you that, you need to gain familiarity with the word “auto blogs” In simple words, auto blogs can be create using RSS feeds of websites that publish them. They are defined as self updating blogs and hence the owner doesn’t have to write content pertaining to them. In case of autoblogging, you need the user doesn’t has to follow the usual technique of writing the contents or pasting the articles from any article website. Instead, here the user needs to automate the content followed by linking it into their blog. All you need to do is opt for the right mindset and let things going.
An autoblog is in no way different from any normal blog. Auto updating websites are believed to be a superb way for starting on the internet and are quite simple to set up. After the set up these have different uses that help a webmaster to make enough money.
Being an auto blogger your prime jobs lies in managing expectations. A wise auto blogger is one who knows the process of using auto blogs for inviting tens and thousands of visitors per month to his website and convert a couple of them into money making revenue. Once, you succeed in achieving this, then there’s no looking back.
Let us now check out a couple of autoblogging tools. Why? Well, for the simple reason that if you are making use of autoblogging, then opting for a single auto blogging may not be sufficient. In that case, you need to look for other avenues for creating auto blogs with WordPress. In other words, you need to look for ways that would help you in creating multiple auto blogs at a single go. You may be in need of some kind of reseller, for instance a Virtual Private Server which would help you in managing several domains as well as separate domains for each of the auto blogs.
Creating autoblogs with WordPress is believed to be one amongst the most viable options. With the help of WordPress, you are free to set up an auto blogging platform within five minutes or so. All you need to do is install WordPress together with plugins like FeedWordpress or WP-O-Matic
From my personal experience, I would say that the features of WP-O-Matic are a bit superior as compared to the features of FeedWordpress. In terms of effectiveness, both provide similar thing. Moreover, the blackhatters possibly give a damn care to the features as long as they find the blogs going great guns.
With the help of WP-O-Matic you can incorporate feed into various categories. However, in case of FeedWordpress, you are barred from taking up this option. Instead, while working with FeedWordpress, you will note that each and every post of yours will go into a single category…I hope none would be in favor of this option.
That’s all! Creating autoblogs with WordPress may not be that complicated once you succeed in installing the plugins with care.
The Future Value Of Your Blog
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
All the hype about the sale of Weblogs Inc. to America Online (AOL) has given rise to the now famous question – How much is your blog worth? In acquiring Weblogs Inc., AOL has provided some concrete metrics to future valuation of blogs. How much will traditional media be willing to pay for a blog? Conversely, how much would you sell your blog for?
AOL-Weblogs Inc. Deal – Benchmark for Future Blog Valuation
Weblogs Inc was established by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey in 2003. It is a network of blogs which includes under its wings successful blogs such as Engadget and Autoblog. Jason Calacanis pointed out that Weblogs Inc. earns in excess of $1 million yearly in Google Adsense revenues alone.
AOL purchased Weblogs Inc. for a confidential sum assessed at somewhere between $25 – $40 million. After said purchase, Tristan Louis came up with a blog valuation scheme based on the deal. He created a chart of blog value using the value of each inbound link to Weblogs Inc. as the basis. It is common knowledge that blog readers follow links. Search engines also act as users and primarily determine blog quality rankings based on linkage data thus direct and indirect value links are a great proxy for value measurement. In the blogosphere, conversations that nurture connectivity represented by links and indexes like Technorati give a vantage view of the value of a blog.
Tristan Louis itemized the publicly available data (list of blogs indexed) at Weblogs Inc. network including the number of inbound links (Technorati blog numbers) per blog divided by the purchase price to determine the value of an inbound link to a blog. At the rumored price of $25 million, the estimated value is $ 564 per link. At $30 million, it is $677.57 per link and $903.42 at an acquisition price of $40 million. Interestingly, the consumer segment chalks up the biggest percentage of linkage. Engadget represents over a third of the overall network traffic.
Applying Tristan Louis’s Weblogs Inc, sale, Dave Winer has also sold http://Weblogs.com to Verisign for a rumored price of around $2 million. Blog entrepreneur Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media has signed a deal with VNU Media to publish Gizmodo (gadget blog) across Europe in six languages. VNU Media is a leading worldwide information and media company which owns ACNielsen, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, among others. With this deal, blog publishing has hit big time.
However, the value of a blog is not calculated based solely on links using AOL’s purchase of Weblogs Inc. Jason Calacanis, the man behind Weblogs Inc., disputed using links alone as proxy for the value of the blog network. He reiterated that the acquisition price was based also on the ever reliable revenue, earnings, management and other metrics.
Tristan Louis based his valuation scheme on links to a blog but he also acknowledged the significance of technology, talented management team, financial performance and growth. There is direct correlation between links, traffic, revenue and earnings capacity of a blog or blog network but it takes sound management to maximize all these potentials.
Value of a Blog – Some Metrics to Consider
How much is your blog worth? There is no one standard gauge yet. But one way to measure the value is to look at certain factors to gain a better perspective on how to measure the future value of a blog.
Aside from number of links as mentioned earlier, traffic level is a key factor in determining blog value. Highly trafficked blogs definitely have a bigger potential for earning compared with those blogs with few readership. A blog’s success is highly dependent on visitors/readers. However, ascertaining the value of traffic is a thorny issue. Some bloggers value traffic anywhere from $3 to $10 per hit a day. From this data, a blog with 2000 unique visitors (page views) would be worth between $6000 to $20,000. The downside to this valuation approach is that some traffic is more valuable than others. A personal blog might have 1000 unique visitors but more difficult to convert to revenue than a blog with 1000 readers that blogs on the topic of digital cameras.
Aside from diverse traffic streams that come from bookmarks, direct links or RSS subscribers will make risk of losing traffic low. Social bookmarking sites are inching their way to becoming prime sources of traffic, with peer referral at times carrying more weight than search results. There are a number of well known bookmarking sites you should link to. Top bookmarking sites include Furl, http://del.icio.us, Diggs, to name a few. By leaving an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, you can feed you readers’ desire for information. Visitors can get automatic updates whenever you provide new content. Having a fairly good base of bookmarkers and subscribers ensure a steady flow of fans and repeat readers – the all-important traffic.
In the blogosphere as in any other field, revenue or earnings is a major focus. a logical approach to blog valuation would be to base its worth upon current and projected earnings, assuming that your blog is earning something to start with. Again, there are varying views on how to use current earnings to measure a blog’s value.
Some bloggers opine you should expect six to eight months earnings as your blog value. A blog with a daily income of $150 would be worth between $27,000 – $36,000. Still, others determine a blog’s value as being two years of current earnings. A blog earning $150 a day would be worth $108,000. Again, there is a huge disparity between these methods of assessing value. Having diverse streams in the form of multiple affiliate programs also increases blog revenue. An affiliate program is an advertising model in which a blog owner markets via his blog a given product, on behalf of another company. The blog owner is reimbursed a percentage of all sales sold thru his affiliate link. Reimbursement rates can vary from 1% and upwards. Google Adsense is a prime example.
Visitors access blogs throughout the Internet primarily through search engines. If your blog does not have a post appearing in the top ten search engine rankings, the chances of visitors reaching your blog is low. A blog’s presence on relevant search engines is a significant medium for maintaining a blog’s success. Search engine ranking and pages indexed in search engines is critical for generating traffic to a blog. Having your blog among the top results of a search or receiving a high Google PageRank (a system for ranking blog posts) would increase your blog’s overall value.
High quality content will always be a key factor for determining a blog’s value. As has been said time and time again – Content is King. Moreover, search engines can only “read” a blog. What attracts a search engine are the words, the content of a blog that explains, informs, shares and educates readers. Good content increases blog value.
All these aforementioned objective metrics can be considered in assessing the value of a blog. Added to all these, a talented management team behind a blog, its underlying tools and blog technology in use can further help to estimate the future value of a blog.
What Use Does a Wordpress Autoblog Have?
October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
What is an Autoblog?
An autoblog doesn`t look any different from a normal blog. It is a blog which requires an RSS feed source, from which it will pull content and automatically update, it doesn’t look from the outside any different to a normal blog.
Content is what all webmasters want and contant drives traffic around the internet on a daily basis. Good quality content is what search engine are looking for when giving results to searches entered into them
When you have a website that automatically updates itself, you can sit back and work on other projects rather than spending your time writing articles. You can still of course update the site with your own articles if you wish.
Auto updating websites are a great way to start on the internet as they are relatively easy to set up. Once set up they have many uses which the webmaster can leverage to make an income.
Buying and selling domains is still very popular, but domains with content, that already are monetised with adsense, amazon, ebay or other affiliates will always command a higher premium.
you have a portfolio of sites which is you main source of income, you can create blogs and create backlinks to your main websites, therefore increasing their importance in the eyes of the search engines.
You can offer this service to other webmasters, many will pay tens of dollars for links on several sites each month.
Creating Wordpress Autoblogs.
If you haven’t got one already you need to start buiding your portfolio of Autoblogs. Find out more about the Wordpress Autoblog website and a step by step guide on how it is done on the Wordpress Autoblog site.
I have worked in IT for around 20 years now. I originally started when punch cards where the main form of inputing data into a computer. I saw the advent of the PC and the Internet. I currently work on Unix systems, mainly HP and I work with HP Openview. I have worked on everything from PDP, VAX, IBM systems and worked with perl, cgi, php, awk, mysql, oracle, plus to many others to mention.
I currenty have several income streams as well as my main job. I have several websites which create a small income and I distribute utilities throught the Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus), which is slowly giving me a truly passive income.
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