As an entrepreneur, there will be times where you feel like there’s so much on your plate that you end up having a hard time maintaining everything on it. You get so caught up in the business and sales that you forget some factors that really help with your brand’s visibility. Things like generating traffic to your website, and maintaining your blog. But there’s an easy to keep a site active without needing to constantly be online and make updates. And its name is autoblogging.
Autoblogging is one way to create backlinks to your site. You pull content from certain RSS feeds and publish them on your blog; curated and organized your way. It’s a great way to open up your schedule and give you time to work on marketing, promotions, and other campaigns. This is easily done on WordPress with an aggregator plugin. By finding RSS feeds of sites you want to curate and display, your aggregator plugin can pull content from those feeds and automatically update them without you needing to check on it every day.
What You Need
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WordPress -version 3.0 or later
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An aggregator plugin
Setup Steps
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Find the sites that you want to pull content from.
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Note the RSS feed URLs.
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Get WordPress.
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Install an aggregator plugin. There are many that are free like FeedWordPress.
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Once it’s been activated, you’ll find a new item on the left panel called Syndication.
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Go to the Syndication page and click on Add to add a new source.
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Enter the URL of the website or the direct feed you want to add > Click on Use this feed.
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Repeat the process till you get all of your sources listed.
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Go to Syndication > Feeds & Updates and choose automatically check for updates after pages load on Update Scheduling so that FeedWordPress checks for feed updates every time a user requests to view pages on your blog without you needing to constantly check and update feeds yourself.
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Save your changes and go back to the Syndication page and click Update on Update feeds now.
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Wait for FeedWordPress to check and import posts to your database. You will get a summary of how it turns out.
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Check your blog full of syndicated content.
Marketing Setup
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Create social media accounts for your blog.
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Reach out to authority blogs and influencers who might be interested in your content.
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Tweet the sources that you’ve used and let them know they’ve been featured in your blog
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Be an active member in forums that relate to your niche and then share your content with them.
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Create and build your email list.
Timeframe
Time to do: 1 hour
Time to see results: 2 weeks
Additional Tips
Check out http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/wiki/themes-designed-for-feedwordpress/ to pick a theme that definitely gives attribution information that your current WordPress theme may not have.
Consider using PushCrew.com to send out push notifications to your readers whenever you have new content.
Create visual infographics.
Potential Results
Autoblogs are a great way to earn a passive income with minimal work once you’ve set it up. With the right ads, content, and offers for subscription, you could earn up to $3,000 a month.
