Autoblogging Plugins for Wordpress

Autoblogging is a way to set up your Wordpress blog, or website, so that it finds relevant, targetted information for itself and automatically posts it on your website.  Autoblogging creates your content for you, on auto-pilot.

All you have to do is tell it what keywords and phrases you're interested in, where it can find the information (rss feeds are a good source) and off it goes, publishing content on your blog for you automatically.  Day in, day out.  Fresh, new content.

If you are looking to make money online, using a Wordpress blog, then this is definitely something you should look into because it can completely free up your time to either promote your website, or move onto the next one. 

Better Than Domain Parking

If you have any spare domain names around, you might have thought of domain parking as an income.  Well, I've domain parked before and it doesn't usually make any money at all.  Instead of having your domain parked, why not let an autoblogger fill your blog with relevant content - and earn you more money!

If you need to keep finding yourself new content for your blog, then it can stop you doing other, more enjoyable, things.  Who will fill your blog when you're on holiday?  Who will update content over Christmas?

If you're in a niche that publishes reports at regular intervals, then your blog should inform your readers that the latest report's just been published ... only you won't be there to know, you won't be able to tell your readers!  Let auto-blog software just fill in for you when you're not available, or working on other projects.

Autoblogging software can be turned on .... and off.  Some people simply use it to keep their blog live while they're busy doing other things.

How you use autoblog software is up to you, but for many people it's an income generator in itself.  Autoblog software can be many things to many people - think how you could use it.  You could use the autoblog software simply to keep abreast of the latest news - and then edit the entries yourself.

Use Autoblog Software to Find Your Stories

When you set up autoblog software, you can get it to publish, or hold things in draft.  Some people simply use it as a fast way to research their own sources for news/stories they want to blog about.  Simply skim through the draft entries, pick the ones you're interested in writing about and quickly turn it into your own content by re-writing it.

There are 100s of ways to legitimately benefit from autoblogging software.  And so, yes, there are Wordpress autoblogging plugins too!

After the first rush of excitement, you suddenly realise that blogging is actually hard work.  Now you've started, you have to keep publishing stuff .... and that is where most new blogs fail.  Check out how many blogs have just 1-3 entries ... and stopped.

Autoblogging takes over for you, no more blogging for you!  Your blog will now fill with exciting, new, targetted information - and you can simply pocket the profits from your Adsense, or other advertising.

Avoid Too Much Commitment

For a lot of blogs you're setting yourself up for a lot of work.  Take a celebrity blog, for instance, can you be there to blog the second a celeb is spotted doing something daft? or getting engaged? or splitting up?  Look at sports - will you really be sitting at your PC waiting for the scores and results to come through?

No - but an autoblogger can do this for you.  You can now avoid the commitment a blog needs.

Only a full-time, professional blogger can afford to do without autoblogging software - and, to be honest, they probably have ghost-writers writing a lot of their content anyway!  So who is writing all their blog themselves?  Not many.

Features of autoblogging plugins will vary, but here are some key features to watch out for:

• Use the plugin on unlimited domains you own. This is essential, once you've got your autoblog plugin set up you'll want to use it on other sites in the future.
• Is there a developer license available? Can you easily create websites to flip (sell) using the plugin? This is how a lot of people make good money - by setting up websites with an autoblogger installed and selling them on.
• Apart from using rss feeds, could it pull in articles from article directories and answers from Yahoo! Answers? Varying the type of content you can pull in makes your blog look like it has a lot of visitors as the answers are posted as comments! (genius idea that one).
• Can it find you Youtube feeds and add videos? Everybody loves a good video.
  

One autoblogging plugin that does all of this is Multipress. It also harnesses the power of Scuttle and Scuttle Pro, if you're familiar with those.

If you're interested in making money, easier, with your Wordpress blog, then check out the Multipress Content plugin. This is a full professional piece of autoblogging software that's the easiest to set up that I've tried. The full box of tricks raises the PR of your blog quicker than you could do yourself, providing great deep backlinking.  It's recommended you use Multipress with a new blog, but it's possible to connect it to an existing blog, it'll take just a little more work to get it spot on, but many do do this.

I've had autobloggers in the past that involved all manner of technical know how to set up and configure... they went in the bin as I didn't have a clue how to set them up. I tried a few more over the years, but multipress has evolved to be easy to use - and you can try it for 15 days free.

The fact is, if you try aut-blogging software, you'll get instant results. 15 days is plenty for you to have set it up and discovered if it's doing the job for you that you thought it would. At the end of 15 days it simply turns off .... so that's it, just no more auto-blogging. This makes it a great way to try out this Wordpress plugin.

Let Multipress autoblog for you for 15 days and see how much easier that is for you, see how much time and effort you save.

Try out Multipress today and see what autoblogging's all about: Multipress 15 Day Free Trial.

At the end of the trial it'll simply turn off, you don't pay a thing up front - and there's no catch

Caffeinated Content was a reliable and robust early plugin, that's kept up with the times.  You can choose between single user or a developer license.

Caffeinated Content has some great features, including:

• Auto-adds comments to your posts
• Adds images to posts
• Posts can be scheduled to appear at a time/date you choose
• Automatic post rewriting available
• You can translate into 12 different languages automatically
• No cron job required for it to be set up.
  

WP Robot is one of the latest, new, breed of Wordpress autoblogging plugins. WP Robot has a whole raft of advanced and easy to use features such as:

• Automatic posting of Youtube Videos
• Automatic Amazon Products
• Automatically include relevant eBay auctions
• Automatically include Clickbank ads

These extra features make it especially of interest to the determined and seasoned affiliate marketer - for people who are really going to make a lot of money from their blogs and just need a little help with automating products integration.

With WP Robot you start with the simple autoblogging plugin, then choose which other plugins you want, so you're only buying plugins for the content you want to use (e.g. an Amazon module, an ebay module, a Clickbank module).

Autoblogged takes any rss feed, or atom feed, and turns that into a post on your blog. You can often buy this on ebay cheaper than direct!

The main features of Autoblogged are:

• Insert images and videos automatically
• Full support
• Enable/disable feeds easily
• Pre-defined searches for YouTube, Yahoo!, Flickr and others
• It finds relevant feeds for you
• Needs a cron job to be set up to work, cron can be disabled without disabling the whole plugin.
• Block sites you don't want to use
• Setup keyword blacklists if you wish
• Checks for duplicate posts based on title or url
• Advanced feed filtering is easy to do
  
• Extra tagging capabilities

The only thing with this is to ensure you can set up a cron job with your host. I couldn't, so couldn't get this one running - although there are cron services available if you want to go down that route instead.

There's extensive support available online

WP-o-Matic

This free Wordpress autoblogging plugin was first brought out in 2007/2008. It's free, but since Wordpress has changed/moved on it's not kept touch and an increasing number of people are reporting problems with it. wp-o-matic requires you to set up a cron job to get it to work, which many hosts don't allow. Over 160,000 people downloaded and tried wp-o-matic since it was first released.

Feed Wordpress

This free Wordpress autoblogging plugin works from rss feeds and atom feeds. If you can set up a cron job on your host, great, but it doesn't need it. It works with Wordpress and Wordpress MU from versions 3.0 upwards.  This is a new plugin for autoblogging and a lot of people are struggling to set it up, so it's probably not an ideal first plugin to use.

There are many Wordpress autoblogging plugins to choose from. The way to find the perfect one that meets your needs and expectations is to try a few. I've tried about four so far! They've certainly improved in the past two years.

Below are some more you might like to investigate: