I want to get beyond rehashing what’s at the site and talk about the use of WP Robot and a sister product called WP Shopping Pages.

Click here to view more details about the WP Robot Plugin or here to learn about WP Shopping Pages.

The WP Robot WordPress plugin is a tool bloggers use to create content automatically.

At whatever interval you decide WP Robot can use a variety of techniques to post new content automatically and even monetize the post for you by pulling affiliate links from Clickbank, Ebay and Amazon that are related to the article, press release, RSS entry, Yahoo! News, or YouTube video you post.

Conceivably you could set up a blog, set up your WP Robot settings once and then just let the website build new content on a regular basis forever and ever.  In theory, that might even make you some money!

The mistake beginners make is thinking that if they build 1,000 auto generated pages with WP Robot monthly on some generic keyword term then people will flock to their website and make them rich. No, WP Robot (nor any wordpress auto posting system) works that way!

That’s because of the search engine’s constant quest for “relevance”. When Google goes to a site, it can tell if you’ve simply used WP Robot to upload an article from a database that 100 others have uploaded. What it looks for is a consistency on the page … keywords related to the common theme. In an experts article on Tooth Decay, it might expect to find the related terms of

• gum disease
• dental decay
• dental disease
• dental caries
• gingivitis

with a certain frequency as well instead of just the mere repeating of the main “keyword”.  Some articles are better at this “theming” than others but unless even these articles have a certain amount of fresh content, they stand a good chance of being written off by the search engines and funneled into that online graveyard for the non-relevant page.

A WP Robot Review that doesn’t tell you that you can easily create a website that Google considers completely irrelevant isn’t telling you the truth. This is not WP Robot’s fault as a wordpress plugin. It is the fault of webmasters who are looking for a miracle and don’t know how to properly utilize the WP Robot plugin!

Here’s what I suggest you do with your WP Robot plugin after reading this review.

When you get it, think in terms of a variety of modules, ebay, amazon, clickbank, articles, press releases, youtube, etc. but don’t stop there.

Recognize that in WP Robot has the capability to mix and match the output of these various modules to create unique pages less likely to be written off by Google as irrelevant or not thematically cogent.

In other words, if you’re using RSS feeds to create a WP Robot page you might want to do this…

1) Splice several RSS feeds together using any number of online tools so you’re not just using one RSS feed.

2) Configure your WP Robot “campaign” so that on the page produced, you have a variety of information instead of just one RSS entry or just an article or just a press release.

For example, you can have multiple entries from an RSS feed.  Between the entries WP Robot can allow you to post any number of random but keyword/keyphrase related content between the entries, before the entries or after the entries. WP Robot can then allow you to attach keyword related Amazon, Ebay, or Click bank products to monetize each entry as well.

By creating a variety of campaigns and mixing the various elements WP Robot allows you to mix and match, you stand a much better chance of producing unique content.

Click here to view more details about the WP Robot Plugin or here to learn about WP Shopping Pages.

Here’s another tip none of the other WP Review articles I saw mentioned.

Set your campaign to post as a draft, not a published post or page.

I’ve seen WP Robot pull some ridiculous articles based on a single keyword. The article writer spammed his post with completely unrelated keywords for some reason and now an article about Crab Rangoon is posted on your Buffalo Burger website! It’s true. I’ve learned that lesson the hard way. It’s no fault of WP Robot, but it does happen. Learn to anticipate that. It requires extra work but doesn’t leave you looking stupid!

Here’s another thing no WP Robot review ever got around to telling me… About WP Shopping Pages. Personally when I build a website, it includes a regularly updated blog aspect if possible and then pages that sell specific products. I wouldn’t trade WP Robot for anything to create awesome blog posts (keeping my advice above in mind).

But for building static pages these days here is what I would do – again, this isn’t anything I’ve ever read in a WP Robot wordpress plugin review, just something I decided to do.

1. After using MicroNicheFinder to identify my basic niche for the website and domain name, I go to Google search, type in the keyword or phrase and then check “related searches”.

2. I then make a list of other keywords, product names, etc. people are searching for when interested in my basic domain name keyword.

3. I also check out Amazon.com and Ebay.com for other possible keywords they suggest.

4. Once I’ve got my list of keywords, I plug them into WP Shopping Pages because it is excellent for producing relevant, “themed” web pages with individualized content for these keywords that real searchers use to buy products!

Ok, I’ve spend enough time on this WP Robot review.

I strongly support your purchasing and using WP Robot AND WP Shopping pages.

However, to use them intelligently, please review my suggestions for incorporating them in “themed” web pages that go out of their way to harmonize with what Google – from it’s search experience – recognizes that web users are actually looking for.

In this way WP Robot and WP Shopping Pages are most likely to help you create niche sites actually pull traffic and sales.

The more you can do to turn a WP Robot enabled site into something with unique content, the more likely WP Robot will be useful to you in building an online business!

Click here to view more details about the WP Robot Plugin or here to learn about WP Shopping Pages.

Note: This article contains affiliate links to the product reviewed.

Here are some gems:

How To Turn WordPress Into A Membership Site – under $7! A very cool plugin to let you make some or all of your wordpress blog for “subscribers only”.

Word Press Shopping Pages. Let’s you quickly add a related “Store” to any WordPress site.

Available through your WordPress Dashboard (my favorites and some new ones I found):

Google XML Sitemaps plugin
Akismet
My Page Order
All In One SEO
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

What are your favorites?

Note: Above post contains some affiliate links.

He quickly pointed out this site: Start Making Your Own Squeeze Pages In WordPress.

Before I tell you more about it, you might want to consider “WHY” you’d want a squeeze page.

1. Squeeze Pages have one goal… to obtain a positive action. This can mean an email subscription, a purchase, or funneling someone through to another site. To accomplish that…

2. Squeeze Pages minimize distractions for your visitor. They don’t have dozens of navigation links, extraneous links to other articles and stories (like a new site or even wikipedia with related entries). They just get down to business and tell WHY a particular action is the next step from here.

3. Squeeze Pages geared to securing an email address and permission for follow up contact through an autoresponder allow you to develop a client list and usually offer a free report or other “freemium” (incentive) to sign up in hopes of making “back end” revenues.

So many marketers prefer the email to an immediate sale.

But after you have the email secured, there’s no reason you could offer your own version of $7 Secrets (affiliate link) with  a “One Time Offer” if they buy… but that’s up to you.

Here’s that site again: Start Making Your Own Squeeze Pages In WordPress. It’s not an affiliate link but you can make a donation (as I did) if you like it as much as I did!

To get started, you have to commit a particular domain to a wordpress theme and you have to upload this man’s theme into your wordpress site through “Install Themes” -> “Upload”.

On the link itself you can check the source code for getting these same effects on your wordpress blog (you download the actual code when you download the theme, but if you just bring it up in your browser the effects don’t show as they do on the web because wordpress is required to make the effects, well, “take effect”.

That will get you started. If I feel like it, I’ll write more about this later. I’m building a squeeze page for a friend now, but the hard part is going to be creating the follow up report and autoresponders! That will be where the real work comes in though it took me several hours of “tweaking” last night get something decent online.

Customers love to complain on Facebook, Twitter, you name it.

Real Time Brand Management may not make them happy, but if, for instance, someone is bad mouthing your company on Twitter, if your firm responds kindly offering help, it will mitigate their whining and make you look like a concerned company. Hopefully you even are!

Finally the “little guy” and small business can employ a simple and inexpensive tool that allows them to manage their own “brand” in real time from inside their WordPress blog!

Here are the “Social Media Sites” they monitor:

If someone is making you look bad online… take action… respond kindly, position yourself as a pro, or if they’re just insane hire an attorney, but at least fight back…. Every comment, every response, etc. is a chance to win new customers and point back to your website. Both will work wonders for you online if you will do that!

Also this plugin helps you market your business where it counts – Google’s, Yahoo’s, and Bing’s local business listings. YOU NEED THESE to get the Internet working for you instead of against you!

So what are you waiting for? Check it out at the Brand Control Plugin (Note: this is an affiliate link)

Don’t know what the heck a WordPress Blog is but you want to protect your business’ good name online? Contact me and I’ll quote you a price for setting up your own WordPress blog to use this!

BUT, you need to check your default privacy settings on WordPress. In the latest version (2.9) I’m hearing that people who are creating websites they desperately WANT to be found by Google, Yahoo, and Bing found that the default on their installed wordpress blot is to block search engine spiders!!!!

Ouch!

I’ve never had this happen before… perhaps some WordPress purist is ashamed at how wordpress has become so commercialized and just wanted to shoot down as many people as possible who would not think to check this setting!

Anyone using WordPress as an affiliate platform definitely WANTS the search engines NOT to be blocked!

So if you create a WordPress affiliate site, built backlinks and your site hasn’t been indexed – this could be why!

Check the “Privacy” label under “Settings” and make sure the button is checked that says “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers”!

Related  Link: How to get started online!

It didn’t take too long to put this together. The last one I made like this sold for a pretty nice price.

It doesn’t have much content yet… just one post and another scheduled, but mostly I wanted to try my hand at it again to see if I could sell this one or turn it into a solid cash generating site.

The tips are generic and designed to help make your time with a professional more productive.

We’ll see how it turns out.

If you’re using WordPress for website creation, check out these 10 hacks to make your blog potentially more lucrative.

It tells you how to insert ads into your rss feed, how to display ads only to search engine visitors, how to make your title’s more search engine friendly, how to cloak affiliate links, etc. Some good tips and tools are listed in the comments too!

Also check out Cool WordPress Plugins

I was familiar with most of the plugins listed, but I learned about some new ones that caught my attention!

Headspace2: Headspace makes tagging and managing your meta data much more streamlined. Once activated, you can use Headspace to “suggest” tags for a particular post, which are generated from the content of that post or through Yahoo suggestions (you decide). You can also mass edit meta data, as well.

Robots META: Use Robots META to prevent the search engines from indexing extraneous or duplicate content areas like your search results, feeds, login and admin pages, privacy pages, archives and more. You can also use this plugin to easily validate your account with Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo Site Explorer.

This is definitely worth your review even if you feel familiar with WordPress and its capabilities.

If you don’t update the sites regularly, they can become security nightmares as new hacks develope for old WordPress sites.

That means YES, use WordPress for static websites but PLEASE be sure to update to the new versions of WordPress as they become stable.

Otherwise your website could be put out of commission… or into commission for someone else without your knowledge!

Did you know about these six ways?

You can even use a wordpress site as a squeeze page to build your email list or for membership sites.

Get the details here: