There are several ways to manage automated posting and other functions on WordPress blogs (automated blogs).
automated blogs use three systems. The first is a cron job that runs roughly every other day. It triggers the Rss feeds that bring in news and other feeds from other sites across the internet. To ensure consistency and reliability we use an external cron service to provide the trigger that makes the new post appear. The service is set so that the timing is not exact, it changes a little each time the cron job runs.
Second we have future dated posts, these articles are inserted when the blog is installed but have a date of posting set sometime in the future, usually we set these articles to be posted at random times once each day.
Thirdly we have articles controlled by an WordPress plugin called wp-autocron, this provides a 'pseudo-cron' and is pretty reliable. It does not need a cron job to be installed on a server in order to work. But, wp-autocron is triggered by visits to the site by a human, or a search engine spider. If the site has no activity then no content is collected from the external sources. This is not really a problem as most sites are visited pretty regularly, usually by humans! If you see a time based function that does not seem to be working on your automated blogs, then try making a visit to your site. It might just be that, particularly on a brand new site, that you have not had a visitor for a few hours.
Filed under Blog Setups, Blogging Tools, LAMMs Techniques, What's a LAMM? by on Mar 18th, 2007. Comment. 
Marketing is about people; people who know each other.
automated blogs are about marketing, internet marketing.
So it seems to me that automated blogs, like any WordPress blog installation are about people and more important our relationships with them.
I just did some backlink research. I was checking on one of my own sites and its backlinks. We are doing OK, almost 10,000 backlinks and most are from blogs. But in the process I found out that many automated blogs have very few links.
Guys (and girls), in order to be successful we need links, we need to be connected to other people.
OK, so that's easy for me to say. Internet Marketing folk need links, so, give us some news Andrew!
Here's a suggestion. automated blogs are wordpress blogs, you know the tools, commenting, backlinks and trackbacks. Why not get out and spend each day 45 minutes on finding other blogs in your subject area and then write a productive comment on some of those blogs?
How to do it? Well, there is software to help find these blogs and even to manage the job for you, but for now lets do it by hand.
1) Make sure that you 'claim' your blog in Technorati, this gives you access to a load of stats about your site, who is linking to you, how often and how well ranked their sites are. This is a good starting point for finding places to post comments.
Here is the link for Technorati's blog claiming toolbox: http://technorati.com/signup/
2) Do a search on Technorati for blogs on your keyword. You can choose to filter the results by keyword, authority and then language. So, for example I might choose 'preganancy' with 'some authority' and 'English', that gives me 314 blogs to go at. The blogs are listed for me, now all I have to do is choose some… I'd be inclined to go for blogs that are well linked and relatively recent.
The blogs are listed in post order and have a snippet from the post so you can scan quickly and see which posts take your fancy. Click on the post, look for the comments link and write your comment. Some blogs, sadly, have their comments forms disabled, but thre is always another blog!
When writing be constructive and positive and when linking back to your site make it to an appropriate post or page and, if possible, use anchor text links. Sometimes it is not appropriate to use a link in the post, if so, you can still place the link in the submissions box, in which case the link'll normally be from your post name to your site, so you can still be a little creative! 
As I mentioned before, there are some tools to help this process, I will be mentioning those in a later post. For now get feet wet with manual techniques.
Andrew
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools, Internet Marketing, LAMMs Techniques, Making Money by on Mar 27th, 2007. Comment.
Today a new product is being launched. ContentComposer, read all about it at ContentComposerReview.com this is a really good product if you are serious about the content on your web pages.
But that is not why I am writing now.
The point is that as of today the site has, in Yahoo! some 684 incoming links to 13 pages. The site is on the first page, if not number one, in Google, for most of the terms that I am chasing. The site is, today, 20 days old.
The links have been built in various ways, all bar one is easily attainable to all automated blogs users. The one that is not is copiable in a different way.
What did I do?
1) Every page of the site has been social bookmarked. I use software for the job but done by hand the job is just as done. Give me a shout and I'll show you the software. It is the same as I use on your sites when they are fresh built!
2) The Rss feed was promoted when the site was new, again software, but exactly the same as I use to promote your blogs when I build 'em!
3) I use Technorati tags (all your sites have them too!) and I 'claimed' my blog at Technorati. They spider my site within minutes of me updating it.
4) I have links on other blogs, maybe for this site 18-20, not likely more.
5) I have a load of article directory links. In this case they are all from mine, not good! It'd be much better if they were from articles submitted around the internet.
Maybe the biggest single thing though is that the promotion has been ongoing and fairly consistent.
But the result is a site that has real traffic from social bookmark sites, search engines and other sites linking in. We are getting sensible numbers of visitors and Alexa ranks us at about 282,000 this week, up from 1.5 million.
The game is in the backlinks!
Oh, the money?
I am an affiliate for Content Composer, I wonder how much of the traffic will convert. It does not have to be much to make the venture worth the few hours it has taken so far!
Andrew.
****EDIT****
As of this week ending 22 April, contentcomposerreview.com has had an average Alexa rank of about 92,000 and had peaks on 13th and 14th of 29k and 38k. Yahoo! tells me I have almsot 2400 backlinks to 17 pages.
The site is bringing in very good business; no numbers but I have a holiday in Spain already paid for and am now working on a dream trip to South America later this year. Not too bad for a guy living in Estonia! All the promotion has been driven by techniques that are available to all automated blogs users and recommended by me to you guys. I was fortunate to be mentioned, but not linked, on another high traffic blog which has certainly helped.
If you want some specific guidance, please contact me!
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools, Internet Marketing, LAMMs Techniques, Making Money, Reviews by on Mar 29th, 2007. Comment.
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