I came across a new private label rights site the other day and I confess I signed up instantly.

I had to!

The offer was too good.

Here’s the deal. Most of the time we buy PLR as a subscription and every month we get packages of PLR material to use as we choose. Cool, very useful, but there is one big problem. We only get what the proprietors of the PLR site want us to have, No choice. No option to say ‘Hmmm, I need 5 articles on dog food and 3 articles on car buying’

What if that was a possibility? What if a site set up to do just that?

YumPlr was set up to offer PLR on-demand. Thousands of articles and new fresh ones every day published for members and using a site that looks like an article directory. After you sign up all yo have to do is browse or search the directory for the content you want and copy/paste the articles you choose. It is faster then me doing the same search on my own PC.

As the site is new most of the content I have been pulling down is not even published elesewhere yet. Obviously that will change over time but always there is new content each day.

Price is right too, less than $5.00 per month right now, but that is sure to change over the coming months.

Seriously, this is a handy way to get content in the odd niches for the odd projects where we do not want to pay for a writer to do a custom article and where we do not have a file of PLR content already. I’ll be using YumPlr.com a lot.

I have been building automated blogs (autoblogs) for several years. One issue that is faced from time to time is that of duplicated posts. I did not have a real solution. Some autopost plugins can look for duplicated content but most do not. As a result I tended to accept that duplicated posts would happen and lived with it.

Anyway, today I found a plugin that watches for duplicated post titles and will not post a new post if it has the same title as a previous post.

Dead simple but should do the trick.

The plugin is written by a French speaking bloke and his blog/download page is in French but if you need help Google Translate can pick up the slack.

The plugin is called Duplicate Posts Eraser and is available to download from here: BlackMelvyn’s Blog.

Have a good day!

WordPress blogs are cool, once you know how to install and configure them they are quick to set up and easy to manage. I really like that I can avoid most of the design work of a static site by simply changing or tweaking a theme that somebody else made.

One thing though has been a problem. How to make a WordPress blog suitable for use as the platform for a membership site. There have been several shots at the task but until recently I had not found anything that worked for me. Some WordPress membership site plugins were badly coded and did not do what they were supposed to. Some WordPress membership software packages had very clunky interfaces that were offputting to site visitors and some did not have the basic kinds of functionality that I needed.

Recently though things seems to have changed for the better. I am now using a new plugin set called Micro Membership on one of my sites here: Marketers College, online business training for the time being the site is not live and I am still working on the layout and content before transfering over the training vids from their current home. The Micro Membership plugin set is ONLY available through the Warrior Forum at this time but I understand that it will be going on general sale, but at a higher price, in the near future.

Lo and behold though! This morning I got an email from Matt over at Mass-Automation. He has just released a new plugin to manage WordPress membership sites as well. I have not yet tried this one but I am happy to point it out as, in my experience, any product under the Mass-Automation brand is always well made and worth serious consideration.

It looks as though both tools cover much of the same ground in basic terms. People sign up and pay money according to the schedule that you set. Micro-Membeship has a very useful future posting facility so that the webmaster can add content to the site for future months meaning that sites can be, to some degree, set and forget contentwise.

Matt’s WP Membership Tool lacks the future posting facility but there are ways to handle this function within WordPress anyway and seems to offer a little more from the perspective of managing users. There is quite a difference in cost though. Ralph Pruitts Micro-Membership tool costs, for the time being, just $17.95 for unlimited use on any domain that you own. The Mass-Automation tool is priced at $49.99 for any number of sites but with a maximum number of members of 100 - OR - $99.99 for a maximum number of members of 1000. So, much more costly but in comparison with some of the market leading WordPress membership packages this is still very good value for money given that more than one package charges $100 or more for a single install on a single domain.

For the time being I am going to stick with Micro-Memberships from Ralph Pruitt, if for no other reason than I already have the software. I will probably get hold of the Mass-Automation product as well so that I can play with it.

Bottom line, there are now several ways to make you WordPress blog able to support the ongoing revenue stream that a membership site can provide and, in my opinion, either of these relatively low cost tools will be able to meet the needs of most WordPress webmasters seeking to run subscription/membership sites.

Since I first started in business almost 25 years ago I have worked with people who provided services to my business but who were not employees. In the real world we used to call them contractors. Online we seem to call the same thing ‘outsourcing‘.

The bottom line is that the different outsourcing methods, however we call them, enable us to grow our business without taking on the responibility, or cost, of employing a permanent team. With effective use of outsourced work we can become a relatively large business without it ever looking like we are running such a beast.

Anyway, I decided to start a website devoted to outsourcing methods and techniques. The chances are that if you take a look at the site that you will pick up some new tips for how to grow your own business.

The new site is over here: Outsourcing Method Review oh, yes, we are taking a look at the new package on the topic of outsourcing training from the PLRPro guys, Dan and Marc. For a few days you can get in and try everything for just one dollar!

The Backlinks Magnet Wordpress Plugin is a FREE WordPress plugin that can be installed and configured on your blog in just a few minutes. Just like any normal WordPress plugin you just upload the software to your Wordpress blog’s Plugin directory, activate the plugin, and take a few minutes to do some configuration to ensure that you get content that fits exactly to your site’s niche. This software has been designed so that anyone can have it operational with the minimum of fuss.

Backlinks Magnet: 10 Important Benefits 

1. It allows the blogger to receive specific, targeted article content from The Phantom Writers article submission service, after making a few simple decisions about desired content requirements. The Phantom Writers is one fo the premier article syndication and distribution services and their content has been for several years one of only two sources from which I take content without prior review.

2. You can choose content based on submission service categories or article keywords.  This means you get content targeted exactly to your site’s niche AND in the right categories as well, no more changing categories for submitted content, it will be where you want it!

3. You have full control over how content is reorganized on your blog. This has been structured to make the organization process super easy.

4. Each article carries up to three keyword tags when it is posted on your Wordpress blog website. Your site visitors will be able to find similar content elsewhere on your site without you needing to manually add tags to the articles. Visitors will stay longer and read more pages.

5. It also creates a tag for the article author (author’s index page), so that articles can be located by author within your blog. This is cool because as you get more articles you can start to find a following for some of the authors and their articles - some of the writers really are worth having on your sites!

6. Every article carries a link to the author’s index page on your blog. You are automatically providing attribution to the content author, no worries from ISPs or angry writers threatening DMCA takedown notices.

7. The plugin notifies the article submission company as to what URL the article has been placed. This enables them to provide the second part of the service to blog owners - backlinks to specific pages in your site, this builds internal Page Rank (PR) and authority, not just your home page benefits.

8. In the case of articles sent to your blog by the The Phantom Writers article submission service, The Phantom Writers will ensure that every article posted to your website will have its own inbound links, a.k.a. link popularity.  This serves to increase your page’s PR.

9. Inbound links, pointing to article placements, will arrive from a variety of websites / IP blocks. 10. Did I mention that the Backlinks Magnet WordPress Blog Plugin (paid for and designed by The Phantom Writers) is FREE to download and to use?  What’s to lose here?

Visit the Backlinks Magnet website at http://www.backlinksmagnet.com/ to learn more and to get the download URL.

SUBJECT: Doors closing soon (don’t miss out this time)

I wanted to give you a quick heads up…

Like you, I purchased books, software, tools and everything else to try and build a successful online business.

But, one thing has made a huge difference in my success online and I want to share it with you today.

Several years ago, I discovered something called PortalFeeder.

What is PortalFeeder?

Well, it’s not a “product”.

Imagine this…. what if you could tap into a community of hotshot Internet Marketers and pick their brains, get new ideas, strategies, and answers to your top questions… everyday.

Plus, you get access to the same proprietary software and website promotion tools that they use to dominate the search engines.

Also, what if you were assigned a Mentor to help you, guide you, and provide you with a proven blueprint and roadmap for success.

If you had access to all of this, wouldn’t it be easy for you to succeed online?

Yes it would. And I am living proof of it.

PortalFeeder has really changed my life.

I am no longer an ebook junkie. PortalFeeder gives me all the latest software, training, tactics and techniques that I need to get traffic and make money online.

The bad news is… PortalFeeder is “closed” for most of the year. Membership is limited.

However, there is some good news. PortalFeeder is accepting new members again. The Bad news is that the doors are closing again soon.

That’s why I wanted to mention it to you. Once you hit the link below, you will be able to check that you are not too late:

Am I too late to join Portal Feeder

This way, you’ll get more information about PortalFeeder and be among the few people to have aspot within PortalFeeder.

I know you’ll want to find out more about PortalFeeder and what it will do for you.

Here’s the page again. Go check it out before it slips your mind:

Portal Feeder Signup

I hope to see you inside the PortalFeeder private forum. Just look for me and say HI. My nickname in the forum is Andrew W.

      

Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization.
It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines.

A backlink could be considered as a Quality Backlink if
1. The Theme of the backlinking website is the same as your website.
2. It links to your website with the keyword (keyphrase) that you are trying to optimize for.

This tools searches for websites of the theme you specify that contain keyphrases like “Add link”, “Add site”, “Add URL”, “Add URL”, “Submit URL”, “Add Article” etc. Most of the results could be quality potential backlinks.

Backlink Builder Enter Keyword (Theme)

Google has launched an online service designed to make it easy to add various bits of Google goodness onto your webpages. The service is called Google Web Elements and was launched just a few hours ago.
At the start you can use Google Maps, Google News feeds, and YouTube videos, custom search and a couple of others.

it has been possible to add these things before but not too easy. This is pretty much copy/paste so now we can have fun with maps, documents, comments and such without needing tech skills.

http://www.google.com/webelements/

If you have used the YouTube ‘embed’ option then using Google’s Web Elements will be a piece of cake.

I expect to see all kinds of blogs with maps and spreadsheets in them popping up like mushrooms on a damp spring morning!

When we were building lots of blogs for other people we discovered that the search engines seemed to particularly relish content on the static pages.
We would add content to static pages that defined the style and theme of the site and once the pages were indexed they’d often be among the best ranked pages on the sites we made.

There is a problem though - our basic promotion strategy was to syndicate the rss feeds from these sites to a network of rss directories and aggregators and, as you probably already know, WordPress does not include pages within the feeds it produces. This meant that the first pages to be indexed were rarely the best quality content for which we wanted the sites to be known.

The normal way round this is to make a short post that links to the page but this can be quite time consuming.

Today I came across a plugin that helps a lot. This plugin, when activated, adds pages to one’s rss feeds. Rss Includes Pages is by Marios Alexandrou and works on Wordpress versions from 2.5 onward.
Here is a link to Marios’ blog where there are user comments on the plugin.

One important point, if you want to use the plugin to publicise pages on a new site but do not want to continue having pages in your feeds then you simply deactivate the plugin and pages will no longer be shown. No muss, no fuss!

Today I came upon a very useful blog post describing several tools (almost all free) designed to help social marketers and optimizers to gain an insight into what real people are doing, are interested in and are writing about.

These tools will help internet marketers, search engine marketers and social marketers to do research, find niches and to some testing of their ideas almsot all for free. The cool thing is that Marty, the author takes care to explain the utility of the tools and provides links, for those less clear about the concepts, to learn from.

The site is very useful and well worth a read with a cup of coffee or two.