Today, an online business definitely needs a blog to do wonders. One with fresh and tempting content for the visitors to stumble on frequently and in a large number. All that a blog needs is audience to visit, get some valuable information and interact through comments. What audience need is pretty ubiquitous – better stuff to read than they would find elsewhere!

Blogging involves intensive research and takes a lot of time. Apart from this, it requires regular posts on topics which help hold your readers’ interest. On a long run, it can often get difficult to generate new ideas for posts. This would turn your blog stagnant. Hence, you losing on your readers! This is where Auto-blogging can help keep your blog stay active with fresh content.

Auto-blogging generates regular content on your blog using feeds from elsewhere. One can co-relate it with a robot-run assembly line! There is no need for you to cut-paste articles from varying sources to get content for your blog. Of course, the content generated by auto-blogging can never match the one written by oneself. But when it comes to revenue, you can earn to satisfaction through affiliates and Adsense-like programs by using auto-blogging tools on a number of websites/blogs. This would ensure you getting things in quantity, if not quality.

How to get things done?

• Firstly, you need to choose a good enough domain name and a host. Consider a domain name which reflects the niche you’re targeting. Next in line is the choice of blogging platform. WordPress, is a undisputed winner for this! WordPress being open source allows you to change things to suit your niche. You may get a lot of plugins for wordpress like – MaxBannerAds, WP Blaster, etc. which would further help you run an auto-blog.
• The next big thing you’ll need for sure is RSS aggregator. Most of the auto-blogging applications need an RSS aggregator.
• Lately, there has been a lot of arguments over the use of RSS feeds to generate content. A lot of webmasters do not want their content-feed to be reproduced on other sites. You need to respect this and use RSS feeds which allow content syndication. I would recommend feeds from News websites, PR websites, etc.
• WP-o-Matic is a cool WordPess plugin that allows you to use RSS feeds to create blog posts automagically! All you need to do is type in the feed url and choose the categories which you want the post to appear in. Can it get any simpler?

• Another recommendation is Kathy’s Wordpress auto-blogging tool. It automatically adds attribution to each post so that readers can see where does the post originate from, keeping most RSS publishers happy as they get traffic from your website and you get away with free content. It also incorporates a auto-Ping script which shall ping a list of pre-defined websites.

• If you want your new blog to reach out the masses, you need to make sure they’re submitted to social bookmarking websites like Delicious, Stumble Upon, etc. For that matter, you may need to get a script to automate the process of submitting the posts to these social bookmarking websites.
• Lastly, you need language translation scripts to get on to the whole world with each individual posts. If you’re looking for a good Internet marketing presence, make your blogs available to each one on the Internet, irrespective of their language.

What to expect?

After having built a dozen readable blogs, each with an auto-blogging software along with some effort on SEO, you can expect a tidy sum of traffic even if each of them generates a few thousand hits each month. That’s not bad at all if you have an array of auto-blogs running for you!

Once you have mastered the art of auto-blogging on few blogs and can visualize a decent growth in traffic and income, you can think that you’ve accomplished what you had set out to do. Thinking of your own blog-empire would no more be astonishing!

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Wp-o-matic is a wordpress plugin that will allow you to create posts automatically from feeds.

It has a very simple interface, just ype in the feed url, choose which categories you want to create the post and you’re set to go.

Other similar type of software might cost you more, but with its own unique feature, wp-o-matic does stands out and worth trying.

Among the build-in features

• Multiple feeds / categories: it’s possible to add as many feeds as you want, and add them to as many categories as you want. It’s not obstrusive, so you can also write your own posts to any of those categories.
• Every form of XML syndication supported. This includes RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0 formats, the popular RSS 2.0 format, and the emerging Atom.
• Unix cron and Wordpress cron jobs For maximum performance, you can make the RSS fetching process be called by a Unix cron job, or simply let Wordpress handle it.
• Comfortable interface. The admin is powered by a state of the art ajaxy interface that lets you handle your feeds with ease. When it comes out of beta, WP-o-Matic will support:
• Images caching/resizing Optionally host the images yourself, or resize them to fit your blog design.
• Words Rewriting. Want to replace the word “Poker” with “Texas Hold’em”? We’ll have it covered
• Words Relinking. Define custom links for words you specify.
• Post templating. Define a global header and footer for the posts, or even for a specific feed.
• Advanced Filters. Just drop a file in the filters/ folder, and every time a post is created, a custom function can be called. You can modify the post content or do some other action, like emailing your mother.

Source : Devthought

I find it unbelievable to see that this plugin is available freely. thumbs up to the developer.

Details / Download:  WP-O-Matic Wordpress Plugin