In How To Automate Your Blogging Tasks – Part 1 we discussed how to automate blogging tasks in wordpress like automating posting to Twitter, Facebook and Buzz about your latest blog post, how to schedule posts and back up your database. Now, let’s talk about we can automate your traffic generation activity.
In my Top 10 WordPress plugins post I have mentioned AddThis and Digg Digg plugins that help your readers to share your posts with others. Driving social traffic to your site is important, but at the same time it is also important to have your blog post bookmarked at some of these social sites, as Google loves these sites. If your link is bookmarked at one of these sites, there are good chances of Google picking them up quickly and listing them on search engine.
So, without waiting for others to bookmark your blog/blog post on social sites, how can we automate the process to drive traffic from social sites?
This cool service helps us to automate the bookmark submission task to Social sites. It currently has 36 social sites where you can automate your content and bookmark distribution. Using it is very simple; you need to create an account with Onlywire. Once you have created an account, you need to put your login details for the social sites, this is one-time activity and that’s it you are done with the set-up.
To use their free service you will need to put a link (button) back to Onlywire on one of your sites. You need to download the software and install on your machine to carry out the submission process, it runs in background and you just have to enter captcha for 4-5 sites that need it. Otherwise the entire submission process is pretty much automated.
I had a WordPress plugin that used to automate the complete task, Onlywire Auto submitter plugin would automatically submit a bookmark about my latest blog post to my Onlywire account without lifting a finger and then I have to keep the Onlywire software open in background, which will do all the hard work. Unfortunately the plugin stopped working when I upgraded to WordPress 3.0, but I will let you know once the update is out, so that you can also automate bookmark submission directly from your WordPress.
So, this is just to Social sites. Now, let’s talk about other sources.
RSS Directories
I have specified following directories to ping every time I post on my blog:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
I have put this list in my Settings >> Writing >> Update Services text area. So, WordPress would alert these popular RSS submission services that my blog is updated and they will in-turn let other blog directories know about the same.
Create content on Web 2.0 Sites
We have bookmarked our blog post on social sites, we have also informed RSS directories about the same, now how about using the same content to drive traffic from web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Livejournal, Knol etc. You may be aware that these web 2.0 sites allow you to create your own content pages, where you can share content with the entire world, every site calls this page by different name, but purpose is the same.
I use Incansoft’s Web 2.0 Bot to submit my content to Web 2.0 sites. I use 2 part strategy that I will describing in my future blog post, so, I will post one part on Web 2.0 site and in the end I will provide link to my blog to read the Part 2.
Web 2.0 Bot has very clean and easy to use interface, you have to create your company profile and then create your account profile. If you already have accounts at the Web 2.0 sites then you can put in your login details, or Web 2.0 Bot can create accounts for you.
Then you can submit your content to the sites you select. A cool feature that I really like for Web 2.0 Bot is that it allows you to enter your content in Jet Spinner Syntax, that way your content submitted to different Web 2.0 sites will appear to be unique. This is much better than hand submission of your content to all web 2.0 sites.
There you are we have covered today a cool free service to automatically submit your content/bookmark to 36 social sites, we also covered the sites to put in your WordPress blog to ping to RSS directories and a cool software that allows us to submit semi-automate content submission to Web 2.0 sites.
I have covered automation of tasks in this 2 part series, I haven’t mentioned about Outsourcing all these tasks, as that’s a different ball game all together.
Hope you found the blog automation part 1 and part 2 useful. So, how do you automate your blogging tasks?
How to Automate Your Blogging Tasks – Part 2
In How To Automate Your Blogging Tasks – Part 1 we discussed how to automate blogging tasks in wordpress like automating posting to Twitter, Facebook and Buzz about your latest blog post, how to schedule posts and back up your database. Now, let’s talk about we can automate your traffic generation activity.
In my Top 10 WordPress plugins post I have mentioned AddThis and Digg Digg plugins that help your readers to share your posts with others. Driving social traffic to your site is important, but at the same time it is also important to have your blog post bookmarked at some of these social sites, as Google loves these sites. If your link is bookmarked at one of these sites, there are good chances of Google picking them up quickly and listing them on search engine.
So, without waiting for others to bookmark your blog/blog post on social sites, how can we automate the process to drive traffic from social sites?
OnlyWire
This cool service helps us to automate the bookmark submission task to Social sites. It currently has 36 social sites where you can automate your content and bookmark distribution. Using it is very simple; you need to create an account with Onlywire. Once you have created an account, you need to put your login details for the social sites, this is one-time activity and that’s it you are done with the set-up.
To use their free service you will need to put a link (button) back to Onlywire on one of your sites. You need to download the software and install on your machine to carry out the submission process, it runs in background and you just have to enter captcha for 4-5 sites that need it. Otherwise the entire submission process is pretty much automated.
I had a WordPress plugin that used to automate the complete task, Onlywire Auto submitter plugin would automatically submit a bookmark about my latest blog post to my Onlywire account without lifting a finger and then I have to keep the Onlywire software open in background, which will do all the hard work. Unfortunately the plugin stopped working when I upgraded to WordPress 3.0, but I will let you know once the update is out, so that you can also automate bookmark submission directly from your WordPress.
So, this is just to Social sites. Now, let’s talk about other sources.
RSS Directories
I have specified following directories to ping every time I post on my blog:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
I have put this list in my Settings >> Writing >> Update Services text area. So, WordPress would alert these popular RSS submission services that my blog is updated and they will in-turn let other blog directories know about the same.
Create content on Web 2.0 Sites
We have bookmarked our blog post on social sites, we have also informed RSS directories about the same, now how about using the same content to drive traffic from web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Livejournal, Knol etc. You may be aware that these web 2.0 sites allow you to create your own content pages, where you can share content with the entire world, every site calls this page by different name, but purpose is the same.
I use Incansoft’s Web 2.0 Bot to submit my content to Web 2.0 sites. I use 2 part strategy that I will describing in my future blog post, so, I will post one part on Web 2.0 site and in the end I will provide link to my blog to read the Part 2.
Web 2.0 Bot has very clean and easy to use interface, you have to create your company profile and then create your account profile. If you already have accounts at the Web 2.0 sites then you can put in your login details, or Web 2.0 Bot can create accounts for you.
Then you can submit your content to the sites you select. A cool feature that I really like for Web 2.0 Bot is that it allows you to enter your content in Jet Spinner Syntax, that way your content submitted to different Web 2.0 sites will appear to be unique. This is much better than hand submission of your content to all web 2.0 sites.
There you are we have covered today a cool free service to automatically submit your content/bookmark to 36 social sites, we also covered the sites to put in your WordPress blog to ping to RSS directories and a cool software that allows us to submit semi-automate content submission to Web 2.0 sites.
I have covered automation of tasks in this 2 part series, I haven’t mentioned about Outsourcing all these tasks, as that’s a different ball game all together.
Hope you found the blog automation part 1 and part 2 useful. So, how do you automate your blogging tasks?
Related posts: