Here’s a power promotion tip for article writers. With the arrival on the scene of the WordPress Automatic Blog plugin, you can now piggyback your article marketing efforts on the back of this software. Let me explain…

AutomaticBlog is a WordPress plugin which draws articles by category from ArticlesBase.com and publishes them automatically on blogs that have installed this plugin. Blog owners can choose how many posts per day and which category to source the content from, and which category on their blog to publish these ArticlesBase articles in.

That means that if you submit your articles to ArticlesBase (no cost to do so), they will be automatically republished on sites using the plugin.

From memory you can include 3 links per article. By using 3 differently worded text links pointing to whatever you are promoting in your article, you can get maximum power from your one article.

Sounds like a handy bit of leverage you can get with this relatively little-known article distribution service. My hunch is… we’ll be hearing more about them.

Here’s the link to the plugin – http://automaticblogtools.com/links/automaticblog

Here’s the link to the articles site – http://articlesbase.com

Written by Gary Harvey.
http://GaryHarvey.net
Reprinting is welcomed.

Almost every WordPress blogger uses plugins to beef up the functionality of their blogs. And if you’re like me, you keep half an eye out for lists of the best WordPress plugins.

Well, Andy has just published his new list. Not the top ten WP plugins, but 12 of them.

I was impressed by #3 and #11.

http://affiliate-minder.com/wordpresstutorials/top-12-wordpress-plugins

Recently I did a bit of a purge and got rid of some of the plugins I was using in my standard set. Now I just might be tempted to add to the set again. Does it never end?

Written by Gary Harvey.

Improve blog traffic

When your web hosting company closes you down unexpectedly, that’s one big challenge. When you’ve got 50 sites, that’s a huge challenge. When something goes wrong with the process of restoring the backup files for 50 sites, THAT… is a nightmare.

And that’s what I’ve been wrestling with these last few days.

Here’s why.

My old host suspended me for having too many files on my unlimited disk space hosting account. Yep, it’s in the fine print that you cant have too many files… but it would have been nice if they had given me the 14 days they wrote to me about. It was 14 days to remove the excessive files or they would close me down. TWO DAYS LATER, they suspended all my sites. Not nice, if you ask me.

Well, I asked them to change their mind but they said no. Next I asked for FTP access (so I could download my web content) and CPanel access (so I could download the .sql files) to my content on their servers – and they said yes. So I busied myself with a great deal of downloading. Remember that’s 50-something sites.

Then at my new hosting (which is with Hostnine), I used Fantastico to create a new WordPress blog at each of my blog sites… which is most of my sites. Think: big big job. Lots of sore back time.

Well, for this story, let’s just use one example… garyharvey.net, this site.

STEP BY STEP

Fantastico installed a new WP blog, just the default blog with the boring Kubrick them. But it was working, so… we’re doing okay so far. Read the rest of this entry