Joomla is hard for me to setup a website! However it is so good.

@ethan.ky === Keen observation my friend. It’s reall included in the RSS2Content function to SHORTEN VERY LONG TAILED URLs like http://yoursite.com/m-first-blog-about-joomla-autoblog.html into something like http://sn1purl.com/ybh7wae just to fit into the 140 characters allowed by twitter.

@axina === we’re glad that you could join the doing joomla autoblogging test thread. Try it yourself. But if you feel new to this joomla thing, try reading the blogs from the oldest to the newest of AUGUST BLOGS this site below.
If you need quick tutorial on joomla, i could do a one on one session with you. just PM me your email add.

@ghettogong === hey friend, if you’re looking for a template optimized for adsense, I suggest you create one for yourself using Artisteer. All you have to do is adjust the sizes of columns, sheet, etc. to satisfy your needed template that fits your adsense size. The other good thing is that you can say, "Hey men I designed it!" Or you can install an adsense module that you can place to any module position you like. You can download it in this site. Choose between regular and clicksafe.
Moreover, you may try experimenting placing your adsense anywhere in your contents (top, bottom, left, right, center) by reading this short ebook. link below:
And to all! Keep posting your experiences with joomla autoblogging. In this way, every exchange of ideas will lead to fruitful products.

Good tainted!

@Slazor === Hey men, I don’t mean to offend you in anyway. But although we’re doing autoblogging test here using joomla, perhaps somehow some of your ideas implemented in drupal could connect or might be applicable here. Besides, Wordpress rewriter plugin converted to Joomla plugin that works was also applied here. Thanks for joining.
@ethan.ky === thanks for the share ethan.ky I’l be trying that tonight. I hope this doesn’t conflict with my sh404SEF component. But it’s worth a try.
With regards to this one, I haven’t found any A-G either. Let’s hope for the best. If sometimes, we couldn’t go to the link of these components, let the components go to us.

@ WebmasterWorkforce === That’s the force WebmasterWorkforce. We’re glad you had been enlightened even in a little way by this thread. I hope you’ll meet success soon.
@ justicero === thanks for the share. Many of us here will be happy with this share. And far better on, it’s non-commercial. Thanks. I downloaded it. I’l give it a test on Thursday. I’m out for a few days vacation. I’m just using a friend’s PC and net.

Good tainted!

@ ethan.ky Hey Mate. I tested your tip about the DIV problem with RSS2Content, it worked for me too. But don't know the reason why it worked. Well, at least it worked and i'll be using RSS2Content for my autoblogging. I'm almost nearing my final tweaks of this test before building a quickstart.

Good tainted!

Oh now i understand what you mean. i guess there is an issue with your sh404SEF component or JoomSEO plugin. if your using sh404SEF component, try doing this:

i have noticed that you still have the "index.php" in your URLs. to get rid of this "index.php" do this:

1. login to your back-end.
2. go to component > sh404SEF
3. on the right portion of the interface, click the LINK shaded in Blue that says "Click here to switch to extended display (with all available parameters)" to open the advance mode tabs.
4. Click sh404SEF Configuration icon.
5. In the Main Tab select YES to enable it. select YES to all lowercase.
6. In the Advance Tab, Advance Component Configuration Column, Rewriting Mode Row, select with .HTACCESS (MOD_REWRITE). This hides your index.php in your URLs.
7. Save it. and Click Proceed to purge your URLs and creates a new fresh URLs.
8. NOW TO THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. FTP your site or use File Manager in your cpanel, and rename your HTACCESS.TXT to .HTACCESS (with the dot "." before htaccess) and you're done.
9. Now to check it. Just delete some of your latest articles. Then completely delete it also at the Article Trash. Then try doing "manual loading of RSS" at RSS2Content and check your twitter links again if they are still index.php in their links. Let's hope this will work you out of this problem.

Then post your experience here.

Good luck and good tainted!

@ ethan.ky if you have the jmovies component not working properly, you have to go to your sh404SEF component configuration and go to the COMPONENT tab, and skip it from using SEF URL.

I use to have my download page not working right. and this is what i did to make it work normally. I hope it will work for you too.

Good tainted!

I couldn't figure out Joomla for the life of me. Wordpress is much easier, or at least from what I have seen. Joomla can have an actual website layout tho. So that is nice.

[QUOTE=ethan.ky;1319596]hey deign23,

I did that, and it didn't work. =[

I guess I won't be focusing on SEF just yet. Since I have more component to add to the site. btw, what do you think of my site. Please give me some feedbacks

Thanks![/QUOT

Sorry to hear that. I can't think of other magic from my sleeves to fix that. Anyway, with regards to your autoblog:
=> nice good looking site. fresh to the eyes. (thanks to GK_musictube template)
=> cute twitter bird module. what module is that?
=> nice ad placement... color matching eehy?!
=> who's image are you using as your favicon? mysterious huh?!?

well, i guess i've got nothing more to say. I think, you need to add a Contact Us, Disclaimer, and About Us Menu. That's what your lacking as far as I could think now.

Awesome work guys, really!!! I sent you an e-mail deign23, if you didn't receive it let me know.

Been working on a autoblog and then found this thread.....perfect.

My Joomla autoblog has been acting weird lately. Every now and then I'll go there and it will be just a blank white page, with just the date in the upper left corner of the screen. In debug mode I saw that the rewriter plugin mentioned in this thread was having errors so I disabled it, however the problem persists. Does anyone here know what is going on? I tried disabling some other of my new components and plugins, but I haven't figured it out just yet.

I am ready to scrap this and just use WordPress, even though I really had my heart set on using Joomla for this project.

Gonna try out 4RSS....Seems to be a new Component that came out 4RSS....no reviews there yet. Tried using Article Generator.....looks nice but support is terrible...especially for a newb like me.

Fingers crossed this works

Thanks everyone for all the great info, you've put me up on a few great tools. I've been using Joomla for about 2 years. And just installed Rss2Content 3 days ago and plan to start an autoblog section.

I found With Rss2Content theres a nice sized gap between the title and article content even if no souce logo is selected in the back-end. I've been tring to find a way to tweek this in Rss2Content, or maybe in Joomla (without editing each article individually). No luck yet though.

I need to alter whatever is actually creating the article and prevent it from adding those spaces before the article text. Not sure how to go about this.

Oh and that <div offset fix was a life saver so thanks again.

Nice one Fineas....steer clear of 4RSS....very basic and support is terrible. Gonna have another crack at Article Generator (as I've bought it). Fingers Crossed

Thanks, I was just about to try 4RSS. It doesn't really seem like a good substitute for Rss2Content anyway.

To my knowledge there are a number of sites that offer full articles in their rss feeds. You can find a list or make your own. From there certain tools are used to change choice key words to something that suits your SEO needs. Add advertising, or other ways to monetize and so on.

Many of the tools used to do this are mentioned in this thread.

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Hi,
I am also thinking about joomla auto blogging but this this nice information for me.This will help me a lot......Thanks man

4RSS - Very basic, doesn't have many of the features that the others have...but has potential once the owners implement some things. Support is terrible...had no idea how to set up cron and response was basically go figure it out yourself (even though we supply it also). So big no no for me.

Article Generator - Had another crack at this and turns out to be pretty nice. Can view items and feeds before publishing (helping out figure if it's a full article RSS feed). Can pull articles by keywords..so if you have a general RSS feed...can specify some targeted keywords so you don't download everything. Bad point is can't limit the number of Articles....but won't be too many once you get going.

So far I'm happy with this, will be playing around with it until I can try out the latest RSS2Content. PM me your email if you want Article Generator.....but I won't be providing support as I'm a noob aswell.

Only thing I need to get down, is finding full articles for my tech autoblog

PEACE

So you think Joomla doesn't get slow with a big site? I've got news for you...

Hey mate. I suggest you install JoomSEO plugin then enable it and your Website offset is resolved.

Good luck!

Sorry to hear this news. Maybe it is the matter of php itself.
From wikipedia
It is a pain for people who use normal shared hosting. Due to this problem, I give up my high-load wordpress autoblog and start to do micro niche sites with wordpress

sorry off topic.

here you go

thanks for the sharing AG component, megalomaniac midget! I'm sure many of this thread's visitor will take their time doing joomla autoblogging test using this component.

Good tainted!

To pimp my RSS feeds i use this plugin with a retweet button, disqus, etc

here's a demo
here's the download
here's the latest Rss2Content

personally i use nulls to test scripts... if i like it, i buy it.

I like supporting developers... & if i've payed for the script i can bitch about issues via the developers forum or email. In addition when there is a security issue you don't want to be waiting for weeks for a new null to come out for a security update. After your had your server r00ted a few times because of exploits you really begin to understand that nulls can actually cost you alot of money

I agree totally... Not to disrupt what you guys are doing 1 bit... but I have worked with both and WP is way less headaches... IMHO

I 'think' the one thing that stands out to me is G made or owns wp so they show some favoritism to wp sites... again a loose theory of mine...

Good luck and I will keep up with your progress, very interesting concept.. thx

I agree that WP is less of a headache...but you can build EPIC autoblog/auto content sites with joomla. Personally i aim to build sites that get repeat traffic, repeat traffic is where the money is

Agreed (again) that wp is alot easier. WP is like a windows OS, by that I mean it's easier to use and has way more apps for it, but Joomla (being like Linux) has way more potential and seems to have a better community (in my opinion) for sorting out kinks.

OK, my question is this: Where can I find full articles via RSS feeds?

Had a look on other threads, they give vague ideas but nothing really specific. If you suggest something like Yahoo pipes please supply a how to....coz that thing just baffles me .

PEACE ALL!

hey friend. Got a simple suggestion. altho this may take you time to collect RSS feeds but it's quite useful especially if your looking for articles related to your keyword target. Since most sites that has full articles are in blogspot, here's my way of searching feeds.
1. Go to google search.
2. search with this line ==> and press enter
3. this will display pages relative to your keywords.
4. simply right-click and open each web page in new tabs (perfect for FF browser)
5. click their RSS-feed ICON along the address bar, and you'll get the link
6. i guess 10 to 20 RSS feeds would be enough.

And if others have better ideas than i do, just keep on posting.

Yet, If this post was helpful to you, TY me.

Good tainted!

Good stuff If there are more ideas plz keep them coming.

I used the method above but could only find a limited amount of items and the keyword I used was very general.

If you want to master auto generated/autoblog sites yahoo pipes is the key....there are shit loads of yahoo pipe tuts showing you how to do stuff....but what ever you want to build has already been built...the thing with yahoo pipes is you can "clone" other peoples pipes & use it for your site or use it as a building block for a epic pipe. just search thru other people pipes...it will give you a shit load of ideas to build a killer mashup.

Just remember... google is a billion dollar business built on automated scrapping of other peoples work

That was excellent advice - Using Yahoo pipes for all my feeds. I first watch "Yahoo pipes Tutorials" on youtube and then made my own. Simple as pie.

Now if only I can get round setting up cron on the dreaded Godaddy (no switching hosting is not an option), I would be set.

Another FREE automatic article creator is called FeedGator. It is at
SourceForge.

Flinx

Anyone know PHP here?
My cron output sent to my email reads

/web/cgi-bin/php5: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /web/cgi-bin/php5)
/web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

Hosting is godaddy Linux shared server

You get my full thanks if you can help
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

I don't want to offend design32 for off topic. But can't help to answer your question.
"Anyone know PHP here?" that means you do cron job with PHP command? if so, I recommend you try wget or curl.

The Rss2content uses curl .....just not sure what I'm ment to be doing from Godaddy to run this cron job. Tried using cron manager to find the php file that the component uses for cron job.

there are a few free online cron services that i use, alot of my blog farm is on super cheap hosting that dosn't support cron

try

Im glad to have found this spot! tons of sweet tools in here

Hi mate sorry for the very late reply. I've been busy over the weekend.

I haven't used automated cron yet. To be honest, it's because i'm also using cheap hosting service that doesn't support cron. because I'm still doing series of tests.

Currently I'm doing manual feed fetch every other day. Sometimes I use the cron built-in within the R2C component. Yes it updates your content articles.

2 problems:
==> During the scheduled update process, when a visitor opens your site, it displays only the LOGO of your site. Unless the visitor refreshes your site, it will display it full. Although it happens only once on your scheduled task, the rest of the visitors will open your site fine.
==> Sometimes or most of the time, the content in the READ MORE is not displayed or is even dropped. However, the link to rokbox still works.

But it still works.
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as Megalomaniac Midget mentioned, you can use free cronjobs online ***( ). set your cron jobs to directly open your site's URL with your cronjob code embedded at your index.php (usually pasted in your http://yourdomain.com/template/index.php)

or you can create a php file inside a certain folder example: http://yourdomain.com/cron/cron.php (where your cron php code is pasted inside)
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@letusgo == no problem. but it's deign23 not design32.

Good tainted!

To run the cronjob you need to make php parse the file cronjob.php inside the
cronjob folder /components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/


E.G.: /usr/bin/php /path/to/cronjob.php (on some servers)
E.G.: GET http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.ph (on some others)
E.G.: lynx -source http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.ph (on some others)

if you use an online cron service, execute http://www.yourwebsite.com/component...ob/cronjob.php

Yup running with Article Generator. Using Yahoo Pipes can truncate (limit) the amount of feeds coming in.

Anyone who is using pipes have a feed converter that works?? Headline --> Full RSS.
I had a look around but some don't work and others are scarey complicated.....Just wanna input URLs and be done with it

@ethan.ky:
Joomla has auto-meta tag generator components
find one you like here:

Thanks mate for starting this thread.

I just love joomla and have an autoblog that has been going for 1yr now. It always ranks very high.

I guess its because the niche is very tough but getting content for it is nearly impossible. I had forgotten all about it until I read this today.

Now I will get 3 joomla sites that I had let lie low and start an autoblog section.

Just wondering if I can use it with resources component as I just love the way it handles content on my sites.

Great post guys.

To be honest I'm having difficulties. Trying to set up a simple tech blog. I'm looking to setup feeds for different categories...Phones, Desktops, graphic cards, peripherals, laptops...and probably some more categories.

Each category should have full feeds.....which is my main problem. I keep going back to it, spend lots of time researching and the same results happen.....bad feeds not doing what I want.

I'm not giving up though I want this to work so I can expand the site.

Joomla is much less likely to be hacked than Wordpress, and it not only about being less widespread. It is also true you will have to spend more time learning, but the possibilities it offers are wider. There are also other CMS suites worth experimenting out there. At least a big & growing one.

Hi guys. it's been so long since i've posted here. Well i've been busy tweaking an j00mla autobl0g site for a friend. And due to his requirements, i found out that the Art1cle Generat0r works best for his site.

Anyways, every components has their own advantages and disadvantages. I also found out the these J! components could not retrieve contents from Read More link pages. I don't really know how to fetch the Full content (content after clicking read more). I've also heard of a guy doing Feed fetching thru Y! pipes. Soon i'll be exploring that too.

Good tainted to everyone and Happy New Year.

added: discovery? or realization?
by the way, although most feed fetching components above are fetching intro and full texts, some RSS Feed links do not provide the full contents of their Articles.

i've been thinking before why these components do not fetch full articles, until I realized it today.

Good tainted!