Hello BHW members. It's been several months that I've been reading forum threads here and tried some of them that seems suited for me to do wherein I am able to implement but without luck with monetizing

Most autoblogs as far as I've been reading threads are done using Wordpress. Now, as a Joomla User (not developer) I've been finding ways to implement some AutoBlogging concepts from WordPress into Joomla. Now I've started one and hope any of you could suggest a better one.

joomla 1.5.13 thru fantastico

joomla templates thru Artisteer (got it here!)

components for feed fetching:
- RSS2Content
- YOS Feed2Articles

components for SEO and SEF
- sh404SEF
- SEF Service Map and Extension

component for posting COMMENT
- JomComment

component for backup
- JoomlaPack
AD
- Google Adsense module by Joomlaspan

These components really does autoblogging in joomla like feed fetching intro and full articles, images, categorizing, frontpage publishing, cron, etc. It's just a matter of configuring it the right way. Although i'm not sure that it does article rewrites.

My question is, does any of you here knows a feed fetching component that does article-rewrite? (posting some replies would be greatly acknowledged...) Suggestion for better components for a working autoblogging similar to WP-O-Matic as well.

I'm still on the process of testing this concept for joomla. and hopefully if i'll have good results, i'll be sharing my testimonies as well.

You may want to try it yourself also.

Yes, joomla is also a good alternative, have been planning to try it out myself. Maybe you can also add meta generator as a plugin. It automatically adds all the metas for each article.. Furtermore try multiads for ads in conent. Will let u know more about about plugins when i get there. Do u mind sharing jomcomment with me? If so please pm me for email address. Thanks
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I know I'll be following this.

Originally Posted by ghettogong

Yes, joomla is also a good alternative, have been planning to try it out myself. Maybe you can also add meta generator as a plugin. It automatically adds all the metas for each article.. Furtermore try multiads for ads in conent. Will let u know more about about plugins when i get there. Do u mind sharing jomcomment with me? If so please pm me for email address. Thanks
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thanks ghettogong! I'll do searching on meta tags generator plugin and i'll add up on my extension list the one that works best.

Of course multiAds is taken into consideration. But this time, i'l just start with adsense so it's not too confusing.

if jomcomment is not shared, here's the link:

-http://rapidshare.com/files/302961741/com_jomcomment_pro_Joomla-1.5.x_v3.0-original.tar.zip.html

i'll keep in touch... As i've said as soon as i figure out the best working components, modules and plugins for a Joomla to do AutoBlogging, i'll post it here or create a new thread for it. Good tainted to all!

I am very interested in this thread. You know, wp will goes slowly when site grows big. I will give a try to joomla and learn some basic knowledge of its api.

My question is, does any of you here knows a feed fetching component that does article-rewrite? (posting some replies would be greatly acknowledged...) Suggestion for better components for a working autoblogging similar to WP-O-Matic as well.

I think it could be implemented in the same way as wordpress if know what the hook for content. well, I mean we could move wordpress rewriter or others synonyms plugin into joomla without a pain.

i'm glad members could come and visit this thread little by little.

way to go @letusgo... hope to get updates from you too about implementing wp rewriters to joomla.

and to @Celcius, just keep subscribed, then wait and see. later follow.

This day, I've finished building my template and my joomla backbones (menus, sections, categories, extensions, ads placements, etc.) online and none yet of autoblogging. i'll start with that on monday. I'm just taking it slowly but surely.

Just keep sending post. altho i'll be away for 2 days, i'll give updates when i get back.

Good tainted!

Thanks, will stay in touch, got so much to do - let us know all your result - make a diary ;-)

I am Joomla developer and know Joomla very well because it's my one of my main income source. I don't think there are joomla extensions to do article rewrites. The only possible solution is build the extension from scratch or modify the existing ones. Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by jay2success

I am Joomla developer and know Joomla very well because it's my one of my main income source. I don't think there are joomla extensions to do article rewrites. The only possible solution is build the extension from scratch or modify the existing ones. Hope this helps.

man, nothing is impossible.
Look at this post

HTML Code:

http://www.lab11.com/blogs/Joomla-1.5-Content-Plugin.html

and this para

We're going to hook our plugin onto Joomla's onPrepareContent event. This happens before Joomla displays the content to the user. Any changes we make to the text will not be saved in the database.

it is possible and very easy to fulfil joomla rewriter, isn't it?

Originally Posted by letusgo

man, nothing is impossible.
Look at this post

HTML Code:

http://www.lab11.com/blogs/Joomla-1.5-Content-Plugin.html

and this para

it is possible and very easy to fulfil joomla rewriter, isn't it?

Man, please read my post again, i didn't say that this is impossible.
I said it needs to be built from scratch and it's very possible if you master joomla framework and MVC model.

Originally Posted by jay2success

Man, please read my post again, i didn't say that this is impossible.
I said it needs to be built from scratch and it's very possible if you master joomla framework and MVC model.

Im sorry my recklessness
Good news! I was succeeded in moving wordpress rewriter to joomla rewriter, though I am newbie to joomla for 2 hours.

HTML Code:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/other-scripting-languages/136790-joomla-content-rewriter.html

Originally Posted by letusgo

Im sorry my recklessness
Good news! I was succeeded in moving wordpress rewriter to joomla rewriter, though I am newbie to joomla for 2 hours.

HTML Code:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/other-scripting-languages/136790-joomla-content-rewriter.html

Hey letusgo! Just got back from weekend vacation. When i came back online, first thing i did is check on this thread. i saw your link about rewriter. i downloaded it and installed it to my joomla autoblogging test site with success and no problem.

Thanks. it really worked on rewriting certain verbs, subjects and every word that needs to be rewritten.

That's cool. autoblogging can really be implemented in Joomla!

@letusgo... by d way, i've just noticed that the norewriter.php was not uploaded. is it because it's not inserted in the XML file?

Nice to see you guys trying other ways and sharing with all. But allow me to express my opinion about this, I've been making auto updated websites with joomla few years ago (as well as WP), you can do every thing with joomla, it's bigger and a powerful CMS than wordpress, there are tons of free and payed modules, extensions and plugins, but it's a bit harder to work with joomla than WP, specially if you're new, a proper SEO to joomla website is not as easy as It sounds, comparing it with WP, you get a powerful SEO ready blog/website from the box, and with few plugins you're almost done with on-page seo. So it will takes you much more time to make a good autoblog/autowebsite with joomla than wordpress, and even that you may get the same result or less in the end. I don't think it worth if you're making a basic niche blog .

I don't mean this is not gona work, you'll end up with a good looking blog/website with joomla but for less time and work, you can easily have a good auto blog with Wordpress, so you better spend time getting good keywords and promoting your blogs .

Originally Posted by mgs

...you can do every thing with joomla, it's bigger and a powerful CMS than wordpress, there are tons of free and payed modules, extensions and plugins, but it's a bit harder to work with joomla than WP, specially if you're new, a proper SEO to joomla website is not as easy as It sounds, comparing it with WP, you get a powerful SEO ready blog/website from the box, and with few plugins you're almost done with on-page seo. So it will takes you much more time to make a good autoblog/autowebsite with joomla than wordpress, and even that you may get the same result or less in the end. I don't think it worth if you're making a basic niche blog .

I don't mean this is not gona work, you'll end up with a good looking blog/website with joomla but for less time and work, you can easily have a good auto blog with Wordpress, so you better spend time getting good keywords and promoting your blogs .

thank you for sharing your opinion mgs. I appreciate it. I agree with you that it will really take a lot of time in preparing a joomla autoblog. But being able to come up with the working components, modules and plugins to get this joomla autoblog working, would lead us perhaps to creating a joomlaautoblog quickstart that is ready to install and ready to be shared with other Joomla users. Anyways, we're still in the test stage...

And Perhaps with the contribution of members here posting insights and so will really lead to a good result. So just keep posting.

maybe an idea: make a joomla site and a wordpress site with both same product and analyse the outcome after 2 weeks and ofcourse tell us ;-)

Hi guys!!!
Nice to see some Joomla action around. Yes as 'mgs' mentioned.... it is not as easy as WordPress. Let's face the facts.......

System: WordPress was specially developed for Blogging. Whereas Joomla is altogether a different system. Blogging is just one of its features.

Content Management: Coming to the downside of Joomla for Blogging comparatively to WordPress..... I think the K2 CCK Component from JoomlaWorks fixes this issue completely.

SEO: While WordPress has many built-in features, I don’t think Joomla is anyway lacking these capabilities. Also the add-ons for this are in abundance.

Ease of use: Both are more or less same.
Performance: Yes as mentioned by ‘letusgo’, WordPress does go slow when you blog grows big. Whereas Joomla is a clear winner in this.

Security: Though both have their own systems....... I may not be correct but I feel Joomla is having more options in this.
Coming down to the main topic of this thread..... A Content Rewriter for Joomla..... Yes it is possible to convert many WordPress plug-ins for Joomla.

I fact I am working on a Rewriter as well as a Content Uniquefirer Plug-in for Joomla. I am using some WordPress Plug-ins for the same. Will be sharing the files here soon.

I feel that we should give Joomla a try. It has more flexibility than WordPress.

Lastly YES with focus on the issue and high energy levels like ‘deign23’ and ‘letusgo’I am sure this project is not very far from completion.

Keep posting suggestions as these will be our seed for development.

Cheers!!!

Originally Posted by deign23

@letusgo... by d way, i've just noticed that the norewriter.php was not uploaded. is it because it's not inserted in the XML file?

Sorry for omiting this thread for some days.
The norewriter.php stores the words you don't want to remove(per word per line) so it doesn't matter without xml.
You have to download the new one

HTML Code:

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=ht6cirp41e

since I made something wrong in previous one.

thanks for the brief comparative notes about joomla and wordpress, vikramrao. Something tells me that i'll be continuing joomla autoblogging for that

and thanks again letusgo for the updated rewriter plugin. i've been busy preparing a site with simple instructions about how to do joomla autoblog, and with a download page of the needed components, modules and plugins built for guys who wanted to try joomla autoblog stuffs. and by d way, i've also uploaded your rewriter plugin, letusgo. Someday when it's half done, i'll be posting the joomla autoblog instructional site as well as the sample autoblog site here for critic.

i'm almost done with my simple instructional site. what i'l be doing next is the demo of the joomla autoblog site with some niche related blogs inside categories. Which means, i'll be doing a technology related autoblogs inside technology category; a travel related autoblogs inside travel category, and so on... all in one demo site. Hope it works

you guys just keep posting... i'll be posting also from time to time.

Good taited!

This looked really promising so I went to Joomla to check some extensions and found some that I think would be useful.

AutoTweet NG - posts the title/url of new articles/forum posts automatically as status message
Tweetme - a nice "TweetThis" button to your Joomla articles
Ping.FM Plugin - allows you to send a customized status message to all your social network pages like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. using Ping.FM (Don't need AutoTweet NG if you use this)

To get content (commercial plugins):
Article-Generator
Rss2Content
Feed2Post
JC - JoomRSS
Unique Article Wizard - get articles from UniqueArticleWizard.com

Hey, bilalownsu. Pretty cool suggestions. The extensions you suggested to do (i guess) backlinking is now added on my joomla autoblog list. And as soon i'll be uploading it on my site for download (well, if it's free!) And they are all really free/non-commercial. The AutoTweet NG, Tweetme and Ping.FM Plugin.

I'll be testing these in a few moments of my free time.

With regards to components you've mentioned, I'm quite acquainted this time with Rss2Content (i've already mentioned this on my first post in this thread). I've also tried Feed2Post but I prefer RSS2Content than Feed2Post due to some reasons RSS2Content has more features than Feed2Post. That's all.

I haven't tried JC - JoomRSS and Article-Generator yet. It's quite convincing to try them upon reading reviews about them but I lack budget this time. so perhaps i'l be trying them next time.

Got my autoblog instructional site online as well as my demo site. you may check them for critics if you want. As I've said it's still under test. So just be gentle with the attack!!!

My Joomla Autoblog Instructional site:

HTML Code:

http://www.joomlaautoblog.info/

My Joomla Autoblog site (FeedFetcher):

HTML Code:

http://www.blog.joomlaautoblog.info/

I've also downloaded unique article wizard but haven't used or tried it yet with my joomla autoblog. I'm actually subscribed to it too. Right now, I'm using the rewriter plugin shared by letusgo.

Well, anyway, i'll still hit thanks to you. Good tainted!

Hello Guyz and to all Joomla Autoblog savvy! I'm back. Just checked on my site and after 2 days on submitting it to google, yahoo and bing, finally my sites are indexed.

By the way, i'll be keeping this thread updated.

And as soon as I tweaked the final working joomla autoblog, i'll be sharing a JOOMLA AUTOBLOG QUICKSTART for those who want to try it. But for now... it's still undergoing series of tests.

So just keep checking this thread. My ideas on doing joomla autoblog test also came from collecting ideas in this place, blackhatworld. So i'm just giving back to them the glory of my success with this test. (That is....... if I succeed ) And there will be no place for failure here. Because everytime we fall, there is always a time to retreat, to plan out, to rise up again and attack with the new strategy.

Good tainted!

Nice to see this alternative.

It takes a while for the site to come up. I used firefox and chrome. It just takes a little while to paint the screen. Anyone else see this happening? Sorry I'm a total speed whore.

Hey guys. i'm here again to update my site's status. Using some backlinking tools and BHW's suggestions in getting indexed and ranked with your selected keyword, got me on number 1 on Page 2... and some of my dropped links got me on first page number 3 (at reddit) and number 4 (at scribd).

I hope that i doesn't go down in a few more days but go up. Well, I'm so happy that i've got a .INFO site indexed and ranked. thanks to BlackHatWorld. I never regretted signing up here.

And oh by the way Celsius. I guess your observation is true. It takes a while for my site to come up. Well, i've been doing backlinkings to it and perhaps it went slow. And another thing is this... I'M USING A FREE HOSTING SERVICE...

Good tainted. Need to take a 2 day break again. I'l be catching up with you guyz later.

Hey sorry about that I didn't notice it was free. Hey free is well its free.

He deign23, i got a joomla site now.

what i want to do is: fetch an article -> spin the text -> finally let it post itself on the site.

so is there 1 component that does this all, or do you have to use multiple components?
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hi ghettoghong. actually what i've tested in doing feed fetching is the YOS Feed2Article (non-commercial), Feed2Post (Commercial), and RSS2Content (commercial). Among the 3 I find RSS2Content on top of them because it has lots of featured tabs, like adjusting # of intro text, # full text, image size, rokbok plugin (so that visitors remain in your site), cron (for free hosting - like what i have since i'm just doing this as test), and twitter submitter for every content fetched and posted, and more.

There is however a problem in fetching articles with <DIV> tags. Most of the times, it gives OFFSETS to your Web Page. But anyway, what i did is replaced <DIV> tags to <P> tags by copying the codes in HTML, pasting it to notepad, using notepad's CTRL+H to repalce <DIV with <P and </DIV with </P (note there is no "greater than" [>] sign because sometimes other codes are still appearing before the "greater than" [>] sign ), then copying back the codes to joomla article, toggle the HTML to View, then I arrange the paragraphs by deleting the extra spaces.

so the component i use for feed fetching is RSS2Content (haven't tried Article Generator and JoomRSS)

and for the rewriter plugin, i used the one provided by letusgo. and you can download it on my site.

I hope it's not against the rule to post this link... but mods may delete or modify this in case it's against... PEACE

here's the download link for the rewriter plugin (by letusgo)

HTML Code:

http://joomlaautoblog.info/component/option,com_rokdownloads/id,71/task,download/view,file/

just install it and enable. Every major words in your site's articles will be rewritten.

Good tainted

really gotta say, epic post deign23

i was just wondering about creating a joomla autoblog. its not that wordpress can't do the job, but its just because joomla has more features and is more suitable for my sites...

i will be testing this tonite along with yahoo pipes, will let you guys know if it works.

good job deign23! can't wait to see your howto instruction.
I have to clear air about the rewriter plugin.

I am not and have no idea the original author. I just transform it from wordpress platform into joomla platform and modifying and add extra words in dictionary in order to be more readable so you can see it only rewrites major words.

I am afraid that people think the plugin is by me. I am not the one who rehash others' work and claim his/hers loudly. I respect others' work, especially open source software.

BTW: I've seen 6 wordpress rewriter plugins in total till now, the latest one you could find in

HTML Code:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/member-downloads/137521-get-wordpress-rewriter-plugin-wordpress-new-release-v4.html

thanks for your contributed post crucix. we'll be expecting to see new posts from you soon.

I'm still having lots of thoughts why RSS2Content is giving an Offset pixels to your website when you are fetching feeds??? any idea?

anyway, this is what i do, I open the articles at the backend causing the OFFSET and simply save it (nothing more), and the OFFSET is gone. (Too tedious to do but maybe sooner ideas will cross here to solve this issue)

By d way, this thread became number 1 in Page 1 of Google Search as well as Bing when you search for the keyword "Joomla AutoBlog" IN JUST 2 DAYS.

Thanks to the Quick Backlinking Tool posted by Silynnie. Just click the link below:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...r-tool-v2.html

Go get them guyz and get your sites ranked with your target keywords.

thanks to Joomla Tags for the joomla rewriter plugin modified by letusgo!
How's that letusgo!

good tainted! Keep posting...

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your outcome has resulted me in directly doing also a joomla autoblog test.

I could only download the YOS component on your site. But the rss2content and feed2post i could not download?

thanks given

Originally Posted by ghettogong

your outcome has resulted me in directly doing also a joomla autoblog test.

I could only download the YOS component on your site. But the rss2content and feed2post i could not download?

thanks given

That's nice to hear that newbies like me would try doing joomla autoblog test. Sorry men but I couldn't share those 2 components on my site since they're COMMERCIAL COMPONENTS.

But I would like to give you a tip. Go to boygj.com and search for the keyword "article generator". And you'll probably see links to those 2 components on the first results. That's a promise. At least it didn't came from my site.

And a little hitting of THANKS and a short post would be appreciated.

UPDATES:

Got my first $ 0.02 doing joomla autoblog... funny but finally my adsense starts to get clicked out of genuine interests.

got my instructional site (Blogs Menu) on page 1 number 3 when Google searching the keyword "joomla autoblog" and my joomla autoblog test site on page 1 number 9.

Good tainted!

sent you an email

Did you try it with feed2post component?

Originally Posted by abhi1

Did you try it with feed2post component?

Yes I did try Feed2Post. But I find RSS2Content better.

Originally Posted by ghettogong

sent you an email

sent you the reply

Yes! finally before this week ends. My site got indexed in Yahoo. And the best thing is, I ended up in Number 1 First Page when you search for the keywords "joomla autoblog". thanks to all the BHW members sharing their golden tips here.

Good tainted!

Found a new plugin just added to joomla extensions. Its 4RSS, another rss importer, but this one is free!

Code:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/external-contents/automatic-articles/10575

i will follow this post very close, think to start 3 new sites.
Same niche one wp one joomla and one plig all 3 will be auto and they take rss from same sites.
When i will have enoght time and documentation for all i will create a topic with the experiment.

Hello guys!

I am a Joomlahead. Most all my sites are Joomla powered. I am working on developing my latest site, SuperHotTopics.com - It is going to be an autoblog that focuses on the hottest news trends, from places such as Google Trends.

I've played around with a number of the components mentioned in this thread that automatically generate articles from RSS feeds. I have been doing a bunch of research on this subject lately. I have narrowed it down to these two components: YOS News Crawler and Article-Generator.

The YOS New Crawler looks very cool. It can not only create articles from RSS feeds, but it can scrape a page that does not have an RSS feed and make articles that way.

Have any of you guys used either of these components? I've contacted the owner of both these components, but have yet to hear back from wither one.

This is a cool thread. I'll be sure to let you guys know how my site goes.

Nice to hear the joomla autoblogging thing.

i wanna try drupal auto blogging soon

Anyone knows if there are joomla optimized adsense templates around here. They do have for wordpress....