99% Complete Step By Step Autoblog Setup

**shylesson** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:22 AM

After I posted my autoblog post, I kept getting asked how to set these up step by step [more in depth than the stuff I've already posted] so here's the basic step by step method I use: [oh before I go into it, I am going to do the step by step on how to get STARTED, not the method I use once I've configured all my plugins/themes with my information in them. This is as detailed as it should get because of this.]

1. Create a folder on my desktop that says "100 blog setup" (yep it really says that)
2. Create a folder in that folder that says "plugins"
3. Create a folder in that folder that says "themes"
4. Create a txt file that says "important information" in the main folder
5. Create a txt file that says "blog_logins" in the main folder
6. Create a txt file that says "emails" in the main folder
7. Create a txt file that says "twitter logins" in the main folder
8. Add the robots.txt to my main folder:

Quote:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

9. Create a txt file called "pinglist" that holds your pinglist [duh]
10. Create a folder in the main folder called "keywords"
11. Create a folder in the main folder called "completed themes"
12. Create a php file in the main folder that is called "functions.php" and contains:

Quote:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>

[This is because some of the themes you choose will not be widget ready and you will want to make them widget ready later on]
13. Go register your domain names, and setup your hosting account etc. IE. Get a domain, configure your nameservers, and login to your account[s].
14. Setup blogs on your first 3-4 domains using Fantastico in your cpanel.
15. Copy the login information and paste it into your "blog_logins" file.
16. Open your ftp client and add the 3-4 sites to it [assuming different hosting accts]
17. Go to your first site, click on the www, and add the robots.txt to the root index
18. Go to wp-content then delete the plugins folder. Replace it with your plugins folder. [oops missed that step--once you set up your plugins folder, put all the plugins you will need into it and unzip them all. Remove the zipped files. The files I use for basic autoblog setups are:

Quote:

About Me widget
Advanced Excerpt
Akismet
All in One Adsense and YPN
Caffeinated Content for WordPress
Global Translator
Google XML Sitemaps
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Platinum SEO Pack
Privacy Policy
SEO Post Link
SEO Smart Links
Sociable
Twitter Tools
Unique Article Wizard
WordPress Database Backup
WordPress WriteAgain! [or some other wp rewriter plugin]
WP answers! [from the maker of WP VideoTube--this mate is spot on with his shit and a member here!]
WP VideoTube
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

19. Login to the blogs [use a tabbed browser and have them all open]
20. While you are ftping your files to each of the blog's plugin folders, go to Settings--> Writing and turn on your XML-RPC publishing options if you want to use BlogSlammer! with these setups.
21. Go to Settings--> Permalinks and set your permalinks to Custom:/%postname%/
22. Go to Posts--> Categories and create about 6-7 if not more categories. The more, the better.
23. By now at least two of your blogs have their plugins installed. Go to them. Select all. Activate all. Update any out to date ones that you missed. Then activate the other two blog's plugins too.
24. Go to Settings-->Max Blog Press ping optimizer and activate it by putting your name and email address in it. Copy and paste your pinglist from your pinglist file no less into the box, set the settings to where it will only post 1 time every 120 minutes or more or less in order to control excessive pinging.
25. Go to Tools--> WP Videotube and click on the link at top that says "here" to edit your template. Delete the {video_description} line and edit your height and widths to around 320*230 [just some arbitrary numbers here, but you need to reduce the width of the videos as they will overflow on some templates; you only need to do this part of the step if you have a plan to use such a theme].
26. Configure CC under the Settings--> CC link
27. Go to Post --> CC Management and run it at least once per blog so you have some content on your site to play with while editing your themes/widget/codes.
28. Go to themes and choose your theme and activate it. **You should have ftped these earlier too but I forgot to tell you =P***Edit the files of your theme with your adsense pub numbers if applicable to your theme
29. Go to widgets and edit your sidebars. You will want to add your global translator, text, tag, and recent posts in the very least, but mix it up from blog to blog by adding different others ones too. For the text one, use it to put adsense in your sidebars. I use the Old Adsense Code Generator from here:

Code:

http://oldadsensecode.com/Default.aspx

for fast code generation.
<--Use next step before the above step if you find that your theme isn't widget ready-->
30. Click on sidebar.php and at the top where it says <ul> to begin the list of one of the sidebar contents and add this line right below it:

Quote:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')

|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

Then find the close tag and add this right above it:

Quote:

<?php endif; ?>

Then edit the functions.php to include this:

Quote:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>

And if your theme does not have a functions.php, add the one you have in your 100 blog setup folder to it via your ftp client.
**As some themes have two sidebars, make sure that you are putting that line above the proper sidebar's end list else your theme will be messed up.
31. Go to Settings-->global translator and adjust the settings so they look better in your theme as it sometimes does not look right.Try the div option first, and if that does not work, go to tables option with the option to show 5-7 flags per row.
32. Go to Settings-->Sociable option and configure those options the way you like. I take it a step further and only have a few key main ones and then adding random others to mix it up...cause yes I am weird like that. I usually just blind click these cause I don't really care about the sociable options really...
33. Go to Settings--> Adsense and configure your adsense settings. I put min to only show the 300*250 and 468*60 ads in the top left or top center parts of my posts with around 5-7 pixels of space. I then look at the themes and see if it will look better with ads not showing on the front page and click that option if it does. Otherwise, just save. To make picking the colors easier, just open up Themes-->Editor in another tab and view the css file for the color scheme or the file that contains the add units if they are adsense ready themes and use the colors from there.
34. Go to Privacy Policy and configure to your liking. I don't like the links on them, so I update my first options to show no links. Then I have it generate a page for me.
35. Go to SEO Post link and activate the settings there.
36. Go to UAW and configure the options there. I always add custom div titles and click all categories EXCEPT THE UNCATEGORIZED. Activate it.
37. Go to CC and finish finding more content. For what categories you cannot find content in, go to the Tools --> WP Answers and setup campaigns for your other categories [add to the ones you did find content to for more content on those if you want to as well].
38. Go to Tools --> WP Videotube and add a few video posts [I find that videos attract a lot more visitors] across 3-4 categories. ***MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE USING ONE HOSTING ACCOUNT TO HOST A LOT OF BLOGS THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO HOW MANY PROCESSES YOU HAVE RUNNING AT ONCE....at least that is my theory (http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...-thinking.html)
39. Go to Settings--> YARRP plugin and configure those settings the way you want.
40. Go to Settings --> Platinum SEO and configure it with a title, description, and keywords that you should have generated from w/e keyword generator you use while doing steps 1-39 but I forgot to tell you too. I use KW Elite most times.
41. Go to Twitter Tools and add your login info to the twitter accounts that you created with your awesome twitter account creator (or manually...) that I forgot to tell you to do but you can still do at this time (man, what a run-on!). Save those details.
42. Change your blogroll links to referral links on clickbank or other products/programs.
43. Once you have a network setup, interlink your blogs with posts and links in the post titles as well as in different posts posting to different posts.
44. Drive traffic to your sites/link build. I did do this before and only slowly started lately, but it does help with traffic.
45. Rinse and repeat with your profits. =D

**Optional steps would include an option that I believe is not supposed to be discussed in the open.
**Once you have setup your themes, you will want to ftp the completed setups to your "completed themes folder" so you don't have to edit them each time you want to with your adsense codes or widget ready change.
**Use Blogslammer! to post Spin-ready articles to your blogs in general categories or post ebay rss posts.
***ETA: Edit your About Me widget to make your blog look a little more personable. Change it up from blog to blog too--some with, and some without.
I have made sales off Clickbank and made money through adsense with this method [only tweaked a little for my personal setups--added a couple of extra plugins and used different ad networks, but in general still basically the same]. There should be no reason now not to start earning as I have literally taken your hand and guided you the whole way. Any minor steps that I may have left out are common sense so I'm not gonna offer an addendum to this post with extra information as that would just totally give everything away, and who wants that? =P

Good luck in '09 mates~

**clickbang** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:32 AM

This is really a detailed step-by-step guide to making money from autoblogs. Well done,shylesson!

geraldn · #3 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:47 AM

Great guide for people starting off with mass auto blogs.
Most of the stuff is covered in here.
Just select a good niche and you are ready to go

**shylesson** · #4 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curap07

Re: 99% Complete Step By Step Autoblog Setup

I am going to make an eBook on your info shylesson and flog it as an wso and DP. But first, can you spell out what the other 1% is so that i don't make a complete fool of myself?

..

um...wow. that's F-ed up. Why would I do that again?

i swear this is why i don't like to share details. lol. tff.

IntensE · #5 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:56 AM

just ignore him shylesson, it allways been like this, what you think he will actually have any success? only the guys who will actually TRY and ACT on this will have any success.. and those are the people who you wrote for.

So i must say thanks a lot for taking the time and writing this amazing step by step process.

goldminer · #6 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 04:59 AM

now lets start to work and see the money flooding in our account. lol. Thanks for the detailed step-by-step instructions. There's no reason that noobs cannot make even a single autoblog.

**extra** · #7 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 05:14 AM

thanks man for your guide?
but how much money one can get from auto blog?

**billrolls** · #8 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 05:29 AM

hats of to you:
just one problem ..i am not getting a link to download wp-videotube...
pls some1 post the link here..
thanks

**biks** · #9 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 05:40 AM

This outta work nicely with my $21 Dreamhost account I just got.

husker999 · #10 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 06:37 AM

wow..its a nice guide. But i have a question on no.44.

How do you drive traffic to your blog? or what are the way u use to get backlinks for your site?

tsanko · #11 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 06:43 AM

Great guide!

I think it will be good to add Auto Social Poster and Ping Crawl plugins too.. I don`t know does Ping Crawl works but it functions sounds good.

HustlinHard · #12 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 06:57 AM

Awesome work man! Got a few questions about it:

1. From your experience, is it a good idea to add ~100 posts initially (as they won't all be indexed immediately anyways) and then continue posting 5 or so posts/day?

2. How well do you think this would work using wpmu on subdomains? I'm guessing the interlinking would have to be eliminated, but even without that, would it still be worth it from your experience?

**blackhataffiliate** · #13 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 09:15 AM

This is awesome!! You make it to easy, thanks for all your help. Rep and thanks given.

dinz · #14 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:11 AM

nice work~

**terkat** · #15 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:27 AM

Great Post Shylesson, very Informative!!

TNX

TER

sandesh_007 · #16 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:47 AM

wow!.........many thanks to you. now we just need to follow the steps.......

**rudyvise** · #17 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 12:00 PM

This is someone who has gone out there way to really help folks.

Black hat is surely not so black.

best

Rudy

nasal · #18 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 12:45 PM

Thank you mister. There are really no more excuses why not to start now.

**shylesson** · #19 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billrolls

hats of to you:
just one problem ..i am not getting a link to download wp-videotube...
pls some1 post the link here..
thanks

If you go to my original autoblogs thread, there is a coupon in there to buy the unlimited version for like $18. It is a great price for such a great plugin. The mate is a great guy, knows his chit, and is a member here-- maybe he'll hook ya up with a nice discount on buying both as the WP Answers one is his too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by husker999

wow..its a nice guide. But i have a question on no.44.

How do you drive traffic to your blog? or what are the way u use to get backlinks for your site?

1. I have a small blog farm setup using BlogSlammer! that I post to with my links in it.
2. Squidoo and other like hub pages.
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Link exchanges [I actually get people come to my blog and comment that they'd like to do exchanges even]
5. Most of the same techniques that you would use to send traffic to your other sites, but just a little more careful. =P

Quote:

Originally Posted by tsanko

Great guide!

I think it will be good to add Auto Social Poster and Ping Crawl plugins too.. I don`t know does Ping Crawl works but it functions sounds good.

I did say 99% done.... =D

Quote:

Originally Posted by HustlinHard

Awesome work man! Got a few questions about it:

1. From your experience, is it a good idea to add ~100 posts initially (as they won't all be indexed immediately anyways) and then continue posting 5 or so posts/day?

2. How well do you think this would work using wpmu on subdomains? I'm guessing the interlinking would have to be eliminated, but even without that, would it still be worth it from your experience?

1. I've never done that as I just never want to make my blogs too obvious like that so I can't comment from experience as I have none there.
2. Again, no experience there either as I like to use domains better. I will say when I've used subdomains, I still get equivalent traffic numbers, but the numbers all around have just been better for me on domains. Now, that could be because of the niches I choose. I'd love to set up an experiment doing the same blog on domains vs. subdomains, but right now my time has been better spent with the methods I do know work b/c I've been a lil busy since the holidays...eh b4 the holidays.

Quote:

Originally Posted by curap07

Hey relax - humor can be a great communicator in the right hands. But obviously I don't have quite the knack.

nahhhhh........no one could have taken my post seriously. Could they? Read it again with your funny hat on.

Anyway, that was a great guide you posted up. A perfectionist no doubt.

..

Ah then apologies mate. It was around 1 am that I posted that anyhow. :/ I do have a wide sense of humour most times, I do! And you are right, to my downfall many times, I am a perfectionist for the most part. Very observant.

eta: @extra: some blogs I honestly make like 50c a day, but the others will make $1-2 on up to $3-5 with my overall average being about $1.50/blog, but over a mass quantity of blogs, on autopilot 100%....not so bad.

greatusa · #20 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 12:56 PM

Rep given Shy . . awesome post. Thanks!

gaz256 · #21 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 01:25 PM

amazing post shylesson you've helped me no end getting started with autoblogs but the only thing im unsure of so far is hosting.

sorry if you've posted it before but what hosting provider are you using and how do you work it regarding IPs with so many blogs?

datrends · #22 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 01:27 PM

you covered anything in detail, shylesson.
thank you so much.

tsanko · #23 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shylesson

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsanko

Great guide! I think it will be good to add Auto Social Poster and Ping Crawl plugins too.. I don`t know does Ping Crawl works but it functions sounds good.

I did say 99% done.... =D

Now I make it 99.3%

Just for info the other 0.7% are in researching

**fiebs** · #24 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 09:57 PM

Shy you are a real asset to Black Hat World. I see Executive VIP in your future. That was an awesome post.

I have a quick question for you though. After you've finished your first site, can you just download it and then re upload it as another site. Then just go in and make the few necessary changes site name/erase posts/keywords? Would that be easier, or am I way off?

rokape · #25 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 10:26 PM

Advanced Excerpt don'r work for me

**shylesson** · #26 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fiebs

Shy you are a real asset to Black Hat World. I see Executive VIP in your future. That was an awesome post.

I have a quick question for you though. After you've finished your first site, can you just download it and then re upload it as another site. Then just go in and make the few necessary changes site name/erase posts/keywords? Would that be easier, or am I way off?

Yeh-- You aren't really saving yourself a step by doing that as you are going to want to change the theme up [but as I said to keep a folder with 'completed themes' that you will eventually fill up with all your themes completed, and then it's even easier]. All that will be configured for you if you do it that way would be the UAW plugin and it would be configured with the information from w/e site it is that you d/led and reuped the files from. So you still have to go there [and now more than before because it will be set as 'activated' and the divs will have the other site's div ids on it, the other site's name as the site name, and sometimes it will check the uncategorized box which we don't want as it will post random information not related to your site. I've tried it that way so I am speaking from experience on that too.

I did forget one thing to add but as I wrote this reply...I forgot what it was. :/ Eh...if I remember I'll post it--just another one of those things that you may run across and find as common sense and do anyhow, but want everyone to know to remember to do....but it has really slipped out of my mind....I'll report back if I remember it lol.

eta: I always configure my permalinks, MBP Ping Optimizer, categories, and WP VideoTube/Answers before posting any content to assure that the permalinks are right, the blog is not excessively pinging right away, you have categories to post to, and you have the proper templates setup so nothing will go wrong with posting.

I DO TWITTER VERY LAST because I don't want the immediate influx of posts to be posted to twitter right away. I want it to be a natural progression as once the autoblog is setup, it will be.

That was not what I was thinking of...but it did come to my mind too so thought I'd share it too.

**shylesson** · #27 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokape

Advanced Excerpt don'r work for me

what do you mean?......can't really tell you what's wrong with it....if I don't know how/what you mean mate. :/

rokape · #28 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 10:42 PM

I configed it but in home , my post not excerpt

rokape · #29 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 10:44 PM

And i hve another qs: how to config CC post in future?

**shylesson** · #30 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokape

I configed it but in home , my post not excerpt

Oh yes mate, you are so right. I forgot that step.

Go to your index.php template and find the line that says:

Quote:

the_content

replace with:

Quote:

the_excerpt

That should do it. Let me know~

eta@ your cc question--it gives you the option to post to a specific time period. It will automatically choose a date/time based on your time period. So if you have it set for 01/04/2009-12/28/2009 and only have it set to post 100 posts, it will disperse them over the 360ish days so set the time period to lower so you have a lower period to cover [100 posts over 120 days vs 360 days is going to show up more readily]. If ya know what I mean...

rokape · #31 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:36 PM

Thanks.And how to add read more to link post

gaz256 · #32 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gaz256

amazing post shylesson you've helped me no end getting started with autoblogs but the only thing im unsure of so far is hosting.

sorry if you've posted it before but what hosting provider are you using and how do you work it regarding IPs with so many blogs?

bump.

rokape · #33 (**permalink**) 01-08-2009, 11:57 PM

i cannot find the way to add read more to the post link in index...

**shylesson** · #34 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokape

i cannot find the way to add read more to the post link in index...

Quote:

<?php the_excerpt() ?><span><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Read more >></a></span>

will work for ya.

eta@gaz: hostgator mostly and siteground on a few. i don't interlink blogs on the same ip so i make sure to only have one niche per ip. i now keep it to 10 domains per to spread the processes.

idomo · #35 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 01:24 AM

This is really a detailed step-by-step guide to making money from autoblogs.
thank you so much.

confined · #36 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 02:02 AM

great post. the only thing left is to quit being lazy and follow it

**hwolfpack6** · #37 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 03:10 AM

Wow! Cool...sticky please? I am going to go to bed now, but when I get home from school tomorrow, I'm definitely starting this!!!

I hope this works out well.

errorman · #38 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 04:25 AM

thanks... for amazing post help me for getting started with autoblogs

cruzcredo · #39 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 06:57 PM

I would suggest adding an .htaccess instead of robots.txt, at least for the plugins folder cause there are bots that ignore the robots.txt.

So if you don't want google or other search engine to find out you're using Uniquefier..

Create .htaccess file with syntax as follow:

Code:

< Directory /wp-content/plugins/>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

For multiple folders just add another Directory tags.

This will BLOCK them!

wickid · #40 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 07:04 PM

Great write up...looking forward to trying this method! Hopefully I can learn how to use blogs to help build some wealth.

eidyggidogon · #41 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 07:12 PM

Not to beat a dead horse, but thanks so much for taking time out of your day to do this.

JigJig · #42 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 08:23 PM

What a great post - Thanks for your time.

stylesb · #43 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 08:41 PM

now thats what I can 'in detail'...

was going off of your old thread and doing everything u said there for my autoblogs (2 days in the making now)...

just printed this and going to follow it step by step this weekend on them instead now...

QUESTION - UAW hasnt produced any articles for me yet... possibly to small of a niche, or too small of keywords?.. i really didnt think so, but was surprised when I checked my email accts I have in there to find no new articles this morning... Any advice...

devyone · #44 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 08:48 PM

thanks for the info buddy.. very useful

**shylesson** · #45 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stylesb

now thats what I can 'in detail'...

was going off of your old thread and doing everything u said there for my autoblogs (2 days in the making now)...

just printed this and going to follow it step by step this weekend on them instead now...

QUESTION - UAW hasnt produced any articles for me yet... possibly to small of a niche, or too small of keywords?.. i really didnt think so, but was surprised when I checked my email accts I have in there to find no new articles this morning... Any advice...

Could be too narrow of a niche. I have found that the categories on uberarticles.com are the basic topics that it encompasses. So that is why I suggest adding a few other content producing plugins such as the CC and WP Answers. I love WP Answers because you can set it to post at intervals [humanized] so you will always have content as opposed to CC where you have to run kws to produce the content. But it's still a good mix imo. I have used the WP-O-Matic too, but I prefer full posts and have just not sat down to look into the possibility of altering that factor.

@cruzcredo: Nice suggestion! Thanks for that addition!