Doing Joomla AutoBlogging Test

[mesol]

great thread, just post reply here to get daily email notification.

 

[luhasr]

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

 

[macpaulos]

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

 

[freller]

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.

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

 

[deign23]

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

Good luck!

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.

 

[letusgo]

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

Sorry to hear this news. Maybe it is the matter of php itself.
From wikipedia

In order to speed up execution time and not have to compile the PHP source code everytime the webpage is accessed, PHP scripts can also be stored in binary format using PHP compilers such as phc and roadsend.

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.

 

[Megalomaniac Midget]

hey is it possible to share the article generator?

Couldn't seem to find it anywhere

here you go

This native Joomla 1.5 component automatically generates new articles with own keywords by pulling text from any feed-source you want. It gives you the ability to set many different configurations for each feed-source. It keeps you?re site fresh and gives you?re visitors something to read and you have nothing to do. All is done by an cronjob - every 5 minutes, if you wish. It filters the feed-sources by keywords, generates a new article which automatically has own keywords, removes links, link-texts or images - if you want, adds advertising which you can change at any time you want, integrates the original article with an lightbox-effect and refreshes your own website-feed. There are many options to make it possible with every feed-source you want. The new articles improve your page SEO and make your site win positions in the search engines. Article-Generator is fully configurable and each feed-source can be configured with different parameters.

With these many options each article can be customized to your website and content and the new articles are added to your website just as if you wrote them yourself:

*post as different user
*choose section and category
*store original Author name in the article
*choose access group for the article
*show on frontpage
*expiration for the article from 7 days to 1 year (in predefined steps)
*auto-unpublish
*posting of original date
*set Feed-Date as created date
*insert advertising-field which you can change later for all written articles
*filter feed-source by keywords / negative keywords (to ignore posts)
*cut the article at any tag
*full text fetch on feeds that support it
*show intro with advert and no readmore
*show intro and then advert in readmore
*show intro and then fulltext with advert in readmore
*show intro in readmore or not
*Links inside the feed content are set with nofollow to improve SEO
*delete links or links and link-texts in intro or fulltext
*delete links from images in the feed content
*delete images in intro or fulltext
*switch Feed-Intro and Feed-Fulltext
*include link to original-article
*open original-article-link in Lightbox, Slimbox, Shadowbox or Squeezebox
*set JCE params like width and height
*use curl or fsockopen
*posting without repeating an article by checking the title
*Duplicate avoidance which is very useful for SEO purposes
*choose number of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*choose minimum length of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*blacklist of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*activate cronjob on the server or on http://www.cronjob.de to generate articles around the clock

On these websites you can see how it works:
http://www.mctrading.de/
http://www.steuer-nachrichten.com/
http://www.finanzen-nachrichten.com/
http://www.versicherungsvergleich.org.uk/
http://www.suchmaschinen-optimierung-seo.org/

http://www.uploadmirrors.com/download/1IG6DAEB/com_ArticleGenerator10_unzip_first.zip

 

[deign23]

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!

 

[Megalomaniac Midget]

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

here's a demo

http://dev.joomlaworks.gr/plugins/new-jw-blogging-plugin-running-in-this-article.html

http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/56/42/

SuperBlogger extends standard Joomla! articles like no other plugin has ever done before!

Common features include:
- Integration with the popular Disqus.com comment system (includes video commenting via Seismic).
- Tools for Twitter like 'Tweet this' button, Tweetmeme badge for tracking tweetbacks/retweets, latest Tweets feed from your Twitter account.
- Article rating system using ajax (built-in) or the online service Outbrain.com (for added features).
- Article tags (using the meta keywords field inside the Joomla! article form).
- Article tools like section/category links with associated RSS feed links, stats, date created, font resizer, 'bookmark this' button, social media sharing and option for integrating a social button from services like AddThis or ShareThis.
- Related content across the web provided by Sphere.com (as used in sites like CNN.com).
- Drop-cap feature and introtext emphasizing for cool magazine style typography. The styling can easily be altered on the article page template of the plugin.
- Author tools like author avatar (via Gravatar.com) and latest articles from author.
- Image resizing and resampling (server-side) for the first image in your articles. On listing pages (e.g. blogcategory) the image is wrapped with a link to the rest of the article and on article pages the image is wrapped with a link to lightbox popup for displaying the original image which was processed by the plugin. Your website will now have a consistent look, perform better (due to optimal image sizing) and your content editors will not have to worry anymore about resizing images in desktop applications!
- Predefined anchor links with smooth scrolling effects make navigating among the features of the plugin a breeze.
- Option to insert custom HTML at the footer of the article. Useful for adding copyright statements or other generic messages for your articles.
- MVC template overrrides architecture: It uses 2 templates for listing and article pages, with associated CSS files. That means styling flexibility
- You can select to render the plugin on specific (or all) categories and/or menus. So if your site has a "blog" category, you can instruct the plugin to render only there and not in the entire site. The selection is done easily is the plugin parameters.
- It can load any module position in 3 different places: after the article text, before and after the comments. These options are fully configurable in the plugin parameters. Using MVC template overrides or simply tweaking the plugin templates, you can move these positions elsewhere or even add more (e.g. some position with Google Ads, another with "related articles" etc.). For more, this is fully explained in the documentation page of the plugin

here's the download

http://rapidshare.com/files/294455616/plg_jw_superblogger-v1.4.rar

here's the latest Rss2Content

http://rapidshare.com/files/312068484/com_rss2content_v1.1_Final_1.zip
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LES2KKIE
http://www.mediafire.com/?hhz0izd4hqm
http://www.zshare.net/download/689901087b0ac735/
http://www.badongo.com/file/18619828
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/23hn61cwg
http://hotfile.com/dl/18602549/3ffe068/com_rss2content_v1.1_Final_1.zip.html
http://www.2shared.com/file/9438085/1f46145a/com_rss2content_v11_Final_1.html

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

 

[johnqpublic]

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 .

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

 

[Megalomaniac Midget]

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

 

[macpaulos]

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!

 

[deign23]

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 ==>

site:blogspot.com keyword keyword keyword

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!

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!

 

[macpaulos]

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.

 

[Megalomaniac Midget]

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!

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

 

[macpaulos]

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.

 

[Flinx]

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

Flinx

 

[macpaulos]

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

 

[letusgo]

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.

 

[macpaulos]

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.