Keeping a blog up to date is hard work. It sometimes takes ages to come up with original content and then to write it up in the hope that millions come to read it… (and then click on your ads :p). Every post you make attracts visitors - for small unknown blogs, these are just random stumblers, but stumblers nonetheless. So, what if you had a blog that automatically updates itself without you lifting a finger? You could be generating thousands of posts and if you had a MFA (Made for Adsense) site, you could theoretically get a portion of these visitors to click your ads. Now even if this was 0.0001% of your visitors, that’s still some loose change coming into your pocket with no effort on your behalf!
Enter FeedWordPress. It’s a wordpress plugin that utilises the opensource MagpieRSS reader to automagically update your wordpress blog. All you have to do is enter the rss feeds of a few sites you want to rip from and FeedWordPress takes care of the rest for you.
Installation
- Download the zip.
- Put feedwordpress.php in your WordPress plugins directory
- Put update-feeds.php in your WordPress wp-content directory.
- Overwrite wordpress MagpieRSS php files with the latest versions (not sure why wordpress has old ones). Put rss.php and rss-functions.php in your wp-includes directory
- Lastly, create a cron job to schedule your server to call the update-feeds.php sripts every few hours. Here’s a screenshot of my cpanel when I experimented with this at FreeServing.com
I’ve tried it out at FreeServing.com but I’ve turned it off now. After a week’s trial it didn’t produce any beneficial results. Whats more, it’s plagiarising other people’s content so that’s not really too good. It’s a good idea though and I’m sure there’s a way to make money utilising a tool that auto generates content for your site. I’m going to keep in the back burner.. maybe I can hack the source and customise the content that it produces so that it is more unique.
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