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When you put together the power of auto blogging and auto tweet you get one incredibly powerful system!

The concept is simple. You set up a blog to run by itself on auto pilot and you integrate it into your twitter profile through auto tweeting. The reality is totally feasible, and free.

First you start with a wordpress 2.7+ blog hosted on a site that has the specs needed for the software to run successfully. We tested our free auto blogging module on three different inexpensive web hosting packages. It worked flawlessly on two of them and not all on a third. The basic requirements are PHP 5 and cURL. While not stringent requirements, your host must have them. iPage is one of the web hosting packages that it does work on (you can get unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain name for life, free setup and use unlimited domain names for $3.50 a month on the 2 year prepaid plan).

The free module for the auto blog software is clickbank affiliate products. One of our tests of this is included on the script-hosting.com site (which incidentally does not advertise the host that is being hosted on). At the bottom of each of the posts is the cloaked link to a clickbank product page. This cloaking feature is built into the auto blog software and is quite easy to enable and setup. Cloaking somewhat protects your affiliate link and it also prevents page rank from being lost to an outgoing link. It is identifiable by your domain name followed by a go subdirectory and the post name.

You can literally make hundreds of posts in minutes. You can even backdate them to start posting on any date, and to be randomly posted by a time interval that you designate in hours or days. For instance, in our example we could have made 100 posts of clickbank products with the keyword ‘webhost’ to start one year ago and be posted from 2 to 6 days apart.

To setup a current posting schedule, you designate a category for the posts and a keyword for the products. You set it to post with a from/to period of hours or days. It works automatically once you set it up. On the clickbank module we noticed that one word keywords are much more targeted than two word keyword phrases. For instance, blackjack would work great as a one word keyword. However, ‘video poker’ would give you product posts on videos that have nothing to do with poker ( we know, we tried).

It is actually quite easy to setup! As you might expect there is also a paid version of the auto blogging software!

And you will be as thrilled as “a kid in a candy store” when you see all the possibilities. You can pick and choose from the different modules and even package a few together and get a discount. But you will probably eventually get enough of them that you will be better off buying the complete elite package with all the modules that can be used on an unlimited number of domains. That’s the one that we are getting!

The paid version includes modules for Amazon products, eBay auctions, Clickbank ads, Youtube videos, Yahoo Answers Q&A’s, Articlebase articles, Flickr images, Yahoo News and RSS feeds. These are all good resource sites which we have previously used separately to create many other websites. Just from the list you can begin to see the all possibilities!

I found this software because one of my favorite word press plugins stopped working. The yahoo answers module used to be free. It was great for doing Q&A posts. The question is the post content and the answers are the comments. This is super for a new site that doesn’t have any visitors or comments. It gives the allusion of user traffic. This one is also keyword based. you designate a keyword and a posting category and tell the software how often you want it to post new questions and answers.

The module that I am really interested in using is the you tube videos. Once again, all you need to do is choose a keyword for your videos. This differs from a different movie auto blogging script I’ve seen that requires you to find and list the movies you to post about. If I wanted to do that much work, I’d write the post myself.

The amazon module also has more features than a different free amazon autoposter plugin I have used. This one lets you use an “Exact Match” option that “will only return products that contain all words of your keyword phrase in the exact order”. This address the unrelated posts issue that I mentioned in the free clickbank module. Careful use of keywords will lessen this issue but not eliminate it. That is one of the limitations of any automatic posting system.

With the demo version of WP robot there is a link to the software manufactures site on the bottom of your blog if you have a posting schedule setup. To get rid of that link you could eliminate the scheduled post and leave the backdated posts or you can buy one of the packages.

I’ve tried other auto blogging software and scripts. One older free script that uses RSS feeds will get your your site dropped very quickly from google. A different paid auto blogging software I bought was limited to the use of posting articles from a text file. The text file can contain html, but it has trouble using the $ sign. Unless you remove that and other unusual text characters like the Euro and British Pound signs, the post will end at that point. It also does not accept foreign language characters like those contained in the spanish and french language. These limitations caused me a lot of frustration. To get a decent looking blog with no errors you needed to do a test posting of all the articles. It was a big duplication of effort – and you really had to look at all the posts to be sure they came out correctly.

Once you have your auto blog setup you can easily integrate it with your twitter profile with the free twitterfeed rss to blog site or social oomph’s paid rss to blog feature.

There are actually 8 videos and a membership site for $19.25 that includes some good twitter marketing and profile building tools.

But you can watch the 6 videos for free. I did! And I learned a lot from them too. I almost bought the membership too. But my frugality (short sightedness) won out.

If the narrator could only hold his enthusiasm a bit, you would have a much better time watching the videos. But they were easy to follow and not boring at all. The first 6 videos that you can watch for free includes a combination sales pitch and instructional ‘how to’ advice that shows you what you can do the increase your twitter followers.

The last two keys videos are withheld unless you join the membership site. Those two videos presumably show you how to convert your followers into actual real spendable money.

Even if the last two videos fail to give you the ‘ladder for the money tree’, the membership site tools would be well worth the money.

To get started, you just need to follow the free video link and then provide your name and email address to get the url of the free videos page.

1. Joining twitter and setting up your profile – This video leads you through the signup process and explains what to do and what not to do.

2. Getting started with your account – Even though you don’t really don’t get access to the member ship unless you pay the fee, this video shows how easy it is to use and what some of the key elements that this site contains. This includes adding multiple profiles, keywords, follow & unfollow, auto message, RSS feeds, status updates and all the tutorial videos.

3. Adding your keywords and auto message – Adding followers by the use of unlimited keywords sets this tool apart from and above other free tools that make you sort through profile descriptions. These targeted followers are much more valuable than just general followers. You can also adjust for a time delay in adding followers and stop adding followers when you reach a ratio of friends to followers.

4. Automate your twitter following – Here’s how to manually or automatically follower more people quickly. You can automatically follow any number of people you like per day based upon your selected keywords. You can also automatically follow back any other number of people who follow you but whom you do not follow. A time delay range between each follow can also set up to help mask computerized tools. Additionally, you can set up a ratio of follow vs followed. These ratios help prevent your account from being blocked. This membership tool is more varied and easier to set up than other twitter marketing tools.

Because this feature runs on the Tweet Tank site and not your personal computer, this is in my opinion the most valuable feature – especially when you consider that you can automate multiple twitter profile with different keywords, feeds and markets.

When I eventually sign up for this membership service (and watch the other two videos), this feature will be the reason why I will invest money for this service.

5. Adding Relevant Content on Auto Pilot – By sending RSS feeds to your twitter profile you can provide useful information to your followers. This feature is comparable to the free twitterfeed. These keyword based feeds are focused on what your followers interests are.

6. Automating Your Daily Tweets – With this tool you enter the tweets and time of day you want to send them. Unfortunately, you cannot load in a txt file with preset tweets and links. (Tweet spinner allows you to rotate 20 tweets in the free version and more with the paid version)

For more details, just follow the free link and learn!

Tweetbots has 3 free tools all rolled into one account. In fact, you can easily add more bots that do different things for different purposes.

It seems a little confusing at first. Thank goodness for the simple home page that you can go back to and consult when you are actually trying to fill in the form to create a bot.

- Post to multiple twitter accounts with DM-Tweet bot
- Send multiple RSS feeds to your twitter profile
- Auto follow new followers

The multiple RSS feeds to one twitter account is similar to the previously reported ‘Direct RSS Feed To Twitter’ tool. But it allows you to send multiple feeds to one account. I’m using this to experiment with an Xbox games profile for a domain of mine which I let die. The last tweet from that domain was on June 29th. At that time there were about 80 tweets and 723 followers. So we’ll see how far it goes!

The DM-Tweet bot seems more confusing at first, but it simply lets anyone you allow, to tweet to your twitter profile. As the site suggest, this can be a great project collaboration tool.

The auto follow feature is not new either, but it’s nice to have it here just in case you want to set it up.