WPTweetBomb
WPTweetBomb…
No – it’s not just another Twitter tool. It’s an autoblog plugin for WordPress. In fact, you don’t even have to use the twitter features and it’s still an amazing autoblogging tool. Here’s the basics (I’ll go into more detail below):
What WPTweetBomb does:
- It pulls content from various sources (Google News, Google Blog Search, Yahoo News, Yahoo Answers, Ezine Articles, Digg, and Custom RSS Feeds).
- Trends: You can have it pull content based on some general trendy keywords (either from Twitter Trends, or Google Trends, or both), or you can create custom keyword lists. If you want to get more targeted blog content – I definitely recommend using the custom keywords ONLY. It seems to work better for more general keywords, but you’ll have to test this (WPTweetBomb provides great testing tools to see what content the keywords will bring up). But if you are creating blogs for a private network and just need some content going, the Twitter/Google Trends will work great – plus bring in some great traffic.
- Twitter functionality (obviously it has some amazing twitter features, hence the name): It will tweet all your posts. But this is what separates this from an ordinary post-to-twitter plugin: It posts to NUMEROUS accounts – and also will FOLLOW other twitter accounts every time it posts. You can set how many accounts to post to (per post) and how many people it will follow (per post). Its recommended to have at LEAST the same # of accounts imported, as the # of posts you plan to post on a daily basis. In other words – if you have this post 50 times a day, you need at LEAST 50 twitter accounts imported. The # of posts per day is set by your cron job’s schedule (it tells you how often to have the cron job run for X amount of posts/daily). Of course – since you are posting to multiple twitter accounts every single day – you’ll want to have proxies setup (this requirement is dependent on how hard you plan to hit twitter – and again, WPTweetbomb gives you a handy “safety calculator” to test this). I recommend just buying a hundred twitter accounts (you can find sources to buy them from the wptweetbomb forum you’ll get access to)
- Auto Indexer: On the top of the setup page – you’ll see your site’s statistics, which are # of pages/posts indexed out of total # of pages/posts, your page rank, # of posts done daily/weekly/total, and your backlinks #’s. What the auto indexer does, is for all those posts that are not yet indexed, it will tweet them more, on a random basis. A Lot more… The idea is that twitter will help get your posts indexed. This plugin definitely does a good job of getting sites’ indexed so it appears this theory is correct, although I haven’t done extensive testing yet.
- Content Blocks: You can create content blocks – which is just telling the plugin what content to pull, with what keywords, and to which categories. You can have the posts include images, remove or keep in links/emails, videos, tags, credit the source, and even de-duping the content. What’s cool about the content block feature is that there’s an advanced content block creator syntax so you can create mass amounts of categories and content blocks all at once, by following a simple syntax:
Parent Category Name # keyword1, keyword2, keyword3
– Sub Category Name # keyword4, keyword5, keyword6
– Sub Category Name2 # keyword7, keyword8, keyword9And so on…
It then creates all the content blocks, using those categories (that it will create for you), and those keywords you assign. It allows you to create an extremely organized blog (more so than I do manually, that’s for sure!)
- Ad Blocks: You can create ad blocks using Amazon, Clickbank, Adsense, Commission Junction, and any other custom HTML ads – and you can create complex rule systems. For example, you can have clickbank ads showing for on the sidebar for this category, but html ads on the post for another category, etc. It can get as complex as you want it – so you can specify the best ads to target certain posts…
- Bonus Tools include an instant links tool – where it will take your domain and post it on all the stats sites. Usually will help to get your site indexed. Again – I haven’t done too much testing on this, but from my experience, these links don’t help that much. As usual, test for yourself. Another great bonus is the Twitter account checker. When you purchase bulk twitter accounts – it’s incredibly boring to check all the accounts to make sure they are valid, and not deleted. With the account checker – you can check them all in a few seconds. It even tells you how many people are following/followed and how many tweets there are in the account. Very handy.
WPTweetBomb is a fantastic plugin. It’s incredibly easy to use, and there are videos and a forum to help you if you need it. It’s pretty easy to get traffic depending on the keywords you are targeting, but just like any other site – the plugin isn’t going to do everything. You still need to promote the site to gain traction. The promotion strategy will be the same as any other site you do. I’ll post some of my general strategies I use for every site I create, in an upcoming post.
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Mark K. Hatten on November 15, 2010
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steve on April 18, 2011
It doesn’t work and to the worst part the developer of this plugin don’t even reply to my mails. Just forget it.
Larceny on May 25, 2011
I think the developer was offline for awhile, but he’s back. I’d consider re-contacting him to troubleshoot.