[My Review of BlogsBot]
After finally being able to test it, I have to say I am bloody impressed with the ability and functions of this little nifty software. It semi-automates (80%) of blog content creation and love that it already have several sources ready such as ezinearticle and several large rss sources. The reason I mention 80% is because you still have to find the content/rss feed, generate the articles and select the ones you want posted.
Please don't get me wrong... I prefer this method compared to the 100% automated techniques out there as it gives you control over what is posted and you can cleanly arrange them in the right category. Majority of my other fully automated blogs contains crap content.
The short-comings of BlogsBot are:
- Unique Content: Biggest issue for all content automation but can be fixed by using other plugins. I hope NobleSoul will add some features that will combat against this.
- ClickBank module: would be great if it can pull more details from the product cos 2 sentence post is pretty ugly for me at least.
- Not all WebHosting supports "xmlrpc.php", so you better check first. Mine did not allow but NobleSoul setup a blog on his server for me to test for this review.
- Does not support Windows 7: Tried installing it on my desktop running Win7 without success but works perfectly on my notebook running Vista.
- Would also love to see a feature whereby we can search for a particular keyword or phrase and BlogsBot will scour all the sources for it.
Tip: make sure you install as administrator.
Overall Rating: 8.2/10
After finally being able to test it, I have to say I am bloody impressed with the ability and functions of this little nifty software. It semi-automates (80%) of blog content creation and love that it already have several sources ready such as ezinearticle and several large rss sources. The reason I mention 80% is because you still have to find the content/rss feed, generate the articles and select the ones you want posted.
Please don't get me wrong... I prefer this method compared to the 100% automated techniques out there as it gives you control over what is posted and you can cleanly arrange them in the right category. Majority of my other fully automated blogs contains crap content.
The short-comings of BlogsBot are:
- Unique Content: Biggest issue for all content automation but can be fixed by using other plugins. I hope NobleSoul will add some features that will combat against this.
- ClickBank module: would be great if it can pull more details from the product cos 2 sentence post is pretty ugly for me at least.
- Not all WebHosting supports "xmlrpc.php", so you better check first. Mine did not allow but NobleSoul setup a blog on his server for me to test for this review.
- Does not support Windows 7: Tried installing it on my desktop running Win7 without success but works perfectly on my notebook running Vista.
- Would also love to see a feature whereby we can search for a particular keyword or phrase and BlogsBot will scour all the sources for it.
Tip: make sure you install as administrator.
Overall Rating: 8.2/10
