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springer said:
You can use plugins in WPMU, can't you? If so, here ya go gadsense.zip It's a widget to put adsense in your sidebar. You can actually plug in any ad code you'd like, it's not limited to just adsense.

Sure, it won't help if you want to place the big rectangles on your post pages or just below your header but, it's a start. It's easy to use and best of all, it's free.
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Oh, and another thing I like about this plugin and completely forgot to mention...

It controls all the stuff in your sidebar(s) so you can rename stuff, move it around, take it out, swap stuff from side to side (if you have more than one sidebar,) etc.

I think it's pretty cool.
 


Thanks for that Springer. I didn't even think of the sidebar, cuz I wanted the ads to be in the summaries. After you mentioned the sidebar, I went and checked and that can still be edited with widgets (if it's widget ready). Good find!
 
SEO_Mike said:
Thanks for that Springer. I didn't even think of the sidebar, cuz I wanted the ads to be in the summaries. After you mentioned the sidebar, I went and checked and that can still be edited with widgets (if it's widget ready). Good find!
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You're quite welcome.

Yeah, I discovered (quite easily) that you can put any old code in the widgets and it'll display, since I lost an AS account and can't use it on some of my sites any longer.

Really one of the more useful plugins I've found recently.
 
OK. I got WordpressMU setup up on Tuesday. This thing is pretty damn cool. I have 3 auto blogs so far. I used the feed finder that SEO_Mike has setup and all seems to be going well.
I have a question though. What is a is a respectable amount of posts to be pulling in to still be considered a autoblog and not a cycle site?
 
Notius said:
OK. I got WordpressMU setup up on Tuesday. This thing is pretty damn cool. I have 3 auto blogs so far. I used the feed finder that SEO_Mike has setup and all seems to be going well.
I have a question though. What is a is a respectable amount of posts to be pulling in to still be considered a autoblog and not a cycle site?
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A cycle site will post thousands of posts in hopes to generate tons of trackbacks, ect... in a short period of time.

Your auto-blogs will last a lot longer and therefore should act more as a legit type of blog so around 5 to 10 posts a day max, however this can change based upon initial start up.

In reality though the final choice is really up to you.
 
Aequitas said:
Your auto-blogs will last a lot longer and therefore should act more as a legit type of blog so around 5 to 10 posts a day max, however this can change based upon initial start up.
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Do you mean 5-10 posts per day as in the date on the blog or actually only submitting 5-10 posts per physical day? So in otherwords when you're first starting a blog and if you want to back date it 30 days (or to whenever) can you do 5-10 posts per "day" (so start off with 300 posts)? Or would that be too much?

And while I'm on that topic...how far back should you make a blog so as to make it look like it's been around for a while? this is doable right? (I'm sure I've read about it somewhere)
 
how far back should you make a blog so as to make it look like it's been around for a while? this is doable right? (I'm sure I've read about it somewhere)
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Yeah kid, I think you heard about it from me.

Don't make your first post date older than the registration date of the domain. When back-dating posts, I'll plug in a bunch to previous dates that didn't already have a post. If I ever fill up the calendar, then I'll worry about placing more than one post on a particular date. I don't believe that'll happen.

I also don't ping every day. I realize this isn't the way most of ya's are doing it but, I'm not most of ya's. I put in a little work but my family of blogs doesn't look like a splog farm (even though it is) and, a little manual labor never hurts me.
 
Aequitas said:
A cycle site will post thousands of posts in hopes to generate tons of trackbacks, ect... in a short period of time.

Your auto-blogs will last a lot longer and therefore should act more as a legit type of blog so around 5 to 10 posts a day max, however this can change based upon initial start up.

In reality though the final choice is really up to you.
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Do you know of anyway to tweak Autoblog to limit the number of posts it puts up in a day or do I need to tweak the feeds that it uses to get it to average that?
 
purpureleaf said:
just one autoblog? that is amazing.
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Sorry no I should have been specific, I have been a bit busy the last week...

The autoblog is bringing in income and is a piece of that, I think around 20-30 cents a day. In a few weeks I will 301 that to a money domain I have been working on with unique content.

I have been putting up some RSSGM sites, using a blog/ping and some other things to get as many pages indexed. The majority of money coming in, is from the RSSGM sites starting to get indexed.
 
Firstly, hello and huge respect to all those sharing their knowledge here.

Secondly, after about a month of lurking around this forum like a dirty old man, and then reading this monster thread, I am going today to finally get off my ass and give this a go :D

I'm going for a wpmu setup and autobloging on a VPS, so lets see what happens...
 
Smashed said:
Firstly, hello and huge respect to all those sharing their knowledge here.

Secondly, after about a month of lurking around this forum like a dirty old man, and then reading this monster thread, I am going today to finally get off my ass and give this a go :D

I'm going for a wpmu setup and autobloging on a VPS, so lets see what happens...
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Congrats on the decission and Good luck!
 
Just out of curiosity, Would anyone be interested in buying a pre-established WPMU Auto blog site?
 
LazyHippy said:
No, but I'd be very interested to see if you sell it! :D
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Hey, don't knock it. Some of us are severely retarded when it comes to this stuff (alright maybe just one of us :D) And I'm a firm believer, that if you can be spared the screaming of profanities and headbanging by outsourcing it, then so be it.
 
lol, well my plan was to build to order.

It took me ages to learn how to do it, so if i can help some peeps out then so be it.
 
turbolapp said:
Hey, don't knock it. Some of us are severely retarded when it comes to this stuff (alright maybe just one of us :D) And I'm a firm believer, that if you can be spared the screaming of profanities and headbanging by outsourcing it, then so be it.
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Pfft
You outsource the wpmu building and I outsource the warm fuzzy landing page / content generation. It's all good. Marketing makes me barf.
 
Congrats on the decission and Good luck!
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Thanks dude.

Do you know of anyway to tweak Autoblog to limit the number of posts it puts up in a day or do I need to tweak the feeds that it uses to get it to average that?
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You figure this out? I don't want to get fucked by Google - pretty as they may be - as I'm going for the longer term autoblog approach.
 
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