What is a splog?
A spam blog, an auto updating blog, setup to scrape feeds at regular intervals and post them.
Why do you need one?
Because if you don’t have one, you are an idiot.
Even for completely whitehat sites, you cannot possibly expect to cover every product in your niche, and every keyword, and every misstype, and every new small thingie that pops up.
Having a splog, that slowly updates, lets say 2 feeds every 1.5 or 2.5 days, makes a secondary site relevant to your niche, filling up with content, linking to you with your preferred anchor text.
I have been using splogs everywhere for 2 years, and I have seen crappy 20 page 5 hours old splogs rank for great terms. Its not only the keyword itself that allows it to rank, its also the relevant keywords and news in the niche that get pulled with every feed.
If you want to keep it completely whitehat, name it NEWS and set it to scrape niche related news with permalinks pointed to the original articles, and keep it clean and similar to your site’s theme.
Or, you can buy a secondary keyword rich domain, and simply splog it, linking back to your main site. If you remove footprints and make it pass casual inspection, it will actually help your rankings and stay up there for a long time.
How to make that splog? It is so easy it hurts.
- Download the feedwordpress plugin.
- Install a new Wordpress engine.
- Name it, remove the silly blogroll etc…
- Put up a nice theme, do the permalinks hack.
- Expand the pinglist.
- Hand pick your feeds.
- Set up feedwordpress to scrape every 1.5 days from 2 feeds max.
- Put your links on the blogroll.
And you are done. Another fire and forget method that works.
I usually add about 5 articles and 10 youtube’s as well. The broad keyword coverage from an aged splog can get you a lot of visitors, from untapped keywords.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Have you fallen out of favor for wp-o-matic?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Wp o matic has better features, and is more user friendly, but it crashes the whole server in quick burn mode. Feedburner requires less resources.
Since we are talking about slow splogs here, you can use wpomatic as well. The keyword replace feature is one that I use all the time to link to my sites with my selected anchor text.
Different tools, for different situations, but here you can use either one.
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