Firepow - Auto Blog Software - Create Wordpress Blogs In Minutes
If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know how much I love Firepow. I have been a member for over 1.5 years and it is the fastest way to create quality blogs with good content fast.
I now have blogs getting over 1500 visitors per day which solely use content auto-generated by Firepow. You can read more about how I set up my blogs and how I get them indexed within some hours in my post "Firepow And How To Get Indexed Fast".
There are several other (and cheaper) Wordpress Blog Creator tools available. I have tried all of them and trust me, Firepow is by far the best. Although it comes with a hefty pricetag ($117 per month - However, there is a 14 day trial for $1 - click here to get it).
In general it does not take me longer than 30 minutes to register a domain name, set up hosting and have the blog up and running.
In addition to the pre-installed Firepow plugins, I am using the following Wordpress plugins on most of my blogs:
Tweetme:
TweetMe is a simple Wordpress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post.
Wp-sticky:
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress's blog.
Facebook Like Button
Add Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with a lot of customization options, And you can preview the settings at real-time in the settings section
Sexybookmarks
Extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.
Web Traffic Genius Pro
Automatically creates Rss feeds of every post and submits it to 20 feed directories on autopilot
Simple Tags
Easily manage tagging, related posts, autotagging, and mass editing of tags
Onlywire Multi Autosubmitter
Autosubmit your posts to all sites listed in your onlywire account
Featured Content Gallery
I love this one. I came across it just recently and just started using it on new blogs
Wordpress Toolbar Plugin
I just started using this one with good results. It adds a nice toolbar to your blog.
Disqus Comment System
Great commenting system. And the good thing is you can moderate ALL of your blogs from one account. This is a great time safer and it adds tons of features to regular commenting, which makes it easier for visitors to comment on your blog.
So what I do is have a folder containing all of the plugins above. I upload all of them, log into Wordpress activate and configure them.
Due to the fact that some plugins have the same or similar functionality than plugins pre-installed by Firepow, I deactivate the following:
FP - Related Posts
FP - ShareThis
FP - WP tags to Technorati (Technorati never worked for me... they never find the code on my sites and there are always problems. It does not make any sense listing Technorati tags on your blog if your site is not listed in Technorati....)
When creating my content in Firepow using Content Blitz you will get the following options where content should be pulled from:
Youtube
Yahoo Answers
Google Blogsearch
Ezinearticles
Articlecity
Article Dashboard
Yahoo News
Google News
I use all of them except Yahoo News and Google News, because you won't get real targeted articles. Once you have completed Content Blitz, it is highly recommended to view all of the content generated for you. Sometimes you will find some off topic articles and you want to delete them.
There is also an option on how many articles you want to have included in each post. You can choose between 1-3. I usually pick 2 or 3. This will make the content look more unique to Google.
As mentioned above, I have niche blogs getting up to 1500 visitors per day using content solely generated by Firepow. So obviously there is no duplicate problem with Firepow.
For a new blog I choose "random posting time" and "one post per day". Once the blog gets older and settles down in the search engines I change this to "random" (you will get about one post every 5 days in random intervals)
Once the Content Blitz is set up I have it post 5 posts immediately. That's it.
Firepow also offers several built-in promotion tools like RSS feed submission, their own Blog Network, Social Bookmarking, and Yahoo answering. I have to admit the only feature I use whenever I create a new blog is Rss feed submission.
I have no idea why only few people are talking about Firepow, as it really is the best and fastest way to create quality niche Blogs that with some effort will rank high in Google ... and make money 
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Build My Rank - An In Depth Review Of BuildMyRank.com
I have been trying several Link Building services in the past and you can find some other reviews at Services Similar To Linkvana. However, I have to admit that Build My Rank outranks all of them and I wished I had joined them earlier.
1. The Price
Build My Rank is $59 a month (Linkvana costs $149, BlogBlueprint if you join via IMa is $147). You can outsource blog posts for $2 each. There is also a FREE Trial which will give you 10 Free Backlinks.
2. The Blog Network
Build My Rank Blog Network is high quality. In difference to Linkvana and Blogblueprint blogs in the network do not come with the same Worpdress template. They are all different and appealing and do not look spammy at all.
In difference to Linkvana and Blogblueprint it seems Build My Rank only posts to the same blog one to two times per day. So my posts did not get buried within some hours. They stick on the frontpage of the blog for quite a while. Linkvana and Blogblueprint add up to 15 posts to the same blog daily!!!
3. Transparency
Inside the Build My Rank Members Area you will see
a.) The Title of your post
b.) When it has been posted
c.) If the blog post is already indexed
d.) The PR of the blog
Below you can find a screenshot of my project. To secure my own projects and of course the Build My Rank Blog Network you won't see keywords and post titles.
I ordered 30 blog posts on June 29th. Two days later all blog posts were written by the BMR writers. I chose to have them submitted randomly. Using this option resulted in 1 to 7 blog posts per day.
All I had to do is submit my keywords, urls and payment. After that my posts were written and submitted automatically.
It seems BMR does not check indexing often, because most of the posts are already indexed.
4. PR Of Blogs
As mentioned above, I ordered 30 blog posts, which resulted in:
12 x PR1 Links
10 x PR2 Links
5 x PR3 Links
3 x PR4 Links
I should mention that I verified each and every blog post and all PRs are 100% correct.
5. Are They On Different C-Class Blogs?
I have to admit that I was a little sceptical whether blogs are indeed on different C Class Blocks. This is why I investigated this issue carefully.
First of all... why is this important?
The major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN/Bing are becoming ever more sophisticated and smart in their search algorithms, and incorporate historical and ip address data, it is now even more important than ever to ensure that you take the necessary precautions when designing a network of linked web sites. So if blogs were on the same C-Class block links would be pretty useless.
I used the following tool to check random 8 blogs my post had been submitted to: http://www.ip-report.com/
Again: to protect Build My Rank you will not see urls or IPs.
As you can see all blogs are on different C-Class Blocks.
I have not run this check for Linkvana or BuildMyRank blogs. But I guess it is definitely something that should be done.
6. What Makes Build My Rank Better Than The Competition
One thing that is absolutely outstanding and is not offered by any of the competitors: Build My Rank will submit your blog post to Social Networks. This results in
a.) Additional Backlinks
b.) Much faster indexing
The best part here is that they seem to be using Social Bookmarking accounts that are in good standing, because the backlink shows up almost immediately in Google. I was pretty surprised about this, because in most cases Social Bookmarks do not show up at all. At least this is the case for Bookmarks created by Imautomator, Thelinkjiucer and Bookmarkingdemon.
For most of my blog posts I can see tagza backlinks, jumptags and several others.
I have not seen any change in rankings so far. However, this is obiously too early and will take some more days.
I guess Build My Rank is aware of the quality they are offering and this is why they offer 10 FREE backlinks to everyone who creates a free account (no credit card needed!).
I definitely recommend Build My Rank and if I were you I would take advantage of the 10 free backlinks asap.
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Paid Blog Posts - Any Good?
Of course I knew that there are several sites out there offering paid blog posts. However, I did not have a closer look so far, because I was under the impression that paid blog reviews are expensive and you have to expect to pay around $20 for a post. I am glad I now had a closer look and gave one service of this kind a try. The paid blog post service I joined some days ago is Linkfromblog.
Linkfromblog Review
After I signed up I added one of my domains and soon after I started receiving bids from blog owners willing to review my blog and write a short review. Short reviews are about 200 words. I was pretty suprised when I noticed that you can get a blog review from a PR3 blog for as low as $2 (of course prices vary).
I immediately deposited $20 in my account (there is a 20% service fee, that's how Linkfromblog makes money). Out of the 35 bids I received I chose a total of 5 blogs (PR between 1 and 3) and accepted the bid. I am very pleased with the service provided and will add it to my arsenal of marketing methods.
Why I like Linkfromblog
1. Easy account creation
2. Option to accept bids or browse their whole catalog and send invitations
3. Lot's of blogs to choose from
4. Details oin every blog: demographics, PR, Alexa ranking, amount of posts added, blog url
5. The blog owner writes the review. So every review is totally different and not duplicate content
6. Ability to tell blog owners how they should write (positive, negative, neutral) etc.
5. Ability to add my own blogs and start accepting blog posts and getting paid (well.... right now I won't do this)
What I dislike:
The service fee of 20%... However, a service like this has to make money somehow.
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Clickbank Sales Down - Summer Blues!
Clickbank sales have been really slow in the past weeks. This is why I took a closer look at the Clickbank sales numbers graph on cb-analytics.com and I was pretty surprised when I had a closer look at the analytics graph. The graph is a little hard to read and the numbers I figured out are just "about numbers". In addition the graph only shows sales data starting 2008. Nevertheless, we are in the middle of the summer sales slow down, with a turnaround to happen in some weeks.
2008: After Clickbank sales climbing rapidly until about March 2008, there is kind of a slow down, with another strong increase in sales from July to August 2008, with an dramatic drop in September. There is another strong increase end of September 2008, after that stagnation.
In January 2009 sales increase drastically with the high in May. After that a drastic drop. The turnaround seems to be middle of July. Another strong drop in December.
January seems to be the strongest month for the past years. Same in 2010. Clickbank sales climb until May and then there is a drastic drop. With June / July being the lowest months.
I wonder when the turnaround should take place. From history it should be end of July / August.
What makes me wonder is that there has been a strong increase in Clickbank sales summer 2008. Whereas in the other years these have been the slowest months of the year (except of the YEARLY december slow down in Clickbank sales). The only news I found for Clickbank during this time is the introduction of direct depost and the fact that affiliates from more countries were accepted. So may be there was a drastic increase of affiliates in this time resulting in increased sales.
So what can be said looking at the past years?
In general January is the strongest month for Clickbank sales. After that sales go down a little and make a drastic drop middle of May.
It seems a turnaround can be expected middle / end of July.
Sales stay stable until december. In december another big drop in clickbank sales can be expected.
So let's see if I am right. We all should see an increase of sales middle / end of July 2010.
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