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

If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know that I am a big fan of Firepow. Today I will show you how I use firepow to set up a site and get it indexed in Google within some hours.

Earlier today when browsing the Clickbank Marketplace I came across a niche that is completely new to me but could be profitable: Boat Plans. I did some keyword research and decided that I wanted to start with "houseboats plans".

Google Competition:
houseboats plans: with quoation marks 3700, without quotation marks: 852.000

So I went ahead and registered the domain houseboatsplans.com at Godaddy. Godaddy is my favorite domain registrar, because you can't beat the price of domain names. I never pay more than $7.49 for a .com, .net, .org. How do I do this? There are various Godaddy Coupon sites out there where you can find discount coupons and there is always a $7.49 coupon. My favorite Godaddy coupon site is Fatwallet (make sure to go to the last page of the forum to get the newest codes!)

OK.... so I registered houseboatsplans.com earlier today:

At 16.15 (4.15 p.m) I installed the blog using Firepow. The whole installation and creation of content took about 15 minutes. Because Firepow does not offer timestamps, I logged into my blog using FTP so you can see a timestamp of blog creation:

Firepow automatically installs the most important Wordpress Plugins automatically (like Seo for Wordpress, Google Sitemap Generator, Max Banner Ads, h1h2, and a lot of others)

However, I usually add some more plugins:

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. You can create amazing slide shows etc. Did you notice the neat slideshow on houseboatsplans.com? It has been created with Featured Content Gallery within 15 minutes.

There are some more Wordpress plugins I am using, but the ones above are my favorite ones and I install them on all domains and I also installed them on houseboatsplans.com

I should also mention, that I disable some plugins that are preinstalled by Firepow:

FP - Related Posts: Because Simplet Tags does the same job better
FP - ShareThis - Sexybookmarks does the job much better
FP - WP tags to Technorati - Technorati is driving me crazy. In the past months addition of new blogs has not worked for me. They never recognize the code on my site. There is no use having Technorati tags on your blog if your site is not listed in Technorati. You will only lose visitors...

So once all plugins were installed, I modified some of the settings. E.g. activating Akismet (otherwise spammers will spam your blog with spam comments almost immediately).

And added my ping list under "Settings", "Writing":

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

After that I added my affiliate ads to houseboatsplans.com. I added code to the sidebar and also used the Max Banner Ads Plugin to get ads automatically added to every post.  In addition Firepow adds affiliate banners etc. at the bottom of every post.

All the above took me about one hour.

After that I took a break

I arrived back at my computer at about 20.00 (8 p.m.) and started submitting my domain to my "private list". My private list consists of about 150 sites, primarily analytics sites that I only need to visit.

An example: http://www.peekstats.com/www.houseboatsplans.com

There are mostly analytic sites, but it also contains some pligg sites, and other stuff like twitterpr.com and some social bookmarking sites. This list is pretty valuable to me. But I guess I will give it away for $10 to anyone interested. I won't have time over the weekend, because I have to go through it and clean it up. But you can expect that I will offer it for download beginning of next week.

Why is it so valuable to me? Because I get all domains, no matter how big the competition is, indexed (not ranked!) within some hours. Same this time. As mentioned before, I started at 20.00 (8.pm.)  and at 23.00 (11 p.m.) houseboatsplans.com was indexed in Google:

So as you can see, it only took me some hours to set up a new domain using Firepow that gets content on autopilot. It only took me some more hours to get the site indexed. I guess tomorrow visitors will start coming in. Of course there is a big difference in "getting indexed" and "getting ranked". It will take some time and efforts to get a stable Google ranking. So let's see what will happen. Over the next weeks I will start promoting houseboatsplans.com.

I should mention that I know from experience that the worst thing you can do is start promoting a new domain heavily right away. This will result in getting your domain sandboxed. Some of my domains I promoted aggressively in the beginning seem to sit in the sandbox forever (over one year). That's why I am building backlinks slowly and try to be patient.

Some days ago my VPS server was hacked and ALL data deleted. I do not have any backup copies. I lost 40 domains. I have no idea why people are doing something like this.... But I guess instead of wasting my time thinking about why people are so stupid I should spend my time to get everything back to normal.  My hosting company told me that everything was deleted: I am glad that I always want to check out things myself and I noticed that Mysql databases are still there. Hooray! So my contentattack articles are back again! I still need to re-install all Wordpress plugins and add missing images. But after that I am back 100%. I guess I cannot emphasize it enough: secure ALL of your domains and hosting accounts, choose SAVE passwords and always create backup copies of your work!

My other domains are also not lost, because MYsql databases are still there as well. Only all other files are gone. Firepow support stuff has been pretty helpful. They told me that there will definitely a way to get my wordpress installations back. So they seem to be working behind the scenes.

If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know that I love Firepow. I have been a member for over 1.5 years. I love it, because most required plugins are pre installed and the blogs get good content automatically. I can have a new blog set up within 15 minutes (time for registering a new domain included!) So after 1.5 years I still give Firepow 5 thumbs up!

This will be a rather long post. You can use this method for Firepow Autoblogs and of course for any other Autoblog or regular blog.

I recommend taking one day and spend it solely on setting up this auto linking system. The good thing is that once set up there is no maintainance and you can simply plugin new blogs.

Ok, so here we go.

1. Get The Free Only Wire Plugin For Wordpress
You can download it here.
When you create a free OnlyWire account and set up your social networking site logins, OnlyWire will submit your post to all of the sites simultaneously. OnlyWire does all of the submission behind the scenes on behalf of you. So download the plugin, install it on your Wordpress blog and register with the 34 bookmarking sites.

Ever new post will now get posted to all of the 34 bookmarking sites automatically.

2. Webtraffic Genius Wordpress Plugin

I really like Web Traffic Genius Software and if there is some way you can spend $97 then DO IT! It's a must have for anyone building Autoblogs!

What Does Webtraffic Genius Do? Whenever a new post is created, the Webtraffic Genius Wordpress Plugin auto-creates an RSS feed and submits it to the 20 largest Rss Aggregators on autopilot. You can even add your own Aggregators and add extra feeds. You can install the plugin on UNLIMITED Domains. So you only have to pay ONCE.

Every new post will get submitted to 20+ Rss Aggregators on Autopilot!

3. Join Twitterfeed (It's free)
Join Twitterfeed here. Twitterfeed will send your website's blog entries to Twitter, Statusnet network sites and Facebook.

Ping.FM - Ignore this one for Twitterfeed, because this feature is currently DISABLED
Hellotxt - Ignore this one as well... I do not like it, because they do not offer API for anyone anymore

So you may want to create accounts (or use existing ones) on:

Twitter
Facebook
Statusnet (there are some other servers running the Statusnet software. However, out of all sites listed on the page, only 4 are worth joining. Of course you can check them yourself and join if you think it is worth it...)

So you will have to join:

http://identi.ca/
http://www.pbj.ca
http://www.bleeper.de
http://www.microdeo.de

Once you have joined these sites  - (it is recommended to join some groups and follow some people. Why? Because a lot of member's profile sites and group sites have high PR. If you follow them your username is listed on their profile page and thus search engines will arrive at your blog much faster) - it is time to add your blogs RSS feed into Twitterfeed.

Once you added your Rss feed click "Continue to Step 2". In step two you will see a list of Available Services.

Click on Twitter. Add your Twitter login
Click on Facebook. Add your Facebook login
Click on Status net. Enter

Status Net Server:
identi.ca
add your username and password. Ignore the other fields.

Click "Update Service"

Now add another Statusnet Service by clicking the "Available Services: Statusnet" button once again.
This time enter:
Status Net Server:
bleeper.de
add your username and password. Ignore the other fields.

Do the same thing again for the other two networks
Status Net Server:
microdeo.de

Status Net Server:
pbj.ca

Click "All Done"

OK! Great! Now whenever a new post is posted on your Blog, Twitterfeed grabs your Rss feed and sends a short version of your post to: Twitter, Facebook, Identi.ca, Bleeper.de, Microdeo.de, and bbj.ca
4. Join Ping.Fm (it is free)
Join Ping.fm here. Ping.fm will send a summary of your blog post to 35 (!!!) Microblogging and Blog sites on Autopilot:

Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, MySpace, Ning, AIM Status, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Brightkite, Plurk, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger, Bebo, hi5, Xanga, WordPress.com, Custom URL, Delicious, Koornk, YouAre, Multiply, Yammer, Flickr, StatusNet, Vox, ShoutEm, StreetMavens, myYearbook, Posterous, Photobucket, Posting
Yahoo Profiles,Tagged

So once you have joined Ping.Fm, sign up for all of the services.

Once done, a summary of EVERY blog post will automatically go out to 35 Web 2.0 sites.
5. Feed Ping.FM - Hootsuite.com

Of course you will have to auto-feed your Ping.fm account with your blog posts. Ping.fm did some changes with their Api recently. So as of now NONE of the Ping.Fm wordpress plugin works anymore and also Twitterfeed stopped posting to them. The only solution I found is hootsuite.com

a. Get an account at Hootsuite.com
b. Hotsuite will post your blogs Rss feed to

Ping.fm, Facebook, Linkedin, any Wordpress blog, Myspace and Foursquare

So create an account at all of these sites. (The easiest way to do this is from inside your hootsuite.com account!)

6. Posterous

Join Posterous here. Posterous is another service that will autofeed Web 2.0. If you have a look at your Ping.fm, account you will notice that they will autosubmit to Posterous. The disadvantage is that only a very short snippet will get sent. This is why I recommend getting the Posterous Wordpress Plugin: "Posterize"

Posterous will post to:

Statusphere, Facebook, Facebook Page, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Plurk, Identica, Blogs, Blogger, Tumblr, Livejournal, Shopify, Typepad, Xanga, Wordpress, MovableType, Drupal, Other blog, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Blip.tv, Scribd,  Wordpress, Typepad , Movable Type, Xanga, Squarespace
Xanga

Of course you can choose the services you want to have sent a snippet of your new blog post to.

The Wordpress Plugin automatically sends your blog post to posterous which will then send it to the services you have chosen. On Autpilot.

7. Google Reader
Google Reader will also send your blog updates to several Web 2.0 sites. I have listed it here, because it can send it to two other Web 2.0 sites, the other services cannot send to.

Orkut and Instapaper.

How to do it? Add your feed to Google Reader. Once done click on "Settings" and Choose "Send To". You will see a list of Web 2.0 sites. Choose the ones you like.

8. Wordpress Plugin: CrossPress
If the services above are still not enough and you want to have more, you might want to try the Wordpress Plugin Crosspress. Get Crosspress here.
Automatically, cross-posting to associated site/blog to enabling the post-via-email option with PIN code e.g. multiply.com, livejournal.com, blogspot.com or even other wordpress-base site and much more

The system above is a really powerful way of getting backlinks for Autoblogs on Autopilot. The good thing is, you only have to set it up once and after that you are done. Whenever you create a new blog, just plug it in!

I guess some of you may ask: won't this hurt my blog? Doesn't duplicate content spread all over the web hurt my site?

First: Onlywire Autobookmarking won't hurt
Second: Web Trafficgenius Rss Feed submission won't hurt.
Third: Ping.Fm,Twitterfeed, Microblogging links won't hurt. These are only short updates of your blog posts. The benefit of Microblogging sites is that they have high PR, thus will get your posts crawled and indexed by the search engines fast. In addition you may get some traffic as well.
Fourth: A short summary of your recent blog post with a link back to your site won't hurt as well. The whole system is meant to:

A.) Get your new blog posts crawled and indexed by the search engines FAST
B.) Get some nice backlinks (I know, most of the Microblogging sites are no-follow, however you will note that your posts still get indexed by Google etc. They only do not pass on PR juice!)
c.) Attract Web 2.0 Traffic.

I have used this system for several weeks now and I see a real good increase in traffic.

I really love the Warrior Special Offer Forum, because from time to time you can find real gems there.

One special offer I purchased a week ago is SlickSocialPro (obviously Ed, the owner, is so busy programming the script that he has not yet been able to set up the official website. The link will be the future home of this amazing piece of software).

SlickSocialPro is in my eyes the best webpromotion product in 2009 and in combination with SENuke and Firepow it is a real traffic machine.

So what does Slicksocialpro do?

Slicksocialpro is a wordpress module that auto-submits each new post to 20 social network and bookmarking sites on autopilot. Every month 10 new modules will be added.

Do you have an idea of what this acutally means? Well... if you already mass create niche blogs using Firepow you know that you will need to get links to your posts to rank well in the search engines.

Slicksocialpro will autosubmit your post to 20 (and even more sites in the future) in the background, completely on autopilot. It is a Wordpress plugin that only needs to be uploaded to your wordpress plugins. Activate it, create account at the social networks and social bookmarking sites and you are ready to go!

All of your blog posts will get high quality backlinks instantly!!!

Slicksocialpro is extremely easy to setup and use and there is even a report feature which shows to which social networks and social bookmarking sites your post has been submitted to.

As you can see, this piece of software is AMAZING.

Set up your autoblogs using Firepow.

Firepow will auto generate quality content and Slicksocialpro will autosubmit your content in the background.

As mentioned above,  the Slicksocialpro official website is not yet up and running.

However, you can still grab your copy at a special discount price ($40 ONCE and $10 monthly afterwards) at the Warriorsforum.

I have no idea how long this special will be available, so I urge you to get it now.

Slickspocialpro is already generating traffic to my blogs after just one week and two new posts on each of my blogs.

You can get it HERE

The Two Marketing Software Tools I Could Not Live Without

As mentioned in my last post, I am currently focusing on building niche blogs. There are two services I have been subscribed two for over 6 months now and could not live without. SENuke and Firepow

SENUKE

SEnuke is my favorite  all around marketing tool. It's an all in one website promotion software that will help you getting indexed and getting ranked fast. It will help you to build linkwheels,  submit articles to the best article direcotires, social bookmark, spin articles, create profiles, submit rss feeds and  submit videos to the best video sites.  It's indeed an all around tool that is extremely powerful and actually WORKS! Behind Senuke there is an extremely dedicated sutff that keeps updating the software frequently. So all I can say is: if you are serious about getting your sites indexed and ranked you need SEnule.

There is only one similar tool available: Peter Drew's Bruteforce SEO. I have not tried it, because of the bad reviews I found online. I subscribed to several others of Pete's services, which are pretty buggy, overhyped and overpriced (I will talk about this in another post soon). So Bruteforce Seo is not even close to the power and automation SENuke offers.

By the way.... SENuke offers ar free 7 day trial

And what's my second favorite software? It Is Firepow

FIREPOW

Firepow is the ultimate, fully automated blog creation software. It is lightning fast and extremely flexible. All you have to do is enter your domain name, blog name and desciption, tags, choose a template (there are many, many templates to choose from), add adsense (if you want to). Click one button and voila... some seconds later your blog is up and running and all Wordpress plugins that are essential for Seo are added and already activated as well. It is really amazing!

In the next step enter your keywords and Firepow will grab you content from all over the net. Choose how often you want to post, click another button and your blog is up and running, ready to make you money!

Also... do not worry about duplicate content penalty. It did not happend to me and it did not happen to other Firepow users. There is also a "content mixer" to be added in the next update.

After your blog is up go to the promotion section, get your RSS feed submitted to the best rss directories. There is also an integrated yahoo answering tool. Answer some yahoo questions with reference to your new blog and watch your blog getting indexed super fast. By the way there is also a blog network where you can post to for additional linking.

Firepow gets definitly 5 thumbs up from me. This blog software is AMAZING!

As all great tools... Firepow offers a 14 day trial for only $1... so you have nothing to lose.

If you are into niche marketing SENuke and Firepow are two tools you should definitely invest in. They are solid and proven to work. Both have an extremely dedicated stuff behind them and a huge community of happy customers which share their experience and knowledge in Senuke's Forum and Firepow's Forum.