But, trust me, it will.

Once you get 10-20 sites or more under your belt you’ll see what a major headache it is to track stats, site rankings, PR, keyword rankings, backlinks and all that fun stuff by hand, site by site, keyword by keyword. You’ll want to stab yourself in the groin before you get to your first $100/day.

Fortunately for the noobie webmaster, there are about a bazillion webstats solutions out there to choose from for basic web stats tracking and many of those are free.

Great, right?

Erm, well, yeah, if you have 10 sites, absolutely.

But, we’re here to talk about the rest of us; IM overachievers who couldn’t be happy with just a handful of blogs – the selfish auto-blogger types, ha! We can’t afford to login to ten, one-hundred or God forbid, 1000+ cpanels and check stats and do site:searches for every keyword in every niche we target. Ugggh!

For me, there really is no solution out there that comes close to what my excruciatingly brilliant (although I am far better looking) partner Ryan and the boys in Bali have developed over the last couple of years for our own in-house ninja auto-blogging dojo.

If only I had time to go into all that I think I’d be hearing jaws hit the floor right now…

In fact, we’d love to share it with you all but it was built as a one-of-a-kind monster that lives in our basement and honestly, to port it over so the rest of the World could use it has been something we’ve talked about but, alas no such time available for such a thing as of yet.

In the meantime, that means you need a solution for traffic monitoring multiple domains.

That’s where SEO Cockpit comes in…

SEO Cockpit

Seo Cockpit is a pretty nice, clean hosted solution (that means you login to your account on their server to monitor your stats).

Features

Overall, SEO Cockpit is not going to knock your socks off.

It’s a little simple in some ways.

You’re not going to get tons of drawn out data on every imaginable stat you could ever dream of.

But, on the other hand, that’s really not what this tool is all about so I don’t want to be too critical on that point. This tool is more about offering a way to get a bird’s eye view of things when you wake up one day realizing that you’re screwed because their is NO WAY you can possibly monitor all your domains anymore one-by-one.

This is simply a way to get a very nice overall understanding of where things are headed and what you can do generally to get things moving in a better direction. And, IT WORKS! It does exactly what its supposed to do.

So, like it or not, no one can monitor tons of sites one-by-one. You must have another solution and SEO Cockpit is probably about the best solution we have at the moment.

I wouldn’t mess with it if you don’t have at least 5 or more sites, maybe 10. But anymore than that and you definitely need to consider a more robust, automated solution like SEO Cockpit. And, its priced well. In fact, its free to try.

This is my final point: Do NOT allow yourself to become apathetic about your stats. They’re TOO important and someone who doesn’t spend enough time monitoring stats is in trouble. You have to care about this stuff of you’re not going to make it in this business.

So, get to caring! :)

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“It is my understanding that auto-blogging means all the content is generated automatically.

How do I put my partiulcar keywords into the title, meta keywords, meta description, etc to help the SEO of my blog?

Would I have to do this manually for each of the posts which are automatically generated?”

ANSWER:

No, the articles posted get the title from the articles found on the feed source such as from the article databases. So, if the author is SEO conscious, they include the keyword in the title already. This title is then copied to your blogpost and to your post title tags, etc.

Auto-Creating Good Titles

You may also notice a field titled, ‘Title Template’ inside of the settings page of WP Scraper, WP Feeder and the YouTube plugin, WP Tube. Inside of this field you should see something like…

WP Spinner adds some icons there to each of the spinnable sections including the title section.

So, the Title will be replaced by the title of the article in this case.

Spinning Keywords Into Your Titles

That’s great! But, what if you want to also randomly include keywords in your titles?

No problem. You can easily drop a long tail keyword into both the title of the article (usually an H1 or H2 tag) and the Page Title (in the header section of your page). Simply stuff a list of keywords in this section after the [TITLE] tag.

Note: If you want to keep your blog open to views from human visitors, you probably DO NOT want to do this as it may appear slightly spammy (ish). If its ONLY for the SE’s, then its not an issue.

An example might be something like:

…where kw1-3 are replaced by real keywords.

So, lets say one of your categories was ‘spanish ringtones’.

You might make your title something like:

Now, on eZineArticles.com, I see there are over 200 articles for that come up when searching for that term alone. Without looking too deep it appears that might be a niche little niche to build a blog or two around.

Some random titles that might be generated from the above example using the approach described would be something like this below where the yellow is the title pulled from eZineArticles and the light blue is randomly pulled from the WP Spinner keyword list from above.

Or, another example…

Summary

It may not be perfect for humans because it looks slightly spammy (though not horrible) but its great for Search Engines and SEO.

Now, since we’ve created a keyword rich post title, WordPress will also include this title as the header Title so now two very important SEO important areas will contain the long tail keyword.

Its a bit random and untargeted but in the end, it works.

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Whether it be:

• beyonce ringtones
• download beyonce ringtones
• get beyonce ringtones online
• etc.

how would I NOT use the word ringtones here to avoid over-saturating that keyword?”

ANSWER:

Yes, if you are targeting ‘ringtones’, many of your longtail keywords (keyword phrases with 3 or more keywords in them, for those that don’t know) will also contain the word ringtones and that can oversaturate that base keyword and actually do more harm than good, SEO wise.

A couple things to remember

Keywords, Targeting Loosely, Hitting the Target

Another thing to remember is that when you are looking for RSS Feeds, targeting by longtail keywords is a futile effort at best.

You’re not going to find many articles written to target ‘amazing ringtones for under $1′ or something like that. You’d be lucky to find 1 article (reeeally lucky).

So, just find anything and everything on ‘ringtones’ then go after other related root terms where you’ll more likely find hundreds or thousands of articles and drop longtails into the footer of your posts.

Very Soon, Down the Road…

We have a new plugin coming out in the next few days that will rewrite your posts for you so you won’t have to bother much with worrying about duplicate content penalties anymore.

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“I have heard it is not good to include the same phrase too many times for the keywords – for example, if i was doing ringtones, it would be bad to have too many `artist ringtones` keywords. What is the WPC perspective on this or the best practice here?”

ANSWER:

That is generally correct.

Finding the Sweetspot!

On page SEO is about finding the sweet spot by carefully distributing weight between your primary keywords throughout a web page. Once you find that sweet spot, you’ve reached the peak as far as on page optimization goes.

I say ‘sweet spot’ because too little or too much is what its all about. Using the exact phrase, ‘artist ringtones’ too many times is a no-go. Using it too few times is just as bad.

Basic Keys to Onpage SEO

The keys as I have found them are:

1. The longer the tail on your keywords, the fewer times you should use it in your page. (Ie., ‘ringtones’, feel free to use it 10 times out of 1000 keywords. ‘artist ringtones’, maybe just 2-3 times. ‘download artist ringtones free online’, just once, twice max.

2. Having the keyword in the domain, Title, Meta Keywords and Meta Description and H1-H6 tags has so much weight to it that you would NOT probably want to put a long tail keyword in ALL of those places. One or two is enough. If its a more primary, root keyword, yes, place them throughout all of the above.

3. If you have placed a keyword in one of the primary places on your page (as seen above), place it at least once in the main text of the page, again using the basic rules above to help gauge your sweet spot.

4. It wouldn’t hurt to also have your keyword(s) in one or two other more obscure places like as an image name, image title, link alt, etc.

I’ve been able to achieve #1 rankings for hundreds of top terms using the above basic principles in my on page SEO efforts.

Offpage SEO

But, in the more recent years, off page is a MUCH greater factor and this is where you need to focus the bulk of your effort. Let WordPress Cloaker and the auto-content plugins do most of the work, pick your feeds and content wisely, take advantage of the WP Spinner functions to include additional keywords and/or keyword links (a great way to interlink blogs in throughout your own network of blogs over time).

Getting Backlinks

Then, submit those sites through onlywire and use every possible means to automate the building of backlinks to your blogs to increase your ranking power over time.

We have an automatic way to increase backlinks coming out soon that I’ll talk more about later… for now, lets focus on the WordPress Onlywire plugin as a temporary working solution.

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“I want to target about 20 prime keywords in a single blog using the Onlywire plugin to promote and build backlinks. I do NOT want to bookmark every single post I make, but I DO want to bookmark the 20 posts relating to my target keywords.

How can this be done?”

ANSWER:

See my breakdown below…

Summary

So, to sum it up, don’t worry about controlling things too much.

Set up your auto-blogs with all the recommended plugins + any others you may personally like. Take advantage of any feature that benefits your site’s overall SEO performance.

Be sure to grab quality content, don’t just plug into eZineArticles.com database straight away and expect magic to happen.

This part will take a little work…

Instead of being lazy here, find niche blogs and forums that have great content that is very focused to your niche. EVERY niche worth marketing has at least a handful of popular blogs and forums to pull feeds from.

Setup some great feeds, get quality content and you will do awesome.

DO NOT cut corners setting up your auto blog. All you have to do is a little work now and it will pay off down the line.

So, do your level best!

Then, AFTER you’ve worked, you can sit back and relax and let the system do its magic.

Don’t Stop There!

NEXT… start building anothert blog!

One very nice thing about the WordPress Cloaker system when used with the content generation plugins is that you save SO much time, you won’t have to stop at just one site.

Its EASY to create one blog per day, per week or even one every couple of weeks. A year later and at minimum you should have 25 blogs pulling steady traffic every day.

By that time, you’ll be able to setup a killer auto-blog in under 30-minutes flat. And, not some junky, spammy blog but a solid blog with quality content that could literally get visitors to bookmark and return regularly due to valuable content.

And, you will have DONE it, almost fully auto-mated!

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The key starts with great search engine optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.

You can blog your heart out, but if you don’t have good SEO, then odds are you won’t have many readers.  Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help.

Here are 20 of the best SEO plugins to help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.

Have another SEO plugin to recommend? Tell me more about it in the comments.

All in One SEO Pack – One of the most popular plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of everything for you from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate content and more.

Automatic SEO Links – Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be “nofollow” or not, and more.  One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.

Google XML Sitemaps – An essential tool in any blogger’s armory of SEO tools.  While the name only mentions Google this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

HeadSpace2 – This plugin allows you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin – An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog.  You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.

Nofollow Case by Case – This plugin allows you to strip the “nofollow” command from your comments, and then you can apply it to only the comments you don’t wish to support.

Platinum SEO Plugin – The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate content and a host of other features.

Redirection – For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, but then you risk losing that page’s status in search results.  Redirection helps you with your 301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors and more.

SEO Blogroll – Do you worry that the people you link to in your blogroll are feeding off of your PageRank?  With SEO Blogroll you can make separate sections for various groupings of links, with an unlimited number in each, and all of them will receive the “nofollow” attribute.

SEO for Paged Comments – With the introduction of paged comments in WordPress 2.7, there was a potential problem with search engines thinking you had duplicate content as the post would appear on each page.  This plugin aims to take care of this issue for you until the folks at WordPress change things up.

SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings – Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree.  In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on.

SEO Friendly Images – Images can be a great source of traffic as people search for images of various subjects, and this plugin helps you with making sure that you have “alt” and “title” tags on all of your images so that the search engines can properly index them.

SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin – If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.

SEO Post Link – The post slug is the blog title you see in a browser’s URL bar, and if it’s too long, search engines won’t take a liking to it.  SEO Post Link comes with an already populated list of words to cut from a title when it turns into a URL to make your post addresses that much friendlier.  You can set it so that it’s limited to a certain number of characters, cut short words, cut unnecessary words and more.

SEO Smart Links – Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts, but it is time consuming and tedious to do it by hand.  SEO Smart Links does this for you automatically when you tell it what words to link to what URLs, and it also allows you to set “nofollow” and “open in window” comands for the links.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget – Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a lot of people use tag clouds on their blogs.  Since their inception they have been fairly unreadable by search engines, but with this plugin they will be converted to an SEO-friendly HTML markup that can be indexed.

SEO Title Tag – Your tags are an important part of your site for making sure that search engines know where to place your posts, and SEO Title Tag focuses exclusively on this.  Unlike some other plugins, and WordPress itself, this extension will allow you to add tags to your pages, your main page and even any URL anywhere on your site.

Simple Tags – An extremely popular plugin that focuses on helping you choose the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions, auto-completion of tags as you type, an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing and a whole lot more.

Sitemap Generator – This is a more customizable sitemap generator than most with options to support multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, choices on what to display, options to show number of comments and more.

TGFI.net SEO WordPress Plugin – This particular plugin will do most of the usual SEO work of optimizing titles and keywords, but it adds a unique twist as it is mainly directed at people who use WordPress as a CMS.

[Courtesy of Mashable.com]

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