• You must have zend optimizer installed on your server.

Note: Most hosts (probably in the 95%-99% range) DO have zend optimizer pre-installed on shared and managed VPS servers.

BUT, most WordPress Cloaker users ALSO use WP Tube, WP Feeder and WP Scraper to help generate web content for their blogs.

Due to the fact that some article databases BAN certain hosts from accessing their sites directly (aka, scraping their articles), finding quality hosting providers whose IPs are NOT banned by places like EzineArticles.com has become a common issue for users who wish to take full advantage of WP Scraper.

Below you will find my personally recommended hosts for a range of hosting needs.

Each of these hosts work with all aspects of WordPress Cloaker and all additional plugins we offer and are found to be good, reliable hosts with affordable pricing:

HERE is one that I prefer for shared hosting.

KH4LIFE

I suggest their California VS2 or better.

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“You say that autoblogging will increase my sites PR due to lots of incoming links. How does WPC do this? i mean, build the incoming links? wouldn`t i have to do this manually?”

ANSWER:

Well, WordPress Cloaker currently comes with a few bonus plugins:

1. 1. WP Tube
2. 2. WP Feeder
3. 3. WP Scraper
4. 4. WP Spinner

These are all content generating plugins that help you build any number of pages targeting any number of niches or keywords.

So, here’s how it breaks down as far as link juice and PR…

1. You need inbound links

So, how do you get those?

Well, there are lots of ways, some easy and some not so easy…

The Hard Way

An example of good backlinks that are hard to get would be to manually find sites to partner with you and send each person an email asking for reciprocal link exchange, and other old school methods.

The Easier Way

But, nowadays you have lots of easier options, some automated, others more semi-automatic or work intensive.

An example would be to go to blogs and make comments and include a link back to your blog or web site. Sounds great but you still have to find sites that don’t use the no-follow attributes on their links or you get no Google love at all from a lot of work.

A couple samples of good high PR sites that don’t use no-follow would be from some .edu sites (hard to find but VERY good)

see below for a small sample of good ones:

http://www.csdhead.cs.cmu.edu/blog/2009/07/30/at-last-useful-social-networking

http://diva.sfsu.edu/blog/04-20-2009/using-content-outside-of-diva

http://www.sft.edu/blog/2009/07/15/so-much-for-type-casting/

http://blog.axehandle.org/2009/01/writing-about-black-panthers.html

http://connect.rhodes.edu/blog/tyler/

http://apps.career.colostate.edu/blog/archive/2009/09/09/telluride-film-festival-inspiration.aspx#feedback

An Even EASIER WAY

But, there are better ways, more automated that don’t require much work. ONE of those would be to use some of the great WordPress SEO plugins you can find for free out there.

One I like a lot is the Onlywire plugin. You simply setup a free account with Onlywire and create your accounts with the various sites that it submits your blog posts to for you.

Note: Takes about 30-45 minutes of work but well worth it!

Once you’ve finished the account creation process, the Onlywire plugin automatically submits each post (or a percentage of your posts, so you don’t over do it) to lots of different social and web 2.0 sites.

Keep in mind that each of these are high PR sites and by submitting your posts to them, you are creating some nice, quality backlinks to your blog posts.

Here’s a full list:

Ask
Bebo
Bibsonomy
Blinklist
Connotea
FINALIZE
Delicious
Digg
FINALIZE
Diigo
Faves
Google Bookmarks
Jumptags
Mister Wong
Mixx
FINALIZE
Multiply
Newsvine
Plaxo
Propeller
Reddit
FINALIZE
Simpy
Slashdot
FINALIZE
Technorati
FINALIZE
Tumblr
Twitter
Yahoo Bookmarks

…All this on auto pilot each time you submit a new post!

The PR coming in to a single post from these sites adds up and of course gets distributed to your domain.

2. Next you need to automate the backlinks

To trigger onlywire’s magic, you need lots of new posts created daily. This is where The WordPress Cloaker Suite of tools steps up to lend a hand.

These tools will easily allow you to setup a handful of sites all posting 1-5 new posts per day on auto-pilot, just the way you want it. With the help of the Onlywire WordPress plugin, each of those posts will be automatically submitted to all of the above sites and generate tons of backlinks for you.

You now have backlink building totally hand free that willl help your PR increase dramatically over time with nearly zero effort.

Finally, WordPress Cloaker comes into the picture allowing us to redirect visitors anywhere we want. We want our visitors to see a perfectly orchestrated landing page, not a bunch of blog posts that aren’t going to convert or directly make us any money.

But, yes, all in all, a very automated way of handling backlink building.

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2. At Cron Manager Page: Click “Create Cron Job” button

3. Fill out the form: Godaddy provides a Browse button to select the file (pretty easier). The cron command will be constructed automatically.

4. Browse Window: Just browse to your WP installation directory and select the index.php file.

5. After file selection, fill in other fields.

6. Done.

Note: Don’t forget to edit email address for cron report.

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HostGator and .htaccess…

When it comes to running simple cron commands on your HostGator hosting account, you’ll need to place a .htaccess file in the cgi-bin of each account.

This .htaccess file must be placed in the public_html directory of each website hosted on a shared hosting package.

If you have a reseller account, you only need to put it in the main cgi-bin. This will then eliminate your need to duplicate the file for each individual public_html directory.

Editing your .htaccess File…

Here are the commands to place inside your .htaccess file if you are using HostGator:

Step-by-Step Screen Shots: Setting up Cron

Here are some screenshots to assist in setting up cron on HOSGATOR HOSTING accounts.

NOTE: You may click on the below images to view larger screen shots.

1. From CPANEL Homepage:

2. Cron Jobs page:

3. Set 1. Email address, 2. Put command cron command we provide, and 3. Set the schedule.

4. Done

The Cron Code

The following commands seem to work with HostGator and my plugins…

…where “yourfolder” = your sites folder and where “0123456″ is your cron code found in the ‘Options’ tab of the relevant plugin (ie., WP Scraper or WP Feeder, etc)…

Additional questions? Email support for more help.

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I believe we should have something worked out by the end of this week but it is too early to tell. Needless to say, we have setup test sites on both hosts and are troubleshooting.

On that note, it is also important to note that only about 3-5% of hosts are showing any signs of problems, so this is not a major concern for most people. But, for those few who are having problems, we are looking for a solution.

Along with scraping problems on these hosts, there may also be other issues as well, such as cron support for our plugins. I will make a post about each hosting providers cron requirements, which should help a lot.

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