I would like to ask you if its possible to fast forward to see how these sites are built — ( I mean what software you need to be able to post the data feeds .
Thanks for the great content on all your videos
Hamant
Jeff Johnson says: using RSS feed and data feeds to build your blogs isn’t tough, but it takes some knowledge on how to do it.
And that is way beyond the scope of a blog post.
My Affiliate Traffic Machine Pro (ATM Pro) data feed software is what we use for sites like this Digital Camera Reviews
This is my first time working with wordpress. It was very easy to install.
I noticed on your example site for Digital Camera Reviews, you have Adsense and Amazon.com ads. I can’t figure out how to put these ads on my new blog.
I assume I would put the Adsense code in the HTML under “Theme Editor”, but I’m not quite sure where.
Thanks for your help!
Jeff Johhnson says: We actually rotate those amazon and adsense ads (along with our cj.com, linkshare, custom banners, etc) from one of several openx ad server networks we have set up on several dedicated servers
openx serves up millions and millions of ads per month without breaking a sweat… and it’s free!
We’ve tested several adsense plug ins for wordpress and we even developed our own in-house for our clients.
But none of them are powerful enough to do what we need them to do; test multiple offers across hundreds of websites from one central location.
If we find an ad that works we simply plug it into our adserver and roll it out to any sites in a related market.
The easiest way for you to show ads on your blog is simply insert the code in the theme php templates.
Here’s how:
Click on the “Presentation” section of your blog control panel.
Then click on “theme editor”.
Then choose one of the .php files you see on the right hand side of the page (sidebar.php, header.php, etc.).
Then simply insert the code into the php file where you would like it to appear on the page and save your work.
All it takes is some trial and error work but you’ll eventually find the right placement spots in the php files.
Wow, looks like Google likes those ‘mytypes’ blogs…I was checking out the Jewelry blog and it’s ranking pretty good for some hard keywords with very few backlinks…sweet.
Just wondering how the content in the affiliate data feed based blogs are unique?
Do they have any chance of ranking up in the search engine in 2008.
Jeff Johnson says: It’s how you “mix and match” the content that matters. If all you do is build a blog with a data feed “as is” you probably won’t rank high.
We mix in articles, unique rss feeds, etc with our data feeds to make them “unique enough” to grab free traffic.
But that’s not all you have to do.. you have to promote the site to get more traffic.
Incoming links are the key for any site, including 100% unique content sites.
If the engines don’t find links to your site the traffic will not come.. no matter how unique the content is.
Once I’ve installed your SEO blog software, can I use any Wordpress template with it? Or does it have to be a specific template theme? I notice your SEO software has 7 different themes. I am thinking about using the Fadtastic theme (not in your SEO kit). If not, I will go with one of those themes you have in your SEO kit.
Thanks so much, Martin
Jeff Johnson says: My guys tell me that if you back up your database first, and then install the new theme, and then reinstall your database backup you should be fine. But I’m not the “mechanic”.. I just hire people and tell them what to build so it gets more traffic.
I do know it is possible to screw up our setting by changing the themes incorrectly so…
So I’d back up your database before you make any changes
Hi, and thanks for the software and videos. If I install the software on a blog I already have built, will it wipe out all my posts I already have on there? Thanks, Jim
Jeff Johnson says: My resident techie tells me that you need to back up your database from the old blog first, install the new SEO blog version, and then import/reinstate your database backup from the old blog.
But there are no guarantees… pleas back everything up…. and the best thing to do would be to simply build new sites with the SEO blog software instead.
Or add and configure the plugins by hand to your old blog.
But you’ll never be able to fully replicate the tweaks we’ve done for you; code level hacks and such.
But my guess is you could come close enough to not worry about it.
I’m interested primarily (i think) in datafeed sites, which is the recommended software ATM or your WP software, or is ATM based on WP?
Thanks
Ian
Jeff Johnson says: Affiliate Traffic Machine Pro is a software program that extracts keywords and content from data feeds to use in other applications (site building) plus it outputs data feeds in a structured format that can be used with WP to build data feed driven blogs.
ATM Pro is NOT based on WP… it’s a stand alone application that can output structured data feeds using the included templates, or you can customize the templates yourself.
The structured data feed output from ATM Pro can be popped into wordpess to build the sites and update the posts on “auto pilot”.
Hello Jeff,
I’ve watched the videos and want to use a WP theme that I have. Since my blog is on Blogger, this will be a new blog so no worries about messing up anything.
My question to you is strictly business related. You outsource the ‘heavy lifting’, do you ever recommend people you work with for this? I need someone to move my Blogger blog to my new host and upgrade it to a WP theme without loosing my archives.
Thought I’d ask because your people seem to be very good at what they do (and so do you, by the way!)
Jeff Johnson says: Sorry, but my personal staff does this type of work for me and they are just too busy to hire out at this time.
Wordpress has a blogger import utility and if you search google for “convert blogger to wordpress” or “import blogger into wordpress” you’ll find tons of tutorial.
If I were you I’d find a good tutorial and then contact the author and try to hire him/her to handle the job… I do that kind of outsoucing all the time.
Hi ,
I just want to say after 3yrs on the internet; FINALLY someone [you 2 guys] did it , in makeing a VIDEO that the comman guy can FINALLY load his on site. You made EASY to UNDERSTAND,fast,fun,AND made my life easyer.
THANKS, Alot
Bill
Jeff Johnson says: Thanks for the great feedback. This has turned out to be much more work than we expected…. thousands and thousands of people downloaded the free seo blog software in the first few days!
I just Want to say, FINALLY someone [you 2 guys] made a video on setting-up a site. Easy [to understand] english, fun,fast and a saver. I say this after being on the net 3yrs, I tried everything out there!! It made my life easyer now!! You need to do one on setting up a webpage ?
Let me say again THANKS,
Bill
Jeff Johnson says: Thanks! We’ve already produced 5 tutorials for the first few thousand people that downloaded the software in the first few days… and we’ve personally helped out way more than the first 50 people we intended to… so we’ll see what we can do!
Hello Jeff, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING U DO FOR US!!
One question:
If I first back up my database, and than change your theme into another theme from worpress catalogue, and than reinstall database - how can I be sure that the setting is correct??
Is it possible for you to write how to back up database?
One more time thanks for everything!!
Jeff Johnson says:
We’ve already produced a new step by step written tutorial and video about updrading your current blog.
I’m curious why you don’t include the cutline theme like you have here in your install package. Isn’t the cutline theme really the one best optimized for seo like you are talking about.
Jeff Johnson says: We can only do so much.
Each theme requires some testing and tweaking on our end.
There are thousands of themes to choose from in the market.
There’s enough here to get you started.
You can use any theme you’d like so cutline would be an option.
We have hundreds of themes that we use.
There are tutorials on the site to help you changes themes.
I just installed 9b and the theme, “Blue Zinfandel.” What are the links to the various “mytypes.com” sites and “itex.com” in the footer about? Do I need them?
First of all, thanks to you and your team for making this available for everybody.
I just want to know if I can do the usual additions of plug ins and stuff.
I’ve read in one of the comments that changing the themes may screw things up.
How about adding plug ins and changing picture headers or simple stuff like than?
Anthony Montalbano says:
We’ve spent a lot of time and testing our blogs to find a series of plugins that amount to our optimizations. So naturally adding any plugins to the current configurations may or may not make a difference to the optimization. Since we do not support any changes beyond the basic install of our package any further changes, adding themes, plugins, and modifying picture headers would be done at your own risk.
Hey, Jeff. Thanks for the software. I’m just getting started on WP and picking a theme. I downloaded your software but wondering if I can customize the visuals to suit my niche and functionality requirements… custom header image, 2 right-hand side bars, fat footer, etc.
Anthony Montalbano says:
Yes, you can customize the design (theme) of your blog using our package.
Cheers Anthony - Jeff … you sure make any wannabee social net working life a lot easier … I just want to give you feed back to how very useful these few videos I’ve seen so far have helped me feel more comfortable with what I’ve achieved so far by being on your list of subscribers before I bumped into your first video … I had plodded on … on my own for the past six months dipping in and out of this social bookmark social network trying to get the understanding to what all the attention this kind of media press has been attracting online for the past few months but I could not get my head around it … until now simply by following your page instructions on undergroundtraininglab.com blog I now feel so comfortable I have found the right mentor to get me to the dizzy heights with out dozy hype … just as Stephen Pierce puts Fat Free no Fluff just meat and veg every day tutorials every one can follow to be as successful as any one who takes this action and completes your training loop … thanks again guys hope to be rubbing shoulders with you guys at the top
All my best to you and your actions taken
Phillip Skinner
I finally got around to reading your emails.(clients kept me occupied). This weekend I watch all 13 of your videos and took notes. Terrific job of presenting very good info. I am still digesting all the sites you referenced.
Today I was checking out the Yahoo Pipes script and it works fine. My question is how do you take the feed it generates and make it post automatically to word press blog. Your Digital Camera Review blog has each item in a separate post. That is what I want. But how??
Thanks again. You are the most practical and believable “guru” teacher of them all.
that site is built using a professional version of the free seo blog software I give out here (the professinal version is free to my membership site clients)
And it uses output from my affiliate traffic machine pro software (atm pro is a just $1 for my membership site clients)
23 responses
1 Hamant Keval // Apr 21, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hi Jeff-
I have sent you an email reply about my concerns.
I would like to ask you if its possible to fast forward to see how these sites are built — ( I mean what software you need to be able to post the data feeds .
Thanks for the great content on all your videos
Hamant
Jeff Johnson says: using RSS feed and data feeds to build your blogs isn’t tough, but it takes some knowledge on how to do it.
And that is way beyond the scope of a blog post.
My Affiliate Traffic Machine Pro (ATM Pro) data feed software is what we use for sites like this Digital Camera Reviews
ATM PRO has video tutorials on how to use data feeds with wordpress blogs:
Affiliate Traffic Machine Pro
2 Mike // Apr 24, 2008 at 4:27 am
Thank you for the cool blog software Jeff!
This is my first time working with wordpress. It was very easy to install.
I noticed on your example site for Digital Camera Reviews, you have Adsense and Amazon.com ads. I can’t figure out how to put these ads on my new blog.
I assume I would put the Adsense code in the HTML under “Theme Editor”, but I’m not quite sure where.
Thanks for your help!
Jeff Johhnson says: We actually rotate those amazon and adsense ads (along with our cj.com, linkshare, custom banners, etc) from one of several openx ad server networks we have set up on several dedicated servers
openx serves up millions and millions of ads per month without breaking a sweat… and it’s free!
We’ve tested several adsense plug ins for wordpress and we even developed our own in-house for our clients.
But none of them are powerful enough to do what we need them to do; test multiple offers across hundreds of websites from one central location.
If we find an ad that works we simply plug it into our adserver and roll it out to any sites in a related market.
The easiest way for you to show ads on your blog is simply insert the code in the theme php templates.
Here’s how:
Click on the “Presentation” section of your blog control panel.
Then click on “theme editor”.
Then choose one of the .php files you see on the right hand side of the page (sidebar.php, header.php, etc.).
Then simply insert the code into the php file where you would like it to appear on the page and save your work.
All it takes is some trial and error work but you’ll eventually find the right placement spots in the php files.
3 Erik // Apr 25, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Wow, looks like Google likes those ‘mytypes’ blogs…I was checking out the Jewelry blog and it’s ranking pretty good for some hard keywords with very few backlinks…sweet.
4 Niche // Apr 27, 2008 at 11:02 am
Just to say thank you for the software. I use blogger but increasingly considering wordpress
5 Grace // Apr 28, 2008 at 2:18 am
Hi Jeff,
Just wondering how the content in the affiliate data feed based blogs are unique?
Do they have any chance of ranking up in the search engine in 2008.
Jeff Johnson says: It’s how you “mix and match” the content that matters. If all you do is build a blog with a data feed “as is” you probably won’t rank high.
We mix in articles, unique rss feeds, etc with our data feeds to make them “unique enough” to grab free traffic.
But that’s not all you have to do.. you have to promote the site to get more traffic.
Incoming links are the key for any site, including 100% unique content sites.
If the engines don’t find links to your site the traffic will not come.. no matter how unique the content is.
6 The 'sell photos online' Dude // Apr 28, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hi Jeff,
Once I’ve installed your SEO blog software, can I use any Wordpress template with it? Or does it have to be a specific template theme? I notice your SEO software has 7 different themes. I am thinking about using the Fadtastic theme (not in your SEO kit). If not, I will go with one of those themes you have in your SEO kit.
Thanks so much, Martin
Jeff Johnson says: My guys tell me that if you back up your database first, and then install the new theme, and then reinstall your database backup you should be fine. But I’m not the “mechanic”.. I just hire people and tell them what to build so it gets more traffic.
I do know it is possible to screw up our setting by changing the themes incorrectly so…
So I’d back up your database before you make any changes
7 Jim Knippenberg // May 2, 2008 at 1:10 am
Hi, and thanks for the software and videos. If I install the software on a blog I already have built, will it wipe out all my posts I already have on there? Thanks, Jim
Jeff Johnson says: My resident techie tells me that you need to back up your database from the old blog first, install the new SEO blog version, and then import/reinstate your database backup from the old blog.
But there are no guarantees… pleas back everything up…. and the best thing to do would be to simply build new sites with the SEO blog software instead.
Or add and configure the plugins by hand to your old blog.
But you’ll never be able to fully replicate the tweaks we’ve done for you; code level hacks and such.
But my guess is you could come close enough to not worry about it.
8 Ian // May 3, 2008 at 8:12 am
Hi Jeff,
I’m interested primarily (i think) in datafeed sites, which is the recommended software ATM or your WP software, or is ATM based on WP?
Thanks
Ian
Jeff Johnson says: Affiliate Traffic Machine Pro is a software program that extracts keywords and content from data feeds to use in other applications (site building) plus it outputs data feeds in a structured format that can be used with WP to build data feed driven blogs.
ATM Pro is NOT based on WP… it’s a stand alone application that can output structured data feeds using the included templates, or you can customize the templates yourself.
The structured data feed output from ATM Pro can be popped into wordpess to build the sites and update the posts on “auto pilot”.
Very easy to do and tutorials are included.
9 Georjina // May 5, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Hello Jeff,
I’ve watched the videos and want to use a WP theme that I have. Since my blog is on Blogger, this will be a new blog so no worries about messing up anything.
My question to you is strictly business related. You outsource the ‘heavy lifting’, do you ever recommend people you work with for this? I need someone to move my Blogger blog to my new host and upgrade it to a WP theme without loosing my archives.
Thought I’d ask because your people seem to be very good at what they do (and so do you, by the way!)
Jeff Johnson says: Sorry, but my personal staff does this type of work for me and they are just too busy to hire out at this time.
Wordpress has a blogger import utility and if you search google for “convert blogger to wordpress” or “import blogger into wordpress” you’ll find tons of tutorial.
If I were you I’d find a good tutorial and then contact the author and try to hire him/her to handle the job… I do that kind of outsoucing all the time.
10 Bill Flint // May 6, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Hi ,
I just want to say after 3yrs on the internet; FINALLY someone [you 2 guys] did it , in makeing a VIDEO that the comman guy can FINALLY load his on site. You made EASY to UNDERSTAND,fast,fun,AND made my life easyer.
THANKS, Alot
Bill
Jeff Johnson says: Thanks for the great feedback. This has turned out to be much more work than we expected…. thousands and thousands of people downloaded the free seo blog software in the first few days!
11 Bill Flint // May 6, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I just Want to say, FINALLY someone [you 2 guys] made a video on setting-up a site. Easy [to understand] english, fun,fast and a saver. I say this after being on the net 3yrs, I tried everything out there!! It made my life easyer now!! You need to do one on setting up a webpage ?
Let me say again THANKS,
Bill
Jeff Johnson says: Thanks! We’ve already produced 5 tutorials for the first few thousand people that downloaded the software in the first few days… and we’ve personally helped out way more than the first 50 people we intended to… so we’ll see what we can do!
12 Arthur // May 11, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Hello Jeff, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING U DO FOR US!!
One question:
If I first back up my database, and than change your theme into another theme from worpress catalogue, and than reinstall database - how can I be sure that the setting is correct??
Is it possible for you to write how to back up database?
One more time thanks for everything!!
Jeff Johnson says:
We’ve already produced a new step by step written tutorial and video about updrading your current blog.
Check it out here:
http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/42/upgrade-wordpress/
And you’ll find more cpanel specific tutorials here:
Free Cpanel Hosting Video Tutorials
13 Dee // May 12, 2008 at 4:59 pm
This is great! I am in the process of getting started with Wordpress blogs and your software and helpful videos are just what I need.
14 The Moor // May 13, 2008 at 6:51 am
Since I am on a Mac
and not able to use ATM Pro would Smart RSS do with a cron job set?
Sorry, not familiar with it.
15 Jan // May 13, 2008 at 9:04 am
Thanks for another view of getting traffic to your site.
This kind of resource was needed to get another source in that I never knew about.
It is working. One blog of mine is up for 2 days and I am already over 100 hits only from social bookmarking.
Great stuff
16 Salathe // May 13, 2008 at 11:13 am
HI Geoff great product and very clear videos I have been using WP for some time but the software looks very interesting
My cats like it too
17 Terry Lamb // May 13, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Jeff,
I’m curious why you don’t include the cutline theme like you have here in your install package. Isn’t the cutline theme really the one best optimized for seo like you are talking about.
Jeff Johnson says: We can only do so much.
Each theme requires some testing and tweaking on our end.
There are thousands of themes to choose from in the market.
There’s enough here to get you started.
You can use any theme you’d like so cutline would be an option.
We have hundreds of themes that we use.
There are tutorials on the site to help you changes themes.
18 Melissa // May 17, 2008 at 9:59 am
I just installed 9b and the theme, “Blue Zinfandel.” What are the links to the various “mytypes.com” sites and “itex.com” in the footer about? Do I need them?
19 Ruth // May 20, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Hi Jeff,
Are you saying that in order to upload a theme we would like use, we have to backup the files before using another theme or the setting won’t work?
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Ruth
20 Jo // May 24, 2008 at 1:31 am
Hi Jeff et.al,
First of all, thanks to you and your team for making this available for everybody.
I just want to know if I can do the usual additions of plug ins and stuff.
I’ve read in one of the comments that changing the themes may screw things up.
How about adding plug ins and changing picture headers or simple stuff like than?
Anthony Montalbano says:
We’ve spent a lot of time and testing our blogs to find a series of plugins that amount to our optimizations. So naturally adding any plugins to the current configurations may or may not make a difference to the optimization. Since we do not support any changes beyond the basic install of our package any further changes, adding themes, plugins, and modifying picture headers would be done at your own risk.
21 Ria // May 24, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Hey, Jeff. Thanks for the software. I’m just getting started on WP and picking a theme. I downloaded your software but wondering if I can customize the visuals to suit my niche and functionality requirements… custom header image, 2 right-hand side bars, fat footer, etc.
Anthony Montalbano says:
Yes, you can customize the design (theme) of your blog using our package.
22 7 Tips for Beginners for Building Blog Traffic // Jun 2, 2008 at 4:52 am
Cheers Anthony - Jeff … you sure make any wannabee social net working life a lot easier … I just want to give you feed back to how very useful these few videos I’ve seen so far have helped me feel more comfortable with what I’ve achieved so far by being on your list of subscribers before I bumped into your first video … I had plodded on … on my own for the past six months dipping in and out of this social bookmark social network trying to get the understanding to what all the attention this kind of media press has been attracting online for the past few months but I could not get my head around it … until now simply by following your page instructions on undergroundtraininglab.com blog I now feel so comfortable I have found the right mentor to get me to the dizzy heights with out dozy hype … just as Stephen Pierce puts Fat Free no Fluff just meat and veg every day tutorials every one can follow to be as successful as any one who takes this action and completes your training loop … thanks again guys hope to be rubbing shoulders with you guys at the top
All my best to you and your actions taken
Phillip Skinner
23 Michael // Jun 10, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi Jeff,
I finally got around to reading your emails.(clients kept me occupied). This weekend I watch all 13 of your videos and took notes. Terrific job of presenting very good info. I am still digesting all the sites you referenced.
Today I was checking out the Yahoo Pipes script and it works fine. My question is how do you take the feed it generates and make it post automatically to word press blog. Your Digital Camera Review blog has each item in a separate post. That is what I want. But how??
Thanks again. You are the most practical and believable “guru” teacher of them all.
Michael K
Jeff Johnson says: Using rss feeds and data feeds to build auto posting blogs is something that I actually teach my private training clients in the underground training lab private training membership site.
that site is built using a professional version of the free seo blog software I give out here (the professinal version is free to my membership site clients)
And it uses output from my affiliate traffic machine pro software (atm pro is a just $1 for my membership site clients)
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