Autoposting Blog and Landing Pages

I was lurking around one of the forums I visit and ran into a newbie that seemed to be in trouble. He created a autoblog using an autoposter called WpRobot and had over 2000 posts but wasn't making any cash and didn't sound like he was getting any traffic. (Wprobot is an excellent set of plugins for wordpress and I highly recommend them)

There's so many different ways to approach his problem....I just took the first thing that came to my head and gave him some ideas...hope they help the poor guy!!

Here's his question:

Blogs Vs Landing Pages?
Which system could potentially make the most money, Blogs or Landing Pages?

I only ask this because i have a blog thats automated with WPRobot but i think im doing something wrong as its not making anything and there are over 2000 posts, i have just read into Landing Pages to advertise (whatever) and with every Landing Page needs to be build by hand what would be worth it in the long run.

I know there are alot of wise people on here


Here's my post:

As was mentioned....just because you have 2000 posts doesn't mean you'll get traffic and/or sell things.

I think you need to backup a little and determine what the purpose of your blog or website is going to be. Ask yourself, "Why does your blog/website exist"

I hope you didn't get your 2000 pages in a short period of time....if so, your blog simply won't do well for anything....sorry :) but I'd start over.

You see, anyone can use some autoposting plugins and build a 2000 post blog in no time and Google knows it....so most autoblogs not done carefully are trash.

Learn the mechanics of building a blog, learn the differences between pages and posts.

You can easily use your blog and create a landing page with your blog, make it your index page (the first page that shows up when you type www.mysite.com and you could create some categories and SLOWLY post some relevant content to the blog over time.

Lets say you build a blog about Worms....fishing worms :) Your goal is to sell an ebook on how to raise worms.

You can set up categories like this:

night crawlers
red worms
fishing worms
big worms
small worms
raising worms

Set your autoposter to post to these categores....maybe 2 times a week to each category.....and let it post for a month.

By that time, you should get indexed. Do all the traffic tricks...GET LINKs to your site.

Now use the "Page" feature of your wordpress blog and create a salespage for your ebook. Inside wordpress you can make any Page appear as the index page....so you can make your new salespage appear as the index page. People interested in raising worms should start landing on your sales page.

OR

Do the same thing with the Page function but create a landing page that offers a free short report on raising worms. Your landing page would tell of the advantages of raising worms and all the money you can make raising worms. Your landing page would have an optin form so you can collect email and name, the autoresonder sends out the download link for the free worm report...... Now you have their name and email...they are on your list and you can create an email sequence telling them why they need to buy your best selling Worm Book!!! :)

Whether you do the salespage or landing page, all this time your autoblogging plugin, wprobot is adding content to your blog in a random manner....SLOWLY over time. Hopefully your content is relevant. Also, more importantly you are doing articles, or whatever your method of choice is for getting backlinks to your salespage, landing page and some deep linking.

There's many other methods and models of trying to monetize a blog like yours. If your doing adsense or CPA ....you need traffic and have to use the tricks to make people click on your ads.....pretty tough gig these days. But....there's plenty of BHW members making a go of this....keep reading and studying and trying.

Above all, don't worry if you spend a little time and money but your blog turns out to be a dud....it happens to everyone. Just move and start again. You'll succeed if you DON'T QUIT!!!!


Good luck to ya!