Category: Blogging
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Aug

Free Automatic Blog Content Aggregators

So far, I’ve tried the following free automatic blog content aggregators:

Blogoverdrive

RSS2Anywhere

WP-O-Matic
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Blogoverdrive showed a lot of promise initially. Hey, 2 feeds a day is not bad at all. It also allows for multiple accounts which is also cool. However as I started monitoring the incoming supposedly automated feeds, a lot of those I set up for some free blogger accounts weren’t loading. Of course I may have done something wrong but if it loaded initially, then why the failure now? Blogoverdrive may not be that robust after all.

RSS2Anywhere on the other hand was very easy to set-up and has very clear and easy to follow directions for setting up your auto feeds. Unfortunately it doesn’t profess much love for Blogger. Choosing WordPress over it which is a bummer. But the real downside with this one is it’s sitting on top of an adult site. Of course unless you write adult material, you may not want to touch this one with a 10 foot pole. Not worth the hassle I think.

Then I tried the famous WordPress plug-in WP-o-matic. A brilliant plug-in that requires brilliance as well if you want to make it work. If you’re a regular Joe like me, your head will be spinning at the first mention of a ‘cron job’. What in the world is a cron job? Still we’re in the information age and all things are just a google away. I did a little background research, followed the not-so-helpful instructions, and was able to set-up my campaigns. I had to go to Webcron.org(part of the instructions) though, a quite exasperating site that prefers French over English. You’ll learn about this if you decide to use this plug-in in your WP blog. Caveat–> self-hosted WP installations only. Sorry folks.

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3 Responses to "Free Automatic Blog Content Aggregators"

  1. Suchmaschinenoptimierung August 3, 2008 7:35 am

    So at the end it’s wp-o-matic.
    Great – will try it…thanks.

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  3. arquigrafico February 6, 2010 3:39 am

    Thanks for sharing this tips. I will try now Blogverdrive
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