All throughout December and the first part of January, I was busy increasing the size of my blog network and during that time I started to use some tools – some new, some that have been around a bit, but all very useful. I have compiled a short list of 7 cool tools and how you can use them to help with your online money making efforts.
…and yes, these are my affiliate links. As it seems everyone is offering something if you sign up through their affiliate links, I will do the same - use the contact form to let me know you signed up and I will give you some great bonuses – what you get will depend on what you need. While I don’t have everything you might ask for – I pretty much guarantee that you will get a great value.
Now to the good stuff – again, I only promote products I use and like, so no B.S. reviews here.
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Affomatic Free eBay Store Plugin
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PLR to Wordpress
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FirePow
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DataFeedr
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Instant Article Wizard Pro
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Niche Blogging Network
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One Click Sales Sites
The Affomatic Free eBay Wordpress Plugin is a cool tool made by Mike from Digital Product Reporter (formerly 45n5.com) – he also makes the second product on this list. But this one is FREE!!! This plugin for Wordpress allows you to add an eBay store in any of your posts. While this is not a totally new concept, in my opinion, this is the best FREE eBay plugin out there. It does allow some customization, but if you need a more robust solution, you can check out phpBayPro – and check out the type of niche stores people make with these types of plugins in their Customer Stores sections.
PLR to Wordpress is another Affomatic plugin for Wordpress (not free, but very well priced – $39) that solves a huuuuge problem for those of us who do niche blogging with PLR articles and that is how do you get all those PLR article sitting on your computer up to your blog? PLR to Wordpress solves this by allowing you to FTP your into your plugin and then setting the publish intervals for those articles. Not quite clear? Say you got 50 PLR articles that want to publish….first, you upload the PLR to Wordpress plugin to your blog. Next you upload the 50 PLR articles to the plugin (don’t worry – instructions are included – super simple). Once that is done, you log into your blog and go to settings. There you click on the PLR to Wordpress plugin and you can determine when you want the article to start posting, how many hours in between each post, and to what category you would like those article to be posted to. You hit “Import Articles” and all 50 get imported instantly(works best with .txt files and no formating – this is the only slight negative IMHO). Then, your article pop up on your blog at your predetermined time. So for 50 articles, if you chose 72 hours (3 days) between posting, you would have articles posting every three days automatically for 5 months! Highly recommend this tool as it has made my life so much easier.
This tool is really aimed at people who are or want to be niche bloggers and want to form a large number of blogs fairly easily. Firepow is not cheap, but it is very powerful. If you decide you want to use this tool, or try it, don’t pay retail, you save $50 per month through this link to Firepow. You have most likely heard about this tool and may have been scared off by the steep monthly cost. Well, let me tell you that you get a lot for your money. Firepow has a powerful dashboard that helps you to semi-automate your blogging efforts. You can put up multiple blogs, and have access to a wide array plugins available only through Firepow – some really cool ones too, like automatically finding pictures or videos for your post right from the edit window of your post…plus a lot more. You can even post articles to be posted on other blogs – instant backlinks for you! Conversely, you can get some free unique articles posted to your blog if you want them from other FirePow members – this is a very powerful feature that can really help boost your traffic. There is also a great forum to help you out with all your questions. So is FirePow perfect? No, but it’s pretty good. The biggest drawback for many appears to be the price, but even if you just invested in it for a few months, you could really explode your blog network (if this is what you are interested in doing). Another drawback is that at this point in time, you cannot utilize FirePow for your existing blogs – but this may be changed in the future. Other than that, this is a system in which you get a lot of bang for your buck.
If you want a really cool internet store on your blog and you really don’t want to mess around StoreStacker or BANS, then DataFeedr is for you! It is certainly the best tool that I have come across for integrating storefronts into WordPress - looks really professional and is quite easy to use. I am not going to do this justice by writing about it, so just go watch the video about DataFeedr - I love it and am using it on several blogs right now. It take the hassle out of putting up a store and allows you to offer up products from Commission Junction, ShareASale, LinkShare, Pepper Jam Network, Clickbank and many others. Again, very professioanl looking and flexible with great customization options.
Instant Article Wizard Pro is a great tool to really saves me time by helping me to create unique blog content in minutes. There are a lot of tools out there that help you do this, but most cost way more than this one – $7 for the first month and $27 after that if you like it. It is very easy to use and you can create new articles in minutes that are unique! You can add them to your blog or make a bunch of article to submit to article directories for backlinks and traffic! If you have more than a couple blogs, this is really a must have. Again, my write up won’t do the product justice – they have a video and samples of the content that this software will produce. Any drawbacks? Yes. This program is for PC only – not exactly my favorite…but other than that…pretty darn good.
Niche Blogging Network by Victor Franqui of Blogger Unleashed has released this product that gives you tools, content, and training for niche blogging. You get 250 niche articles every month that are of fantastic quality – trust me as I have tried many of them – these are good. The Niche Blogging Network takes a lot of the headaches out of getting content for your niche – or from even finding one. Very reasonable – $27 per month. You may also want to check out Vic’s Private Label Chest – the PLR content is different and includes ebooks, website templates, articles and software.
So you want a sales letter type site to sell your own unique products or a landing page to promote other affiliate products…but you don’t want to learn how to put up a website. However, you do know how to use Wordpress already – so what do you do? A blog can’t look like a landing page – or can it? You have to see One Click Sales Sites – totally awesome and easy to use. The quality is just fantastic. Just look at the landing page – that is Wordpress!!! This is such a cool tool – a little pricey, but way cheaper than paying to have landing pages made.
Well I hope you found something that is useful for you and your niche blogging. I ran across a lot of other things that were pretty good, but these 7 topped the list for me.
A word of caution for those of you that are new to niche marketing – it ain’t for everyone – and since I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, just watch this video by Vic and decide whether or not niche blogging is for you.
…and now, a musical interlude:
…get what you will out of this…but I think as people involved in internet marketing, we all need to step back from time to time and take a look at how much of our life we dedicate to internet marketing. Just make sure that there are no regrets when it comes to IM interfering with your life and relationships. Internet marketing should improve your life – make sure you keep balance – make sure you don’t wind up with regrets.
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Nice article very helpful, I have been thinking of getting in to the niche market.
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