BlogProfitz Launches - Auto Monitizing your Blogs

I was intrigued when I heard about the new BlogProfitz application, a tool that promises to combine affiliate marketing and blogging to create an automated site around specific topics and themes.

In addition, BlogProfitz leverages the power of on-line video(YouTube), RSS feeds and over 15,000 articles (direct from our own private archive and covering hundreds of topics) to ensure your web properties are bigger, more helpful and more powerful to your readers than any other websites in your niche.

I have found in the past that tools that promise to automate content, don't often live up to their hype, the best way to generate content for your site is to create it yourself, put your passion behind it, and that is what drives real long term value. 

As with most things in life, the amount of effort you put into things typically determines the amount of returns you generate.

That being said, I'm always interested in testing new applications to see what people are creating and if there might be ways to leverage tools to increase my business.  I have found interesting ways to utilize rss to blog tools for my blogs and those of others to auto-generate ideas and then create content around them.

So I decided to take BlogProfitz for a test drive.  (I apologize for the affiliate links, but heck, I am an affiliate, and you are reading an affiliate blog, so if you decide to take the software out for a test drive on your own, we would appreciate if you used our link, if not you can head over to blogprofitz.com directly).

First BlogProfitz only currently works with WordPress blogs, they are not too hard to setup, I learned how to do it and had a WP blog up and running in about 20 mins.  I grabbed an old domain we had through a domain expiration auction, shopping-today.com, and started playing with BlogProfitz.

I had some problems with their blog templates, but easily found another one on-line that I liked and it was easy to connect it to my blog, and give it some categories to start posting too. With some quick keyword research to find out what people were typing in to search engines along with the term "shop for", I choose Ugg Boots, Stiletto's, Strollers, and Panties.  

When setting up the product, video, and content feeds, I was a little disappointed that many of the CJ merchant's data feeds were missing.  I know Zappos and Shoes.com, for example, have good feeds, and they would have been a good fit for the shoe categories.  I was able to find some other merchants that had product, and in about 24 hours the content started rolling in.

Like most systems that pull from data feeds, you have the crap in crap our problem.  Many of these data feeds need to be scrubbed before being utilized, who would buy this Graco Stroller?  The content choices can be a little strange too, I'm not sure what this Motorcycle Weekend Triphas to do with ugg boots, the term ugg isn't even in the article.  The program seems to have a similar problem when it tries to match up youtube videos, for a category I setup on Versace, it pulled this Diss Video.

It is still too early to tell if the site will get any significant traffic, but even if it did get some traffic, I am not sure I would get too many repeat visitors.  Perhaps a broad shopping site wasn't the best route to go, but works for testing.

I do think that if you have a niche blog around a specific product or product category, that BlogProfitz could be an excellent tool for finding and bringing in some good content and product information, but I would set it to post in draft mode, and then do some work cleaning things up, adding your own comments and personality, and then you might have some real good content that your readers would love. 

BlogProfitz just launched today, and will be open for 1,000 members.  So if you want to give it a spin, don't wait around.  Their trial deal lets you monetize 3 bogs for $19 / month.

Let me know how it turns out!

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• ContentSolution - create thousands of unique articles for any niche or market,
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Comments

[Karl Foxley]

This is a good review. It's very refreshing to read a review that is not full of hype.

Regards,

Karl

[Adam Viener]

As an update, my www.shopping-today.com site had 250 visitors in July with over 200 of those coming from Google on more than 192 keywords.

That is up from 14 visitors in June on 15 keywords. So perhaps the system may draw some traffic, but I still contend that the user experience isn't good, and that a tool like this would better be used to deliver content in draft mode that you could then choose to use or not use based on your PASSION for the subject content.

Adam

[kimo]

Very useful article, thank you, and keep up the good work