Flipper #2 in progress
Rather than do 1 flipper per month, I decided to do one per week. The reason for this is two-fold;
- From March onwards, I can sell flippers on a weekly basis.
- Should they fail to sell, I have a whole load of new sites with which to do something.
My checklist;
- Domain Name found and registered - check
- Name Servers set-up and Whois made private - check
- Website Hosting set up - check
- Wordpress installed and configured - to do
- Nice wordpress theme found - to do
- At least 100 articles ready for posting - check
On my previous flipper, I manually posted all 90 or so posts, ready for them to autoamtically come on-line on a day by day basis. To enable this I had to install a couple of plugins, namely, pingfix and wp-cron.
Will then reminded me about Rss2Blog, which is perfect for the job of posting articles on a daily schedule. Though I do own Rss2blog, I don't have it installed on this computer as I found no good use for it after my initial testing period a year ago. So I opened a support ticket asking where I can download the latest version from - 4 days later I am still awaiting a reply! Support Sucks at Rss2Blog.
So, that idea is out of the window. What I intend to do is post to each of the blgos once per day - there is a good way to do this, I'll try to explain…
Each time I set up a new blog, I will go through the above checklist. I will then open up my folder of "subject" articles and the "write" page within the WP admin area. These will then be placed into a bookmark folder.
Firefox has a feature where you can click the middle button (or scrollwheel) on your mouse - what will happen is that each bookmark within the folder will open into it's own page. Thus, I can easily open folders of articles and write pages and do a simple copy/paste each day.
It's a little more work, but I don't mind that. A minute or so per day, per blog, is not so bad.

Comment by 45n5 — December 6, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
How are you picking the niches?
Are you varying them or keeping them all similar?
Generic niches or consumer related?
etc…
Comment by Peter — December 6, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
Gary,
I have just had a plugin developed to do just this (post articles to WP blogs).
If you want to beta test it, drop me a line. I will be offering it as a KA MOSO when it has been tested.
Comment by Jim — December 6, 2006 @ 7:11 pm
Price.
Say setting up the website costs five quid ($10).
How long til you plan to sell this site, and for roughly how much?
Comment by burt — December 6, 2006 @ 11:40 pm
45n5; I have to be at least half interested in the Blog Contents. And then I have to have enough articles to cover the 90 days need. Pretty generic.
Peter; I would certianly be interested in testing this for you. I'll chuck you an email, thank you.
Jim; I would expect at least 20*ROI.
Comment by One Dollar A Day — December 7, 2006 @ 12:05 am
RSStoBlog support is truely awful, but it sounds the ideal product for what you're doing!
Comment by Oli Allen — December 7, 2006 @ 12:58 am
If you don't mind sharing, how are you planning to market the blogs for sale after the 3 months?
Comment by burt — December 7, 2006 @ 1:00 pm
ODAD, they've at last got back to me asking for my paypal email address. Even though I had included the email address and the transaction ID in the original ticket. Bunch of jokers.
Oli; Sitepoint, Keyword Avalanche, Warrior Forum. All full of people ready to buy such products. Maybe even DDN…