RSS to Blog Mass Installer

Pro Version, $297 from Michelle Timothy and Brian Adams

(Lite version, for $197 does not include Wordpress builder and some other features)

If you are building blogs for the purpose of finding niches and making AdSense income, this is the tool you will want to use! RSS to Blog Mass Installer builds Blogger blogs and WordPress blogs hosted on your hosting accounts. All you have to input is the account ftp, login, and RSS to Blog posting details, plus a list of keywords, and the tool does the rest of the work for you. (You do still have to enter Captcha’s when building Blogger blogs.)

Over the last few years, many have discovered the power of using Blogger blogs to build niche blogs that attract visitors that ultimately leave via advertising clicks. The fact that Blogger is spidered constantly, not just by owner Google but by other search engine spiders, makes indexing and ranking of Blogger blogs fast and efficient. Find the right niche, and it is not unusual for these blogs to attract visitors in the first few weeks. I have found that I am able to average a couple dollars per day in income per domain consisting of several dozen blogs. (I cannot, of course, guarantee this kind income to anybody!) Multiply this by a hundred, or a thousand, and see what potential these blogs have!

To use RSS to Blog Mass Installer, you first install it on your web server. The program runs php scripts from your server to do the blog building. First we’ll discuss using RSS to Blog Mass Installer for building Blogger blogs, then we’ll move on to Wordpress. The installation of R2BMI is typical of a web-based application. You ftp the files to your server, change permissions of certain files, and create a MySQL database for the program to use.

Once the program is installed, set up accounts and domains where you would like your blogs. Note that one installation of RSS to Blog Mass Installer will support all of your blog building, even on different hosting accounts. R2BMI does not have to be installed on the same domain or host as your blogs.

Since your blogs will be posted to by RSS to Blog, you will need it installed to feed posts to your blogs. Personally, I put an install of R2B on each domain that I install blogs. I find this makes it easier to track all my setups and crons.

The Blogger building option allows for two levels of detail, the “quick project” or the “advanced project,” for a more detailed configuration. The main R2BMI screen lists all of your blog projects, along with the main selections used for managing them. Once you select your project, different menu options become available to you based on whether it is a quick project, advanced project, or WordPress project.

The user is given the option of choosing how many blogs to set up per Blogger account. I recommend one blog per account, in case their splog filters start searching for multiple blogs per account. It’s hard to say how Blogger will act in the future, and I prefer to be as cautious as possible. Other than this, the only other entries required for blog setup are Blogger username, password, domain, and keywords. Keywords can be entered either as text pasted into a box, or they can be imported from a file on your pc. AdSense blocks are built into the included templates, so all you have to enter for that is publisher code and channel.

There is a posting screen where you can enter a first post. I suggest having the program post a paragraph of text, using the %KEYWORD% token to start your blog. In addition to %KEYWORD%, there are two other tokens available, %KEYWORDDASH% and %DOMAIN%. Depending on your RSS to Blog setup, there may be no data in your first post to the blog, so using the post feature will ensure the blog gets created. Blogger blogs are not “built” on your server until the first post is made. This gives you the additional benefit of having your Adsense start up with the proper keyword. I usually write a generic paragraph, using my keyword every couple sentences.

Next you set the configuration for RSS to Blog, to make posts the way you want. Owning RSS to Blog is a requirement to using this feature, it is not supplied with RSS to Blog Mass Installer! All the normal RSS to Blog options are available to you here, including posting from search, rss feeds, news feeds, text and links. You are allowed the same post and ping scheduling and options that RSS to Blog offers.

RSS to Blog Mass Installer comes with 33 standard Blogger templates installed, plus others of similar design, that have Adsense blocks built in. Use any or all of these, or put your own templates in. Personally I like these clean, simple, widely recognized templates. However, if you are using these blogs with any linking strategy, Adsense trackers, link rotators, etc. you can change them, or you can modify the included templates as much as you want. The Blogger templates include css right in the template, there is nothing external linked to them, all modifications are made right in the one template file.

At this point, the quick setup process is complete, and you can “execute” the blog creation. During execution, you will be asked to enter a Captcha for each blog. When the blog is created, your initial post is entered. Also, this blog is added to your RSS to Blog configuration. It takes about a half minute per blog to complete the setup. I haven’t tried this yet, but conceivably you could have more than one install of RSS to Blog Mass Installer cranking at the same time, and flip between them to avoid some of the Captcha waiting time. I haven’t checked the licensing yet to see if this is allowed. :)

I have found that the quick install makes blogs that work perfectly well for creating Adsense blogs. However, there is an advanced project capability that is useful for some purposes. The “advanced” section basically mirrors the Blogger “settings” area, and allows for tweaking of many of the Blogger settings. For a detailed explanation of what they do, Blogger’s help area is probably the best place to look.

The advanced feature adds several Blogger configuration options, such as “add to Blogger listing”,”show quick editing”,”show e-mail post links”, and show compose mode. There are several formatting options. One worthy of note is the “show link field” option. If you are bringing in articles or content where you want links to post, this option will allow that. Use this to build links to your other sites. The other formatting options are primarily for appearance tweaking.

One of the advanced sections related to comment options. You can turn commenting on or off, and show or hide backlinks. These are links that others put to your sites. Some blog-builders post comments to their blogs, and if you do, this section is where you configure them. You can also use the archive section of the advanced features to change from the default monthly archiving if you chose. 

An area of the advanced setup that some will use is the “article footer” setup of the “site feed” section. If you have advertising or links that you want to be attached to a post, this is one place to put them. They will then be included on the xml site feeds for your blog.

Most that build these blogs for niche Adsense purpose will find that the basic setup works just fine, and will not find the need for the advanced setup.

Wordpress Builder

There has been much talk on many mass-builder forums lately about Wordpress blog builders. There are many on the market, and while they all automate parts of the process, so far none has jumped to the front as the clear leader in the field. Possibly as of this writing, the Viral Instigator WP builder is the most automated and fastest WP builder on the market. RSS to Blog Mass Installer includes a Wordpress builder that I believe is about equal to the Viral Instigator product.

The WP builder is almost exactly like using the Blogger “quick project” function. You enter your account, posting, and ftp information.

Wordpress blogs use a MySQL database to store their configuration and posting information. RSS to Blog Mass Installer will build these databases for you, if you choose. To have R2BMI build these, you must chose to have R2BMI set up the WP accounts for you. (One account for all blogs, one account for each blog, or one account per nn number of blogs.) Personally I use consistent user names and a series of passwords on all my WP blogs. Doing so means that I must set up my own databases for these WP installs, which isn’t a big deal, but takes away a little of the automation.

After performing the brief setup, click “execute” and the R2BMI starts building the blogs. There is no Captcha required of course, so they build without human intervention. There is a delay built in, I assume to avoid the meltdown of less powerful servers. It is possible to avoid the countdown by hitting the “create” button, and it will build faster. I find it just as easy to let one window crank on this in the background as I’m working on other projects.

One important thing to note here is that there are no Adsense blocks on the included Wordpress templates. There are seven of the more common WP themes included with this. Any customization you do for these must be done before the build process. I suggest selecting your favorite themes, and making your customizations to them on your R2BMI server, or locally on your PC before you upload R2BMI. Also, any plugins you want to use must be added to plugin directory of your R2MBI server, so they are included in the install. All of the files included in your WP directory of you R2BMI server will be copied to your blog server, so this process can take a few minutes per blog.

R2BMI provides a very strong method of automating WP installs, and one which I will probably use even for WP blogs that I’m not using for niche Adsense purposes. With some very simple customization, you can use this to build interlinked blog farms.

There is one strength the Viral Instigator Wordpress builder includes that this one doesn’t. In the VI builder, you can build WP blogs on multiple domains. For example, if you want 100 blogs built across 10 domains, you can enter the 10 domains and 100 keywords, and VI will build them for you, spreading the blogs among the domains. So far, the RSS to Blog Mass Index builder will not do that. (Future release?) Right now, the VI builder remains the strongest WP builder I’m aware of, for this reason.

The new RSS to Blog Mass Installer also includes the ability to use proxies in your building. This would be useful for anyone running multiple installs of this creating hundreds of blogs per day. I don’t know what a reasonable build limit would be before using proxies would become a necessity.

One thing I would like to see added to a future release of R2BMI would be the ability to have a default setup, and to copy projects. This would eliminate the need to do things like enter your Adsense code for each project you do.

Another addition for a future release would be the ability to build Blogger-like blogs not using the Blogger account. One can never predict the behavior of Blogger, and it would be nice to have the option of avoiding them. Wordpress is a good option, but it is a heavier user of resources.

A couple notes of caution. As you start setting up your blogs, check your RSS to Blog configuration, to make sure the blogs are being added to it. I missed something on my configuration of R2B and created many blogs before I realized it. I had to go back and start over. The program does not automatically sense whether the R2B setup is there.

Overall, I think the new RSS to Blog Mass Installer is a very strong addition to my blog-building arsenal. It is now my tool of choice for building niche Blogger blogs. And, it’s right up there in the creation of Wordpress niche blogs. It’s number one for those of us that don’t like paying monthly subscriptions! :(

As always, feel free to ask questions, offer suggestions, or whatever to me via e-mail.

Go blogs go!

David