Update 4/12/07:

Anybody know if these guys are out of business? There is now a spam site at his url. He may have got caught in the Registerfly fiasco, and somebody else stole the domain.  Needless to say, I can no longer recommend this product! 

David 

 

 

Fast Blogger Generator

Fast Blogger Generator is a very powerful program for the reasonable cost of $127. It is actually three separate programs, a Blogger blog creator, a blog and ping solution tool, and a content poster. They work well together, but can also be used separately. FBG can be used either as a blog & ping automator or as a niche blog builder complete with advertising. It creates the blogs hosted on Blogspot, not on your own servers. The program runs locally on your own PC.

Fast Blog Generator:

The first part of the program is the Blogger blog creator. There are several options allowed in the creation of the blogs. They are:
- remove from Blogger listing?
- Notify weblogs.com?
- Archive daily?
- One post on main page? This is important if you only want a certain number of links to appear on your B & P posts.
- Enable comment posting? See later in the review, where I discuss this.
- Add random numbers to user names? This is important, since if you are using this tool to make niche blogs, you will want to have your username be the keyword. If you do, it will put the keyword in the blog name, and will also allow use of the $keyword token. It seems to work a little odd though. If your “name” is bicycle, it will create a username of bicyclebicycle83729, and build a blog named bicyclebicycle83729.blogspot.com. Im not sure why the name duplicates. If you select “no” here, and use a name that is already taken, FBG won’t create the blog.
- Proxy support? There is an option to use a proxy during the blog setup process.
- Template option. The program comes with 21 templates. These can be modified to put in your Adsense, hard-coded links, or any other code you want. Or for B & P just leave them!

Blog and Ping Solution tool:

This tool makes it very easy to set up a B & P program. Enter your zillion links into a text file, and the tool will grab them at random to post. You use a list of blogs created with the Fast Blog Generator to tell it which blogs to post to. This tool is simple and quick to use. You can add or remove links at any time, and add or remove blogs any time. The tool will automatically remove blogs from your list if they are removed by BLogspot, so it maintains the list for you. You can post rss feeds, articles laced with links, or just links.

Comment Poster:

Here is the new power of the latest version of this tool. You can use this tool to post comments using the two available tokens, $name and $keyword. A text file is used to store the comments, or call them articles or snippets if you want. It will pull these at random. Are you seeing the power in this? Think about SEO Blog Builder, and call this the poor mans version! This tool can turn your blog into a completely white-hat blog. Junky, but at least passable to human inspection. Spend a couple hours writing 100 snippets, and you will have enough to avoid repeating them too often.

Comparison to RSStoBlog:

Since updating Fast BLog Generator to v 3.1, these program contain very similar features. For the most part, they contain the same posting ability. Here are some differences:

- RSStoBlog can post to any blog, hosted anywhere. Fast Blog Generator is limited to Blogger blogs hosted by Blogspot.

- R2b costs $197, reduced from $347, FBG costs $127.

- Fast BLog Generator sets up the posting much quicker. All you need to do is add blogs to the list.

- R2B is much more powerful when creating keyword-focused blogs. You cannot specify various keywords with FBG, you only have the one that you specified while naming. You can build entire niche sites with RSStoBLog by entering keyword lists.

- Pinging is quite different. You can only ping weblogs with FBG, since that’s where Blogspot sends its pings. You can specify ping sites with R2B.

- RSStoBlog is run on web servers, Fast BLog Generator is run locally. Therefore, R2B is scheduled via cron, and FBG by starting the program and specifying how often to run.
How to Use:

I see this as being two different tool-sets. First, it’s a blog and ping tool. In this, it works great. It’s very fast to set up, flexible, can be added to as you build sites, and I would rate it topnotch for this purpose. However, I seemed to freeze up the program when I tried to load a HUGE links file, of over 100,000 links. I don’t know what the size limit is, but will continue to experiment. It’s commonly believed that blogs hosted by Blogspot get more attention from search engines than they would if hosted other places, so this seems like the way to go. This program has no problem posting thousands of sites to thousands of blogs. Each blog takes about 10 seconds to set up and enter the Captcha.

The other use of this program is to create Adsense (or other affiliate) sites. I have not yet used it for this, since I’m using other tools for posting to those types of blogs. So I can’t report income results, although I can say it works weel, as advertised. I don’t know how long an affiliate site would last hosted by Blogspot. I believe that if you create your content properly, which is easy to do, and you don’t post more than once per day or so,you should be OK. Since this use is very different from B & P, I would not mix the two uses.

I set up 50 of these blogs as a blog and ping test. I’m posting four times a day, dozens of random links per post. So far, after three weeks, only four of these have been cancelled by Blogspot, and many of these links are indexed.

As always, I’m anxious to hear your comments!

Happy blogging!

David