In order to use the product, you will need
to add a blog by selecting either Click Here to Begin
or Add New Blog button from the Welcome page.
Figure 1
As mentioned above the blog can either be a
site built with the hosted version of WordPress or Blogger. Blogger is free but
I noticed that they flagged my demo site as SPAM. Hence, I suggest using the
software with WordPress.
Figure 2
As soon as you enter the username and
password, the system attempts to connect to the server and grab the relevant
blogs.
Figure 3
I found that the software displays the
password as raw text which is of course not a good idea. I hope that the vendor
will take this issue into consideration during the release of next version.
As you can see above, the system features
the ability to place images in a separate FTP server and to set maximum number
of posts to be fetched. Moreover, you can also schedule the postings by setting
a time interval. I hope this feature will keep the server from becoming too
busy if you are making a lot of posts to your website.
As soon as you click Add
Blog button from Figure 2, the product prompts you to add a RSS Feed
URL.
Figure 4
The product automatically extracts sample
content from the feed when you click the Start Scan
button as shown below.
Figure 5
You have to select Yes
from the dialog in which content closely resembles either the first paragraph
or looks like real content. You should not select the content in which junk
characters and HTML tags are displayed. I would prefer to view the content in
Wizard layout so that I can go back and select the correctly displayed content.
The product then provides an option to translate
content. If you select the option No, your feed will
be added to the system after you select the relevant blog name. You also have
an option to insert the original link of the article being displayed.
Figure 6
The next process is to fetch articles from
the feed by right clicking on the feed name and selecting Update
Feed option. The articles will be displayed on the grid and clicking Post to Blog button after selecting the article titles will
enable you to post them to the relevant blog. The feed icon will be greyed out
after the content has been posted to the blog.
Figure 7
I noticed that even though the software
does the specified job it doesn’t post complete articles to the blog from the
feed. However, few articles are fetched completely and it entirely depends upon
the coding implemented on the website. If you are unable to extract full
content then I would suggest you to make use of the second option (between a
known location) for extraction.
The product has the built-in ability to
post articles from text files. If you are actively following the web, you can
see that the content is distributed through PLR media. This means that you can
freely post articles which are supplied in Text Files. Auto Blogging Software
captures the content from these files and posts them to the respective blogs. In
order to start the process, you should right click the blog name and select
Import PLR Articles. The following dialog will be displayed
You should choose the location where the
text files are located by clicking the icon and a sample article will be
displayed in a message box. You will have the option to translate the content
and the resulting articles from the specified folder will be added to software.
I found that the articles are added fast since they are located in the same
system. You can then publish the articles to your blog by selecting Post to
Blog button.
The demo version inserts a link to the
product at the end of each article but it will be removed once you activate the
software with a product key by purchasing the product. The vendor provides excellent
support through e-mail and also maintains a dedicated forum which can be
accessed at http://www.webmagnates.org/community.html.
The vendor is working hard to integrate
various new features into the product which includes a facility to import text
files (PLR Articles) located in your computer and posting them to the
respective blogs. I noticed that many vendors have developed highly priced product
which perform the same task. I feel that Auto Blogging Software ability to make
use of both RSS Feeds and Text Files will surely make the product highly
successful and useful for many webmasters who want to create revenue generating
websites.
I feel that there will be no copyright
issues since full credit is given in the form of the original link at the end
of each post for the articles published through RSS Feeds. This rule is not
applicable to the articles loaded from the text files since you have the right
to publish the content. However, you should read the license to make sure that
only legal content is posted to your blog.
The vendor is working hard to implement
several new features into the product and is truly a great tool for bloggers who
want to extract content from reputed sites. You will also get 10,000 free licensed
articles through a separate e-mail which you will receive after purchase
of the software.