I was given a copy of Wp Zon Builder to review and found myself being very impressed by this wordpress plugin. Thought I would post a copy of my review of Wp Zon Builder…..you can get a copy at WpZonBuilder.

IMHO, if you want to autoblog or autopost using Amazon products, WPZonBuilder will easily do it, suitable for newbie and advanced autobogger alike!

If you want to autoblog or autopost with Amazon products AND have the ability to create a unique store with unique templates with many customizing options….then grab a copy WPZonBuilder.

Follow me as I ramble on in an effort to describe my experience with this wordpress plugin.

We live in exciting times.

Creating an autoblog or autoposting site once was a task that wasn’t for the weak in heart……today there are many solutions. With each new solution comes a new twist, feature and possibilities.

We benefit by the abundance of autoblogging plugins and scripts by the fact that only the best and the best supported plugins will survive. I mention all this because, Louis, the creator of WPZonBuilder has gone out of his way to create a unique wordpress plugin for anyone wanting to get into autoblogging Amazon products. The best part is his attitude and desire the make this the best possible plugin, truly looking for suggestions to make it better and always looking to help the user that’s lost! Kudos for having that type of mindset.

I was lucky enough to get one of the review copies and agreed to share some of my thoughts here:

Installation couldn’t have been simpler. Standard wordpress plugin simplicity, I prefer to upload via ftp and activate in the plugins directory.

Adding Amazon id’s and affiliate code was a simple matter.

Next I’m ready to start creating blog posts and I do this by starting to add products to the queue. First I need to pick a keyword or keyword phrase.

I plugged in my keyword phrase (chicago bear jersey) and pulled up over 1000 results. Next you have the ability to check out each product and decide whether you want to add to the queue. As you can guess, clicking on 1000 links got old real quick….I decided to quit at 300 or so, well I got to about 280 or so and my browser froze up….now, it was my fault I had about 90 tabs open ….but I had spent around 45 minutes picking my products an now they were lost. I was pissed, it was late so I went to bed.

Next morning I thought I’d give it a go again and start over, so far I wasn’t too impressed…..much to my surprise, all my items were still in the queue!!!! So….what I thought was a pain in the butt way of picking products actually wasn’t so bad The more I think about it, this option of selecting products will really help you drill down and keep relevant products on your pages….very nice feature.

I understand the next version will have the ability to add all in one click…which I also would like since it would be a quick and dirty way to create a huge site if so desired and bypass clicking individual products to “add to queue”

Posting Schedule

Posting schedule is always important with any autoposter and this plugin has a unique way method of scheduling posts:

1. A simple option to dump all the posts now with the date of your choice.

2. A randomizing feature. Will allow you to take all your posts and drip them in randomly over a period of time. At the same time, you can take the group of posts and back date a percentage and schedule the rest of the posts. For instance. I had 300 posts, and choose the “Random Dates” feature, setting it to “-2 months” and “June 30, 2010″ …… that’s 300 posts over a 6 month period….so WPZon took about 1/3 of the posts and back dated them (random dates) and they were posted …..the other posts were randomly dated and scheduled over the next 4 months and it looks like they will post anywhere from 1 to 3 per day…..pretty cool feature !

I can stick all the posts in an existing “category” or WPZon will create a category or categories based on the keywords in the title. I need to experiment a little with this feature, but it has some interesting potential.

General Settings

This tab allows you to configure the way your posts will look. There are key features that will allow you to develop your own templates which can help to eliminate footprints. Don’t get scared if you’re a newbie because you can basically go with the default settings and you’ll have a great looking site. However, for the more advanced users you have everything you need to customize your own templates.

I’ll go over some of these settings….although it might confuse you, trust me, if you’ve been doing this a while, the settings are very intuitive.

First you choose a Template….you can use the default or a customized template.

Next you can determine the number of characters in the “Post Excerpt”. Louis if you read this, it would be awesome to be able to define the number of characters as a range….for instance 150-300…..anyway, as it is you simply plug in a number.

Link Text…..this is the typical “Read More” link text you usually see at the end of a post. You have full control over how you want the link text linked to the permalink of your product.

Where to Show Excerpts….tell the plugin where you want the “Excerpts to appear” such as the:

• homepage
• front page
• search results
• and so on…..

Product Descriptions:

This is pretty cool…you can tell the pluin to use the Amazone Editorial Review for the product description…(if available) talk about getting rid of footprints

Of course you can add customer reviews as post comments and you can limit the reviews to any number….you decide how many to include with each post.

Again….this is an awesome feature. You can determine the the order of the reviews by quite a few factors such as:

• overall rating (highest first)
• number of helpful votes
• submission date
• and more…….

You can “tag the products” with the original Amazon Tags or auto create tags from the post title.

Many more options under the “General Tab” all to help track, control and configure your new site….and one heck of a thorough way to create a unique site….definitely takes care of footprints.

Language Settings

Amazon has special wording when products aren’t available, price isn’t available, no list price, lowest price not available. Well…..change the standard phrasing and include your own. For instance:

Amazon —-> Lowest Price Is Not Available
You——–> Price is Ridiculous…Too Low to Display!

Just another way to get rid of foot prints and in this case, a way to encourage or create the desire for your visitor to click on a link.

Integration Settings

For me, this offers some of the most powerful methods of creating unique text or content for each post. I haven’t tried this yet, but I’ve got a couple of very unique ways to use this feature and can’t wait to give it a whirl.

Imagine your standard post.

Now imagine your stardard post with a snippet of text above the post. Or maybe an ebay auction above the post!

Add to the above with the ability to add image, content, snippet or auction to the bottom of the post.

In short, this feature allows you to use shortcodes to add content to the top and/or bottom of each post. If you use this feature, there simply isn’t anyone who is going to have a post similar to yours….so whether you believe in the duplicate content penalty or not…..You won’t have ANY duplicate content on your blog!

Imagine if you could rotate a snippet of text above each post that was relevant to the post. Write 3 sentences, use a spinner and spin a couple of hundred unique versions of the text and rotate them as intro’s. Or how about an rss feed, or image…if you use your imagination on this one, the world is your oyster

Click Reporting

This is a nice feature but I honestly haven’t had time to check it out. 24 hours after I put up my project I had 5 or 6 pages of click tracking info all from the same IP. I’m sure that many people didn’t click on the links so I’m assuming it was spiders or maybe an automatic click when the post was loaded. This feature would be nice if there was a date, info on the click…was it IE, FF or search engine. Otherwise it may not be very useful to you….interesting, yes,….useful, I doubt it.

Documentation

There’s a nice page of documentation to whet your appetite, however, I really think that in order to take advantage of the full power of this plugin it would be a big advantage to have a more detailed documentation. Perhaps a set of video screen capture videos along with a pdf explaining more thoroughly how to take advantage of all the advanced features.

For instance this is what you get for the explanation of Template Tags:

A little help by the author would be appreciated!

Final Thoughts

This plugin offers something for just about everybody. If you are a complete noob but you know how to set up a wordpress site and you know what a plugin is….and you’ve heard that autoposting or autoblogging is the newest craze….well, you can get started using all the basic settings of WPZonBuilder. You’ll have your first posts up within 30 minutes if not sooner.

To you guys who know your way around a blog, plugins and some coding….WPZonBuilder is an Autobloggers dream if you want to autopost Amazon products. At first glance it might seem like another wprobot or similar plugin….but, it’s much more. The more I study and use the plugin, the deeper you fall into the plugin’s magic. Duplicate content and footprints are some of our biggest concerns if you’re building autoblogs. I honestly think you have more options to create content unlike anything else on the internet with this baby….and I’ve used quite a few of them. I would say all, but it seems like every day a new autoposting plugin enters the scene. With that said, I really feel confident that Louis has the personality and ability to make this one of the top autoposters on the market…..can’t wait to see what he comes up with in the coming weeks and months!

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For all you Blogger Fans…..Have you seen the new template designer in blogger……big step forward and we can finally rid the net of those standard ugly templates!

The Blogger TEmplate Designer….

Here’s what some people are saying about the Blogger Template Designer

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The Blogger Template Designer allows you to create effectively infinite
number of designs templates instead of being restricted to a limited
number of rigid designs by making it easy to customize your blogs
design, layout, background and much more.
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That’s much better than working with html code. Thanks
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It’s good, just tested it.
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I’m really glad that it helps you.

I’m using it right now and I’m in awe about the possibilities and the neglectful time factor involved in creating really great looking blogs!
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Very cool…..I’ll have to give it a try. I really can’t stand those standard templates that come with blogger ….even if I’m using blogger for spider food.

I’ve been using free blogger templates that are custom….think I found some here or a link that led me there, they look so much better and its a simple matter of copy and paste to change out the code.

This new system looks like it will be user friendly for the noob …really hate that word but so many people using blogger are newbies…. they can now take a big giant step into website development

Anyway….kudo’s to blogger for taking a big step!

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I was cruising through forum and on this particular post they were looking for wp robot reviews. I found it really interesting to see how others were succeeding with wp robot. So, I though I would steal some of the wp robot reviews and post them here for others to see. Wp Robot really works….. if you want to get into autoblogging….just get it!

Wp Robot is quickly becoming the wordpress plugin of choice when it comes to adding content to your blog automatically. Autoblogging is becoming more and more popular and more and more complicated. One thing you don’t want, is having your autoposter post in such a way that big G can recognize your blog as an autoblog…… wp robot will solve this problem!

Here’s the original posters question:

Well, for me. I have made about 9 sales from amazon last month = 9$ lol This month from amazon 2500 clicks 0 sales. :/ but from Clickbank I made one sale last month worth 52$. But hey that’s and extra 61$ doing absolutely nothing just setting up Wp-Robot and letting it run. that’s on top of the money I make from my CPA sites. So overall it’s a good program. Just wish the CB ads were a bit longer.

I have been using WP Robot for a few days for posting amazon products and it works great. I have the other options checked as well (articles, clickbank, youtube) but they don’t seem to work. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

I use Wp-robot for all my autoblogs, IMO it’s the best plugins for automated content, plus the guy constantly adds new features and updates them for free.

have been using wprobot for sometime now.. made total of 103 sales in 2 months.. made $98 and 1 sale from clickbank
so i guess its the best software available on the net for autoblogging
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I’ve set up 40+ autoblogs with wp robot as the main autoblog plugin. WP robot rocks and I’m now concentrating on traffic.

Each autoblog seems to start making money in the 3rd month. Now several are clicking along nicely.

Keep with the updates
Don’t post too close together once set up (I post about 1 year’s content when I set it ups)
Use an A**load of keywords.
Post every 6 hours
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what do u mean by how?
its pretty easy with wprobot.. just get it working.. and set up some blogs.. by some i meant alot of them
and then just start driving traffic.. actually that can happen on auto too.. so just forget about them.. and u’ll start seeing results in a month or two
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Well I have set up 4 autoblogs with WPMU + WP ROBOT + Twitter poster plugin + I used also statblaster 7.0

WP ROBOT post each hour

I bought and set up a new dotcom domain and a new hosting with a dedicate IP on 30-Jan-10

Dashboard blog 1 : 52232 posts and 50452 comments
Dashboard blog 2 : 72067 posts and 124447 comments
Dashboard blog 3 : 45293 posts and 64289 comments
Dashboard blog 4 : 42005 posts and 57054 comments

Total result after 22 days for my 4 autoblog :

Amazon Ordered items: 20
Total items shipped 16
Clicks 164514
TOTAL EARNINGS: $48.21

Ebay:
Total click 55944
Commission: $ 7,75

Clickbank:
Total Hop 19,041
Number of sale: 0
Commission: 0

Voila !
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I used it the first time 3 months ago and i have made more than 4k with it (in 3 months), it’s the best autobloging plugin EVER
This is how i have made profits with it:
-Searched for some good keywords with high traffic and little competition .
-Bought 10 domains (I have used the keywords i have find for better SEO)
-little work on SEO and 6 of my websites are in the first page of google and yahoo (this wasn’t hard task because i carefully chose the niches .
-the best blog is making about 14$/day in the third month (i have made some clickbank sales (i don’t use the ads, but i get an attractive baller , one on the header and another in the sidebar.
-Sold 8 of the websites and i kept 2 for my own
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I used it in my cancer Blog, using onlywire multi submitter pugin with it. I am using google adsense alone
Posts – 850
Comments – 4,300
Adsense last month
Clicks – 270
earnings – $213.5
Only One Blog! WP Robots rocks!!
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Interesting thread, have been using Caffeinated Content in the past but feel it has been left behind awhile now so was planning on buying WPRobot this weekend, looks far more all encompassing and supported better from what I see and hear.
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for all those that have mentioned duplicate content causing google bans on either adsense or getting deindexed or slapped etc i would just like to say its absolute bollox…i have an autoblog that is almost all dupe content it is getting around 300 uv every hour is indexed by google news (hense the traffic) and has never been slapped, banned what ever…i even told google it was an aggregate when i applied for g news and they even mentioned it in their follow on emails
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I use the WP Robot plugin for all of the content as it seems to do everything (pretty much).
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For a more thorough Wp Robot Review!

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If you’ve been around for awhile, you’ve heard of most of these, but still, this list could be a good reminder to kick off the new year!

1. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.

2. Submit your blog to all the free directory and search engines.

3. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.

4. Submit each and every post to social bookmarking sites using onlywire.

5. Submit your articles to article directories like article base and associated content (change the article 20% to 30%, so it wont be picked up by SE as a duplicate content).

6. Write related articles on WikiPedia with your blog url in it.

7. Make a hubpage for your blog, with a little bit information about your blog.

8. Make a wiki page for your blog.

9. Make a squidoo lens or more with a link to your site.

10. Sign up at 43things.com and write things related to your blog and what you want to accomplish.(you’d be surprise by the number of people, just reading other peoples list)

11. Create a myspace page for your blog.

12. Ceate a facebook page for your blog.

13. Create a hi5 page for your blog.

14. Join blogcatalog and do the same as with mybloglog.

15. Use MyBlogLog to create a community around your blog. join other peoples community, so they do the same for you.

16. Create an account with Technorati and with every new post, ping it.

17. Post related how-to videos on you tube with your blog address on the bottom of the screen or at the end or beginning of the video.

18. Use yahoo answers to answer questions related to your niche, leaving your link in the resource box. (believe it or not, 10% of my traffic comes from 20 minutes a week answering questions on yahoo answers)

19. Create an account on stumbleupon, and stumble each and every article you write. (one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site for free)

20. Join as many forums as possible, especially forums related to your niche

21. Place a “digg it” button right after your post, to make it easy for your readers to digg your post.

22. Use a comment notifying plug-in to let your readers know about new comments. believe it or not, most people read more of other peoples comment on your post, than your post itself.

23. Use social bookmarking plug-ins to make it easy for your readers to submit your post to social bookmarking site

24. Install “tell-a-friend” plug-in to make it easy for your readers to let others know about your post.

25. Make use of “all in one SEO” plug-in to make your blog search engine friendly.

26. Use a forum plug-in to create a forum for your blogs readers to talk and discuss related issues.

27. Use a free keyword tool to find and use good ranking keywords in your niche.

28. Use sites like vista print to make free business cards ($5 shipping for 250 free BC which is worth it) with your site url on it and pass it around.

29. Make a free favicon to be easily found in your readers favorites file. (people like to find what they want fast. i myself sometimes give up finding a particular article or site in my huge favorite file, simply because i don’t want to spend 5 minuets to go through the whole list. a favicon is like big spot light focused on you between hundreds of other people!

30. Use free press release services to gain visibility.

31. Use pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.

32. Use free advertising sources like craigslist and backpage to post ads about your articles or blog in related categories.

33. Talk about or if you can interview a trusted person in your niche

34. Leave comments on blogs in related niches or any niche for that matter.(don’t spam, leave genuine comment, as you would like others to do so for you)

35. Make a banner ad for your blog and exchange with other interested bloggers.

36. Use blogroll to link to other bloggers in your niche in exchange for a link to your blog on their blog roll.

37. Ask other bloggers to write a review of your blog in exchange for a link to their site from your site.

38. Dedicate a post about a top bloggers in your niche. it will catch their attention and they may link to you

39. Whenever appropriate, link to other bloggers articles in your post. they will return the favor.

40. use your best articles to post on other peoples blog as a guest writer (it’ll gain you visibility and new audience)

41. Another blogger to post on your blog as guest (while he enjoys some new readers, it will brings his readers to your site as well)

42. Provide freebies, like free ebooks, free downloads and etc, to your readers.

43. Once in a while run a contest related to your niche and encourage visitors to participate for a prize, and do give a prize to the winner, no matter how small. it will help to establish your persona as a trusted blogger, and once people see you as a trustworthy person, not only they will keep coming back to you, but they will bring other visitors as well.

44. Use common questions related to your niche for the title of your article.

45. Use keywords in the title of your post. keywords in title is one of the easiest and most important techniques of search engine optimization.

46. Use a small place on your blog to have your blogs complete url ready for those who wish to link to your blog.

47. Keep your blog clean and easily navigable.(how many times you have left a site, because you weren’t able to find what you came for?)

48. Use numbered list for your informative posts, like “5 ways to…”. people tend to like these kinds of post.

49. Shocking and surprising articles will draw people to your site.

50. Be on the look out for new developments and news related to your niche, the first person breaking a new story, gets the most traffic.

51. Videos are increasingly becoming popular, use them on your blog to your advantage.

52. Use tags for your post, as its becoming a very popular way of finding related content.

53. Post frequently. search engines and readers like fresh content.

54. If you have any other blog or site, place a link to your site. (you can even create a blog to talk about your journey with your blog/site).

55. Read and respond to your readers comment.(if i feel that what i say is important to the writer, i am more likely to came back for more and encourage others to do the same)

56. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.

57. Use your blog name for your user name in forums and when leaving comment on other blogs.

58. Ask your friends and family to Digg and stumble your posts. a post with more diggs or stumble, means more visibility.

59. Put your blogs name and url on a bumper sticker or something like that, and attach it to your car. big corporations pay people to place their ads on their car, you don’t have to pay anyone, use your own car and also give some stickers to your friends and family and ask them to stick it on back bumper.

60. Make flyers with your blogs name and a short captivating headline style description and pass it in the mall or parking lots. if you use a good headline, at least 60-70% of the people will visit your blog out of curiosity, and who knows how many will become your diehard fans!(readers)

61. and last but not least, be patient and give it some time. no one goes from 20/30 visitors a day to hundreds and thousands of visitors, over night.

G’nite, Bompa

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I stumbled on a blog post about a new book called Nanobloggers.

Turns out to be a no no-nonsense approach to developing an online income by developing a niche markets using blogs. Not a novel concept in and of itself, however, it is a recipe type book, spelling out the steps needed to develop your niche and turn it into a money maker.

The concepts are appropiate for someone either new or interested in finally making money online. No hype but good solid teaching.

I’ve seen many comments on the book, almost all of them good!

Here’s a few comments I stumbled on while searching online for more information about Nanobloggers:

This is a great book. I’m only on page 26 / 105 and i’ve found the ebook more interesting and useful than any other book ive read. The resources and links alone are worth the price of this ebook.

Hey, this is good stuff. Ignore the intro chapter and get into the meat of this.

Basically all about adding the personal touch to blogging to gain the trust of readers and use the power of blogs as natural SEO.

Funnily enough I’ve just spent the past week working on a couple of blogs mirrored by this method. Nice to add some more info to what I’ve already discovered, thanks.

I really like the product. It’s a very simple and elegant system for blogging. The system requires some work but the philosophy behind is much more in tune with the core strengths of the Internet itself.

For some people like me the beauty of the system clearly shines through. But I can tell others are going to question certain aspects of the system because its different than what most of us are use to. There are no keyword tools used, no seo, and you have to be willing to interact within your niches community on a basic level.

It’s also not a set it and forget it type system. You have to put in some work every day. At least 20-30 minutes per blog it seems.

If what I just wrote turns you off, honestly don’t let it. Peter does a fantastic job explaining and supporting the “why” of the nanoblogging philosophy which makes a TON of sense. It’s just different than what were use to from a Internet marketing course.

If your looking to pick it up Andre Chaperon offers a bonus interview with Peter. I’m considering putting together a bonus my self as I have taken some notes and put together a mind map but I’m not sure if I want to share them with others yet.

You can find more reviews and comments over at the warrior forum, here’s the forum post for Nanobloggers.

Peter, the author of Nanobloggers has decided to donate his income from this book to help finance a Dog Shelter….a very admirable cause, here’s a blurb from his salespage. For what it’s worth, Peter seems to be stand up guy with a great product for anyone looking to do a little work and develop a  real online business. He gets high praise from John Jonas….a pretty no-nonsense guy and seems to be a square shooter. In any case, it is a clickbank purchase so you’re investment is guaranteed for 90 days……go for it!

It’s been two years since I have done this little Blogging to Sell coaching club. I haven’t released any new materials since then. I practice what I teach. Every day, I’m in the trenches, working hard – I’m not a guru. (and I have zero intention of becoming one)

Thing is tho – I have a lot to share.

I test like a maniac – there’s not much I haven’t done online where traffic and conversion strategies are concerned.

You can ask my friends – you know who they are…

Marketing is my passion – I can yap for hours on end about marketing. I’m an addict.

But …

There’s one thing that I’m even more passionate about. Dogs.

I’m a big dog friend and I co-operate my local dog shelter. A dog shelter is a massive money pit. (lots of costs but very little income)

Each month I donate about $5K of my own money to keep the shelter “alive”.

We need (lots of) dog food and pet medicine, there are veterinary bills we need to pay.

The list goes on and on –  it never stops.

New puppies are droppped on our doorstep almost daily. We take good care of all of them.

We give them a good life.

I developed a complex marketing plan for the shelter – I know it will work.

I need the shelter to become self-funding.

Therefore – to fund this marketing plan, I decided to release a working business model to you guys.

I will put every single red penny I make from nanobloggers into the dog shelter – I will not pocket any of the money myself.

Nanobloggers works – it can change your life like it did for the people in my “Golden Six” group.

I need you to succeed – you can do it, it’s not hard.

Here’s what you will be getting when you make the super smart decision to get nanobloggers today:

• The nanobloggers manual (little over 100 pages)
• The nanobloggers mindmap
• A custom file to help you set up your nanobloggers.
• In 2 weeks you’ll receive my blueprint for outsourcing (in co-op with John Jonas)
• In 4 weeks you’ll receive a full case study of a working, real life nanobloggers project.
• Access to a dedicated nanobloggers news blog (just for you, my “incrowd”), where I will be releasing updates to nanobloggers, marketing tips and tricks and insights on new workflows.

My Blogging to Sell group paid me $400/month – I’m not going to charge you this much. Price is under 100 dollars!

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Are you ready to open a new passive income stream that sends money flooding into your bank account 24/7?

Then its time you discovered BlogHatter – the new software program that makes profiting from blogs as easy as clicking a mouse.

That’s right, you can now say goodbye to the standard autoblog and autoposting programs that flood your blog with poor quality content that nobody wants to read … and you can say goodbye to wasting hours and hours of your valuable time manually making blog posts.

BlogHatter is a cutting-edge software program that allows users to create high-quality semi-autoblogs in a mere matter of minutes.

The simple truth is thanks to this incredible software program it has never been easier to create passive-income-producing blogs that contain images, relevant videos, high-quality content and much more!

Just look at some of what you can do with this autoblogging & autoposting program:

- Import Private Label Rights articles
- Search and import images from Google, Tinypic and Flickr
- Search and import video from YouTube
- Create great blogs in languages other than English using the embedded translation utility
- Quickly “rewrite” copy using the synonyms and replacement tool
- And much more!

BlogHatter is a “white hat” program that gets “black hat” results …

visit the Official BlogHatter Autoposting Website Today!

Don’t dismiss this!!!   This is your chance to get in one easy-to-use software program all the tools you need to make piles and piles of cold hard cash 24 hours a day with blogs on the Internet.

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