Build An Article Directory Site with WordPress

In my guide Wordpress Adsense System I teach people how to build long-term WordPress blogs and make money from Google Adsense. But there are some things I do which I stopped talking about in the new version of the guide simply because it will confuse beginners, and instead of doing it the regular way some of them try to do it using methods that are generally for more experienced users.

One such method is creating article directories. Here’s how it works:

1. Many site owners continuously publish their articles on article syndication sites like ArticleMarketer and iSnare.
   • The reason they do this is they want to get more traffic to their sites by putting in an “author bio” and a link back to their site.
   • Some people do this purely for SEO purposes as the more backlinks you have to your site the better your site is going to rank in most search engines.
   • Whatever the reason is, these people would be more than happy to have you publish their article on your site or blog, as long as you maintain the bio and the all-important link back to their site.
2. Once their articles are published on ArticleMarketer or iSnare, these sites in turn syndicate the articles to all associated sites who have previously signed-up to receive articles.
   • By increasing the amount of “receiver” sites, the big syndication sites expand their network and improve the reach and value of their service
3. If your site is a receiver site, the articles will be automatically posted to you either via email or some PHP-based script, and you receive it as new content.
   • You can choose to manually edit and publish the articles or allow them to auto-publish and be hands-off the entire operation.

Although you can get a lot of “article directory” scripts out there that syndicates these articles and puts them on a site, of the more interesting ways to do it is to use WordPress as the syndication system itself. I have been creating and profiting from “WordPress article directories” for months now using my own hacked-and-put-together-again system, but unfortunately it’s not ready to be released..

For now, here’s a good script I found that does the same thing, called Easy Blogs Pro.

Yes, it is definitely categorized as “autoblogging” since all the content is automatically syndicated. However, this is not “Black Hat” as it uses a 100% legit source of content (articles published by other writers on article distribution sites) nor does it try to cheat the search engines in any way.

If you want to make money from Google Adsense on auto pilot and not worry about getting nasty emails from others for ripping off their content, you should give this a try. It comes with some basic but efficient WordPress themes too, like these:

These themes are Adsense-ready, which means that all the Adsense code placements are already done for you. You can also monetize with affiliate programs or other forms of blog advertising.

UPDATE: This plugin is NO LONGER SUPPORTED.

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