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Originally Posted by Kira
Thomas, What sort of routine/software would you suggest for promoting sponsors that don't have RSS feeds? It seems like the options are:
1. Hand write posts and schedule them for later posting in Wordpress or Blog Organizer
2. Use RSS2Anywhere, Gallery2Blog, BlogPostBuilder (Seems the latter would be best as you can choose which image to post)
3. Use ZippedBlogs (though my sponsors are not included here)
I'm wondering which of the above options would be most efficient. Or, if there are other options to create posts in bulk for autoupdating my blogs.
Also, do you find it more effective to post a large image that links to the sponsor's tour, or a smaller image that links to a free hosted gallery - or a combination of both?
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I try a combo of linking to either a sonsors movie gallery or a pic gallery. I rarely link to a tour. Sometimes you will find a pic and a pic or movie gallery combo that will convert much better than anything else. I use thumbnails in my blog posts to try to make everything load faster and this has always worked well for me.
2. Use RSS2Anywhere, Gallery2Blog, BlogPostBuilder (Seems the latter would be best as you can choose which image to post)
Those tools work very well and I also create blogs on my own hosting that I use for nothing else but to use their feeds on my free hosted blog network. You can create a blog like this and use the feed from it to feed many more blogs. You go in and update that one blog and when you do it will update every blog you have that feed on. And this automation really works well.
I also save blog posts in text files and yes I reuse them some where else usually 3 months from now on a different blog and I don't think I have ever had a problem from duplicate content.
I like the thumblogger blogs for the simple fact they can be filled up with posts and set up so these posts will post a week or even longer into the future. It really works to get rid of a lot of stress.