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August 11, 2008
OK - So you have your new BANS/Blog site but don’t have a clue as to where you are going to be inspired to find content! We have all faced that same scenario in the past… I have to tell you, I found the perfect answer! If you know ANYTHING at all about your niche, this is a perfect solution! People ask the questions… You answer them in Posts!
Caffeinated Content for WordPress
At the time of this post, the cost for the plugin is $77, but as I have watched over the past 2 weeks… it goes up every few days to try and limit the number of people using it! I can tell you that I have been using it for about 2 weeks now and I could not be happier at how easy it makes it for me to write my own content!
People Asked Questions - You are Answering Them!
The last time I bought a piece of software that helped you build content, it was somewhat hailed as a content spinner. This is the exact scenario I did not wantwith any new solutions and the CC plugin meets every need I could think of for getting my unique content juices flowing!
So how does the Caffeinated Content System Work?
Simple:
In less than 5 minutes, you could have hundreds of niche specific questions populated into your new niche site blog, just waiting for you to answer them! Sure, there are plenty more options to this plugin, like the ability to autopost the questions, and even take the related answers and populate them as comments on the same post!
BUT - That would be Duplicated Content, which we DON’T want!
Where do the Questions Come From?
The beauty to this is the questions are REAL questions by real people! You could imagine that at some point, they typed the same thing into a search engine, looking for a solution! The source of the content are three sources, Yahoo Answers, YouTube and an Article Directory. For my own purposes, I ONLY used the Yahoo answers section of the plugin, so I could populate some content onto a site and then… well, answer the questions!
For example: I had a wordpress category about tires… In the keyword box, I wrote “tires” and told the Caffeinated Content Plugin to grab 20 questions, and put them into my tires category, unpublished.
In less than 30 seconds… my wish was answered and I had 20 very niche specific questions to answer and turn into blog posts!
Question: How do I know the right kind of tires for my Dodge Dakota truck
Answer: Knowing the right kind of tires for your truck is a very important question! In order to properly size your new tires, you first need to think about the way you drive your truck, so you can get the exact tires for your own need…..
(200 word post followed, wiht links to the tires in my niche store)
Granted, you could actually go right over to yahoo answers yourself and search the questions in order to find inspiration for posts just as easily, but populating 100 questions into 10 categories of your wordpress blog can be done in less that 5 minutes and you are ready to start writing! On Sunday, I was able to write 18 posts across 5 different blogs and set them each to autopost throughout this week by setting the date a few days in advance!
I could not have done that without the inspiration from this plugin!
Get the Caffeinated Content Plugin for $77 Today
($77 was at the time this post was written)
Watch me run through this on an actual site. (Length 4:16)
39 Responses to “Writing Unique Content could not be Easier!”
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Just adding my thoughts. I purchased this plugin tonight and LOVE it! Man, oh man! It makes getting content relevant to a niche super easy.
FYI - if you download the answers into a certain category but decide it really doesn’t fit that category, you can easily change it while editing the post.
I try not to spend too much money on things like this but I think it will be a tool worth having.
As Mark said, you could do the same thing on your own by going to Yahoo Answers but I think this is a huge time saver. I guess it is a matter of what your time is worth.
Rochelle
Mark,
I would think that if you used it the way the author showed on HIS site that you would be doing nothing but creating duplicate content….thoughts?
The way you are showing to use it of course, would not be quite as easy as his way but the content would at least be unique.
This is similar to what I want to do with that script that I emailed you about….
For my own personal blogs, I really enjoy writing the content myself - but for niche marketing blogs, adsense blogs, etc… This plugin rocks! I’m really looking forward to watching your video a little later - gotta tuck the wife in right now.
@ Rochelle -
Glad it is working for you!! I found it VERY EASY to write posts based on simply answering questions that were posted and awaiting moderation.
@ Bill -
Your are right!! It could definitely be used as a splogging machine in the wrong hands!!
For me… going to one of my niche sites and having to think of something to write is the PITA part. With this thing… plug it in and go!!
I did find that I deleted about half the questions that came across… but the ones that are left are a great resource to answer. When they run out, just go get more! LOL
Mark
Bleh!
In the past week I’ve spend wayyyyy to much money lol, but I went ahead and purchase the script as you said before the price goes up again.
I really like the script and i’m struggling with getting started.
Now my question is say I import 10-20 questions then say later on maybe a month later or so I goto import more questions. Will it take the same content or will all content it pulls be somewhat unique?
Jason
@ Jason -
That is a good question I do not know the answer to!! I will however test it in the morning to find out!
I assume the worst case is that if you pull the same keyword exactly as before, you would have to eliminate 20 you may have already answered… OR… you could answer them differently!
I will test this… if it in fact pulls the same content, it may be best to pull in 200 topics per category, then just work them slowly.
Mark
When struggling with what to write this plugin is going to be gold>>>I bought and somewhat tested and it is easy enough..just have to watch the links that creep in with the questions and some of the tags…thank you MARK.. great plugin…otis
Just going to throw this out there… You can do a search for a term on yahoo answers, scroll to the bottom of the results page and there is the rss feed for your search.
I do agree that it is one step more than loading up your comments on your site, but it really is as easy as flipping over to your rss feeder.
And you have the added benefit of clicking on the links to look at the answers that have popped up so far. Great if it is a niche you aren’t an expert in.
Not saying this plug-in isn’t better, but if you want to save a few bucks, this way ain’t too bad.
Another toy to play with… the important thing is that you need to be able to research the question and write well in your answer. This isn’t going to turn crappy writing into good writing. You need to have that skill under your belt already. But I can see it would be useful in cranking out topics to write about if you get a case of writer’s block.
I’m really skeptical about all of these widgets and “aids” given all the de-indexing, affiliate-expiring, niche-nuking going on. For me, I’ll do it the old-fashioned way, and if I need ideas I’ll wander over to Ask or wherever and take a look at what people want to know.
But that’s just me!
To bad I suck at english :(
Or you can really outsource your writing. Use the plug in to find the questions to ask then send them to a writer to knock out the answers for you. There are article writers that will do 200 words for 3-4 dollars a post. posting every other day on a site with the 200 word post and your costs are 45 dollars a month for live and unique content.
This is a great plugin. I’ve been using it for several weeks now and can crank out FAQ blogs for my bans sites pretty quickly. I love that it pulls images relevant to the niche.
I love the start and end date feature. It’s automatically adds posts to my blogs on auto pilot. I have questions coming in for the rest of the year at random human like intervals.
The key IMO is not to go crazy with the number of posts you extract. I generally do 50 - 100 for a 6 - 12 month time frame. That seems to spread things out evenly for me.
In addition, I picked up a free synonymizer plugin (http://patlatyj.com/simple-syn-21) that works well. I’ve spent a few weeks coming up with about a 600 word synonym database that fits most uses of a word. This will at least change up your posts titles and questions a little bit more.
@ Jason, if you leave the history in tact, you shouldn’t get the same questions when you run the script again. had deleted all my posts one time as I wanted to rerun the script for some reason and when I wasn’t getting much output, I wondered why and decided to delete the history and got a ton of qeuestions after that.
Don’t think it’s a coincidence, but try it. Leave the history in tact and run the same keyword phrase to see if you get any dupe questions. I haven’t yet.
@Tom - since I am a writer who writes for others, thought I’d jump in… the old saying “you get what you pay for” is so true, especially in the writing game. Take a look on some of the writers’ job sites and you can see many examples of the $3-$4 “articles”. LOL! Pure junk, and nothing original.
If you want to tempt fate (or a Google slap) with a program that will crank out the same questions and “responses” cobbled together from previously published answers, go ahead. You may get lucky and not get caught. But no good writer is going to give you 200 good words if they have to do any work/research to produce the post. At least no one who lives in this country. :-D
If you really want to feed the machine by using bought content (and there’s nothing wrong with that!) then at least get someone who’s qualified to give you content that will pass muster with the search engines. A monthly writing contract is a good way to approach a writer for stuff like this. A post every other day for $45 is probably not likely, but writers who are also experienced in SEO writing will deliver hefty content on a believable schedule for a reasonable price.
You know, one of the problems of these kinds of sites is that there is always another product to flog to the loyal readership… and the thing is, most of them are not necessary. The only ones who benefit are the sellers and their affiliates. Being an affiliate seller myself (although not of “tools” for getting rich) I appreciate the business model. But folks, slow down and THINK before shelling out your as-yet-unearned-profits on yet another Holy Grail.
As so many of the A-list bloggers and niche entrepreneurs have said in many different ways, if you don’t have it in you already to be successful, all the widgets and “secret techniques” are not going to help you. They can be valuable aids in skilled hands, but skilled money makers don’t need all the bling. Although they are certainly happy to sell it to you!
Common sense, people, common sense.
Ok Downloaded it and like it so far but it definitely needs to be tweaked.
?s: I have a backlink to there site that says “website content” . How do we get rid of this?
Don’t get how you guys are setting up. You shelduale each question to post at a certian time 1 by 1 ? I don’t see how. Humm
Auto content changing ? is this how we want to change content or is it the answer that changes the content. 40% right. Thats our number to shoot for.
Thanks All
Man I am such a dumb ass sometimes. Everything is in the movie
Sorry for wasting space guys
@ All -
Glad you are finding the plugin useful! I have now imported thousands of questions to the group of blogs I am really working hard on, and this thing is working wonders!
@ Alice - I think you may have it wrong… this plugin is not being used to push out duplicate content in any way, it is being used to help fuel creativity and write our own content for posts.
One of the easiest ways a blogger can find stuff to post about is by looking through their comments section and answering questions from readers.
This plugin is doing exactly that! Populating topic and niche specific questions into our “waiting approval” post section. From that point, it becomes 100% manually created and unique content, written by the blogger.
Imagine this… I will start a sentence… you finish it, here goes:
Q: How do you write a great SEO friendly article?
A: Your turn…
Once you have your answer in place, you have a very unique post for your readers!
Mark
Yep. The plugin spurts idea to write about. Especially if it’s a niche you know something about. It’s funny because I find myself answering questions as if they were just left on my blog by a new visitor as opposed to me pulling them through the plugin. They are some good questions that get pulled that fit nicely into the niche and probably do end up helping visitors to my sites.
OK, I took the plunge and grabbed this and you know what? It IS very handy. It’s amazing how something as simple as eliminating one or two steps makes something seem so much easier! Thanks for the find, Mark.
@Mark - that’s how it SHOULD be used, if you need it. But you’re a good writer to begin with, so you are fully capable of creating good content with a prompt from the tool.
But there are far many more nichers who are crappy writers, and this tool isn’t going to bail them out. That was my point. You need to have some research ability and writing skill FIRST to be able to field those questions and turn the thing into good content.
I just think that if all you need is a prompt in the form of a question, you don’t need to spend $77 (or $87, or $97) to get it. And if you need MORE than a prompt, well, $77 or $87 or $97 isn’t going to be enough. ;-)
Alice….I would offer a counter point of view that maybe you are right if you have a couple of sites….but when you have 20 or 30 or more then quality content can be hard to come by.
This Plug In is perfect for that in my opinion.
I have to agree with Bill. I have ~20 sites and it’s nice to have this plugin email me when there’s a new post (based on my date ranges). Then I can just go in an answer a couple of questions and off I go.
I’ve also used the youtube feature of this plugin to add some niche videos. Who doesn’t like videos :)
The artilce feature I’m not using as that is too much duplicate content and I don’t have the time to be changing it to make it unique enough.
I just started using the YouTube myself tonight…
Pulled in about 15 highly relevant videos in about 2 minutes!
I have also experimented with FUTURE dates on the import… and started answering questions as I have an hour here or there. After they are answered, click on publish… and the posts will go out on those dates I set!
Mark
If you can pull some “how-to” videos, depending on your niche, that’s gold IMO.
On a side note, have you folks tinkered with the Unique Article Wizard plugin? It delivers great articles into your blogs based on keywords and you can decide how many you want a day. Google it if interested. They spin the articles constantly so although there’s some duplication, it’s not 100% dupe. It’s a good addition to the other plugins. I’ve been setting it up on a few of my blogs.
Hi Mark,
quick question. I noticed that when the question comes up, below there is a link that says caffeinated content blah blah blah, I can delete that right? Other than that, Thank you for saving me so much time. It is a great plug in! Just pure gold! Thanks…
@ Ivana
Yes… I delete in the posts themselves, but you could also just edit the templates provided and remove it from the template.
I have chosen to leave it in place, this way I am FORCED to review and edit every single question.
Mark
OK now that I have used this a couple days I got the idea. Perfect. This more than anything gives me idea’s for content. This is what people are looking for on the net.
I have run some phrases throgh my KW tools to look for patterns then rewrite around keywords.
This is awsome once you learn it a little.
I also set up the youtube to post like every few days.
After I Import answers/youtube I go through them and delet all the irreleant ones then go through my choices and re-write them making sure the KW’s I want are present.
Need HELP !!!
The plugin has worked great except for one site. When I post a Q&A it appears over the sidebar and pushs everything around. Its a new install wp/bans site. I have tried turning off all the plugins then trying again but it still push’s pulls, mess’s up the site. Even using wp default theme!
Anyone else have this issue ?
As usual I put my mind to it and fixed my issue. It was the Add This Button Plug in.
Why do I ask ?’s I can figure out on my own ?
Do I need a shrink. ?
Am I longing for friendship ?
Whats wrong with me ?
No need to answer I already know and its not pretty. LOL
LOL Bill!
Glad you go tit figured out!!
I am IN LOVE with the CafContent plugin itself… from YouTube videos I can postdate months in advance, to Q&A I can import today, answer, and trickle feed over the course of a month… it really was a perfect answer!
Mark
Hi,
Bought the plug in and I like it so far. A word of warning though, I have multiple sites on a shared hosting plan from hostgator. I was playing with the plug in pulling posts into a couple of my blogs. I began to get internal server errors on the blogs I was playing with as well as all my other sites. A quick call to hostgator support answered my question:
Since I am on a shared plan hostgator has safety measures on how many processes can be run at once. I exceeded that number and to self protect hostgator auto-shut down the sites. I’ll be down from between 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Great plug-in, just e carefull on how many jobs you are runnning especially if you are on shared hosting. I’m going to back off and bring in 20-50 posts at a time rather than the 200 on 3 different sites I was doing this morning.
Besides, that’s plenty to keep me busy.
Yeah, I hardly ever bring in more than 50 at a time. Quicker to run multiple requests of 50 then 200 in one shot. I’m on hostgator also and so far haven’t had any problem with doing 50 at a time. Glad you like the plugin. One of my favorites. Been reading Jason has much in store for that plugin so stay tuned.
Great tips!!
I have actually switched to using it as a monthly tool. Meaning, I review demand from the previous months search metrics, and then generate a group of topics for the next months posts.
I generally shoot for 20 questions and 20 videos. Unless they are very keyword centric, I will leave them as uncategoried and approve as I edit them.
From the 40 total, I might get lucky to end up with 15-20 I can use.
By using the date-range on the post import, they get spaced out evenly over the next month.
I will record another video this week…
Mark
I had to check this out for myself, and am not too thrilled. I can’t get it to work right - it won’t give me anything on the Q&A queries. Nada. I do get some hits on Articles, but they are marginally related to my keywords and contain zillions of duplicates. I’ve emailed the developer several times, he send me a fixed version, but still not getting all the great stuff that you all seem to get.
Developer has ignored my last several emails saying the problems aren’t fixed.
What I did get seemed promising as far as generating ideas from the articles, but I think I’m not seeing what the rest of you are ooo’ing and ahh’ing about!
@ Alice -
What “keword” (singular) are you using on your search?
I just want to reiterate that I use this plugin to spawn ideas for posts. If I plan on writing posts about; “Gas furnace repair”, in the search box, I will search for something like “furnace” or at most “broken furnace”
That populates a LONG list of articles and videos (2 separate searches) that I can then form into my own posts.
Shoot me the term you may be searching for.. I am glad to help.
Also - I have had many email exchanges with the developer, as recent as this past weekend in regard to the changes to the plugin.
Mark
Mark, I still love this plug in, I even made commissions of it too :) , but this is great for the blogs we have incorporated onto our bans sites.
Just got this email for anyone interested in this great plugin.
Caffeinated Content Coupon Code.
$30-off coupon, good through November 8th. The coupon is TRICKORTREAT and can be entered during the checkout process.
Good find Jay - I just saw that email myself…
Mark
I’ve been looking into the plugin for some of my sites. I am glad that I really looked over the contenet here and found this post.
As you know Mark, I have purchase several mods and a few templates from you.
Thanks for all of the help.
Jay,
Thanks for the discount code. Appreciate it!!
Gerry