New feature added to the Stallion 6.1 update, WPRobot 3 Autoblog Plugin Stallion SEO Features.
Do a little research in Google and you’ll find the best, most feature rich WordPress autoblog plugin is WPRobot 3, it is an awesome autoblog plugin.
See my WPRobot 3 Review.
In Stallion 6.1 you will find a new settings under the Stallion 6 theme Advanced SEO options page, when turned on a new WPRobot 3 options page will be available.
On this new settings page (found under the WPRobot 3 Menu under “SEO Settings”, see screenshot) you will be able to set the following.
Turn WPRobot 3 SEO ON/OFF
When set to WPRobot 3 SEO ON, affiliate links and links to article source etc… will be hidden from search engines using advanced javascript/CSS. Your visitors will see a standard text link or in the case of the Amazon buy now image an image link they can click like any other link (will take them to Amazon or the Article sources etc…). Search engines can not access advanced javascript and see just the anchor text of the link or the image minus the link component (it’s not clickable).
SEO wise this is perfect, you don’t waste link benefit on affiliate type links, but the anchor text of those links (which is keyword rich with the WPRobot 3 Plugin) is still counted as body text by the search engines.
Downside of this advanced SEO technique is visitors with javascript turned off see what search engine spiders see and they can’t click the links: ~10% of users have javascript turned off. IMO it’s a small price to pay for removing an affiliate footprint and saving a lot of link benefit (I use this SEO technique on all my autoblogs and thin affiliate sites).
Remove all rel=”nofollow” Links, not just WPRobot 3 Affiliate links
Important SEO information: rel=”nofollow” links DELETE link benefit. We should NOT use rel=”nofollow” on our sites anymore (Google changed the rules a few years back!). As a Stallion SEO theme user you can remove them all.
Stumbled into a happy SEO accident while coding this Stallion built in plugin. The default link format of WPRobot 3 template links that use rel=”nofollow” is also the format used by most webmasters who add rel=”nofollow” links:
Default rel=”nofollow” Format
<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Anchor Text or Image</a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/">Anchor Text or Image</a>
If you turn “Hide ALL rel=”nofollow” Links” to ON, ALL your main content nofollow links will be cloaked as well. If you don’t want all your main content (only affects main content) nofollow links cloaked turn this setting to OFF.
WPRobot 3 Amazon Buy Now Image
Choose from 14 Buy Now images, some saying buy from Amazon, others just Buy Now. Every file has a different filename and some of the images match with the Stallion theme colour schemes, select the Blue Stallion 6 theme colour and select a Blue Buy Now image.
Changing this files filename partially removes (see next setting for full removal) of a very easy to find affiliate footprint that search engines like Google could use to find and downgrade WPRobot 3 autoblogs.
Also nice to have 14 different images to choose from.
WPRobot 3 Plugin Image Folder
This changes the folder location of the WPRobot 3 plugins images (Amazon buy now button).
You can leave it as the new default (within the Stallion themes folder) or for even better removal of this affiliate footprint set the location by copying (use FTP: Filezilla for example) the image folder (found within the Stallion themes zip file) somewhere on your server (you can also rename it) and setting the location box with format /nameoffolder/ for location www.example.com/nameoffolder/ or /wp-content/uploads/images/ for location www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/ (in this example I renamed the /nameoffolder/ folder to /images/ and uploaded to /wp-content/uploads/ using FTP). You can put this folder anywhere on the main domain and rename it whatever you like.
These two WPRobot 3 Plugin image features would make it almost impossible for a search engine to use that image as a way to find and downgrade your autoblogs.
All three settings will work on both old and new WPRobot 3 autoblogs. The Stallion Theme Plugin Add on works on the content just before it’s served to a browser/search engine. It doesn’t rewrite the content in your database, so old posts are rewritten as well as new. You could have a 10,000 page autoblog have all it’s link benefit wasting nofollow affiliate links removed with a few clicks of the mouse after installing Stallion 6.1+.
Non WPRobot 3 Plugin Users
The advanced SEO javascript technique bundled with stallion 6 can be used on any affiliate link. See the Stallion Theme Cloak Affiliate Links Tutorial to see how I use this feature on all my affiliate sites including this affiliate link to the WPRobot 3 Autoblog Plugin sales page (looks like any other text link other than the redirecting URL, it isn’t, it wastes no link benefit, but you can still click it).
David Law
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SEO Tip : Using WPRobot 3 WordPress Autoblog Plugin
See you are using the WPRobot 3 WordPress autoblog plugin (you should be a little worried I know that **).
You are in luck, in the next Stallion update (6.1 due soon) I’ve added built in SEO for WPRobot 3 users. It’s not part of Stallion 6.0.1 (current release), but you can read about it at WPRobot 3 Autoblog Plugin Stallion SEO Features.
** I know you are using WPRobot 3 because the images from the autoblogged posts are saved to server within the WPRobot 3 folder:
/wp-content/plugins/wprobot3/images/It’s advisable to rename the WPRobot3 folder to something else, for example
/wp-content/plugins/photos/images/So there isn’t an easy to find thin affiliate footprint search engines can use to easily find your autoblog.
It’s best to rename the folder before you activate WPRobot 3 for the first time so all posts take the new location into account.
WPRobot 3 is by far the best WordPress autoblog plugin available.
David
WPRobot 3 Autoblog SEO Features
WP robot 3 not work
Hello,
I follow your suggestion, but when i change folder name WPRobot3 into photos, suddenly WPRobot3 not worked and showed error. How to make folder name change happen without any error appear?
Thanks
WPRobot 3 Autoblog Plugin Setup
I’ve not tried changing the WPRobot 3 folder name after activation etc… always made the folder name change in advance so it was taken into account during setup.
You should go to the WPRobot 3 forum for advise on this, I’m sure others will have made the folder name change after setup (the WPRobot 3 plugin author recommends this change) and have steps you’ll need to take to keep the site running correctly.
For future sites if you rename the folder prior to activating WPRobot 3 the setup is the same as when you don’t rename it.
No matter what you do your current autoblog posts images won’t work because they are hard coded to look for /wprobot3/images/ where the images are saved to server (the images will have moved).
If this was one of my sites I’d either leave it as is (don’t rename the folder) if it’s an old site with loads of posts. Or if a new site delete it and start again renaming the folder first. If you know what you are doing you could edit the posts via the database using search and replace SQL queries to change the hard coded links. If you haven’t a clue what that means, don’t go there, it’s advanced techniques for fixing mistakes
David
WPRobot 3 Autoblog
Stallion Theme and WPRobot
Hello,
I would like to buy your Stallion 7.1.1 Theme to build a news aggegator site. Do the Theme 7.1.1 come bundled with the full WPRobot plugin, including all the plugin modules such as RSS, etc.
Also do you have a demo of your Theme, or an example website?
Thanks
Tmawosola
Stallion WPRobot 3 Built In Features
The WPRobot plugin isn’t bundled with Stallion, so you need to buy a WPRobot licence.
Stallion adds new features to WPRobot 3 autoblogs that you can not get anywhere else.
All my WordPress sites run Stallion including the site you are on now, you can see an autoblog example at http://www.premium-links-directory.co.uk/
If you read through this sites comments you’ll find I link to my WordPress sites that run Stallion to show examples of features people want to achieve etc… And you can freely download the Stallion theme zip file and install it in a demo mode, you can see most settings, but can’t change them. The Stallion WPRobot options page only loads when the WPRobot plugin is present and active.
David
WPRobot 3 Autoblog Plugin
Example site structure
David,
Thanks for the information. The example site (http://www.premium-links-directory.co.uk/)is exactly what I would like to build. Can you tell me if the site is using WPRobot, and if so which parts are using it. Are the photos and the articles being pulled with WPRobot or are they manually posted by the author. I really want an automatic aggregator, pulling in most of the contents.
Thanks
TAwsola
WPRobot 3 Autoblog
WPRobot 3 Autoblog Demo Sites
The site http://www.premium-links-directory.co.uk/ is using WPRobot 3.
All content on the site is either scraped by WPRobot or built into Stallion. Basically main content is autoblog, some images are Stallion, if you look at the Popular Articles menu on the right the small images are a Stallion feature that’s great for autoblogs.
Basically with an autoblog you want to set it up and forget about it, Stallion uses images associated with the scraped content as thumbnails etc… where it can and where it can’t use a set of images built into Stallion or added by you (10 images is enough) for thumbnails, so every post has an image associated with it even if the main content doesn’t have images (saves so much time).
That site is using the WPRobot Shareasale Module for the Magazine posts. Think I used 3 or 4 WPRobot modules.
After setup completely automated.
David
Stallion WPRobot 3 Autoblog Features
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