This is a new theme that I started from scratch, Buy Tools Online. This domain name was an expired domain that I bought almost a month ago and it was rated PR2. I am really liking the way the theme is turning out. The theme has a options page that I can turn things on and off like the tag-line. It is far from being finished but I need to get some new sites out so I am introducing it now and each new site I put out will add a little more functionality to the theme.
One new thing I am trying is pulling in some content using a tool called Caffeinated Content. This tool cost me $77.00 but should make me that back in no time. It is a great way to pull in Yahoo Answers as a post and the actual answers as comments. It also pulls from YouTube and articles. The author says it is great for “made for AdSense” sites… but I bet it will work even better for EPN. I added my own script to the single post page that uses the Yahoo term extract API. It reads the post title from Yahoo Answers and uses the API to determine the best keyword. Then I pass that keyword to the eBay API to pull auctions and display them. If no auctions are available for that keyword then AdSense is substituted in that place.
It is working pretty well. The only problem that I have noticed so far is that I am getting some posts that are spammy from youtube. They have my requested keyword there but the actual question or post is really not related. Maybe the answer is to just use yahoo answers.
I almost forgot to mention that I used Caffeinated Contentto populate 400+ posts back dated in 2009 and scheduled 400+ posts for 2010. So now this blog is on auto-pilot with new posts being created for a full year. I could have done even longer if I wanted. That is pretty cool in my book! It is even better that I don’t have any processor intensive cron jobs or anything that have to run to get the posts out.
I will keep you posted with my results with Caffeinated Content as I get more sites out and get more results back.
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