1. Brief review
Last night I happened to find Wordpress Direct. It’s a tool based on Wordpress that can automatically collect existing contents from Yahoo Anwers, Youtube, RSS, etc., by the keywords you selected. And then it will automatically publish these contents on your wordpress blog.
Wordpress Direct is a good tool to collect contents. Its panel is quite convenient and useful too. At the end of this article a snopshot is attached.
My first thought was to use it to automatically publish a blog. But soon I gave up this idea. Wordpress Direct is to help us enrich our blog’s content while it cannot be instead of our own effort. All contents are collected from other sites and it will be regarded duplicated by Google, meanwhile and most importantly, Google users can manually set the rankings now so that simply duplicated contents will not be cool in the future.
The same words were told after my subscripion. Wordpress Direct team’s emails encourage their users to write articles. I think the best way to better use Wordpress Direct would be manually edit the collected content, re-group them, making it more valuable to readers. Same things could probably happen in other major search engines.
At the same time, Word Press Direct is good for market research and brainstorming. Since it’s keyword driven, you can easily get a great deal of relevant articles, videos and goods’ intros to your interested area. These can be perfect materials to build better contents.
2. Fees
Wordpress Direct is free for 15 days after your subscription. 15 days later, it will charge you every month based on your membership type. You can cancel the subscription at any time, turning back to a free member. Free member cannot use any “poster”, i.e. the automatic posting software.
- Bronze $47/mo: 10 sites, 3 content posters, Standard Plugins
- Silver $97/mo: 20 sites, 4 content posters, Standard Plugins, MasterClass DVD
- Gold $197/mo: 100 sites, 7 content posters, Premium Plugins, Master Class DVD
3. Installation Requirements
Wordpress Direct can be installed in the following Hosting companies:
- HostGator.com (best for Wordpress Direct)
- MidPhase.com
- BlueHost.com
- HostMonster.com
- DreamHost.com
- other cPanel-based Hosting
NOTICE: Wordpress Direct requires the ionCube PHP Loader. Some hosting companies do not support it. Some like DreamHost.com requires you install ionCube PHP Loader by yourself and do not provide relevant tech support. The best choice is to host Wordpress Direct with HostGator.com. If you have a hosting already, check it before installation.
Snapshot of Wordpress Direct Panel (click to zoom in)
