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Joomla!: How to publish 100+ articles everyday, in less than 2 minutes

Joomla!… very flexible, allowing tons of creativity. Here's how you can content pouring in, spending less than 2 minutes per day. The amount of content doesn't matter… could be 10 articles, could be 1000 articles… whatever applies to you and your objective.

1. Okay… first thing. We need the appropriate extensions. So, download feedgator, then download the josreplace plugin & component. After downloading, install them. In total, we're installing 2 components and 1 mambot/plugin. Be sure to publish the bot and configure josreplace accordingly. 

2. If you haven't defined your content categories already, go ahead and get that setup.

3. Find your content sources. Look for sites that have the type of content that you want and make sure they're syndicating an RSS feed. If you found a great site with a feed, be sure to click on the feed to see what the output is like… If the output is nothing more than a title, or a title with a few introductory words, trash it and move to the next. You want to find the feeds that are rich with content. Don't worry though… they're easy to find.

4. In your Joomla! Admin, go to Components>>Feedgator>>Manage Feeds. This is where you'll be defining your content source, aka rss feeds. Be sure to choose the appropriate category for your content.

5. Import. Import your feeds.

6. Test your content… go to your imported content and make sure that content actually resides within the content item. You might find that some feeds syndicate nothing more than a title, a few intro words, followed by adds and links off your site. If see that the content sucks, be sure to delete the feed in feedgator. 

7. Customize the content: There's several automated ways of customizing your content which could be important for SEO. In other words, all the content you've just imported is already out there and it's likely that Google knows of it… The idea here is to reduce the possibility of being flagged for "duplicate content," according to google, yahoo, etc. Here are two things you can do.

     A. Create a menu link to the content category that has some, or all, of the content you've imported. In the menu link's parameters,  be sure to display more than a single item on the page.  Basically this serves more than one article on the page, mixing it up a bit in the eyes of the bots.

    B. Replace words, globally. Use the JosReplace to change and word, or string of words to anything you want. So, I could change the word "MINUTES," TO "MOMENTS." Be clever with this… If you're doing this for search engines only, then have fun with it, but keep the the content relevant. So, you could change "Internet Explorer," to "Firefox." Okay… bad example… don't want to insult FF like that…

8. Mass Publish your content. You may have just imported 400 articles into  your site. If this is the case, it'll take a few minutes to sit in the content manager publishing all… by default, all articles aren't published. If you're like me, you want to publish them all at the same time. So, here's how you do it. Open your database management tool.. I use Navicat, but phpMYAdmin will work. In phpMyAdmin, go to the DB your needing to change. From there, click on SQL. You'll see a big text box. In Navicat, click on your DB, then click on TOOLS>>Console.

plug this into the console, or the big text box:   update jos_content set state = replace(state,'0','1') 

This will publish all content right away.

At first, setting this up can take a little while… but once you've gone through the setup process, It takes less than two minutes to jump online, click "IMPORT ALL," from Feedgator, then jump into your database and publish all articles. Be sure to have your menu links setup accordingly and have modules dedicated to your content… suggested modules are LATEST NEWS, OR MOST READ, OR any 3rd party extension that pulls from your content…