ImportCSV

My name is Jason Hulott and I am an affiliate marketer and content provider to some of the largest UK insurance and Finance companies. My company writes and publishes blogs and content on behalf of clients, some of these clients want 4 or 5 posts per day – every day – even at weekends.

I certainly wasn’t going to sit there on a weekend posting blogs all day.

Something had to be done, as were getting more successful, we had more blogs to post. We nearly had to stop taking on clients as we couldn’t physically post all this content.

Something had to be done!

We used Wordpress to build and mange these blogs as it is free and very SEO friendly. I wanted to find a Wordpress plugin that allowed me to future post a whole bunch of posts that I could add to relevant categories and add a future timestamp too.

I wanted to use Excel to create a csv file of the post preloaded with html links and the like. I like Excel because it is easy to use. I like the CSV format it is easy to create.
Also I had an idea for a “tip of the day” or “quote of the day” series and thought rather than build it each week, I could upload the whole lot in one go. I am thinking about a 1 tip a day blog to so this would save me a huge amount of time. Imagine in having 365 days worth of content going up in one go.

Not just about blog posts but we could use this for affiliate income too!

Then I took off my content hat and put on my affiliate hat. Datafeeds have been used by many, including me, to build up content on websites and earn revenues. The issue I found was that you could only import the datafeed CSV file as is, which means all the content gets added all at once. While that is a good thing to have that much content, it would be a better idea to drip feed it in on an hourly or daily basis.

Why?

Google And The Other Search Engines Loved This Stuff

The search engines love blogs, but they only love blogs that are being updated. Having a blog that updated with content on a daily basis is a good thing it keeps the search engines coming back for more.

Having the search engines coming back means your content can get spidered and ranked quicker. This means more traffic to you and hopefully more money!

So I started to look for a plugin that would allow me to do this…

I searched all the plugin sites, downloaded all the ones that claimed to do what I wanted and installed them. I even paid for a couple. But something didn’t work with them. Not how I wanted them too anyway.

So to cut a long story short I had one built for me. It works like a charm for me and allows me to build in some pretty cool stuff.

Thanks