WordPress Mage (WP Mage) – There Is A Cheaper Alternative
Important Note: If you CAN AFFORD Greg's WP Mage system, then this post is not intended for you. Simply head over to his website – www.wpmage.com – and order your copy there.
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This post is not a review or promotional piece for the WP Mage software (which I think is a cool system) but for all of those Internet marketers who would like similar functionality at a lower price point.
There has been a lot of buzz recently about Greg Jacob's WP Mage (Wordpress Mage). Greg is offering a completely automated point and click Wordpress-based website building system.
The Wordpress Mage system is, without doubt, a very well conceived system that delivers high productivity for an Internet marketer. The only caveat is that, like all tools, they can deliver profitable results based on responsible usage, a proper plan and execution strategy.
The problem is for many the price tag – $1,297 (or $997, if you get the $300 discount coupon).
A Cost Effective Alternative to WP Mage:
After evaluating and using various tools including the 2 membership sites – Wordpress Direct ($47/$97/$197/month) and Firepow 2.0 ($127.00/month), here is my recommended cost effective alternative to WP Mage -
1. WP Robot – $140 (matches WP Mage's Content, Affiliate & Posting modules)
combined with
WPmanagerDX – $97 (provides the CP Mage functionality).
Total cost: $237
Here is the comparison between WP Mage and WP Robot + WPmanagerDX :
1. WP Mage Content Module:
Content sources -
- eZine Articles
- Articlebase articles
- Yahoo Answers
- Flickr photos
- YouTube Videos
WP Robot Modules:
- Article module: Articlesbase.com or Sooperarticles.com
- Yahoo Answers Module
- Flickr Image Module
- Youtube Module
WP Robot includes a Translation Module that is identical to that in WP Mage.
(Note: While this may look like a useful feature to generate unique content, please note that the content will appear unique to a search engine robot, but to a human viewer, the translated content could be junk content – do you really want your website to have this type of content?).
2. WP Affiliate Mage Module:
- auction items from eBay
- products from Amazon
- products from Overstock.com
WP Robot Modules:
- Amazon Module : Automatically create Amazon product posts for any keyword you specify
- eBay module : Adds recent and popular auctions from eBay to your weblog on autopilot
- Clickbank module : drip-feeds ads from Clickbank.com
(Note: If you want a Commission Junction plugin for Wordpress (for merchants like Zappos.com, Overstock.com, Dell.com, GAP, RitzCamera, ABT, Buy.com and a lot more), you can download the free CJNiche Wordpress plugin at http://wpnicheground.com/)
3. WP Posting Mage Module:
Takes the content from sources selected in the Content Mage module and using keywords from a list, then creates thousands of posts at a click of a button.
WP Robot's equivalent functionality:
- Bulk Add Keywords feature lets you quickly add a large number of keywords and can also assign random posting intervals to them if you want similar to that offered by WP Mage.
- WP Robot includes a new MIX feature allows you to mix content from different modules with each other. By utilizing that you can for example add related thumbnails from Flickr to the article posts WP Robot creates automatically. Or you can include a related eBay auction below each Yahoo Answers post in order to monetize your blog even better. The possibilities are huge. Currently this feature is offered by the eBay, Youtube and Flickr modules.
(Note: WP mage enables a back posting feature that allows you to back-date your posts up to 4 years ago and also forward-date them to essentially drip feed content. WP Robot only allows you to forward post.)
4. CP Mage Module:
This is the WP Mage site manager. CP Mage (combined with the WP Mage engine) takes the headache out of creating and managing sites.
WPmanagerDX application provides all of the above -
with WPmanagerDX…it goes like this:
Step 1: Log into WPmanagerDX
Step 2: Click on Add New Project
Step 3: Fill in blog details
Step 4: Submit
Total time… less than 1 minute! Literally, you can watch the database get installed, WordPress uploaded and configured, plugins uploaded and activated, themes uploaded and main theme chosen, in only a few seconds.
With WP ManagerDX, you can create 12 blogs in a single hour (if you use the Single Install feature), with zero stress and very little work at all. ALSO you can use the Batch Install feature allowing you to install as many blogs you want in one go.
The real power is what you can do with centralized control. Things like this:
- Update multiple blogs all at once. For example, you can update any number of blogs with a new theme at the same time (a new feature in WP ManagerDX).
- Manage all aspects of each blog. That means you can edit everything for each one, including activating plugins
- Create as many blog templates (called Projects) as you want. Manage these in a convenient list, and generate new niche blogs from them anytime you want…with all the info pre-filled for you automatically.
- Generate multiple blogs at multiple sites from multiple Projects in minutes. (it is recommended that you install your blogs on the same hosting account)
- Backup and restore your databases. You can configure the software to backup every one of your blogs to your computer automatically…and restore whenever you need to.
- Manage all your themes and plugins in one place. You can add more, remove ones you don't need, etc.
So that's it – simply get WP Robot and WPmanagerDX and you can get the same results compared to WP Mage.
(Note: It is not absolutely essential that you buy both WP Robot and WPmanagerDX together … depending on your budget, you can get WP Robot first and then when your blog empire expands, get WPmanagerDX).
To get WP Robot – CLICK HERE.
To get WPmanageDX – CLICK HERE.
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Comments on WordPress Mage (WP Mage) – There Is A Cheaper Alternative
Looks like you are ahead of others to observe FTC's new rulings.
You've said what I want to say for a long time. There are many, many cheap or free tools around that can deliver the same or similar results as WPMage. WPRobot is catching up in its coming upgrade, which may including backdated posting, link cloaking and better mix function, etc.
It's getting harder and hard for people to buy a good $5 expired domains these days. I have raised the questions of saturation in Greg's forum but post got deleted.
Your article sparkles my interst on WPManagerDX again. Just wish their content management compent could integrate with WPRobot.
Great post. I was looking at WP Mage, but honestly, the guy has just plain priced himself out of the market at $1,000 IMO. Especially with a lousy 30 day guarantee when it will take longer than 30 days to see the results.
Your combo sounds interesting and definitely much more affordable.
You should contact the authors of these two products and create a "Mage Killer" package discount or something like that where we can get both products for half price (or whatever). Take the Mage guy's greed and use it for their/your gain
If you do this, make sure you e-mail me the details.
Thanks Mike for the feedback … I happen to have tested both these products (and also WPDirect) and thought I could share my own research with those who could not afford the Mage package …
Cheers,
Andy
Thanks Richard for the comment … all the best with your endeavors … I would use WPmanagerDX only to manage my blogs … I'm not too excited with their new content module …
Cheers,
Andy
Without even discussing the other products mentioned, a few minor corrections to your post.
1 – WP MAGE also includes Posting Tagging – you forgot to include that
2 – Affiliate Mage Extreme includes inbuilt CJ API access and also Clickbank Product access. These are not available in the free version of Affiliate Mage, which tells me that you never actually tried out WP MAGE
3 – WP MAGE has one click site generation and population. In a single form you just paste a list of keywords and click go. And your entire site is setup and populated. Nothing comes close to this
(try generating 5000 posts with wprobot and see what happens)
4 – MAGE has a HUGE and ACTIVE user to user support forum and community
5 – Link Mage, Translate Mage, Reposting Mage and Word Wizard Extreme are all under development to be released free for all Master Mages
6 – Integrated Keyword Mage, Domain Mage and Index Mage within the same suite of tools
7 – Modular development – you can choose what to use and what not to use with a few easy clicks
So yes you can piece together something "similar" in fact here is a direct download of our Blueprint to teach you how.
http://www.wpmage.com/MageBlueprint.pdf
So we are here when you have enough time tinkering and are ready to earn.
Andy,
Thank you for a very interesting post. Can I ask you about the mix feature of wprobot? Can ebay and flickr be combined with articles too ? You wrote it was only available for 3 modules so I was confused about whether only a few can be mixed and matched. Also can the links for amazon and ebay be changed so they come from your own domain as it seems there can be many affiliate links on one's site. I appreciate that you show a nice alternative.
Thanks Greg for stopping by and taking the time to add more information on WP Mage … I'm sure it will be helpful to the readers of this blog to consider the additional points you mentioned.
I don't think anyone questions the versatility of WP Mage … this alternative is only for those who cannot afford the price point.
Andy
Hi Deb,
Thank you for your comments … with regard to your question on mixing, the answer is YES … you can add related thumbnails from Flickr to the ARTICLES posted or you can include a related eBay auction below each Yahoo Answers post, etc. Currently you can't mix Amazon and Clickbank listings.
There is detailed documentation about WP Robot on their website – CLICK HERE!
With regard to your second question about the SEO-friendly links … the answer is NO. Both WP Mage and WP Robot currently do not show the links to come from your domain. If you are looking for this functionality, then I suggest you check out the following Wordpress plugins -
1. phpBay Pro for Wordpress (eBay)
2. phpZon Pro for Wordpress (Amazon)
Hope this helps.
Andy
CORRECTION: WP Mage uses phpBay Pro and phpZon Pro plugins and therefore the affiliate links show coming from your domain. This is not the case with WP Robot.
I agree – I am not here reading this article because I think Greg's WP Mage is a bad product. I am here reading this because I feel it is over-priced, at least for me. If it were $400, I would buy it right now. But, $1,000 puts it into the category of "this better work" and "it better work for a long time" and I'm just not convinced enough to spend my own $1,000 on the gamble. On top of that, as some have discussed on WF, you have to spend a small fortune on domain names to build the dozens of Mage sites, which adds to the risk proposition.
This product combo of WP Robot and WPManager DX may not be as good as WP Mage overall, but for 1/3 the price, it is probably "good enough" to do what many people need. There are many times when "good enough" beats out "does it all, but at 3X the cost" – just look around your house for examples of things that fit that category.
I've never used any of the three products I've discussed here, so I'm not particularly biased towards any of their functionality, BUT, the one thing I can judge is the price which is clearly stated for all three. And IMO, Mage needs to become more competitive before I'll risk my $1K + many domains on it. Oh, and the whole thing with the price increase to $1300, so when people use the coupon it's still $1000? Yeah…
Andy,
I read in the forum of wprobot (still am on the fence) that you can't mix yahoo answers and articles together. Is there a plug-in that can be used if someone wishes to do this (and is there a place it can be entered to be mixed in within the wprobot set up?
Also I see you recommend another product at top and wasn't sure how that fits in with comparing these 2 products.
Hi Deb,
I have posed your question to the owner of the WP Robot and will post his reply back in here.
There is a plugin called WPmixer, you can access it on http://www.wpmixer.com/ which does mix Articles, Videos and Yahoo Answers. I haven't got the product so I can't give your a review.
The product I posted on top of this blog was released yesterday by a well established and reputed Internet marketer JP Schoeffel. I normally don't go over the top for a product but this wowed me (hence the dramatic headline). I tried it out and actually set up a clean looking site in less than a minute (Click here to view the site I set up).
Here in a nutshell is what it does – using 1 seed keyword, it creates a whole website for you drawing content from news sites, forums, the blogsphere, Press releases, videos and podcasts and publishes these on the website adding Adsense and affiliate linked products from eBay and Amazon. You can add your own articles and also own advertising … In effect your site becomes a content aggregation website that is siloed based on relevant keywords. Also all the content is current. All this for a measly $67 one time fee.
I will be putting up a full review of Site Profit Bot in the next couple of days and will give you a heads up.
I do suggest that you check out the SiteProfitBot website since I thing the special launch offer of $67 is open for only 5 days.
Hope this helps.
Andy
Hi Deb,
I stand corrected on my above reply … WP Mage actually uses phpBay Pro and phpZon plugins and so their links are SEO friendly and show it coming from your domain. This is not the case with WP Robot.
Andy
This has been a fun read so thanks for putting it out there, and thanks to Greg for posting his piece.
As I've written in the WF, let's say 100 sites at $20 a piece (a mix of new with a few old sites) that's 2k, + 1k for the WPMage itself, and it's a 3k investment upfront.
Even going with few sites it's around 2k, it better produce cash fast and for a while… 30 days gauarantee is not enough IMO.
WPRobot looked fined but SEO friendly links are a necessity IMO.
I have used plugings that look good, populate a WP site with posts that only have the home page get indexed. What's the use in that?
Hi Ray,
Thanks for your post. If you are looking for an automated website builder you should also definitely check out Site Profit Bot that was released yesterday.
I'm just putting up a review on this software …
Andy
Hi everyone,
I am the creator of WP Robot and Andy asked me to come in here and clarify a few things regarding the MIX feature: As has been stated currently you can use it to add eBay auctions, Yahoo videos and/or Flickr images to the content any other module produces. More details are in the documentation here: http://wprobot.net/documentation/#31 Since the MIX feature is relatively new in WP Robot it will surely be expanded with the coming updates.
Affiliate link cloaking is coming by the way… and that very soon.
Regards,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying.
Andy
Thanks Thomas. BTW, I bought WP-Robot Friday night and got it added to one of my existing blogs yesterday. It's working good so far. BTW, it would be nice if the posts were added as a user rather than by [blank].
Thomas,
Looking forward to next big updates! Will backdate posting will be available in the next update?
Andy,
About WPMix, there are some negative reviews about this plugin. It looks like it can not work on WP2.8+ and the customer support is lacking. I did not try it personally though.
Just saw Thomas released WPRobot 2.0. I am very excited about the new features:
Changes:
See here for a general description of some new features.
- New option to randomize post times
- New link cloaking option for affiliate links (setup instructions)
- New keyword list design
- New backdating and scheduling feature for "bulk posting"
- New options to strip links from Yahoo Answers questions and comments, Youtube comments
- MIX feature: use {auction:x} (x being a number) to include several auctions
- MIX feature: use {image:keyword} to insert images for keyword
- Added support for RSS module
- Added support for Yahoo News modules
- Added support for Amazon BrowseNodes
- Fixes a bug preventing the "Bulk Add" from adding categories correctly
- Fixes a bug causing the Flickr module to post empty images if none have been found
- Fixes a bug with the duplicate post detection
- Fixes a bug preventing the {keyword} tag from working for eBay titles
- Several other bugfixes
Does anyone know what the differences are between
WP Robot/WP-Robot and Site Profit Bot?
Hi Bob,
In a nut shell …
Site Profit Bot is a complete website builder that automatically aggregates content from online sources including news sites, related forums, related blogs, podcasts, videos, press releases etc. You can also drop in your unique articles which will appear in the blog section of the website. Site Profit Bot uses pre-designed templates and with the input of a single keyword, it builds a complete website in under 60 seconds. The site will include monetization comprising Amazon, ebay and Adsense links with your affiliate IDs.
On the other hand …
WP-Robot is a Wordpress plugin that automates the publishing of content into your WordPress blogs from Yahoo Answers, Articlebase articles, Youtube videos, Yahoo News, 3rd party RSS feeds, and integrates Flickr images, Amazon and eBay products into your posts. You can back-date, publish immediately or schedule these multi-source content into your blog. With WP-Robot you will need to set up your WordPress blogs first before you can use the features/functions of WP-Robot.
If you wish to speed up the setting up and management of WordPress blogs, you might want to look at a product called WPmanagerDX which does this. WpmanagerDX also has some similar modules/functionality to WP-Robot so you might want to look it up before you finalize on WP-Robot.
You can read more details about WPmanagerDX and WP-Robot and how you could use them in unison in this post -
http://internetmarketinggateway.com/affiliate-marketing/wordpress-mage-wp-mage-is-there-a-cheaper-alternative/
Hope this helps.
Andy
I have personally been using WPRobot along with many other plugins trying out various ways of posting content. I love having WPRobot because of the ease of use after the initial setup. If you do use WP Robot I would recommend doing your own content for about 2 – 3 weeks, then start with the autoposting. But you have to make sure you change it up or google will slap you with a deindex for duplicate content.
Just email me if you have any questions.
Jeremy,
I'm replying since I can't see your e-mail as a user of the site. When you say "change it up" what do you mean? The translation option? I've had WP-Robot running on a couple sites and haven't been using the translation figuring that perhaps Google would see me as an "aggregator" but perhaps that's wrong. You can reply to news11 (-at-) spamex.com if you prefer to keep your methods more private. Thanks!
Awesome review. Fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you man. Will buy via your affiliate links.
Thanks Efox … appreciate the feedback.
All the best.
Andy