New Interview About Cloning WordPress
This morning, I interviewed Jason Fladlien. He’s one of the owners of the software that helps you clone a wordpress blog.
Check out the interview and leave your comments below!
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Reason 3 To Clone WordPress: Money!
Do you have any idea how many people are on the web looking for people to install blogs for them?
Dozens each and every day.
All you have to do is set up a blog with a free theme and install the plugins once. Clone the blog, then find clients. Nice and easy!
How do you find people looking for this kind of service?
Run a Google Alert!
Setup alerts for terms like: ”install wordpress”, “install a blog”, “setup wordpress”, “set up wordpress blog”.
Have the alert delivered once per day and check out the notices you get. Contact them (if they’re asking for help, you can probably respond in some way, shape, or form) and offer to install the blog for them.
Be sure to send them to a blog you’ve setup, even if it’s mostly blank and just for show.
Let them know that you’ll customize the graphic header (which you can get done for a 17 dollars at Logonerds.com) and set it all up for them.
Other than waiting for the graphics, it will take you a few moments to install the blog for them.
How many blogs can you install each day if it takes a whopping 5 minutes to do?
How much can you make? If you charge $50 each and do 10 per day, you’d be making $500 per day…
You can do this, seriously. If I wasn’t so busy, I surely would…
This is the last post in my “reasons to clone wordpress” series.
I’ve reached out to the creators of WPTwin to see if I can arrange for an interview and will post it here if they agree to do one with me.
Reason 2 To Clone WordPress: Speed
As you probably know by now, blogs make it really easy to manage your website.
No need for programmers, webmasters, or other ridiculous expenses.
I’ve said before that I have more than a dozen blogs.
I update some of them often. Others I haven’t posted to in years. Most of them still get at least 100 visitors per day.
I have many blogs (at least another dozen) that I’ve setup and never posted to. I know, it’s silly to do something like that…
Yet, each of them took me more than an hour to set up. I charge $500 per hour to consult. That hour literally cost me $500.
With the ability to clone a blog, you can set it up once. Customize the theme, install and tweak your plugins, and clone it.
It takes 2 minutes to “deploy” your cloned blog and saves roughly 58 minutes of the hour (or maybe more) that you would have spent tweaking your blog.
This is a huge time saver and if you can save one hour by setting this up, it’s worth the small expense.
Reason One To Clone A Blog: Backups
Have you ever had problems with your web hosting? I have.
I’ve been online for about 5 years and have changed hosts 5 times.
I’ve been with the same company for 2 years now and have a massive server with them. I also have a shared hosting account at Hostgator. Then, I have a special hosting plan for 2 of my main blogs.
I’ve had issues with each and every one.
Now, that doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with my host(s). The problem is that hosting is complicated.
Of course, if something bad can happen it usually will at some point.
Recently, I attempted to update a few of my blogs.
I broke them.
Badly.
One of them gets over 500 visits per day, so this was a huge problem.
With help, I was able to retain my blog posts and info. I was EXTREMELY LUCKY.
I realized immediately that I need to be keeping backups of my websites, especially sites that got over 100 visits per day.
Making a wordpress clone of my blogs is now easy for me to do and takes less than 3 minutes.
Don’t you want to keep your blogs from exploding? Backup your blogs! :)
What Makes WPTwin Different From Other “Clone WordPress” Scripts and Plugins?
It’s smart.
How’s that for keeping it simple?
As someone that is in the software business, I’m always watching what others are doing and what they’ve done with WPTwin is simply smarter than other “clone a blog” scripts and plugins.
They give you a bunch of preconfigured blogs that you can use right away.
All the SEO stuff is done.
All the plugins are setup.
They even give you a “fill in the blank” wordpress sales letter theme that’s ready to rock out of the box.
The “plugin” cloners simply don’t work well. What I’ve figured out is that certain web hosts make it very difficult to clone a blog from inside of it’s admin area.
Servers and web hosts are incredibly complicated and most of them are setup totally different from other hosts.
This makes it incredibly complicated to clone a blog.
WPTwin is different, by a longshot.
It’s incredibly easy to use. Upload and clone, then upload and deploy.
They also have a marketplace of multiple blogs that you can get for your next blog you’re setting up.
I have more than a dozen blogs right now and with the ease of using WPTwin, I’m going to have a lot more…
The Story Of My “Clone WordPress” Obsession
My name is Ross Goldberg. I’m an internet marketer with an obsession with WordPress.
(I’m not going to post my life story here, feel free to search my name on Google if you want to know more about me)
I’m subscribed to dozens of email lists where I watch my competitors, study their emails, sometimes buy different products, etc…
I always read emails that have anything to do with WordPress Blogs. I have over a dozen blogs setup for all kinds of different purposes from podcasts to standard blogging.
When I see a new plugin, I always investigate to see if it will be of benefit to me and/or my customers.
I also pay close attention to products with limited resale rights.
Awhile back, I got an email that talked about a wordpress plugin with resale rights that did something I didn’t even know was possible.
It could clone a blog.
The application of being able to clone a blog is major. Here are a few reasons (which I’ll post about individually in the future):
- Backups
- Service (getting paid to setup blogs for people)
- Saving time (having your themes, plugins, and settings ready to go would save me personally over an hour of time)
Plus, it was something I could sell to my customers. After doing a few minutes of research, I realized that this was a “micro niche” I could take over pretty quickly.
I paid $297 for the rights to sell the plugin and got to work. I spent about 3 hours redoing bad graphics, editing copy, and setting up this product so I could sell it.
Then, I installed the plugin.
It didn’t work.
I went to a blog I had on a separate web host and installed it.
It still didn’t work.
Finally, I went and installed it on a shared hosting plan I barely use.
It STILL didn’t work…
I was smoking angry at this point. I foolishly trusted that this plugin would do what it is supposed to do.
After politely requesting a refund, I was told a flat out “No”. I raised the polite request to a claim in Paypal and got my money back 2 weeks later after the guy I paid ignored the dispute.
This “guy” is Oliver Bowen, the programmer that created the plugin. It turns out he is a flat out thief who has robbed hundreds of people and screwed over my best friend in a different situation (Google him if you want to see his story).
Once I started thinking about what a plugin would have to do to clone a blog the right way, I realized how silly it was for me to believe that it would work in the first place.
You see, WordPress uses something called an “sql database” to manage your content. This database runs on your webhost and is not a piece of the wordpress infrastructure. While it’s mandatory to have one if you want a wordpress blog, an sql database is incredibly complicated feature of your web host and should not be messed with by someone that doesn’t really know what they’re doing.
How could a plugin replicate one with that being the case?
The truth is that it can’t.
So, I began my search into a way to clone wordpress that made sense and would actually work.
I was also looking for someone I knew I could trust.
I found it.
Check out the link above.
