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>>Michelle Macphearson: Shared Items Post is a plugin that allows you to use other people
content on your blog without duplicate content issues.
Dowload the plugin from the above hyperlink, put it in your ftp and activate it in WordPress
Admin.
Now from your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings and click on Shared Items Post
How to configure Shared Items Post plugin
The first thing it asks for is your Shared items url and this comes from Google Reader.
In Google Reader on the left hand side is a Shared Items button.
Click on that.
Click on public page shared page.
Then copy the url of that page from the browser and paste it in your Shared Items Post page
back at WordPress.
Set the period to Weekly.
It's often enough to be looking through your Google Reader once a week and it gives you
enough items to choose some from to share on your blog.
Time should be whatever time you like.
We need to use our main keyword in the Title.
You don't have to change the Header and Footer.
The Item gives the link back to the title of the post. Leave that as it is.
The Note section is the important bit that stops this being duplicate content. (Though
99% of the time, this list of items that appear in your niche each week throughout the world
aren't seen as duplicate content when the list appears on your blog, but I like to add
a short note of my own to be sure)
I add a break between the %DATE% and the %NOTE% just to make it more readable.
i.e. %DATE%%NOTE%
In the note section, you can add yourself (your main keyword phrase) as the author of
that note if you want to i.e. in the Note box add %AUTHOR% so it reads
%CONTENT%%AUTHOR%
Your Category and your Tags should also be your main keyword phrase.
Check to allow Comments.
Save it, then we go to Google Reader, where I'll show you how to share an item.
I'll click on the folder I created for this niche, then I'm shown all the new items in
this niche.
I look down the list and see an item I like and click on share with note.
A little box pops up and I type my note in,
check the Add to shared items box and
click Post Item.
The plugin will pick up these posts once a week and the note you added will make it super unique
to your site.
Choose posts that are totally relevant and interesting to your niche.
Avoid sending your readers to someone else who they might buy off rather than you.
Personal blogs or non-sales type tips are good.
In your notes, just comment on the post. Don't worry about putting in this or that keyword.
Be natural.
This is how this type of post looks on one of my own blogs at MichelleMacPhearson.com.
I haven't put a lot of notes on this one, but you'll see the one I did. (In blue)
It would look better with a line break - I just haven't got around to changing the
setting to put the note on the next line.
Why Shared Items
Post is so good
Given the fact that most people use their keywords in their title, this is going to
create an incredibly keyword rich post for you.
All it requires you to do is take a peek in
your Google feed reader
and write in a line
like "Oh, check this out..." or something similar.
Not brain surgery, just very simple.
This is absolutely one of my favorite plugins because it requires so little of me and anything that
can help automatic content creation, I'm all over it.
I hope you are too!