questions for WP-Autoblog

[DennisJ]

questions for WP-Autoblog
can someone help me on this.

1.which feed linkcodes should i use? normal or hosted?
2. also theres a line on WP-Autoblog, "give atribution to the original author" , is it yes or no? on that dropbox?
3. last question im adding feeds to the plugin, but each time i add one, i get tons of post, as in old post from the sponsors. is it ok, or im i pissing the search engines?
4. the sponsor send me the feeds, but then it post it on the first category it sees on my blog, how do i "organize" the post to get into its category.?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by DennisJ

questions for WP-Autoblog
can someone help me on this.

1.which feed linkcodes should i use? normal or hosted?

I'm not sure what your asking since all feeds are hosted. I have seen some sponsors use some interesting terminology so my suggestion would be to first look at your own feed in a browser and then you can look at the sponsor feeds and easily determine which to use.

Originally Posted by DennisJ

2. also theres a line on WP-Autoblog, "give atribution to the original author" , is it yes or no? on that dropbox?

Since its a sponsors feeds, attribution to the original author isn't necessary (in my opinion) therefore you can leave it set to NO. If you do set it to yes, it adds a link back to the plug-in author as well.

Originally Posted by DennisJ

3. last question im adding feeds to the plugin, but each time i add one, i get tons of post, as in old post from the sponsors. is it ok, or im i pissing the search engines?

I doubt they care. Plus if its a new site, you may have not even been indexed yet.

Originally Posted by DennisJ

4. the sponsor send me the feeds, but then it post it on the first category it sees on my blog, how do i "organize" the post to get into its category.?

Thats the one weakness of WP-Autoblog. If the feed has a category in it, it will post it to that category but if it doesn't, then the script simply puts it into the default category on your blog. I typically will make a generic named category and set that as the default.

FeedWordPress does let you organize feeds into different categories but since it doesn't work in 2.1 (yet) thats probably not an option