Is publishing the identical article to various blogs a good idea OR is a critical part of the puzzle missing?
Duplicate content ranks poorly with Google and could even be classified as spam.
This article software has TWO important features:
1) It enables you to create a single “smart” article or post that embodies a template for numerous unique variants. Each variant will have unique content that will be randomly created in a way that leads to 100% correct wording.
2) Posts belonging to specified categories will automatically be posted to many additional blogs. A unique version of the post can be sent to each blog.
You can decide whether you are going to use one or both of these features. As for rewriting text you can create random posts, pages or text widgets by using some simple markup which is described below. The markup will allow you to fine-tune the random generation of several variants of the base text.
The article software will allow you to create posts in the normal way. To enable rewriting on any portion of text just add “{rewrite}” and “{/rewrite}” tags around the text.
Example 1
The following is an example of text which would typically go between the rewrite tags:
{Smart|The majority of|Most|Savvy} {online|web|internet} {marketers|entrepreneurs|gurus} {agree|know|realize|have discovered|will {inform|tell} you} that {writing|creating} articles is {the best way|one of the best ways|an effective way} to {promote|get the word out about} your product {or|and} {gain customers|build a {loyal |}customer base}.
That’s all the article software needs. It will randomly select from your suggested phrases. One possible re-write for the above would be:
”Savvy online gurus know that creating articles is the best way to promote your product or build a customer base“
Example 2
Random colored text.
<span style=”color:{green|blue|red|black|purple}“>Random Colored Text</span>
Result: Random Colored Text
This article has been configured to derive a random number seed from the url of the page – i.e. the article will vary according to the URL that it appears on. This is useful when you are mirroring the article on multiple blogs each with its own URL. To test this you can add “?n=2″, “?n=3″, etc. to the end of the URL of the page that you are currently viewing. Try this now. This will cause other colors to be selected at random.
Example 3
Any value can be passed to a page via the query string. In this example you may want to pass a tracking ID from your Google AdSense ad to a ClickBank product page via your landing page. You do this by modifying the ClickBank product page link which is contained in your landing page. Simply append “?tid=[@tid]” to the ClickBank product page link and add “?tid=<some value>” to the link going to the landing page.
<a href=’http://three-stores.co.uk/?tid=[@tid]‘>Link to product page</a>
To make this example work add “?tid=<some value>” to the link of the page that you are currently viewing. Hover your mouse over the link below to see the “tid” value in the status bar.
Result: Link to product page
Example 4
For an example of a another “smart” article see my post “Rewriting Articles To Leverage Your Time Invested”. The article derives the random number seed from the URL of the page. As a result the article will stay the same as long as the URL remains unchanged. You can test this by adding a fictitious query string to the URL of that page. You can add “?mode=raw” to the URL of the page to see the markup.
Rewrite Your Own Articles With Multiple Keywords and Titles
You put effort into that article – so why only have one copy with one set of keywords? With this plugin you can include one post into another. The “Rewriting Articles…” post is being included (post 91). This example creates a new post with a new title and is simply including the existing post. The new post will have unique wording and will pass the required keywords (“article rewriting”) on to the original post. The key will be used everywhere [@key1] occurs in the orginal post. If you look at the raw version of the original article (by using “?mode=raw” as described above) you will also notice the use of the “ucfirst” and “ucwords” functions in combination with the keyword variable for adjusting capitalization.
Additional Features
This article software contains additional features such as submitting unique versions of your article to different blogs via the MetaWebLog interface (RSS). See the WP Chameleon article software ”readme” file for more information.
Downloading the WP Chameleon Article Software
The WP Chameleon article software consists of a zip file which you must extract in your WordPress “Plugins” folder. You can obtain the zip file by clicking here.
After copying the article software to your WordPress website you will simply need to activate it.
I hope you enjoy the software! Any comments, suggestions or questions can be posted on this page.




#1 by TrustAdvert on February 26, 2010 - 7:49 pm
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great!
what you think about the rewriting for the title?
#2 by Lee on February 28, 2010 - 7:12 am
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Good Idea
Lee
#3 by admin on March 1, 2010 - 1:47 am
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There are a number of possible ways to do that:
1) Support the {rewrite} tags in the title. Not sure if this is a good idea as some SEO plug-ins may grab the raw mark-up for use in meta tags.
2) Have a {rewrite-title} section in the article body.
3) Have a custom variable – e.g. “syndicate_title”.
In all cases care must be taken to somehow ensure that each site gets a unique title for each article. Simply relying on random generation will not guarantee a unique title for the article on each site. One solution would be to logically enumerate all title variants and select a title according to the site-id which is currently a hidden value on the chameleon settings page.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
#4 by Al on March 1, 2010 - 6:12 am
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Hi,
feeling like a bit of an idiot as the comments here are about clever stuff and my query is v simple.
I have installed plugin and set a variable “keyword” with a dummy value of “kw”.
When i write a test post with the shortcode in this form:
This is the keyword: [keyword]
I expected to see the post say “This is the keyword:hello when I used the URL:
http:sales-expert.co.uk/test?keyword=hello
All i see is:
This is the keyword: [keyword]
Am I being a complete tool?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Al
PS. (When I can get this to work, it’s going to be such an useful addition to my site! Thank you so much for developing it)
#5 by TrustAdvert on March 1, 2010 - 11:52 am
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sure the easiest for the user is the rewrite tags direct in the title.
as my host blog is not public, i have no problem with seo plugins or something else, that can have a problem with the rewrite-title.
the unique title is not that crucial for me. its no problem, when i send to 5 blogs and i have on two blogs the same title.
more problems:
*yesterday i made a blogpost with the the built in gallery from WP.
on the remote blogs we have only the tag [gallery], but not the gallery.
*single pictures in the post. the pictures come from the host blog and not stored on the remote blogs. so its very easy to identify for google, that all the posts come form one source.
#6 by admin on March 1, 2010 - 3:29 pm
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Use:
{rewrite}This is the keyword: [@keyword]{/rewrite}
If “keyword” is a site variable the correct usage is:
{rewrite}This is the keyword: [globals/@keyword]{/rewrite}
I am planning to add full support for xpath-like syntax and tree data structures in the future.
#7 by Al on March 2, 2010 - 1:52 am
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Thanks! I’ll give that a go.
#8 by admin on March 2, 2010 - 3:41 am
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Version 1.21 with support for rewriting titles (in exactly the same way as for content) has been uploaded to the wordpress site and the upgrade should be visible shortly.