Using WP Chameleon to create smart articles
Using WP Chameleon to create smart articles

chameleonIs publishing the same article to multiple directories good practice OR is an important piece of the puzzle missing?

Duplicate information ranks poorly with Google and may 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 provides a template for numerous different variations. Each variant will have different content that will be randomly generated in a way that will lead to 100% correct grammar.

2) Posts belonging to specific categories can automatically be posted to various additional blogs. A unique version of the post can be sent to each blog.

You decide whether you want to use one or both of these abilities. 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 internet gurus have discovered that writing articles is an effective way to get the word out about your product and build a loyal 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.

WP Chameleon - Including one post into another

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.