Batch Blogging?
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Not really sure what to call this suggestion, but I was thinking:
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to write entries from one centralized location, and have them applied to more than one blog, or rather, on any blog you had control of, across the entire Internet? Granted, it would probably have to be limited to WP powered blogs only (but who in their right mind wouldn’t be powered by WP?), but the benefits of this feature would be priceless for those of us who, for whatever reason, have more than one blog (on different subjects), or have the “same” blog at different locations.
I guess it’s sorta like a feed. Or maybe a mirror. Except, you write to a SQL database like usual, but you can assign additional off-site WP installations you have “control” of to access that “feed”, that one database.
For example:
I enjoy the community aspect of WP.com, but I have my own blog (on a different host), because I wan’t more control over the front-end aspect of the blog (primarily the theme). I want to be able to write an entry and have it post to not only WP.com, but my off-site blog too. Preferably it would update on both sites in real-time, and I understand the potential server strain this would cause, but hopefully you see what I’m trying to get at.
Is this suggestion technically feasible? Are there any, perhaps “legal” issues, that could arise from this?
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There are tons of legal issues that could arise, but I’m more concerned with this: It will SLAUGHTER your SEO. Google and other search engines despise duplicate posts and viciously downgrade blogs that indulge in that.
Also, it’s very, very unlikely that staff would do that here. They’re entirely against autoposting of any kind here as far as I can see. I tried it for a charity project they supported and even with staff help it wasn’t possible.
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But is it really auto-posting? To me, auto-posting implies a post that has had no human hand involved in its creation.
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It IS autoposting. It’s regurgitated content not original to the blog it’s posted at. Think of it as an army of clones; whether you release them all at once or single file makes no difference.
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If you used another blog platform other than WordPress.COM that allowed javascript or self-hosted, then you could possibly get a feed aggregator and they. That works more with spam blogs but could the same theory work with autoposting?
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