Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Make More Money Online With Automation Tools

Making money online is not always fun. If you want to be a master of seo, then you have to perform mundane tasks like creating accounts, posting links, and other boring tasks. Sure you could outsource some of this stuff, but that requires money and time to train the other person. That's why I am always looking to automate the tasks that I do online.

One useful tool that I've found is a Firefox Addon called iMacros. iMacros lets you record any actions you make inside of Firefox. You can then save these actions as scripts and play them back later. With it, I've created scripts to check my PPC Coach affiliate earnings, post the articles I've spun with Magic Article Rewriter, and a whole lot more. It's a huge timesaver and you can do quite a lot with it. It's a free download so I recommend that you check it out.

However, I've recently been introduced to a new program called UBot. UBot is essentially a development environment for creating web bots. It utilizes what it calls a Visual Scripting language, which allows you to create scripts in a visual way. It's quite a bit more powerful than iMacros as it allows you to use branches, loops, and other constructs that you'd find in any standard programming language. For my first bot, I was able to create a Google scraping tool that saved the results to a file which I could then import into Keyword Elite 2.0 for further processing. I'm still learning how to use the tool more effectively, but there's really a ton of potential here.