A WordPress Manager is a blog network management program designed to make creating and managing websites a whole lot easier. This goal is achieved by making multiple activities more automated and centralized. You’ll be able to do all of your work from inside the program without having to open new tabs or switch windows to jump from one site to another.
A WordPress Manager has 4 main features that each cover and deal with a particular activity related to website creation and management.
Each of these features have their own internal functions that allows users to work on website domains, content, promotional campaigns and even view sites’ statistics all from inside the program.
Here’s an overview for each major feature along with the functions that you’ll find inside :
Domain Management
Through the WordPress Manager’s “domain manager”, you’ll be able to centrally create and manage all of the domains that you have on your server whether you have dozens, or even hundreds of domains. Accessing each domain becomes a lot easier through the one-click login function thus negating the need for remembering usernames and passwords. There are also different other functions that can help you a lot like:
Automated Domain Creation – This function automates the entire domain creation process in a way that all you need to do is set domain name and other important details. Within a few seconds your site will be up and ready. You can also import existing domains into the WordPress Manager and manage those domains from inside the program as well.
Domain Grouping – You can group your domains together according to your own specifications and categories to make it easier to organize the sites under your network,. For instance if you own around 6-10 websites for skin care products, you can group them under one category for ‘Skin Care Product’ sites. This gives you the ability to manage groups of sites at one time in a practical way.
Automated WordPress Installation – You can choose to have WordPress installed if you want, along with the themes, plugin and files you want to use for your domains. If you opt to have WordPress installed, you can automatically upgrade and set the program to automatically update the software if the latest version is released.
Automatic Domain Checks – The program ensure that your domains are still online via ping check within a given time interval and also makes precautionary procedures to prevent and deal with potential server errors. It also pulls in WHOIS information on each domain including registrar, expiry date and servers.
Content Management
Creating, managing and distributing content for your websites and blogs can be easily done with a WordPress Manager through this feature. You have access to the following functions to accomplish this:
Mass Posting – Through the WordPress Manager’s interface, you can easily publish your posts to one or more blogs in your network. All you need to do is enter in the post’s details and then select the desired blog or blogs where you want your post to be published.
Post Repository – With this storage, you can easily view all of the posts and can instantly access all of them. You can also easily search, manage, update, publish or delete them as you wish. Apart from that, you can see the complete publishing history and import XML files of your posts.
SpinTax Integration – Spinning content is made easier with the Standard SpinTax fully supported and integrated into the program. The built in thesaurus can also be accesses easily and is integrated in the system.com API. You can also easily define your own thesaurus entries or just let the WordPress Manager do it for you allowing you to consistently produce unique content for all of your sites.
Drip Feeds – The program lets you create and manage drip feeds which automatically publish your posts at specified time intervals. You just need to chose the posts, select the blogs and define the time interval between each post is published. After that, the WordPress Manager does the rest of the work for you. To provide more control, you can also name your feeds and define them by type according to how your posts are going to be published
Campaigns
Apart from managing your domains and content, you can also centrally manage your campaigns to ensure that your blogs and sites are getting promoted properly. Aside from that, you can properly organize all of your promotional materials, link codes and see sales statistics from the programs you’re promoting too. Here are the functions you can use within this feature:
Sponsor Management – Having a WordPress Manager can easily help you define all the sponsors that you promote. Once this is completed, the program automatically downloads new sales data from your sponsors every hour. You have the option to download the data manually if needed to but either way, you get a centralized location for viewing all of the statistics from your sponsors.
Media and Promotional Material Management – The program’s built media library can help you centrally manage all of the media and promotional materials you have such as videos, pictures, audio and text even if these are scattered all throughout your network of sites. Support is also given for thumbnail generation, video encoding and photo editing functions such as cropping and resizing.
Link Tracking – Monitoring the links that go to and from your sites becomes simple through the WordPress Manager’s built-in link tracker. You can easily generate URLs redirected anywhere you want and easily monitor the amount of traffic that goes through those links.
Campaign Tracking – Apart from monitoring links, you can also track multiple campaigns, traffic sources and monitor it the same way you would monitor the links on your websites.
Statistics
With this feature, you are able to see detailed statistics generated by your sites in real time. Everything you need to know about all of the activities is provided in easy to read tables so you won’t miss anything.
Satistics can be organized as follows :
Sales Statistics – It automatically downloads sales data every hour from all the sponsors and programs you promote and is integrated into the overall sales statistics table. From there you can easily track the number of views, clicks, joins, sales, refunds, chargebacks, commissions and ratios. Sales from your site network are easily tracked since they are broken down by domain, page, link code, campaign, country and even media item. In order to have a clear overview; graphical or tabular data statistics are available and can be selected based on your preference.
Traffic Statistics – All the traffic to your network of sites is automatically monitored by traffic analytics software and is also integrated automatically into the overall statistics of the WordPress Manager. You can see view, bounce rate, time on site, pages per-visit, keywords, browser, OS and the screen resolution used by site visitors. Graphic and tabular displays are also available and can also be set according to your preferences just like the sale statistics function. All the statistics are also separated by domain, page, link code, etc…
Other Statistics – Apart from being able to view the sales and traffic statistics generated by your sites, you can also see details for your campaigns, link codes and media items even if these are spread out through your entire network. You’ll keep track of the number of views, clicks, sales and rebills. In addition, you also get to track which domain, page and country were it came from and similar to the previous two statistics, all of them are categorized for easier understanding and viewing.
Search Engine Result Page (SERP) Checker – Since SEO has an important role in blog and website management, this feature allows you to keep track of your sites rankings on major search engines. Once you’ve specified all of the keywords for your domains, the program automatically pulls in SERP’s from the search engines daily. You can then view your current rankings along with a detailed history on the ranking progress of your domains and keyword combinations.
With all of these features and benefits, using a WordPress Manager is clearly one of the best ways to manage multiple blogs and multiple websites around today especially if you are into using WordPress a lot. Eventually this program is clearly becoming a must have for potential webmasters, internet marketers, online entrepreneurs and people that needs to manage blogs and websites in an effective way.
December 31, 2011
Web Development