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FDAWarning.org - Autoblog for CPA lead gen programs

Matt Brown
asked this on April 30, 2009 21:17

This site uses Autoblogged along with a modified version of the Press75 "On Demand" theme. This is a niche site dedicated to lead generation offers from various pharmaceutical class action lawsuits. The site uses Autoblogged to track both video and text for 17 different medicines in class action status, and then parses the feeds to remove unrelated material from the site (the medicine "yasmin" also tends to pull up lots of women's names, for example).


This site also makes heavy use of the custom fields capability in Autoblogged. All the ads on the site are run from a stand-alone OpenX banner ad system. Using a series of custom fields across all the feeds, specific ads are displayed next to content related to the ad.

 

For example, notice the large banner ad below the black video bar on this page: http://fdawarning.org/featured/2009/04/fda-recalls-heparin. The system recognizes that the video is related to "heparin", and displays a large heparin banner directly below the video. The "Vaccines" section does not have a similar size ad below the video. This page uses the same Wordpress template pages as the Heparin page, but since no ad match was made on "vaccines" nothing appears: http://fdawarning.org/featured/2009/04/many-common-vaccines-cause-s....

By including sets of custom field variables in the Autoblogged feed manager, all content found on each of the dozens of feeds used to build this site have unique advertisement attributes and I can modify any ad size/placement/advertiser/etc across all current and future posts on the site in a single pass.

 

Also, the site is optimized to push "real" visitors toward the video content, while still making a much larger set of keyword-targeted, text-based content available to spiders crawling the site. Combined with autoblogged's ability to randomly rotate targeted keywords across posts and some additional "related content" WP plugins the site is extremely search engine friendly.

 

Vote for me! :-)

 

 

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Paul Lewis

Wow! This seems like a really creative way of getting the exact type of ads you want.  Great work!

May 01, 2009 08:02.
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Richard Brown

As someone who has multiple chronic medical conditions, I am really impressed by this site (both its technical aspects and content) and believe it will serve a valuable function.

May 01, 2009 08:18.
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Matt Schwalbe

This site does a great job of targeting specific advertisements to a very niche demographic.  This site is a great way of providing users with the useful content they are looking for while allowing advertisers to reach out to them for products that might not now are out there.  This site has my vote!

May 01, 2009 12:28.
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JJ Walker

This is a great site. I found the information I needed!

May 01, 2009 13:00.