Important Note: If you CAN AFFORD Greg's WP Mage system, then this post is not intended for you. Simply head over to his website – www.wpmage.com – and order your copy there.

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This post is not a review or promotional piece for the WP Mage software (which I think is a cool system) but for all of those Internet marketers who would like similar functionality at a lower price point.

There has been a lot of buzz recently about Greg Jacob's WP Mage (Wordpress Mage). Greg is offering a completely automated point and click Wordpress-based website building system.

The Wordpress Mage system is, without doubt,  a very well conceived system that delivers high productivity for an Internet marketer. The only caveat is that, like all tools, they can deliver profitable results based on responsible usage, a proper plan and execution strategy.

The problem is for many the price tag – $1,297 (or $997, if you get the $300 discount coupon).

A Cost Effective Alternative to WP Mage:

After evaluating and using various tools including the 2 membership sites – Wordpress Direct ($47/$97/$197/month) and Firepow 2.0 ($127.00/month), here is my recommended cost effective alternative to WP Mage -

1. WP Robot – $140 (matches WP Mage's Content, Affiliate & Posting modules)

combined with

WPmanagerDX – $97 (provides the CP Mage functionality).

Total cost: $237

Here is the comparison between WP Mage and WP Robot + WPmanagerDX :

1. WP Mage Content Module:

Content sources -

- eZine Articles
- Articlebase articles
- Yahoo Answers
- Flickr photos
- YouTube Videos

WP Robot Modules:

- Article module: Articlesbase.com or Sooperarticles.com
- Yahoo Answers Module
- Flickr Image Module
- Youtube Module

WP Robot includes a Translation Module that is identical to that in WP Mage.

(Note: While this may look like a useful feature to generate unique content, please note that the content will appear unique to a search engine robot, but to a human viewer, the translated content could be junk content – do you really want your website to have this type of content?).

2. WP Affiliate Mage Module:

- auction items from eBay
- products from Amazon
- products from Overstock.com

WP Robot Modules:

- Amazon Module : Automatically create Amazon product posts for any keyword you specify
- eBay module : Adds recent and popular auctions from eBay to your weblog on autopilot
- Clickbank module : drip-feeds ads from Clickbank.com

(Note: If you want a Commission Junction plugin for Wordpress (for merchants like Zappos.com, Overstock.com, Dell.com, GAP, RitzCamera, ABT, Buy.com and a lot more), you can download the free CJNiche Wordpress plugin at http://wpnicheground.com/)

3. WP Posting Mage Module:

Takes the content from sources selected in the Content Mage module and using keywords from a list, then creates thousands of posts at a click of a button.

WP Robot's equivalent functionality:

- Bulk Add Keywords feature lets you quickly add a large number of keywords and can also assign random posting intervals to them if you want similar to that offered by WP Mage.

- WP Robot includes a new MIX feature allows you to mix content from different modules with each other. By utilizing that you can for example add related thumbnails from Flickr to the article posts WP Robot creates automatically. Or you can include a related eBay auction below each Yahoo Answers post in order to monetize your blog even better. The possibilities are huge. Currently this feature is offered by the eBay, Youtube and Flickr modules.

(Note: WP mage enables a back posting feature that allows you to back-date your posts up to 4 years ago and also forward-date them to essentially drip feed content. WP Robot only allows you to forward post.)

4. CP Mage Module:

This is the WP Mage site manager. CP Mage (combined with the WP Mage engine) takes the headache out of creating and managing sites.

WPmanagerDX application provides all of the above -

with WPmanagerDX…it goes like this:

Step 1: Log into WPmanagerDX
Step 2: Click on Add New Project
Step 3: Fill in blog details
Step 4: Submit

Total time… less than 1 minute! Literally, you can watch the database get installed, WordPress uploaded and configured, plugins uploaded and activated, themes uploaded and main theme chosen, in only a few seconds.

With WP ManagerDX, you can create 12 blogs in a single hour (if you use the Single Install feature), with zero stress and very little work at all. ALSO you can use the Batch Install feature allowing you to install as many blogs you want in one go.

The real power is what you can do with centralized control. Things like this:

- Update multiple blogs all at once. For example, you can update any number of blogs with a new theme at the same time (a new feature in WP ManagerDX).

- Manage all aspects of each blog. That means you can edit everything for each one, including activating plugins

- Create as many blog templates (called Projects) as you want. Manage these in a convenient list, and generate new niche blogs from them anytime you want…with all the info pre-filled for you automatically.

- Generate multiple blogs at multiple sites from multiple Projects in minutes. (it is recommended that you install your blogs on the same hosting account)

- Backup and restore your databases. You can configure the software to backup every one of your blogs to your computer automatically…and restore whenever you need to.

- Manage all your themes and plugins in one place. You can add more, remove ones you don't need, etc.

So that's it – simply get WP Robot and WPmanagerDX and you can get the same results compared to WP Mage.

(Note: It is not absolutely essential that you buy both WP Robot and WPmanagerDX together … depending on your budget, you can get WP Robot first and then when your blog empire expands, get WPmanagerDX).

To get WP Robot – CLICK HERE.

To get WPmanageDX – CLICK HERE.

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