Article-Generator Component

This native Joomla 1.5 component automatically generates new articles with own keywords by pulling text from any feed-source you want. It gives you the ability to set many different configurations for each feed-source. It keeps you’re site fresh and gives you’re visitors something to read and you have nothing to do. All is done by an cronjob - every 5 minutes, if you wish. It filters the feed-sources by keywords, generates a new article which automatically has own keywords, removes links, link-texts or images - if you want, adds advertising which you can change at any time you want, integrates the original article with an lightbox-effect and refreshes your own website-feed. There are many options to make it possible with every feed-source you want. The new articles improve your page SEO and make your site win positions in the search engines. Article-Generator is fully configurable and each feed-source can be configured with different parameters.

With these many options each article can be customized to your website and content and the new articles are added to your website just as if you wrote them yourself:

*post as different user
*choose section and category
*store original Author name in the article
*choose access group for the article
*show on frontpage
*expiration for the article from 7 days to 1 year (in predefined steps)
*auto-unpublish
*posting of original date
*set Feed-Date as created date
*insert advertising-field which you can change later for all written articles
*filter feed-source by keywords / negative keywords (to ignore posts)
*cut the article at any tag
*full text fetch on feeds that support it
*show intro with advert and no readmore
*show intro and then advert in readmore
*show intro and then fulltext with advert in readmore
*show intro in readmore or not
*Links inside the feed content are set with nofollow to improve SEO
*delete links or links and link-texts in intro or fulltext
*delete links from images in the feed content
*delete images in intro or fulltext
*switch Feed-Intro and Feed-Fulltext
*include link to original-article
*open original-article-link in Lightbox, Slimbox, Shadowbox or Squeezebox
*set JCE params like width and height
*use curl or fsockopen
*posting without repeating an article by checking the title
*Duplicate avoidance which is very useful for SEO purposes
*choose number of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*choose minimum length of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*blacklist of SEO-Keywords for the new article
*activate cronjob on the server or on www.cronjob.de to generate articles around the clock

On these websites you can see how it works:
http://www.mctrading.de/
http://www.steuer-nachrichten.com/
http://www.finanzen-nachrichten.com/
http://www.versicherungsvergleich.org.uk/
http://www.suchmaschinen-optimierung-seo.org/

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It's really pity that none of your demos have are in English. The Best part is all the reviews written here are in English and they say your product is good. . I would have written this in your forum but I could not read the site.

I just didn't want to spoil your rating so i gave 5, but It would have been nice if your site was in English...
Owner's reply

thank you!!! now available in any language you like

This extension was exactly what I was looking for. I am a novice Joomla user but I was able to get up and running within 15 minutes and start feeding my articles. When I ran into an issue and emailed Matthias, he got back to me very quickly and was very helpful.

Keep up the good work!
This component successfully pulls in articles from RSS feeds, however as others have noted it's lacking in documentation, with a number of back-end configuration settings that have no explanation. There also appears to be no easy way to change the way article intros are formatted, with a forced two column layout (image + text) that looks poor if there are no images in the feed.
Considering that is a commercial product, although not expensive, it lack of decent documentation, that would make the product easier to use even for neebie to joomla.
It does the job to feed the article list with no frills. At least for me, i found difficult to renders the articles.
If you are a newbie to joomla perhaps it is too complicated. :-)
byianosull on October 12, 2009
I think this product is brilliant! If you want content this is the product, I am not joomla savy at all however it is up and running and collecting content automatically fro my site.
I contacted Matthais and he helped with the installation I have to give a 5 out of 5 for customer service and speed.

* I would recommend this product to anybody.

Ian O’
Have it working for more than a week now, it just does the job and does it right! Opening an unlimited possibilities as for how to improve your site! With the detailed instructions sent in the installation pack it is impossible to fail installing or running it, even for a person with not so much experience! Excellent support too!
Respect and best wishes, Matthias!
byonesoundflyer on September 29, 2009
I am a beginner with Joomla. I was somewhat intimidated by this component, but thought that it offered a great deal for the modest price. After installation I was having trouble getting the cronjob to function properly. One email and the support was tremendous...up and running smoothly...I highly recommend this product!
bybraqets on September 29, 2009
Article generator is a greate idea, a good component but not enough to be a paid one. The thing that need to be improved is to have the possibility of adding automatically the Read more after certain words (i.e after 30 words). When I get full articles from feeds, I get published the full article on the front end and when clicking on "Read more" I get two twin articles in the same page because it adds the "read more" at the end of the article, no matter how big it is.
byCladon on September 15, 2009
This component does exactly what i need for my website!The support of the owner was fast and helped a lot!Simple to use,great results! Highly recommend this!
bypava on September 7, 2009
Very clever and user friendly component with many setting. Support great, no mistake.
byzervin on September 2, 2009
Loving this tool. I have gotten good response times from the author as well. He normally responds within 24hrs sometimes faster. Would recommend.
This component works well, does exactly what it says on the tin. I had a small issue as a result of my server's php settings. I used the contact form on the user's site and had a response within a couple of hours. Problem solved. Worth every penny of the very small amount of money requested by the developer. Full marks.
byneokraf on August 30, 2009
This product is a must have as it is excellent and works beautifully. Customer service was top notch.

I had problems setting up a cronjob as the site where I was to set it up was in German.

Contacted Matthias and he got back to me in record time with detailed instructions.

Many thanks Matthias, you are an asset to the Joomla community!
This Component works great; and Developer offers his/her support in Excellent way. Deeply impressed! May the Developer develope more grat Joomla component/plugin/Module to benefit global Joomla-er and get successful business
Matthias is DA MAN. Very proactively helped me even thou I told him I very new to the Joomal. Extension is soo easy to intall and configure that a person like me who heard about Joomla a week ago, is able to install and configure it in not time. Customer support is best to none. If you are News site, you need this.
I've purchased all the components in this category and this one has the best features by far. For the 14 bucks this component costs you could not go wrong.

There are only three things that this component lacks:

1. An English support site
2. The keyword filter does not work so essentially all entries that are pumped out from an rss feed will get published as an article regardless of the keywords you enter in the positive keyword filter.
3. When you view the articles(items) before you post, the tool should include a delete option to remove specific entries so that they do not get pushed to articles.

Other than these 3 setbacks, this is the best automatic articles component in the market right now for joomla. This is why I gave it a good review and not an excellent review.
bywickerbill on August 5, 2009
For those looking to offer news on their website this is the ticket. Automate with a cronjob or use his recommended web address to do it. Both work equally well. We are using it to bring in local news on the hour and it works great. Layout on the Front page or link to a section or category. A multitude of options make your page into a news factory. If you are updating your news from feeds by hand you are working in the dark ages. Support is prompt and very helpful. An excellent component for an excellent price. Thank you!
bymarcdiks on July 30, 2009
This component is working perfect. And if you have an question you got an answer within 6 hours!

Easy way to create articels and modify the way you like. Saves me hours of time a week.
Long time ago I was looking for a component like this, its so great and perfect.

also they offer good and quick support.

I had an issue with the time delays and contact support they solve it in a minuets.

I really recommend this components.
byrandyintally on July 25, 2009
I was a little skeptical that this extension would do what it had advertised. Man was I wrong! Very well thought out and executes perfectly. Search engines are crawling all this rich content as we speak. Developer was extemely helpful answer all my questions. A MUST HAVE for anyone that needs content and enjoys good rankings. Thanks Matthias!!!
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