You will have noticed I have been raving about the commission automator plugin that I am super impressed with. I think you should buy i if you have any blogs that sell stuff. Anyway, the plugin has several options for how often you add offers to your blog.

Since I wanted to see it in full action I had it posting a lot of offers to this blog over 24 hours. Trouble with that was that it made the real articles get buried way down under all those offers. Now the sensible thing would be to switch to just publishing an offer every couple of days or maybe once a week but I started thinking about another possibility. What if I could add a second blog to this one that only published the offers and let you switch between the two!

I started to experiment and installed a second blog in another directory and set it all up and whilst it appeared to work just fine there was a problem with the fact that if you clicked on the header of a post on the Offers blog it took you back to the main blog,

I did a quick search online but the only thing I found were questions from people who had suffered a similar problem and hadn't apparently solved it. So, I put my thinking cap on and had a lightbulb moment. You know? One of those moments when if life was a cartoon a big speech ballooon with a picture of a lightbulb would have appeared over the top of my head.
The solution lay in the htaccess file.

If you use permalinks to change the name of your post as it appears in the address bar the server relies on the information in the htaccess file to tell it where to find the files and mine was reverting to the domain htaccess file which told it to look at the main blog installation.

So, to solve the problem all I had to do was to edit a copy of the htaccess file and save it to the new blog folder. I did this and bingo! Everything started working properly as intended.

So, now if you want to find the offers you can click on a link on the side menu and it opens a new window to the second blog on this domain with just the juicy offers there and I can keep all my, hopefully, interesting articles here and easier to find.

So, can you add a second blog on a domain, yes you can. In fact you could us the same database but I don't really see the need. I have always believed you should KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). I still recommend the commissions automator plugin for your blogs but it might be best if you only add offers every couple of days which is easy to set up which just one click. If you do want to publish more you can simply add another blog and do as I have done which keeps things tidy and uncluttered. I hope this has helped. Feel free to comment below.

UPDATE: Offers are now listed seperately here..Products For Sale (opens in a new window so you can easily return after looking)

I want all my visitors to be aware that I am currently running a wordpress plugin on this site which publishes offers for products automatically. I don't even see the offers before they are published and so you should not consider them recommendations from me. If they are listed as being in the 'Auto Posted Offers' category I may not even have seen the offer myself so you should do your own due diligence and decide if the offer is right for you or not.
The offers are for fairly low priced products that fulfill a specific purpose and if you feel that would benefit your website it may be a few dollars well spent.

The plugin appears to work very nicely. Released by Ken Reno and Richard Wing it is in the beta stage at the moment while they finalise the code ready for full public release. It's called Commissions Automator and it automatically makes posts to your WordPress blog of various offers for products related to websites and internet marketing. It also posts to your Twitter account, and even then the link contains your own affiliate ID, so you earn instant commissions, directly to your PayPal account on any sales made through your links.

The shocker is that instead of $67, they are letting BETA users get access right now for less than $5! For that money I am inclined to say you can hardly go wrong. One sale could easily pay for it and from what I have seen so far the offers are pretty good too.

There is another neat thing about using this tool and that is that your blog gets fresh content added regularly. They may only be offers but at least your blog won't be gathering dust if you leave it alone for a few days, or weeks. The only other thing to think about is how many offers you want to publish each day or every few days. It could easily swamp your own posts and bury them several pages deep in your blog if you have it posting too many offers but that is all part of experimenting what works best for your own blog. So far, I am very impressed and it gets my fullest recommendation and at the current price, it is, in the marketers words, A Steal!

You can take a look here and read more about it Commissions Automator

UPDATE: Offers are now listed seperately here..Products For Sale (opens in a new window so you can easily return after looking)