google and autoblogs

[Deanna Taber]

Originally Posted by Aaarrrggghhh

Well said.

Again, if you are doing autoblogs, it is about RELEVANCY. If you can deliver RELEVANT information, be it products, reviews, listings, etc., your site will do just fine.

You don't have to be a writer to be a great editor and organizer of RELEVANT information

I totally agree! I also believe that choosing the correct niche can make or break you. I have seen many people try to build autoblogs in a saturated niche and then throw their hands up because it (meaning the niche) did not work, so they figure autoblogs don't work for them.

My advice is, try a different niche.

I completely get where some of these people come from, the ones having difficulty with autoblogs.

My quick beginners tale...

Bought 20 domains because I wanted to make BANS- build a niche store. Hated the software- now I had 20 empty domains with Ebay niche's. Quickly installed autoblogs and did not see much success, maybe a few hits on adsense. I got tired of messing with them and sold all of them in a package deal to a buyer on another forum, for a descent chunk of change.

Knuckled down and learned some keyword research and didn't go after the saturated niche's (call it low hanging fruit). Guess what-I found success! Not just with adsense but Amazon and cpa offers as well.

The point being- it may not be your autoblog-It may be the niche that you have targeted.

And one other point- the thing I have seen with at least several of my autoblogs, is that I do not have to heavily promote them. I will assume that is because of good keyword research.

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by Aaarrrggghhh

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You don't have to be a writer to be a great editor and organizer of RELEVANT information

This is the vital key that makes the difference
between an average blog, and a blog that will
wipe the floor with its competitors. Most auto
bloggers (software and humans) completely
miss this point.

Glenn

[joetheseo]

Originally Posted by es5

The penalize for duplicate content, and moreover, filter duplicate content.

This is false.

Google will only penalize "duplicate content" (which doesn't really exist by the way - according to Google) if you are trying to rank for the same keyword that someone else is.

IE If I copy a ezine article and place it on my website, the LSI will rank it for the same keyword. Also if the Title is the same, this is even worse.

Autoblogs are fine if you use them correctly.

Duplicate content doesn't exist.

Good game.

[hinduhead]

thanks for this great information from everybody...

another question ive been pondering is if you create multiple autoblogs in the same niche, should you link them all together?

only reason i ask is i have about 4 autoblogs in the same niche that are scraping content from the same sources... so the blogs pretty much have the exact same content except for the static page.

will google catch on to this?

[Groovy99]

Originally Posted by gotdmw

thanks for this great information from everybody...

another question ive been pondering is if you create multiple autoblogs in the same niche, should you link them all together?

only reason i ask is i have about 4 autoblogs in the same niche that are scraping content from the same sources... so the blogs pretty much have the exact same content except for the static page.

will google catch on to this?

When I do it I change the keyword targets around with minimal overlap.

[dmayne]

Lots of good info here folks. Thanks. Researching keyword background info today.

[Deanna Taber]

One of my favorite but not the only one to use:Gimme a Niche! By Dan Abbamont - Keyword finding tool for AdSense, etc.

Maybe will give you some hints.

[hinduhead]

Originally Posted by Groovy99

When I do it I change the keyword targets around with minimal overlap.

well they are different keywords but same niche... is this what u mean by this?

[Groovy99]

Originally Posted by gotdmw

well they are different keywords but same niche... is this what u mean by this?

every niche market I have ever looked at has many keywords that get you sales with some being better than others. split the best keywords up among your autoblog sites with their own sets of satellite keywords to make your sites slightly different from each other...or not.

[simbur]

Thanks all for your info, you have put my mind at ease, since I received a bit of a scare yesterday about Google putting the "smackdown" on duplicate content. I have a WordPress blog, it uses WP Robot, and I have striven to make all the content, weather it be articles, press releases, youtube videos, yahoo answers and new, etc, all as relevant as possible, as well as breaking them up into different categories.

Thanks again.