Why most people fail with autoblogging?

[Adam James]

How do you monetize your sites? you have gone into great detail on the tools and how you promote the site but I thing it would be great if you could touch on the best ways to setup your affiliate offers.

Obviously wp-robot takes care of the that in the posting, what do you find best amazon or commission junction? or does it depend on the product?

What I really want to know what else do you use banners, pop exits etc etc?

If you could share how you set this up would help alot of us out doing auto blogging.

Thanks

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by Adam James

How do you monetize your sites? you have gone into great detail on the tools and how you promote the site but I thing it would be great if you could touch on the best ways to setup your affiliate offers.

Obviously wp-robot takes care of the that in the posting, what do you find best amazon or commission junction? or does it depend on the product?

What I really want to know what else do you use banners, pop exits etc etc?

If you could share how you set this up would help alot of us out doing auto blogging.

Thanks

I did write how I monetize my autoblogs, but I didn't go into details , I guess its because I feel I'm not putting enough energy into testing monetization... I should have split tested all types of monetization to find which work best for each site, but I always find myself reluctant to "waste" the income I already have (since it is a quite complicated split testing and it will take time to get significant results).

Anyway, I use mainly AdSense, CB/CJ offers and Amazon. I pick for each site the monetization type that looks most promising to me, if it performs poorly I replace it. I always put the offers at the begining of the posts.

One important thing is, although most posts are targeted as long tails, at times some posts get specially high traffic, in that case if the keyword that trigger that traffic has a suitable product I write that post as a presale to the product I chose.

[richard29]

If you are focused on using autoblogging software or a wordpress plugin that automatically updates your blogs, then there are a few pieces of advice that you need to pay attention do.

While autoblogging may seem like the easiest thing in the world, there is a reason that some people are making a lot of money while others fail.

Donʼt get me wrong, autoblogging is profitable when done right, but there is often a fine line that you must
tiptoe.

Thanks

[guruslasher]

Since these plugins are server-based it should work on all platforms including mac osx, correct?

[Adam James]

Thanks for all this great information this post is becoming a great reference for auto blogging, how long once setup do you expect you auto blogs to start making money?
1 month?
2 months?

Thanks

[bloggerhaq]

thank you for the information about auto blogging,which is very useful to the new website creators

[simmoncruz]

Some People Fail With Autobloging Because Autoblogging is the term we use to create blog content automatically, unlike the handwriting of individual posts. In the case of AutoBlogged, you can create a post based on the contents of the second RSS feed.

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by Adam James

Thanks for all this great information this post is becoming a great reference for auto blogging, how long once setup do you expect you auto blogs to start making money?
1 month?
2 months?

Thanks

I think I'm conservative in the way I build and treat autobloggs, after 2 months my autoblog will have ~100 posts, which is nothing for an autoblog - it should aim for lots of content to hit many longtails.

So, no, in most cases I will see NOTHING within 2 months, some of my 2 months autoblogs get as low as 0-20 UV/day!

I start seeing money after ~6 months, at that time my autoblogs will have ~500 posts and some decent SEO. So, it does take time until you start seeing money with autoblogs if you build it slowly, BUT the income will increase ALL the time (more and more posts, more and more longtails ranking in the SEs those more and more traffic).

On the other hand I stumbled upon an autoblog which is 3 months old,got 48K indexed pages in google. On first glance it looks ameture but for now it has impressive index rate and alexa ranking. So I guess some non-conservative methods do work well...

[Buyseech]

I am still experimenting with autobloging. Am adding my own articles as well and bookmarking and backlinking mostly them and the domain. So far nothing drastic ( after 1 month ) almost no visitors. No money. But the IC is growing nicely ( everything gets and stays indexed .... for now ). I am not blasting it with 10 articles a day. My niche is not a huge one, so articles with similiar title are a pain in the neck, but still 5 articles a week is fine.

Will report on the progress in a few months.

[Adam James]

Awesome information I have started a few autoblogs so looking forward to grow them nice and slow to see some long term results, how many keywords do you usually target for each blog? And what keyword tool do you use to do this?

Thanks in adavance.

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by Adam James

Awesome information I have started a few autoblogs so looking forward to grow them nice and slow to see some long term results, how many keywords do you usually target for each blog? And what keyword tool do you use to do this?

Thanks in adavance.

I target as many keywords as I can find that are even remotely related for my niche. If I created an autoblog about "weight loss for actors", I'll try to dig as many keywords as I can , but I will also put other more general weight loss keywords (like famous people weight loss, etc.). I'd like eventually my autoblog to increase each day by 10 new posts for as many years as possible...

I use scrapebox for this.

[Adam James]

Wow you use lots of tools trying to keep up with them all, do you use scrapebox just for the keyword tool? or do you use it to build backlinks as well?

Can you please share how you use scrapebox fully?

Thanks

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by Adam James

Wow you use lots of tools trying to keep up with them all, do you use scrapebox just for the keyword tool? or do you use it to build backlinks as well?

Can you please share how you use scrapebox fully?

Thanks

I use SP only for scraping, for my autoblogs I scrape for the keywords trying to fish the longest tails possible by pingponging the results back as the seed keywords.

[Amys101place]

I've got an autoblog I'd sell for $100 at question-mark.org.. complete with the wprobot3 plugin and set to auto-update. I just have too many sites! Good site to experiment with if you want to get into autoblogging. I've got several, but they take about a year before I start seeing decent income from them (just relying on the long tail and not really promoting at all). Overall though, auto blogging works if you make it your focus. I've got one site in particular that has just recently started showing a decent profit.

[HaRrY84]

Hey @enderZ and what about the feeds marketing (submission to feeds directories) to create auto backlinks to your auto blogs every time the get uptade. Had you test this strategy to rank high in search engines?

[enderZ]

Felt I should address Googles latest fight against "content farms".

The bad news:
Google said load and clear they intend to eliminate content farms, and in any way you look at it, autoblogs are no doubt content famrs.

The good news:
If you build your autoblog the smart way you'll probably be ok. None of my autoblogs were affected by the latest algo change and according to my fellow autobloggers most of them weren't heart.

Whats the secret to stay safe?
I don't know the full answer, but I think its about:
Slow building (limit the daily post to ~5 new posts a day).
Size does matter (don't create autoblogs with more than 2000 posts, I try to limit mine to ~1500).
Hmmm... did I mention building backlinks?

Hope it helped

[lamavridis]

I like Autoblog Samurai you are able to customize the content and when you purchase the program they offer a complete and simple step by step guide on what to do. Even better its not that expensive. In anything though you get what you put into it. There is some work required before you post to your blog. For example good keywords and some good original content should be used also.
Lisa

[enderZ]

Fast update:
My autoblogs (and I hear it happens also with my friends) are getting more traffic than ever, as I stated above I think the small autoblogs got better out of latest googles update.

But, I personally decided to change my business plan, and I put less and less effort and energy into the autoblogs, after I realised google won't approve these kind of sites I don't want to play cat-mouse with them.

Anyway, there are lots of other things to do as Internet entrepreneur, here is my latest:
Top 100 Writers (Beta Stage) | Top 100 Writers

I think its the opposite twin to autoblogs

[mberam]

Does anyone know of a good step by step guide or Ebook that will walk you through setting up a successful autoblog? Something that explains every little detail and shows you how to do it?

Enderz - You should write one! I would buy it! I'd pay good money for something like this. I have so many questions!

[TomScarn]

Has anyone else seen any kind of increase in rankings with their autoblogs since the google farmer update? Went from #6 on page 1 to #2.

[BobbyWalker]

My personal opinion on Autoblogging is...it works as long as the content is high quality and the SEO is in place..

Google is trying to rid the search engines of mass scraped content that has little or no value to the reader...

Micro sites are find to build and you'll have great success with them as long as they are high quality and you have a steady streams of high quality backlinks..

thx,
bobby


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Originally Posted by enderZ

Some of my online properties are my autoblogs, I must thank the warrior forum for this, cause I first learnt about autoblogging in this forum, created my first autoblogs with the help of the countless great posts here about autoblogs.

When I first learnt about autoblogging I was so excited: "Im going to create a blog that take care of himself and its going to take care of my financial future", I can't imagine a better way to make money than this!! Money machines here I come...

My first autoblog was banned from google in less than a month it was created. After that I thought autoblogging is a myth and kept away from these nusty-easy banned machines for about a year.

But, something tickled my fingers, autoblogging sounded so romantic to me

I tried again, and failed ~10 times before I had my first successful autoblog (it made ~3$/day for several months before I had the nerve to call it a success).

Today, after 2 years Im earning a nice income from autoblogging (no, it is not my main IM source of income, but it is the one I love the most) I know why most people fail with autobloggin:

If you tried autoblogging and failed 99.999% it is because:

You didn't give it the respect it deserves!!!

Most people (in the past - me at the top) disrespect their autoblogs, it starts with the thinking "let the donkey work as hard as it can, if it fails not too bad, let it die, anyway I like horses better".

The fact that a blog is automatic doesn't mean you don't need to put some effort and thinking in its design, niche selection, keyword selection and the most important thing:

SEO.

Myth - long tail keyword don't need SEO they will be ranked high cause they are long tail, since autoblogs aim to long tails, no need to SEO it = BULL****.

The reason MOST of us fail/failed in autoblogging is because we didn't do enough (or at all) SEO.

Can you imagine creating a money site, writing good content, thinking about it, loving and caring it and after its online doing none/almost none SEO and expecting to earn money from it?

Today I know that autoblogging is one of the easiest ways to earn money online (the fact its the easiest doen't mean it is easy... ), but like in ANY buisness you need to do it right.

In autoblogging there are several things you need to do right. As I wrote I started from information in this forum, it is loaded with it, but knowing what I went through on my journey to a successful autoblog net, and reading what people are talking about, I'm sure most of the "things you should do to success in autoblogging" are done by most people. Most people don't go the one (or two) extra step needed to make this beast work properly.

Today I have my autoblogging empire, my average income is 10$/day/blog, it happened when I started respecting my autoblogs, this respect made me put some effort into them, small effort that made the difference, one of the most important things I did is to put some SEO into them.

SEO your autoblogs and they will pay you for it

I don't want to sound like you can create an autoblog and all you need to do is to SEO it and your troubles are over, FAR from it.

I say you need to do it right, I say it is not rocket science to create a good autoblog, but still it requires some knowledge and effort. I say after you have an autoblog think - if it was my money site, what extras would I do?

I can keep on bubbling about autoblogs endlessly, but there is too much to say, most/all of it was already written in this very forum, but if you guys want to shoot me with some questions, I'll
try to help... After all I owe my autoblogs success to this forum

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by TomScarn

Has anyone else seen any kind of increase in rankings with their autoblogs since the google farmer update? Went from #6 on page 1 to #2.

Yeap, it looks like that small autoblogs (less then 2000 posts) got SERP boost.

[Rally Writer]

Originally Posted by enderZ

Yeap, it looks like that small autoblogs (less then 2000 posts) got SERP boost.

Thanks for the tip enderZ,

I think I will implement this method to my slow moving sites.

[Rally Writer]

Originally Posted by mberam

Does anyone know of a good step by step guide or Ebook that will walk you through setting up a successful autoblog? Something that explains every little detail and shows you how to do it?

Enderz - You should write one! I would buy it! I'd pay good money for something like this. I have so many questions!

Hi mberam,

check out the link for step-by-step guide to autoblogging by S Pierce

mrmi-freeoffer

Hope this helps