Autoblogging - what exact is it?

[ulcseminary]

I have been reading about auto-blogging.

What exactly is it?

I know that might sound dumb, but I thought I understood it, but I really don't.

[ulcseminary]

So nobody can tell me what auto-blogging is?

[yukon]

Most times (not always) it's one guy scraping another websites content that they don't own.

Wordpress & blogger have plugins (ways) to scrape content.

Be careful, you piss off the wrong webmaster & your running Google Adsense, I'll be surprised If Google doesn't ban your Adsense account.

Auto-blogging can be done in a legit way (most people don't do this).

If you have hundreds-thousands of pages of content off-line, you can create an auto-blog & schedule a single blog post each day for 1-2 years, all on auto-pilot once it's setup.

[ulcseminary]

I don't use adsense much. I schedule blog posts to post in the future and I rotate my posts to get re-indexed, which really seems to work, btw, but I don't do auto-blogging.

I just heard people talking about and I didn't know what it was. Thanks.

[simpleonline1234]

Auto blogging is either ripping content from someone's website by RSS feeds or using other methods or drip feeding pre written content to you site using a scheduler.

If it's your own content then your fine since you won't run the risk to tripping the ever growing Google Panda algorithm that is sweeping the net.

If your running a scraper then I won't be get pissed if you wake up one morning to find your entire site dropped from the rankings.

But that's just my 2 cent on auto blogging

EDIT: Oh and if your using Adsense then you might as well be shooting off flares to the Google team.

[ulcseminary]

I thought RSS feeds were at least in part, intended as a way for people to post content on their sites. I have a bunch of related RSS feeds that I use for my forum.

It gives the original content a link back and all, so I didn't think of that as stealing it, since the original site gets a link. Is it still the same if you're giving the author link credit?

[Targeted Traffic]

Well...it won't make you rich on its own, and is only as good as the skill and thought with which it is used. On the other hand, it can be a very useful addition to your marketing armory, and can make blogging just that little bit simpler.

3 keys to autoblogging success are:

* a good mix of your own content and good quality syndicated content

* a reliable plugin, AND...

* ALWAYS preserving the original author's own links. Anything less will land you in hot water!