Autoblogs for AdSense as a startup

[KruKim]

Hi,

I am quite new to IM as posted before, but do have some core knowledge and finished number of quality courses.

This time I have a question- would it be feasible to buy 10 auto pilot niche autoblogs for around 270$? AMS~1500, CPC~1$+, CR~1-2%. I am planning to make at least 1$ a day from them. They all have a 90 days money back guarantee and some backlinking and traffic generation involved, which is really sweet for a starting guy like me.

BUT, I am willing to work on them and add other monetizing techniques instead of leaving them on autopilot. I am also thinking about list building and custom product sales. I want to work on content, traffic generation, articles, products, SEO and etc. Basically, I want to work hard and get involved in development of these small blogs.

So the question is- taking into account that I am willing to work hard on these blogs, is it a reasonable investment?

Also, if someone did buy those small adsense farms on WF, could you share some of your experience? Any tips and advice? Anything I should know before to buy those? Any information would be appreciated.

I think many newbies like me, who want to start in IM, would be very grateful for your input, senior warriors.

[getano]

I think that for starter autoblogs Adsense is the best solution. Maybe after some time you can add some affiliate offers.
A quick tip: be careful how you place the ads because now Google uses as a ranking factor the content/ads ratio. You gotta love Panda!
You can get more info in this article (from SEOmoz): An SEO Guide to Adsense, Ads and Placement | SEOmoz

[hamzah3]

Forget about it.Autoblogs just steal content from internet and then post it .It's not unique content .And I hope as a person related with IM you've most probably heard about Panda Update and the recent update in november.Now google has penalized most of the sites where content is of low quality.And I think almost all of the autoblogs fall in this category .After panda update many big and established sites such as ezinearticles and hubpages have seen their traffic drop by more than 50%.So, in my opinion spending money on these autoblog programs is a waste of time and money

[Adie]

As early as now, forget the term "autoblog". Create at least 1 niche site and focus content rich keywords. Once successful, repeat the process over and over again. Autoblogs will give you no earning but problems... It may also put your adsense account in trouble..

[giddu]

You can start building autoblogs but it has become difficult to rank autoblogs unless you are doing somethig exceptional. If you really want to put effort i would suggest you to go for building sites with unique articles. Do a proper keyword research, make a cool design, post some unique articles and start doing link building. It's really worth knowing those things if you want to make money online. However, it may take time but once you know how to do it, it's really not that difficult.

[Dr Joe]

Originally Posted by Adie

As early as now, forget the term "autoblog". Create at least 1 niche site and focus content rich keywords. Once successful, repeat the process over and over again. Autoblogs will give you no earning but problems... It may also put your adsense account in trouble..

All have been said here, autoblogs in my experience are also nothing but problems.

[Sparda]

Yeah, never touch autoblogs. They were the stuff of legends(I wonder if those legends were mostly false) a while back, but they didn't last much.

[KruKim]

Thank you guys for replies. Although, I think you have missed my point- I am going to post unique content to these sites- not the autocontent software. I will also build links and do other traffic generating techniques. I am also willing to implement lists.

So what I am willing to do is transform the niche autoblog to a fully custom unique content website. The question is- won't the niche be too small for this?Do you think this will work? Besides, the content will be preloaded with 2 unique articles. The good side of this is that on the initial presale startup I get SEO done and links built for me, as well as money back guarantee.

[KruKim]

Doesn't that software which you promoted in your last post does the same micro niche website?

[rooze]

I wouldn't buy 10 of anything if I was planning to put unique content on at a rate that's going to get noticed. I'd buy two, setup Wordpress sites, write 100 articles/posts of between 500 and 2000 words each, and schedule their release on the first site over a 4 week period. Write an excellent home page for both sites then start on some backlinking. But don't fall into the nasty, spammy back links to your main URL, filter them through several Web2.0 sites. Do some article syndication with the content you've written as soon as you see it in Google's index. If you do the above properly it will take you 3-4 weeks then you can start to build the content on site #2. You'll have the benefit of it already being indexed, so now you can start on the content before you think about adding more to your portfolio. After 6 weeks you can look for some results. If it's a train-wreck and you're getting nothing, you only have two sites to dispose of and not 10. As for cost, if you can setup a basic WP site and add widgets etc, you shouldn't need to pay more that $7/mth for no-contract hosting that will allow you to host unlimited sites (which is OK so long as you're not interlinking them). So you're only out of pocket $14 in two months. You can spend another $50 on fiverr for some links, and $18 on article syndication and see where things are at.

If you need to pay someone to setup your blogs it should still be cheaper (and better) than your $270 options....there'll be a ton of people around here who can do it for you cheaply, hint hint.

[Dale21]

Originally Posted by KruKim

Doesn't that software which you promoted in your last post does the same micro niche website?

Well I don't know that I would call it the same as I have not seen the ones you were talking about. I did cite that as an example because it is building micro niche sites which is what you were interested in. I think it is a much better option for several reasons.

1. Instead of 10 for $270 you get as many as you want for $27
2. It is not autoblogging and will be set up properly from the start. Only takes a few minutes and you don't have to go and undo and rebuild.
3. Not only will it mount your adsense ads, but throw in Clickbank, Amazon and Peerfly and make a lot more money from your sites.

Again, there are plenty of other options around, I just don't see the value in spending good money on autoblogging sites when the first thing you have to do is 'unauto' them. (is that really a word, I dunno, lol)

Best of luck in whatever you do, hope this helps.

[Rsberg]

As an experieinced semi-autoblogger I would advise a fairly new IMer against autoblogging and here is why...

Autoblogging or any of the latest versions of it can be tricky business, even for the more experienced. There are so many variables that can quickly affect your success (or demise) when it comes to autoblogging and if you dont have a good grasp of how to approach it you could end up with a big mess on your hands.

This is not to say that autoblogging is dead, will automatically put your Adsense account in jepordy, is destined to fail...or any of the other things you will see posted by most people here. There are several of us who do well with it but it does require a fair amount of time and experience never hurts...not to mention the learning curve can be steep for a newbie.

As a newbie you would be better off with a more simple approach to IM. Get your feet wet in something more people have had success with, gain some much needed experience then venture into the harder avenues if you want (with a little well deserved cash from your other IM earnings to get you started).

Sorry if thats not the answer you wanted to hear but I feel it's an honest one.

Best of luck!
Robert

[RyanLB]

I have been having trouble getting autoblogs to rank well. This might just be me, but I prefer to build quality websites as they have an easier time ranking in the search engines.

[SerenityS]

Only problem that adsense might not like your autoblogs.

[KruKim]

Guys, thank you for your honest opinions. I have decided not to use the autoblogs, just use their design and micro niche and then add unique content manually, would you say this would work?

[Rsberg]

Originally Posted by KruKim

Guys, thank you for your honest opinions. I have decided not to use the autoblogs, just use their design and micro niche and then add unique content manually, would you say this would work?

What do you mean by "use their design"?

If you mean that you plan to drip feeding unique content that you load manually then that is fine, there are many people who do this with great success. There are different software packages out there that can help with this and if you dont want to spend the money you can always do this through wp by uploading and setting the date to publish...it just takes more work on your end but it has the same outcome.

[KruKim]

Originally Posted by Rsberg

What do you mean by "use their design"?

If you mean that you plan to drip feeding unique content that you load manually then that is fine, there are many people who do this with great success. There are different software packages out there that can help with this and if you dont want to spend the money you can always do this through wp by uploading and setting the date to publish...it just takes more work on your end but it has the same outcome.

I meant using the concept of niche autopilot blogs, but rather leaving them automated, post content manually. Could you please explain what is "drip feeding unique content" as I am not really qualified in terminology. What does it do?

EDIT:

Does this imply that from my collection of Articles I will be able to post them at certain date and time automatically? Or drip feeding also involves auto generated content?

[bitriot]

You can make an autoblog and be successful and loved by google but you *REALLY* need to provide value. A good example of an autoblog that provided good value to google and made lots of money is US Gulf Oil Spill Latest News and Updates

In general though, I would stay away. It is not worth risking your adsense account over.

[bitriot]

Double Post - removed.

[Rsberg]

Originally Posted by KruKim

Could you please explain what is "drip feeding unique content" as I am not really qualified in terminology. What does it do?

EDIT:

Does this imply that from my collection of Articles I will be able to post them at certain date and time automatically? Or drip feeding also involves auto generated content?

It doesnt have to be auto generated content, it can be any content you set up in your post (auto generated, unique, videos, pictures...etc etc).

Drip feeding (in the sense that I used the term) means you can manually load your unique content to your blog and during the loading phase you can select the date you want it to actually post to your site. So for example, if you load 10 articles to your site all at once you can set them to post at different dates and times. They would basically be drip fed to appear on your site over the specified timeline you set.

[ganang]

Dripe Feed unique content is good. But it still not considering autoblog. And autoblog is useless this day, Google has notice about this low quality site as everyone is talking.

I'm now focus one quality site, so far my site earning around $ 5/days for just 1 site. gona expand it. but it need at least 2 month to rank well.

good luck,
ganang

[KruKim]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson

What exactly is autoblog? Every website can become "auto-" it just depends on the competition.

If your competition is sleeping and you have #1 ranking for all the keyword you've wanted you can treat you blog as automated.

But this will not happen often or for many keywords.


I suggest getting into micro niches! Those can bring you earning without many maintenance.

Thank you for you responses guys.

This is exactly what I am trying to do- create several micro niche websites/blogs (around 1500 searches max pcm with low google page 1 page rank competition), fill them in with unique content, outsource SEO for baclinks and link wheel on week 2-3, and then once or twice a week post a unique content on them. The monetization of these will be through AdSense, CB, List Building and maybe amazon/peerfly.

So refering to term autoblog I was meaning that these blogs will generate automatic income with almost zero intervention from my side. The only thing is crucial here, as someone here already noticed that- List building is the core to make good money, and therefore I am willing to establish value relationship as well with my subs.