Hackbridge

I've had an email from a source with regard to Rob Benwell using "Auto Blog System X" with claims it will make thousands of dollars within days.

Has anyone bought this product or can tell me more?

I trust Rob, haven't bought any of his products but I believe he is a credible marketer. it would be good to know if it's an okay product.

Kind regards

Brian

allaboutthebenjis

I'm curious about it as well. I made a post about 2 weeks ago about Rob Benwell's other product the blogging to the bank premium blog already made and done for you and I and others haven't seen a thing happen yet. I don't know what to make of this Auto Blog System X...[IMG]http://********************/Bi/BN.gif[/IMG]

Blogging to the Bank PREMIUM BLOG Made For You

Hackbridge

Okay, it looks like I didn't do due dilligence. Rob's name has been mooted for being a young guy making a lot of money blogging, but I hadn't heard about the issues with BTTB Premium blogs.

I will wait to see what others have to say.

Thank you.

Brian

eholmlund

I purchased it so that I could review it. The main ebook is 60 pages long, approx 56 pages of real content which is a good amount IMO.

The techniques are very feasible. It requires a domain and hosting, and utilizes Wordpress.

He does recommend a few paid programs- one in particular that makes the process much easier. But it is not technically required.

The method is borderline spammy IMO, but anyone buying a product about AUTO blogging should expect that.

I will call BS on his scarcity limits though. He says he sold 15,000+ units of his previous product... he's publically advertising over $20k cash prizes to affiliates on this launch, and says on the sales page he's only gonna sell 250 units @ $37? I don't think so.

Hey I'm a scarcity marketer too, but that's overkill IMO.

Overall, I would say it's a good value at the price. If you're looking to get into auto-blogging, it's a good guide.

Life Mega

I'm about to "Tee off" here so batten down your hatches!

I did too and honestly wish I hadn't.

Yes, the techniques ARE feasible but that's because they've been proven to work and promoted successfully by other marketers for ages now. There is nothing new or original in this. As for requiring a domain and hosting and using Wordpress - that's pretty elementary.


I totally agree and I would say it's totally spammy and get this - I encountered 4 - 4!!! - upsells! The first for $297, the second for $77, the 3rd for $97 and I didn't even bother checking the price of the fourth. I HATE this kind of marketing.

Here, I totally disagree. I am sorry I purchased this but I was sucked in by the the combined claim of quick money, limited to 250 (got to be an outright lie) and the "guarantee" that if you don't make $1000 in 1 week he'll pay you $100 as well as a full refund.

Look, your mileage may vary and it may be that I'm just in a crap mood because I'm at home sick with a virus today. You might do brilliantly with this product, but I honestly I'm very disappointed.

If you want real value on Autoblogging look Carty's stuff HERE. Carty gives you a FREE guide and his software (which you do have to purchase) works. If you want something original and that works look at Gene Pimentel's Easy Domain Cash (which is getting results for me and where I'm currently focusing my efforts) or JDawk's Cynic Tube (I'm convinced this works and I'm starting it today) or anything by Sean Donahoe (who offers real, usable information, sometimes for free! The man is a walking goldmine of success strategies).

Please note: I get nothing out of talking up these other products and people.

Mods, I apologize if I've done the wrong thing here and please let me know if I've stepped out of line but I feel very strongly about this consistent offering of repackaged material sucking people in (like me! Ha!) through slick marketing. Give me honesty and integrity like those people mentioned above (and I'm sure there's more I could list - if you know of any please let others know) anyday.

I need to lay down. The virus is really taking effect and I'm getting the shivers.

Take care.

Chris
Life Mega

mario3

I'm pretty sure that Rob doesn't make money from blogging. He make millions by selling his own products (Blogging to the Bank 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 2010, Blogging Espionage and now Auto Blog System X).

beero

I tried this as well as the auto content upsell and although I'm new to IM I got horribly confused with the whole thing and wouldn't reccomend it at all

Gary Pettit

Auto Blog Blueprint is probably the most comprehensive and detailed program when it comes to autobloging...plus the owner keeps the membership updated as things change.

phmoisan

Hi affhelper,

Thanks for that little graphic. It speaks more than 1000 words.

Even then, I went to check Carty's autoblogging software. At that price, I changed my mind real fast. I don't want to lose that much money.

And your little graphic says the same thing that Ryan Deiss said in his pre-launch PTF videos.

mario3

Yeah, simply take Carty's software, start some blogger.com blogs and build your own autoblogging network. Nothing easier than that...and you don't need to pay MONEY for hosting or whatever.

phoenixx9000

This has to be the worst IM e-book I have ever read. And I've read a LOT!

Christopher Hansen

I've been impressed by the content and value received as a customer of autocontentcash.com.

candyeagle

I just got Rob's email about Auto Blog System X and thought I'd check here and IMReportCard.com before ordering. That's now a standard practice for me before getting anything anymore as I can be an IM junkie.

If anyone is still interested in his program, when I clicked off his sales pg I got a pg offering the program for $27.

Also, I tried his auto blogging program which was free but like allaboutthebenjis, haven't seen any benefit from it.

Blessings,

Candy
EagleSuccessGroup.com

magentawave

But IF (and that is a HUGE if!) your autoblogs were making the kind of money that guy says he is making then who the hell cares if they tank in a couple months! Is there something unique about that guys approach to autoblogging that no one else is doing - something that is able to generate that much money?

Steve

Ishan Soni

I hate courses where people are making $1k a day by selling 5 different clickbank products, and all that.

But in every new product, they say that "See how i make 1k a day with XYZ".

This is fake and it pisses me off because its not the truth. If you're selling a method, show how much money the specific method makes. Not how much money you make.

Jason Dolman

How do you explain Google News, Yahoo News, or any of the other news aggregation sites?

How do you explain Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, or any of the other entertainment aggregation sites?

affhelper

I think the answer is obvious. You can't compare some auto blog to Google news or Yahoo news. Google and Yahoo have "HUGE!!" amounts of unique content in other sections of their sites. Besides Yahoo and Google do it because they CAN and you CAN'T... simple as that.

The other ones have a nice brand going for them and lots of traffic that doesn't depend on Google or Yahoo, so therefor Google gives them love.

Some auto content site that you create from home will NEVER get the same treatment. PERIOD

James_Harkin

Hi

I was going to buy the offer for $27. But at the end of the day, if something is making someone hundreds of thousands of dollars then why would they offer their tried and tested system for $27? Unless the effectiveness of the system is at the end of its lifecycle I doubt if such a successful system would ever be made available at such a low price...

If I had a tried and tested system that lets say pulled me in a monthly revenue of just $5,000, I would sell the system for $1,997 and sell just 25 copies,verify the customer and have a non-disclosure agreement so they couldn't pass on the knowledge.

So I am always skeptical with systems that say they have earned so much money and then they come up with a price of $27 for the system. Plus, 250 copies sold at $27 is just $6,750 (less affiliate commissions). What is the point, a hard sell just for a small 4 figure revenue, unless there's something larger on the backend, there is none...

I got an email regarding fb siphon and that guys marketing is so full of holes, inaccuracies and lies, I wouldn't part with my money for that product either.

Just my thoughts...

Regards

James

mathewsps

Ya I always recommend Auto Blog Blueprint for a comprehensive system for auto blogging.

Jason Dolman

I don't think that Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes or the hundreds of video game review aggregation sites were created in a corporate environment. Lots of them started as small projects by an individual person... likely in their home.

You're right to say that Google and Yahoo! may not take too kindly to your auto blog or aggregator site, but that doesn't mean they all suck or the all don't work.

That kind of blanket logic doesn't hold water because you're speaking in absolute terms - all auto blogs suck and will eventually see their traffic dry up on a long enough timeline.

Although that might be true of some, it isn't true of all.

affhelper

Ok, some of those sites are aged and grandfathered in by Google. Just like articles directories, some are grandfathered in and get great treatment from Google, there is only a handful of those. Just imagine if we all started an article directory lol Try to start one now, see how that goes for you

There is still a way to publish auto content which is a little trick, but this is the ONLY way. First you build an authority site with great unique content and gain Google's trust. Then and ONLY then you can think of adding a section to your site with some automatic content added daily, while still adding unique content of course. That's the only way that works still but is not guaranteed either. I have seen sites stripped from page rank as soon as they start adding auto content.

It's NOT a good business model. In fact it won't even make you substantial money before it gets removed from Google's index or penalized. The good old days when that worked are OVER.

Seriously, build a good site that you are proud of and then maybe some time down the road you can add some auto content, but it needs to be done right and you need to keep it quiet if you do.

Some script that you buy from WSO section or from some marketer is not going to cut it. Something like that requires custom programming and NDA signed

Highdefinition

I hope I could read Rob Benwell's reply here soon

Ken Strong

Another review thread about this product:

Auto Blog System X - suckered again!

It's been closed because this thread was already here, but I'm posting it in case anyone wants to read more.

bfas

At first I thought you must have made a typo when you included Rotten Tomatoes, but as I thought about, I realized what you were trying to say.

I'm a fan and user of Rotten Tomatoes - I always check there before renting a movie.

But thinking about it made the difference clear to me: a site like RT has spent a great deal of money on site design, graphics, and backend CMS. The site is carefully crafted to pull together the 'right' information in the 'right' places, giving you a "meta-site", something more than the sum of it's parts.

And of course, sites like RT have active user communities that add a great deal of user-generated content in the form of reviews and comments.

In some ways, this is "auto-blogging" done right, however in order to "do it right" in this manner, there is a huge upfront investment in time, effort, and expense - not at all something amenable to scale.

bfas

Richnana

Those are also the two places I check now before I expend any cash. Every IM'er should check them also. They have saved me a ton of money.

Enfusia

For whatever it's worth (my 2 cents that is).

1. I have seen auto content tank sites and a few were mine. It is not the best feeling to have a site #1 and now not in the top 20 PAGES!

2. I think we should all remember that Google doesn't care about the marketer. They care about searcher experience. They know that if they have enough searchers wanting stuff, we will trip over our (fill in the _____) to get those eyeballs on our offers. So, they cater to the searcher.
The 800 pound Gorilla can rip your stinkin head off so why fight it when banana's are so much cheaper.

You give the monkey the banana and you get paid....What, there's a question?

That's my story and I'm stickin to it.
OP

coco james

IS IT hard for people to read a salespage like auto blog x that says ,i think it was 350 copy to sell. Then you go to the affilate side where he goes on about how many copy wiLL really be sold and with all the upsells.
Well i am a affilate but also a customer and i am so sick of being taken. I ALSO DONT LIKE TO SELL Crappy product. ARE THESE GURU, POLITIONS AS well??

artwebster

Sorry about starting a new stream but I didn't spot this one.

A short quote from the Auto Blog System X is as follows:-

"Auto blogs are one of the most closely guarded, underground methods for traffic generation and profit.
When done the right way, they work on absolute auto-pilot to feed content, traffic, and profits into your business.
Instead of writing each individual post to your blog, auto blogs allow you to create unique content from other people's work."

I have seen nothing in the ebook to show how unique content is created from the work of other people.

Another matter that is very swiftly glossed over is how you are supposed to utilise a list of thousands of keywords. Bearing in mind that the publicity that introduced me to this stated that I would receive $100 if I did not make $1,000 in the first seven days (no - I didn't believe it but hoped for 5% veracity) and it took me two days to research and create my first blog using the guidelines - a huge credibility gap yawned in front of me.

Ah, well, gullibility sells more than quality does, it seems.

rlaramli

I saw a link in my email on this product and thought it was a great product and wanted to purchase it. However, after reading this thread, I am having a second thought.
Thanks to all contributors to this thread.

PanamaRex

From the closed thread....
Auto Blog System X - suckered again!


This would be easier to administrate ... but the author suggests using a separate domain and IP address for each blog in case of getting slapped by the SERPS. If you were on one domain (or even IP address) all of your blogs could get slapped at one time.

D Baker

It never stops to amaze me...

Your are selling a system that made you over $200,000 in one month for $37 and you will offer a $10 discount if someone tries to exit the page... Doesn't that ring bells for you as soon as you see it?

I don't know how he can gaurantee anyone that they will make $1000 dollars in one week and I am not sure that is even legal (if I am wrong, sorry).

In any case, I will never buy anything that comes with such a ridiculous gaurantee. You simply can't gaurantee that. EVER!

The 250 limit is simply a joke. You are going through all the trouble of creating a product just to make $9,250 and that is only if you sell it alone with no affiliates. Does that sound possible to anyone?

I am so glad that the days I was suckered into buying such products are over. It is not about the money, more about the waste of time and the fact you lose focus with every new product you buy.

Just my thoughts...

Aristocratic

You are confused because this is not a real guide at all. It's a blueprint at best.

For someone who claims that others can make bank and he'll stake a c-note on it, he doesn't seem to really all know too well how to set up a profitable automated blog. The guide is pure theory. He even goes back on himself to say 'maybe not use that' in his guide! I'm sorry, but if you are the expert you claim to be, you should know exactly what we should and should not use.

He gives no real structure, order, or details; he tells you what plugins you can use and gives a brief description on them that you could find on their salespages or on the plugins' site. He doesn't tell you what to actually DO with them and how to set them up properly.

The videos are just as big a joke. They are JUST AS VAGUE, and at no point does he show a finished blog. The videos CONVENIENTLY skip over the mu-setup (because it really is a bit more difficult than the page he links to--yes, that's right, he doesn't even take the time out to tell you how to set it up yourself, he links you to a post on how to setup wp-mu in wordpress 3.0--as the page he links to does not address all the issues that can and will arise when you attempt to follow it). He also CONVENIENTLY sidesteps showing how to find a niche to start with. He gives an example he had already came up with as noted in the guide but doesn't say how he got to that example. There are a ton of ways to find good niches, and his is certainly not one of them; at least not completely--it's a step in the overall process, but by itself it will leave the novices clueless (even though he says on his salespage that you don't have to know anything to succeed with this 'guide').

I call BS on his entire package. I bought it too under the false pretense of the 250 only sold and the $100 guarantee. I am making every attempt to follow this guide, but as it has no real direction and is as vague as can be, it has been a struggle. I feel like I have been had (again--I'm used to it with these so-called 'experts' or 'gurus') and am willing to bet that he will have a 'good reason' NOT to honor his $100 guarantee. Heck, I'd rather be proven wrong, but I just can't seem to 'follow' his mess; I simply must interject my own knowledge of the field and I think that this alone will cause him to go back on his guarantee. But folks, there is no way in God's green earth that you will make any money within 7 days ATTEMPTING to follow his 'guide'.

Utterly disgusted.

Domainate

It seems the same as most IM guru offerings these days...someone who's an expert at making money selling info products creates a new info product pretending to be an expert at something he probably doesn't make a dime doing. Probably read a few websites about it and went "gee, I can just repackage some of these points into a product and act like I'm an expert on the subject, get my buddies with huge lists to sell it for me and voila!"

Online Domination

I agree. The owner is not the typical marketer who just wants your money. He provides great content and value, with an active forum and regular product updates. It's great!

ChickenMan

Glad I found this thread on WF. I actually saw Blogging to the Bank as a recommendation on Incomediary. A Google search, IMreportcard search, and a WF search told me everything I needed to know.

jijosunny

I've seen good positive reviews about that. As I love autoblogging, I must go through it. Thanks for the recommendation.

pavionjsl

He has a good copywriter. But got refund. He mentions making .50 to 1.00 a day per blog. 50,000.00 a week at 1.00 a day per blog.there is better results using Cartys tool.

Aristocratic

You spamming to get your post count up or just to reference your sig link? Or both? No one in this thread recommends this course, and I'd be wary of anyone who does because they are probably associated with the dude as the course is crap.

mario3

Not everything on this whole story is bad. The copywriting is really amazing...copy it for your products.

pgreenwo

Time for a little self scrutiny: If I have to come HERE to find out WHAT a product is before I buy it, then it's probably no good. And there are so many products out there that that it's best to respect the proababilities.

Try this: Look at again at the Auto Blog System X sales page and video. Now compare it to Market Warrior, Speed PPC, and Artisteer sites (none of these products are perfect, but they are very good!). Their sites tell you WHAT the product is.

As Warriors we need to master the yin and the yang of marketing - sure pressure stacking landing pages WORK (scarcity, 'proof', pressure stacking etc.), but in general they are not needed for high value products - and I mean value, not price. There are some folks who combine both approaches...but there are usually substitute products you can get for a lot less money.

AndrewStark

I do think that the scarcitry tactic used on the salespage is total BS and if he keeps to the guarantee I will buy for $27 to get $100 back.

Looking at the spam comments on my blog at least 50% are all promoting this site, so I think that tells you everything you need to know about the system.

All the best blogs have askimet installed as standard, so yes the tactics may generate lots of traffic, but the quality is going to be questionable and like anything automated once lots of people start using it then it's going to lose it's power.

Lastly is it possible to email anyone at clickbank and ask them why they allowed a product they knew would sell more than 250 units to have such BS on the page. The same goes for all the exit pop-ups that people are using.

N4PGW

Hi, again, Jijosunny.

That book is a piece of PLR. He didn't even claim authorship of the book, it says: "Rob Benwell presents..."

I did learn that WP has a multisite feature.

He claims Google won't know your sites are connected if you setup multisite WP and use domain names to each subdirectory.

I never saw anything in the book indicating you can make $1000 in a short time frame. I guess I was supposed to create 20 blogs and sell the package for $1000. But that is only after it has a track record. hmmm.

One of my big questions is the frequency of the content, and sometimes, the source. It mentions the sources in passing, but never the frequency of the posts.

BTW, I just got the news that ClickBank refunded my PP today Wanna guess where from?

Marian

I'd add my 2 cents

Autoblogging can be but don't have to be about some scraped content or spamming blogs! There is some misinformation here.

You CAN have an authority blog with autoblogging! Use your own articles, posts, media and post it on autopilot! How does that stand against Google and other search engines??

Of course, you can combine and mix that content with some PLR articles (preferably edited) and add some media - like videos from YouTube.

You'll increase user experience and provide tons of useful information on a subject. There's a difference on building an autoblog and building a blog that automates few things!

Marian

p.s. There are quite a few things you can do with blogs making them very useful 'autoblogs', actually very powerful stuff.

affhelper

Auto blogging as posting unique content that you have created and just scheduled to post is totally different. Auto blogging where you grab content from other sites is what I have a problem with.

Besides anything that I don't have to do is automatic for me, that means if I hire a writer and hire someone to build links then I just created automatic site.

The problem is with the products selling information saying that you can create a site that grabs content from somewhere else and it makes you money lol all within your first week lmao Get real!

Mike, looks like you got it right. But I still think that a profitable auto content site needs a lot of custom programming to be done right. It needs to be a brand and provide VALUE. What newbies don't realize is that it requires bigger investment than what they are being told (lied) by some marketers out there.

Aristocratic

I have manually unsubscribed from every guy that has tried to push this product to me.

neodarth

There is one thing good on all of this BS, the wp bot is actually pretty good, it has help me to keep my site live mixing articles with videos and amazon offers and my own content in one post (that is what make the content unique).

Analyzing the refund offer it says, and I quote "I Also GUARANTEE That If You Run With This Strategy YOU’LL Be Able To Make At The Very Least $1,000 By This Time Next Week… Again, If You Prove Me Wrong I’ll Send You $100!"

So if you prove them that you bought the domain through his godaddy link (cha-ching! commission), and the $100 month hostgator hosting through his link (cha-ching! again...) and the software he recommends ("cha-ching! cha-ching!) it didn't work for you he give you $100 back, guess how much he made in commissions.

The upsell from the ready made auto blog is BS, never get word of them after 12 days, so I refund them (lately I'm becoming a serial refunder, I'm getting a bad reputation on clickbank because of this kind of guys!).

N4PGW

I noticed that two things happened, he put Blogging to the Bank back on bloggingtothebank.com and he closed the support desk for SystemX.

I'm So Confident Auto Blog System X Will Work For You I'll Even Bet $100 On It... If You Don't Make $1,000 In The Next 7 Days Then I'll Give You $100 Out Of My Own Pocket... You Can't Lose!

I don't know what he did to make $4k in his first month, but based on the numbers in the course, it took a miracle, or one huge investment.

"I like to keep any site that can average $1 per day."
"since I'm able to create hundreds of auto blogs quickly and easily without much of an investment beyond the time it takes to build them..."
(concerning Hostgator account) "...meaning each site needs to make about $3 per month for you to break even (not including domain registration costs)."
"Only use .com domains."
"I can think of better ways to spend my time than logging into 300 different admin panels..."
"if most sites sell for $50 each..."
"20 site package = $1,000"
Bad sites need to make $3/month so there is a minimum.
The most he mentions for good sites is $3/day. Sell the duds for 6-12 times the monthly income, which it will not have in 7 days, but then you need to sell 20 sites for $50 each.
Godaddy .com domains are 10.69 each, plus .40 ICANN fee. so they are now $11 each. He says he can produce hundreds quickly. No time frame, but we are talking about blogs making $3-$5 per day, so 1000/5 = 200 / 6 = 33.33, or 34 sites must be created your first day AND produce an average of $5.00 per day for the remaining 6 days. 33 X 11 = $363 in domain names alone!

Unless you outsource the work, you cannot produce that many sites with all the details listed in the course in seven days.

He does talk about monetizing with CPA offers, which might outperform Adsense. But, setting up hundreds of .com websites at $11 each very quickly is beyond the scope of most of his buyers.

Then again, he doesn't claim authorship of the book, either. So he didn't make a dime doing things this way.

As for his guarantee for $100, I think next week I'll ask the support desk about how to qualify for it.

Buck

N4PGW

I have identified three levels of auto-blogging. Here they are:
Assisted AutoBlogging, Semi-AutoBlogging, and Full-AutoBlogging (what is taught in System X.)

Assisted AutoBlogging: Basically, this is like the drip feed that comes with WP. You enter 52 articles and drip feed them one per week for a year. Site author has to keep this site updated periodically.

Semi-AutoBlogging: Caffeinated Content does this. It retrieves a number of posts and schedules them out over a long period of time. This site also needs periodic management.

Full-AutoBlog: WP Robot and Mage can be set to retrieve material and post it as often as desired. Left alone, it will theoretically work forever.

From what I have read, semi-autoblogging works best when content is hand massaged and time released.

One other semi-autoblogging system I have is interesting in that it does not use any WP plugins. The general idea is that you setup an email account to receive articles every day. You massage the articles to clean them up and forward them to an email account that has filters in it. These filters look for keywords and forward the email again, to each of your blogs that uses that keyword. So two articles come in and you clean them up and adjust the keywords a bit. Then you forward the message to another email account. This account sends the first message to, say five different blogs based on keywords found. The second message is sent to two of the same blogs the first one was sent to and to three different blogs because of slightly different keyword selections.

I started to try this method, but I failed to get the configuration of my Linux email clients to cooperate.

Buck

N4PGW

From the linked article above:
I can setup about 5 an hour if I am on a roll, but that does not include the SEO work or the linking.

Buck

Highdefinition

This is what most people miss out. When they hear or read "auto-blogging" they always think of it as "content scraping"