LarryC

This is a new autoblogging plug-in that claims it can give you unique content. I don't understand how it does this, as the sales page points out that other autoblogging systems give you either duplicate content or gibberish, but doesn't actually tell you how this product produces truly unique content. Is it a spinner? Surely they don't have writers that produce thousands of unique posts every day? It's not cheap (free trial, I'm not sure for how long, then something like $179 for 6 months, apparently no monthly payment option), but if it does what it claims it may be worth it. I'm curious if anyone has tried this.

pavionjsl

Very happy with it as compared to wp robot. Not sure of their whole article creation product but its better then having links off of ezine articles in your blogs. If you autoblog this is a good choice.

NewBeing

I've been assured that they are bringing out a monthly payment option, as soon as they do I'm going to give it a try.

pavionjsl

I think the part I like is that the comments they add also make it more relevant.

snapcontent

Thanks guys. As the system expands, it can deal with a wider range of requests. Originally, it worked best on 'mainstream' topics, like credit cards, baldness, dieting, that kind of thing, but it's growing fast.

if you try to get content for a topic it doesn't yet support, we get an alert and if we think it's suitable (no pr0n, farma etc) we queue the system up to deal with the new topic.

What it DOESN'T do, is ultra-targeted (or 'very long tail') keyphrases. For example, if you wanted to build a 10,000 page site about 'E1ectric_B1ade_Sharpemers_For_Commercia1_Abatto!r _Use' then you're in the wrong place. (Mistyping deliberate). This is quite deliberate - the old long tail model is fast losing effectiveness as the engines tighten up, and broader-based sites are now mandatory...

Also, if you wanted to build a niche around a specific type of track lighting, for example, the system would prefer to supply you with generic content on that topic, because nowadays, nothing looks more suspicious to a search engine than a 'too tightly targeted niche site'. It's designed to try and help you make money by autoblogging successfully, in fact.

Choosing keyphrases carefully has never been more important. You'd be AMAZED how many people try to use the system to build a niche about (for example) 'The' or 'Today', or 'Money' (make money? debt consolidation? credit cards? pay day loans? WHAT???!!).

There's a free trial right now, so fill your boots, warriors.

maverick4u

So if I start a blog on say "dieting" how far down can I drill into a sub-niche? Can I get content on "dieting for teens" or "dieting for post partum mothers" or "dieting for diabetics" etc.? I'm not sure what you meant by your comment on tightly focused niche blogs-are you saying that product blogs or "Gsinper" type sites are not being ranked anymore because they are too narrowly focused?

Is each post really unique? Does it pass copyscape? Do you have a list of specific niches we can get content for?

I think you are right on target with your autoblogging comments-Google is way too smart to be tricked by it anymore. But is it possible to set up an autoblog with say an autoblogging plugin like WP Robot or Reviewazon and mix it with your Snapcontent and get a blog that Google will index and rank?

Your opinion of the code obfuscating plugins is that they are a waste of time too?

Sorry about all the questions but I was just about to launch several product type blogs.

Sylonious

Diet is probably as low as you can go. You can enter in diet and diabetes. One paragraph might be on Diets and another on Diabetes etc. I've had one paragraph that was on a combination of both which was pretty cool, but that usually is not the case.

I have a blog setup like that. I try to use Astickyposter to keep the WP Robot pages off the homepage by keeping it in a dropped category.

Ideally, I would like to have snapcontent create my Amazon product pages or at least spin the content for me because that's where you'll probably going to get most of your money.

I use Snapcontent mostly for linking back to my money sites.

Snap Content leaves comments on every page (including the ones that are made by WP Robot). However, the links in those comments seem to be DOFOLLOW. So I don't know what's going on there.

The comments are very accurate though. It's a lot better than comment pig.

I haven't checked every page, but a lot of them do pass copyscape. A few of them didn't and I was able to see that content is taken from a different source for each paragraph and then spun.

Honestly, I don't know. I've used wp unique for sites in the past and none of them were deindexed. However, I only posted 1 article every 1 or 2 days.

At an extreme keyword to html code density like this you will probably get banned immediately.

However, WP Unique's html code density is much lower. Still, I would never using html code obfuscating on anything besides a throwaway domain.

I use SnapContent on aged domains with PR.

snapcontent

Hi Sylonius - we are looking at the amazon plugin. The only problem is that Amazon T&Cs specifically prohibit the modification of the descriptions in their datafeeds. If anyone has any whitehat suggestions as to how to deal with this, we'd be more than happy to listen - ideally, we'd like to release a plugin with a free option that does the Amazon thing.

Re the dofollow - that is blog dependent, we don't specify either follow or dofollow. In fact, we're not aware that the wp_insert_comment function allows us to specify one or the other. We're willing to be disabused of teh notion, of ocurse.

phpbbxpert

I am not sure how you are set up but, would this work on your system for Amazon.

Use their Quick Linker JavaScript an input for the clients ID and the clients choice of Amazon keywords.

Then if these keywords are used in the article it quick links them to an Amazon product or search.

Just a thought, not sure if it would work with your system.

snapcontent

Nice idea, and the snapcontent autoblogging system can already can be configured to do that - for example, you can specify keywords in the article that you wish to be hyperlinks, and the links they send out to. You can 'lock' the words to the links, so 'Samsung XFP9911' could always link to 'http : //shop.amazon.xxx,,,' and so on. Once set up in the plugin control panel, whenever that product is found in the text of an article, it will try to link it to the specified destination.

I can see what you're saying about automating that - so for example, the blog could specify an amazon id, and at the server end, if we identify ANY product name on the amazon db that's also in the article, we link it for you with your id embedded.

I'll pass that on to the techies. Thanks!

PhilipK

Hi I registered with the service for the free trial and set up my blog

I have the following problem:

After the first post which was good btw, I was waiting for a second post the next day, or may be a comment to the first one, but there is none. Instead I noticed this error in the snapcontent plugin's page:

Last Error: Error - Unable to determine topic of the post

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

PhilipK

Does anyone know why this user 'snapcontent' is BANNED

It's really strange.
Their site looks still live, but I'm not sure anymore if this is not some kind of scam.

What if someone goes and registers with them for their trial?
Is it possible that they can steal your credit card number?

I would try their service but something smells like not right here.

Is there anyone who tried this service so far?

Thanks

sitefurnace

I agree Phillipk, something is fishy?

1. Offer seems too good to be true. 1000 unique articles, posted to your site for around $30/month - that's 3 cents per unique article! How can anyone do that? I know it is mentioned in the splurge on the site about sub-content workers, but seems even too low for that.

2. There are no contact details, email nothing on the site for you to contact them, no support channel, nothing

3. Upfront payment of $180 rather than monthly payment - WHY? ALARM BELLS!!

4. Snap content banned on warrior forum

5. No user reviews that I can find of any weight

I was very tempted to start with but this looks well dodgy to me now

BloggerHigh

Have you tried using the contact support button on your snap control panel?

EDIT: I've asked, and that error is generated by the 'comment server', not the content software. The comment server will put relevant comments on your blogs. It does this by looking at the tags, and if it can't make a reasonable fix on the topic from them, it analyses the actual post. If it can't determine the topic from that, it gives up with that error message.

It only happens if you load the plugin on an existing domain with existing posts, and it's trying to comment on a post created by someone / thing other than snapcontent. Posts created by snap itself are correctly tagged so the commentor has a good chance of posting something relevant.

The error message, BTW, remains in place until such time as the plugin either successfully posts an article or a comment, so you can have a chance to see it. And if THAT little lot doesn't answer you question, phew!

PhilipK

Hi sitefurnace,

Thanks for your input. I can not say snapcontent is 100% bull****, but I did the following:

1. Joined for the "free" trial for some days just to see how it works
2. They posted each day some rewritten articles on my blog
3. Checked each one with copyscape and 2-3 from 6 were marked as duplicate content (usually from articles on ezinearticles) - I had to rewrite those articles.
4. About the above problem, I wrote support of snapcontent, and they've actually answered me. At the end the problem was fixed.
5. They submitted comments regularly on some posts even 7-8 comments on one of them (not really meaningful comments btw)
6. The last few posts when the trial was ending, were just pure crap!
Example: MIT Breakthrough: Thermo-Chemical Solar Power | Home Power Saving This is just a part of a copy pasted article :-( Very small part though.
7. I canceled my subscription before they could take my money.

I'm quite satisfied at the moment, because I tried it, and didn't get robbed. May be it could be a good business idea after all and a legit business, but IMHO the guys from snapcontent, have to do way better than this, and they could charge way better, but only after delivering some quality.

This is, how do you say: my two cents on the story :-)

Thanks

BloggerHigh

Sorry to hear you weren't happy - that of course is the point of a free trial, which is why I recommend it. It may be that perhaps your keywords weren't chosen well enough. It can take some time to figure out good keywords, for autoblogs, and it's not an intuitive process - for example, choosing 'energy' isn't a very good idea. Does it mean 'solar power'? 'energy drinks'? 'lack of energy due to a cold' and so on. Still, nothing worth doing is ever easy!

There's a free trial, so anyone can try it and make their own minds up, and this, of course, is the best way to decide on whether a product is right for you and your niches.

GaryHarvey

It would be nice to hear from some more
happy users of the Snapcontent system.

Despite the text being hard to read
because it's full width across the
entire screen, the content at the site
is very good. Informative, clear,
easy to agree with.

Gary

Droopy Dawg

You guys be careful when using autoblog plugins. I have no review for SnapContent, and while I'm sure it works great I was using another autoblog plugin to populate a website of mine. The site was doing great, and was #1 in SERPs for a competitive keyword.

I got an email one day (a couple weeks ago) that my hosting account was suspended... I have over 50 websites under that one account, and EVERY SITE was taken down because of a copyright violation of an article that was posted on one of my autoblogs.

The fix was simple... I merely had to delete the article from my site, but all of my sites including my clients' websites that are hosted under that account had gone offline.

So be careful... thankfully I caught it fast enough to take care of it.

GaryHarvey

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt Snapcontent
prevent that sort of thing happening?

pavionjsl

Yes it does, not using ezine articles.

Here is a part of a article posted to my blog.

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Here is a check from plagiarism checker on that content.

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Search Summary Item count: 9Selected Search Engines

Selected search engines: http://www.articlechecker.com/googlelogo.gif


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One comment from that post from snap,

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Comment looks relevant to me.


I get responses pretty quick from them, to me its better auto content then wp robot with all the links in it, and for the money, 1000 articles 30 bucks a month, I'm good.


And as far as a review with weight, welllllll I might not have any but I do have and opinion after using the others.

GaryHarvey

pavionjsl, thanks for making the effort to post
in such an information-rich way. I "thanked" you.

Gary

Droopy Dawg

Looks alot like the ContentBoss site... are these guys the same developers?

pavionjsl

Your welcome, take care.

pavionjsl

Content boss was a so called chain spinner, this is not connected to them at all.

BloggerHigh

You can try it for free

That way you can make your own mind up.

There's no affiliate program, so there aren't pages and pages of glowing reviews from people who have never used it but fancy a big commission. It's also a top end tool, so it isn't suitable for everyone. The ability to read a one page manual and non abuse support staff is pretty important, for example.

Sylonious

The price is actually pretty good when you consider the fact that content boss is $30 per month and you only get like 100 "wrangles" for that.

The only problem I have with this plugin is the max number of posts you can make per day is only 1.

I read a book on autoblogging that said I should be posting at least 3 posts per day.