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Unique Article Wizard Plugin

by RoddyM
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I have around a dozen blogs that are part of the Unique Article Wizard blog network. I use the UAW wordpress plugin and UAW's system for posting to a couple of Blogspot sites. These sites are mostly over a year old and I have not touched them for months. They quietly receive around 1 - 2 supposedly unique UAW article posts automatically each day, and earn pocket money from adsense.

A few days ago around half of these sites were all at once delisted by Google for violations of quality guidelines, and the traffic from Google suddenly dried up for the remaining sites. They were on a variety of IP addresses, though they would have my Adsense account in common. My other non-UAW sites appear to be continuing as normal.

I doubt it is just that some spammer has posted bad links in UAW articles, as it happened all at once over several sites covering a range of niches.

It looks to me as though Google has followed a UAW footprint and applied a penalty, much as apparently happened with BANS ebay sites a while back.

I did notice some increased talk of autoblogging and the use of the UAW plugin around the IM forums over the last few weeks, and wondered if Google has been prompted into action through some people going overboard with this strategy.

Has anyone else noticed a pattern like this?
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    What do you think the footprint would be? Did you include the UAW affiliate link?

    How did you know it was for violations of their quality guidelines - Google Webmaster tools?

    I wonder why it would only delist half of them if it was because of the autoposting? Since there is no duplicate content penalty the only beef they would have with UAW is the autoposting, right?

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    • Profile picture of the author RoddyM
      No, I do not include the UAW affiliate links.
      Yes, Webmaster Tools.
      Not sure why only some are formally notified as delisted, but Google traffic has died to the others as well, so they are obviously in the same boat.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    The answer to this is simple. Google has figured out the IP's that UAW uses to push posts to your blogs via XML-RPC. Accordingly, they've delisted any sites that receive these "pushes". Something similar happened to ArticleMarketingAutomation.

    This is one of the reasons I no longer use Google Analytics. I don't want Google "seeing" all my traffic nor the big picture regarding the way my sites interlink. Between Analytics, Adsense and Adwords, it's scary how much visibility Google has in our businesses. I've decided to use StatCounter to keep my traffic sources hidden from the big G.
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    • Profile picture of the author RoddyM
      The way Google finds UAW's footprint is one question. I am sure there are several ways they could do that. My AMA sites were only stopped at Blogspot, where the source IP was easily detected as Big G owns that site.

      To me the main question is whether my experience reported in the first post here is pointing to a much bigger initiative by Google to shut down the UAW network. I hope, for the sake of a lot of people, that the explanation lies in something simpler going wrong just within my sites - which is why it would be great to hear if anyone else has had their UAW sites clamped down on in recent days.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Alexander
    google has a policy of flagging a blogger blog as a potential spam blog if it's received nothing but automated posts for a set period of time (via email or xml). Yu then get an automated warning. If you reply to it, one of 2 things happen. Either it gets reinstated (it was a low grade spam appraisal, and replying to the warning email convinces them its genuine) or a google employee comes take a look. At which point your typical autoblog gets banned, because the content is obviously crap (translated into welsh, back to english, markov, old school spinner, that sort of thing).

    My own blogger autoblogs get suspended like this, but they always get reinstated immediately after I type in the capcha code they ask you to.

    It's all part of the game. Use a valid email address, so you know when they've been suspended, and use decent content and you're fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    This thread is about a year old now, but I'm using the UAW plugin on several sites and they are all indexed, and many of them get good traffic. I don't think the plugin is a problem at all. It brings in decent quality articles in much the same way as we'd post to article directories manually. They are not autoblog crap like caffeinated content.
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  • Profile picture of the author kartikkhattar
    Iam also using that plugin and this post scared me ... should i continue using it?? Chris how old are your sites??
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