AUTOBLOGS are DEAD or SHOULD BE!!

I wish I could agree, however that is just not the case. We may have heard it before and ultimately agree with it in principle BUT we all have a lazy streak that can pull us towards those easy options.

There are many examples of autoblog systems that are regularly being punted on these very forums and being purchased by seasoned Warriors. I will not mention anyone or any products as that is unfair and not within the rules, but they are out there.

I am not so sure it is OK about releasing the details as you suggest and have sent you a PM.

Well I don't see auto blogs easily dead in near future.

Most of the people auto blogs for AdSense, they purchase domains set auto blogs on them and Place AdSense on it as well.

They don't bother whether Google ban their auto blogs as they purchase new domains and doing same, this way they are doing AdSense business.

Here we go with yet another, "Rage against the machine rant"

[Side note] These threads have become nothing more but fuel for fodder for banter, laughs and all allowing WF members to try out their comedy skills... more on that in a moment.

Right now, on a more serious note, for the life of me, I can't grasp the mentality of various IMers who embrace the, "Throw the baby out with the dirty bath water" syndrome.

Which, after reading the OPs opinionated missive, he's apparently got the syndrome.

This repetitive discussion has been regurgitated so many times that we can tell you what you are going to say before you say it!

For those of you who are against auto blogging... you are starting to sound exactly like the vegetarian chorus who exert an extreme amount of energy passionately speaking against individuals who eat: hamburgers, fish, lamb, ravioli, sausage pizzas, pork chops, beef jerky, Porter House steaks, chicken and buffalo wings.

Honestly, you are starting to sound like the groups who spoke out against Hummers and Hummer drivers. Oh and I would be remiss if I failed to mention that you sound like PETA.


Do you understand that delivering automate content was en vogue way before the term "Auto Blogging" became popular?

Do your research please... check out The Associated Press | The essential global news network. The Associated Press is probably one of the largest auto blogging organizations on the Internet.

And for those of you claim Auto blogging is about to see its end, you are really displaying a true lack of knowledge of IM. Do you know what a RSS Feed is? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication.

It is a automated process of delivering syndicated content to subscribers and to webmasters via auto blogging and drip feeding. If we believe what you and your chorus are saying then these blogs will all soon shut down.

• USATODAY.com News
• YouTube Blog
• Hollywood Crush
• CDC Online Newsroom Formatted Articles
• Pittsburgh Steelers : News
• CNN.com
• Green Bay Packers : News
• NYT > Home Page
• Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Celebrity News | TMZ.com
• Hollywood.com - Recent News

So let me get this straight; you are saying that the NFL, TMZ, USA Today, YouTube, the CDC, FeedBurner, Google, NY Times, CNN, etc., etc., should be dead... because they all endorse auto blogging?

Hahahahahaha... that's why this chorus is becoming fodder for laughs with every thread they start espousing their disdain of auto blogging.

Please note, I use almost all of those feeds to syndicate content to auto blogs that I have. So to repeat the question, "Should those companies be dead also? Is auto blogging going to kill those companies?"

*/[Hint, rhetorical question]

That IS NOT called Auto Blogging; that is called copyright infringement! And the two are not the same! Illegally scraping content is not Auto Blogging either so get your facts straight please.

So you are saying that we squash Auto blogging altogether because some jerks decide to steal content? If that is the case we need to squash the NY Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and mortgage loans and car loans and foreign exchanges. Wouldn't you agree?

Once again OP, the Associated Press clearly disagrees with you that's why the syndicate the SAME content to thousands upon thousands of subscribers worldwide. And they are not alone, look at all of these companies that engage in syndicating the SAME content to different end users: Moreover, ClickZ, ZDNet, YellowBrix, Pheedo, Bized, Associatedcontent and those companies are not even close to the tip of the iceberg.

How about going and espousing your message to those companies and see what response they give you. Yeah, try that! Send an email to all of the sites listed in this post and let them know how you feel about them sending the exact same content to thousands of end users on a daily basis in an automated fashion and see what they say.

When they respond, start a thread and let us know how they dealt with you because we like to make comedy while we are setting up auto blogs and this is sure to give us some more fodder for laughs.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Very well said!

I'm glad it's not just me who sees what auto blogging can offer and is capable of providing, not only to the marketer but the general public as well.

Some people just like to stir the pot and in doing so only seem to cause trouble, which is probably their goal to begin with. I'd have no problem what so ever if the opponents to auto blogging stated their side or opinion and actually offered evidence to support their arguments' but more often than not it's simply argumentative childishness which offers no value to either side.

One day those people might have the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson, the only question is will they be open minded enough to see it when it's staring them in the face...for some, I think not.

All well and good, providing:

- The content hasn't been automatically "spun". It's not good for your reputation if it still has your author/pen-name intact, and winds up spun and barely comprehensible.

- The backlinks haven't been stripped.

And I bet that if the former happens (as it often does), the latter will also have happened.

And often the latter happens without the former.

And sometimes the former without the latter - which is the only real semi-positive scenario if you're not bothered about your actual reputation.

You made a point there. Now I know the power of autoblogs. I kinda started to believe that they only produce junk sites. Your statement enlightened me.

Andrea

This is a good way to convince yourself that you're not stealing other people's content.

James, That's the same sort of argument I used to get when people would post articles from my newsletter without asking. When I caught them, they'd say things like, "I gave you a link. You should be happy for the extra exposure!"

Sorry. There are reasons I keep most of my content strictly for my subscribers. Random strangers don't get to decide the price for that content, or declare that my reasons aren't sufficient.

I love the attempt to spin things, though. A person becomes a hater by virtue of wishing to decide how their own content is used? Sorry. You're in the wrong forum. You want "Getting hit with a clue-by-four" lessons. Third door down, on the right.


Paul

Firstly, I don't agree that autoblogging is dead. I don't do it myself, but I know it's far from finished.

And I don't despise autoblogging necessarily. What I do despise is autoblogs with crappy, unreadable, automatically spun content.

What I will say though, is that if you (and not you specifically - anyone who does it) feel it's over, and saw it as a "system" rather than a business, perhaps one has a very flawed idea of the best way to go about earning money online, and would do well to re-evaluate one's priorities.

In my mind, people should be building something they see as a business - not just engaging in fly-by-night, "easy money" income-generating systems using highly sophisticated (or sometimes not) "loophole"-leveraging techniques.

Clearly, such people are going to find themselves in trouble.

And I say that as someone who runs micro-niche AdSense/Amazon sites (though as of recently, my focus has shifted elsewhere): a model many people also consider to be "not a real business".

But my sites have high-quality information and utilise a very traditional, natural, long-standing approach. There's no tricks or loophole-leveraging there.

The difference between the mindset of me and a lot of these autobloggers, I expect, is I wasn't sat here with dollar signs in my eyes and thoughts of tropical island holidays if I could just slap up enough crappy blogs with plagiarised content that I'd run through my magic money-generating spinner, whilst simultaneously running xrumer on 2 dedicated servers, mass-spamming backlinks to each page my blogs generated.

My sites get indexed and stay indexed, and maintain their rankings.

Autoblogs of the sort I just mentioned scarcely do.

Well, this is the problem with autoblogs, you see.

It's hard to rank your pages properly and harness search-engine traffic when the majority of your pages contain content you've just lifted from elsewhere and republished - especially when the original author/publisher has the most authority and backlinks to that content on their own site.

Search engines don't like to display a ton of the same results on the same page, just on different sites.

So the only way to get them to rank in most cases is to take the content and rewrite it. But then suddenly the whole thing (with exception to the actual retrieval of the content) isn't automated anymore, is it.

So what people do, to keep it automated, is use plugins/software to automatically spin that content. What comes out is mostly unreadable, nonsensical garabage at worst, and a total displeasure to read at best.

That is why a lot of autoblogs stink, and that is why a lot of autoblogs get de-indexed or penalised by Google's search-quality or web-spam team.

And that is why, unless you're lucky or very clever, sloppy autoblogging is scarcely profitable in the long-term, and isn't a particularly stable or sound business model (and, incidentally, why I don't consider it a "business model" at all).

This post is pretty funny...

If Google hates auto blogging; then Google hates it's own self: meaning FeedBurner and YourTube.

Whoever led you to believe that Google hates Auto Blogging must have been... smoking crack.

Giles, the Crew Chief