My experience in autoblogging

Hi everyone,

Since I just sold off my bulk of autoblogging sites, would like to share some experiences and tips.

1. It's easy money

If you set it up properly, you only have to do it once. 4-8 hours and you're done. But you have to do it right.

2. Do it right the first time, go to the next blog

The biggest misconception is that you can setup 2-3 blogs and then skyrocket each one to enormous revenues. At least that's the impression I get.

Spend some time on setting up a single autoblog. Do it once, don't spend time on it once it's running. This way you can setup a whole bunch of blogs and see which ones work out. Odds are each blog will be bringing you a couple of bucks, and once that piles up, you've got yourself some nice income. Don't get sucked into hours of maintenance, that's not the right way to go.

3. Think for yourself, don't count on magic autoscripts

When getting into autoblogging, I looked into all of the available plugins and decided to skip them all. Fact is, if everybody is doing the same thing (all of the people who bought the scripts), how can you stand out? What are you offering?

So what I did is write a custom script based on my perception of how search engines work. If you're not a developer, just outsource a script for $100 or simply use Yahoo Pipes.

The interesting part is that when you read forums, there is this "overall opinion" of what to do and how, but most of the time people talk based on theory, not practice. I've found some really contradicting stuff to be working better than everyone was saying. None of us know exactly how search engines work, and the algorithms get improved all the time. Think for yourself, think of something, prototype it!

4. It's all about tags

My most traffic generating landing pages are tags. It's information grouped by certain tags that is otherwise unavailable in their original resources. Use tags in creative ways to generate pages that search engines would love. And don't abuse this by throwing ads at people, provide actual useful information on those pages.

Most of my blogs generated a lot of subscribers and regular visitors. They just treated the blogs as syndicated sources for the content they like.

5. Schedule original content once in a while

Contradicting to what I said about setting it up and moving on, once a month you need to have an original article being posted. What I do is just outsource articles in bulk and import them into Wordpress with a scheduled publish date. This is done to prevent from being sandboxed and works wonders.

You can get banned in Google, so if you see your blog getting traction with autoposts, feed it some original content. $100 of articles will have you set for 6 months as long as it's original keyword rich content.

6. Optimize as much as you can.

I have an archive with wordpress, my theme, plugins, etc. I just untar it and that's it, my blog is ready (of course I need a db installation). I use the same theme that's neutral in colors/theme and is easy to read.

I have a set of tools that helps me automate the keyword research process.

And a whole bunch of custom scripts that I had developed to automate stuff I don't like doing.

Remember, you can't make more hours in a day, but you can automate the stuff that consumes most of your time.

This post might be a bit vague, but I hope it gives an idea of what my thinking process was when getting into autoblogging. If I'd post specific examples, everyone would jump on them and saturate the market.

So automate and think for yourself. Good luck in autoblogging!