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Old 01-06-2009, 02:43 AM   #51
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I have used CC with good success, but if you only pull from Yahoo answers, your blog will look weird. If you mix up the blog posts with articles and videos and some original content than it looks much more natural. I always manually edit the posts as well to take out the caffeinated content link (I hate that it is in every post, big footprint problem) and usually the graphic it pulls too.


There are other uses for CC if you think outside the box. I used Caffeinated content to resurrect an old domain (Chicago attorney site in sig). It made a new site look established and now I have actual attorneys answering real questions that visitors ask. I then share the leads with them. It ranks #6 on page one of Google for: chicago attorneys Without CC I never would have been able to get that domain back on track.
Oh, man, if you are manually editing every post to take out the link and the pic, you are doing too much work! Edit the template!

OK, I have never really laid out my philosophy on autoblogging here before - but I feel compelled, because there are several angles I use that are different than what I've seen expressed before, and I think people might get something out of it.

Everything I'm about to share is based on my own experience, other people's experiences may vary. Warning ahead of time - this will be long.

First of all, ASP is not necessary, in fact, in my experience, it hurts. Every time I've used it, rankings dip, I turn it off and a couple of weeks later, they rise again.

Secondly, when you set up an autoblog, you aren't just setting up that blog. Each blog should be considered a further experiment in "Perfecting the System." You will start to make real money autoblogging when you can put one up in two to three hours and move on. You will make REAL money autoblogging when you can train your outsourcers to do it. That's my next step.

Therefore, take notes. You're looking at getting it down to a step-by-step process that you can complete as quickly as possible. I've put up over 100 of these and I still follow my checklist as I do it. Why? I don't want to have to think about what comes next. That's a timesucker. I do a task, check it off, move on to the next.

Incidentally, it's a good point to keep in mind that you are not looking for any one autoblog to make you rich. Each one should pay its own rent (domain name and hosting) and make about a dollar a day, averaged. You will have some that far exceed that - AWESOME! But the point of autoblogging isn't to develop the one major property that's your ticket to success. It's to develop many small properties that each contribute their small part to your wealth-building.

Also, I feel that the design of the site is very important. With themes like Super Adsense by Gobala Krishnan, among many others, it's SO EASY to change up the header (you can make one in ten minutes) and switch out the background colors and link colors.

Which brings up ANOTHER good point - you are not going to have to be a coding wizard, but do learn your basic HTML and CSS. It will make your autoblogging life pretty much hell if you don't, and it's pretty frickin' easy to learn. There are tutorials all over the internet.

My plugins are as follows:

- All-in-One SEO
- BayRSS
- Caffienated Content
- Admin Management Extended
- Google Sitemap Generator
- Link Cloaking Plugin
- Manageable
- MaxBlogPress Favicon
- MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
- Ping Crawl (although, I gotta say, I'm not totally sold on Ping Crawl...)
- ReCaptcha
- Reveal IDs
- SEO Siloing
- Share This
- WP-O-Matic
- WP Related Posts
- Ad Rotator

I also install Syndicate Kahuna, WP Datafeed Importer, and WP Dripfeeder (although, in my experience...it's buggy as hell. If I have less than 100 PLR articles, I post and future date by hand.)

A lot of how much of the above technology I use on any particular blog depends on the niche and the appropriateness of the types of content they bring in. I don't use everything for every one. I use my judgement. But for these purposes, let's assume I've found some magic niche that needs everything.

If it's going to be a really big site, I use a silo structure and the SEO Siloing plugin makes it really easy. That means, in essence, I have pages which list the links of all the posts in a category, and they automatically grow as new posts are added to the category.

The most time consuming part of building the site, aside from choosing the keywords, is deciding on the category structure. You don't want to go back and fix that later.

I usually keep "Questions and Answers" and "Videos" in their own categories rather than splitting them up thematically, but that's just me.

I then post my automated content. I run articles and questions from CC. I edit the template for the questions each time before I run a new keyword to include my BayRSS code at the bottom, so ebay ads related to the question show up. I do this in Cpanel, though, or with notepad and then FTP.

I set up Syndicate Kahuna to add keyword-specific articles. I import PLR. I sometimes add an RSS Feed or two.

HERE'S MY FAVORITE PART, THOUGH!!! And, oddly to me, the part I've never seen another autoblogger mention.

I start importing my databases. I get datafeeds from Share a Sale and manipulate them and import them with WP Datafeed Importer.

But it goes so far beyond that! I don't want to give away ALL my secrets :P, but let me just say...anything that exists in a CSV can be imported once you put it in the right format, and almost anything on the web can be put into CSV format.

The great thing? You can manipulate it before you import it. If it's data you scraped or a database you purchased (like, movie cast lists or video game cheats or something...), you can switch the order of some of the columns, you can add labels in between the columns, you can add your own links or BayRSS code at the end...it's really endless possibilities. AAANNNDDDD....it turns it into "original content", because it bears very little resemblance to what it started out as.

Lastly - don't forget that autoblog content can actually be supplemental to a quote-unquote "real" site that you do interact with readers on. Just make a front page that has welcome text and links to what you'd like to feature - then the "autoblog" parts just become entry points to the main part of the site.

OK, end of my manifesto.


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Thanks for the inof there GeorgeR! At least I now have a clearer picture of what plugins to use and how to set up an autoblog.

Are you coming out with a guide? Would really be interested..

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Agreed. The content created by Caffeinated Content looks wonky to a human, and I wouldn't use this on a blog intended for human eyes.
this is true. That's why those of us making serious wonga with autoblogging use the industry leading solution, that produces REALLY unique and readable content.

there's a free ebook about autoblogging at bloggerhigh.com - you can bypass the signup page by going to Unlimited free traffic using autoblogs and autoblogging

http://www.contentboss.com - automated article rewriting software gives you unique content at a few CENTS per article!. New - Put text into jetspinner format automatically! http://www.autojetspinner.com

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jon,

no offense...its valid, not rewritten content. the "XYZ asked" is aprt of a template, i changed that long ago to "FROM xxx"

There is "nothing" odd or unusual about the content on those blogs.

NicheChick..impressive!!

I will also check this auto RSS posting WSO

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George,

You've developed a very interesting thread.

I think more is yet to come, in particular how to monetize effectively with CBProAds.

To use PPC effectively, Adwords needs to be well targeted so that the visitors will click thru on the landing page.

It seems to me that the ads provided by CPProAds are too broad and not niche oriented. It's impossible to tell what ads will appear.

For instance, on a Skin Care site I could be displaying health related ads, such as ads for Yoga, Dieting, and Eczema. It seems to be difficult matching the Adgroups to the ads displayed, although it's possible to match the Adwords to the content of the landing page.

How effective have you found CBProAds to be? They do look good, just not as well targeted, which would affect click thrus and conversions.

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Ivan,

you are right. I *usually* make more general niche blogs, for example "natural remedies"...and then i can at least target a common theme from the CBProads, eg. "cures and remedies".

I have one blog where there is only ONE product, this after Steve W. had an WSO and recommended this niche.

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then i usually go out and get banners for a specific product. It speaks also nothing against to promote *specific* products on sub-pages on your blog, you can always add and write reviews or "sales pages" within your blog - in addition to whats automatically posted on it.

So...nothing against a "natural remedy blog"...and then if you feel up to it you can promote your favorite "acne cure" on a page in the blog.

(Not a shameless plug, but what works PERFECTLY is my "Affililiate Power Script" (despite the recent controversy about copyright issues)..since it allows easily to clone ANY clickbank page, and then just "plug" it as a sub-page.

Eg. i make a site "naturalremedies" and then i get my favorite clickbank product, load the script up to the blog and then just call it like
myremedysite.com/some_product.php <--- )

But of course there are various ways to promote specific products, you could also use PLR articles and then just hand-edit a bit and insert your aflinks.

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For instance, on a Skin Care site I could be displaying health related ads, such as ads for Yoga, Dieting, and Eczema. It seems to be difficult matching the Adgroups to the ads displayed, although it's possible to match the Adwords to the content of the landing page.

How effective have you found CBProAds to be? They do look good, just not as well targeted, which would affect click thrus and conversions.
>>

well cbproads allows selecting of the usual CB categories, but it also has an option for keyword based ads. So..you could just enter "acne" and it should display all products from the acne niche.

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imerick,

is this RSS program actually needed if you run a WP blog ? (Stupid question)
Is there a point in additionally submitting my feeds to feed directories?

And..is there a plugin solution which does this from within WP?

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I always manually edit the posts as well to take out the caffeinated content link (I hate that it is in every post, big footprint problem) and usually the graphic it pulls too.
Hi xlfutur1,

This will make your life easier.
Open your CC files on your hard drive.
Open the links file
In there you will see two text files, links.txt & links2.txt, open them.
Delete everything in them or change the text to links that benefit your site. Your choice
Now save the files
Open your FTP software & overwrite the links.txt & links2.txt on your server with the altered ones.

That should solve your problem with the links.
Not sure what graphic it is pulling, please clarify

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Melanie

Great post and lots of really useful information in there.

Datafeeds is something I've worked with before as well and you're quite right, the content you can generate from those is really worth the effort.

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Thanks Tim!

I think a lot of people steer clear of datafeeds because working with them is a little more technical. But if you can get past that barrier, it's SO worth it!

Also, because you don't have to limit yourself to merchant datafeeds...ANY information in a CSV file can be posted to wordpress, one post per row. That opens up almost limitless possibilities!


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Doesn't Caffeinated Content and any other CMS throw off the most important part in Keith's initial post..which is the generation of backlinks using GoCodes & keywords?

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Nice post, I am going to subscribe to this. By the way, some reports like your post are selling for like $10-15 a piece, now we got it free here only on WarriorForum hehe.

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Most of us probably know and heard about the "MSN loophole" technique.

My question now, in regards to autoblogging and the fact that each blog can basically "feed" any other blog....there should be HUGE potential.

While "MSN loophole" only deals with "interlinking"....there should be ways putting up something really interesting using autoblog and RSS plugins going way beyond "plain interlinking".

Example:

You chose a subject, say "student loans".

You make a number of "slave blogs" scattered over different IPs, all related to student loans.

Those "slave blogs" are fed via RSS autoblog plugins by your "authority blog". The slave blogs can ALSO be squidoo lenses or blogger lenses.

Now..your "authority blog" is the one you want to rank, and it feeds "student loan" related content to a huge number of slave blogs. The slave blogs are NOT interlinked. (We do not want anyone to know that they are related, and for sure not to the "authority blog" which we want to rank)

So...we get a number of blogs about "student loans" and each of those blogs has content and links from the "authority blog".

We submit all the RSS feeds (using the RSS Bot WSO by Mike)...and Google says "Whoaw!!" this "authority site" must really be something since all the other sites get content from that site, and our slave blogs all contain links to the "authority blog".

Now imagine to make 100s of slave blogs, and submit 100s of different RSS feeds on different IPs...all with content linking back to your main site...

That just an idea...i will certainly put that into action.

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Hi Thank you for starting this blog as I am going to give this a try, I have a couple of question for right now.
1] I have a domain that I had and was doing anything with it and it is called Alphapup and my question is can I make page's that would link to cat's or fish or birds etc or do I just stick with doing only dog stuff on that domain?

2] is this Thread an RSS feed if so how do I scribe to just this thread through rss.

3] Caffeinated Content: does it matter on which one to get for this?

4] theme, i highly recommend "flexibility": I tried to upload this to my wordpress but the theme does not show up, I just upload the whole folder then noticed that it had a plugin folder and a colorpicker folder,and when it didn't work I deleted the plugin folder and left the colorpicker folder and re-upload the files from 404.php and still nothing should I take out the colorpicker if so were does that folder go? not sure what I did wrong.

5] is there a thread on resale info I just bought my first resale and I am not sure what I need to do for that looking for more info on this.

as you can tell I am new and tiring to learn this stuff thank you for any feed back.
have a nice day Thomas

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just a word on Caffeinated Content and apologies if this has been posted before, but you can also use it to drip-feed/autopost PLR articles (or your own articles) by FTPing them onto the specific CC directory with your CC installation

in truth I am just starting to do this earnest but if you mix it up a bit with CC and use
i) A few articles from the directories
ii) Some Youtube videos
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iv) PLR articles drip fed
v) For the 'Yahoo Answers' I setup a category called 'Q&A' and dripfeed them in there

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Hey I'm a noob setting up a couple of blogs and find this forum SOOO helpful.

One question I have, 'Is Caffeinated Content' Mac and PC? I ask because I've noticed some other software for auto blogging to be PC only. I have both, but my PC just died so I'm hoping to continue the building on my Mac
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Great! I am beginning to get it now.... That recipe blog looked freakin' REAL!

I have not bothered with the looks since I was only using those blogs as feeder sites... now I see the possibilities...

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Hmn. I check out one of your auto blog =P. And wondering, are those comments pulled from CC (youtube?) or they're REAL from the vistors?

BTW--what's the average # of visitors do you get for these blogs?
Also, I think there was a WSO for C.C. (like a year ago =).

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mint-tree, is this question directed at me?

I get increasingly "real" comments (in addition to the automatic ones)....you know you get a real comment when it arrives in your mailbox and says "please moderate".

Its actually getting "worse" since i manually approve them and it can be a lot of work

sunnyman, thanks!

By the way CC is still my top choice, but i recently started making some blogs which just work with the free FeedWordPress plugin, and it works pretty nice also.
I also made a WSO where i incorporate "Google Trends" into my blogs.

I also got Edna's WSO "wpmanagerdx" and i haven't even started to really use this (its a central management tool for all your blogs)..one problem here is that my favorite theme "flexibility" just wont work with wpmanagerdx. Still trying to figure out why.

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You chose a subject, say "student loans".

You make a number of "slave blogs" scattered over different IPs, all related to student loans.

Those "slave blogs" are fed via RSS autoblog plugins by your "authority blog". The slave blogs can ALSO be squidoo lenses or blogger lenses.
-- Yes, the PROBLEM is the "scattered over different IPs" ... You can get "seo-hosting" with separate C-class IPs but this is VERY expensive. I know - been there, just canceled today!

PS: and forget about the so-called "Loophole" - it doesn't exist.

A bum-level variety I saw somewhere is: Start 100s of *free* Blogger and Wordpress.com blogs, set them up to auto-populate, use them as feeder blogs... Now the problem instead is to avoid having them get detected as all started by the same person... and deleted...

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cbproads allows selecting of the usual CB categories, but it also has an option for keyword based ads.
BDW: I just started an account at CBProAds but looked in vain for the keyword-based ad delivery. Looks cool otherwise, nicely done.

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sunnyman,

mutiple IP hosting is no problem. What do you say if i tell you i got 6 months (!) 10 IP hosting for something like $40 total at hostnine, this is when they still had the coupon. Right now they charge $19.95/month.

I can create accounts/domains and chose from 10 IPs/locations, USA, Asia, UK. Also otherwise support is stellar. GREAT hosting.

Today, in conjunction with Edna's WSO wpmanagerdx i made some slave blogs (not too many, i dont want to overdo it) and it takes 3 minutes to install a WP blog with all needed plugins. One they're installed i just have to go on them quick and set their feed aggregation so they pull content from the "master".

I also started distributing some content to Squidoo/Blogger.

Re: MSN loophole....yes...didnt see any benefit using this, but RSS interlinking seems interesting to me.

re: cbproads, ok, its not real "context sensitive" since you have to pre-select whatever niche beforehand. No biggie tho.

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Hostnine... OK, just took a look. I hadn't noticed this thing about multiple datacenters. $20/month just seems *too good to be true*.

And those different datacenters do use different *C-class* IPs I suppose...?

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they have different locations, let me check some of my IPs



I didn't have ANY major issues whatsoever with that hosting, and the minor issues i had were always resolved withing 2-3 minutes after i submitted a ticket. Their support is just amazing.

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..You will start to make real money autoblogging when you can put one up in two to three hours and move on.
Hi Melanie,
Great post. I'll appreciate knowing about your method for driving traffic to your autoblogs. This is something I really need to understand.

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George; Thanks for the thread. Do you have an opinion about YAAB?
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GeorgR -- Thanx for taking the trouble to show a screen dump!
Indeed, the IPs look totally different.

I took a look at the reputation of that company and found they'd had some customer complaints in the past. Good to see you are happy with them.

If this service really works, it is indeed a BARGAIN! Other hosts charge like $5/month+ per C-class.

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i am with them for a few months now, and i only had minor issues once. I put in a ticket and literally 2mins afterwards it has been resolved. Give them a shot. I dont think you will be disappointed. AFAIK...additional IPs are like $1 or something.
I already noticed that sometimes when i make a account on the SAME node they have a different IP also, so there's def. more IPs, even on the same node/location.

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Hey great thread.
If it`s not a big secret I would like to find out how much $ aproximetly are you making per day and with how many blogs?
Gonna give it a try.
Probably will start right now if i will be able to keep my eyes opened /went to make a coffee/
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Hi George,

Thanks for the posts. I started experiment with 1 autoblog, have quite about 30+posts on it, did the usual round of marketing (social bookmark, article marketing, RSS, etc) but I'm not able to get any sales out of the blog. I'm also using teh Flexibility theme, with an aff banner below the header and adsense on the right top sidebar. Not even a single click!

I'm wondering if you could share with us some tips on monetization.
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GeorgeR - I chose the cheap way to help manage the blogs.
Bought RoboForm ($30) which stores all of your userids and PWs for auto login. So for me using fantastico and copying all plugins from a common folder is easy enough and with RoboForm, you just choose which blog you want to log into and wallah your signed in. RoboForm can also be used for all other accounts you have (gmail, affiliate pgms, etc)

xlfutur1 - You can get rid of CC footprint by making your own Link list files.
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A great post, very comprehensive! It certainly saves you a lot of time and money in the long run and is very effective in generating a consistent income from month to month.
jimrpips makes an interesting point though, is the traffic consistent? I am experimenting with this idea myself. Great information, and thank you!
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never heard of caffeinated content until today. i've been playing with wpomatic with no real success. maybe my cron jobs are messed up.

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From my experience, "full" autoblogging doesn't work.
The point is: you need "good" content in order to have a chance to monetize your blog. Autoblogging scripts usually scrape content from other sources so you don't have any control on what is posted on your blog.
I prefer to manually create the content, enrich it with images and video and then post to the blog. I usually use PLR content, with few modifications (I change the title and choose the right tag for each post). With the right tool and the right PLR content, I can create a semi auto blog with 30 posts or more in one hour.

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excellent information, thank you, I may try this on future monetised blogs but as I have just started I think I may be better starting with my own content being added and then once I have discovered how to make it work may add some automised blogs..... I have bookmarked this page until then, thanks again

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Bro, how to use free hosting and domain for autoblogging? I want to setup my first autoblog in wordpress without investment. I have a plugins of autoblog but I dont know how to choose free hosting and domain for wordpress autoblogs Please help me, I am newbie and extremely waiting for your precious reply..
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Thanks Tim!

I think a lot of people steer clear of datafeeds because working with them is a little more technical. But if you can get past that barrier, it's SO worth it!

Also, because you don't have to limit yourself to merchant datafeeds...ANY information in a CSV file can be posted to wordpress, one post per row. That opens up almost limitless possibilities!
I never thought about that. Way to think outside the box!

Do you actually use this to post "regular posts" to your sites?
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Bro, how to use free hosting and domain for autoblogging? I want to setup my first autoblog in wordpress without investment. I have a plugins of autoblog but I dont know how to choose free hosting and domain for wordpress autoblogs Please help me, I am newbie and extremely waiting for your precious reply..
You need to avoid plugins completely if you're planning to use
free platforms. You be much better off using a desktop based
solution, especially if you want to have complete control over
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AutoBlogs are good for lazy people, although I love it and actually use it but such blogs do not rank high in search engines.
If you are looking to have an authority blog in your niche, take time to do the work!
I could argue that you're being lazy by using a blog rather than
static HTML websites. Autoblogs are just tools, that's all...

Use good tools wisely, and you;ll get great results. Use them
foolishly, and your blogs wont even earn their keep.

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Duplicate Content?

There is actually a number of people who tell you: "Dont worry". Maybe this is the case. Just dont bother with article rewriters or magic "uniquefiers" since they wont work, not in Google's eyes.
I also would not dare to present my web site visitors "spun" or automatic rewritten content" which is not really humanly readable.

I tend to say that the duplicate content "penalty" is not as big as some people make it look - if this is a big problem for you you shouldnt even start with autoblogging in the first place.
I agree it is a tricky road with autoblogs. Make too many posts of dupe content and I have heard of autoblogs getting deindexed or at least penalized greatly.

I have yet to find a spinner that does not sream, "hey look at me, I am an autoblog and I must be punished."

Get a human review on on of these and your toast as well.

I am awaiting someone to come out with a great plugin to autospin content into a format that does not look like a klingon edited it....

I am convinced that there are custom solutions out there that are far better than the ones typically used. Of course you can mix and match dupe content as well to create 'pseudo unique' content.

I'd be interrested in learning more about that, with autoblogs, it's all about good content and staying out of trouble IMO.

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i plan to stat blogging. do i put my blog in a subdirectory or the main index?

sorry if this is answerred in the guide i just plan to create my 1st wp blog as i read along

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I agree it is a tricky road with autoblogs. Make too many posts of dupe content and I have heard of autoblogs getting deindexed or at least penalized greatly.

I have yet to find a spinner that does not sream, "hey look at me, I am an autoblog and I must be punished."

Get a human review on on of these and your toast as well.

I am awaiting someone to come out with a great plugin to autospin content into a format that does not look like a klingon edited it....

I am convinced that there are custom solutions out there that are far better than the ones typically used. Of course you can mix and match dupe content as well to create 'pseudo unique' content.

I'd be interrested in learning more about that, with autoblogs, it's all about good content and staying out of trouble IMO.

I've been spinning content for years, on Blogspot, and still
earning for me. In fact, I plan to hugely expand my empire
over the next few months. I've just upgraded my system
for WordPress hosted blogs, and they appear to be doing
well there too. Too early to tell right now with the WP
hosted blogs, but it's looking promising.

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actionbizplan,

You can put it anywhere you want - it always depends on the structure of your site.
I have posted this several times (I should copy and save somewhere to have it handy...) - always make a plan on a piece of paper about how the content will be organized on your site.
Draw it as a chart, to have an idea what will be the hierarchy of your site with its section, sub-sections, content etc.

After that it is much easier to answer for yourself questions about where you want your blog in this big picture.

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Nice post and good outline for getting everything set up, I only have a dozen or so autoblog site up.

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Nice post and good outline for getting everything set up, I only have a dozen or so autoblog site up.
You're way ahead of a lot of folks Andy, many of them sit on
their hands, and wonder why they never make money.

Even if your first few never make money, you'll at least learn
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Here's mine: http://www.myautismsite.com . Does about 50-75 uniques a day. It's about 4 weeks old.

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i just activated the flexibity word press theme. it looks cool but now i have a webhosting quiz that has flexibities aff links and 2 links to some elses opt in page..

what the heck?

or can i customize that?

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I am not familiar with the license terms of that theme. If you have a theme that permits editing, removing links - then yes, removing ALL their links should be your first thing before uploading it.

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It's good to see this thread being updated. George, do you want to bring us up to speed with your recent refinements?

I haven't been going into mass blogging, although I have quite a few that I'd describe as semi-auto. I prefer to monitor closely the more important blogs, although the content arrives on the different blogs as a draft that awaits approval. These are mostly full articles from various sources, including directories. I then add graphics and any extra content I feel necessary.

If only one or two posts per day need to be attended to, it's easily possible to keep track of several dozen blogs with some hands on attention.

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Hi George,

Like Ivan I would like to know what YOU have revised in your autoblogging empire also.

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I've tried it for about 6 mos and saw a good bump in traffic but the traffic quality was crap if your are trying to sell or convert leads....best thing is to use ads to attempt to give the non-engaged user somewhere to go other than your site...and for the most part that is the intended business model for autoblogs.


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