Panda update 2.2 - autoblogs still any good?

I hope Panda destroys autoblogs even though I run three. My crappy Amazon scraper wordpress blog has increased 1200% in traffic since last Tuesday.

While my "real" blog with high-quality and unique content that is resourced on eHow, Wiki, Yahoo Answers, and even in published magazines continues to dive at an alarming rate.

Whatever Google is doing, they are doing it wrong....

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I'm having a very similar experience to gearmonkey. My scraped content sites have shot up rankings and traffic this week while almost every single one of my good quality sites have been dumped past page 100.

The content on my high-quality blog is being stolen by hundreds of scraper sites... I have been reporting these scraper sites to Google in hopes they take notice.

I think what high-quality webmaster need to do is band together to find thieves and report them.

REPORT SPAM SITE TO GOOGLE

Really its seems to be case with all the content management sites like ezine, about and other. Basically they have good and non duplicate contents but still they were hit by google panda very hard. Due to this it is difficult to say which is quality content and which is not????

There's no effect on auto-blogs after panda. (they seem to be doing better than ever).

But there against Google's quality guidelines, against AdSense TOS and most importantly, unethical.

As stated above, auto-blogs seem to be doing better since the panda update. Only time will tell if it remains that way.

Autoblogs do work, and will probably continue to work as long as you continue to adjust how you do it. Google, for example, realized that one common characteristic of autoblogs is that they have zillions of posts but almost no comments. This is now a red flag, and it's advisable to use a plugin that auto-posts comments as well.

It's important to bare in mind that, like anything, autoblogs are good in some situations and not for others. For instance, running an autoblog with AdSense is pretty dumb, as Google does take quick action to penalize in this scenario.

Some people I know are still doing really well with their auto-blogs, while others have never had any success at all with them.

The Panda update doesn't seem to be affecting them to much at the moment. They've always been had their ups or downs in the search engines.

I am constantly amazed at the controversy caused by the subject of autoblogging! If you are a blogging purist who creates blogs based on your experience, expertise or just for the love of blogging, then setting up automated blogs probably is not for you.

On the other hand, if you are an online marketer using blogs as a means for generating traffic, creating product review sites, making sales, etc., and you market in various niches; it is almost impossible to create original/unique content in every niche. You'd spend all your time researching and writing articles (or a fortune outsourcing).

Autoblogs are a means to an end that provide a method of populating a blog(s) with "relevant" content.

I could do the same thing manually by pulling articles from any of the popular article directories one at a time (as long an attribution to the original author). Or, I could manually comb the Internet for relevant RSS feeds and install a script to post them on my blog. Again, that's just too time consuming.

(As an aside, two the the biggest autoblogs in the world are Google News and Technorati. Google does not create any "news" articles and the information you find on Technorati and similar high PR sites is basically "scraped"!)

Automation provides for scale and leverage. I agree with RSBerg that successful autoblogs take time and effort to develop. Gone are the days of SPLOGS.

Accept the fact that as long as there in an opportunity to make money online, clever people will find ways to manipulate the search engines (even if only temporarily). Like most things, you have to be flexible and innovative as well as monitor changing trends, i.e. Panda.

I have well over 100 autoblogs. A few were adversely impacted by Panda, but the vast majority were unaffected.

I attribute this to the fact that I never subscribed to the notion that simply installing automated blog content software and pressing a button would make me rich!

Each autoblog I create has a combination of original/unique content, content from RSS feeds, and articles from directories. In addition I add Youtube video, images from Flickr, etc. Some work better than others.

Also, I learned to master on site & off site SEO which is a must in order to succeed.

The impetus behind Farmer/Panda is to provide the end user with the best content available based on their search query.

That can easily be achieved with autoblogs. You just have to get beyond the point of thinking that the "auto" means you don't have to work at it.

Finally regarding "Duplicate Content" or "Little or no original content" I suggest anyone interested in Autoblogging or even current autobloggers read Google's official position regarding "duplicate content and "lite" content sites. It is not as ominous as you think!

Duplicate Content

Little or no original content

Learn the rules of the game if you want to play...

"Don't hate the player; hate the game". (Ice T.)

I run one auto blog. In last few months traffic has been dropped 50%. But Income is around $1 to 8 per day with adsense.