The Importance of Adding Unique Content to Autoblogs
Posted 15th October 2010 at 10:14 AM by thebitbotdotcom
One of the more popular things to do in the blogging and make money online world these days is to set up an autoblog. If you search the keyword autoblog, you will find sprinkled throughout the results, a tutorial here and there about setting up autoblogs. This post is actually a follow up to one of my previous posts which was a tutorial on setting up autoblogs and making money with AdSense.
When I wrote the article, I was focusing mainly on the technical aspect of setting up the autoblog so as to provide a guide for bloggers to set up these types of blogs as a means of supplemental content.
In this post, I am highlighting the importance of adding unique content to autoblogs. Why is this important?
Simple. It is the only way your blog will ever rank in the search engines, such as Google. Let me explain why.
It is the job of all search engines to deliver the most relevant content to it's customers (i.e. you and me). For a search engine to be able to do this, it must constantly spider any and all web pages that it is aware of and index them as quickly as possible. Whenever it finds and catalogs unique content, be it from the original source initially, or from a link path, it will serve that content (the content from the ultimate original source) first.
What does this mean?
It means that if a person sets up an autoblog scraping an RSS feed from another blog, news site or whatever source, the domain scraping the content will get zero credit for it and rightly so. The scraper did not write the content, it only scraped and served it. Why would a search engine serve an autoblog to it's customers when it can serve the original unique version to them? Clearly, it wouldn't and shouldn't.
Many webmasters think that an autoblog is something that one can set and forget. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. If it did work that way, we would all just be setting up autoblogs everyday and monetizing them.
As it stands, autoblogging can, however, serve a purpose. That purpose is as a supplement, a supplement to your existing unique content which you must add occasionally.
What does unique content accomplish?
Continue reading here: http://thebitbot.com/2010/08/the-imp...-to-autoblogs/
When I wrote the article, I was focusing mainly on the technical aspect of setting up the autoblog so as to provide a guide for bloggers to set up these types of blogs as a means of supplemental content.
In this post, I am highlighting the importance of adding unique content to autoblogs. Why is this important?
Simple. It is the only way your blog will ever rank in the search engines, such as Google. Let me explain why.
It is the job of all search engines to deliver the most relevant content to it's customers (i.e. you and me). For a search engine to be able to do this, it must constantly spider any and all web pages that it is aware of and index them as quickly as possible. Whenever it finds and catalogs unique content, be it from the original source initially, or from a link path, it will serve that content (the content from the ultimate original source) first.
What does this mean?
It means that if a person sets up an autoblog scraping an RSS feed from another blog, news site or whatever source, the domain scraping the content will get zero credit for it and rightly so. The scraper did not write the content, it only scraped and served it. Why would a search engine serve an autoblog to it's customers when it can serve the original unique version to them? Clearly, it wouldn't and shouldn't.
Many webmasters think that an autoblog is something that one can set and forget. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. If it did work that way, we would all just be setting up autoblogs everyday and monetizing them.
As it stands, autoblogging can, however, serve a purpose. That purpose is as a supplement, a supplement to your existing unique content which you must add occasionally.
What does unique content accomplish?
Continue reading here: http://thebitbot.com/2010/08/the-imp...-to-autoblogs/
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