Auto Blog System X - Anyone using it?

The thing search engines don't like is mechanized trickery. If you can create a blog that pulls content from other sites legally, and it becomes legitimately popular so that it draws visitor who link back to it because they like it, the search engines will rank it high. If you try to convince the search engines that your site is alive and active with visitors when it is not, you are trying to trick the SEs. This is called "Black Hat." SEs don't like black hat.

The first "IM Course" I took taught how to setup a site that stole RSS feeds and published them on blogger fully automated. The key tool shut down while I was creating my first site. I have the tools for that now, but I don't consider that an appropriate tactic any longer. There are legitimate sources of content that can be acquired by email, RSS feed, and by downloading from certain sites.

I just discovered FaceBook Groups. One of the groups I visited has hundreds of posts on the 'wall'. The owner of the group only posted two posts in the last four to five weeks. The rest of the activity is handled by the members. That is a good example of one form of automated site. And, yes, others are doing the work and the owner does not pay them.

I have only two autoblogs right now, and they are both duds, but they both paid for two years of their expenses the first year so I am keeping them around for now. All of the books I have read about autoblogging depend on lots of sites being setup and lots of sites failing, but like System X, they suggest selling the duds and continually replacing them. A couple of the courses have said they compared fully automated blogs with hand-massaged automated blogs. That means you manually screen and touch up the content before allowing it to be published. These sites tend to do much better than fully automated blogs, and their automation is less obvious to the search engines.

Before I encountered this one, not one course I have seen ever said to expect more that $3-$4/day from any blog but you might experience an exceptional blog that may make twice that. They all teach to count on keeping blogs making over $1/day and selling those that make less.

Someone else in this thread said it as well, but one of the biggest things I learned about "Automated Income" for Internet marketing is that it means that someONE else does the work instead of you!

To maximize the effect of autoblogging, one needs to do some maintenance to the sites. It may be to constantly build new ones, or to perk up those making money. That service can be outsourced.

One blogger claims he makes his wealth by having nearly 1000 sites producing an average of $3/day each. For $3000 per day, I can outsource a lot of maintenance and new site building. But, not today. I am afraid I will have to build up to that.

Is Autoblogging secure income? Not unless you can use it to build a list. When that happens, it will exponentially increase its value. In the meantime, it is another job, but it can eventually pay better than most other jobs.

FWIW