How do you autoblog

There are tons of info here on the forum, automating doesn't mean only posting some other blogs/ sites stuff on your blog - but also mix of your content, articles, PLRs, etc... and you can do that with various WP plugins and/or from centralized "master" server.

Marian

A lot of the plugins will pull RSS feeds from other places which is OK, I guess. I have used those in the past but now prefer Automatic Blog from Peomedia.com which pulls articles (complete with resource box to keep it legal) from ArticlesBase. Sure, I have leaks from my site but I find the content a lot better and more on topic. Sure worth a look.
Russell

I've got several autoblogs that do well, but the autoblogs that do even better incorporate what I call the hybridauto method. This means I'm simply mixing unique content that I create or have created for me, expose it on the top level pages (categories, home page, etc) and then have my filler content composed of autoblog sources: rss, yahoo, ebay, amazon.

This has been my most successful approach. It leads to return traffic as well. It's tough to manage sites and keep content fresh all the time, that's where the automated content comes in... but fresh and unique content being featured on the site will get your site out of the "splog" category. I think auto content helps "juice" your unique content. It's been my experience.

There are lots of ways of creating autoblogs, including some great free software offered by warriors. How you monetize them is another matter, of course. I monetize mine in a round-a-bout way - I use them a la 'bloggerhigh.com' method, to push PR, backlinks and visitors to other sites I own that are seriously monetized.

Keith,

I have been reading all your posts and was wondering something.

How much resources does your hidden control blog usues? With 75 (or more now i suppose) blogs it must take a significant amount of resources.

Are you self hosting this one? or is it on a regular webhosting?

yes it answers that question and also how much you post too

Great help

besides autoblog tools, you need to know autoblog strategies.

Absolutely. More people fail at autoblogging when they throw up an ok theme, activate some plugins and sit back and hope that the site generates some income. Just like any other venture online, you NEED to do some of the following in order to MAKE money.

1) Keyword research and utilization (especially on categories and tags)
2) Controlling your ping-outs
3) RSS submissions
4) web 2.0 bookmarking strategies (for longevity)
5) Directory submissions
6) and a slew of other often repeated traffic/linking methods.

Yes, autoblogging can be set/forget moneymakers, most of mine are. But the necessary steps to bring that blog up to the position of being self sustaining and visibile across the SERPS is paramount to its success.

I like to use caffeinated content but you do have to maintain it. I like to schedule it for 1 month and spend a hour or so weeding through the yahoo answers and you tube clips and only keeping the best. I used YAAB but I could not get it to stop postin duplicate content.

is there a video course that shows up how to set up an autoblog out there?

A few months back, there was an 'extended' thread on this topic and the most talked about (stable) WP plug-in for automatically importing relevant blog content was a tool called YAAB. The author is a nice guy (PhD) from India I think? I liked his tool so much that I clicked the Donate button and he almost instantly replied with a thanks for the $$ (what converted to 48 Indian Rupees) I was the 1st guy to donate for the cause. That's the good news.

The bad news is, from people who know more than me, say that having duplicate content on your Blog is NOT a good thing, so even though I liked the clean way Yaab did its thing, I quit using it for fear of Google thinking my Blog was a bunch of dupe content.

My Alexa is still only in the low 300k range and my backlinks and Webgrader scores are doing better each week, but you can't fool the crawlers, so you might think about that B4 you use Yaab or any other auto post tool.

ditto everything Keith said above. To assume that Google doesn't rank or index duplicate content just because you heard that rumor simply isn't true. If that were true, there would be only one article directory indexed on the net, just as one example, but I have autoblogs that have thousands of pages indexed and have pagerank.

My favorite autoblog plugins are autoblogged and WPRobot. They both do something different. Autoblogged will bring in posts using rss feeds or keywords, your choice, and provide attribution to the original source. I have never had anyone ask me to stop using their content ... they do get backlinks and attribution so they don't mind it at all.

WPRobot pulls in articles, videos, Amazon, Clickbank and Ebay products (with your affiliate link). I use it along with Aublogged.

I also add unique content to my blogs in addition to autoblogging.

As for autoblogging plugins that pull in content from articlebase, I have one that I never use. Used it once and it brought in the worst spammy articles ever written. I don't want garbage content on my autoblogs and articlebase has a lot of garbage content. The plugin also didn't pull in the articles that were relevant. The blog might be about Yoga and it would pull in spammy make money online articles.

I use autoblogging to build up content on a lot of domains that I haven't had a chance to or might not ever build a custom site on. Better than parking domains in my opinion.

As for duplicate content ... there are also plenty of plugins that deal with that ifit worries you. I use the Steve Fullman plugin - http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...w-warrior.html - found there. It's been working out for me just great.

can you do autoblog with BLOGGER.com as well?

i am very interested in this as well...again, would ditto what gregory
said...i am also interested in a camtasia style video course showing
how to do this because i like learning visually...thanks

BJ Min, I've tried autoblogging with blogger in the past. Blogger kept on making changes to throw autoblogging scripts off. Don't know where things stand now.

When it comes to autoblogging on Wordpress, for some reason I'm having trouble getting wp-o-matic to automatically post for me. The cron job didn't work for me, though I tried various online fixes for this problem.

Yaab didn't quite work for me either. Maybe the solution is simple, but it was just posting titles for me, but not text body.

I'm finding that feedwordpress works pretty well for the purposes of one of my blogs.

BJ - you can autoblog to blogger a number of ways, but the way I do it is to create an autoblog the same way I would in WordPress, then publish that content to Blogger's post-by-email feature using WordPress's Subscribe2 Plugin.

Using a single, private WordPress install, I can control dozens and dozens of Blogger blogs simultaneously.

As long as you don't overdo it, and actually filter the posts through a different Gmail for each set of blogs (rather than emailing direct from Wordpress to 25 blogs, I email to a Gmail account, which has a filter to auto-forward certain subject lines to the blogger post address.

Anyway, I hope that makes sense - let me know if you have questions!

P.S. A simpler way to automate posting to Blogger is to use Thunderbird email client and a plugin they have for it that allows scheduling of emails to send in the future. You need to manually create your content emails, but that might be easier for beginners anyway.

Hi, Mark

I've just been using it for Amazon and Clickbank feeds, and it works ok with that (but not perfectly). I would say just ask the plugin developers: FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress

I don't mean to plug feedwordpress per se. Sometimes a plugin's performance can be affected by other plugins, how the server is configured, or any number of other factors. I tried to use Google news feeds after you brought it up and had the same formatting issues. If I figure it out, I'll get back to you on that. Google news feeds can be quirky -- they seem to deliberately change things around (maybe to mess up some scripts?)