Is Automatic Content Generation Ruining the Internet?

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Hi Guys

Recently, I have come across a number of sites (actually 3 different sites) that all offer an automatic content generation service. There is even one service that says you can take one if its own autogenerated articles and use it to reseed the system to generate further unique articles.

Perhaps they have been around for some time and have only recently come to my attention because, these days, I am putting a lot more effort into Article Marketing. Anyway, these services sound pretty similar. They all essentially offer to generate original unique articles - automatically. I have to admit I was - and perhaps still am, to some extent - tempted. But, so far, I have resisted the urge to get involved.

Let's face it, we all want to succeed - that's why we are here having our discussions about making money after all. But at what cost? There is nothing wrong, in my book, with seeking to gain competitive advantage by using tactics we are all aware of such as bookmarking, link-building, article distribution, press releases etc, but the whole idea of filling-up the internet with (forgive me) ... garbage seems to me to be something I don't wish to be party to.

Surely, I am not the only person who feels this way. I would think the guys at Google, for example, would be well-aware of these sorts of sites and services; and that they would be discussing - probably right now - how they could combat the problem for the long-term good of the internet. Who knows - perhaps it will never be done. But the point is - what kind of an internet are we building for this and future generations? And is it something we would be proud to be a part of?

I would be very interested to hear what other Warriors think on this subject.

Will
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    • Sooner or later, search engine like
      google will generate a tool to
      check whether the content is
      uniquely written from scratch
      or from article spinner tool..
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  • Hi Will,

    I think that Google Adsense does have something in place, but it's not complete. As an experiment, about 2 months ago I set up an autoblog just to see how possible the whole thing was. It worked - it was not particularly good, but probably better than some of the blogs that I have seen. So then I enabled Adsense on it. Ads displayed public service ads nearly all the time. Real blogs in the same niche display real ads as do my other sites on the same Adsense account, hence my thought that Google may be working on this.

    Interestingly, it does not seem to affect Google search (yet).

    Cheers, Clive
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    • Equally there are tens of thousands of autoblogs out there pulling targeted adsense revenue.

      I "think" as I'm not an expert on auto blogs but there does seem to be a bit of difference between them.

      Some of the good ones are pulling in 100% targeted content based on the blog URL, title and so forth, the adsense ads are matching that 100% unrewritten content , no it's not original but it's not far from what the searcher was looking for.

      On the other hand you have autoblogs parsing in god awful crappy spun content which looks and sounds awful which Google may be picking up on.

      The former are really no better/worse than any niche landing page with hand written content , the latter are just cyber junk gumming up the works.
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  • The concept appeals as clearly it enables one to generate a lot of unique pages. But what about the value of the content ... does it read well and serve the visitor to the page with the results they where looking for.

    My instinct tells me that it takes longer to write and create unique content but in the long run will be worth it.

    Maybe thats just me

    John
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    • Hi John,

      Well, that really is my point about the type of blogs. The content is targeted by keyword/LSI phrase and parsed in, this is what s/w like FirePow does along with various alternatives.

      If the visitor lands on a page with content which is specific to their search, it's really irrelevent whether it's unique or duplicated content. I personally dislike spun content it's almost always dire unless it's "manually" spun and I tend to call that being re-written.

      What you may have however is that with totally unique content on your niche site you may have been SEO than with the same content replicated a hundred times.
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    • Actually, my pet peeve is the use of the word "unique". IMO, the same info spun using different words is unqiue text strings, but not unique content.

      Truly unqique content should be able to be added to an autoreponder, with the person reading each message discovering new info.

      I'm not saying I'm totally against spun content. I'm just totally against calling the output "unique".
  • Hey Will,

    My opinion is that the people that rely on this automated content for long term success will end up losing.

    You can add it as a strategy but I certainly wouldnt rely on it for long term success.

    When i have visited sites and i know its automated content that doesnt sound right, I'm done with them and i dont go back to their site again.

    Rich
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    • It's not ruining the internet. The internet has all kinds of content that is useless or irrelevant to what you need, even if it is original. Most people can quickly judge if content is not what they're looking for and move on.

      I use spun articles, but I spin them manually so I know they make sense. It doesn't bother me that there are near-duplicate articles on different sites. RSS feeds shoot 100% dupes all over the net on purpose, so I don't care.

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