Autoblogging

Bumblogging is different from autoblogging. Have a look in the WSO section for the bumblogging product from a reputable marketer - Geoff Shaw. He gets amazing testimonials for his work.

For autoblogging, there have been many threads on this subject, often containing useful information. use the search function to locate a few of these. You might also check some of the posts by Keith Cogane as he is prominent in this field and often shares details of his experience.

Ivan

I find it helpful to use some of the plugins to source information; however to provide a worthwhile user experience it still requires some manual input.

For instance, articles don't usually come with illustrative graphics. Simply displaying text can make it difficult holding a reader's attention. So adding graphics and highlighting key points to make an article more reader friendly takes a little extra time which limits the number of blogs that can be produced this way (unless outsourced).

Although sourcing relevant content is straight forward enough and there are many ways of doing this, a lot of keyword or category relevant content can be of poor quality or riddled with links to other websites. Selecting quality content, even if written by others, involves additional time in scrutinizing the material received.

If the article directories upgrade their standards - or maintain a high standard - it makes the job of the publisher so much easier. As I like the reader experience to be a good one when they visit my blogs, there are few sources - but they do exist - that warrant publishing on receipt instead of saving as a draft to await editorial approval.

Ivan

I think splogging is dead, or you should at least consider it dead.

But there are really two things to remember. White hat is the new black hat and you can break any "rule" as long as you're providing some value to the user.

For example, say you've written an article that you can get traffic to from search engines or various sources but you don't have an affiliate link. An autoblog with AdSense could be a great money page as long as you're sending a visitor to a site full of articles that they'll find useful. They will also get indexed and will be useful for backlinks.

You could go a few different ways with autoblogs. You could use WPRobot which is solid and get an automated feed. There's some risk there with getting trash content mixed in but it's set and forget if you take the time to set it up right.

Then there's market samurai, which I think is cool in the sense that it will let you do your market research, find articles on directory, let you edit them and post them to your blog with ease. Kind of a semi automated approach, but when you consider everything else it does I think it's a big time saver.