Autoblogging - newbie, a few questions

Hi All,

I decided to "restart" my adventure with IM and recently started reading a lot more on Warrior's forum again. What a great bunch, so much info and support!

Anyway, I decided to try autoblogging and more exactly semi-autoblogging. I don't believe that set and forget will work and give my visitors the experience and information they will be looking for.

Anyway, I've set up 2 blogs so far. I get the content but then I check it myself before posting to make sure it looks and reads ok. Now, that I have my design and content somewhat under control I wanted to take the next steps. I see that Google indexed both my domains so that's good too even though it's been a week so far.

So what now? I guess I have to start link building, correct? However, before I start doing it, I was wondering what your thoughts are on duplicate content. Even if I do link building and all that, isn't Google just going to punish me for that and not rank me high in the results? If that's the case then what is the point in link building to begin with?

My niche is moderately competitive so can you guys roughly tell me how many links I would have to build and for how long? (Assuming those are good links)

Anyway, also if you can, please check out one of my sites and let me know what you think of the design and layout.

www[.]bleedingduringpregnancy[.]info

Thanks for your input.

puzon23