Unique Content Overrated?

"A LITTLE more"?

Creating unique content for a site nobody is yet seeing?!

In which time I can create 20 good quality autoblogs?

Don't get me wrong - there's absolutely no irony in my words - but how can one create useful, good-quality, unique content SO easily?

I know a thing or two but putting it down in text in a form that would appeal to "normal" web surfer... Not to mention "average potential client" seems a daunting task.

I'm a respected blogger (in Polish), I wrote quite a lot, even books (not important ones, e.g. on HYIP's), also in English, but whenever I try to write something more or less original, the result is a philosophical essay (or almost) - not a standard Internet article with keywords, simple wording and just as much info, as is needed to entice... You know what I mean.

It goes even for those few marketing articles I wrote a few years ago and that gained some popularity. They were not typical marketing articles, I wrote them quite quickly but they "had been growing in me" (if I may call it so), and I am personally not capable of producing such articles - or in fact any sort of articles - at any quick rate, not to mention at ease.

What remains? Ordering new? Of course, but it's a couple of bucks, at least for an article, plus not so little preliminary work. After all a hired writer must have almost everything given to him (or her of course)... It's almost like writing the article by myself - just the stylistic phase remains to be done, and this is the easy part.

I don't know, but to me this info that you can start a site on re-used, perhaps spinned (and perhaps corrected by a human) content, sounds rather optimistic. :p

Yep, it's obvious. But you will also pay a lot more - in time or money. Not true?

I'm not against real unique content, and I see much of people do for SEO as mad (scavenging articles from unrelated, but keyword-strong, articles scrapped from the Web, for example). But this is, in my humble opinion, an interesting question. So maybe you shouldn't feel so strongly against my putting that whole topic to this illustre gremium.

I like a combination of unique and duplicate setup in this way.

1) All of the unique content is written as "pages" in Wordpress, not posts. The unique content is compelling.
2) In Wordpress, Click "Reading" under the settings menu. Set "Front Page Display" as a static page, not a post. Chose your best page from the dropdown menu. Have to create it first.
3) Create a blank page called Blog and then chose that as your "Posts Page".
4) Create a link in the navigation or sidebar, call in "Blog" and link it to your blog page.
5) Write 5-10 really good articles and put big links to each page in the sidebar. Don't link to an individual posts in the sidebar.

6) Use a plugin of your choice to pull duplicate content into posts...into your "blog" section.
7) Setup a banner to display above each post (Max Banner Ads, WWSGD, or DDADDSIG). The banner will show a compelling clickable graphic to get people to click to the front page.

...so what happens is that your 5-10 unique articles rank in Google. When people hit your blog they really just see these 5-10 articles, because that is all that is shown in the navigation. These presell or sell an opt-in. The hundreds of automated duplicate articles funnel additional people back to that front page.

I like to use WPEasyContent for my duplicate stuff, but anything works...WPRobot, WPMage, etc.

This is a way to create a review blog that will crush it by the way. Even if you don't rank number one for your review term...those hundreds of articles will funnel enough visitors for various terms to your front page that you will get a lot of exposure.

This is a way to make $500-$1,000+ per month, per autoblog.

I may create an info product on this at some point, because it works every time.

Cheers,

-Rusty