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Put up an autoblog yesterday. Making money and #4 in Google Today.

by Tim_Carter
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Well I would have never thunk it.

I was just messing around and decided to put up a WP autoblog using free autoblogging plugin.

I chucked 2 feeds on it, put in the seo plugins as always, slapped Adsense and CPA offers on it, pinged at pingler.com and went to bed.

Checked it tonight and I got 200 visitors in 24 hours from Google. It already has 400 posts on it from the feeds. I go check out the keywords and I am on page one for 3 of them. The highest one at number four. This is a celebrity blog.

It even made a couple of bucks.

I an shocked to say the least. I'll see what happens over the coming week.
#autoblog #google #making #money #put #today #yesterday
  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    what autoblog plugin do you use?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rukshan
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      what autoblog plugin do you use?
      Yeah, same question is here?

      Is your domain a new one or not?
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      • Profile picture of the author sjohn
        Thats very impressive getting your autoblog posts to not only index but rank in that short timeframe.
        Are you also automating the backlinking to these blogposts in anyway?
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  • Profile picture of the author Monta
    wow that's pretty quick even with autoblogging, gratz.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    you must be using an older domain that is already ranked
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    • Profile picture of the author llcoolrobb
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      you must be using an older domain that is already ranked
      yes,how old is the domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author O0o0O
    Good job! Now scale up and pray that Google doesn't banish your site like it's doing to lots of other sites nowadays.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
    I'm sure your aware but for those that aren't...

    Be careful slamming that many posts to a new site that quickly. It can cause issues and I've found it's usually best to let a site age a bit before making several posts in a short period of time. Probably a good idea to let the site gain some ground before adding Adsense as well, but everyone has different experiences and results.

    Having said all of that...congrats and continued success!
    Robert
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    I need to say that 200 visitors over night on a brand new site is extraordinary. So is the ranking, over night. Still puzzled. He must have had a really good keyword.
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    lol, relax and wait for some answers, he just said he seen a cow jump over a moon land on its back feet and pick up a violin and play a song while tapping its toes..

    let him answer some questions, i am waiting to see some answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author schttrj
    Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

    Well I would have never thunk it.

    I was just messing around and decided to put up a WP autoblog using free autoblogging plugin.

    I chucked 2 feeds on it, put in the seo plugins as always, slapped Adsense and CPA offers on it, pinged at pingler.com and went to bed.

    Checked it tonight and I got 200 visitors in 24 hours from Google. It already has 400 posts on it from the feeds. I go check out the keywords and I am on page one for 3 of them. The highest one at number four. This is a celebrity blog.

    It even made a couple of bucks.

    I an shocked to say the least. I'll see what happens over the coming week.
    Well, I would ask you to wait for a couple of days, before you say Auto-blogging is great. My two cents!
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    • Profile picture of the author Edie47
      I agree that if you wait a couple of days you will probably see much different results. Depending, of course, on your keyword. Most people who hit number one on Google within 24 hours usually drop quite a ways down just as quickly. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim_Carter
    Yes I am aware that things may go poof in a couple of days. Thus the experiment. Actually I read somewhere that posting a huge number all at once and then tapering off can have positive results. That is what I am trying.

    I bought another domain and repeated the experiment a few hours ago. So far 16 visits just 5 hours after finishing the site. The feeds aren't as busy on this one.

    Just messing around to see what happens.

    If I have a positive result I will write a report for the War room. If not - it is just messing around to see what happens.
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      Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

      Yes I am aware that things may go poof in a couple of days. Thus the experiment. Actually I read somewhere that posting a huge number all at once and then tapering off can have positive results. That is what I am trying.

      I bought another domain and repeated the experiment a few hours ago. So far 16 visits just 5 hours after finishing the site. The feeds aren't as busy on this one.

      Just messing around to see what happens.

      If I have a positive result I will write a report for the War room. If not - it is just messing around to see what happens.
      And there you have it.

      "I will write a report for war room".
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Tim, please tell me what plugin you use? Wp-o-matic?
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    • Profile picture of the author vivax
      I created a few autobologs in the past with wpzon builder and wp robot. they all ranked well for their domain keywords for a couple of weeks...then disappeared (all of them), and never came back, they are now floating between page 80-100 for their keywords...although I did some bookmarking, backlinks and seo optimization for many posts.

      two domains on which I posted over 100 posts right away were banned by google, and the penalty is still there after more then two months.

      no success for me with autoblogs, I wish you really good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
    gawd! This just confuses my poor brain even more about duplicate content. w to the t to the eff.
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      Originally Posted by maryjaneb View Post

      w to the t to the eff.
      LOL.

      GRAND CAYMAN!!

      Mary Jane,

      Can I come visit you???
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      • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
        Only if you promise you will explain duplicate content.
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        I wouldn't have pulled a $9k week w/Teespring etc without the help of others, so it's time to pay it forward.
        I can make a little room in my life for that. ;)

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      Originally Posted by maryjaneb View Post

      gawd! This just confuses my poor brain even more about duplicate content. w to the t to the eff.
      You sound like you're still pretty new to this IM stuff, but if you do a forum search for "duplicate content myth", you should be able to see for yourself that this is actually a fallacy. The short answer is no, you won't really be subject to the duplicate content penalty - unless you make it your mission in life to completely duplicate some other website out there!
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        Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

        You sound like you're still pretty new to this IM stuff, but if you do a forum search for "duplicate content myth", you should be able to see for yourself that this is actually a fallacy. The short answer is no, you won't really be subject to the duplicate content penalty - unless you make it your mission in life to completely duplicate some other website out there!
        Listen to what Paul said!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    I must say that I absolutely hate autoblogs. IT takes away from the fun of making your own site. Anyhow, good job.
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    • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
      Originally Posted by FreshDomains View Post

      I must say that I absolutely hate autoblogs. IT takes away from the fun of making your own site. Anyhow, good job.
      I wouldn't mind deploying 100+ autoblogs which make money WITHOUT ME NEEDING TO DO ANYTHING. I can still work on my better sites Thats the beauty of it: AUTO <--
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      • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
        Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

        I wouldn't mind deploying 100+ autoblogs which make money WITHOUT ME NEEDING TO DO ANYTHING. I can still work on my better sites Thats the beauty of it: AUTO <--
        Yep, I agree... I dislike the typical look of the autoblog. I like the typical look of money though.

        Great thing about autoblogs... you can get 100 sites up pretty quickly, and start making money immediately. I'll take a dollar a day from 100 sites in a heartbeat.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
          Originally Posted by iAmNameLess View Post

          Yep, I agree... I dislike the typical look of the autoblog. I like the typical look of money though.

          Great thing about autoblogs... you can get 100 sites up pretty quickly, and start making money immediately. I'll take a dollar a day from 100 sites in a heartbeat.
          do you use free blogs or your own domain
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          • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
            Originally Posted by FreshDomains View Post

            do you use free blogs or your own domain
            My own domains... never really use free blogs much except for some linkwheels.
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          • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
            Originally Posted by FreshDomains View Post

            do you use free blogs or your own domain
            ALSO, if you spend a couple hundred bucks on some domains... get all .info's or if you can get really cheap .com's then do that, but if you have 50-100 domains, build out those sites, use a basic template for all of it. You could easily make a buck a day. An extra 3 grand a month.

            If you have sites that AREN'T doing so well, then sell em. You could spend 200-500 on domains and sell 1 site, and make that back, while raking in monthly income.
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            • Profile picture of the author theultimate1
              Originally Posted by iAmNameLess View Post

              ALSO, if you spend a couple hundred bucks on some domains... get all .info's or if you can get really cheap .com's then do that, but if you have 50-100 domains, build out those sites, use a basic template for all of it. You could easily make a buck a day. An extra 3 grand a month.

              If you have sites that AREN'T doing so well, then sell em. You could spend 200-500 on domains and sell 1 site, and make that back, while raking in monthly income.
              Interesting... "How" do you monetise these .info domains? You need traffic to them. How do you build that? Do you monetise them using AdSense, Amazon, Clickbank, CPM ads, CPA offers, or something else?

              Also, won't new .info domains get penalised? Now you might say you gotta do autoblogging right... and I agree. Please share some ideas on that one too. Thanks
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              • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
                Originally Posted by theultimate1 View Post

                Interesting... "How" do you monetise these .info domains? You need traffic to them. How do you build that? Do you monetise them using AdSense, Amazon, Clickbank, CPM ads, CPA offers, or something else?

                Also, won't new .info domains get penalised? Now you might say you gotta do autoblogging right... and I agree. Please share some ideas on that one too. Thanks
                .info can get traffic too...

                I monetize by adsense, clickbank AND amazon. I get exact match domains with very little competition on highly searched keywords.

                .info do not get penalized, I'm not sure why you would think that? Google doesn't count points for the domain extension. Doesn't matter to search engines if a site is .info or .com
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        Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

        I wouldn't mind deploying 100+ autoblogs which make money WITHOUT ME NEEDING TO DO ANYTHING. I can still work on my better sites Thats the beauty of it: AUTO <--
        Unfortunately, the "auto" in autoblogs is pretty much a myth - there will definitely be work involved, especially if you want an "auto" blog that actually makes you money.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Here is an explanation, maybe it might shed some light on this:

    Go and enter in google:

    Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital Tripoli along the country's Mediterranean coastline Sunday and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gaddafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters.
    this is just a random snippet i just took from Google news.

    You will see that in Google there are zillions of sites coming up containing the same snippet, word for word.

    None of the sites is penalized for "duplicate content".

    So..if you use news feeds (RSS from news etc.) there IS no duplicate content penalty and you are likely to rank for your content, even its scraped.

    However, if you take "private" web content from other sites or article directories, you are probably not going far since you will get a dupe penalty.

    The interesting thing now would be to find out exactly WHAT kind of content can be used without the penalty.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      However, if you take "private" web content from other sites or article directories, you are probably not going far since you will get a dupe penalty.

      I'm not sure I agree with this...

      I know several here (myself included) who do use content from other sites that aren't news sites and haven't had any issues. I think a lot of this has to do with the quality of the content, if the autoblogger is mixing in their own content and how it is presented.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Here is an explanation, maybe it might shed some light on this:

      Go and enter in google:



      this is just a random snippet i just took from Google news.

      You will see that in Google there are zillions of sites coming up containing the same snippet, word for word.

      None of the sites is penalized for "duplicate content".

      So..if you use news feeds (RSS from news etc.) there IS no duplicate content penalty and you are likely to rank for your content, even its scraped.

      However, if you take "private" web content from other sites or article directories, you are probably not going far since you will get a dupe penalty.

      The interesting thing now would be to find out exactly WHAT kind of content can be used without the penalty.
      That makes sense.. finally. Something that makes sense. It's been a long day.
      =)
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Here is an explanation, maybe it might shed some light on this:

      Go and enter in google:

      this is just a random snippet i just took from Google news.

      You will see that in Google there are zillions of sites coming up containing the same snippet, word for word.

      None of the sites is penalized for "duplicate content".

      So..if you use news feeds (RSS from news etc.) there IS no duplicate content penalty and you are likely to rank for your content, even its scraped.

      However, if you take "private" web content from other sites or article directories, you are probably not going far since you will get a dupe penalty.

      The interesting thing now would be to find out exactly WHAT kind of content can be used without the penalty.
      This is actually a controversial issue - duplicate content issue!

      You are right. If you use 'syndicated' content on your site, you won't be penalized but just that your page may not come up high on the SE rankings.

      Okay, now comes the case where you 'steal' someone's copyrighted content. In this case, it is doubtful how would Google react. In some cases, they rank higher than the original site. In other cases, they are penalized.

      Well, the only fear is that if the original website owner sends a DMCA notice to Google, you will be de-indexed for the rest of your life. Now, that can HURT!
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    • Profile picture of the author Noctilus
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Here is an explanation, maybe it might shed some light on this:

      Go and enter in google:



      this is just a random snippet i just took from Google news.

      You will see that in Google there are zillions of sites coming up containing the same snippet, word for word.

      None of the sites is penalized for "duplicate content".

      So..if you use news feeds (RSS from news etc.) there IS no duplicate content penalty and you are likely to rank for your content, even its scraped.

      However, if you take "private" web content from other sites or article directories, you are probably not going far since you will get a dupe penalty.

      The interesting thing now would be to find out exactly WHAT kind of content can be used without the penalty.
      Oh and Thanks for explaining the RSS feed v/s private blog.
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    I think George what you will find is that it was an already established domain.

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    Agree! This figure for a newly established autoblog is HUGE! The keywords you used must have been pretty effective!
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  • Profile picture of the author Manuelcrc
    Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

    Well I would have never thunk it.

    I was just messing around and decided to put up a WP autoblog using free autoblogging plugin.

    I chucked 2 feeds on it, put in the seo plugins as always, slapped Adsense and CPA offers on it, pinged at pingler.com and went to bed.

    Checked it tonight and I got 200 visitors in 24 hours from Google. It already has 400 posts on it from the feeds. I go check out the keywords and I am on page one for 3 of them. The highest one at number four. This is a celebrity blog.

    It even made a couple of bucks.

    I an shocked to say the least. I'll see what happens over the coming week.

    Impressive. Keep updating us
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    • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      You sound like you're still pretty new to this IM stuff, but if you do a forum search for "duplicate content myth", you should be able to see for yourself that this is actually a fallacy. The short answer is no, you won't really be subject to the duplicate content penalty - unless you make it your mission in life to completely duplicate some other website out there!
      Originally Posted by schttrj View Post

      Listen to what Paul said!


      I have read.. a lot. There are a lot of different perspectives on duplicate content, different ones on the Google site to the Google Forum, different ones from one post here to another.

      Just because one has war room member beside ones name doesn't prove to me that the opinion is worthy to be taken as law..

      What's that saying, there are 2 sides to every story?
      I like to know 3 before I make a decision.
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      I can make a little room in my life for that. ;)

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      • Profile picture of the author MerlynSanchez
        Originally Posted by Maryjane Burnz View Post

        I have read.. a lot. There are a lot of different perspectives on duplicate content, different ones on the Google site to the Google Forum, different ones from one post here to another.

        Just because one has war room member beside ones name doesn't prove to me that the opinion is worthy to be taken as law..

        What's that saying, there are 2 sides to every story?
        I like to know 3 before I make a decision.
        I agree with you MaryJane! I have read so many different opinions about duplicate content (on this very site) that I find it very confusing.

        I also found a response from Google to a webmaster inquiring about why his blog had lost traffic. He was told that his home page contained lots of duplicate content and that his "ratio of original / non-original content " was having an impact.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
          Originally Posted by MerlynSanchez View Post

          I agree with you MaryJane! I have read so many different opinions about duplicate content (on this very site) that I find it very confusing.

          I also found a response from Google to a webmaster inquiring about why his blog had lost traffic. He was told that his home page contained lots of duplicate content and that his "ratio of original / non-original content " was having an impact.
          If you have 1 article out of 10 that is not unique don't worry but 5 out of 10 are not unique worry a bit more
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        Originally Posted by Maryjane Burnz View Post

        I have read.. a lot. There are a lot of different perspectives on duplicate content, different ones on the Google site to the Google Forum, different ones from one post here to another.

        Just because one has war room member beside ones name doesn't prove to me that the opinion is worthy to be taken as law..

        What's that saying, there are 2 sides to every story?
        I like to know 3 before I make a decision.
        Agreed MaryJane! Their are 'experts' around every corner and it is not hard to find multiple opinions on this duplicate content matter, I have seen a lot of them and it seems to me the matter is just as unclear as ever. My guess, Google can and will do what ever they want, one day the duplicate content on a site is not a problem and your riding the serps waves, another day, 'they' decide it is a problem....or something is and 'they' knock that site into the serp pits. I guess what most of the folks say, that seem to know what they are talking about, is user value. If the site has user value then its probably a good thing and Google will keep it high in the search results.

        No matter, work away and work away, do the best we can with what we got... I think this experiment is pretty interesting and I look forward to seeing what the longer term standings of your site are Tim.

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        Originally Posted by Maryjane Burnz View Post

        I have read.. a lot. There are a lot of different perspectives on duplicate content, different ones on the Google site to the Google Forum, different ones from one post here to another.

        Just because one has war room member beside ones name doesn't prove to me that the opinion is worthy to be taken as law..

        What's that saying, there are 2 sides to every story?
        I like to know 3 before I make a decision.
        Don't take the words of people in here as gospel truth, no one is asking you to do that - instead look at what Matt Cutts of Google has stated about duplicate content. If you're still not satisfied, then experiment with content on your own sites to satisfy your burning curiosity. No one is asking you here to blindly believe what you're being told.

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        • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
          ??? What's the point here? Clearly no one trys to force me to 'blindly' believe everything they say..
          You've really got a touchy spot for Duplicate content opinions and comments?
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    Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

    Well I would have never thunk it.

    I was just messing around and decided to put up a WP autoblog using free autoblogging plugin.

    I chucked 2 feeds on it, put in the seo plugins as always, slapped Adsense and CPA offers on it, pinged at pingler.com and went to bed.

    Checked it tonight and I got 200 visitors in 24 hours from Google. It already has 400 posts on it from the feeds. I go check out the keywords and I am on page one for 3 of them. The highest one at number four. This is a celebrity blog.

    It even made a couple of bucks.

    I an shocked to say the least. I'll see what happens over the coming week.
    For real? I hope the best for you. The thing that keeps me from autoblogging is putting in the slightest bit of work to find that Googles slapped me on the wrists. Not good.
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    • Profile picture of the author mitoshthewarrior
      I picked up WP Robot a while ago because I got a really good deal on the Elite version of it and signed up to Auto Blog Blueprint. Yet to use it, I would love to get some sites up but I have little faith it would work very well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anup Mahajan
    That's impressive numbers. Congrats and keep it up.

    I have a question. Isn't putting Adsense on Autoblogs against Adsense TOS? Check out this post on Adsense blog

    AdSense Facts & Fiction Part V: Unoriginal content - Inside AdSense

    I think it would be wise to use other monetization techniques on Auto-blogs ....

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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      What's that saying, there are 2 sides to every story?
      I like to know 3 before I make a decision.
      Not everything is a "story" - sometimes it's just the way things work in reality.

      Just because one has war room member beside ones name doesn't prove to me that the opinion is worthy to be taken as law..
      The War Room is open to everyone for the same fee. When marketers who earn a good living online provide information based on their knowledge and experience, it's your choice whether you believe it or not. But believing in a fallacy gets you nowhere.


      As for "there you have it" - there's nothing wrong with writing up the report for the war room...or mentioning it.

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    Congratulations, just be careful though because google is now banning autoblogs ...
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  • Profile picture of the author jikanv
    I don't understand why would be again google TOS to put adsense on autoblog sites. Isn't the purpose of adsense to have people click on it? If I was to advertise with adwords I would want all relevant sites to display my ads and I wouldn't care if it's an autoblog site or else a manual site. If the subject of the site where my ads are displayed relevant to my ads I want people to click on it, because that's why I advertise for. To bring people in by clicking on my ads.

    Why would google penalize sites that use auto blogging? To me those sites are just as valuable as the manual sites. People visit both kinds, they don't know one is manual and the other is auto blog. It just don't make sense to me as an advertiser. Am I missing something?
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    • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
      Originally Posted by jikanv View Post

      I don't understand why would be again google TOS to put adsense on autoblog sites.
      Not 100% sure whether its against "TOS", i dont think autoblogs are against their TOS "per se" - but their ultimate goal will always be QUALITY search results for whoever is searching in Google.

      What do you do if you watch TV and find that one channel only and mainly shows crap which doesn't interest you? You would choose another channel.
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    Thanks for the recap Kay, I'm not too sure what you were trying to get at there?
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  • Profile picture of the author Diane S
    Ask yourself which celebrity is getting the most attention right now, and that is probably why his traffic seems over the top. I don't even want to put the guy's name here because I don't want to help this particular celebrity in any way. Initials are C.S.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim_Carter
      BINGO!

      And that is why a brand new domain got a crap pile of traffic.

      It doesn't particularly have his name in it but some of the key phrase that finds him.

      and this persons name is all over my auto blog because he is in the celeb news.

      And when the next celeb gets controversial the traffic will spike again.

      I still am getting 60 - 80 visitors per day - every day.

      My other new domain is getting about 40 per day.

      But income is now scarce. I need to think about monetization a little more.

      Check the war room in a week or two. I'm not hiding anything but I want to have some good proof before I document it.

      For me this is just messing around. I make my money elsewhere.

      Originally Posted by Diane S View Post

      Ask yourself which celebrity is getting the most attention right now, and that is probably why his traffic seems over the top. I don't even want to put the guy's name here because I don't want to help this particular celebrity in any way. Initials are C.S.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    Good job. Just be careful about putting too much on your autoblog too fast because that can get you banned. You want the site to grow at a steady pace rather than over night, just in case you ever get a human review. I've heard that adsense is okay on autoblogs as long as you link back to the original poster. I am even taking a course taught by a very reputable marketer that that says it's okay. However, I do see that someone posted a link to google's blog saying that adsense is not permitted on auto blogs. I am confused. I guess I will need to keep asking questions.
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    • Profile picture of the author mitoshthewarrior
      Originally Posted by sarahberra View Post

      Good job. Just be careful about putting too much on your autoblog too fast because that can get you banned. You want the site to grow at a steady pace rather than over night, just in case you ever get a human review. I've heard that adsense is okay on autoblogs as long as you link back to the original poster. I am even taking a course taught by a very reputable marketer that that says it's okay. However, I do see that someone posted a link to google's blog saying that adsense is not permitted on auto blogs. I am confused. I guess I will need to keep asking questions.
      "Ok" and allowed (aka White Hat) is two totally different things. I will bet money if you ask Matt Cutts if Adsense is allowed on Auto Blogs what his story would be.
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      • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
        Originally Posted by mitoshthewarrior View Post

        "Ok" and allowed (aka White Hat) is two totally different things. I will bet money if you ask Matt Cutts if Adsense is allowed on Auto Blogs what his story would be.
        Interesting stance but I disagree. What about yahoo, what about ALL the news sites that have syndicated content, like autoblogs, and also have adsense? If Matt Cutts said that was not allowed, google would be throwing away millions of dollars.
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        • Profile picture of the author mitoshthewarrior
          Originally Posted by iAmNameLess View Post

          Interesting stance but I disagree. What about yahoo, what about ALL the news sites that have syndicated content, like autoblogs, and also have adsense? If Matt Cutts said that was not allowed, google would be throwing away millions of dollars.
          Syndicated is one thing, and those are mostly curated, which is very different than re-posting garbage to game the system.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Google doesnt throw away millions of dollars, if they get rid of many "low quality" sites it would mean overall better quality in search results - therefore more advertisers, less people using other search engines like bing.

    Increasing their search results quality and relevance for sure directly translates into financial gains for them in the long run.

    Don't forget that Google recently faced big time complaints how their search results sucked and favored low quality sites in search - one main reason they did the recent update in the first place.
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    Charlie Sheen+winning DUH!
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    hmmm great for you but like all autoblogs if you are using adsense you'll probably get banned eventually. Autoblogs also risk getting de-indexed in time sooo I would be careful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

    Well I would have never thunk it.

    I was just messing around and decided to put up a WP autoblog using free autoblogging plugin.

    I chucked 2 feeds on it, put in the seo plugins as always, slapped Adsense and CPA offers on it, pinged at pingler.com and went to bed.

    Checked it tonight and I got 200 visitors in 24 hours from Google. It already has 400 posts on it from the feeds. I go check out the keywords and I am on page one for 3 of them. The highest one at number four. This is a celebrity blog.

    It even made a couple of bucks.

    I an shocked to say the least. I'll see what happens over the coming week.
    Nice one Tim, well done

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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Macks
    I imagine there are huge amounts of traffic available for certain celebrities but I doubt very much that many of them are buyers
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    There must be something really good with your keyword. I dont see the same results when I have launched my only auto blog before. I can feel the power of trends.

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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by Andrea Wilson View Post

      There must be something really good with your keyword. I dont see the same results when I have launched my only auto blog before. I can feel the power of trends.

      Andrea
      Sometimes, it is NOT the power of the site, but rather the competition of the keyword. Trust me, it works for me every time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rhiannon Beckham
    Just how much coke DID Charlie Sheen do?

    .. I'd bet enough to kill two and a half men
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    • Profile picture of the author JeromyS
      Originally Posted by Maryjane Burnz View Post

      Just how much coke DID Charlie Sheen do?

      .. I'd bet enough to kill two and a half men
      He is a shining example of how famous controversy can make someone. He is an ass, but look at the bugger! He is so riding this spotlight and loving it.

      Gotta hand it to him for his success with getting loads of people to wonder what he is up to. Now how to cash in on that? Some sort of booze, Captain Morgans, or one the beers that usually uses hot girls and the perception of a 'good time' to sell their booze. If the coke dealers could only advertise eh, bet they'd be all over him.
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  • Profile picture of the author azoz513
    Congrats, I just found out yesterday morning that my site is ranked number 1 on Yahoo and several sites about my product and my own website is all over the front page of Google. That was all manual with no special plug ins or autoblogging.

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      Tim

      Which autoblog plugin are you using?

      Thanks
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