AutoBlogging for "Noobs" - A Guide

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I really like AutoBlogging.

If you're new to this, you might ask: "What the *** is AutoBlogging?"

Simple: An "AutoBlog" is a blog on either blogger or wordpress (self hosted) which you created one time, with certain plug-ins which set the blog on autopilot, deliver content to it 24/7, auto-bookmark, ping....and you dont need to move a finger since it all happens automatically.

In my little "guide" i focus on self-hosted WordPress, since it is the best blogging platform (IMHO) with the greatest flexibility and a very reasonabale "Work <---> Result/ROI" ratio. Its not hard to set up WordPress.

) Where does the content for those blogs come from?
The content is automatically taken (some say "scraped") from sources like Yahoo Answers, Forums, Youtube and Article Directories.
(There are more options which i will describe further below)

You set up a standard WP blog from within your hosting, using Fantastico, or you upload your blog from your PC to your host. You set the config accordingly, database, the usual.

You need some essential "plugins", which are extensions for your blog, as well as "nice" theme.

Plugins:
1) Platinum SEO Plugin
2) Caffeinated Content (Or Autoblogged, WP VideoTube...)
I prefer Caffeinated Content.
3) Google XML SiteMaps
4) Ping Crawl
5) Max Blogpress Ping Optimizer
6) Auto Social Poster

A nice theme, i highly recommend "flexibility" Flexibility Theme for WordPress

You active all your plugins, put your settings in, site name, SEO, you configure Ping Crawl with a nice pinglist, and you add your bookmarking accounts into Auto Social Poster

The core of our 24/7 blogging machine is Caffeinated Content which can pull articles or videos from Youtube, Yahoo answers or Article Directories.

What you do with Caffeinated Content: You set a date, like from "2 weeks ago" ..say "12/01/2008 to 03/01/2009" (in the future), you count those days (in this case 4 months) and chose a reasonbale number of articles to pull, say 100 for this time frame. I recommend about 1-2 articles/day.

CC then pulls all this content from the specified source and stores it on your wordpress. It posts the one from "two weeks ago" already, and it schedules the future dated articles to post over time, up to the date you specified. If you chose a number of articles approximating the number of days you set in CC it will, on average, also post one article per day.

Furthermore you configured PingCrawl which is a nice grayhat plugin, it will ping out after each post and collect links to "related blogs".

Auto Social Poster will actually go out and bookmark your blogs.

Here is caution advised: If you use APS you need to be really naughty and have SEVERAL bookmarking accounts which you created from different IPs. Then you set it to use one of those accounts randomly and bookmark in a "semi-normal" fashion. Because no normal person would bookmark 200 articles a day. This is to stay under the radar.

Another nice method of getting content is the free "Syndicate Kahuna" where i just signed up. You install simple script on your host, then you enter your sites, keywords etc. on syndicatekahuna.com...and you can specify how many articles you want per day. Here again: A reasonable amount makes sense, like one or two.

Duplicate Content?

There is actually a number of people who tell you: "Dont worry". Maybe this is the case. Just dont bother with article rewriters or magic "uniquefiers" since they wont work, not in Google's eyes.
I also would not dare to present my web site visitors "spun" or automatic rewritten content" which is not really humanly readable.

I tend to say that the duplicate content "penalty" is not as big as some people make it look - if this is a big problem for you you shouldnt even start with autoblogging in the first place.

Now, we forgot something essential: You want to monetize your blog

So..put a nice adsense template on it, or go to CbProAds and get clickbank ads related to your niche...or go to CJ and get banners and ads from there.

Then start promoting your sites using Article Marketing and the usual.

Its good to know that your sites work automatically while you sleep, they pull content and ping and bookmark and all the work.
The best thing is that such an "autoblog" is WAY beyond the "olden times" Made-For-Adsense sites, those autblogs actually look GOOD. I see myself constantly browsing my own sites because is see interesting content and articles related to the niche i chose. Those are sites people STAY on as opposed to MFA linkfarms.

Happy (Auto)Blogging

G.

Edit: I did not expect this thread getting so much attention, but for one of my blogs check
out
http://www.internetmarketingbits.com or
http://www.cookingrecipesweb.com

to get an idea how it looks. The blogs can easily be changed according to niches just by changing templates, eg. for financial, debt (high adsense i chose ProSense template for high AdSense CTR.
#autoblogging #guide #noobs
  • cool post, thanks

    do you find these sites get indexed well or does google only do the homepage and a few others?
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    my blogs are still extremely new, my oldest one (two weeks old) has 60 sites indexedas of now. But i did a lot of changes and added more plugins, so i will monitor the new sites in terms of backlinks and indexing, give me a month or two.
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    Thanks for sharing. Great way to monetize your parked pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryon1
    Great post,
    The Idea of autobloging is great, but is it more effective than managing our blog manually?
    Effective in term of money.

    thanks GeorgR.

    Good luck for YOUR Success, Rudy Yonatan
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    Thanks for that George.

    I need to look into using Caffeinated Content as I have been concentrating on WP-O-Matic (amongst others) up to now.

    The auto blogging model is one that has always fascinated me and I love looking at all the different ways of acheiving it.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick Carlow
    George,

    Great guide, thanks for posting this. I've been looking for a solution like this and got my first blog set up last night using the plugins you've suggested here.

    I feel like the blog still needs something else to mix things up a bit. One thing I'm considering adding is a random recent posts plugin. You mentioned some other plugins you added and changes, would you mind sharing any of those?

    Thanks,
    Patrick
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  • Profile picture of the author IMChick
    I'm going to set up a blog with this blueprint over the weekend. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks for the info.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emmbee
    Does CC allow easy to implement manual content in the auto-mix?
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Well CC basically "runs on the side"...it takes its saved content and posts it according to schedule.

    You can always post as normal in addition, or re-run CC eg. for another keyword...or use any other source to additionally get content on the blog.

    Patrick:
    >
    One thing I'm considering adding is a random recent posts plugin. You mentioned some other plugins you added and changes, would you mind sharing any of those?
    >

    i actually feel that those blogs already have "enough", especially if you take the time and run three runs of CC, one for articles, one for yahoo answers and one for videos.

    The "pingcrawl" plugin then gets a lot of incoming links, make sure NOT to use more than three generated tags in CC since pingcrawl goes out and pings for each tag....so more than three are not recommended.

    I only use very few plugins, CC, Platinum Seo, Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer, Auto Social Poster, Pingcrawl, Google XML sitemap.
    More would be overkill, i looked long enough what "essential" plugins i need, and thats the one i found. Besides it keeps the time to install a new blog at minimum since you can set them up relatively quick.

    Using the flexibility theme i got categories and recent posts automatically, then add the content itself and the many comments (from yahoo answers) and you got PLENTY of content without actually having to change anything.

    The flexibilty theme also allows easy integration of adsense and banners, i actually modified it a bit since i dont want adsense, edited the template so i can put in my CBProAds Clickbank products.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    Cool thingy, PingCrawl. Looked at a download page (joshteam.wordpress.com), seems a lot of people have had trouble making it work. Any particular download recommendation?
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  • Profile picture of the author harbors
    Is Caffeinated Content a free plugin? I can't find it on WP
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  • Profile picture of the author sider
    AutoBlogs are good for lazy people, although I love it and actually use it but such blogs do not rank high in search engines.
    If you are looking to have an authority blog in your niche, take time to do the work!
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by sider View Post

      AutoBlogs are good for lazy people, although I love it and actually use it but such blogs do not rank high in search engines.
      If you are looking to have an authority blog in your niche, take time to do the work!
      Amen from a lazy person.

      Whether your blog will rank well has nothing to do with whether it's automated or not. The factors by which sites get rankings are just as easily applied to an automated website as a human edited one. The problem is that most autobloggers can make websites that will "fool" a search spider, but not a human. Eventually, such sites get manually de-indexed. However, it is certainly possible to create a completely automated blog that is not detectable as such by people or search engines. It just takes a bit of work up front to set everything up properly.

      If you know what you're doing, you can easily and consistently create blogs that have automated content, create automated backlinks, and make passive ongoing (even growing) income.

      If you're a non-noob, or even a noob that just wants more detailed auto-blogging tactics, you can see the thread in my sig, or also check out Tim Dixon's methods for using Google Reader as well.

      Anyway, good post. This kind of thing DOES work, and is the easiest method I've tried so far to get something going online.

      Originally Posted by jimrpips View Post

      Hate to say it, but these 'autoblog' sites never get good organic traffic. Google's algo just indexes them as duplicate content and dumps 'em at the bottom of the SERPs.
      Again, incorrect. First, duplicate content penalty does not apply. Even if it did, there are many ways to auto-blog without duplicating content. Scraping content and reposting it is only one way to do this. There are many other ways. For example, I can take a crop of PLR articles, use WordPress and the "Get Random Page" plugin to make a dynamically randomizing article. I do this by making multiple rewrites of each sentence. I can then make a post using the plugin's tokens that will re-construct the article picking a random variant sentence by sentence, meaning each time the article is viewed, it will be unique enough to count as unique content.

      I can take a number of articles arranged this way and set them up on a WordPress installation with the "Oldest2Newest" or "Scheduled Post Shifter" plugin so they rotate on an ongoing basis. You can then take the feed generated by this installation and use it to post to a number of other wordpress blogs. Every post on every different blog reposting this feed will be unique, but identical semantically.

      With about 50 or so articles on related topics created this way, you have plenty for a one post a week blog. Fully automated.

      Now, of course, the problems of SEO and monetization remain, but those are easily grafted onto the above outline. Again, see my post in my sig if you want some ideas.

      But the big takeaway here is AUTOMATED DOES NOT MEAN DUPLICATED
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        • Profile picture of the author manzilla911
          A lot of worriers seem to be into this idea of auto bloging and post tid bits of info like this and i do apresheat it. I was just wondering if any one had a in depth blueprint on this subject.
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    • Profile picture of the author Glenn Leader
      Originally Posted by sider View Post

      AutoBlogs are good for lazy people, although I love it and actually use it but such blogs do not rank high in search engines.
      If you are looking to have an authority blog in your niche, take time to do the work!
      I could argue that you're being lazy by using a blog rather than
      static HTML websites. Autoblogs are just tools, that's all...

      Use good tools wisely, and you;ll get great results. Use them
      foolishly, and your blogs wont even earn their keep.

      Glenn
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    i am also really looking forward how syndicatekahuna works, which i have in addition to CC. While CC pulls from articlesbase.com and y answers and youtube, the idea behind syndicatekahuna sounds actually great.

    Yes...i mentioned Blogpress Pingmaximizer plugin, its actually recommended to set it so it only pings each 1000-1200 minutes to avoid the "ping spammer" penalty.
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  • Profile picture of the author maverick4u
    I've been trying to do this autoblogging on my own but didn't see the "big picture" on how everything fits together. Do you use the links.txt file in CC to link to your affiliate links? Or is it better as some suggest to just use it to point to a random first name-like they were a contributing author to a post? I was also wondering if you have ever tried using WP-O-Matic with the go-codes set up that Keth Kogane talks about and the CC plugin together on the same blog or would they conflict?
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    i had wp-omatic as well as go-codes, but i am back to CC. I dont use links.txt.

    I monetize either with banner/contextual Clickbank Ads or with Adsense. You could as well use GoCodes or similar to make keyword-links, or use GoCodes in addition. I just fell in love with CBProAds and i think that for niche sites appealing banners and text-ads w/ covers look more appealing.

    manzilla: Its really not that hard, you got all basics from my post or in this thread.
    You set up the blog, configure the plugins, then you run CC and fill the blog with content, CC will continue to run until specified date in the future and drip-feed your blog with the content it pulled at the initial run. I usually set it to pull "3 months in advance", pulling like 90 articles/videos total....equals to about 1 article/day which CC will post over time then.

    As for pinging and using the mentioned plugins, key is not to "over do it", eg. one/two article a day, one ping a day etc..etc... to look like a "normal" site with normal post volume, and not post 50 articles/day and ping each 15mins
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  • Profile picture of the author Bigsofty
    Is it just me or is syndicatekahuna not working?

    Just signed up and logging in just dumps me back on the home page.

    ??

    If I use a wrong name or password it says so, so what are they doing?


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    works here
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
    The principle behind CC is solid, but the content it pulls just looks weird to me. I build authority blogs, so it looks weird to have the poster ask a question and have the commenters answer. To each their own, it just looks wonky to me.
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    • Profile picture of the author xlfutur1
      Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

      The principle behind CC is solid, but the content it pulls just looks weird to me. I build authority blogs, so it looks weird to have the poster ask a question and have the commenters answer. To each their own, it just looks wonky to me.
      I have used CC with good success, but if you only pull from Yahoo answers, your blog will look weird. If you mix up the blog posts with articles and videos and some original content than it looks much more natural. I always manually edit the posts as well to take out the caffeinated content link (I hate that it is in every post, big footprint problem) and usually the graphic it pulls too.


      There are other uses for CC if you think outside the box. I used Caffeinated content to resurrect an old domain (Chicago attorney site in sig). It made a new site look established and now I have actual attorneys answering real questions that visitors ask. I then share the leads with them. It ranks #6 on page one of Google for: chicago attorneys Without CC I never would have been able to get that domain back on track.
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      • Profile picture of the author melanied
        Originally Posted by xlfutur1 View Post

        I have used CC with good success, but if you only pull from Yahoo answers, your blog will look weird. If you mix up the blog posts with articles and videos and some original content than it looks much more natural. I always manually edit the posts as well to take out the caffeinated content link (I hate that it is in every post, big footprint problem) and usually the graphic it pulls too.


        There are other uses for CC if you think outside the box. I used Caffeinated content to resurrect an old domain (Chicago attorney site in sig). It made a new site look established and now I have actual attorneys answering real questions that visitors ask. I then share the leads with them. It ranks #6 on page one of Google for: chicago attorneys Without CC I never would have been able to get that domain back on track.
        Oh, man, if you are manually editing every post to take out the link and the pic, you are doing too much work! Edit the template!

        OK, I have never really laid out my philosophy on autoblogging here before - but I feel compelled, because there are several angles I use that are different than what I've seen expressed before, and I think people might get something out of it.

        Everything I'm about to share is based on my own experience, other people's experiences may vary. Warning ahead of time - this will be long.

        First of all, ASP is not necessary, in fact, in my experience, it hurts. Every time I've used it, rankings dip, I turn it off and a couple of weeks later, they rise again.

        Secondly, when you set up an autoblog, you aren't just setting up that blog. Each blog should be considered a further experiment in "Perfecting the System." You will start to make real money autoblogging when you can put one up in two to three hours and move on. You will make REAL money autoblogging when you can train your outsourcers to do it. That's my next step.

        Therefore, take notes. You're looking at getting it down to a step-by-step process that you can complete as quickly as possible. I've put up over 100 of these and I still follow my checklist as I do it. Why? I don't want to have to think about what comes next. That's a timesucker. I do a task, check it off, move on to the next.

        Incidentally, it's a good point to keep in mind that you are not looking for any one autoblog to make you rich. Each one should pay its own rent (domain name and hosting) and make about a dollar a day, averaged. You will have some that far exceed that - AWESOME! But the point of autoblogging isn't to develop the one major property that's your ticket to success. It's to develop many small properties that each contribute their small part to your wealth-building.

        Also, I feel that the design of the site is very important. With themes like Super Adsense by Gobala Krishnan, among many others, it's SO EASY to change up the header (you can make one in ten minutes) and switch out the background colors and link colors.

        Which brings up ANOTHER good point - you are not going to have to be a coding wizard, but do learn your basic HTML and CSS. It will make your autoblogging life pretty much hell if you don't, and it's pretty frickin' easy to learn. There are tutorials all over the internet.

        My plugins are as follows:

        - All-in-One SEO
        - BayRSS
        - Caffienated Content
        - Admin Management Extended
        - Google Sitemap Generator
        - Link Cloaking Plugin
        - Manageable
        - MaxBlogPress Favicon
        - MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
        - Ping Crawl (although, I gotta say, I'm not totally sold on Ping Crawl...)
        - ReCaptcha
        - Reveal IDs
        - SEO Siloing
        - Share This
        - WP-O-Matic
        - WP Related Posts
        - Ad Rotator

        I also install Syndicate Kahuna, WP Datafeed Importer, and WP Dripfeeder (although, in my experience...it's buggy as hell. If I have less than 100 PLR articles, I post and future date by hand.)

        A lot of how much of the above technology I use on any particular blog depends on the niche and the appropriateness of the types of content they bring in. I don't use everything for every one. I use my judgement. But for these purposes, let's assume I've found some magic niche that needs everything.

        If it's going to be a really big site, I use a silo structure and the SEO Siloing plugin makes it really easy. That means, in essence, I have pages which list the links of all the posts in a category, and they automatically grow as new posts are added to the category.

        The most time consuming part of building the site, aside from choosing the keywords, is deciding on the category structure. You don't want to go back and fix that later.

        I usually keep "Questions and Answers" and "Videos" in their own categories rather than splitting them up thematically, but that's just me.

        I then post my automated content. I run articles and questions from CC. I edit the template for the questions each time before I run a new keyword to include my BayRSS code at the bottom, so ebay ads related to the question show up. I do this in Cpanel, though, or with notepad and then FTP.

        I set up Syndicate Kahuna to add keyword-specific articles. I import PLR. I sometimes add an RSS Feed or two.

        HERE'S MY FAVORITE PART, THOUGH!!! And, oddly to me, the part I've never seen another autoblogger mention.

        I start importing my databases. I get datafeeds from Share a Sale and manipulate them and import them with WP Datafeed Importer.

        But it goes so far beyond that! I don't want to give away ALL my secrets , but let me just say...anything that exists in a CSV can be imported once you put it in the right format, and almost anything on the web can be put into CSV format.

        The great thing? You can manipulate it before you import it. If it's data you scraped or a database you purchased (like, movie cast lists or video game cheats or something...), you can switch the order of some of the columns, you can add labels in between the columns, you can add your own links or BayRSS code at the end...it's really endless possibilities. AAANNNDDDD....it turns it into "original content", because it bears very little resemblance to what it started out as.

        Lastly - don't forget that autoblog content can actually be supplemental to a quote-unquote "real" site that you do interact with readers on. Just make a front page that has welcome text and links to what you'd like to feature - then the "autoblog" parts just become entry points to the main part of the site.

        OK, end of my manifesto.
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      • Profile picture of the author TopKat
        Originally Posted by xlfutur1 View Post

        I always manually edit the posts as well to take out the caffeinated content link (I hate that it is in every post, big footprint problem) and usually the graphic it pulls too.
        Hi xlfutur1,

        This will make your life easier.
        Open your CC files on your hard drive.
        Open the links file
        In there you will see two text files, links.txt & links2.txt, open them.
        Delete everything in them or change the text to links that benefit your site. Your choice
        Now save the files
        Open your FTP software & overwrite the links.txt & links2.txt on your server with the altered ones.

        That should solve your problem with the links.
        Not sure what graphic it is pulling, please clarify

        Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    Agreed. The content created by Caffeinated Content looks wonky to a human, and I wouldn't use this on a blog intended for human eyes.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    what are you talking about:

    http://www.cookingrecipesweb.com/how...chicken-recipe

    the "xxx asked" is a minor thing, really.

    CC doesnt "create" content, it pulls valid content from article directories, Yahoo answers or Youtube.

    The only thing i criticize as for now is the lack of "organization", eg. on my cooking recipes site there could be tabs and "sub sections", looking at a typical site visitor i can see he might want to search for "cookies", "desserts", "chicken" and so forth, maybe the search bar needs more exposure, or better sorting into categories.
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    Very helpful post! I might try that if I have time tommorow
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  • Profile picture of the author Emmbee
    I really look forward to trying CC, but I'm waiting for a better coupon code. The current $9 off "nineoff" is pretty low compared to codes that just recently expired. Yup, I'm cheap I'm just about to install syndicate kahuna for free. I'll report back to this thread with my experiences. Great thread everybody!
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    "interaction with readers" and "autoblogging" is kind of mutually exclusive
    If i want interaction with my readers i dont make an autoblog to begin with.

    That being said, those autoblogs still have valuable content, i get pingbacks and replies/comments to whatever gets posted.
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    • Profile picture of the author Emmbee
      It seems if one tosses in some original content now and then a certain degree of interaction can be preserved
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      • Profile picture of the author Bai_Mike
        Has anyone else tried this before? It seems to be a viable strategy for generating content on top of other hand written or ghostwrited content.
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        • Profile picture of the author searchnology
          I've tried it for about 6 mos and saw a good bump in traffic but the traffic quality was crap if your are trying to sell or convert leads....best thing is to use ads to attempt to give the non-engaged user somewhere to go other than your site...and for the most part that is the intended business model for autoblogs.


          Originally Posted by zijian View Post

          Has anyone else tried this before? It seems to be a viable strategy for generating content on top of other hand written or ghostwrited content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    Great thread!

    How do I set up a variety of accounts from different IP addys?

    What are the prices for ASP and CC? Anyone have a discount code?

    Evita
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    • Profile picture of the author Shafiq Kamal
      Where I can buy all these? Give me link so I can buy and start the project.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    yes, you just run CC three times initially when you want youtube, Articles and Answers content.

    You let it run three times, after it fetched all the content it stores the content in a pool and drip feeds your blog from all that saved content - up to the future date you specified.

    A good rule of thumb (IMHO) is about ONE or TWO posts a day.

    So...if you set CC pulling from 12/15/2008 - 02/15/2009, it would fill your blog with content 60 days worth. Some of it it will already post, and the ones "in the future" it will schedule and drip-feed up to 02/15/2009.

    Since in this example its 60 days total, and you might want 120 articles TOTAL (2 a day) i recommend doing three runs. each with 40 articles/videos.

    So..you do one run and fetch 40 videos, you do once getting 40 articles, and one 40 yahoo answers.

    120 articles/content/videos over 60days ---> on average 2 a day.

    On 02/15 you go on your blog again and start to fetch more, like 2 or 3 months ahead again

    G.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    George, I like your recipes site, and the last comment where that guy said that the girl was hot really made me laugh! You know, I found myself looking all over your site, I actually like it, so autoblogging does make for a nice user experience.

    TomG.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    Autoblogs are perfect for flipping.

    I suggest you add a custom header, plus sell an ebook on your site. You want to monetize it the best way possible. Becareful not to get into a HUGE...broad niche. You want to get something that won't get lost in the shuffle.

    A good Autoblog would be something on a particular sports team. Like say the Indianapolis Colts. You could pull tons of content related to that team. Fans would definitely bookmark you because you are a CENTRAL hub, and you could monetize it by selling sports collectibles, jerseys, and even books.

    Start a user forum...video gallery..etc. etc. etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    i make so many the last few days, various niches. I really have to cut back.

    And yes, haven't even LOOKED at flipping yet.

    I am waiting for the new flexibility theme 2.0 so i can add better custom headers, should be out soon.

    The value of this also for PPC is gigantic, make some sub-pages and "copy" some clickbank product squeeze page, right into your blog.

    I get rather "meh" quality score on your typical "clickbank squeeze pages"....but withing a WP blog i have NEVER seen so many "GREAT" quality scores in my life.

    I had QS "great" and top bids for pennies for terms like "make easy money"...and i re-arranged my whole adwords campaign now.

    The principle is the following:

    Make a blog with some general theme, like "sports" or "remedies".

    NOW you can chose whatever hundreds products from CB and sell specific remedies or sports products within your blog.

    In addition (i already said that a few times) i totally love CBProAds, for $30/year i get sharp looking ads with clickbank products.

    So..i make one site which could be "remedies", and then i make a site about a music or sports, and i just replace a few entries in the flexibility theme and i get those ads on the blog.

    I think it takes me a whole 15mins to actually have a blog 100% up and running, and the 15mins are totally worth it.

    Edit: I noticed some of the blogs have still hickups, eg. CC doesnt post for some reason. I see posts from eg. 12/28 which should be on there now, but they stay at "scheduled" and dont get published.

    On some other blogs someone refers to videos, but i dont see them.

    My fav. is http://www.powersbeyond.com for now, i like the colors


    I could still cut down if i had a central "management station" eg. "WP cloner"...which i dont have YET.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emmbee
    Auto social poster is prohibitively expensive i.e. minimum of $99 up to $199. Is it worth it? How effectively can you auto-blog without it? Also, what's the difference between Pingcrawl and Max Blogpress Ping Optimizer. Do you need them both?

    Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    The funny thing is, until now i have NOT used "auto social poster" *at all*. The reason is that i need MANY accounts made on various IPs for the various bookmarking services.

    I had someone creating accounts for me, but it didnt turn out too well.

    Pingcrawl is a plugin which "goes out" and for each tag generated (by caffeinated content) it looks for related blogs and puts link in your blog.

    Max Blog Press Ping Optimizer is SUPPOSEDLY limiting your pings, eg. you can set it to let WP ping only each 10 hours or something.

    The reason is that older WPs (by default) pinged at each modification of any post....causing a "ping overload" and SUPPOSEDLY getting you banned by pinging services. (However, this is all rumors and hearsay since i never really saw PROOF someone getting banned by ping services)

    MaxBlogPress Pingcrawl is basically setting a limit to those Pings - HOWEVER the plugin itself is not without flaws, i am "in between" when it comes to my opinion in regadrs to that plugin.

    General:

    I just made a list of my blogs and it gets CONSIDERABLY harder to manage them, uodating plugins, themes and so forth. And i am just talking about 30 blogs now.
    Thats why i got Edna's wpmanagerDX, looking into this now and better ways to manage all the blogs from a central point.

    Also, Emmbee. ASP is NOT the "autoblog plugin". At the core of it all is still Caffeinated Content which retails of $77, but there are coupons out there to get this for $43 if you look around a bit.

    ASP you can skip (for now), as said i didnt ever use this (yet).

    G.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Dulisse
    Very very cool. I learned a lot here. I'm going to try that on a obscure niche. Thanks for caffienated plugin idea.
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      George,

      You've developed a very interesting thread.

      I think more is yet to come, in particular how to monetize effectively with CBProAds.

      To use PPC effectively, Adwords needs to be well targeted so that the visitors will click thru on the landing page.

      It seems to me that the ads provided by CPProAds are too broad and not niche oriented. It's impossible to tell what ads will appear.

      For instance, on a Skin Care site I could be displaying health related ads, such as ads for Yoga, Dieting, and Eczema. It seems to be difficult matching the Adgroups to the ads displayed, although it's possible to match the Adwords to the content of the landing page.

      How effective have you found CBProAds to be? They do look good, just not as well targeted, which would affect click thrus and conversions.

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        • Profile picture of the author erickz
          Originally Posted by vicone View Post

          iMerickz,

          Is the RSS poster you're referring to the one by Big Mike?

          Ivan
          Yup ..
          At $7 you can't get anything better than that!
          Definitely worth much much more!
          Save you tons of time if you are submitting by hand (if you are still doing that) and the developer are still working to add more RSS directories to it and making it more better. Free updates for life.. Can't really ask for more..
          BTW, out of the 30 sites submitted, i only get 2-3 errors sometimes but i am too lazy to check out the actual faults..

          P/S: Don't forget that while the tool is busy doing all the work for you on the background, you can make use of the time to do your other stuff. Isn't IM all about making use of our time and multiplying our efforts but minimizing the work to be done?
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      • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        George,

        You've developed a very interesting thread.

        I think more is yet to come, in particular how to monetize effectively with CBProAds.

        To use PPC effectively, Adwords needs to be well targeted so that the visitors will click thru on the landing page.

        It seems to me that the ads provided by CPProAds are too broad and not niche oriented. It's impossible to tell what ads will appear.

        For instance, on a Skin Care site I could be displaying health related ads, such as ads for Yoga, Dieting, and Eczema. It seems to be difficult matching the Adgroups to the ads displayed, although it's possible to match the Adwords to the content of the landing page.

        How effective have you found CBProAds to be? They do look good, just not as well targeted, which would affect click thrus and conversions.

        Ivan
        Ivan,

        you are right. I *usually* make more general niche blogs, for example "natural remedies"...and then i can at least target a common theme from the CBProads, eg. "cures and remedies".

        I have one blog where there is only ONE product, this after Steve W. had an WSO and recommended this niche.

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        then i usually go out and get banners for a specific product. It speaks also nothing against to promote *specific* products on sub-pages on your blog, you can always add and write reviews or "sales pages" within your blog - in addition to whats automatically posted on it.

        So...nothing against a "natural remedy blog"...and then if you feel up to it you can promote your favorite "acne cure" on a page in the blog.

        (Not a shameless plug, but what works PERFECTLY is my "Affililiate Power Script" (despite the recent controversy about copyright issues)..since it allows easily to clone ANY clickbank page, and then just "plug" it as a sub-page.

        Eg. i make a site "naturalremedies" and then i get my favorite clickbank product, load the script up to the blog and then just call it like
        myremedysite.com/some_product.php <--- )

        But of course there are various ways to promote specific products, you could also use PLR articles and then just hand-edit a bit and insert your aflinks.

        >>
        For instance, on a Skin Care site I could be displaying health related ads, such as ads for Yoga, Dieting, and Eczema. It seems to be difficult matching the Adgroups to the ads displayed, although it's possible to match the Adwords to the content of the landing page.

        How effective have you found CBProAds to be? They do look good, just not as well targeted, which would affect click thrus and conversions.
        >>

        well cbproads allows selecting of the usual CB categories, but it also has an option for keyword based ads. So..you could just enter "acne" and it should display all products from the acne niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author strsinthesky
    Thanks for another great autobloggin post! I myself use caffeinated content for great results. Youtube wordpress plugin also works wonders.
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    • Profile picture of the author harivney
      GeorgeR - I chose the cheap way to help manage the blogs.
      Bought RoboForm ($30) which stores all of your userids and PWs for auto login. So for me using fantastico and copying all plugins from a common folder is easy enough and with RoboForm, you just choose which blog you want to log into and wallah your signed in. RoboForm can also be used for all other accounts you have (gmail, affiliate pgms, etc)

      xlfutur1 - You can get rid of CC footprint by making your own Link list files.
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  • Profile picture of the author erickz
    Nice compilation of the essential plugins needed for auto blogging..
    But i won't recommend bookmarking for these auto blogs coz since these are already scrapped material from the web, most probably there are already similar content on the bookmarking sites so i 'll just concentrate on the setup of the content and after that just let it run by itself and review the traffic stats every week to work on any improvements (if any).
    Another plugin worth consider is the auto tagger and technocratic tag plugin.
    These make tags based on your content and then convert to technocratic tags. Quite important to tag your posts to technocratic, IMO..
    After that just blast your RSS feed to all the most popular RSS directories.
    I do this using a very cheap and fantastic tool being offered in a current WSO. Go find it if you need to do this automatically, it will really saves up tons of your time!
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Thanks for the inof there GeorgeR! At least I now have a clearer picture of what plugins to use and how to set up an autoblog.

    Are you coming out with a guide? Would really be interested..
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    jon,

    no offense...its valid, not rewritten content. the "XYZ asked" is aprt of a template, i changed that long ago to "FROM xxx"

    There is "nothing" odd or unusual about the content on those blogs.

    NicheChick..impressive!!

    I will also check this auto RSS posting WSO
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    imerick,

    is this RSS program actually needed if you run a WP blog ? (Stupid question)
    Is there a point in additionally submitting my feeds to feed directories?

    And..is there a plugin solution which does this from within WP?

    G.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    Melanie

    Great post and lots of really useful information in there.

    Datafeeds is something I've worked with before as well and you're quite right, the content you can generate from those is really worth the effort.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author melanied
    Thanks Tim!

    I think a lot of people steer clear of datafeeds because working with them is a little more technical. But if you can get past that barrier, it's SO worth it!

    Also, because you don't have to limit yourself to merchant datafeeds...ANY information in a CSV file can be posted to wordpress, one post per row. That opens up almost limitless possibilities!
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    • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      Thanks Tim!

      I think a lot of people steer clear of datafeeds because working with them is a little more technical. But if you can get past that barrier, it's SO worth it!

      Also, because you don't have to limit yourself to merchant datafeeds...ANY information in a CSV file can be posted to wordpress, one post per row. That opens up almost limitless possibilities!
      I never thought about that. Way to think outside the box!

      Do you actually use this to post "regular posts" to your sites?
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  • Profile picture of the author jbreezy
    Doesn't Caffeinated Content and any other CMS throw off the most important part in Keith's initial post..which is the generation of backlinks using GoCodes & keywords?
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  • Profile picture of the author yogurt
    Nice post, I am going to subscribe to this. By the way, some reports like your post are selling for like $10-15 a piece, now we got it free here only on WarriorForum hehe.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Most of us probably know and heard about the "MSN loophole" technique.

    My question now, in regards to autoblogging and the fact that each blog can basically "feed" any other blog....there should be HUGE potential.

    While "MSN loophole" only deals with "interlinking"....there should be ways putting up something really interesting using autoblog and RSS plugins going way beyond "plain interlinking".

    Example:

    You chose a subject, say "student loans".

    You make a number of "slave blogs" scattered over different IPs, all related to student loans.

    Those "slave blogs" are fed via RSS autoblog plugins by your "authority blog". The slave blogs can ALSO be squidoo lenses or blogger lenses.

    Now..your "authority blog" is the one you want to rank, and it feeds "student loan" related content to a huge number of slave blogs. The slave blogs are NOT interlinked. (We do not want anyone to know that they are related, and for sure not to the "authority blog" which we want to rank)

    So...we get a number of blogs about "student loans" and each of those blogs has content and links from the "authority blog".

    We submit all the RSS feeds (using the RSS Bot WSO by Mike)...and Google says "Whoaw!!" this "authority site" must really be something since all the other sites get content from that site, and our slave blogs all contain links to the "authority blog".

    Now imagine to make 100s of slave blogs, and submit 100s of different RSS feeds on different IPs...all with content linking back to your main site...

    That just an idea...i will certainly put that into action.
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    • Profile picture of the author freetime
      Hi Thank you for starting this blog as I am going to give this a try, I have a couple of question for right now.
      1] I have a domain that I had and was doing anything with it and it is called Alphapup and my question is can I make page's that would link to cat's or fish or birds etc or do I just stick with doing only dog stuff on that domain?

      2] is this Thread an RSS feed if so how do I scribe to just this thread through rss.

      3] Caffeinated Content: does it matter on which one to get for this?

      4] theme, i highly recommend "flexibility": I tried to upload this to my wordpress but the theme does not show up, I just upload the whole folder then noticed that it had a plugin folder and a colorpicker folder,and when it didn't work I deleted the plugin folder and left the colorpicker folder and re-upload the files from 404.php and still nothing should I take out the colorpicker if so were does that folder go? not sure what I did wrong.

      5] is there a thread on resale info I just bought my first resale and I am not sure what I need to do for that looking for more info on this.

      as you can tell I am new and tiring to learn this stuff thank you for any feed back.
      have a nice day Thomas
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      • Profile picture of the author 123andyt
        just a word on Caffeinated Content and apologies if this has been posted before, but you can also use it to drip-feed/autopost PLR articles (or your own articles) by FTPing them onto the specific CC directory with your CC installation

        in truth I am just starting to do this earnest but if you mix it up a bit with CC and use
        i) A few articles from the directories
        ii) Some Youtube videos
        iii) Your own articles drip fed
        iv) PLR articles drip fed
        v) For the 'Yahoo Answers' I setup a category called 'Q&A' and dripfeed them in there
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        • Profile picture of the author jonathanparham
          Hey I'm a noob setting up a couple of blogs and find this forum SOOO helpful.

          One question I have, 'Is Caffeinated Content' Mac and PC? I ask because I've noticed some other software for auto blogging to be PC only. I have both, but my PC just died so I'm hoping to continue the building on my Mac
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    Great! I am beginning to get it now.... That recipe blog looked freakin' REAL!

    I have not bothered with the looks since I was only using those blogs as feeder sites... now I see the possibilities...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mint-Tree
    Hmn. I check out one of your auto blog =P. And wondering, are those comments pulled from CC (youtube?) or they're REAL from the vistors?

    BTW--what's the average # of visitors do you get for these blogs?
    Also, I think there was a WSO for C.C. (like a year ago =).
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  • Profile picture of the author th0m453
    thanks for sharing always can use some useful information
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    mint-tree, is this question directed at me?

    I get increasingly "real" comments (in addition to the automatic ones)....you know you get a real comment when it arrives in your mailbox and says "please moderate".

    Its actually getting "worse" since i manually approve them and it can be a lot of work

    sunnyman, thanks!

    By the way CC is still my top choice, but i recently started making some blogs which just work with the free FeedWordPress plugin, and it works pretty nice also.
    I also made a WSO where i incorporate "Google Trends" into my blogs.

    I also got Edna's WSO "wpmanagerdx" and i haven't even started to really use this (its a central management tool for all your blogs)..one problem here is that my favorite theme "flexibility" just wont work with wpmanagerdx. Still trying to figure out why.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    @ Georg R:
    You chose a subject, say "student loans".

    You make a number of "slave blogs" scattered over different IPs, all related to student loans.

    Those "slave blogs" are fed via RSS autoblog plugins by your "authority blog". The slave blogs can ALSO be squidoo lenses or blogger lenses.
    -- Yes, the PROBLEM is the "scattered over different IPs" ... You can get "seo-hosting" with separate C-class IPs but this is VERY expensive. I know - been there, just canceled today!

    PS: and forget about the so-called "Loophole" - it doesn't exist.

    A bum-level variety I saw somewhere is: Start 100s of *free* Blogger and Wordpress.com blogs, set them up to auto-populate, use them as feeder blogs... Now the problem instead is to avoid having them get detected as all started by the same person... and deleted...

    cbproads allows selecting of the usual CB categories, but it also has an option for keyword based ads.
    BDW: I just started an account at CBProAds but looked in vain for the keyword-based ad delivery. Looks cool otherwise, nicely done.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    sunnyman,

    mutiple IP hosting is no problem. What do you say if i tell you i got 6 months (!) 10 IP hosting for something like $40 total at hostnine, this is when they still had the coupon. Right now they charge $19.95/month.

    I can create accounts/domains and chose from 10 IPs/locations, USA, Asia, UK. Also otherwise support is stellar. GREAT hosting.

    Today, in conjunction with Edna's WSO wpmanagerdx i made some slave blogs (not too many, i dont want to overdo it) and it takes 3 minutes to install a WP blog with all needed plugins. One they're installed i just have to go on them quick and set their feed aggregation so they pull content from the "master".

    I also started distributing some content to Squidoo/Blogger.

    Re: MSN loophole....yes...didnt see any benefit using this, but RSS interlinking seems interesting to me.

    re: cbproads, ok, its not real "context sensitive" since you have to pre-select whatever niche beforehand. No biggie tho.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    Hostnine... OK, just took a look. I hadn't noticed this thing about multiple datacenters. $20/month just seems *too good to be true*.

    And those different datacenters do use different *C-class* IPs I suppose...?
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    they have different locations, let me check some of my IPs



    I didn't have ANY major issues whatsoever with that hosting, and the minor issues i had were always resolved withing 2-3 minutes after i submitted a ticket. Their support is just amazing.
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    • Profile picture of the author aistores01
      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      ..You will start to make real money autoblogging when you can put one up in two to three hours and move on.
      Hi Melanie,
      Great post. I'll appreciate knowing about your method for driving traffic to your autoblogs. This is something I really need to understand.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken
    George; Thanks for the thread. Do you have an opinion about YAAB?
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    GeorgR -- Thanx for taking the trouble to show a screen dump!
    Indeed, the IPs look totally different.

    I took a look at the reputation of that company and found they'd had some customer complaints in the past. Good to see you are happy with them.

    If this service really works, it is indeed a BARGAIN! Other hosts charge like $5/month+ per C-class.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    i am with them for a few months now, and i only had minor issues once. I put in a ticket and literally 2mins afterwards it has been resolved. Give them a shot. I dont think you will be disappointed. AFAIK...additional IPs are like $1 or something.
    I already noticed that sometimes when i make a account on the SAME node they have a different IP also, so there's def. more IPs, even on the same node/location.
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  • Profile picture of the author Juris
    Hey great thread.
    If it`s not a big secret I would like to find out how much $ aproximetly are you making per day and with how many blogs?
    Gonna give it a try.
    Probably will start right now if i will be able to keep my eyes opened /went to make a coffee/
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  • Profile picture of the author Angela Neo
    Hi George,

    Thanks for the posts. I started experiment with 1 autoblog, have quite about 30+posts on it, did the usual round of marketing (social bookmark, article marketing, RSS, etc) but I'm not able to get any sales out of the blog. I'm also using teh Flexibility theme, with an aff banner below the header and adsense on the right top sidebar. Not even a single click!

    I'm wondering if you could share with us some tips on monetization.
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author twannahiga
    A great post, very comprehensive! It certainly saves you a lot of time and money in the long run and is very effective in generating a consistent income from month to month.
    jimrpips makes an interesting point though, is the traffic consistent? I am experimenting with this idea myself. Great information, and thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author rimam1
    never heard of caffeinated content until today. i've been playing with wpomatic with no real success. maybe my cron jobs are messed up.
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  • Profile picture of the author dspa72
    From my experience, "full" autoblogging doesn't work.
    The point is: you need "good" content in order to have a chance to monetize your blog. Autoblogging scripts usually scrape content from other sources so you don't have any control on what is posted on your blog.
    I prefer to manually create the content, enrich it with images and video and then post to the blog. I usually use PLR content, with few modifications (I change the title and choose the right tag for each post). With the right tool and the right PLR content, I can create a semi auto blog with 30 posts or more in one hour.
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  • Profile picture of the author mla16
    excellent information, thank you, I may try this on future monetised blogs but as I have just started I think I may be better starting with my own content being added and then once I have discovered how to make it work may add some automised blogs..... I have bookmarked this page until then, thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author umairsheikh2002
    Bro, how to use free hosting and domain for autoblogging? I want to setup my first autoblog in wordpress without investment. I have a plugins of autoblog but I dont know how to choose free hosting and domain for wordpress autoblogs Please help me, I am newbie and extremely waiting for your precious reply..
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Fox
    Duplicate Content?

    There is actually a number of people who tell you: "Dont worry". Maybe this is the case. Just dont bother with article rewriters or magic "uniquefiers" since they wont work, not in Google's eyes.
    I also would not dare to present my web site visitors "spun" or automatic rewritten content" which is not really humanly readable.

    I tend to say that the duplicate content "penalty" is not as big as some people make it look - if this is a big problem for you you shouldnt even start with autoblogging in the first place.
    I agree it is a tricky road with autoblogs. Make too many posts of dupe content and I have heard of autoblogs getting deindexed or at least penalized greatly.

    I have yet to find a spinner that does not sream, "hey look at me, I am an autoblog and I must be punished."

    Get a human review on on of these and your toast as well.

    I am awaiting someone to come out with a great plugin to autospin content into a format that does not look like a klingon edited it....

    I am convinced that there are custom solutions out there that are far better than the ones typically used. Of course you can mix and match dupe content as well to create 'pseudo unique' content.

    I'd be interrested in learning more about that, with autoblogs, it's all about good content and staying out of trouble IMO.
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    • Profile picture of the author Glenn Leader
      Originally Posted by Christian Fox View Post

      I agree it is a tricky road with autoblogs. Make too many posts of dupe content and I have heard of autoblogs getting deindexed or at least penalized greatly.

      I have yet to find a spinner that does not sream, "hey look at me, I am an autoblog and I must be punished."

      Get a human review on on of these and your toast as well.

      I am awaiting someone to come out with a great plugin to autospin content into a format that does not look like a klingon edited it....

      I am convinced that there are custom solutions out there that are far better than the ones typically used. Of course you can mix and match dupe content as well to create 'pseudo unique' content.

      I'd be interrested in learning more about that, with autoblogs, it's all about good content and staying out of trouble IMO.

      I've been spinning content for years, on Blogspot, and still
      earning for me. In fact, I plan to hugely expand my empire
      over the next few months. I've just upgraded my system
      for WordPress hosted blogs, and they appear to be doing
      well there too. Too early to tell right now with the WP
      hosted blogs, but it's looking promising.

      HTH

      Glenn
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    i plan to stat blogging. do i put my blog in a subdirectory or the main index?

    sorry if this is answerred in the guide i just plan to create my 1st wp blog as i read along
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    actionbizplan,

    You can put it anywhere you want - it always depends on the structure of your site.
    I have posted this several times (I should copy and save somewhere to have it handy...) - always make a plan on a piece of paper about how the content will be organized on your site.
    Draw it as a chart, to have an idea what will be the hierarchy of your site with its section, sub-sections, content etc.

    After that it is much easier to answer for yourself questions about where you want your blog in this big picture.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy LaPointe
    Nice post and good outline for getting everything set up, I only have a dozen or so autoblog site up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Voasi
    Here's mine: http://www.myautismsite.com . Does about 50-75 uniques a day. It's about 4 weeks old.
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    i just activated the flexibity word press theme. it looks cool but now i have a webhosting quiz that has flexibities aff links and 2 links to some elses opt in page..

    what the heck?

    or can i customize that?
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    I am not familiar with the license terms of that theme. If you have a theme that permits editing, removing links - then yes, removing ALL their links should be your first thing before uploading it.
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  • Profile picture of the author royrev
    Is Caffeinared Content the same software used in WP Robot? I went to a site for Caffeinated Content and it linked to WP Robot site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    Great post. I have previously used autoblogs as an add-on to static sites for the SEO value of the content, but I have always wondered whether they would be worthwhile investing some time in.

    To get ads in the hottest places try the wp-insert plug in. Its a wicked little tool I would not be without - the first plug in I load onto any new blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author 808glass
      Really? How many of you are actually making money with Autoblogs? I've run a few and get traffic, but it's never much, and it's always low quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author C0DeZeR0
    NIce But I Have Prop With
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    • Profile picture of the author cheapskatemate
      Are there any open source auto blogging solutions?
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