Auto Blogs - Are they worth it ?

Are they worth it?

No.

Auto blogs are not really worth it. Auto blogging is like spinning articles that loses the uniqueness of its content and would eventually result to spamming. If you are going to search it on Wikipedia, you will be referred to see Spam blog.

In short, hell no.

Autoblog still can make money if your traffic from FB or twitter. For FB think fan page with 10.000 - 100.000 member or more, post your website link on your fan page. You get the traffic and some of them will click your ads.

Just provide quality contents for your reader and don't waste your time with autoblogging.

If you are not convinced, go ahead and try it.

Autoblogging is amazing. Google will love you.[/sarcasm]

I know I'm gonna get hatemail for this, but I've had success with autoblogs.

The key is how they look; if it's junk content, it won't work.

If you organize it will, and integrate real content, then it can look sexy.

I've had a lot of success with autoblogs - but I wouldn't recommend anyone to start out with them now.

WPRobot is the best in the market and you need to get a niche that is not competitive. My site for example, kitchenappliancepackage.org gets 53 page views/day using WProbot and AdsenseAutotube

Yes and quite a bit, 2006-7ish
Strategy-wise just threw out lots of it with adsense. But like others have said here, forget about it. It's not that you cannot make money. It's just that it is not a very good business model plus the whole idea of it is just absurd... the web would be much better without them.

Mike

Google Penguin and Panda say..........

you need to combine with manual posting if you want to build autoblog site.

There may be a "market" for autobloggers, but it's not for me. I figure anything worth doing is worth doing well, and I want to be in it for the long haul.

I made an absolute rake load of money with autoblogs in the past... not so much now... especially since the zoo animal update from google... but still I am sure there is still room if you work it right and add your own content to it :-)

Danny

You're about 5 years too late.

Autoblogs don't work anymore.

I wouldn't even try it. It's best to write your own quality content.

Have a look at the article in the link. 5 reasons Autoblogging sucks

Chad

Yes and No. You'll find all the answers in these two threads:

1. Autoblog best practice: whether to fetch partial or full content from feed?
2. Auto blogging and RSS

heck no my brother, AutoBlogs are newbie traps. Theyr'e a great way for an experienced vendor to exploit incoming IM freshmen. I was caught in the trap 2 years ago and wasted about 5 months before releasing my auto blog wasn't going to make any money , didn't provide any useful information *even though I had over 3,000 syndicated posts from the auto blog system i was using* and lastly had 0 traffic except from bots and so on...

lesson to be learned son, STAY VERY FAR AWAY FROM AUTOBLOGS...
hope this helps
best regards,

Autoblogs are useless these days because the plugin will post duplicate content on your site. After Google launch their Panda and Penguin update, autoblogs are dead.

Yes, as it was said above, stay away from autoblogs. Learn the content automation concept (self-populating sites) which rocks in the post-Panda days.

Run the other way!

Listen fella, you don't want to mess with that nonsense. This isn't 2004, google will cast its giant eyes on your site, pick it up and toss it in the trash.

Build value and build a lot of it. Here is thread i did about zombie profiting with some useful details:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...king-dead.html

Good luck and be well!

Autoblogs are numbers. The more you have, the more you make. I hated conent stealers so made my ebook..

Auto blogging will ruin your reputation and you will make Zip from it. Google won't rank your site and you will just waste time and money.

Best to write the content yourself and really the key is to provide useful and helpful content.

Remember: People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Cheers Mark W

You people don't know what you're talking about. I still make over $3k per month in adsense revenue with my strategy.

I use the Content Revenge autoblog plugin. You build a 10,000 page autoblog. You get a list of Google Suggest keywords. Have 500 of those pages post out into the future at 2-4 per day. Hook it up with a google plus account - this gets thousands of pages indexed within 10 days of building it.

I do NOT monitize the autoblog - no affiliate links or adsense because if you do that the whole site will get penalized and lose all its rankings within a week of building it. (Because Google hates affiliate and MFA sites).

So after a week or two the autoblog is usually getting 50-100 visitors per day, sometimes more. I then redirect all the human visitors to a different "white hat" quality adsense site. I use a cloaking/redirection WP plugin called Clickbank Magic Pro. By the way, this also reduces the bounce rate of the autoblog to 0%. Google likes this.

Let me explain what redirection is. When a visitor clicks on your page in Google or Bing/Yahoo, they are automatically redirected past your autoblog to the website you're redirecting to. The visitor never sees your autoblog.

And the subject of the autoblog and the adsense site are the same. You want to pick a big niche.

I have the visitors land on a navigation type page on the adsense site. It's not a good idea to just redirect people to a page that has adsense on it. Google might not like that and your adsense account could get banned. (There are other variations of this part of the strategy).

The adsense site will then average $5-$15 per day. Sometimes more.

Unfortunately, the autoblogs end up getting penalized and lose all their traffic. But it usually doesn't happen until the autoblog is 2.5 months old. But it only costs about $19 for the domain and the autogenerated content.

Do i make more than $19 in adsense in the 2.5 months it's running? Yes - a whole lot more than that. You can easily make $1000's per month doing this with multiple autoblogs.

Now here is what you guys need to know. If you're building MFA (made for adsense) sites or sites with a lot of affiliate links on them (Amazon, ect), Google is on a mission to penalize your site. If you build those kind of sites Google just doesn't think that you offer anything "unique and valuable" to the web. Your site is the middleman and it's not helping the searcher find what they are looking for.

So ultimately you are doomed unless you are building ecommerce/dropshiping sites where you are actually selling your own product. So if you are trying to build a high quality affiliate site and spending money on SEO your site will eventually get penalized and it will lose all its google traffic.

Meanwhile i throw up a $19 autoblog and it makes me hundreds of dollars before it gets wacked by Google.

So yes autoblogging works if done correctly.

I concur on that, because I'm using the same strategy for years. However I don't like the "autoblogging" term. It's so... 2005. I prefer to call it content automation.

Anything with the word "Auto" in it should be avoided for long term business building.

You DO need to do some hard work "Nothing good is cheap and nothing cheap is good"

I just had a thought of when the word "Auto" is good to hear....

"You have just won a lamborghini auto"

Hello,

i don't think Auto Blog Will Work.

If you all just think, feel, guess or will be fail. Autoblog is not for you.

But my brain is not stop there. I got:

sales from Amazon
sales from Clickbank
sales from jvzoo
sales from rapbank
daily subscribers to my lists
make money from fiverr
selling links or ads spot
rank on google with keyword
raise pagerank
more fb likes
more tweet followers
etc


I love autoblog, google and visitors like my efforts, too.

Don't try this at home

I think you're a few years too late to the auto-blogging party...

But at any rate, and as a general rule of the thumb... stop trying to game the system and start providing actual value to real people: it's the *only* way to make money in the long term.

Once was a day when you could make good coin with auto-blogs, and like various people have said already, if you have a good stream of traffic - that's not coming from Google - you might still do well.

But the bottom line is you're wasting your time.

In my experience go for quality sites. Love them, nuture them and most important, post lots of good quality material to them.

Doing this you won't have so many cash streams, but you will have a business that has a chance of staying around a while and making you some proper money.

The internet is a marathon, not a sprint. Things you do well today will earn money and work for you, for many years to come.

They used to be.. I actually still have an autoblog that is making a consistent amount of sales as an amazon affiliate. I don't even touch it and it's bringing in more commissions than my other review sites. But I don't suggest using them anymore unless you've already established a authority property for them.

Google hates them!

Autoblog is a complete waste of time. It is much better to have your own blog and invest some time and effort in it and see better results.

Auto blogs are a wrap. Focus on building a blog one blog-post at a time... and make sure you ping it after each entry.

Autoblogs might not useful anymore after Google Penguin and Google Panda update such aggressive past few months.
Autoblogs usually make poor quality and duplicate content that will kill your site . Lot of Google Adsense user make sudden less profit due to hit by google panda and penguin and drop the site serp badly .

Remember, one unique and quality content is better than you have 10 up to 100 of poor and duplicate content.

Considering the latest Penguin and Panda update, I strongly suggest you avoid it. Or get slapped!

Not after Google was clearly hate it.
However it may still work if you work with other alternatives to bring potential visitors

AUTOBLOG!!!! Stay away from them. Waste of effort which can be maximized through human blogging.

Also, I tried to get that Content Revenge WP Plugin, but it's closed...would you recommend another plugin?

You've gotta figure that Google has some pretty smart cats working for them, and a la penguin, panda etc, they're going to nail them eventually, if they haven't already.

Not a good long term business model IMO.

johndetlefs, did you read the thread before to post your comment? Just just wondering

Yeah, fair point, although I consider what you're talking about to be very different to an autoblog.

And even then...

I've had a couple of autoblogs, and one that actually made a bit of money ($50 - $100 per month) but ended up feeling pretty guilty that I was significantly contributing to what I consider to be spam on the internet for $50 a month.

I know that there are plenty of people out there that would say I should have just taken what i had and replicated, but I just couldn't. Didn't feel good about it.

It'd be interesting to see how the sort of site that you're talking about will fare in the coming years if they become easier to make and simply become "autoblog 2.0" type deals.

I'll know that has happened when I see a WSO proclaiming them as the next untapped way to make a million bucks in 5 minutes.

I reckon, just like everything else that has been abused, that Google will eventually come crashing down on them.

But i'm no SEO guy, and you clearly are, so i'm prepared to be wrong!

Yeah, I checked them out, and that Pinterest one looks pretty amazing!

And that said, it's bedtime for all good little eastern seaboard Australians, so i'm off to snooze. |-O

Enjoy the day!

Autoblogs - and I mean autoblogs as in "auto content blogs" - are worthless.

However, an autoblog store where you drive traffic by other means than SEO can definitely work and does work, whether it's selling plr ebooks, videos, or whatever.

Many WSOs sold are some form of autoblog, but store related. Like anything else, you need to drive traffic. Harder to do that if you rely on SEO, whether to a store or content autoblog, but let's say you have an autoblog store and you include an original content blog section to that store, that can definitely work out for you.

Please, please save your money and time and don't get caught up in auto blog schemes it doesn't work effectively you won't make hardly any money (if any at all) and Google will hate you.

wasting of time

I see now.

I will say that I just got my Adsense account banned LOL...so I'll have to rely on another form of advertising/revenue. Thoughts?

Or any other cloaking plugin. There are lots of them floating around.

Total waste of time IMO...Google can pretty much tell when content is minorly rehashed and will penalize it accordingly...

Aim for unique and well written content.

Hi there,

I tried it for about 7 month now. I gave up!!

In my opinion it's not worth it. I haven't made a dime with it. You can't get a good ranking because of the keywords.

I would not try it again.

Dr. Udo Moss/Durban

I have heard a lot of people who are successful with auto blogs but I am not sure that this strategy would last long, especially after all the recent changes in Google algo.

I built one with pure syndicated content and hooked it up to a 20,000 follower twitter account.

I could get up to 500 visitors per day, but the adsense in the niche only produced very low EPC.

But if you're going to try this note that you may need to check Google's current adsense terms and conditions because I'm not sure whether they are OK with this or not.

My account has not had any problems though.

It is different for everybody, it really depends on for what are you using an AutoBlog.

Autoblogs can be used for two things either as your primary source of income i.e you want to earn from the blog itself or as a secondary source for some of your other website.

1) Using an Autoblog as your Primary Income source and earning from the blog itself
If you use an autoblog thinking that you will directly earn from it then it's a waste of time because your autoblog will contain spun articles and all such sorts of things, and if suppose you set up adsense ads on your autoblog then it could be harmful for you for lifetime because adsense keeps on checking for unethical blogs and will block your account and IP and you wont be able to put adsense ads on any of your blogs.

2) Using Autoblogs for some other Website that you own
If you use an autoblog for your website then its of great use. Like if Suppose I do it for my website, I have a micro jobs website named crunchgigs.com so i setup an autoblog which posts new articles everyday and i share those articles on social networking sites and gain traffic from them and I post a banner on my autoblog that acts as an ad posted on a blog which then transfers the targeted traffic to my website. So in this way i benefit alot for my Real website and thus saving the advertising cost.

The Automobile Industry is huge with tons of people following blogs on the latest technologies as well as classic technologies of cars. I would think you could make a very successful auto blog and find multiple ways to monetize it.

Autoblogs are still useful. You need to mix the scraped content with original content to produce the best results. You can't just turn on WP Robot and scrape content like crazy. You need to select the right content for your autoblog, then include some original content. I don't create autoblogs because I prefer to make websites that stand the test of time (and Google updates!), but I know a few marketers who still make money from autoblogs. You just need a good autoblogging strategy to stay in the game.

Huh? How are autoblogs dead? This is new to me. Oh, wait, I forgot, they aren't called autoblogs anymore, they are called "content curation" sites.
OP, don't believe the hype. It depends on what you are autoblogging andhow you are doing it (mashups vs. copying someone else exactly).

I would stay away from them, with all googles updates you never know if your site will get wiped out or not. Stick with orig content and just keep adding it.

As mentioned above an auto blog store is a different matter.

The key to succeeding online these days is in original content - so I definitely would not bother.

For one the search engines will not even index duplicate content so it's a waste of time!

Good luck

The autoblogs are useless now.
They used to bring a lot of money a few years ago but now is just a waste of time

defiantly waste of time

Right now,autobloggng is the best strategy to make money.
Moreover,if you syndicate your posts to social networks via bitly url, you will have traffic from google,even if you autoblog will be banned.
So,you invest just 10 $ a year to domain and create autoblog,wich will have thousands of pages,posts, and even if it will be banned,you will have traffic from yahoo,bing,and google,but from bitly urls.

I think this article says it all! - 5 Reasons Why Autoblogging Sucks | SpyreStudios

I personally don't have any auto blogs and don't like them either. But I think It depends on how you do it. I have heard stories from both side: there are people who are making decent amount of money doing it, and there are people who ate just wasting their time because they are doing it all wrong.

It depends on how you do it. If you do it well and make it looks high quality in the eye of google, you can still get money from it. The most important thing is that it's "AUTO". So, you won't lose too much time on it. Any money you get is a profit.

Auto-blogging if done correctly can still produce results. But to make it happen, those auto-blogs need some "manual" work too

Which manual work please?

Do you know good working (without making errors) free plugins to build an autoblog, who I can input my multiple selectec rss feeds??

marco005

There are no free plugins that will let you to create modern-style self-populated sites ("autoblog" is an outdated term).

The whole purpose of a blog, or any site, should be to provide genuine value to the end user. Real, vibrant, thriving content - unique, and carefully created.

I've yet to see an autoblog that offers something the end user would want to use. They tend to be vile and ugly imho.

Googles Panda/Penguin updates have shaken up everything, and more than ever unique content marketing will be key for a sites ability to draw on free Google traffic.

I'd focus on creating a portfolio of unique blogs in high potential niches. Get this right and aside from the revenue streams you can open, you also have the potential of creating a massive payday, sometime down the road, by selling it.

Hi,

now I triy the rss multi importer plugin,newest wp version and twenty ten theme.

It does not so work. I can only add one category in feed to post settings, my other categories are not shown after I clicked save settings-nothing works.
I go to feed to post settings, scroll at the buttom, who is add another category, select my created another category, then click save settings- after then nothing is, it only shows my first category it add no more.

What is the problem with this plugin?

My dear, the wp-o-matic plugin does not fetch google news rss, I search in google news on my keyword, than scroll down the result page and click on that rss icon,open a new window I copy this url and put it into wp-o-matic and wham, it shows mass error like; could not be parsed.

Does any marketer here ahs this problems to build an autoblog?
Damn.

Anybody has tip for me to solve my problems?

marco005

Haven't touched auto blogs in like 3 years. No idea how it's even possible these days. There are no short cuts, so forget about it, write real content (or buy it) and you'll be way happier.

Hi,

@TheAdsenseGuy; your white hat adsense sites, are these informacional or product based adsense sites like; "airspring matresses" or so?

marco005

Hi,

I see that here in example the wp-o-matic plugins does not accurate work, it means it pulls many muddled content who has my keyword in the content, but has nothing to do with the topic they are unrelevant.

With an unrelevant autoblog I think you will get lousy ctr under 1% on your white hat adsense site,please correct me if I'm wrong.

Best is as autoblog curator, hand picking the best multiple sources for your topic and manually put in your "autoblog" with backlink to the source.
But this is time consuming when you will build lets say an 5000 page autobblog in a month or two.

This is more semi autoblog than complet autoblog.

marco005

Hi,

the both free plugins multiple feed and wp-o-matic are not worth. I found feeds around my keyword topic, but both pulls content in it that has nothing to do with my keyword complet unrelevant-no worth it's "BS".

marco005

I was there and all I can say is NOOOOOOOO...

Me and my partner had 200+ autoblogs on .com domains each and there was plugin installed which will scrape content in certain niche and spinned,translated...etc, one day after few weeks online one blog started to getting sick amount of traffic it was 700Euro+ that day from adsense but next day whole network was down(moved from SERP)!

all regards

I had quite a large number of auto blogs made within the mage system, somewhere around 200+ blogs in total, most used to make some nice AdSense and eBay earnings, but Google totally wrecked them! I think may be four five are still doing quite well but they've no longer got their auto plug-ins in them.

I had to get rid of them because of all the e-mails I get it from people wanting to take their links off, of them as I had opened them up to blog networks.

I just couldn't see them working now. So it's a resounding no from me.

Auto Blogs - Are they worth it ? NO

Avoid it like the plague!

We are no longer allowed to call them autoblogs.
That term will no longer sell WSOs.
Now we have to call them 'Content Curation' blogs.

Hi,

all these free plugins like wp-rss multiple feed plugin, wpematico,feedpress and so on, does not good work, its "BS", in most you can not set the word length the feed should show in your post or set unlimited fetch and so on, and so on, unusable.

You must have an plugin that has unlimited fetches every 23 hours, and shows max. 120-200 words of the feed you will fetch, not 22 words or so.

Crap.

marco005

Hi,

Thanks for the tip. I will test it. But always on anyone some tutorials they write; set up mx. 5 feeds/articles a day so you not on bi G foots or so, what a lie.

When I configure to fetch max. 5 feeds/articles each day, all other older articles/feeds on my blog are deleted, it show only daily 5 new posts, sou you blog has always only 5 posts (for each category).

With this you can not build an huge content site. You must set it to unlimited to have new content and all the older posts on your site.

Impossiple kidding is that these "set max. 5 feeds/articles per day" lol.

But can I set the word length of the articles? Important I don't want articles shows only with these "22" words exerpts that is "BS".
Does it shows link to original source at the end of each articles?


marco005

Hi,

for download these free uaw plugin, they need my wordpress username and password?????

marco005

Hi,

I have written now to uaw support, does they need my wordpress login dates username and password to downlad this plugin or what?

@dlane1987; looks at this german site; Ladenzeile.de: Online-Shops für günstige Mode und Möbel

its a big affiliate autoblog site , Im sure they make 1000's of Euros every month,its not a little company.

But can anyone tell my how they have build their sites? Which plugins needed?
Which (free) plugins I need to build such a site for the german market to showing products and price for different affiliate shops (german)??

best wishes
marco005

This shop is not a big affiliate autoblog site. Look in the footer of the page under "Partner werden." And also under "Impressum" to see what kind of a team is needed to run such a site. It belongs to the "Axel Springer AG". That should tell you enough.

There is no way you can do something like this with WP and a couple of plugins. It´s more like these large prize comparison sites and they do the programming for their software themselves.

Absolute waste of time, I've got a couple of sites with WP Robot and G killed them. I'm doing it by hand now.

They are a waste of money.
The only blogs worth blogging will delete an auto blog when it is posted and that is even if the auto-blogger managed to actually post!
Auto-bloggers will only successfully post to low authority/quality blogs that are not monitored so what it the point in that?

Go for quality and not quantity and there is nothing better than personal replies and posts. :-)

I suggest dont go with Auto Blogging Tools, infect you will not get any benefit. but still I have one question in my mind, when thousands of web blogs and websites publish same content/news on their website which is copied or syndicated from yahoo or just like websites, why Google does not ban them? is there any relation between these websites and Google or something else?

No, it´s not an autoblog. It´s not a blog at all. An autoblog scrapes content from different sources and turns it into webcontent. This is a comparison site with a script to filter out products on numerous aspects. Their script does something totally different than an autoblog plugin.

With Axel Springer I meant that it is a big media concern. They have many websites likes this and they do not make autoblogs.

Forget about the idea of making a site like this. This is far out of your reach. Even these expensive plugins (Affilinator.de for instance) do not come close to what their script can do.

I used to autoblog and at one time sold an autoblog system, and back in those days it worked well - that is over now. We only create long form detailed content and that is what really pays for us. One 4000 words post will make more money than 8 five hundred word posts now. Just try it. Write a really long post on any one of your niche sites, wait six months and watch what happens.

I have had pretty good luck with this one Natural Wound Care Products its pr3 in less than a year

It has been awhile since I checked this thread and just wanted to say thanks to all those that replied.

organic is always the best way to go

If you want to blog , make sure its quality content, unique content and more importantly your own content.
There is nothiong wrong with taking articles or snippets from other sites and giving the link to the full article, but make sure you are discussing the content of that article.
In my opinion it will only generate low valu trafic if any , nowadays people are looking for peoples personal opinion on matters

Hi,

does it the same penalize when you build google product search sites??

marco005

AutoBlogs are great!

You push ONE BUTTON....

...and get rich!





...then the alarm clock rings and you realize you were dreaming

What about using the autoblog as an auto idea generator. Set up wprobot to auto blog for images or video only and hold it in draft. Review the what is auto generated, write some content to go with the image or video (unique because it is on the fly out of your head content), and then post it live. True this isn't auto anymore in the sense of sit back and relax, but my guess is this would avoid google dropping your ranking. Thoughts?

Well, listen to Mike's podcast. Lina (member here) makes good money with autoblogging and content curation.

Episode 16: How Lina Trivedi sold her Beanie Babies collection for $10,000 and started her own marketing business - The Mike From Maine Show

Auto-blogs are not the way to go.

I would post a new one each day on my own and make it original. You can add your own content or you can have someone write it for you and you could be the one to add it manually.

Don't waste your time with auto-blogs.

Hi,

which is best method to redirect autoblog traffic to another domain without losing google ranking?

per htaccess or does exist free plugins who make that?


marco005

My autoblogs works fine even with the google updates. What I did is to limit the number of blog posts each day. Maximum of 3 posts. Beside this, the design of the blog play a part too. The key is to lower the traffic bounce rate

I would go the way of posting unique content on the site everyday instead of auto blogs. I don't think auto blogs work the same way it used to anymore.

Hi,

is 302 redirect best method to redirect autoblog traffic without lose ranking?

marco005

For me, Autoblogs was something which sucks in look and content. When it comes to Making money online, Autoblogs really rocks.

Hi,

Ok autoblogs does rocks, but how I make it, to redirect the autoblog traffic to another domain without lose rank?

Plugins?

marco005

I still see some people make big bucks using autoblog. That's depend of your method.

It doesn't much matter. Most autoblog prey on people's greed. The appeal of working very little to make money is a great one; and autoblogs give the illusion of this potential. So, they will keep selling and buyers will keep ending up disappointed.

If you are happy with bringing NOTHING to the web, so be it. That is what you have with an autoblog, something that might as well not exist. It can really serve to help nobody out but yourself (in general). So perhaps getting ripped-off on an autoblog is what you need to realize that you're not entitled to make money just because you paid money. You have to work and provide a benefit to others.

I built about 30+ of them a year ago and made pennies. I eventually ended up losing my adsense account afterwards.

I'm now waiting their slow deaths to expire this year. My cpanel is still flooded with them.

it all depend on your traffic sources. i have an auto blogs for news in my country. most of the sites i pull my content from have poor on page seo. although im autoblogging from these websites, the content generated on my site rank higher than the source website. google hasn't penalized me and i don't care of they do.

if you are autoblogging in a particular niche like weight loss, it might not work but autoblogging for something like news, daily trends, tech gadgets and news, football hilights will definitely work.

Forget about autoblog...it will not help you much as it don't give you the value of the blog. Just blog what you know and all about your interest. It is like sharing your personal experience...make it simple...people will love to read your real life experience and not make up story.

uhm.. what about auto-blogspot ? it's free, and big G owns it, sometimes it ranks well for long tail KW..

monetize ? for PPC, aint gonna talk bout adsense, but chitika / infolinks maybe ? but i'll go for (related) CPA offer for free traffic.

Honestly, I feel 50/50 about auto blogs to generate income. On one side I feel as if they can be very useful and good but on the other hand I feel like they tend to get super spammy. The best advice is to create original content and you will have less short term success but more long-term success.