Autoblogging advice

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

Tell me something how do you find out "if" you are allowed to use a feed?

Originally Posted by Keith Kogane

Autoblogging is my primary business. This is not a promotion: the links in my sig go to threads I've started here on the WarriorForum where myself and other warriors go into a vast amount of detailed tool discussion. Way way more than a "single mention" - if you're serious about autoblogging, that would be a great start.



Hey thanks! That's one of the threads in my sig - see, don't just take my word for it.



In the TOS, or ask the site owner if you want to be sure. I would say that if you are smart about how you use the content you get from feeds, you can make sure that you actually fall well inside the protections of "fair use" when it comes to copyright. This becomes a grey area when you use that content for a commercial intent, which IM technically IS. However, since print publications can implement fair use while publishing ads and selling subscriptions, I think I can too.

Note: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.



I used to use WP-O-Matic mentioned earlier, but now I use it in combination with Yaab, which is a similar, but slightly superior plugin in my experience.



The problem I have with sharing my own autoblogs is that since I've shared my methods, any actual money-making blog I show anyone is susceptible to reverse engineering. Since the whole point of autoblogging is to go after the easy pickings, I don't find it wise to invite competition. In addition, I've also shared that I sell links to people for SEO benefit. I don't really care to have people be able to report my sites to Google for such, thanks.

More power to anyone who CAN share what they're doing with this - for me, I can only share methods and tools, not actual output.



I can't speak for the OP, but the big misconception I see here over and over is that "autoblogging = spammy adsense blogs" which is actually just one possible outcome. There's nothing inherent in the idea of automation that is bad at all.

Any way that anyone currently profits from blogging can be replicated with autoblogging. I build lists, promote and review products, post articles, and link to other related and useful sites that I know my visitors will like.

Consider that if you write a year's worth of blog posts and schedule their publication in advance, that's autoblogging too. No one ever thinks of that as "black hat" or bad, but it's the same principle.

Just take the methods of automation and instead of just scraping and reposting any old thing you can, use a discerning eye, tweak your content "recipe" and spend a LITTLE extra time at the beginning and keep an eye on it, and you can easily create a blog that's 95-98% automated (requiring a visit once a month or so mostly just to see it's still running) - and I would say that no typical web visitor would EVER be able to tell that it's running on autopilot.

Anyway, this post has gotten long enough, and I really only wanted to help the OP and answer his question, but hey, it's a topic I know a lot about, so I figured I'd contribute as much as I can.

Hope that helps!

Edit Again: Dang - didn't realize this thread was so old when I responded, but oh well.