Autoblogging is a terrible business model imho. Spend your money on unique, original content and you'll prosper in the long run.

Automated blogs have their uses, mine are to park domain names, and starter sites to sell. Not a complete business model, not as "autopilot" as one may think, and usually for those technically skilled enough to develop them to their fullest potential.

The content is syndicated, and better then much of the "spun" or "unique" content subbed out of Asia. But probably not for a total noob due to the configuration and site maintenance involved.

I run several dozen sites which all require periodic maintenance and support, can consume most of your time if your not experienced.

Hope that helps...

I've had success with autoblogging.

First I set up the sites with some original content, then get it indexed, then I start autoblogging with them. I use Caffeinated Content, Reviewazon, and occassionally I will do an original post. I do use a "news" page on some of the sites, but for the most part I shy away from the RSS feeds and the WP poster method. CC and Reviewazon give enough flexiblity with posts so it looks pretty natural. You do have to tweak the CC templates a little too.

I monetize these autoblogs with adsense, cpa, and affiliate offers using plugins that will automatically link keywords in posts to various affiliate, CPA, clickbank, etc. Depends on the niche actually as to what they link to.

For examples of high page rank auto blogs that I have, I don't want to post them here, but you can PM me if you want and I'll send you linkns. I have pagerank 2 and 3 for sites that were started last fall. Others are older domains that I resurrected in the last 6 months. One new autoblogs in particular gets 500 uniques per day on average.

So if you have old domains laying around that you aren't using, I would suggest using Wordpress and setting them up as autoblogs.

I've had great success with autoblogs as well.. when setup correctly they are completely on autopilot and can have an almost unlimited variety of income streams.

Yes, they are excellent for nurturing domains until you're ready to use them.. they bring in income, get your domain indexed, hopefully grow your traffic and PR.... so don't take autoblogs lightly or dismiss them...

look at techchuck.com and mashget.com

Failure,

I was very disappointed with the quality of the articles that were propagating into my site. I had to cancel the feature so I didn't sound like an idiot in the blog. There were grammatical errors all over the place, and the topic of conversation just didn't flow good because they were so worried about SEO, it was like they just dropped phrases into the content randomly.

IMO I would invest in the quality content option. Think about it, do you really want to build a bad name for yourself with the site or a good name? Publish junk in, and you will definitely get junk out brother...

IMHO, WP autoblog do not need any original contents. What it need is plugin to make the content unique. So, to put it simple;
- install RSS plugin for pulling syndicated contents
- install UniqueContent plugin to make the contents unique in the eye of SE
After that your blog will run in auto-pilot.
But to get massive traffic, you still need to promote and backlinking your autoblog

does someone know of a course or video course on this? would love to see how this
is actually done...

Auto-blogging may work well for generating traffic but I wouldn't want my customers to find out that I auto-blog. Unless some of you warriors can explain how you actually add value through auto-blogging?

You might consider my Instant Affiliate Feeds plug-in. Quality content AND a revenue stream all in one.
Link in my sig.

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I think it's important to note here that there are a number of different things in play under the term "auto blog"

In many cases, when someone mentions auto blogging they're talking about content scrapers. These types of tools/scripts/plugins gather content from a variety of different places such as RSS feeds, and post the snippets on the auto blogged site.

I don't personally care for that type of auto blogging because it can create a variety of problems and headaches.

There are many other types of auto blogging though. Technically the term simply means to automate part or all of your blogging setup.

I use my own ZipPoster tool for example, to "auto blog" with articles. Usually these articles are one's I've written myself and sometimes they're from ghost writers or PLR providers. I set up the blog, design, plugins, etc then load the content once and it "auto blogs" quality content for months or years to come.

With this type of auto blogging you can't usually tell the blog is fully automated because it's the exact same thing as posting manually or having an assistant post manually for you.

I do the same thing with affiliate product datafeeds. These are not the same as RSS feeds. Affiliate datafeeds create content using product photos and descriptions from a database, and you can do a number of things to make these more "unique". When done properly you'll also turn out automated blogs with very high quality content. One of my example shopping sites gets bookmarked at social sites often, and Google eats up everything it puts out every day.

I have a couple blogs in good niches with good original articles and I have a couple that use an auto blogging software I use that's installed on my VPS. I removed the articles from one of those auto blogging sites and replaced the content with good articles, focused on low competition niches and I have to say the blog actually did better.

For me, I'll create a blog with good content and then post a good unique article to it every week or two. I think that provides the best results...IMHO

Cheers!

So, autoblog or not, good quality content still the king, right?
better yet, unique and good quality content!

I don't see many people talking about the earnings potential of your average autoblog... anyone care to reveal??

I'm a site designer and flipper. I built Greenworldezine.com and tekpop.com ... They both achieved PR 3 within 3 months and have thousands of posts and many indexed pages. I sold them both at a good profit. Since I sell sites, I don't really spend much time with the site to promote or make money from the site other than the sale of the site.

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