google and autoblogs

The penalize for duplicate content, and moreover, filter duplicate content.

I'm not Google, so I can't speak for them. But As far as I know, they don't like auto-blogging. I wouldn't waste my time on stuff like that. Always have Unique, High Quality Content.

They only penalize you if you are trying to get ranking to make money with free indexing. If you autoblog, the content will serve to increase your CTR because it perceives that your blog is full of related content. This is how it has always worked to some degree, just don't expect any kind of ranking with duplicate or spun duplicate content.

My experience with autoblogs is they get delisted in google very fast. I dont know how googles knows this but they do.

Google is an AUTOBLOG - Lol! Look, so long as your 'blog' is optimized for the search engines and you are gathering 'themed' and 'related' content and organizing that information in an easy to read manner you are adding value for the user who is trying to find that information.

Now, if you throw up some spam blog that just is pulling in crap from all over the internet, yeah, you probably aren't going to get much credit with the search engines and eventually dumped altogether.

I create highly targeted themed 'autoblogs' but I also compliment them with unique content and drip-feed that content into them so they grow naturally...and thereby profit naturally. But again, they are highly targeted to a specific theme and user group.

If you are having problems getting an 'autoblog' ranked, it has nothing to do with the fact it is an 'autoblog' unless you are using not so much whitehat methods...anyway, your site may not be properly SEO'd, you may not have the right targeted keywords, you may just require more time...you just have to take a closer look at your current business model and analyze what you are currently doing and change ONE thing, monitor it, see if THAT changes anything, etc.

Autoblogs rock...and so does Google, and they are as 'auto' as you can get

Not only google, all search engine loves original and unique content. They always penalize the duplicate content copied from other sites. Also your page rank will go down in such cases.

Duplicate content is a myth.

Knowing this, I bet having autoblogs can be extremely successful.

Generally, blanket statements cannot and should not be issued in regards to ranking or getting good positions in search engines. Autoblogs can work, but they can also fail horribly. One of the biggest factors that Google looks at when ranking a site is if the site is authoritative or not and if it has a lot of trust. This is measured in Pagerank, but really there is also a lot more to it than that.

Say for instance, you've got a blog that's been around for 2 years and you're ripping content from a blog that is a Pagerank 0, has little to no authority or real presence in search engines, odds are even with duplicate content, you're going to outrank that site for their own content because Google views you as a more authoritative source on it. This means that Google ranks you higher because historically, you've produced good information, etc.

That's the long answer. The short answer is:

If you're a new blog ripping content from trusted, powerful sites - no you're not going to rank (or at least, it's not likely)

If you're a semi-powerful site ripping content from lesser known sites - you might very well outrank THAT site you're pulling from. This doesn't mean you'll outrank other related sites.

Generally, autoblogging isn't recommended, as you really aren't "building" anything and it's pretty transparent to Google. Hope this helped.

Thomas

I haven't personally seen it hurt any of my sites. I have some that post several times daily because they pull in news resources and the bots come by daily, at least it looks like they do in my server logs.

Typically what I do when I first start an autoblog type site is I don't have all the posts ping if I am dumping a large amount of content or products at once into the blog. I personally go back through and hand ping them. Not sure about the validity of doing this it was more of just a precaution of not knowing whether it would adversely affect the site or not.

But heck, there are lots of sites that receive new data every few seconds and they are not penalized...look at eBay...okay, maybe that's a tad bit overboard but you get my drift

autoblog can be used to supplement your website content.. just do not make it the only content .. google will not filter out duplicate content, which is already clarified by one of their engineers last year IIRC..look it up .. but to rank higher and be relevant you do need a lot of original content...

Google isnt to fawn of auto blogs, however they aren't ment to last that long. Most auto bloggers just merely recreate the blogs that get de indexed and keep the ball rolling thats what you should do, because it really doesn't take that much work.

This is simply not what my experience has ever been...atleast not since 1998...and there are niches where you only need 5 pages of relevant content to stay ranked on the first page and those sites haven't been touched in years.

So it really depends on many factors...way too many factors to be making such blanketed statements.

For me, the only way to truly know is to test each one individually. And ya know what, each one may require something totally different altogether and each business model may respond totally different to how it can convert and rank.

You have to get out and try it for yourself, that is how we all learn...not by chit chatting about it, by DOING it...what have u got to lose, you will then know more than everyone because you are DOING it...don't worry about getting sand-boxed, who cares, that is not a life-sentence, you will learn from that won't you? Then I bet you won't do that again

I dont understand people who say Google penalize duplicate content. I mean if that was the case than why are there hundreds of article dirctories with same content?...Think people!!!
And here is what google has to say on this subject:

You can find the complete article on googlewebmastercentral

Autoblog is one of my success..go a head!

An interesting discussion, I had been led to believe that duplicate content was a problem until a year ago when a fellow marketer set me straight and showed me similar content from Google that Satrap just posted.

I bought a service for an auto-blogging site but the content that was produced was not worth the monthly fee. It was original, but poorly written and often very short, and sometimes missed the whole point of the blog. Now I tough it out and write as much as I can and supplement with news feeds.

...Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.

There are some penalties that are related to the idea of having the same content as another site--for example, if you're scraping content from other sites and republishing it, or if you republish content without adding any additional value. These tactics are clearly outlined (and discouraged) in our Webmaster Guidelines:

I thought if anything, Google admits that it will penalize sites with duplicate content in some situatiions, and that certainly implies autoblogs

Hi Guys,

I know I'm new here - I'd like to say hello! I've lurked this forum for years and I'm glad to finally not be such a work-a-holic that I have a bit of time to chat. I've been doing the SEO thing for a while and this question is probably the most asked and I can shed some light on my experience with it.

Duplicate content is not a MYTH, it's a MISUNDERSTANDING.

If you read in Google Webmaster Guidelines about what is considered 'Duplicate Content' then you will understand that Google just doesn't want the same content published all over the same website repeatedly.

In the pre-web 2.0 days, people used to write the same article, change the keyword and publish it 1000s of times on the same site to make it appear like they had 1000s of pages and Google would index them.

Autoblogs really do work. Ideally you want some unique stuff in there for the benefit of your readers but they do get indexed, they do stay at the top of rankings and and yes, you can make affiliate income from them. Since the RSS feed was implemented most websites syndicate content. Even huge sites like CNN and Huffington. They are autoblogs NOT getting slapped.

So is Google going to penalize your site for putting up a good, relevant article from Forbes that relates to your site? No. But what they will slap you for is obvious spamming like using plugins to generate 100 pages of content in a day. And they are right to do this because it's bad for everyone.

The bottom line is just do what is right for your readers. If adding a relevant duplicate article to your site is interesting to your readers you won't get hurt by the search engines. Worry about your readers, your content and your branding, not about Google.

I never had any success with autoblogs. Google wouldn't even index mine. I had 3 related to dating which I purchased from a guy on another board. Google knew it was duplicate content. LOL

The software is called "Content Hurricane"
You can see it in action on both sites in my sig.
Hope this helps.
Khal

When ever this topic comes up, the same
old bollocks is regurgitated by people who
have no idea at all about the topic in hand.
They just voice their opinions but present
them as fact.

I have many auto blogs built with nothing
but so called duplicate content, and I've
had them for years... Many of them are
on Blogger. This is not option dressed
up as fact.

Glenn

Auto Blogging is great if you want to have a website that you get traffic, but also want to give your visitors reasons to come back for information and not have to do the work in posting the articles or information.

I would not suggest using autoblogging to get higher ranked. First clue, never look for the easy way out to make money, chances are it will never succeed. If you dont want to write your unique content...find someone that can write it for you and you pay.

Good luck!

Google doesn't love it.

BUT IT WORKS!

It works if you know how to do it.

Basically you need a huge number of domains and huge number of indexed pages if you want to have any results.

Most of people who fails in auto blogging made just a few auto blogs and say "it doesn't work".

It's serious business and like any other you need to invest in:

- huge number of domains (50 or more for your first network)
- hosting with different ips and locations
- some number of unique articles to start each site
- link building

Link building is very important here and you should be good with SEO and develop your methods for getting backlinks.

Most of people who success in this are coders/web developers and if you are not, it's better to look for some other method of making money online.


Nikola

Lots of good info here folks. Thanks. Researching keyword background info today.

Thanks all for your info, you have put my mind at ease, since I received a bit of a scare yesterday about Google putting the "smackdown" on duplicate content. I have a WordPress blog, it uses WP Robot, and I have striven to make all the content, weather it be articles, press releases, youtube videos, yahoo answers and new, etc, all as relevant as possible, as well as breaking them up into different categories.

Thanks again.