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Is Auto Blogging any good for SEO. I heard installing a WP blog on your site is good SEO practice. But how about an Auto blogging system? Any thoughts good or bad appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
    Auto blogging on your site will not bring you any dividends, since you will get a duplicate content (for which you can even get penalized).
    AB is only profitable in large-scale (100+ autoblogs) for those people who sell links on them.
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    • Profile picture of the author MervikHaums
      Originally Posted by GeorgeKuipers View Post

      Auto blogging on your site will not bring you any dividends, since you will get a duplicate content (for which you can even get penalized).
      AB is only profitable in large-scale (100+ autoblogs) for those people who sell links on them.
      Well said friend. Yeah, its true - if you are working for some link building services you can create hundreds of blogs and use autoblogging. The only benefit is you can sell links and earn from that - the buyer literally gets nothing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by GeorgeKuipers View Post

      Auto blogging on your site will not bring you any dividends, since you will get a duplicate content (for which you can even get penalized).
      AB is only profitable in large-scale (100+ autoblogs) for those people who sell links on them.
      Where do you get your info?

      Last time I checked Google even include autoblogs in their News results so what you say is not correct at all.
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      • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
        Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

        Where do you get your info?

        Last time I checked Google even include autoblogs in their News results so what you say is not correct at all.
        I know this from my hands on experience with ~200 autoblogs in working state.

        Any further questions or remarks?

        PS Anyone can get to Google.News, even autoblogs. So, this is not a criteria.
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      • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
        Originally Posted by StupidCupid View Post

        Here we go again.... duplicate content = penalized = myth

        So you mean these indexed pages are fake"
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        Google don't care about multiple contents..
        StupidCupid, I know you have the point here. Indeed, last years Google has no real penalty for duplicate content.

        But do not forget the following related issues:
        - on new sites such pages would not be kept in index with duplicate content for long (after several months I notice a cut from 400 pages to 20-50 in index for such sites)
        - you cannot rank high in SERP for a competitive keywords with a duplicate content on a page
        - a link juice from such pages can be more liquid than a water (speculation)
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  • Profile picture of the author mimosa495
    Thank you. All auto-blogging does, is put a bunch of extra, usually disjointed and obviously recycled garbage online. There is a chance it could help you get found short term because it can give you hundreds of pages pointing back to your home page in a short time. But any gains will be short lived. You will be dropped as google realizes the majority of everything on your site is duplicate content. And that won't take long.

    And, it isn't going to build you any credibility in the market place either because anyone reading it is going to know it is all recycled.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Duplicate content by autoblogging is not the problem.
      Duplicate content is not the problem.
      If you present the content in a valuable way to a visitor,
      no problem.

      There are a lot of people who seem to be successful at autoblogging.
      There are people who have been banned.

      Choose wisely.

      You can read the "official" google take on auto-generated content:
      Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Site content and use of web catalogues

      I choose to stay away from any auto. But, it has nothing to do with
      duplicate content.

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  • Profile picture of the author warfore
    Autoblogging can be done effectively if done correctly. There are many threads on the issue in this forum. I have several autoblogs that make money. Mike Johnson just released a product that shows how to do it well. See my review of the latest product below.
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    • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
      Originally Posted by warfore View Post

      Autoblogging can be done effectively if done correctly. There are many threads on the issue in this forum. I have several autoblogs that make money. Mike Johnson just released a product that shows how to do it well. See my review of the latest product below.
      I second Mike Johnsons product.

      Listen, autoblogging is not just churning out duplicate content. And even when it is, the content nearly always gets indexed.

      Google does not dislike duplicate content. It's not depreciated. Duplicate content is everywhere.

      Think how miserable the internet would be if original content never left the original source, if it never went viral, if it never was repackaged and redistributed around countless channels maximizing it's exposure in the smallest amount of time.

      One of my favorite ways of autoblogging is to have a main blog I post to, and have many other blogs that source material from my main blog. A blog post for me will typically be indexed by 3 different locations, and at the same time serve 3 different types of reader groups.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    I've never had problems with autoblogs.. but they aren't "scraper sites", so they don't look/read like garbage.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carol01
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      I've never had problems with autoblogs.. but they aren't "scraper sites", so they don't look/read like garbage.
      Can you give one example of good autoblog site? I am a newbie and trying to understand the concept and get a look and feel before trying it.
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      • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
        Originally Posted by Carol01 View Post

        Can you give one example of good autoblog site? I am a newbie and trying to understand the concept and get a look and feel before trying it.
        lol.. not a chance.

        They look like any other blog. The only difference is that I don't manually post content to them - I pull content from various rss feeds and post them automaticaly. Before I wrote my own software for this, I used wp-o-matic (it's a free plugin).
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        • Profile picture of the author Carol01
          ok. i am looking at the demo blogs from wp robots site.
          cheap last minute flights? DemoDemo

          now in this post the content is picked from yahoo answers (Cheap last minute flights? - Yahoo! Answers) and there is no syndication. Is it ok to pick content from such sites and give no syndications?
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        • Profile picture of the author bakerious
          If you follow good basic SEO practices, auto-post content relevant to your theme, and build your auto-blogs SLOWLY, they work out just fine.

          I think the big no-no most people commit when starting auto-blogging is to set their system up to make 50 posts a day in 10 different categories.

          I don't know how much truth there is to Google penalizing sites for building content too fast, i.e., much faster than the average, human generated sites, but I always set my auto-blogs to post no more than 12-15 posts per week, on random days.

          The trick then is to setup many auto-blogs and build your content across a bunch of sites, instead of having one auto-blog that gets 500 posts a week.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    What do ya'll think about Google.com/news. They are essentially an auto posting news site. I guess since they are not posting the entire post, just a short description its not too bad. I'm not promoting it, I was just curious what ya'll think.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
    I have one (real) site in Google.News. The only value of it is that the new content gets indexed within 2 minutes.
    Also the internal links on the news pages get followed by bot almost immediately. So the site indexation is very good.
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  • Profile picture of the author BigFish47
    It's amazing how everyone's thoughts on duplicate content is so different. Some people say that it's the devil and some people say that it doesn't matter. Who knows???
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    • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
      Originally Posted by BigFish47 View Post

      It's amazing how everyone's thoughts on duplicate content is so different. Some people say that it's the devil and some people say that it doesn't matter. Who knows???
      Its just due to no one knows the algo internals, and everyone subjective experience is different. So people draw different conclusions.
      This is a normal situation in any black-box system, where an empirical data is the only source of information.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeb
    Using duplicate content is okay if it brings value to your site readers. End of.
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  • Profile picture of the author peterzhou
    I wrote some fresh articles at first, when those posts were indexed well by google i started using auto blogging to add content to my blog frequently and hide all the auto blogged content from my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author dwakeman
    Can anyone give a review of the WP Robot 3.0?
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    • Profile picture of the author jusin
      Auto blogging can be worth in many ways and also there is no problem in doing, but still I believe, that blogging should be done manually with a content that appears to be natural and unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author desouth
    Auto blogging still work good on this time, and it's sill works for SEO. I'm still make thousands $ using this trick.

    Originally Posted by allweb View Post

    Is Auto Blogging any good for SEO. I heard installing a WP blog on your site is good SEO practice. But how about an Auto blogging system? Any thoughts good or bad appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author lefty359
      Yesterday I saw a lady on here selling an auto blog site builder. Today I can't find the thread.
      Can anyone point me in right direction?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    There is no debate on duplicate content... It has been take out of context. Duplicate content means duplicate content on YOUR WEBSITE. So if you take an article from ezine articles and paste in word-for-word on your site, that IS NOT DUPLICATE CONTENT. If however you have a site running Wordpress and, for example, have a post that is under two categories i.e.

    Example 1:
    -site.com/category1/article001
    -site.com/category2/article001

    Example 2:
    -www.example.com
    -example.com/
    -www.example.com/index.html

    Then this is duplicate content and thus subject you to the "duplicate content penalty" because it is duplicate content on your own site. That's why Google recognizes url canonicalization: SEO advice: url canonicalization

    Its also why most wordpress SEO plugins allow you to add rel=noindex to your tag and archive pages... so you wont have multiple indexed URLS with the same content.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashok121
    autoblogs are very good to earn money without doing work
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