if it's true, then I will hate this news... No google, don't do it... hehehe lol

It's not true.......

That's such a generic concept that millions of legitimate websites would get nailed to the wall for no real reason.

Most 'News' sites are automatically pulling their stories from other sources in exactly the same way that an auto-blog works.

Many drip-fed sites are just drip feeding legitimate content (lots of membership sites drip-feed content to their members).

It would be stupid to get say "let's get rid of drip-fed content sites", or "sites that only show content from other places".

After all - all Google does is spider other peoples content and show it to surfers. They're not in the business of showing original content unless it's an advert or business listing.

They love to show press releases above all the organic results and they don't have their own press release directory to drive that - so it's all other people's content.

I think your friend is a little paranoid and jumping on scare-mongering whispers.

Sure they'll want to get rid of as much crap as possible - who can blame them, but just lumping that into IM-unfriendly categories is not the way they do it. They know more than most how lots of legitimate sites offer value using tools and strategies that some abuse so I don't believe they're that ignorant of these things that they'd just use a sledgehammer to crack this nut.

Andy

Very well said Andy. I cant agree more although at first when I read the title I was like "huh?!" bit of tensed and such. However Google, there are other search engines who wont ban auto blogs, there are MSN, Yahoo...so no worries at all.


Andrea

I haven't heard anything.

If it's true, we can just posted the drip content from another software outside of the blog scheduled post, desktop or server side. No worries.

ok then how are they nailing these back linking software packages. I myself have seen websites fall off of Google after using these kind of tactics.

What kind of backlinking software package? Are you talking about profile backlinks?

But for every site the falls off supposedly because of these tactics, others are unaffected and even flourish.

It's a back and forth argument of do X and your site will be punished while somebody who does X claims the opposite.

We might as well argue tastes great or less filling because nobody really knows for sure and there is no conclusive evidence of certain packs and software really doing any damage.

There may be cases where abuse of certain tactics have landed certain sites in hot water but it's never clear if it was those tactics or something else the webmaster was doing.

I don't know what you are talking about guys. My autoblogs are fine and dandy so far. In fact they are earning Google money with the adsense ads. It would be stupid for Google to ban them.

Who cares unless you are trying to get all your traffic through generic search through google.

Q

So wait, this news effectively came from a friend of a friend? Must be true then!

If G could 100% automatically identify autoblogs they probably would, but they can't, so the cat and mouse game will continue for now!

Im not sure Google would want to do away with auto blogs even if they could easily identify them...

Think about it...

Auto blogs might not contain "unique" content but a lot of the content that is used by auto bloggers comes from article directories and "authority" sources that Google absolutely LOVES...that content is shared by all, spread all around the net (even your aunt Jenny's healthy cooking blog that has no intention of making money) and all the while Google gets to show "relevant" search results to people looking for that great heart healthy recipe (you know..the one aunt Jenny drip fed into her blog from an article directory). That recipe wouldn't be so dang popular if it werent shared all over the net and Google knows it.

One more obvious thing too.

Think about how much money Google would loose from Adsense Ads if Auto Blogs went away...

Things that make you go hmmmmm

Like others have said here....too many "other" sites are drip feeding content and auto posting...not to mention its not "unique". I highly doubt you will see the end of Auto Blogging anytime soon.

good and good riddance. I can't stand those automated blogs that regurgitate trash content.

Google News results still littered with autoblogs so I doubt it very much. That is where they are most strict about what gets in and even there it is completely littered with autoblogs.

There are a lot of blogs and average/high profile-ish websites with unique and scrape'd content & also PLR content (that may or may not have an obvious footprint), doesn't necessarily mean they're crappy autoblogs!!

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I was warning of this many moons ago and people were telling me to go and hide in a hole.

The truth of the matter is that autoblogs were just the latest craze, the shiney metal object that just gets and pulls the wool over your eye.

Why not build a real business, a list of hot prospects, products with membership backend continuity programs. its how I earn money online. Many smart marketers in here, knows that works and will still work in 80 years from now.

I am just gunna shut up now, what would I know. *shruggs shoulders*

P.s. I wonder what the next shiney object to come out is. hmmmm The mind boggles.

Google can hardly shout too loudly about the practice of siphoning bits of content from other sites to display them on your own pages - it's all that their own SERPs content consists of. If users became conditioned to demand 100% unique every time they looked at a web page, then Google would have to have millions of underpaid little scribes rewriting all our description tags in their own words to display to the searching public.

As long as they are making money from 'sharing' our content I think there's a limit to how much they'll try to prohibit us sharing each other's.

What's important at the end of the day is providing genuinely useful content to the aforementioned surfing public, however you do it. There's syndicated gold out there amongst the syndicated scrap metal, just as there's plenty of unique and original crud. Build sites to please the surfers and you will probably please Google as well. If not, the reputation of quality content will eventually build via the social networks and Google can please themselves.

They're the biggest player in the game, but they're not the only player. They don't hold all the cards - much of their perceived power lies in encouraging you to think they do. It's not for nothing that the same baseless rumours of Google's next move never quite sink to the bottom of cyberspace and are repeated over and over again. Google could scotch most of them with a simple confirmation or denial, but it suits them to have the 'little' people constantly being seen to cower in dread at the prospect of their next policy change.

I'd just keep on providing stuff that's worthy of the eyeballs of the viewing public, by whatever means - Google are desperate to include it. Stop letting them play with you and just crack on with it.

This is an important thread in my book. Please keep us updated....Cause i am yet to see anyone making a killing with autoblogs , fancy that.

I was yelled at in another thread today obviously by a warrior who has an autoblog product. surprise suprise. LOL *rolls eyes* he couldnt see the down side to this whole situation and google that will be now starting to really wake up to the autoblogs and their functions.

The problem with a lot of these arguments about what Google can and can't do based on what the major news and authority sites are doing is this assumption that Google views all of us equally.

While it may be true that the Washington Post and Joe's Emporium are using some of the same techniques and software to gather and post content, the major difference is the editing.

The editor of the Washington Post is doing his best to give us relevant, useful, and sometimes entertaining information while Joe Blow doesn't give a rat's a** about anything but keywords.

It doesn't matter if someone thinks that it's unfair for Google to treat these two differently.

Google is a private business that has the right to refuse service to Joe's Emporium while showing blatant favoritism to the Washington Post.

They also have the World's biggest, fastest, and baddest computers that probably have a better chance of figuring out some of these "how can they tell the difference...?" questions better than we can.

It would be too big impact for online business, no way this is true, HOPE SO!

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"They sky is falling!"
Ok, in all seriousness... Most people get their traffic from Article Directories (Which have built in search functions, or Mini-search engines), Video Directories (YouTube is a video search engine...), and various other sources. Are you really worried about what google has to say?

Do some research on your own websites and find out where your traffic is coming from. You may be surprised at the results. About 2% of my traffic comes from Google, another 1-3% from Yahoo and Bing. The other 95-97% comes from my promotional sources. Yes, that extra 3-5% of free traffic is nice. But is it really worth worrying about the smallest source of traffic that I receive? If google sandboxed my sites, I would still be getting 95%+ of my traffic.

My suggestion... Stop putting your eggs in one basket. Or, find out where your real traffic is coming from.

Nope, I haven't heard of it. Also, I'm not sure how they are going to track every single link that is coming from a backlinking software. I mean, is it virtually possible? Such software usually mimic actual user activity, making it difficult to detect. So, how do they know?

All I know is that posting/scheduling unique content periodically into autoblogs does help in one way or another to avoid Google penalizing the site in any way.

The sooner the rest of us can live and work effectively online in spite of anything Google does, the better it will be for all of us. I'll be the first one to ignore anything they say. I hear FB has now passed Google as having the most traffic online. Good for them. I'm for anything that DOES NOT PAY HOMAGE to Google.

How would google know if a blog was an autoblog or a drip fed blog?

Don't a lot of people who publish unique content drip feed it into their blog?

If google is punishing sites that use backlink packages then what is to stop me from pointing one at my competitor?

Of course, google wants to provide the best user experience in their search results and a lot of people that use autoblogging (and some of the automated linking packages) don't provide valuable sites.

So, it makes sense that Goog would look for patterns of such sites.

Like, maybe, sites that consist solely of duplicate Amazon products .... or sites that only have RSS feeds as their content .... or sites whose backlinks consist only of profile links. IMHO, this is more likely what they are up to.

Lee

Google has been making this statement for years yet people complain about it after they have already been told not to do it.

"...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)..."

You can also read their Quality Guidelines below:

Quality guidelines - basic principles

• Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
• Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
• Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

The above quotes from Google Webmaster Central

From the "Provide unique and relevant content link:

"If your site has been removed from our search results, review our Webmaster Guidelines for more information. Once you've made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration."

"If your site has been removed from our search results..."
"...confident that your site no longer violates our guidelines,"

I don't know why people are so surprised at the idea of this happening.

Google is a search engine. It's job is to find relevant content for it's users based on the queries they enter. (They want the 100% share and want to knock Yahoo and MSN completely out of business). So they gotta attract more by being more relevant.

A few years ago even Google's relevancy was same as Yahoo. IN fact, there was a time when I found MSN results to be better than Google's. So google is battling these guys out as well to ensure they get the 100% market share.

Google's search quality improved and more people began using it.

If your autoblogs have relevant content, Google will obviously continue to rank such sites. Or Google'll go out of business.

If autoblogs tend to provide spun unreadable contnet, Google will want to put those sites out of business.

Google is having a hard time taking care of relevance. It's not going to care if you are building billions of links to your website as long as your site's optimized and has a low bounce rate.

Google cares about bounce rate(it tells Google whether the site had the content the user was looking for). The bounce rate will only affect the position of your rankings.

But your rankings are mainly determined by the no. of links you build. Now google is totally cool with letting sites rank that have RELEVANT content on them.

"Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as cloaking."

- Duplicate content isn't something Google cares about. Google is cool with it.
- If content's duplicate, Google is going to rank the site that it perceives to be as the source/higher authority.

Your autoblogs will not be banned by Google. And that is not Google's job. Let's say A is a BlueFart marketer with 1000 autoblogs.

Now he wants to check his autoblog, so he inputs asautoblog.com in the search engine.

It's the job of Google to provide him the result. As a search engine, Google's supposed to do just that.

Auto generated content will only have an effect on your ranking. " Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first."

If autoblogs provide unique and relevant content, Google is going to index it. But if it finds the same content on let's say wikipedia, its going to rank wikipedia higher and not you.

Why? Coz Wikipedia article has links to it and has authority.

I'd say autoblogs are a short term business model because you are only expecting the visitor to stay a while until they click on an adsense ad. Poor bounce rate, poor rankings in the long run.

Now if you're using auto blogs to build a list, that is a different case scenario(you are trying to provide value with your list).

They will never have 100% as there are more search engines than just Google, Yahoo, and Bing (MSN). You are forgetting MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Article Directories, YouTube (Movie directories), and all the other places that have built in search functions that are used on a daily basis.
More searches are performed on YouTube and Facebook (each...) than on Google. That means Google is #3 or lower on the search engine rankings.

I was told by a close friend of mine that has a friend that works for google (as a janitor)
and he tells me that google is inches away from banning Wordpress blogs from their index....

My question is has anyone heard anything?

It's not true that you can damage a competitors ranking by sending it inbound links from software link packages. Google does not penalize a site for links such as these. What it may do, and does to, is to disregard those links so they give no positive benefit to the site nor does the site get a negative penalty.

Google takes a neutral stance on these links by disregarding them. These links will therefore have no positive or negative affect on a site. Assuming of course Google is aware of them in the first place.

You have to think big picture when you think on banning. Google has two goals. Their primary goal is to make money. How they do that is by driving the best user experience...or is it?

If you were google would you really serve up the best possible search results? They only make money when people click. Now granted they have time and money and are going for the big picture so their time frames are much longer than ours. But they make more money in 2 particular situations. They make money if the search results are pretty close, but not quite on thus forcing the user to paid advertising. They also make money serving up top spots to adsense sites with highly relevant content that people will then click on. They don't make money by giving the user exactly what they want if it is a site that produces google no revenue. All that does is produce goodwill which is no doubt a significant item. But their best interests are to make us think they are going for the highest quality best authority results, while providing something less.

For instance, remember the days when wikipedia was number 1 or 2 in virtually every search? That's not my experience any more. Same with .gov sites. I see good marketers chipping away at the rankings of both of those every day. Why? I don't know. Will it change if wikipedia every changes to an adsense model? I don't know. But you've got to think like google.

Why is there all the news about various google slaps and debate about whether there is even a sandbox? Google could easily end the sandbox debate, but they want the general public to think they are weeding out sites. Same with slaps. They could easily roll those out gradually, but they prefer the massive free press from an all at once slap that makes it look like they are only about user experience. But even google would not last indefinitely if people were not clicking ads.

Do what works. If it doesn't work try something else. And diversify your traffic as much as is practicable. For me, autoblogging is still working, but it is not the only thing I do.

Most autoblogs I've seen unfortunately are very low quality and don't deserve to get rankings (an unpopular thing for a marketer to say I know).

As long as they get rid of the junk without getting rid of legitimate news sites I think it's a good thing.

It's best not to believe all the rumors and accusations flying around without properly analyzing the core issue first. We all know Google wants relevancy and rewards it, so let's look at autoblogs and see how they fit into the picture.

Autoblog software by its very nature is dumb and cannot analyze the content it is putting on your blog for relevancy and accuracy. It just trawls the internet and searches for content that has the keywords you want. Some may be good content that fits in with the overall theme and message that your blog is trying to convey, and some may be utter trash.

Let's think about what the average autoblogger does now. I believe that the majority feel that they can set the software on autopilot and then totally forget about it. Guess what happens next? Your autoblog gets messy, and filled with a ton of irrelevant and nonsensical content. If you don't closely monitor what content your autoblog software is using, you're going to end up with pure garbage. Period.

Guess what happens next? Google is going to realize, sooner or later, that your blog is full of useless and irrelevant content. It's only a matter of time before your autoblog drops in the rankings (if it was even ranked to begin with) as a result.

I don't know why people keep thinking (as evidence by the sheer number of threads started in here) that autoblogging is some 'set and forget' method. Nothing could be further from the truth. With the mass population of content all over the internet, it has become more vital than ever to monitor your autoblog's content, and so in my book this could never be considered an autopilot method.

Paul

Man all this makes my head spin! I have never been able to figure out why google would ban adsense sites - Adsense makes them money. If someone understands their logic please tell me.

I have. In fact, I think I have heard that several times over the past three years. Everytime Google makes a change to their algarythm, I seem to hear it.

The result always seems to be the same, tho, AutoSpammers get nailed and AutoBloggers keep right on keeping on.

It is the Content, not the method that will get sandboxed. Offer something of value and what is wanted by the searcher and you will be fine.

Google is great, rumours are greater. I never put all eggs in one basket. If your online presence is based only on google traffic . Most of my traffic comes from other places anyway. Besides even if your site were sandboxed, you can still show on google using good articles and videos.

I tried autoblogs but didn't get much success. I don't support autoblogs as they are not providing value to readers so thus Google. IMO

Oh yeah, thanks for the news,. auto blogging is killing me

Wow, lots of great OPINIONS! I hope Im wrong

Ok I heard from a friend of a friend, who's aunts sisters brothers wifes mothers grandma works for Google - she cleans the toilets.

She says that Google is going to get rid of Wordpress blogs, html sites, autoblogs, any website with a backlink and any site that is over 500 pages long!


She also said that her sons uncles friends sisters boyfriend is living somewhere in Africa with Elvis, Michael Jackson and Princess Diana!

Is that true? sad

Google is not blind. I don't know all the details of it, but the Google Dart sure tells a lot. Google's customers are its searchers. If it finds that 99% of the customers searching for a particular term like my site, is there a reason for Google to terminate it?

Autoblogging won't be eliminated. Sure, Google may find a few footprints and trash some, but when they do, the Autobloggers will invent a different way that Google has not analyzed out yet.

In the end, your list of buyers will be your best source of income.

Dude, my uncles mother's brothers, sisters cousin cuts the lawn for a guy who's janitor is the cousin of an executive at Google and they said that they're buying Facebook

A friend of a friend told me that Google is about to come down heavy on people who put an apostrophe where it has no right to be.

The apostrophe means one of two things - ownership or a missing letter. It's (it is) not needed here. Another common misuse is -

I believe google don't do such things....

And google hasn't brought in Bounce rate into it's algorithm yet. I think they use it in their adwords model.

It will take a long time for Google to incorporate bounce rate and rank sites based on bounce rate. We are talking years.

Right now, it's just the relevance of content on your site to the no. of links you have compared to your competition.

My sites with the best rankings in Google have the highest bounce rates. Sometimes up to 80 or more!

But that doesn't Google from giving me thousands of visitors a day for that single site.

I don't think it's true that the bounce rate will affect your SERPs negatively.

Hi warriortx

We spoke to our dog earlier, she's all ears but as clever as she is she hasn't heard about Google doing anything of the sort.

Just another rumour we think.

Regards

Bronwyn and Keith

It is not true. I admit things with Google could change. However, at this point, this is not the case. Time to stop worrying, especially for those who adhere to using "white hat" business techniques, both online and offline. Best wishes to you.

This just in...

As many of you know, Google uses a bevy of automated systems to render results in the SERPs, I just heard from a reliable sources that they are going to STOP using automated systems to render results in the SERPs to match their game plan to ban all auto blogs and put a screeching halt to any and all blog drip feeding.

Get this...

They are going to hire enough personnel to handle over 400 million plus queries per day, and they are going to hire enough graphic designers to handle their database that now has over 1.3 billion images.

Just think, in a average of every two days, GHPs Google Human Processors will process close to staggering 1 Billion queries by hand with... NO MORE AUTOMATION!

How cool is that?

Says one source with close ties to a Google employee, under the condition of anonymity of course...

To be clear, the source states that GOOG is going to be hiring real live people to process ALL of the queries received by Google.

Amazing huh?

Every time you Google a search term, REAL PEOPLE will be behind the scenes using no automation to gather the necessary data and once gathered, they will then in turn render the exact results in the SERPs that you are looking for.

I heard that before they render the results in the SERPs, they will be testing each and every page for:

• Content = must be of high literary award caliber to get into the top 200 results and Google is hiring MBAs to check.
• Content Uniqueness = must be 100% unique and Google is hiring news editors to check
• Page Loading Time = page must load in less that .0095 seconds
• Graphic Appeal = each page must pass a graphical appeal review by a GGRE Google Graphical Review Expert
• Platform = I heard Google will only be accepting pure HTML sites after April 1st, 2011
• PR = to be in the top 100 results, a page must have a PR of 2 or above
• Bounce Rate = I'm hearing the bounce rate must be under 25% or better
• Age of Domain = To get in the top 50 results, the domain name must be aged at least 5 years
• Backlinks = Only organically acquired backlinks will count and GOOG is hiring BLCs Back Link Checkers to confirm all backlnks

Apparently, Google Ban's auto blogs and blog dripping is having a reverberating effect as Google is putting a halt to all automation... including their own, that's what I heard.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Really? I heard they would be powering it with hamsters.

I see no sign of this in my niche.

It's ok guys....EVERYONE JUST NEEDS TO CALM DOWN.

I heard from a very reliable source that Matt Cutts only works from 9am to 5pm eastern standard time.

This means as long as you post all of your adsense everywhere on your autoblog between the hours of 530pm and 830am, and then remove it all before Matt gets back into work.....Google will never be the wiser.

Dolts at big G should not have been so cheap and tried to hire a few more watchdogs......

Your friend at google, is he the janitor? no offense.

If this was the case, then the future posting feature in wordpress would be taken out. And there is no news that WP will take that out, but its not going to prevent ppl from creating a plugin that allows it, actually there is already plugins that allows you to drip feed / future set your posts to another date in the future.

On top of that, there is NO way, google, or any one else for that matter can work out if the content was drip feed into your blog. Even if it was the NSA, they will have no way of finding out.

Am I missing something here?

How does one have a SERIOUS discussion and raise serious concerns based solely on a rumor from a ghost?

And just so you know, the dude that works for Google the OP was referring to got fired this past Friday for failing to pass a drug test.

He tested positive for crack cocaine, crystal meth, heroine, prescription hormones and Viagra.

He also was found to have been pushing all of his websites to the top of the rankings in addition to de-indexing all of his major competition.

When confronted about his dastardly behavior, he attacked a fellow employee's car with axes he had stored under his desk.





People, you've got to stop taking these rumors so serious...

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Giles, the Crew Chief

Auto blogs was always against the ethos of Google, it simply wants unique content generated by real people

I think someone mentioned it a few thousand times. Put up a site with original content and make is useful. It's not that difficult. Really. Now, back to work, there's nothing to see here...

TomG.

Not so. Google wants to serve up relevant content to the searchers, otherwise they'll switch to another search engine. I shouldn't think Google is that bothered where this relevant content comes from - it does not take Einstein to realise that real people are quite capable of generating unique drivel. This thread alone could provide a few examples.

Google's only aim is to unite the searchers with the advertisers that fill it's coffers, and the only way it can do that is by providing the searchers with what they expect to find. That is more likely to be meaningful syndicated content than a page of hand-typed garbage stuffed with keywords and presented as useful.

I don't believe it as it would be too difficult to distinguish the stuff Google wants to get rid of from "legitmate" uses of the same technology.

I think there will always be "autoblogs"

it may just get a little tougher to get them ranked within the search engines

I think when they spider your site the look for specific words in the script.

As you can see, if you are doing anything automated; STOP NOW or else face a painful GOOGLE exile.

My point exactly

Google will always find ways to make things difficult for everybody. This is the same old tricks since day one. All you know is just keep watching them like a hawk and pattern your sites according to the current algorithm.

You're absolutely right Giles...no doubt about any of that.

I guess my being a "Newb" here hasn't afforded me the experience in this forum to come to those realizations yet....until now!

Thanks and once again...

DAMN FUNNY STUFF!!!

The thing is, people have always abused resources and while some SEO's are creative twists to the rules, others are just plain SPAM cleverly designed and we cant disagree if Google isn't happy about it. Theyve been trying to get rid of SPAM since I cant remember and what better way to target a majority of their problem than by sandboxing these..right??

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Well I heard that Google are going to ban PHP and other scripting languages as frankly those can be used to - GASP! - automatically generate web pages. Instead they are going to insist that each and every web page be drawn up by hand in Dreamweaver for each user that visits (unique content, no copy/paste) and...

...this thread is getting out of hand! Nothing like a bit of Google speculation to fuel a debate though, is there? Ah, reminds me of a certain other forum. speaking of which, anyone hear when the next PR update is going to be?

Please make it stop.

Ok we have heard from the sellers NOW how about the buyers that have had theres for more then a few months PLEASE TELL YOUR STORY--UNLESS YOU SELL THEM.

Very well said Andy....

It's how you use the approach...not the approach itself!

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NONSENSE! and yet VERY TRUE

Wordpress provides autoblogging. So its not autoblogging that is the issue here.

its the type of stuff being posted that is.

Google is all for relevancy. They dont give 2 ****s about people filling the net with content, they give a crap about it being relevant, and not just grabbed from other places on the net.

If they were to target autoblogging they would have to target every wordpress blog online, along with other auto content systems.

Again they look for fingerprints, certain things which indicate its not manned by someone.. Now that is EASY to spot! You dont need a room full of monkeys to tell the sites online that are total crap and filled with nonsense.

<<<< Is wondering how long it will take the nay sayers to try to figure out some form of rebuttle for all of those quotes...

The rebuttle wont have much of a foundation to stand on but it will be presented anyway.

Me thinks it wont be long now....

I have heard nothing about this, but I hope Google does manage to clean up its serps by filtering out content that is essentially junk, no matter how it does it.

Will

Haven't heard anything about this but I have heard that backlink doesn't count as much as it used to.

Never gonna happen.

If Google banned autoblogs today, google would collapse, there would be 20% at least less advertising space and less Adsense campaigns to match, be realistic.

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It's possible, but it depends how well they've developed their alogrithm.

And TPW is correct, one of the 'easiest' ways (not the only way) is simply looking at footprints. Chances are 1000's of the 'autoblog' sites do things *exactly* the same way, because 1000's of people purchased 'Ultimate AutoBlog Profits by Joe Shmoe', and are too lazy to change anything.

So yes, it is quite easy for Google (rather the computer algorithms) to detect. If they are stepping it up a bit (i.e., to find variations), that is also possible.

If google has gotten wind of the 'auto-blog' abuse, then yes, it is very easy for them to sandbox those sites.

John

AdSense Facts & Fiction Part V: Unoriginal content - Inside AdSense

this is interesting...not only sandboxing autoblog...but probably banning adsense now....

I have to agree with Andy. Are they going to ban all the news sites, article sites, membership sites and all the rest?...

On the other hand, we have seen it before that sometimes when they come up with a new rule or a new ban on something, they dont care if some legit sites get punished in the process. Why would they care anyway? Its Google!

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been warning people in here about this for a long time.

Rsberg, eveytime one of these posts show up you come and say how good autoblogging is .... check to ignore mate. Ignorance is bliss.

Time for people to bite the bullet and go out and create real blogs full of useful content that will gain intrest. Not just use the cheap, lazy ass way to clog up the net with yet more crap.

I mean, comeon seriously sit down with yourself and think about it.

I have a friend that knows a guys, mail man, neighbors, nephews, mother inlaws, bankers kids teachers, doctors patients, webmaster that says Google will never stop auto blogs! :rolleyes:

They might stop the herds footprint, but not the guy that took the time upfront to not stand out like all the other thousands that use the same setup/themes.

I think it all goes back to exactly how you carry this process out just like with many other topics. If you create a new autoblog and then have 10 articles post to it on a daily basis you might find Google an unfriendly player on your team. If instead you slowly drip articles to your autoblog and allow the process to be much more natural in scope you should be just fine in my opinion.

I don't come to that answer lightly either for my very job is based on that statement above being correct.

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i am getting first page for 10 or more slightly competitive keywords for my auto content blog (using rss feed)

The guys from Google are "inches away" for the last few years

well, is there a way to verify that information ?

A lot of people here don't know what Banned is, Why should someone consider them banned if they're still indexed?

These are the kinds of threads that make me feel bad about the human race. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!".

I didn't read the entire thread, and I don't think I have to. This topic shows up at least twice a week, and has since 2006 or so. So lets get on with a few things to show that Google isn't going to shoot their own foot, and do away with drip-fed blogs.

1) Google is a Search Engine. In being a search engine, they have no original content themselves. All the content they show is written by someone else. Amazing!

2) Googles favorite websites above all others, is NEWS websites. If you're one of those people that gets up in the AM and puts on the news while having breakfast, you may not know it, but your not watching anything new. Everything shown on the news has already been posted online and discussed almost to death. It is than put on the news.

Example: Fox and NBC talked about a website detailing government leaks about a month or so ago. The site is huge (Hundreds of pages of original content), and was up for months. This site was read, talked about, bashed, and everything else for the better part of 3 months. Thats when Fox and NBC decided to discuss it with the public on Television. These news sites posted the information on their website, and even LINKED to the website so readers could view the page!!! (Yes, lets give backlink juice to the guy releasing government secrets, great job Fox and NBC!)

3) Not all Drip-fed blogs are Auto-blogs. I could order 100,000 articles from warriors here, and post them all on a delayed timer (or "Drip-Fed") to be posted 100 per day for the next 1,000 days. Lets assume that 90% of that content is real content, and that only 10% is rehashed crap that was run through one of those stupid spinner programs. This would make the site a very legit source to get information, but also means it is a drip-fed blog. Is google really going to block this site? Of course not. That would HURT Google as a Business.

4) Google is not the most powerful resource on the internet anymore. They gave that power to Facebook when they decided to post Ads on Facebook in hopes of driving more traffic to their search engine. I haven't seen it as of yet, but I honestly believe that they will be doing the same with Youtube soon.
Yes, Google gets over 60% of "SEARCH ENGINE TRAFFIC", but YouTube and Facebook have more traffic than Google.


Google isn't the biggest dog in the yard anymore. Many marketers get most of their traffic through sources other than Search Engines.

Google isn't going to slap drip-fed blogs. They would be shooting themselves in the foot, and in the Internet Race, you need every advantage you can get.

IF Google ever did something that hurt all these sites like everyone has been crying about for years... Google would slowly collapse into the world of the poor folk, and Yahoo and Bing would start a new battle for who will take first place as the "Search Engine Leader".

Be a smart Internet Marketer and take this advice...

* TAKE ACTION!!! (You can't make money online reading forums, No offence WF!)
* Stop worrying about 1 traffic source when there are litterally HUNDREDS or more traffic sources.
* The more you put in, the more you get back.
* THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!! (Take the blinders off your eyes. There is more to the internet than the Google/Yahoo/Bing (MSN) Fight. Try Article Directories, Document Directories, Slideshow Directories, Micro Blogs, Social Networks, Video Directories, OFFLINE promotion, Word of Mouth... The list goes on and on, you just have to be willing to take off the blinders and put yourself out there.)

One last thing... If you rely 100% on Google to get all of your traffic, then you might as well quit IM now and save yourself the time, money, and heartbreak. Relying on a single source for web traffic is like a downs syndrom child running a race against the olympic racers. You wont win unless all the other racers quit.

It's not true

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Autoblogs are still making money for those who know what they are doing. In fact, I have started building more these days and I will continue to do.

I would personally just keep the backlinks manual, the backlinks will stick for longer, and its just a higher quality approach in general.

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