Will Google shut down your Adsense account for Autoblogging?

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I know so many people here to autoblogging but someone warned me about it today saying that Google will shut down your Adsense account if they found out about it. I'd never heard that before and I just wondered if this person just didn't know what they were talking about.

Can you get banned from Adsense for autoblogging? :confused::confused:
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  • No proper answer for this one. But there is a risk with autoblogging with adsense. The best post frequency would be 2-3 Days.
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  • I'm just fooling around with it. I don't have any real strategy, I'm just testing it out on one of my junk domains and trying to figure out how to really make any money with it. But I certainly don't want to get banned for it.
  • google wont shut you down for dup content, but they may for auto blogging.

    to get around it, download KB_robots.txt plugin and paste the following into the txt box:

    Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
    Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
    Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Disallow: /wp-includes/
    Disallow: /wp-login.php
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    • Can someone please explain me how would this help or what this does exactly?
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  • Anything that your doing that is geared around spam. You most certainly should be worried.
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    • Spam - most likely

      Auto Blogging - only if you do it by spamming, just like any other IM method...there is a right and wrong way to do it.

      Auto Blogging doesn't automatically = spam (although this is a common misconception many have).
  • Its not auto blogging that is against TOS but MFA, or made for adsense, is. So it really depends on how you go about your auto blogging.
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    • There's nothing in the Adsense TOS about MFA. They may de-index a MFA site if it gets a review, but your Adsense account won't get shut down.

      As for autoblogging, the Webmaster Guidelines state:

      Auto-generated content
      : Content generated programatically. Often this will consist of random paragraphs of text that make no sense to the reader but that may contain search keywords.

      Scraped content
      : Some webmasters make use of content taken from other, more reputable sites on the assumption that increasing the volume of web pages with random, irrelevant content is a good long-term strategy. Purely scraped content, even from high-quality sources, may not provide any added value to your users without additional useful services or content provided by your site. It's worthwhile to take the time to create original content that sets your site apart. This will keep your visitors coming back and will provide useful search results.

      Little or no original content - Webmaster Tools Help

      I wouldn't worry about it, but it's best to mix in some original content from time to time and keep the auto generated posts to a minimum. Rather than have it posting every hour, set the software to make a post every few days, once a week, or once a month.
    • Did you even read TOS?


      AdSense says - 'Don't use scraped content. It's a violation of our policies.'
      The do's and dont's to increase cost per click - Inside AdSense

      Answer is - YES, It's a violation of their TOS, and they can shut down your account.
  • It may shut down if you are over spamming.
  • This is what I was also wondering. I am always worried when it comes to adsense cause once they shut you down its really hard to get a new account. I always like to play it safe.
  • there is no real answer, and as vstar00 has pointed out, use robots.txt to control the google bots.

    But google wont straight away ban ur account, there will be a manual review before they decided to ban an account.

    When they do manual review, it is quite easy for them to spot autoblog.

    The only way is make it to not seems like an autoblog at all even to human eyes.
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    • Can someone please tell me the difference then between an autoblog and an article directory, which does not review the articles.

      There are thousands of directories full of duplicate content which gets processed there on a daily basis. We are talkinh in millions of articles ( software like UAW and AMR etc. ).

      Isnt that the exact same thing? Please correct me if I am wrong.

      Sincerely, Buyseech
  • Yes they will shut your account if someone from adsense team get a chance to review your account.

    Remember a ban means a lifetime ban to open another account under your name.
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    • Autoblogging is just a marketing term that describes a method of creating sites using software. There is nothing in the Adsense TOS that specifically mentions "autoblogs" as a violation of their terms.

      However, there are some practices employed in the process of using software to build sites that can and will break some Adsense policies. The main one being, and I quote..
      Copyrighted Material

      AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content. Please see our DMCA policy for more information.

      This of course is true for all sites but if you are automating this task, then it is hard not to break this policy.
  • Yes, they will shut it down if they find out about it, and the content is clearly spun. If you make your autoblog so good it can't be distinguished from the "real thing," I don't think you have anything to worry about, but I'd just do the real thing, honestly. It actually does not take much time to update a blog.
  • I know few guys making hundreds every month with autoblogs. so no adsense wont bann you for autoblogs but beware your service host provider may bann you for copyright content
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    • Ahhh the WF spin cycle ... it wont happen to you because Im making $$$ doing it argument.

      Or ... its ok because my second cousins sisters - aunt lucy, who knows of an ex google employee in bangladesh who emailed her, he "thought" it might be fine if ... you also did x y and z

      Thanks to the dude who pasted in the Adsense TOS data that clearly says ... Dont effing do it!
  • Well one day with Autoblogging and Adsense you will get a nice e-mail saying...knock it off...your hosting website just generated a click from a page about Burger King.
  • I am not sure I am getting it.. what about careerjet.com? Aren't they autoposting using some custom (illegal) scrapper? They scrap job openings from hundered of sites and post on their own site. They have good PR and adsense also.
    Suppose I use autobloging for same (posting jobs on my site from various other job site feeds) along with adsense. There are few other sites with good PR who use to scrap product info and reviews from multiple sites and they have thousands of products.
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    • They are a search engine, they are crawling and indexing other sites and aggregating the data in a way that is useful for users, some of which I imagine requires manual categorisation. That's a very far cry from most autoblogs, I assure you, whose owner doesn't want to go to all the effort of creating content, but just wants Google rankings and Adsense clicks off other people's RSS content.

      Yes, there may be a fine line somewhere in between, but it's at your own risk if you want to find where that line is. I have personally pulled Adsense off my only mashup site, even though I think it is relatively useful (Google doesn't, it got hit in the rankings a while back). I don't want to risk it. If other people want to advise creating autogenerated sites for Adsense earnings, I would say they are being irresponsible if they do not give the whole picture, including what Google CLEARLY says in their Adsense TOS.

    • Hi pmp123,

      Yes, they are scraping content using an automated script, just as most autoblogging software does, and contrary to what some folks might have you believe, they are using AdSense ads. The reason they are allowed to do this is because they are not plagiarizing content (claiming authorship), they limit the text snippet to reasonable size and provide attribution in the form of a link to the original source.

      There are thousands of websites using AdSense with automatically scraped content that do not violate any terms of the AdSense program. It's all in how you do it. Do it ethically and it's not a problem. Where most autobloggers go wrong is they cross those ethical boundaries by not staying within reasonable use, and failing to cite the source.
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  • yes, they can ban you for auto blogging
  • they can ban you for just about anything. i've seen the most minor violations get maximum punishment (account suspension i assume). but as far as auto blogging goes, improbable.
  • this thread is great, i have seen alot of sites for sale on flippa with autoblog/adsense.

    WealthWithin wrote:

    AdSense says - 'Don't use scraped content. It’s a violation of our policies.'
    The do's and dont's to increase cost per click - Inside AdSense

    Answer is - YES, It's a violation of their TOS, and they can shut down your account.

    it is a very thin line to tread if you base adsense as your main income.
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    • so if we are using auto blogging then adsenses account will be disable or banned
  • The key here is to make your autoblog does not look like autoblog then it will be fine.

    We need to tweak the strategy to fit what the market allowed
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    • I think there's a new thread with this same question every week.

      Most people don't get it because they don't understand the true meaning of "duplicate content". Auto blogging done correctly is not duplicate content and Google states that it is not grounds for action. From the link that follows... "Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results."

      Get the facts
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  • Yes.

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  • Depends if there manually audit websites with human resources

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    I know so many people here to autoblogging but someone warned me about it today saying that Google will shut down your Adsense account if they found out about it. I'd never heard that before and I just wondered if this person just didn't know what they were talking about. Can you get banned from Adsense for autoblogging? :confused::confused: