autoblogging : some things i dont understand

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ok so i read a few ebooks and i looked at a few threads and i even looked at a few youtube vids about this but i don't think that i undertand totally ... ( sorry for my ignorance )

are you really setting up blogs with duplicate content and maybe add some adsense and a few click bank add and you just wait for the money to roll in ?

from my research i heard about a few plugins ( wp robot , wpomatic and others) but what about google who states that you would do better with new and fresh content on the blogs ? am i missing something here .. is this really that easy ..

Please help me so that i can really get a grasp on this idea
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  • Profile picture of the author Big__Lebowski
    there are special re-writing plugins, btw: if you mix content in intelligent way from few sources Google will index it like fresh content : )
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  • Profile picture of the author scott g
    No you're on the money. Google likes unique content. Their are "tools/plugins" that will get you traffic/autopost reposted crap... I don't believe in that stuff, and I HOPE a lot of the guys on here will back me up.

    If you want to make money via Adsense, CPA junk, whatever.... Make a blog, a unique blog targeting certain keywords. You can make a dozen blogs from this blog that are uber similar, but target different keywords.

    It's all in the wording. Either way, you're going to have to backlink and promote your blog. Do your keyword research if you want SE traffic... Do you Adwords research if you want paid traffic (Adsense/Adwords on the same site is a whole nother thread).

    I personally have the same article on 20 different article sites... That backlink to the site I want it to. I don't care if they rank.

    I come across competition ALL THE TIME that buys up domains in all extensions and even the ones that have similar domain names, with the same content, but I'll only catch the ONE or TWO ranking decently in Google.

    The moral is be unique and do the work it takes to rank and you'll be rewarded.

    CHEERS!
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  • Profile picture of the author eddie jay
    thanks for responding to this thread

    so there's a plug in where you can rewrite the post
    and i understand that the best way to do this would be to write unique content and work your seo stuff ( backlinks and etc ) .. Now if i'm wrong with that type of duplicate content , dont you run the risk of your site going down ?
    i heard of a site called content snap where there's unlimited amounts of unique content avaible but it has a pretty heavy price tag ($200.00) i just want to make sense of this
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    • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
      Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

      thanks for responding to this thread

      so there's a plug in where you can rewrite the post
      and i understand that the best way to do this would be to write unique content and work your seo stuff ( backlinks and etc ) .. Now if i'm wrong with that type of duplicate content , dont you run the risk of your site going down ?
      i heard of a site called content snap where there's unlimited amounts of unique content avaible but it has a pretty heavy price tag ($200.00) i just want to make sense of this
      Ok, rather than beating you up about wanting to create an Autoblog there are a couple ways you can do this.

      One is with the Auto posting tools that you already mentioned. Like WP-Robot and the like. These programs simply taking content (articles) from article sites and post those articles on your website. Its great for the article writers because you have now just syndicated their content. AND you have content on your site. Now your won't rank very well in Google unless the spiders find the article on your site before they find it on the article directory. If they find it on your site first your site will be ranked higher, sometimes.

      Another way to set up an autoblog is to create your posts in advance. What I am talking about here it is using the scheduler feature on your blog and getting it to autopost for you at the scheduled time. So for instance say you only want to work on your blog on Sundays, but you want a new post for everyday of the week. Just write your seven posts for the week and let your blog do the rest.

      As for making the content you get from plugins unique, there is a plug in called WP-Unique that will change characters etc etc to make the same article look different to search engines, but I really didn't have much luck with it. I was getting results from it that looked unnatural, i.e. different fonts etc. etc.

      Autoblogs do work, and they do have their purpose so don't let people discourage you from setting one up. Its all a matter of which technique you want to apply. Personally, I write my own pages and posts and schedule them to post in advance. (52 weeks in advance) That way I can focus on other things like product creation, backlinking, and networking with other professionals.

      Hope this helps and gives you a better idea to take your sites forward.

      Regards,
      Clint
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  • Profile picture of the author Ezra Anderson
    Hmmm... I'd be careful with using computers to rewrite your content. They can mess it up to where it's nearly unreadable, so make sure to check the computer's work after it spins your article before your go and make blog posts with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
      Originally Posted by ezzypro View Post

      Hmmm... I'd be careful with using computers to rewrite your content. They can mess it up to where it's nearly unreadable, so make sure to check the computer's work after it spins your article before your go and make blog posts with it.
      That's funny you just said the same thing I did, I don't recommend using them because they come out corrupted garbage.
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      • Profile picture of the author eddie jay
        hey thanks for all of this info .. this is very helpful
        this looks like somethig that i can get into ..
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  • Profile picture of the author funmaste
    well i also establish a blog using a autobloging software...
    i have more then 10,000 post but it doesnt work for me...
    i just got 100 daily visitors from it which is not good for making money...
    so from my experience, you have to build a website with quality contents
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

    Please help me so that i can really get a grasp on this idea
    Instead of fixating upon auto-blogs built only on the WordPress platform, expand your knowledge to sites that are simply auto-generated, in whole or in part, from feeds.

    For example, take a look at one of my favorite sites to beat up on, thefind.com. It's almost entirely feed generated content but it ranks well for 1000's of terms.

    When you start investigating keywords you'll find thousands of other sites running on various auto-scripts. One example is efreedom.com. 6 million plus indexed pages and they rank for a huge number of tech related searches. 6 million pages with Adsense, well, you do the math.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
    Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

    are you really setting up blogs with duplicate content and maybe add some adsense and a few click bank add and you just wait for the money to roll in ?
    There is more to it than this but your basic thought process is sort of on track. One of the biggest things with Auto Blogging (as with any other for of IM) is to do your keyword research and make sure the content you're posting to your site is relavant and offers good value to the reader.

    Yo have to realize that auto blogging is just like any other form of IM, it takes work and can be a legitimate approach if it is done correctly. You have to find what works for you. If you were to ask 1000 successful auto bloggers how they do it you would most likely find 1000 differnet answers or at least 1000 different variations of answers. There is no one way that is going to work for anyone every single time.

    Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

    from my research i heard about a few plugins ( wp robot , wpomatic and others) but what about google who states that you would do better with new and fresh content on the blogs ? am i missing something here .. is this really that easy ..
    Some of the plugins you mention (or others like them) do serve their purpose but a bit of advise here...

    Be sure to check the quality of the content those plugins are returnning and posting to your blogs. Some are better than others and some have a reputation for pulling poor quality content and posting it automatically. If you take a few minutes to check the content before posting it you will find your have a much better looking blog that offers quality to your readers.

    Another good idea (or at least one I know I have had success with as well as others) is to occasionally mix in your own unique related content. This keeps your blogs fresh and also helps you to direct where the reader goes from there. You can write an article about how great the latest "wizz bang widget" is and how it solves some problem the reader is looking to solve, then find some related youtube videos, related articles from places like Ezine (just be sure to not change the article and give the original author credit), find some related products at Amazon or other affiliate networks, maybe add a few related Yahoo Answers posts and before you know it you will have some pretty decent looking posts that offer readers good value on the subject they are searching for.

    Good luck...hope this helps a little.
    Robert
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    However many webmasteres are earning a lot of money through their autoblogging websites, but i prefer to have one website with quality content and make money by it. Also success with autoblogging plugins/softwares needs knowledge about money and traffic making niches and keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author eddie jay
    Rsbrg wrote: Another good idea (or at least one I know I have had success with as well as others) is to occasionally mix in your own unique related content. This keeps your blogs fresh and also helps you to direct where the reader goes from there. You can write an article about how great the latest "wizz bang widget" is and how it solves some problem the reader is looking to solve, then find some related youtube videos, related articles from places like Ezine (just be sure to not change the article and give the original author credit), find some related products at Amazon or other affiliate networks, maybe add a few related Yahoo Answers posts and before you know it you will have some pretty decent looking posts that offer readers good value on the subject they are searching for.

    So it sounds like the best way to do this is to review all content before
    posting and add original content as well ... This makes more sense
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    • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
      Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

      Rsbrg wrote: Another good idea (or at least one I know I have had success with as well as others) is to occasionally mix in your own unique related content. This keeps your blogs fresh and also helps you to direct where the reader goes from there. You can write an article about how great the latest "wizz bang widget" is and how it solves some problem the reader is looking to solve, then find some related youtube videos, related articles from places like Ezine (just be sure to not change the article and give the original author credit), find some related products at Amazon or other affiliate networks, maybe add a few related Yahoo Answers posts and before you know it you will have some pretty decent looking posts that offer readers good value on the subject they are searching for.

      So it sounds like the best way to do this is to review all content before
      posting and add original content as well ... This makes more sense
      You got it...

      If you start doing this with your auto blogs or any other blogs that you use automation to post related content to (I say this because I know people who use automations tools to occasionally post things to what most people would call "regular" blogs) the overall quality of your blog will get better which will lead to better ranking and more readers...ofcourse you can't forget about SEO but this will help with that as well.

      Good luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author eddie jay
        Rsberg wrote : If you start doing this with your auto blogs or any other blogs that you use automation to post related content to (I say this because I know people who use automations tools to occasionally post things to what most people would call "regular" blogs) the overall quality of your blog will get better which will lead to better ranking and more readers...ofcourse you can't forget about SEO but this will help with that as well.

        Ok what would you recommend as the best plugin to use
        to fetch your articles and such
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        • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
          Originally Posted by eddie jay View Post

          Ok what would you recommend as the best plugin to use
          to fetch your articles and such
          If you are looking specifically for a plugin then I'm probably not the best person to give recommendations as I don't use any of the custom plugins but from what I hear most people like WP Robot. Most of what I have heard about it is good except several people say that it does regularly pull in poorly written articles or articles that are sometimes not really on point with your sites objectives or focus. The only thing I can suggest with that is to be sure to review the articles it pulls after they post (I don't think you can review them before they post)...this is a pain in the butt of course...but you don't want unrelated or poorly written content on your sites either.

          Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author eddie jay
    up so i can get more info about what would be the best plugin for auto blogs .. please feel free to share
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  • Profile picture of the author thebasta
    IF AN AUTOBLOG SITE DOESN'T WORK WHY GOOGLE NEWS WORKS AS AN AUTOBLOG RECEIVING CONTENT FROM OTHER NEWS SITE AND THE PAGE RANK IS #8...

    CAN SOMEBODY ANSWER THIS QUESTION?

    DUPLICATE CONTENT IS A MYTH IS TRUE GOOGLE PUT MORE ATTENTION IN UNIQUE ARTICLES BUT DUPLICATE CONTENT STILL WORKS....
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