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Did I kill my site with autoblogging?

by WebPen
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Hey folks,

Here's the deal:

I had 2 autoblogs going for about a month before I decided I wanted to make them blogs with quality, original content instead.

One of the domain names, is over a year old with 2 pages that are in the top 10 of Google for their KW. They arent getting tons of traffic, but about 50 a day.

The other domain name is about 2 months old. Over the last week I've put up 15 articles, each over 600 words, for low competition keywords.

Although Google is definitely crawling the newer site and indexing the new posts, they aren't showing up very high at all (again these are pretty low comp. keywords)

Could it be that autoblogging kinda killed the newer site, but since the old one was more established it was okay?

Or should I just wait another few weeks to see if these new articles get ranked? Again they're only about a week old, but I've had pages get ranked in the top 10 within a week before so just checkin...

I actually can't find these posts anywhere in the top 100 for their kw right now. I've been using a forum link building service and linked a few Goarticles, but those are the only backlinks I've done so far for the new site (besides social bookmarking each post with Onlywire)

Hope that's clear- thanks for any input!

Justin
#autoblogging #kill #site
  • Profile picture of the author corsleymaxwell
    Well, maybe auto blogging is one of the reason. I am not sure but softwares sometime do harm to your site. Manual way is still the best.
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  • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
    Since it's a new website, maybe you should give it more time, keep contents adding and link building work, then check the result after several weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Natlex
    I think google can label sites as autobloggers, especially if you used it since day one. However I'm sure with time that could change. Besides, I doubt your site is all that much trusted with google if you were an auto blog for so long, but I'm sure you can change that.

    Oh and under 2 months old domains I have a hard time getting stuff on the top 100 of google, unless it's really low competition stuff... I would not worry about it much, I find theirs a 4 month delay on my website were my inner pages will almost always barely rank or probably not reach top 50 for any of my targetted keywords, than suddently after the 3-4th month they start ranking and reaching page 2+ of google and backlinks easily push them to page 1.
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  • Profile picture of the author claudejean123
    SEO is not an exact science as they say. You can never tell or predict the Search Engines way of indexing or ranking each websites. You can wait for another month because as I can see it, it's just 2 months old...
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  • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
    Think of it like this.

    There are over 200 factors for ranking your content and it is only if you know all of them that you can be sure you're doing the right thing. However, even the best sites out there struggle to get a first or second page ranking.

    This is because they understand how Google works. They even know that they may publish 3 articles but those 3 articles may never be seen unless they are a popular site or Google favors their content over another.

    So it's up to you to decide: do you want to worry about new pages getting higher when you could be writing more content instead?
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  • Profile picture of the author GyuMan82
    You can't really tell with the new site because as stated above new sites take time to move up the rankings.

    If your goal is to rank well in the long run though you def don't want to be using scraped content on your sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author WebPen
      Thanks for the help everyone.

      So basically what I'm hearing is to give it a bit more time- especially since it's a new domain name.

      I will keep adding content, but I'm thinking I'll do a test and put the content on both the 1 year old site and the 2 month old site.

      Probably not with all of my articles, but at least a few to see how their rankings compare.

      Thanks!

      Justin
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryDD
    First of all, we have to check that through auto blogging, what type of content is delivered, if the content has quality then there is no problem if it is spinned automatically then it is not good for any site.
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  • Profile picture of the author pro2pronetwork
    As long as you are posting your own unique content...you should be ok.
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