Is there ANY benefit in Auto-blogging?

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Well, the title say it all? Is there ANY? How do you use it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dentist
    Anyone? Can you use PLR articles on an auto-pilot Wordpress blog for backlinking?
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  • Profile picture of the author richworld
    After google panda and penguin update,It is not worth.Do not waste your time.
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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    The only benefit is that it's automated.

    Other than that, none.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris-
    It can work well. I have one site that is entirely auto-blogged, and makes over $100 a year, which is not much, but I don't spend more than an hour on it in a year, so it's a decent profit! The money I make there is from advertisers who pay me for putting their links there.

    So auto-blogging can certainly make a profit in my experience.

    Hope that helps

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author Dentist
      Originally Posted by Chris- View Post

      It can work well. I have one site that is entirely auto-blogged, and makes over $100 a year, which is not much, but I don't spend more than an hour on it in a year, so it's a decent profit! The money I make there is from advertisers who pay me for putting their links there.

      So auto-blogging can certainly make a profit in my experience.

      Hope that helps

      Chris
      Thanks,

      It helps.

      How about from SEO perspective? Does it make sense to have an auto-blog that curates content such as news from all over the web in one category and then have a blogroll or some backlinks in it?

      How about having the same thing done with some affiliate links?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tanya E
    Autoblogging still does help if it provides value to the visitor and does not just copy content. You may need to add to the content if you do not want your site to be penalized. Backlinks can be put but it should not look like the site is centered around the backlinks. Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
    Another way to look at it is that you could have an industry news site where you hire writers to product original content while supplimenting your site with re-syndicated news exceprts from other authority voices in the industry. I've a client doing well with this model.

    Also you can use automation to publish wordpress->to social channels.

    I use BlogSense to pull content from my Google+ account and post it to Twitter and have been very happy with the results.

    The process goes like this:

    Google+ -> gplustorss.com -> atwellpub & hatnohat

    Also on Niche site you can build a front page with original content and then attach a blog to it re-syndicating topics related to the product/niche which may help bring in extra traffic and reproduce your money keyword over and over again throughout your site. But it would still probably be good to keep a bit of non-duplicated content into your blog to keep your dupe-to-original content ratio even.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rojish Roy
    After the Panda and Penguin updates many of the auto blogs are penalized. Google is getting better in detecting auto blogs. So I will stay away from starting auto blogs, instead I will focus on creating blogs which provides value to the users. It may not bring profit quickly, but in long term it is much better, stable and risk free than auto blogs.
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    • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
      Originally Posted by rojishroy View Post

      After the Panda and Penguin updates many of the auto blogs are penalized. Google is getting better in detecting auto blogs. So I will stay away from starting auto blogs, instead I will focus on creating blogs which provides value to the users. It may not bring profit quickly, but in long term it is much better, stable and risk free than auto blogs.
      Which you can do while still employing automation.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    In my opinion...no...unique content is the only way to go...high quality unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Using automated softwares are not going to help much for a longer term as you can look around the many similar sites like those having auto posts from Yahoo Answers but with negligible traffic or PR.
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    • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      Using automated softwares are not going to help much for a longer term as you can look around the many similar sites like those having auto posts from Yahoo Answers but with negligible traffic or PR.
      It just depends on what you are wanting to execute. If you've an automated content strategy dependent on a 3rd party source like Yahoo then it will end up being a semi-low quality website. Which many are looking for a short term solution to capture traffic from low competition search phrases. And it works for some of them.

      But not all automation strategies are ran to create splogs. Some are ran by developers who want to use automation to import and re-syndicate their own content.

      At the end of the day, imo, it's about the developer achieving his will. If it's to re-syndicate lotto numbers or twitter posts or yahoo answers. If that's what they want to do and they have a readerbase that will benefit from this service then automation and automated tools have served the developer well.
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      • Profile picture of the author Wakunahum
        I have used auto blogs but haven't made them in more than a few years.

        But I would say there is still benefits to autoblogging as I still make income from them.

        I've kept all my old ones running because they make money.

        -All are deindexed from the search engines getting no search traffic.

        -All get a trickle of traffic from it's twitter account and other forms of social media like stumbleupon.

        -All make random sales here and there (mostly clickbank products).

        Since these only take about 2 hours at most to set up properly, there can be value to doing this especially when you are selling a product that you know sells well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dentist
    Thanks warriors,

    My question is if auto-blogs end up de-indexed then what's the point in content curation SEO-wise? For good examples of content curation, Tumblr blogs are all about content curation. They may be automated to some extent or manual, but there is no difference in the eyes of search engines. At the same time many of those blogs have high PR and a lot of readers. They are basically a community formed around special interests, for example animal photos, etc. My point is, then why auto-blogging should't work if it represents a new categorization of content that could actually attract readers? Isn't that just another form of content curation? But, if content curation is going to get penalized overall, which doesn't make sense for me, still it is good to know not to waste time on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
    You don't need any content to rank in google atm, lol.

    I have an old autoblog around 10k pages of dupe content. It ranked really well for thousands of longtails but panda slapped it down abit but it still ranks for its main keyword and quite a few more. It's got some excellent backlinks around 100k including wsj.

    The niche the site is in "mobile" there's alot of content syndication it's almost common place and sometimes works well because people would sometimes prefer to read one feed in Google reader rather than visiting all the sites.

    Other times it works well because webmasters in niches like this like having their content syndicated as it can provide backlinks and authority. Planet Android is a good example of a sucessful aggregator site, my site is similar to this.

    It terms of seo, don't expect to rank for alot of keywords with dupe content. You can even buy a pagerank 6 domain and get away with it for a while but eventualy panda will catch up with you, but like i said you can attract an audience from other places like feedburner and feed directories and blasting the site with bookmarks, you can get alot of subscribers.

    I wouldn't bother with autoblogs if i were you, it's just as much hassle as managing a normal site the valuable traffic comes from search, not tech savy subscribers unless you're good at list building.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    Originally Posted by Dentist View Post

    Well, the title say it all? Is there ANY? How do you use it?
    Well, I own a handful of Amazon autoblogs that are profitable month after month. They've survived all of the updates and still perform well.
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  • Profile picture of the author rabbi1994
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    Dude auto-blogging wont work anymore because Google will find your blog and then it will remove your site from it's search result so my suggestion will be stay away from this shortcut methods.
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    • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
      Originally Posted by rabbi1994 View Post

      Dude auto-blogging wont work anymore because Google will find your blog and then it will remove your site from it's search result so my suggestion will be stay away from this shortcut methods.
      Mine are still running just fine and have survived both Panda and Penguin.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wakunahum
      Originally Posted by rabbi1994 View Post

      Dude auto-blogging wont work anymore because Google will find your blog and then it will remove your site from it's search result so my suggestion will be stay away from this shortcut methods.
      To be fair Google isn't the only source of traffic on the internet.
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  • Profile picture of the author jobsnigerian
    it works for you while you sleep. but harmful to seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author risingrank
    @wolfmmiii, what have you done differently to get it to work.

    For me, i use duplicate content and build links to it, it works fine. Google is sending me close to 100 visitors per day.
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    • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
      Originally Posted by risingrank View Post

      @wolfmmiii, what have you done differently to get it to work.

      For me, i use duplicate content and build links to it, it works fine. Google is sending me close to 100 visitors per day.
      I am certain that what I do is not what anyone here is doing. I have a proprietary system that I put together in the back-end of my sites that allows me to not only create my own spun content on the fly but to also incorporate product-specific information into each piece of content.
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  • Profile picture of the author risingrank
    @wolfmmii, even thought it is not a very clear picture of what you did but i think i got it.

    1. You spin the syndicated content
    2. You insert specific product information on to it.
    3. And just wonder if you build links to it...
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    • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
      Originally Posted by risingrank View Post

      @wolfmmii, even thought it is not a very clear picture of what you did but i think i got it.

      1. You spin the syndicated content
      2. You insert specific product information on to it.
      3. And just wonder if you build links to it...
      I don't use syndicated content. I create my own spintax that includes product-specific information. Each post targets a different product. I do not build links.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarvyDery
    I don't think so if you want to give your visitors the best of web content and also build a brand for yourself
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  • Profile picture of the author Dentist
    What I understand is if you have lots of duplicate content (of course it is better if they are original, I know that) with a good structure and correct tagging and categories with good external link and internal link structure you can get high PR even for almost everything duplicate. If you add some original articles once in a while, it is going to be better. All of what I said can be mostly automatic.
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