@longblog If they(google) starts seeing a large quantity of domains being splogs that they are removing from their index, then yes, I would imagine they would simply remove your hosted IP's from the index. I know they have done this in the past with massive amounts of BANS sites owned by spammers.
Nope, you just don't know how to take an autoblog to the next level...If you think autoblog is just a crap blog pulling rss content from other site, yeah it's a spam blogs and will be banned from google eventually. i don't mean to promote my blog, but here's an example of my autoblog: http://xbox360smartfix.com i'm sure even google won't see it as an autoblog, it's even better than any legit blog out there, the content is scraped from article directory and yahoo answer. Duplicate content is a myth, even a duplicate content copied from original source will be rank higher on search engine if the duplicated content has more backlinks and higher pagerank.
I'm pretty sure that duplicated content is a myth, I've been scraping content from articlesbase with some wordpress plugin and put some backlinks to my autoblog. The result is the scraped content on my blog is ranked higher than the original article. Google only care about pagerank when checking the duplicate content. And as long as google index your autoblog and you have nice interlinking structure between autoblog and web 2.0 properties like squidoo, your autoblog will be profitable.
I've played around with all sorts of duplicate content and in all cases where the content has a copyright owner the content is eventually downgraded in Google. Doesn't matter if it's thin affiliate content running from a datafeed like Amazon provides or auto blogged from various rss feeds, it's eventually downgraded (usually within 3 months). I'm quite good at getting organic SERPs and the faster I get good rankings, faster the sites go down: victim of my own success!! I've tried hosting the images from product based datafeeds, NOT linking to the products of product based datafeeds (so can't make an affiliate sale, so just the content), no images at all, using various language translations of the content, editing the content in a semi-automated way (search and replace sort of stuff) and other ways to try to make the content more unique. Every time to date it's been filtered. I noticed your example site is about a month old and for long tail SERPs is beating content from Yahoo Answers for example, got any that's well over a year old (since adding the duplicate content) that still doing well**? I expect your site will loose it's traffic by this time next year (probably a lot sooner). **When I say doing well I don't mean a 50,000 page site that receives a few hundred visitors a day, with 50,000 unique pages of content a site should be in the thousands of unique visitors a day with only minimal on page SEO/backlinks. Wish I was wrong, I could retire on those types of sites IF they ranked without ever being downgraded. Not saying you can't make money from these types of sites, but it's not as easy as it used to be. At one point I was making well over $200 a day from sites running Amazon stores (combination of Amazon sales and AdSense revenue). Only made about 20 Amazon stores on a dozen domains to achieve that as well, same stores today I'm lucky to make $200 a month and a lot of that is thanks to click thru traffic from my unique content! Good news at least is playing around with this sort of site hasn't damaged my unique content sites, so far anyway, after I realised they all go down I only make them to test ways to get around duplicate content filtering. I have a feeling if I made hundreds of them my important sites would go down as well due to linking from them for SEO reasons (not worth the risk). Would love to be proved wrong on this one. David Law
Well, I see that you're way more experienced than me in SEO and duplicate content things, and I might be end up like you when my autoblogs filtered by google... But what I do is just build more and more autoblog...I don't care if 1 or 2 blog getting deindexed, cause it's normal for google to de-index autoblog. What can I do is just add more value to my autoblog so it'll looks like a real blog run by human. And yeah, with some little SEO work and interlinking autoblog with web 2.0 properties, these autoblogs ranked fast in google and give me some decent income from adsense and affiliate sales. Have you ever seen http://techchuck.com? that's the best autoblog in the world IMO...it's been around for a long time and the content is only pulled from rss feed of other site and full of duplicated content...google never banned this site and it's ranked well in google and get massive traffic everyday. So, I believe google won't ban autoblog even it as duplicated content as long as the blog give valuable information for visitor. Not just an made for adsense site. Mm..you said that most of your site with duplicate content filtered by google, but have you ever try to mix a duplicate content with unique content on 1 site? Is it getting filtered too?
I'm going to buy about 30 .info domains and try some auto blogs. It sounds like I might still be able to make money.
On a large autoblog/datafeed site (can be 50,000+ pages in no time) it will be well indexed (large sites are no longer fully indexed in Google, so won't be all pages), but as soon as the rankings start to drop (the filtering) so will a lot of the pages from Google: so you'll go from 10,000+ pages indexed to well under 1,000 and those pages won't rank well! Interestingly there's always a small percentage of pages left indexed on these sites/sections. I've tried mixing unique with original, well to an extent anyway, I'll have a unique site and add a section that's duplicate (Amazon store for example) and the unique will rank well and the duplicate section will be filtered. I have one site with about 10 unique articles and 10s of thousands of posts from Google news and the unique articles rank quite well and the Google news pages rank terribly. So Google is automatically filtering the duplicate content and ranking the unique content on it's merits. Most people I speak with who are into these types of sites a lot more than I am report the same sort of thing and those who use them as a major part of their money making plans use them as throw away sites, basically promote them until they are filtered, while always creating lots of new sites like these to replace the filtered ones. David Law
No you don't see my point on calling autoblogs spamblogs. The question you should ask is, can you call the content you are pulling and publishing yours? Have you ask Google on their stance on the issue or is everything PURE speculation? I'd like to see some proof that an autoblog is not a spamblog (which is basically a site full of duplicate content) from google's pages itself thank you very much. And oh yeah, the owner of the content can send a DMCA to your host due to duplicate content too
I think you've got it all wrong...What i mean by duplicate content is not stealing content from other blogs but scrape from free content directory like ezinearticles, articlesbase, isnare, or yahoo answer. You can copy content from their site freely as long as you keep the resourcebox. And you can rank higher than their site on SERP if your blog has more baclink than original articles. Of course you can also rank higher with stolen content but I won't do that for now. No, it's not speculation, I've read "Google Best Practice Guide", It's said that with their curent algorythm google define the original content from pagerank and how many backlink pointed to the content. So, if you copy content from low pagerank blog and publish it in your high pagerank blog, there is a higher chance that google will see your content as original CMIIW...