I have set up an auto-blog at one of my domains. A lot of people say that they only last a bit until google catches on. Why is this? What is so bad about them? Are they really only short term money making solutions?
Hi funlol, I guess having an autoblog is challenging these days because you offer no uniqueness in it. However, although the all-mighty Google penalised duplicate content penalty - autoblogs still survive on the Net. @sultanofseo - a bit OOT - what about social bookmarking like Digg? It's - indirectly - duplicate a content when someone push a digg button on your blog post - will Google penaised it too? Cheers!
Yeah.. thats what I don't understand. It's not all duplicate content... and even if it is... if my site has higher PR than them, won't I win?
I suppose what they want to find is multiple types of results, at the same time the most relevant. If the first 5 results everytime you searched gave the exact same result, I would find that pretty annoying.
When you set up the auto did you expect it to rank well for a certain term in search. That would likely not happen. The issue with any auto blog set up is whats the end goal?
I just had an old domain with PR and lots of backlinks that was just sitting around. Trying to make something out of it.
I doubt it. Most blogs that recieve a lot of traffic are probably both unique content and get a good portion of traffic from search engines. Both of which autoblogging would not meet.
how can you say that google penalise your sites for duplicate content, is there any proofs, some peoples says if you rewrite some of the content you dont penalise, actually is this true?
yep. original content owns the net. as long as google spots duplicates, i guess its all over for your blog.
im testing it out now... ill let you guys know how it goes. right now, i'm getting a lot of backlinks from pingbacks. this could be good, but I won't get my hopes up yet