Okay, so I found this page from some guy claiming to use autoblogs and make $3,000 a month. Quite curious I received the pdf file and started reading it. So in case anyone thought of what it might involve, here is a basic run down on it: 1)Get a domain name but keep it niche related and something that is searched for a lot in the search engines. 2)Get wordpress installed onto the domain and make sure you get a plugin called WP-O-Matic 3)Change link structure to %postname% 4)Use a free template 5) Change 'Uncategorized' to 'General' in categories and delete links from blogroll. Find a plugin called ddsitemapgen and install it. 6)In pages create a new page and call it 'Sitemap' and then go to HTML mode and add this line to the page: <!--ddsitemapgen--> Save page and you are done. 7)To get the blog full of content you need to use RSS feeds. Go to stumbleupon and sign up for an account. You only do it so you can get the stumbleupon toolbar. Go to Settings ->Preferences and select topic that relates to niche or close to your niche. 8)Now find blogs that you can find rss feeds from. You do this by clicking the stumblethru featured in stumbleupon toolbar and selecting blogspot blogs. Just click stumble and copy/paste the rss feeds into notepad till you have 200-300 rss feeds (well that depends on your niche I guess) 9)Add 2 feeds to WP-O-Matic and anything more than 2, you might encounter a bug where it will post the same post 9 times. So if you add 2 feeds at a time and the bug happens, its easier to delete duplicate content. Get posts with pictures and mix full posts with summaries from rss feeds. 10)It creates lots of pages and he gets 300 a week.Spread feeds to make it look natural. 11)He never tried integrating adsense since he has lots of sites using adsense but he hasn't heard anyone getting banned from this. 12) He used adbrite. Get your ads displayed right...usually a leaderboard ad on top of your blog and 2 times 250 x 250 ads on top of the post just after the post title. 13)Submit sitemap to google and your blog to globeofblogs.com + submit your rss feed to millionrss.com 14)Get free or paid traffic. Paid you get through etology and bid on $0.01 per visitor and free traffic you get through Reddit.com. He goes on to explain how to use Reddit.com to get 1k visitors easily in a day or something along those lines. So my question is...what do people think of autoblogs and about this method? Is it worth it? I think it could be dangerous to some degree, but I think if someone wanted to, they could use the same method and make a nice income if it is tweaked a bit. Some input would be appreciated. Regards, Sarah
Firsty these are not AutoBlogs WP-O-Matic is only an rss agregator, and you have to provide the feeds, which makes your blog an exact copy of other blogs, which is not that good for SERPs. 300 pages aweek is not that good for low traffic websites. Autoblogs are: Blogs that uses Caffeinated Content for example, which you just define the niche or keywords and it fetches articles from directories
Some good points bojomojo. The guy does state how to get the feeds for the blog. Personally, I have never dealt with RSS really except once ages ago. Even then, I think I had absolutely no idea what I was doing We know blogs using these principles will be copies, but hardly in the sense that every person will have the content your blog has since you choose your own niche, content and rss feeds. So in a realistic sense, yes the feeds are copies from original blogs, but let's say I had a blog about vampires and find rss feeds related to vampires...I guess you could say I won't just pull the first 100 feeds I can get on vampires. I am more likely to visit each feed's site and see what type of posts are done and choose feeds based on what I like. I don't think anyone in this world can predict which sites, feeds or what I will choose. Therefore, in effect wouldn't my site be like a news site almost. Most major news sites get their articles from other websites or write it themselves because they have freelance journalists etc. The sites that source their content from other sites do really well in terms of search engine rankings too. So I don't know... this is just an observation and I am not defending this person's tactics or anything. Just it has intrigued me, but on the point that I am almost tempted to try something similar, but there again I am not a typical sheep. I am the wolf here. I prefer to do what I want to and try out different tactics, perhaps similar, but not exact. I am familiar with caffeinated content. I researched it when it came out originally. I have heard good and bad things, but have yet to try it.
Thats not what I meant, now you have content, but when any one tries to search google or something for something similar, the original blog will show up, as it was the first one with this content, so for it its considered unique content, for you, its duplicate. Be aware because you might even face copyright issues
Yeah I guess you are right. >< I guess it's easier to work with PLR, unique content and articles from websites like ezinearticles.com
I have never used one of these systems, but there are a lot of them popping up lately for a simple reason. people are inherently lazy and they want to believe that they can be successful without doing the work..so when someone comes along that feeds that, a market is born. I think 2 years or so back, this method may have been very successful at one time, but there so many blogs scraping content based on old information of ease and success, that I can't imagine this method being effective anymore. Further more stealing other peoples content to populate your own website, without any original thoughts or content of your own, is just piracy. RSS feeds (that allow you to post on a website of blog) are offered as supplemental information for a related niche, they are not offered to be the content. No one wants their feed to be copied for someone elses ads. I don't see the difference between that and offering free music downloads of copy written material on a ad filled page. It's stealing someone elses content to make a dollar. It's never going to stop, there will always be people that spend more time trying to beat the system rather than put in the work, but increasingly these types of blogs are getting less and less weight in serps, so it is a waste of time. If you don't have time to do the work, why even start a blog in the first place....that's what a blog is..writing. There are so many different ways to make money online, I don't know why so many people concentrate so much on "blogs", when so may of them end up in the graveyard anyway, and the majority of bloggers (per capita) don't make a dime. There is no easy way to success, and every "guru" that is now selling his "methods"...you can best believe has already saturated the niche or pulled every dime from it. Nobody shows other people their "secrets" while they are still making a killing. The million dollar method is actually selling the product that promises easy riches, not the actual product itself. So in other words, do I believe that it is effective, no...but I will almost guarantee that very soon another new thread will be started asking bout Autoblogging software to go along with the other 100 that have already been answered. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to go to church.
LOL. That was quite funny internetmarketingiq I guess it's always better to ask him. In this day and age nothing is easy. If you want a good blog it takes time to get it right and on the right track. I am scouring for more blogging tips now actually. But then I was sidetracked by some great articles for my dieting blog and then I had to get them and now I am back to pondering life, the universe and blogging. oooo! That is a nice title for an ebook actually. "Life, the Universe and Blogging demystified." Or something along those lines. @hmansfield...you are absolutely right! People are inherently lazy. I am to a big degree but I think I have somehow lost my mojo as people call it I am fine with writing...I just can't seem to think what it is I should do. If someone asked I could easily tell you, but when I sit down to write I get distracted and start thinking about other things.
We all lose our mojo at times and find ourselves surfing rather than working. Something that has helped me (and I don't know it it will work in your niche) was to open one of my blogs to promotions. Ask people to send in niche related press releases, content and news to promote their product. It has actually changed the whole direction of the blog, and has started growing ever since...but even better, when I do have to come up with a post on a slow news day...I can because I haven't exhausted all of my ideas.
@hmansfield I agree WP-O-Matic can be considered piracy. But plugins such as caffeinated content, or the free UAW, these uses specific article directories built for that specific purpose.
I know, but what I don't understand is... that If you know the basic principles of blogging and SEO, why you would count on duplicate content, even if it is reworded..it still will say the same thing as 100 other sites. Have you ever searched for something and the on first page there were 5 or so articles, websites, squidoo lenses, or blog posts that matched, but each one of them was the exact same article using different words ? It doesn't do anything. It makes me not trust the validity of every single one of them because somebody copied from somebody else...if they are all saying the same thing with different words, how do I know which one to trust ? You don't and neither do consumers...they just move on because they smell a scam (even if it isn't) Now if you are doing this hoping to scrape from the bottom of the adsense pool, I understand the basic principle there as well (for some)...make it crappy, so they click on something hoping to find what they are really looking for, but if I were Google, why would I display my high paying ads on unoriginal content that can be found all over the web? Why would I rank a bot fed blog with the same words as so many others, just rearranged differently? Do people truly believe that today's SE bots are so stupid that they can't tell the difference between "Black car" and "Car black"? Do some really believe that they can beat Google at their own game (THE ONE THEY INVENTED !) and overpower duplicate content with SEO ? It just seems so futile to put all that energy into a blog, when you have no interest in writing. why not just build a landing page a do PPC, Article Marketing, SEO, Email marketing ? Eventually (and probably soon) you know that whatever little benefit you can still gain from this will be quashed by an algorithm update that sees right through it. Google has been pretty good at catching tricks, cheats, and black hatters in a continuing effort to return real results of pages with actual information...that's kinda what they do...they are a service provider and advertising medium, not a page rank and webmaster consortium. The odds are on the side of what is best for the consumer, not the webmaster, and that means beating all these little tricks that give users crappy results. Yet still, so many (mainly uneducated) people still keep putting so much effort into trying to trick a team of hundreds of the best programmers and mathematicians in the world instead of just doing the work. People keep saying that SEO is dead..no it's not....manipulating search results is dead. It's insanity.
nothing is 100% automatic even those autoblogs or ones who get their content from rss feeds if they wanna earn with their blog and not be punished by google for dublicate content then they have to do some content spinning and nothing does that better then the human eye , no article spinner alone would do the job and in my opinion stealing content is maybe bad in someways but almost everything has been atleast copied form somewhere so nothing wrong with using someone elses content if you change it to make it look original.
Probably the majority of the visitors to these scraper sites are the owners of the original content, checking on the trackback, and pretty pissed about their content getting stolen. Do you think they are going to click a Google ad? These idiots have forced me to embed a copyright notice at the start of each new post and in the excerpt. It looks like shit on my blogs but my content isn't stolen anymore.
i think the ones you are talking about are rss agregators, but autoblog plugins uses article directories to which submiters submit article for that purpose. But I agree, when i sometimes find my post being stolen it really heats up