Hey, I've been looking around this forum this morning (and maybe night for some of you guys *shrug*, but I stumbled across someone saying about setting up an automated blog. How does one do this? I am really not interested in purchasing a service or something - and saving drafts takes too long. But what techniques are there to follow to make this happen? I'm just curious, not really pressed to do it. I like writing blogs, so it's no big deal. But to generate a few more dollars in Adsense, I'd like to know. Any free scripts, techniques you guys could shoot me would be awesome. Thanks!
Im not too sure my self, But I think it is just grabbing RSS feeds. I wouldn't recommend doing thts because google will notice the double content,
*big grin* Automated blogs use plugins that automatically (with a cronjob) fetch RSS feeds from news aggregators and publish them in your own blog, therefore creating content and occasionally pinging various blogs to attract traffic. As for the revenue, I have no idea, but as soon as it gets indexed, it should receive some. I haven't kept any automatic blog enough to see the evolving revenue, but I've seen some fellow DP-ers saying they eventually pay off, especially if you have many of them.
There are plugins available that allow you to effectively use RSS feeds with WordPress, thus automating your blog. You should really write your own unique articles, or pay someone to write one. It's much better that way, and Google will love you
I figured that it was some sort of RSS scraper thing. I enjoy writing my own content, but I was just wondering what the deal was with it. Thanks you guys for all of your information! It was enlightening.
I did this as a test case some what on a server. I had created a cPanel plugin to WHM that would run a few bash scripts to create the wordpress blog itself. At the same time it also of course enabled the rss plugin and such. The script worked as such you specified a blog name, the rss category and finally the # of random feeds you wish to receive. It would then setup a subdomain on the account, run the bash scripts and finally put the rss feeds into the database. It also internally stored some things in a global database to know where the blogs were installed and things of that nature. At the end of it all it ended up being able to generate thousands of blogs (I generated 5000) with various name and content. But it didn't do to well in terms of revenue whether that was the lack of pinging or updating of content I'm not entirely sure. But it had 150,000 pages indexed by google but probably none being ranked high due to the fact they were all subdomains.
yeah i have a blog with alot of RSS feeds that scrape some relevant content. it works fine , but handpicking is alot better just use digg-post-to-blog and that sort of stuff . but if you want black hat Blog scraping then you can consider RSS , google wont be that troubled by it if you have more blog posts on one page so that the duplication algo wont get you busted then add a little backlink on each page to your own to create alot of worthless backlinks and maybe rise 2 places in the SERPS
Ehhh... Not a big fan of automating everything. When you do that, what is the visitor's motivation to return to your site? I know the formula_build 2000 blogs, and make 50 cents a day off of each one. But to me, that's short-term, and eventually that business model will go *poof*. I think folks are better served building a blog or 2 and giving it some time. Build up your readership, and you'll see the rewards down the road.
I've tried it on a couple different subjects, including military jetplanes and legos, of all things. Neither one worked out very well. I think a good blog really needs return visitors, and really who is going to bookmark a automated blog and return to read it later?
automated blog is free to build; get wordpress + smartRSS/feedwordpress and find feeds to fill, then you are done but it may not get ranking advantage in SE anyway, I personally prefer to build blogs slowly; honestly it will yield best result with slow growth
Ive done this with some success.. Have a Wordpress blog , a 3rd party rss import that exports to the Wordpress blog and custom code that first looks up a list of words to replace in the file and today im adding another tool which pulls out the content , makes it unique magically and pushes it to wordpress , excellent! At the moment its making about $15 a day so Im thinking of replicating to lots more domains when i have time!
Let's put it this way.. I was making an average of $3-$5 off my automated blogs.. (using WP-Autoblog plugin)
Hi John_M , both are custom code. One I had coded for me , the other I purchase here and integrated with custom code. Cheers!
Curious, but why are you saying "I was making"? Does it not work anymore or is your domain or account banned or something?