I would never promote CB products with an autoblog. With autoblogs, you are republishing other people's content without their permission and using it to make money. It takes just one overzealous person to report your CB ID to Clickbank and get your account canned when they see the proof of the underhand methods that have been used to gain traffic. No thanks. Same reason why Adsense don't like autoblogs either.
Basic sound principle is still "Building your own list" When you have a list, you can easily market solid CB product to them.
Occasionally, i had someone people emailing me because their articles appeared on one of my autoblogs. You know what, NO PROBLEM! The person(s) asked me politely to keep their link, and i happily did. Win-Win situation! I could keep the article and the other person got a backlink from my site(s)! Please note that there is no "bad" intention with an autoblog - what those blogs pull can hardly be controlled. If some person emails me to remove their articles, i will certainly comply. But as said..some polite conversation can go a long way, and at the end everyone can profit Please, please...don't be naive. If you put an article of yours (this applies to MY OWN articles also!) on EZA, GoArticles, AB etc....they will always go viral sooner or later an appear on many other places on the web. It would be absurd to put an article on a public site like EZA and then act all surprised if the article appears anywhere else on the web! Then please do not put your articles on EZA, GA, AB in the first place. Hundreds, maybe thousands of other people use those sites to get content, there is a reason why they're called "article mills". Another reason to put content on such sites is actually that you can expect your article (with the link!) going viral and to appear on other sites - this is a benefit, not a disadvantage because your article gets more exposure. Also..you use the term "underhand methods". From that point of view every spun and re-used article anywhere on the web, every link-wheel and every re-write of an article would be an "underhand method to gain traffic" <--- Here is the Ezine articles TOS: http://www.ezinearticles.com/author-terms-of-service.html An author gives implicit permission that his articles get republished (!) - but the articles can not be altered of course and links need to be intact. If you, as a publisher, comply to TOS there is *nothing* which deserves the term "underhand method". Re-Publishing on other sites is already implicated if you submit an article (see TOS) - but of course it cannot be "illegal" sites like warez sites etc.
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