A while back I mentioned the word “autoblogging” on my website, which got several people confused. Autoblogging is not a blog about cars, although an “auto blog” may mean exactly that. Autoblogging is a term I use to describe automated blogs and automated blogging. In other words, instead of the usual method of writing the content yourself, or pasting articles from article sites manually, you can actually automate the content and linking for your blogs. What it takes is the correct mindset, the correct method and the correct tools.
1) The Mindset of An Autoblogger
Firstly, an autoblogger has to learn to manage expectations. No matter how good you get at autoblogging, you’re never going to produce high quality sites that attract a loyal fan-base using autoblogging methods. Nothing beats content that is original and written by a human being.
That being said, the wise autoblogger knows that all he really needs from one of his “autoblogs” is a few hundred to a few thousand visitors a month, and just one or two ways of turning those visitors into a profitable revenue stream.
If he can achieve this, his blog would be considered a success! He then moves on to a different blog, probably on a totally different topic or niche.
2) How To Blog Automatically
The method most people know is republishing content from RSS feeds. The only problem is that most of these people use the same RSS sources everyone else is using. They grab RSS feeds from news sites, PR sites and blog listings like Google’s Blogsearch or Technorati.
Needless to say, it doesn’t work very well. RSS is now a fully developed technology, and you’ll be surprised to find that forums, directories, regular websites and even online groups have their own RSS feeds. All you really need to do is figure out a concept for using these feeds, and then create your autoblog.
Besides using RSS feeds, articles are also a good way of adding content to your blogs. However, unless you’re doing this automatically, the amount of time spent copying articles and pasting them into your blog may not be worth your time.
Another autoblogging tactic is using data feeds from affiliate networks, and posting them into blog posts with your affiliate ID included. Unlike using RSS feeds from blogs, people don’t get annoyed when you do this.
3) Autoblogging Tools
Let start with the hosting. If you’re autoblogging, one blog is not enough. You’ll need to create and manage a handful of blogs at the same time. Therefore, you need some sort of reseller or VPS (Virtual Private Server) that can handle many domains and individual accounts for each blog.
Next comes the blogging platform. As far as autoblogging goes, nothing comes even close to Wordpress, an open-source blogging software that you can use on your own domains, and modify as you see fit.
One of the most important tools you’ll need is an “RSS feed aggregator” like or other similar software. An aggregator is the key to almost all autoblogging techniques, as most other applications like article posting and data feed posting requires it.
To expand your blog’s traffic exponentially, you’ll also need a language translator script installed on your autoblogs. Having this script will instantly multiply your traffic and earnings without any extra work on your part.
Lastly, you’ll also need a social bookmarking script that automatically submits your new blog posts to like Del.icio.us. Submitting you posts to social bookmarking sites is still a good way to get your blogs indexed and ranked in the search engines.
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Autoblogger = plaigarist or splogger. This type of stuff just clutters up the internet and makes it harder to find the real content.
For shame.
The debate of using RSS feeds is still ongoing. By right if you allow your content to be syndicated, then you’re allowing others to use it. The only issue is if they do not link back to the original post.
Technorati works the same way..
This is a common misunderstanding of “syndication.”
Newspapers pay for syndicated columns and articles.
Syndication doesn’t mean you allow others to use it as they will! Copyright still prevails.
For example, I have a CC copyright, which means people can in fact use my works for _Non-Commercial_ use. That means no ads.
I think that people who grab other people’s work and use it without permission as a way to make money are making a mistake.
And thanks for being willing to keep my comment in and discuss this!
I can see both sides of the argument. I am just happy that people care so much, no matter what side of the fence they’re on. Anyway, it’s topics like these that keep our comment boxes full.
i think autobloggers (or better know as sploggers), don’t really work anymore. If you just use simple rss feeds with a “dozen” words, google will sure ban that blog, and that is something of no worth at all!
I believe and practice that good content is the source to success.
Autoblogging? Should be called SpamBlogging. If your main purpose is to just repost what someone else has written and not provide any valuable original content, then you’re wasting our time.
Thanks for your opinions. However I see it as “content syndication” rather than spam. Older concepts like article directories also work the same way, by republishing other people’s content.
So if you’re wrried about copyright, use feeds from sites that willingly allow you to do so like articles sites, PR sites, news sites etc.
Can’t agree more gobala. If we use the reaction of Dave C., so we must tell that google news, yahoo news and msn news, are BIG BIG SPAMMERS, because what they use is just what autoblogging is.
Besides using RSS feeds, articles are also a good way of adding content to your blogs. However, unless you’re doing this automatically, the amount of time spent copying articles and pasting them into your blog may not be worth your time.
Another autoblogging tactic is using data feeds from affiliate networks, and posting them into blog posts with your affiliate ID included. Unlike using RSS feeds from blogs, people don’t get annoyed when you do this.
Hey there!
I am a similar point to make. I have a news website which takes (buys) syndicated news from news agencies. They are providing the data in XML files which they upload thru FTP on my server. This will need some way to autoblog and that will not be spamblogging.
However, can anyone help me out how I can do it automatically?
>social bookmarking script that automatically submits your new blog posts to like Del.icio.us.
Are there any good free ones – WordPress plugins that you can recommend?
Same goes for: a language translator script
Thanks!
I am just wondering if it works. Google doesn’t like duplicate content and there is posibility that such a site can get banned.
Hey, I am still wanting to know what scripts to use for my WordPress blog that does the language translating and the auto bookmarking!
>>social bookmarking script that automatically submits your new blog posts to like Del.icio.us.
Are there any good free ones – WordPress plugins that you can recommend?
Same goes for: a language translator script
Thanks!
There’s a free ebook about autoblogging at bloggerhigh.com
Thanks for the great information. But im still manual posting, i’ll learn how to post automatically gradually.
Autobloggering? it sounds so easy, but is that legal way?
thanks.
Why would it be illegal? And when did the ‘internet police’ come into being?
Cuing up posts for your blog is technically ‘autoblogging’. Assembling related stuff from other people’s publicly available rss feeds is autoblogging. How are any of these things ‘bad fro the internet’. I could go on…
Hi,
thats a great way to get the backlinks and new content, everything for google
Firstly, what exactly is WRONG with making money? Why is it such a “sin” to use whatever is legally and freely available to create an income for my family???
To add cc to one’s copyright is to say that anyone using your content for financial gain is lower than worm spit! How much more elitist can you get? Never mind that the content you provided is relevant and still beneficial to the readers of the blog to which it was syndicated! Never mind that sharing content from other writer’s is an excellent way to reach people with the information they need that they might not have understood from other authors? In other words, different viewpoints and ways of saying something will reach more people than only one way of thinking would. If some of my readers do not understand something I say or the way I say it, maybe they’ll understand it the way you say it, so I definitely want your voice on my blog as well, FOR MY READERS’ BENEFIT!
But there’s nothing wrong with me using my blog to make money AND provide a valuable service. Do you protest your local grocery store, shoe store, clothing store, etc., for carrying other people’s brands of products and making money off them???
If you all feel that way about autoblogs, then you’d better stop submitting your articles to article directories, because for all intents and purposes, it’s the same thing. The directory is making money, and most of the webmasters who take your content for their websites are doing the same thing.
But MORE IMPORTANTLY, they are providing valuable content for their readers. Isn’t THAT the whole idea?
I understand that there are some crap blogs out there with the sole purpose to make money and not to provide any real service. But Google recognizes them for exactly what they are and they never last long! They are no threat.
Autoblogging does NOT automatically translate to splogging. But it is a fantastic way to spread the wealth–OF KNOWLEDGE!
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Two more things… First, for you elitist types, I did not add those links in my post above. Apparently, profitblogger uses an inline text ad script. Just so ya know.
Second… duplicate content is NOT the issue everyone thinks it is. Google gets hinky about duplicate content ON YOUR OWN SITE… otherwise article directories would have gone down in flames years ago.
The dup content issue is more about being a competition filter than anything else. Google will index all incoming links to your site and use that to determine your ranking. BUT, after awhile, they will choose the link with the most weight (rank-wise) and eliminate all others that are duplicates.
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Yes I must say I agree completely with CJ I couldn’t say it better myself. There is a ton of hype out there about duplicate content and nobody really seems to understand the primary issue is with duplicate content on your own website. Easy to confuse, but misled never the less. Although there are still penalties I’m sure in place for duplicate sites, I also agree with her suggestion that this gets filtered out by the wayside. This may become an issue as these sites become more common but at this point in time it is not nearly the issue that everyone seems to think it is. I have seen some excellent autoblogs, and I’ve seen some less than worthy of being called a blog at all. It’s all in the way they are made and their content sources.
I thought about doing this but will stick to conventional methods. Don’t want google to bann me in the close future. Good comment for the people that want to do this, by the way.
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