Autoblogging for beginners

Autoblogging for Beginners


Autoblogging is a term commonly used to describe a blog or website that has as much automation as possible. This means pulling in content that will post directly to your blog, pictures, videos and anything else you can find.



Then on the other side you can set your blog up to send these posts out to twitter, subscribers, RSS subscribers, digg and many other sources. This sounds very appealing to the beginner and experienced blogger alike.



The whole theory behind auto blogging is, throw as much content on the wall as you can and see what sticks. Ok, to someone looking for online income this still sounds like a good deal. Set it up and let it churn away, then move on to the next one.



These types of sites are labeled as "Little Cash Machines", the formula is build 100 of these sites, average $2.00 a day and that adds up to $200.00 a day...$6,000.00 a month. This looks really attractive and if after you make all these sites you don't have to do anything else, this looks even better.



Now, we always have to ask ourselves, if this is that easy why don't we all just make 200 or 300 of these sites, collect the $12,000.00 a month and enjoy life? The next question is, is anyone really making this kind of money from auto blogging?



On the expense side, it's easy to add up. Lets say $20.00 a month for hosting, $10.00 per domain and $25.00 misc.. All this equals $2,540.00 a year. Now, based on 200 domains the income is $12,000.00 a month, which equals $148,000.00 a year of income. Sounds like a darn good investment to me.



Lets take a closer look at both sides of the coin, that way we can get a better understanding about how autoblogging does or does not work.









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•AutoBlogged - Premium WordPress AutoBlogging Plugin

AutoBlogged is a premium WordPress plugin that automatically creates WordPress blog posts from RSS feeds and Atom feeds. It is an automated content generator for your WordPress blog.

•WordPress Plugins

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Autoblogging Pros

You probably already know that Wordpress is the most popular platform used for blogs. It has a lot of functionality and this is extended with the use of plug-ins.



Lets look at a few.



UAW - They will give you a plug-in for free. What's the catch? There is none, you have complete control over how many articles you get, the categories you want and do you want it to post automatically or store the article in a draft form. In my experience, the articles are not bad and like any syndicated article you have to leave the link(s) in the articles.



Auto Blogged -This creates posts from RSS or Atoms feeds. This is a little more complicated because you have to find the feeds that fit your subject. Then you have quite a few options to modify the feeds with, here's a few:





•Image and video support

•Custom post templates

•Advanced post filtering

•Enhanced tagging engine

•Regular Expression Search & Replace

•Create thumbnails for images

•Override feed data with your own values

•Fully supports WordPress 2.7 and later

Wordpress Lite - You will find a few free plug-ins from the wordpress site. They mainly pull and post RSS feeds from places you choose. I have used the lite version for about 4 months and it did what it was suppose to do.



There are other tools and plug ins that can be used to pull articles from specific article directories, the most common article directory these tools pull from is article base.



As you can see, there are a number of tools and scripts available for autoblogging, you can mix and match them to get a ton of posts on your site. As mentioned, some of the articles are not bad at all, but as you can imagine there is another side to this story.



Take a look at this video. if your new I won't expect you to understand much of the video, but it gives you a quick idea of what happens behind the scenes. Then will look at the flip side of this process.









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Autoblogging Cons

If your the one making $12,000.00 a month from autoblogging, then you have overcome the cons of auto blogging, Congratulations.



For this system to work you have to get these sites ranked. This means you have to get these sites on the first page of Google, Yahoo or Bing. Yahoo and Bing are almost non factors, but every little bit helps.



Most people use adsense or affiliate products to make money with. These don't require customer services and it fits with the autoblogging profile. So your still waiting for the negative side of this plan, the big question is, how do you get on the first page of Google?



That's a big question alright. I will list some of the factors, then you will see it's not as easy as it sounds. You need to ....



•Pick the Right Niche

•Choose the Right Domain

•Get Good Keywords

•Find Good Affiliate Products

•Find Right Articles and RSS Feeds

Here's some things they don't tell you.



What happens when...



•Your Subject Trends Out of Favor?

•Your Keywords Change?

•Your RSS Feeds Outrank Your Site?

•The Feed Articles are Syndicated to Sites That Outrank Yours?

•Google Changes Their Algorithms?

You see, the problem is your dependent on Google. Google is smart, they know what's going on and you could lose most or all of your online income over night.



Don't you think there are other people trying to get on page one of Google too? What will you have to do to get your website above theirs?



I will say, the answers to the above questions is a fascinating subject in itself. It is a challenge and if you find it intriguing I fully understand. Now, you've got to be thinking, there has to be a less complicated way to make money online, there is.



In fact, more people are looking for ways to make online income for the long term. The real key is to understand what steps are necessary to reach the goal you want. If this is the direction your looking for, then long term online income is for you. Take a look now!

The source of the above information.  http://hubpages.com/hub/Autoblogging-Pros-and-Cons