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Autoblogging Biggest Mistake To Avoid

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People usually put the blame on the system or the software when their Internet marketing efforts fails to take off. One of the more controversial subject is that of with regards to autoblogging.

 Is this technique outdated or obsolete?  Should you avoid or abandon this Internet marketing strategy?  If it is a proven money making model then why is it that majority of bloggers hardly make any money from it?

Did you know that most auto-bloggers unknowingly set themselves up for failure simply due to one careless mistake which even sometimes the  expert bloggers also made?

The biggest mistake that many auto blogger made is they pick the wrong niche to begin with. For instance, you practically stand no chance of making money, not even a single dime if you go for extremely competitive niche such as weight loss, hair loss or forex robot trading to name a few.

You should focus your automated blogging efforts towards targeting specific products and drill down  to the product brand name. For instance, if you know of a dog trainer  product by the name "XYZ", then configure your autoblogs to target on that product brand name and not the wider niche market such as dog training.

Why Aren't You Making Money With Autoblogging

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You were extremely excited about the autoblogging software which everyone talks about. You decided that its time for you to invest in that software product; You are convinced that it will generate online profit quickly.

You were being told or rather sold the idea that autoblogging can make you cash rich very quickly, all without having to spend much time to set it up and maintain it. After all, isn't this supposed to be a configure and forget system that the product sales page hypes on repeatedly throughout the sales promotion campaign of the software.

Days passed and you realized you have not earn a single dime from the blogs created using the auto blogging that software that you purchased. You are pretty sure that you have follow the instructions outlined in the software product guide. You start to wonder why aren't you making money with Autoblogging.

Truth to be told, there is no such thing as a completely hands off Internet marketing system that will generate recurring online income for you indefinitely. Autoblogging software is after all just a productivity tool that helps you to cut down the amount of work  to maintain a blog.

Here's the kicker. Most Internet marketing software becomes obsolete as soon as it hits the market. Why is that so? Who in their right mind would ever want to disclose and sell a money making software to the mass market? The answer is that no one and I mean no Internet marketer would ever be so generous.

Chances are that some of these Internet marketers has already earn huge profit by using their software and as time goes by, the effectiveness of it becomes less apparent when Google figure out the loopholes that these Internet marketing software leverage on and plug the hole.

That is the time these people starts to push their software to the market in the hope that this will help them to generate last drip more money before the software becomes totally ineffective or obsolete completely as Google and other money paying entities begin to tighten or change payment criteria and etc.

Auto-blogging software in particular has always been under Google's radar. Suffice to say, there are indications that Google hates autoblogs because there are just simply too many of them which do not provide unique content but rather re-publish and post duplicate contents from other sites.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) algorithm and search engine ranking criteria changes all the time. SEO mechanism that is implemented in autoblogging software easily becomes ineffective when the big search engine guys change the SERP (Search Engine Result Page ) ranking criteria.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE SYSTEM AND NOT JUST THE SOFTWARE
Can you truly make money with Autoblogging? The answer is of course certainly a YES!. Then you might wonder why aren't you making money via this method?  Chances are that your autoblogs lacks targeted traffic . If people can't locate your blogs in the  top of the search engine result page then chances are that your autoblogs will not receive much attention and therefore little or no traffic (visitors)

DO THIS FIRST - NICHE MARKET AND KEYWORD RESEARCH
The first thing that you need to do in any of your Autoblogging campaign is that you must determine what niche market to target as well as the right keywords to use. If you skip or ignore this important step then you will not make any money even with using the latest and greatest autoblogging software.

Autoblogging Software Platform - Desktop Versus WP Plug-in

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There are many auto-blogging software in the market. The price for these software automation tools varies. Certainly for the different pricing, you would expect varied features among these auto blogging software.

In a nutshell auto-blogging software platform can be categorized into 2 distinct type namely desktop autoblogging software and WP Plug-in assisted autoblogging. (WordPress). A typical desktop autoblogging software is Autoblog Samurai. A typical WordPress plug-in assisted auto-blogging software is CB Auto.


If you have never use any autoblogging software or implement autoblogs for that matter and you intend to invest in one then it is essential that you know the difference between these two and the impact it has on your auto-blogging success. You will then be in a better position to determine which of these is best for you.

This type of autoblogging software runs on your computer desktop or notebook. You need to install this software on your computer machine first (with connection to the Internet of course).

Launch the desktop autoblogging application program that you have successfully installed in your computer. The application serves as a command & control center of which you will be able to manage easily the contents and postings for tens or even hundreds of blogs.

You configure the source of the content for your blogs through this software. Most of these type of software allows you to choose a combination of source of content to extract based on the keywords that you specify.

The autoblogging application will extract relevant content associated with the keywords you configured to aggregate data from combination of RSS feeds, video, image and articles from ezine directories, ClickBank product reviews, Amazon product reviews and PLR materials.

Once the application has imported and gathered the information from the sources that you have specified, it will then 'push' the extracted contents into the blog that you have configured via the CMS (content management system).

In essence, this type of autoblogging application serves as a front end to automate the process of content filtering,content aggregation from RSS feeds and other sources as well as scheduling of content posting.

Some of these type of software include add on features such as auto content spinning or content rewriting capability if you wish to generate unique content from articles that are extracted from other sources.

The main ADVANTAGE with desktop style autoblogging software is that it provides a single point of control, dubbed the configuration management system where you can manage all your blog posts and content.

You can easily change and reconfigure the sources of contents, enable or disable auto spinning of articles for any specific blog that you include in your configuration management system,manual or auto define tags and etc.

The main SHORTCOMING with this type of autoblogging platform ( desktop application) is that you need to install this on a computer with has connection to the Internet and make use of the services provided by the application software to pull contents  from other sources (other websites), parse it based on the keywords, tags and etc and then forward it to your blogs configured to accept remote posting from the application.
Your blogs will eventually run of of fresh content to publish when all the scheduled articles for posting that are remotely send by the autoblogging software are exhausted. Thus you need to run the autoblogging application to pull in new imported contents and 'push' it to your blogs.

As the name implies, this type of autoblogging software is only applicable for Wordpress powered blog. In contrast to standalone autoblogging software (desktop application), Wordpress autoblogging plug-in has the added advantage that aggregated contents are extracted from other websites and published to your blogs directly without having to go through intermediate stage such as that with standalone autoblogging software.

The main ADVANTAGE
One advantage with using Wordpress autoblogging plug-in is that once you have set up and configure the autoblogging plug-in you can pretty much leave it to do the job of posting content indefinitely.

This is in direct contrast with desktop autoblogging software where you need to run the application to scrape new fresh content from other sites and 'push' it to the blogs for scheduled posting,
Furthermore, Wordpress is the most popular and widely deployed blogging platform so you can be assure that your investment in autoblogging plug-in will pay off.

The main SHORTFALL
You have to manage the autoblogging settings by per Wordpress blog and this is going to be very cumbersome particularly if you need to deal with tens or even hundreds of blogs.

The MYTH - SINGLE PUSH BUTTON AUTOPILOT AUTOBLOGGING SYSTEM
A completely hands off single push button autopilot business blogging system that you have told will rakein huge amount of profit simply does not exist at all. Even the most advanced autoblogging system would require you to spend time to focus on keyword research, domain name and blog set up, backlink and list building and etc.

How To Configure Your Auto-blog To Generate Traffic

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One common mistake that many Internet Marketing newbie make is buy new money making online software tools now and then in the hope that it will one day make them rich without having to work hard for it.

The cold hard truth is that there is no such thing as a single push button money generating Internet marketing tool; there never was and there will never be. Just a few years ago auto-blogging is seen as the ultimate single push button moneymaking strategy.

A lot publicity and false impression such as that you only need to establish and configure your auto-blog once and after that you can leave it to generate traffic indefinitely all without you having to lift a finger.

Well, yes of course you can indeed establish a blog and configure it just once to run on auto pilot; don't expect to make good money using such easy way out method though. You may wonder why?


Irrelevant RSS Feeds
One of the main sources of content that most auto-blog extract from is the RSS feeds. Do not assume that all RSS feeds are alike. Searching for appropriate RSS feeds takes a lot of time. Some RSS feed from websites cover diverse topics and you certainly do not want to end up extracting irrelevant contents to publish on your auto-blogs.

Thus it is important to choose auto-blogging software that support the filtering of RSS feeds based on keywords. If the auto-blogging software that you used do not support filtering of keywords, you will have to manually sort through the articles, remove those irrelevant feeds and then schedule the publishing of the filtered articles in your auto-blogs

Either way, the important thing is that you need to ensure your auto-blogs publish only contents that are relevant to your niche blog theme.

Google Panda 2.2 Update - Impact To Auto-blogging

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You may have read the recent news by Google's Matt Cut, head of web spam team on ongoing revised spam efforts in what is term Google's Panda 2.2 update. In a nutshell, it signals Google's determination to deal with spam of all sorts, to penalize and reduce the page ranking of sites that copy contents from other websites with little or no unique contents on its own.

It seems that Google is committed to deploy more manpower resources to scan and index some of the web pages via human inspection. Webpages that are confirm by the spam team through manual random inspection as being scrapping content from other sites will receive penalty while those found to publish original contents will receive a hit (bonus) point which count towards increase page ranking.

Google's Panda Update 2.2 has profound impact on auto-blogging sites. Does that mean you shouldn't even consider auto-blogging moving forward? Well it depends on what your expectations are with regards to auto-blogging.

One very likely possible scenario is that do not expect auto-blogging sites to rank high, not unless you take necessary steps and precautions  to retouch or rewrite the articles imported or extracted from other websites. There is no absolute way to determine if Google is capable of differentiating contents that are spin or rewritten versus original content.

In any case, it still make sense from productivity standpoint to implement auto-blogging sites (since it would be extremely time consuming to manually update fresh and original content on tens or even hundred of websites )  but only on sites that you are not expecting to build your list of customers or leads.

You should always maintain or more websites and blogs that you wish to establish as long term brand of your business. You have to make sure you publish original contents or give due credit and recognition to articles that you extract from others and re-publish on your site. Never implement auto-blogging in these main critical websites.

Autoblog Samurai Review Part II

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This is my 2nd follow up review on Autoblog Samurai software. To recap what I have covered in the previous post, Autoblog Samurai is basically an autoblogging software developed by Paul Donna.

Some people assume that autoblogging is some form of lazy way to make money from the Internet. There are many ways to make money online. By no means is auto blogging consider a lazy way.

The key benefit of this product is that it allows a blogger to build and maintain niche blogs with minimal efforts and time. In a nutshell autoblogging encompass the ability to publish articles and materials pull from other websites without user intervention.

In a way, you can see it as building a niche blog that aggregate relevant contents from various sites. Don't get the wrong notion that autoblogging is any form of SPLOGS (spam blogs). On the contrary, when done properly, niche blogs managed through Autoblog Samurai can turn into authoritatives sites.

One of the biggest false notion and wrong perception that people have with regards to autoblog Samurai is that many thinks it is the holy grail of blog marketing which allows you to earn huge income on autopilot.

This is far from the truth. Autoblog Samurai helps in term of automating content publishing however you still need to work on getting your site to rank on as high as possible in the search engine result page.

For that reason, autoblog Samurai comes bundled with a generous package of video training guides on various Internet marketing techniques such as how to get traffic fast, extreme SEO training, ultimate article marketing, press release marketing, social bookmarking techniques, effective video marketing techniques, software traffic marketing, web 2.0 traffic, corporate link building strategies and last but not least the ultimate traffic bootcamp training.

Paul Donna also include tons of Wordpress and Blogger training videos that is valuable to both beginners and advance bloggers. The training package alone is worth thousands of dollars. You are guarantee to get your money worth with Autoblog Samurai . This is one of the product that I will strong recommend to those who wish to make money online via blogging.

AutoblogSamurai Review Part I

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What's the deal with autoblogging
If your main online business model involves blog marketing or you are a niche blogger than autoblogging is something that you must consider as it will offload you from the daily time consuming tasks of preparing contents for publishing.

In a nutshell autoblog Samurai is a software that automates content publishing. You select any Blogger or Wordpress blog that you wish to configure to post contents on autopilot, the source of the contents such RSS feeds of selected websites and blogs, contents from Private Label Rights (PLR) articles and other social web media sites.

Once you have setup and configure necessary parameters such as the source of the contents and the frequency of posting, you can pretty much leave it alone to auto publish contents indefinitely, all without further user intervention. It is a some sort like a fire and forget system.

The more niche blogs you have the more money you can potentially make via blogs that are consistently updated with fresh quality contents that helps to address people's wants and needs.

You can't be a one man show all the time
It is just simply not possible for you to get everything done alone by yourself. Of course when you first enter into the foray of Internet marketing and online business with tight budget constraint then no doubt you have to do most of the work by yourself.

Work hard is not good enough!
Nowadays it is no longer enough to work hard. More importantly you need to work smart. There is only so much you can do with regards to niche blogging. You can outsource content publishing and management to third parties but you will have to spend a fortune to outsource such tasks.

I know there are many autoblogging software in the market and some are even free. So you may wonder why you should consider a premium autoblogging software such as Autoblog Samurai.

You are in the business to make money!
The primary reason that you get involved with niche blogging is to earn money and to do it using the least amount of effort without compromising the quality of the niche blog.

Content is king
Content is king. If your niche blog contains little or no useful information then don't expect it to make any money because there will be little or no traffic. No traffic means no customer and and no customer means no sales and that equates to no money.

In order to make money from your niche blog, you need to ensure it ranks as high as possible in the search engine ranking position (SERP). Consistent and frequent quality content published in a blog will draw more visitors as well as search engines to index and improve its ranking.


Over here I will give an honest review on why I think Autoblog Samurai is one of the best automation tools which you should consider if you are a niche blogger. Unlike many other affiliate marketers who do not purchase and use the product, I will show proofs that I actually use it and what I think about the pro cons in a no holds bar honest review.

What Do You Get With This Software Product
It is a 3-In-1 software that comprises 1)Wordpress Samurai, 2)Blogger Samurai and 3)Content Samurai (Keyword Samurai)
The Wordpress Samurai and Blogger Samurai are bundled together in the same software application. The Content Samurai comprises the keyword analysis tool namely Keyword Samurai.

Benefit Number 1 (Multi blogging software platform)
Autoblog Samurai is the ONLY autoblogging software that supports both Wordpress as well as Blogger software platform. Most autoblogging software such as multipress autoblogging plugin supports Wordpress only.

You may wonder what's the big deal? It's a lot of big deal because you want to set up as many niche blogs without having to incur additional capital investment and cost to setup new domains, hosting accounts and etc.

Even though a domain name may cost less than 10 dollars a year to renew and web hosting service is getting cheaper by the years, the numbers could add up significantly if you intend to establish a dozen or more niche blogs.

Blogger is a free blogging service. You don't need to apply for any domain name nor do you need to worry about web hosting. You can set up a blog in Blogger as fast as in within 5 minutes record breaking time!.

Further more, Blogger offer an important feature that allows you to redirect your blogger blogspot domain (where your blog is hosted in blogger domain) to your own domain!.

For eg. if you have a blog at www.myblog.blogspot.com, you can configure Blogger to redirect it to another domain, for instance www.mydomain.com.
When someone click at www.mydomain.com, it will be redirected to your blog which is still hosted by Blogger!. Pretty cool isn't it?

Another caveat is that Blogger is own by Goggle and you have the added advantage of being able to get your niche blog hosted by blogger to get index and rank quickly by Goggle search engine.

Benefit Number 2 (Pull content from various sources)
This is where Autoblog Samurai shines and which makes it a cut above against the rest of the autoblogging software you could find in the market. Firstly you can configure the software to pull contents from a variety of sources such as article directories, RSS feeds, product review sites such as Amazon and ClickBank and Private Label Rights (PLR) articles.

Do some keyword research about the niche topic that you want to target and then just input the keyword into Autoblog Samurai. The software will automatically pull relevant contents pertaining to the keyword you specified from the sources that you have configured. It couldn't be easier than that!

If you think that is all this software got to offer than you are dead wrong! It doesn't stop there. Autoblog Samurai allows you to import videos from You-tube and place it anywhere within the rest of the blog content.

Benefit Number 3 (Multi-language support)
This is another cool feature that allows you to create autoblogs in different languages!. You can expect traffic and backlinks to your niche blogs to increase significantly as more people of different origin and language access your blog.


Content Spinning (Unique Content Generation)
The possible impact of content duplication is one main concern that people has with autoblogging. Even though Goggle will not penalize any website for publishing contents extracted from other sources (with the condition that you acknowledge the originator or source of the content), neither will your web page gain any benefit from improve page ranking.

This is because Goggle is known to index and improve the ranking of the site which it deem the originator of the source of the content.
One way to deal with duplicate content is by using an article spinner or article rewriter to rewrite the content so that it becomes a unique article from the search engine perspective.

Autoblog Samurai multi-language translation support can be use as an article spinning tool in the sense that an article can be tranlated multiple times from one language to another language and back to the required language. Each translation would result in the article becoming more unique.

Why You Should Consider Autoblogging

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One important secrets about successful Internet marketing is that you don't put all your eggs in one basket so to speak. By that I mean you should not depend on only one single website or blog to promote all your products or services.

What would happen if your one and only website or blog suddenly gets ban by your ISP for any reasons? You risk losing your only source of livelihood if you don't have any other websites or blogs to generate alternative source of income isn't' it?

Creating multiple source of stream of income by means of having multiple blogs or websites dealing with different products and services is simply working smart so to speak. After all, the the more blogs you have, the more opportunity it is for you to generate traffic and sales.

A product or service may not be popular and in constant demand all the time. In today's fast paced environment, a product can easily become obsolete or become outdated due to economical and technological changes. You should promote products which are competitive and in good demand as well products which shows increasing trend of popularity.

Traffic is the lifeline of any online business. You will have a hard time in making sales if there is no traffic to your website or blog. One of the best ways to improve your blog or website search engine ranking position and therefore improving traffic is by keeping your blog updated with fresh quality contents as frequently as possible. Search engine robots or crawlers will index and rank a blog favorably if it is frequently updated with good quality fresh contents.

Unless you are a gifted writer or you intend to outsource article writing for your blog posts, it can be time consuming and challenging for you to keep your blogs updated with fresh quality contents. Could you imagine the amount of time you need to spend to prepare good quality contents for tens or even hundreds of blogs.

Imagine a system which you can leverage on that support the automatic preparation and publishing of fresh quality contents for all your blogs, all without your intervention. Such a system will increase your productivity and free you from the arduous time consuming tasks of running tens or even hundreds of your blogs.

If you have multiple blogs to maintain or if you intend to expand your online business by means of creating more blogs then autoblog Samurai system is the perfect solution for you!. It is one of the most advanced and most user friendly autoblogging software.

Autoblog Samurai is a true setup once and forget system whereby you just need to configure the system once and then let the system takes over to pull relevant contents and articles from RSS feeds, article directories, private label rights articles (PLR) and many more.

This software has a significant advantage over other similar systems in the sense that it is the only software in the world that supports autoblogging of blogger blogspot as well as free wordpress hosted blogs. Thus you can create tens or even dozens of free hosted blogs to promote your products or services.

Do check out the features and benefits of autoblog Samurai. It is a product that is worth every single penny that you invest in consider the amount of time that you save. It is virtually impossible for you to maintain tens or even hundreds of blogs without such tools.