with tons of plugins that you utilize on your autoblogs, doesn't your hosting provider ever contact you? if not, then which hosting provider are you all subscribed with?
I'm with Dreamhost and it's soooooooo sensitive with WP plugins
Really???? I have most of mine hosted with hostgator and have not heard a peep from them on anything.....The blogs I have hosted there all have the plugins I mentioned as well as like maybe one or two others that I did not so at least like 5-7 plugins per blog at 10-15 blogs per account...doesn't seem bad to me. And more than that, on one of those accounts I have hosted my personal blog which has like a good 10-15 plugins at least, a gtrends blog [one that follows google trends...obviously but for those who wondered] that has at least 6-8 plugins installed, and my very first autoblog which has AT LEAST 20 plugins installed [I was testing =D] and running. My personal blog I've had for over a year with the same account, the gtrends one for about 9 months or more now, and my first autoblog for about the same amount of time and not one peep from them. I also use siteground but have all of like 5 maybe 7 hosted with them. But they haven't complained to me either and it's on the same host that I have my WPMu setup on as well.
@q3ick....I'd recommend just the free methods: social bookmarking, directory submissions, blog comments, youtube comments, blog farms....and the like.
@Gif....try a plugin that autoposts [I have been meaning to go through my files and find the other two plugins that I have that do this but I know I know I know I know that I got them from this forum so may have better luck looking for them rather than relying on my memory lol] decent enough articles and use a uniquifier plugin of some sorts if you worry about unique blogs.
@blackhit-- I prefer to give each blog their own domain. I set these blogs up to look as close to regular blogs as possible in hopes to extend their life [i had heard the deindexing stories and how much google does not like autoblogs] so subdomains were not in my blueprint. HOWEVER, I did set some up on some generic sounding domains because I figured I could get away with them [you know...like debt.getmoreinfo.com for example ***not my domain but giving an example*** doesn't sound as obvious of a autoblog as debt.likeschocolate.com does], but I only set up 5 subdomains per generic domain which was only 3 in my case.
BUT....Because of all the questions and wondering if anyone could jump into this and get traffic right away I did set up another one of these blogs three days ago on a subdomain and already have 73 uniques [no promotion whatsoever mind you as I have been too busy to do these to begin with and just wanted to see if it could be done again with no promotion]. It shows that most of my traffic is coming from the twitter updating sites: - twitturls.com
- microblogbuzz.com
- twitturly.com
Ya'll have made me really want to do testing with the different suggestions ya'll have made so I'm going to put that on my next month's todo list [this month is overbooked =P]. But i'll keep tabs up on my newest blog in the mean time. =D
As far as themes go, I myself picked out a different theme for each blog and used themes that were related to the niche [again going for the 'looks like a real blog' look]. I would pick out at least two per niche in case one was not working properly. I haven't had the misfortune of having one that won't show my tag clouds, but have had the ones with missing stylesheets or just don't work well with displaying posts the way I liked.