My Twisted Autoblogging Method for Easy Cash

DPatel304 · Feb 16, 2010

Thanks for the info. Pretty easy to follow and useful plugins.

By the way I have a question (not necessarily exclusive to your method, but to autoblogging in general): do you generally set up autoblogs on their own domains or as subdomains (and, if you use domains, .coms or .infos)?

Mesach · Feb 16, 2010

Is this Google XML Sitemaps what you mean instead of Google sitemaps generator?

Edit: it must be, I installed it, and in the wp-content/plugins folder its called google-sitemap-generator

Mesach · Feb 16, 2010

how do you set up your RSS options, do you just use the default?

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laveciar · Feb 16, 2010

Thanks for this. Will have to check this out tonight.

Cheers

bennyb · Feb 16, 2010

Sent you PM

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

DPatel304 said:
Thanks for the info. Pretty easy to follow and useful plugins.

By the way I have a question (not necessarily exclusive to your method, but to autoblogging in general): do you generally set up autoblogs on their own domains or as subdomains (and, if you use domains, .coms or .infos)?

I set up a few blogs on different sports teams so I made all of those as subdomains and it is a .info too.

Wanted to see if the .info affected things and in this case it doesn't. Remember, the bulk of my traffic is coming from Twitter with some also now coming from the search engines.

The searches are long tail but VERY targeted - in most cases I outrank the sports clothing sites that I am an affiliate of. I also have some first page rankings where there are in excess of 1 Million competing sites.

I've no actual idea as to how how why that is as it is and to be honest I'm not going to lose sleep tryingto work out why either.

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

Mesach said:
how do you set up your RSS options, do you just use the default?

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I set it up to only show the first part of the feed rather than all of it and I alsways choose the option to strip out links in the description and comments.

Same for the YouTube options, allow comments to be posted but strip out any links in the video description and comments.

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

Kharis said:
thanks for the useful info, just posting so that i can come back to this later

I agree with Footfall99 on that - there are loads of Twitter tools in the download section. Remember, the Twitter part is the only part your'll need to concentrate on once the blog is set up.

Twitter is your blogs food (traffic) - the bigger the Twitter following then the more traffic to your site but don't fret over large numbers, QUALITY of followers is more important.

I have a Twitter account with nearly 20,000 followers which I thought would provide the most traffic to any of the sports teams blogs but it turns out that a Twitter account with just 6,000 followers drives the same amount of traffic to a similar blog.

Also, remember, when you post and tweet you will not everyone of your followers which is why it is VITAL to set up some kind of news RSS feed as part of your autoblogging, in fact, find lots of them and set WP Robot to post every 3 hours or so from each of them in turn.

If you need to, blend the RSS feeds and use that RSS feed instead of lots of different ones.

Regular updates will keep a nice flow of traffic to your blog from Twitter and you will reach people who use Twitter at different times of the day too.

MonoPuff · Feb 16, 2010

I currently have google alerts feeding directly to a lot of different accounts as a way to build followers over the past year.. and it's worked well.

When you start filtering these feeds through one website do you see that the traffic drops over time from the twitter account... So that if people start to notice that they go through one domain for all the same stories do they become "numb" to any advertising?

I've set something very similar up on an autoblog and have had some moderate success, I'm going to try and take a few suggestions you've given here and see what I can do with it.

Also, you're really not scared of getting the ban hammer by Google? They want unique content

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

MonoPuff said:
Also, you're really not scared of getting the ban hammer by Google? They want unique content

The ban hammer never crossed my mind and the big G don't seem to have a problem with any of the blogs.

Dupe content/unique content - if I worried about that too much I'd never try anything to find out what does and what doesn't work.

cguru:

Build a couple, if G bans you then learn from that and build the next couple a little differently until you find what does work but what I wrote at the start of this thread works.

I see the G spider crawling all over the blog all day long, maybe it sees the blog as an aggregator of everything related to the niche I'm targeting?

Who knows and to be honest, who cares? As long as G seems to like what I'm doing then I'll continue to do it

Seriously, set a couple up and see what happens. If G does ban you then no geat loss as it was only a .info domain you lose. At least you'll still have your Twitter followers to use with your next blog.

I guess that's the benefit of not relying in SE traffic and rankings when G bans you - it's no great loss and you can be up and running again within an hour with all the same traffic that you had before.

The more I think about this method - the more I like it

MonoPuff · Feb 16, 2010

shezboy said:
The ban hammer never crossed my mind and the big G don't seem to have a problem with any of the blogs.

Dupe content/unique content - if I worried about that too much I'd never try anything to find out what does and what doesn't work.
cguru:

Build a couple, if G bans you then learn from that and build the next couple a little differently until you find what does work but what I wrote at the start of this thread works.

I see the G spider crawling all over the blog all day long, maybe it sees the blog as an aggregator of everything related to the niche I'm targeting?

Who knows and to be honest, who cares? As long as G seems to like what I'm doing then I'll continue to do it

Seriously, set a couple up and see what happens. If G does ban you then no geat loss as it was only a .info domain you lose. At least you'll still have your Twitter followers to use with your next blog.

I guess that's the benefit of not relying in SE traffic and rankings when G bans you - it's no great loss and you can be up and running again within an hour with all the same traffic that you had before.

The more I think about this method - the more I like it

Ok, well your method is good but you advice on adsense stinks. lol

Keep adsense off your autoblogs.. once a human looks at your traffic source when they go to payout chances are you'll get banned..

Getting another adsense account is not impossible, but a huge pain in the ass.. So if you value adsense as a stream of income keep it legit.. That doesn't mean there are not a ton of other ways to monetize these blogs.

The fact that the google spider crawls your blog is because that's what it is designed to do, lol.. I'm getting organic traffic for some odd long tails that just happen because of the product descriptions and comments in the amazon autoposts.. Hey, I'm not complaining

I've had success promoting amazon products through my autoblog -> twitter setup .. It definitely drives traffic, although to be honest twitter traffic is not the best around.

You'll notice a lot of the clicks come from androids OS or iphones, which really can't be monetized .. The people who do browse twitter on desktop/ laptop generally are not looking to buy.. People don't use twitter for that.. So the sales you do get are most of the time coincidental.. meaning that they get your amazon cookie on there computer and then just happen to buy something on amazon.. This works so well because Amazon is the king of upselling

You're right though, got to take action and see what works .. Good luck everyone with this

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

I can't see how AdSense will not like traffic coming from Twitter - the traffic is targeted and legit.

Maybe AdSense may not like the auto-blog part, but then maybe they'll be ok with it. I've not had any issues with any of my blogs and have been paid from AdSense.

But as you say, AdSense is pants when it comes to value of each click but it's all revenue.

With regards to the Twitter traffic NOT being good for buying stuff from Amazon, well, sorry, but with what I'm doing, tested and proved, the Twitter traffic I get DOES buy.

90% of the sales are of the items that are posted to the blog and 10% are related buys from the cookie.

Your Twitter traffic HAS to be targeted and that's when it converts to sales.

All I can tell you is what I know, what I have done, tested and proved to work - that's why I built so many of these blogs.

Build some, experiment, try and test, find what works for your specific niche and you will succeed.

tanay46 · Feb 16, 2010

Hey, thanks for this great post. I had a couple of questions,

Did you do anything to build backlinks to your blog?
Do you link out to the original source of the article?
And, did people start following on twitter you naturally after some time, or do you still follow 500 everday.., and unfollow whoever isn't following you?

MonoPuff · Feb 16, 2010

shezboy said:
I can't see how AdSense will not like traffic coming from Twitter - the traffic is targeted and legit.

Maybe AdSense may not like the auto-blog part, but then maybe they'll be ok with it. I've not had any issues with any of my blogs and have been paid from AdSense.

But as you say, AdSense is pants when it comes to value of each click but it's all revenue.

With regards to the Twitter traffic NOT being good for buying stuff from Amazon, well, sorry, but with what I'm doing, tested and proved, the Twitter traffic I get DOES buy.

90% of the sales are of the items that are posted to the blog and 10% are related buys from the cookie.

Your Twitter traffic HAS to be targeted and that's when it converts to sales.

All I can tell you is what I know, what I have done, tested and proved to work - that's why I built so many of these blogs.

Build some, experiment, try and test, find what works for your specific niche and you will succeed.

It's not the source of the traffic.. Twitter is fine.. It's the content.. the ToS is very specific about things like that.. I have no doubt you're getting paid from adsense, I've just heard too many horror stories to recommend it to anyone, but what do I know? lol

When I was referring to amazon cookies I was mainly feeding the amazon product RSS directly to twitter, in which case you get more indirect buys.. Since I've been targeting with autoblogs and WProbot / reviewazon it's been a bit more direct.. no 90/10 or anything, but I built a lot of these accounts using older less targeted methods when twitter was a baby.

Looking into the new hummingbird as a way to build some super targeted accounts though.

You never responded to my actual question though

Do you find that the traffic becomes less responsive over time since it's all being fed through one domain? With google alerts fed to twitter directly, sure I miss out on a lot of traffic and possible sales, but I think it diversifies the account better and looks less spammy.

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

tanay46 said:
Hey, thanks for this great post. I had a couple of questions,

Did you do anything to build backlinks to your blog?
Do you link out to the original source of the article?
And, did people start following on twitter you naturally after some time, or do you still follow 500 everday.., and unfollow whoever isn't following you?

The only links back to my blogs are from Twitter. They also gets pingbacks from other related blogs. I have picked up some other links too and the tweets also get ReTweeted which also extends the reach.

As for articles, I stay away from those. I use RSS feeds and the plugin places a link in the post that links to the original post. It is good to link out to the sites where you found the content from. That site will pick up that you're linking to them and this will help your blogs also.

As for the Twitter, when I started out I followed 200 and a few days later unfollowed the ones who did not follow me, then repeated that for around a week. I never did it every day, just do it every 3 days, never rush that part else Twitter may suspend your account.

Spend an hour and find people using search functions and all the great Twitter services that exist to help you with this. Also try Hummingbird which can be found in the download section.

With the sports teams Twitter accounts I don't actively find followers, they find me but that is because the Twitter accounts are based on popular sports teams.

When I created my iPod Twitter account I did all the finding. Try a site called Twitterfall at

Code:

http://twitterfall.com/

This is a VERY cool service, and it's free. Have a look, use the search feature on there and you'll see what I mean.

MonoPuff · Feb 16, 2010

tanay46 said:
Hey, thanks for this great post. I had a couple of questions,

Did you do anything to build backlinks to your blog?
Do you link out to the original source of the article?
And, did people start following on twitter you naturally after some time, or do you still follow 500 everday.., and unfollow whoever isn't following you?

Back linking always helps, but this is more of a set it and forget it method

Always link back to the source of the original articles.. many of the autoblogging plugins do this automatically.

After a while most all the follows are natural based on retweets, #followfriday, and searches .. Twitter has smartened up regarding the mass follows / unfollows , this is why the tools are evolving also.. Slow and steady is the way to build twitter accounts

MonoPuff · Feb 16, 2010

Code:
When I created my iPod Twitter account I did all the finding. Try a site called Twitterfall at

Code:

http://twitterfall.com/

This is a VERY cool service, and it's free. Have a look, use the search feature on there and you'll see what I mean.

Nice share, thanks for that link

shezboy · Feb 16, 2010

MonoPuff said:
You never responded to my actual question though

Do you find that the traffic becomes less responsive over time since it's all being fed through one domain? With google alerts fed to twitter directly, sure I miss out on a lot of traffic and possible sales, but I think it diversifies the account better and looks less spammy.

I've not noticed it to be honest. Sometimes the page views drops quite dramatically for a couple of days but then they go back up. The visitor numbers remain the same however.

If you can keep adding new content then that is interesting then it should keep things from going stale (from a visitors point of view).

I used the send traffic to eBay direct from Twitter but eBay got the hump and banned my ass which I thought was a little harsh - anyway, I've found that by sending traffic to my blog first and there is a lot of related content then they browse around some more.

Using the Advertising-Manager plugin I can also show Amazon items under each post and rotate them so different items appear on different visits.

It's fair to say that I did spend some time setting the blogs up and making them 'work' but it's worth it.

shezboy · Feb 17, 2010

I've been getting quite a few PM's since starting this thread. I think I've replied to them all now. If I've not replied to yours yet, sorry, but I will answer your question shortly.

Thanks.

charlieman999 · Feb 17, 2010

very detailed thank you.

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