Question About Auto-Blogging in 2022.

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AutomationIsKey

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I am planning to create a python bot which harvests contents from various locations on the internet relative to a specific topic.
I am interested in knowing the answers to a couple of questions before I begin making this bot, if someone with experience could please chime in.

Question 1 : If I simply scrape their content, can I rank long term?
Question 2 : If I spin their content - which API is the best for this?

These two questions have been bothering me a lot.
It seems every-time I build a bot to auto-blog, it never ranks, no matter my efforts in regards to SEO.
Even when I use spinners recommended on this platform, the articles still never rank in google - but appear in other engines, such as DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Various others.

I am listening to every opinion, and trying to learn.. Thanks for your time.
 
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you can scrape content and re-use it and/or spin it, but you also have to make sure to promote the sites just like a normal website.
mabye thats why its not ranking for you.
as for spinning, you can also create your own spinner if you find a synonym database for the language you target i.e. english.
 
AutomationIsKey said:
Question 1 : If I simply scrape their content, can I rank long term?
Question 2 : If I spin their content - which API is the best for this?
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1. No. Google ain't dumb. Scraped content without any modification won't rank long term.

2. Best is subjective. Quillbot holds up most of the meaning of the rewrites but at the cost of a decently high plaigraism score. Paraphraser.io does a bit better but is slower.
 
Ashk881 said:
1. No. Google ain't dumb. Scraped content without any modification won't rank long term.
2. Best is subjective. Quillbot holds up most of the meaning of the rewrites but at the cost of a decently high plaigraism score. Paraphraser.io does a bit better but is slower.
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Thanks for this comment.

You mentioned this "but at the cost of a decently high plagiarism score" can you iterate deeper what you mean by this?
- Does your Plagiarism score determine your likely-hood of ranking that content?
- When spinning content - is it a myth that manual intervention is needed? A lot of spun content is clearly spun does this hinder your ranking?

itz_styx said:
you can scrape content and re-use it and/or spin it, but you also have to make sure to promote the sites just like a normal website.
mabye thats why its not ranking for you.
as for spinning, you can also create your own spinner if you find a synonym database for the language you target i.e. english.
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This is a great idea, to make my own spinner. The issue is my lack of knowledge in this field makes it seem more desirable to hire a service that already exists.
In relation to another part of what you said "but you also have to make sure to promote the sites just like a normal website."

- This part is a little confusing if you could explain more?
 
Ashk881 said:
1. No. Google ain't dumb. Scraped content without any modification won't rank long term.

2. Best is subjective. Quillbot holds up most of the meaning of the rewrites but at the cost of a decently high plaigraism score. Paraphraser.io does a bit better but is slower.
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Your #1 is WRONG.

You didn't see sites with copied content ranked :) I've seen many.
 
gowiththeflow said:
Your #1 is WRONG.

You didn't see sites with copied content ranked :) I've seen many.
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He's saying that it's not a long-term business. Ofc, you can rank with copied content and spun content, but staying in the SERPs is not that easy.
 
AutomationIsKey said:
Thanks for this comment.

You mentioned this "but at the cost of a decently high plagiarism score" can you iterate deeper what you mean by this?
- Does your Plagiarism score determine your likely-hood of ranking that content?
- When spinning content - is it a myth that manual intervention is needed? A lot of spun content is clearly spun does this hinder your ranking?



This is a great idea, to make my own spinner. The issue is my lack of knowledge in this field makes it seem more desirable to hire a service that already exists.
In relation to another part of what you said "but you also have to make sure to promote the sites just like a normal website."

- This part is a little confusing if you could explain more?
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i mean sending backlinks to the domain(s) and of course also make sure the on-page SEO is good enough.
 
gowiththeflow said:
Your #1 is WRONG.

You didn't see sites with copied content ranked :) I've seen many.
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No. I have seen hundreds of autoblogs. I have created some myself and have helped a few folks creating one too.

I never said autoblogs can't rank. I said *scraped content doesn't rank long term*. And for a vast majority for autoblogs that's true.

Autoblogs that you see around ranking aren't just "scraped content". It's "scraped content with added value".

If you take 100 autoblogs at any time. 60 will go bust within 2 years due to an algo update. Of those 60, 40 would have simply copied entire sites front-to-back.

Of the remaining 40 that rank. They would either have spun content or compiled several scraped posts into a single article (stuff like PAA sites). That is what I mean by "added value".

In reality, google doesn't care a lot about duplicate content. The problem with it is that you either get a DMCA notice sent to Google by the content owner which shadowbans you, or you get tagged as "low quality content".

If you are able to rank with scraped content with enough blackhat fuckery (blasting links, social signals etc) it either will not last long but if it does, congrats. You are now a successful spammer :D. Just remember that you are an exception , not the norm.
 
AutomationIsKey said:
You mentioned this "but at the cost of a decently high plagiarism score" can you iterate deeper what you mean by this?
- Does your Plagiarism score determine your likely-hood of ranking that content?
- When spinning content - is it a myth that manual intervention is needed? A lot of spun content is clearly spun does this hinder your ranking?
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1. All rewriting/spinning software basically trades off either "original meaning" or "original writing".

Rewriting/spinning is the art of giving the same message with different words. Problem is, when you use different words, you start to lose meaning. To counter this, paraphrasing software will keep most of the sentence structure intact, but that means higher chance of failing a plaigraism test.

All paraphrasing software basically try to balance these 2 factors. Either change words and sentence structure less frequently to hold meaning but at the risk of plaigraism, or change words and structure frequently and lose coherency.

2. Maybe, maybe not. No one knows what exactly determines your likelihood of ranking. It should be a factor i believe given the content diversity of most serps.

3. Given the quality of most rewriting/spinning software today, you probably don't need any "mandatory" manual intervention.

Any human checks are good tho. If you can get a human to proofread your spun content for errors, that isn't bad right? No software is 100% error proof anyways.
 
For scraping, you can use Scrapebox article scraper. Also, you cannot rank long term.
 
since you're a dev you can use some AI to paraphrase your text
 
AutomationIsKey said:
Question 1 : If I simply scrape their content, can I rank long term?
Question 2 : If I spin their content - which API is the best for this?
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You can rank long term depending on the competition of the keywords that you are targeting.
 
Question 1 : If I simply scrape their content, can I rank long term?
Question 2 : If I spin their content - which API is the best for this?
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Why don't you use a ready solution? There are WordPress plugins that do it. Even freeware ones.
 
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