SUBJECT: Autoblogging Lesson #3 - Issues You May Run Into

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You do need to be careful with autoblogs as they have had a bad
reputation, being something that is used by spammers and black
hat marketers. Sure you can go this route if you wish but expect
sites to be delisted, domains to be blacklisted and to worry
about your income vanishing overnight at the whim of a search
engine boffin.

You need to take steps to ensure that your websites are not
classified as spam sites and treated as such. This section will
show you what the search engines are watching out for and how
you can avoid them.

Firstly, whilst autoblogs are quick to set up and literally
thrown out there, you still need to make sure they provide
valuable information. The search engines are looking for sites
that are relevant to their searchers and provide good
information. 

Therefore if you can provide valuable and useful information
that is keyword rich and paying attention to LSI (Latent
Symantent Indxing) then your autoblogs will look much more
natural and useful to the search engines.

*Success Tip*

Provide valuable and useful information that is relevant to your
target market.

Many autoblogs rely in scraped content, i.e. content which has
come from other sites. These could be Youtube, Yahoo Answers,
article directories, Amazon, Clickbank and so on.

Scraped content is obviously not unique and the search engines
will know this.

Therefore if you can combine scraped content with some unique
content and some spun / rewritten PLR then you should find that
your website does well in the search engines.

Alternatively, you can use one of the many uniquifier plugins.
These are plugins that fool the search engines into thinking the
content on each page is unique. 

Personally, I don’t trust these plugins because the search
engines will be well aware of them. Plus you have to keep the
plugins up to date which means a manual intervention on each
site to upgrade it.

*Success Tip*

Balance PLR, unique and scraped content for best results.

Search engines are smart. You have to remember that companies
like Google employ people with brains the size of a planet. They
are constantly on the lookout for footprints on websites, i.e.
anything that can link sites together as having been mass
created. 

Some pieces of software leave these footprints which raise a hug
red flag to the search engines who instantly check them out for
spam.

Whilst it may be tempting to speed up your site creation using
tools that leave a footprint, this is a big risk. If the search
engines realize the footprint is there then they could easily
find your websites and classify them as spam and then there’s
almost nothing you can do about it.

*Success Tip*

Don’t leave any footprints in your autoblogs.

One of the easiest to trace footprints is the meta tags and meta
keywords. When creating a site people either completely forget
to set these or they use the same one on every page. 

Whilst this may be tempting from a time saving point of view
this isn’t going to help you in the long term. Firstly, it is a
footprint that can be traced and secondly you are harming your
rankings in the search engines by ignoring these fields.

Success Tip	

Set unique meta tags and meta keywords for every page.

Another giveaway to the search engines is using one of the
default Wordpress themes or using the same Wordpress theme with
the same set up one very single page.

There are a lot of people who are rushing to throw out these
sites and don’t bother with changing the theme. This is a sure
fire sign of one of two things … either a spammer or a complete
and utter Wordpress novice. In either case, the search engines
are not gong to pay them a lot of attention.

So you need to find yourself some themes. A quick Google will
find more than enough Wordpress themes to keep you busy or you
can have your own created or you can use a theme such as Thesis
and configure that.

You do have to remember that the search engines are run by very
smart people who, to be perfectly honest, are one step ahead of
us Internet marketers because they know the rules of the game
and we’re just guessing.

One thing the search engines do is monitor IP addresses of
websites. These are numerical addresses that tell computers
where a domain is located. We humans use domain names because
remember www.MyWebsite.com is far easier than remember
172.168.43.129 for example.

Therefore you need to vary your hosts and / or IP addresses to
make sure you don’t have too many autoblogs on a single host.
This could mean taking out multiple Baby hosting accounts with
Hostgator or a reseller account and buying a block of IP
Addresses. You can expect to pay around a dollar a month per IP
address with most big hosting companies.

You don’t want more than 7 to 10 autoblogs on a single hosting
account or IP address. This is simply to avoid leaving a
footprint. If you created 1000 autoblogs on a single IP address
it wouldn’t take long for the search engines to work out that
everything on that IP address is an autoblog and just ignore
every site from it.

Following these tips will help to ensure that you create sites
that stick and are not delisted or removed from the search
engines rankings.


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