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4 Reasons why WordPress autoblogs dont make money!

by easycash
Categories: Clickbank, Google Adsense, Make Money Blogging, Niche Marketing, Wordpress Clickbank, WordPress Plugin
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So you have put up your Niche marketing, WordPress autoblogs and monetized them with Google Adsense and yet you are not making the money that autoblog gurus like Profit Jackpot or Samurai had promised you. Below, we have listed four of the main problems that give autoblogging a bad name and also prevent blogs like yours from turning a profit. Fortunately, we also offer some concrete hints and tips on how to overcome these shortcomings and maybe also put some money in your pocket

1. Content is not unique.
Google is the main traffic driver and it will not rank you highly as long as your autoblog content is not considered unique.
Solution: Use a content generator like WP-Simplicity plugin, change the title, add your own intro and resource box and run the text through a manual text spinner like Article Demon. You don’t have to totally rewrite the content for Google to consider it unique.
 
2. Blog Content is not keyword-focused or relevant to your Niche Market – Users will only find your content if you have it based on the right keywords, relevant to both the post content and your overall market niche theme.
Solution: You need to find relevant competition-free keywords relevant to your specific market niche and then use WP-Simplicity to select content based on them. Finally, as part of the rewrite process descibed above, be sure to sprinkle your text with the appropriate keywords. Although autoblog systems attempt to find articles usually based on a single keyword, a large part of the time they miss the mark completely. Spurious content will likely negatively impact on your Google rankings.

3. Autoblog content is garbage and not human readable. Simply having content that is relevant to your market niche is not enough. Most autoblogs go to article sites to get content. Much of this content was poorly written to start with and then further degraded by article spinners of varying quality. Much of it is not readable by any normal person.
Solution: See the solution to #1 above. After carefully selecting recent, relevant subject matter using WP-Simplicity, thoroughly read and edit your text after running it through Article Demon and make sure it makes sense.

4. Poor monetization (Google Adsense alone is not enough). Just because you get traffic to your site does not mean you will automatically make money. Even though Google may do a decent job of placing relevant contextual ads, you will only make a few cents per click.
Solution: WP-Simplicity allows you to seamlessly add relevant Clickbank and Amazon product to your posts. Having contextual advertising strategically placed in your content along with your Google ads will improve your chances of making money significantly.

It has taken us 4 months of trial and error to reach the conclusions above. See our 90 Day Trial posts for more information on our progress. If you are going to use a system like Profit Jackpot to set up one or more autoblogs, don’t simply let them run on autopilot. We can assure you from personal experience that you will not make any significant money. However, if you follow these few suggestions, you will start to see results and profits.

Relevant Resources:

Profit Jackpot

Article Demon

WP-Simplicity

 

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Autoblog Profits: 90 day trial – What we learned…

by easycash
Categories: Make Money Blogging, Wordpress, WordPress Plugin
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AutoblogThis is a follow-up article to our 90 Day auto-blogging trial. Three months ago, our 15 sites went live set up by the folks at Profit Jackpot. Our goal was to generate sufficient traffic within the first 90 days to be able to monetize the sites and make some money

If you have read any of our previous posts about our 90 day autoblog trial, you will know that we were getting mixed results. You may also have noticed that we did not post any more updated results over the summer. Nevertheless, our 16+ sites were churning away producing daily content on auto-pilot and Google and other bots were regularly visiting our sites.

First, the good news. As a whole, traffic to our sites grew from an average of 300 visits per day in mid-May to almost 1,100 per day at the peak. Daily Google search visitors grew from an average of 20 per day in May to a peak of 181 near the end of August. This was an encouraging trend, leading us to believe that traffic was nearing a point where it could be successfully monetized. To put this in perspective, our inaugural standard blog (justrw.net) was established 18 months ago and uses traditional author generated posts, now receives between 150-200 visits per day, with us producing new posts at the rate of about 2 per week.

We are starting to make a little bit of money through Google Adsense but it only amounts to about 50 cents a day. We have had some clickthroughs on our Clickbank ads but none has yet ended in a sale. Other revenue streams from Commission Junction and Amazon are also not yet really off the ground, but we have started placing more advertising in the hopes that increased traffic will eventually pay off.

Now, the not so good news! In the last couple of days of August, our Google search hits from all sites in the autoblog network plummeted from the aforementioned high to just 30 hits a day. This is too striking to be ignored. It would seem likely that Google has somehow deduced that our content is not truly unique and has penalised us accordingly :(   One particular site: Nokia N8 Tips & Tricks, which was receiving almost 200 visitors a day and rarely less than 30 from Google searches now gets just 6! In reviewing the auto-generated content across our network of autoblog sites, I have come to the conclusion that over 50% of the posts are effectively garbage to a human reader, even if a Google bot is not smart enough to recognise it.

Don’t forget that the purpose of any autoblogging site is to make money from the traffic that comes to it. If the reader is greeted with garbled, illegible content, what are the chances that they will click on any of your advertising?

So, what is the next step? Well, since we have been relatively successful in building traffic, all is not yet lost. We have turned off the auto-posting feature on most of the sites and will now be adding content manually. We now have several methods of generating content and will add new posts that are edited, SEO optimized and guaranteed to be unique. We will leave some of the poorly performing sites on auto-posting just to see what happens.

In a future post we will show you the different methods that we use to generate unique content from the autoblog output. In the meantime, we thoroughly recommend that you check out WP-Simplicity, since it alone will enable you to do this and a lot more besides.

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Autoblog Profits: 90 day trial – 21 days and counting

by easycash
Categories: Clickbank, Google Adsense, Make Money Blogging, Wordpress
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The #1 WordPress plugin for autoblogging success!Well, I must say that I have learned a great deal within the last 3 weeks about the ins and outs of auto-blogging. I can now say without doubt that the promises made by the autoblog gurus about making easy money with WordPress, Clickbank and Google Adsense are mostly smoke and mirrors. That is not to say that there is not some light at the end of the tunnel, but rather that the money train is travelling much slower than we had hoped and driving it is much harder than those snake oil salesmen would have us believe.

Here is what we have learned so far:

  • Not all niches are born equal. If you decide to swim with the sharks, you will probably get eaten alive.
  • Some market niches lend themselves to specific physical product marketing and others to adsense and Clickbank affiliate offers.
  • Push-button sites, as they are delivered will almost certainly not attract traffic as well as those where you take the time and effort to optimize your SEO content and dress up your blog.
  • Monetization will not happen by simply putting a few Adsense ads or Clickbank affiliate offers on your page. Your content, metatags, keywords, categories and post tags must all be closely matched to all and any adsense, clickbank or Amazon offers on your pages.
  • Unless you manage to attract a significant amount of traffic to your pages, you are not going to make any money.

So let’s take a look at our results so far. We have continued the table from our previous post in the 90 day trial series, which covered the period up to the end of May and has about 2 weeks of real results. We have added a fourth blog to the results so that you can get a better feel for an off-the-shelf pushbutton site, since we have made no modifications to this site and will leave it pretty much as is.

  1. Autoblogging Profits: This site was taken off autopilot shortly after being launched and is now only being populated with 100% personally generated content. Typically, experience tells me it will be slower to build readership but it will be loyal where autoblogging content will cause readership to be fickle and based solely on most recent content. This is likely a highly contested niche.
  2. Nokia N8 Apps, tricks and tips: As you can see, this site has really taken off and is now averaging 200+ daily visitors and 30+ daily Google searches. It took me over a year to build my food and drink blog readership to this level; here it has only taken 3 weeks. It is using auto-generated content but I have put considerable time into tweaking the site and promoting with tools that will be revealed in future posts
  3. Improve your tennis game: I have done absolutely no work on this site but it looks like a promising niche, since the Google searches are already starting to grow. This indicates that there is probably low competition for my targeted keywords, which is likely not the case for sites 1 & 4.
  4. WordPress Clickbank Guru: Again, this site is operating 100% on autopiiot with no input from me. Results so far are far from exciting. Not really surprising for such a highly contested niche. This will be the absolute control, since I have no intention of doing much to this one except letting it run.

June results from 06-01 thru 06-08

Site Visits M-T-D Google Searches
Autoblogging Profits (this site) 175 17
Nokia N8 Apps, Tips & Tricks 1361 210
Improve your Tennis Game 169 32
WordPressClickbank Guru 155 2
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Autoblogging may not be the profit goldmine you believe!

by easycash
Categories: Clickbank, Make Money Blogging, Niche Marketing, Wordpress Clickbank
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Roy Wallace Autoblogger ExtraordinaireAuto-blogging is simply a method of mass-producing specific niche marketing websites that update themselves on a regular basis with fresh content relevant to the chosen niche. There are many so-called pushbutton or one click systems on offer at any given time which promise to allow anyone to get themselves set up with an instant money-making goldmine. In theory, an auto-blogger could set up 100 niche sites, each generating only $2 of adsense revenue per day and that would represent a monthly income of $6,000. Annually, those same auto-blogs, which should be largely stand-alone, could produce an automatic income of $72,000. This makes autoblogging seem a very attractive proposition to all and sundry. Therein lies a large part of its downfall.

As you probably suspected, it is really not as easy as the gurus would have you believe! In order to produce even this moderate amount of income from a single niche market site, you will have to do some substantial legwork in setting up WordPress blog frameworks, installing relevant plug-ins, finding niches that work, doing critical keyword research and promoting your sites to the search engines. This is far from a slam-dunk as sites like Google, Yahoo, and Bing are always changing their algorithms to try to ensure that the best, most relevant content is what the searcher sees first.

In order to prevent your site from being sent to the Google sandbox, you have to have some way of making your content at least appear fresh and unique. This may require some substantial editorial work on your end, which requires more time than most auto-blogging software gurus will admit, but it is absolutely critical if you don’t want your sites blacklisted, and the search engines downgrading your domain name in their programs. Such black marks are hard to have erased, and make any future internet ventures difficult to get off the ground.

Profit Jackpot offers a unique way to modify your content to ‘fool’ the search engines into classifying copied content as new. WP Simplicity semi-automates the process and allows you to personalise any content before publishing (our personal preference). Any automated solution that spawns many junk sites will eventually be sought out and nullified by the search engines.

Simply slapping a few Google Adsense spots on your site and attracting visitors is NOT going to make you that $2 a day. Our first blog, which is well established in its niche and attracts 200+ visitors a day does not make even half of this amount. You need to find other sources of revenue like Clickbank or Amazon affiliate offers to increase your chances of making money. However, sourcing relevant offers, setting up affiliate accounts and producing contextually relevant ads and placing them in your content is both technically challenging and time-consuming.

In conclusion, we would advise that you think carefully before you give your hard-earned cash to the next autoblogging guru who claims that they will make you the next autoblog millionaire. You can follow our own efforts in our 90 Day Trial series of posts where we have set up 25 autoblogs and track their progress using varying methods.


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10 steps to Niche Marketing success with WordPress Autoblogs

by easycash
Categories: Clickbank, Google Adsense, Make Money Blogging, Niche Marketing, Wordpress
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There are tons of people on the Internet struggling to make money online with autoblogging using WordPress, Clickbank and Google Adsense. The good news: It IS possible! The bad news: Most people will fail. Here are ten steps to certain success with autoblogs.

  1. Choose a profitable market niche:  Don’t take a shortcut with choosing your niche market. Much of your success will depend on choosing a niche with a lot of traffic but a minimum of competition. You can use Google’s own keyword tool or use a commercial product like Keyword Winner to ensure your success.
  2. Get a domain name: We have written elsewhere about how to go about getting your own domain name(s). Some will recommend that you install each autoblog on its own domain, but to start out, you want to make money rather than spend it, so we suggest that you purchase a single, short, generic-sounding domain name and put each autoblog on a separate subdomain.
  3. Set up your first blog:  There are many blogging platforms out there that you could use. However, since WordPress is the most popular and best supported, this is the system of choice. You can get a FREE WordPress account at WordPress.com but there will be some limitations on what you can do. We recommend using a domain hosting account that specializes in WordPress accounts like HostGator or similar.
  4. Pick one or more Clickbank affiliate offers closely related to your Niche:  Some autobloggers will rely principally on Google Adsense to monetize their site. This is very limiting. Instead, we recommend that you use Clickbank Marketplace to find one or more affiliate offers that tie in with your Market Niche. You will discover in step six below how to automatically add smartlinks to to your posts and pages to increase your chances of making money.
  5. Generate Unique content using Profit Jackpot or WP-Simplicity:  It is often said in the world of WordPress blogs and Google SEO rankings that content is king. Not just any old content but truly unique content. If you simply import articles or videos from other sites or blogs you will not likely rank highly with the search engines, especially Google. Using either Profit Jackpot or WP-Simplicity will allow you to source material that in the case of Profit Jackpot is converted to become unique or that you can put through an article spinner like Article Demon.
  6. Add SEO Smart Links:  Even though you can and should place Clickbank affiliate ads for relevant products in your post, you can increase your chances of making sales by using a pliug-in like SEO Smart Links to turn keywords into hotlinks using your ClickBank ID. This is one of the many critical plug-ins included with WP-Simplicity.
  7. Maximize Google Adsense:  Using Adsense properly can be somewhat of a challenge and remembering to put the correct code in your post or page can be troublesome. Once again, a handy plug-in called Easy Adsense can do this all for you. Once again, WP-Simplicity includes this plug-in within its arsenal.
  8. Build Social Back Links:  Just having good unique content is not sufficient, in most cases, to push your site or posts to the top of the search engine organic listings. You also need to create some backlinks. Social Monkee is a good place to start, since it allows you to create up to 100 links with little effort.
  9. Promote Your blog with articles:  Although Social Backlinks are a good start, you may want to back this up with some smart article marketing. Fortunately, Article Demon, referenced above as useful in spinning your articles, also includes a module for automatically submitting your spun articles to the major (and minor) article directories.
  10. Rinse and Repeat:  Be realistic, you will probably not make much money for a while! In same cases it may take months and even years, specially if you choose a very competitive niche. But, if you do it the right way, you will eventually start to see some earnings, which will increase steadily as the time passes on.

It will likely take you  a few hours to set up an autoblog (for the first few times). However, as you build more and more blogs, this time will decrease significantly. If you don’t have much time, plan on building one autoblog every day. After a month you will have 30 auto blogs. And, even if you earn $2 a day from each blog, that adds up to $60 a day. Don’t you think that’s worth 30 minutes a day? Of course, you don’t have to stop there, you can build more and more autoblogs. Test things out, try different affiliate products, try different monetization methods, try different niches and so on.

If you want a more detailed look at the set-up process, we recommend taking a look at our 90 Day Autoblog trial set of posts.

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