The Wealth Gang

If you’re looking for a way to make quick money online, you’ve probably come across the idea of creating automated blog content. For those who don’t know, there are software programs and WordPress plugins that will allow you to build a blog and have it automatically populated with content. You can create the settings so it publishes a new post 20 times a day if you want, and even have it hyperlink particular keywords that appear with your affiliate link.

The idea behind this is that if you create thousands of blog pages, you’ll be able to dominate the search engines for long-tail keywords and get tons of traffic. You build your blog, throw up some AdSense ads, turn on the switch, and in a couple months you’ll start seeing traffic. The idea is that as more and more content publishes, your traffic will increase as well.

Where does the content come from? You can set it up your auto blog to pull content from article sites, popular news sites, and you can even scrape it from other blogs. I’ve even seen automated blog software programs that will take the content and rewrite it so that it appears as purely original content.

What’s the Problem with Automated Blog Content?

While it might work now, it won’t last forever. Google’s primary goal is to filter out spam, and this most definitely classifies as spam. In fact, it’s probably copyright theft as well, in which case Google can block your site from being listed as well.

I’m sure Google has already figured out a way to detect these automated blog or will soon.

The bottom line is if this is your business model, you can be sure to fail. It might work for you for another 6 months or even a year. But eventually your blogs will disappear and your income will drop to $0.

Here’s another thing… building an auto blog is not marketing. If you want to make serious money in this business, you have to develop your ability to market online. There have been many easy ways to make money by “gaming the system,” but they always come to an end. If you used your time developing skills rather than trying to take advantage of short-term, minute profits, you may actually be able to make serious amounts of money. Not your pitiful $100,000 a year.

If you must pollute the Internet with garbage (and I’m not saying that I didn’t use these money-making methods when I first started), do so in conjunction of building a real business. And do so knowing that your site will get banned, and possibly your web hosting ip. That means anything other site you start that is someone linked to you will also be banned.