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<h2>Automatic Blogging: Don’t Bother</h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: normal;">Over the last five years or so, it’s become a strong SEO trend to create blogs featuring your keyword-rich articles. Historically, these blogs were written by experts, either the company’s CEO or a professional writer. Since people often use technology to automate parts of their business and save time or work, programmers soon realized that it doesn’t matter to a search engine if the blogs are human-readable, only that the keywords are placed at about the same density as they would be in a written piece. So, to garner extra hits for clients while reducing the cost of content, many SEO professionals took up the practice of using software packages, like Unique Article Wizard, to create hundreds of “unique” blogs, all saying the same thing.</span></p>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<p>The way a professional article spinner works is simple. You put together a group of 3-5 hand-written blogs. Include synonyms for every word via some in-line coding. Your final paragraph might look something like this: The quick {fast, speedy, agile, fleet } brown fox jumped {leaped, sprung, bounded, hurdled, flew } over the lazy dog.</p>
<p>Via an article spinner, you could produce 20 different sentences by automatically mixing and matching the adjectives as necessary, then, if you’ve written fifteen sentences like this, you can mix and match entire sentences between articles and create hundreds of variations on the same topic. Then, you can set your <a href="../blog">blog</a> to publish an article a day for the next year and forget all about it.</p>
<p>While this type of blogging may be lucrative, it is typically bottom of the barrel sites that purposefully employ these tactics. The sites are often more concerned about increasing their number of hits to make the site appear more trafficked prior to selling the site rather than offering anything of value to customers. If you intend for your visitors to buy your products or even just sit on your site and read your blogs, you’ll find that computer-generated blogging just won’t cut it. People can tell the difference between phrases like “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” and “the agile brown fox hurdled over the lazy dog,” even if search engines can’t. If you’re engaged in any kind of eCommerce at all, autoblogging will ruin your chances of making sales.</p>
<h3>And…How It Goes Too Far</h3>
<p>Up until this point, we’ve only discussed the reasons why it’s impractical, though lucrative in some cases, to hand-write articles to be spun using an article spinner. Some auto-bloggers go too far, however, stealing articles from several sites and using automatic blogging software to automatically compile new articles from the sources. This type of content theft is unethical and illegal. Several WordPress plug-ins engage in this type of content theft without ever alerting the users, so if you are using an automatic blogging plug-in, you should check your site with a utility like CopyScape to see if any of the content is lifted from other sites on the net.</p>
<p>Curious about whether or not your content has been lifted and republished? CopyScape is a good place to start checking for duplicate content. You can also check WordPress for incoming links or trackbacks, which will show any sites that have recently linked to pages you’ve written. If your blogs feature images, you can prevent image theft by modifying your blog’s .htaccess file to block images not hosted on your site.</p>
<p>Automatic blogging is unethical and hurts your reputation, so you should refrain from using software designed to generate new blogs from existing content. Focus on writing interesting, relevant articles based on your experience and expertise and your blog will offer something to readers that automatic blogging sites do not.</p>
<p>Posted by Greg Henderson, an Internet Marketer and <a href="/">SEO </a>Associate an <a href="https://www.myfreeemailsearch.com/">email search</a> site and free public records site: RecordsProject & MyFreeEmailSearch. Please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail him.</p>
<p>Tags: <a href="/" rel="tag">automatic</a>, <a href="../blog/tag/blogging" rel="tag">Blogging</a></p>
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