Automated Blogging By RSS Scraping
Oct 30th, 2007 by Martin
I’ve been blogging for quite a few months now and have improved on how much money I have made online each month, especially during October when my earnings shot through the roof compared to previous months. The time I have put into blogging is starting to make me some decent money. One of the biggest problems I have found when blogging I finding time to write content, sometimes I can write a short post in a few minutes but most of the time posts take a lot longer so I ran a test to see how viable it is to make an automated blog and more importantly, will the posts I scrape be able to rank naturally in Google for terms? How automated is automated and more importantly can money be made from an automated blog?
First of all I needed to find a script that I could use to scrape blogs and news sites. Please note scraping other peoples content is illegal, it is there intellectual property! If you do use their content acknowledge this by stating the original author and give them a link. I found a few content scrapers or news aggregators, do some research to find others but the one I found is called WP-omatic. As the title suggests this is not just a script but a Wordpress plugin! It’s really easy to use and is a really powerful tool! You can set up a different campaigns where you can put upto 4 RSS feeds. You can also use Wordpress to setup a cron job. A cron job is used to automate the scraping process, once you have specified which feeds to want to use your blog will be updated when you tell the cron job to run. It will fetch the RSS feed again and publish new any new articles!
For my test I used zac’s blog content so thankyou to Zac you have great content on your site.
But can automated content rank well in the SERP’S before I started this test I thought it would definitely be a no. However this is not what I found out. For example for the post affiliate marketing I managed to rank 1 place behind the original article! This makes me wonder if I altered the title tag how much further would the post be able to rank. Although the terms I ranked for are not that high on the competitive front it will still drive some traffic and if you setup a lot of posts everyday that will equate to quite a bit of traffic. I’m not saying everyone will be able to rank in the same way that I did as Pacdesco.net has got over 10,000 links pointing to it, lot’s of these links coming from high authoritative sites, that’s why I’m currently ranking at position 14 for “make money online” in Google. But it sure is possible.
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you are doing very well and there is a software you can use to create unlimited automated blogs
I was using RSS2Blog which will automate postings of preloaded articles and RSS feeds. Since RSS feeds are published for that purpose it’s not stealing content. However I ran into problems with domains getting de-indexed by google when they saw blogs with content coming from rss feeds.
Hi David,
I had a look at RSS2Blog it looks ok but at $250 it’s to much for most people to invest in. Plus if you keep getting de-indexed it’s a pure waste of money. The good thing about wp-omatic is that it’s free and so far the article hasn’t been de-indexed yet.
very curious on your monetization method
and wondering how much u made *drools* :D.. good blog here XD
hi david,
good blog
Hi David,
Kindly review my blog and help me by suggesting a few things as I am new in this area.
Thanks and regards,
Vabs
Review my blog to suggest plz. Thanks!