Is autoblogging the lazy marketer’s answer to profits on autopilot? It is touted as that by a lot of people out there. In my opinion, maybe not so much. I have tried autoblogging and it is great…in some respects. As a good, sustainable money making model it is not so good.

Where autoblogging excels is in data mining. It will give you a fast, good idea of what keywords will rank and it will help you uncover some keywords and niches you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise. As a good money maker in and of itself, it has some drawbacks.

I have tried several different pieces of autoblogging software, some better than others. Unfortunately, one inherent flaw in autoblogging software, no matter how good it is, it is going to give you a lot of non relevant content. There is nothing that is going to turn your visitor off faster than to be looking for information about “Blue Widgets”, come to your post that is titled “Everything You Wanted To Know About Blue Widgets”, and finding a post about “Purple Ponies”. That can be compounded if you have your software scraping images and videos to put in the post as well and you end up with an image of “Silver Dragons” and a video about making “Chicken Soup”.

Now for data mining it is great. To make autoblogging effective you usually scrape 1,000+ keywords at a time, load them into your software, and turn it loose. I don’t know about you, but personally I don’t have time to sift through 1,000+ keywords and see what they all are. With autoblogging, you don’t worry about checking search volume, you just grab all the related keywords you can find and load them up. Once the posts are published and you check your stats, this can lead to some interesting discoveries. Like, who would ever guess that you could make a chocolate cake using “Green Centered Blue Widgets” or that 2,000 people a month were searching for information about it?

In order to get autoblogs to rank enough to make you any money, you need to spend a lot of time throwing backlinks at them. I found that I was spending $200.+ per month on captcha services and proxies. I was also spending hundreds of dollars on all the latest “black hat” tools to spam those backlinks. This is to find out that the tools would have to be replaced quite often because the sites they were spamming caught on and the tools were no longer working. All that time and money spent to realize a return of just a few hundred dollars that in most cases didn’t cover my expenses.

Add to all the time and money spent getting your sites to rank, the risk you are running. Autoblogging violates the TOS of most affiliate programs as well as Google. If you ever get a manual review of your site, which happens more often than anyone would like to think, what’s going to happen to your site or your affiliate account? Can we say de-indexed site and/or suspended affiliate account? How are you going to pay for your captchas, proxies, and tools then?

I know, a lot of the proponents of autoblogging say to just have hundreds of sites (they are easy to put up) and spread them over a bunch of different hosting accounts. That way, you always have sites that don’t get nailed and you still have income. Uh, that just brings up some questions. Most of these sites are on a WordPress platform. How often does WordPress come out with a new update? How long does it take to go through hundreds of sites to make sure that they are all up to date and there are no conflicts occurring? Also, how much a month are you spending for all those different hosting accounts that you have those hundreds of sites spread over? Oh, I almost forgot, how much are you spending for those hundreds of domains for those hundreds of sites? There are more questions than that but I am sure you are catching the pattern here.

Now, I can hear you thinking that I am totally anti-autoblogging. Well, that is not the case. I still use autoblogs, just not as a direct money making model. I use them to mine data for sites that I put up the “Old School” way. I don’t have the time or money to put out thousands of posts in a few months time the old fashioned way to quickly get feedback about what works. That is the advantage that an autoblog gives you. It cuts down the amount of time it takes to research what keywords and topics are hot. You can then take this information and either add to existing sites or create new ones to capitalize on your new found knowledge.

So, before you buy into the hype that is going around about how great autoblogging is for a money making model, I hope you will take the information I have provided you here into account. I am interested in helping you to become a success in the internet marketing business and I hope that this post has furthered that goal.