I use WP Robot, Caffeinated Content, Blog Post Automator, and two other plugins I never used. My test site has been slapped, but not de-indexed by google. It was setup to create 6 new articles per day for a while. It is now rated N/A and will not show in the google searches if I cut and paste a phrase from an article into the search. It can still be found with site:http…. It made $25 in adsense in one year so it paid for the domain name for two years, so I am keeping it up until the domain fails, or I may decide to scrap it, set it up with drip feeds for a year and sell it before the domain name expires.

A second site is Amazon, and like you discovered, way too long titles, lol. It ranks PR0, and actually sold an Ipod, an accessory kit and a book for a total of $25 since March of this year. I need to revise the way it works based on newer information, but for now it doesn’t appear to be hurting anything.

A third site was setup, but when I noticed the first site was slapped, I pulled it and parked the domain until I learned more about the, then, upcoming Caffeine slap. I now have outsourced that one, and one other domain name to different ‘experienced’ autobloggers to create autoblogs on.

I can setup a very secure (important as I lost six sites to hackers) with WP Robot in 30 minutes or so, manually. I have many domain names, most of which are not suitable, but I am noticing a number of successful sites actually don’t have a matching domain name, so I may resurrect them for autoblogging.

What I don’t seem to have a grasp of is the post release periods. As I mentioned, the first site may have been strangled by releasing too many too quickly.

Can you tell us if there is a general time frame for posts to be released? As best I can tell, it is somewhat less than 7 times per week.

One more note that I have learned from experienced auto-bloggers is this:
Hands on management way outperforms fully automated blogs.
Just as Sarah edits the Amazon names, and that is all, sites which are periodically managed outperform those fully automated in the same niche and, apparently in the Google rankings.

Some autobloggers feel like this: It is better to setup 20 fully automated blogs that perform half as well as ten semi-automated blogs, than to spend that same amount of time setting up 5 semi-automated blogs and having to manage them periodically throughout a year. The math makes sense.

Buck

Great video, thanks. Are you targetting mainly the US? If so do you host in the US? Also, do you register a domain name for each site and host it yourself, or use sites such as wordpress, blogspot or free hosting via sub domains?

thanks!