A Hybrid Approach To Autoblogging

While a lot of my sites are autoblogs, I have observed a little something recently. I own a couple of websites with a good amount of unique content, in the form of articles that I authored myself, plus some with a combination of my own content and articles from the UAW plugin. I'm going to be honest; these sites which include original content do beat my autoblogs when it comes to income.

Now, writing original content alone is not sufficient to acquire love from Google. It is the search engines mantra, but it's essentially a crock of b.s,. Not long ago I read a post from Michael Grey where he outlined how he produced fantastic content over a six-month time period, even making it to the front page of Digg on five occasions, and he nevertheless received very little love from the search engines.

So what's the best approach then? Autoblogging, or creating unique content? What about combining both?

Produce a few autoblogs, wait two-to-three months to wait for the website to break out of the search engine dance, and take note from Awstats from your server what your most viewed pages are. Then, from your data you've received from Awstats, perform some further research into specific search terms and look for what your competitors do when it comes to getting those keywords to rank. Now, armed with this data, go ahead and create some original articles for your website. You won't have wasted a bunch of commitment writing and submitting articles about key phrases that nobody has any interest in. Or else keywords that have lots of interest, but they don't turn into sales, because visitors are just searching for free information about that keyword.

If you're super lazy, you do not have to write the original content yourself. Just use the keywords you found out of your Awstats which are obtaining Google love, and rely on them to add extra posts to your website with your autoblogging plugin. I did this very thing for one site in July, and my AdSense earnings doubled for that site in which I made use of this plan.

Needless to say, it goes without saying that when you discover your winning pages and add content for that keyword, it's not going to do you much good if you don't implement a significant back linking campaign. Don't go insane and try to back link every page in your website, just the ones that show promise in terms of page views and earnings.

Put into action this tactic, and view your earnings rise.

By: NJ Rickman

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