Using WordPress autoblog plugins used to be a really easy way to generate some online income easily and fast, however recently search engines like Google made serious steps against these autoblogs. Nowadays it is not easy to get good ranks for shorter keywords, though I believe that optimizing autoblogs for long tail keywords can be still effective and much easier than writing long posts.
On top of that, WordPress autoblog plugins are getting better and better. I mean, they can get content from much more resources, the generated posts are more unique and there are many extra solutions that help to get better results.
Last, but not least beside search engines there are any other free ways to get targeted traffic such as setting a Facebook page or group, Twitter or social bookmarking. So autoblogging still works if you do it on the right way.
On the other hand, there are many other ways to use WordPress autoblog plugins beside building niche websites or sites for PPC ads. Here I would like to show you some alternative ways to use autoblog plugins.
How to Use WordPress Autoblog Plugins for Different Purposes
Park Domains
Typically if we have an unused domain we park it on our hosting account or via domain parking services that usually get at least the half of the income. Setting up an autoblog on that domain instead of parking can be much more profitable since many products can be promoted and whole thing is set and forget. I think using a WordPress autoblog plugin for an unused domain is the best solution.
Using for Link Building
If you have an autoblog with relevant content to your main website you can add anchor text links pointing to your non-autoblog, money making website. Or you can even syndicate your blog posts on the autoblog. Though, these may be not the most powerful links, but can help better ranks in search engines. To get the most from this technique use private domain for your autoblog and the autoblog must be on a different IP.
This way you can set up your own blog network with 10 – 15 or more sites easily that are relevant to your main website.
Sell Affiliate Products
Since Google does not like affiliate marketing, affiliate sites and affiliate links (no matter if you cloak or not, set up no follow or not), it is worth considering to set up an autoblog promoting only affiliate products and another blog having well-written, optimized, unique and very informative posts.
The second “optimized blog” will contain posts that are loved by search engines and gets great amount of free, targeted traffic and contains links pointing to the autoblog with thousands of related products. Since the “optimized blog” will not contain any affiliate links, it will be really SEO friendly. So simply we have a blog to get targeted visitors and another autoblog where they can get products they are really interested in. This may be a hard and lengthy task, but I think it is really effective. Mainly, the harder work is to create the optimized site since the autoblog with even thousands of relevant products can be set up in really short time.
This is something like article marketing, but since nowadays article sites do not rank well, but optimized blogs yes, this should be more effective.
All in all, there are many alternatives to use WordPress autoblog plugins for SEO and internet marketing purposes.
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