A couple of days ago, I visited Flippa, an website marketplace, and I saw so many autoblogging sites for sale that it made my head spin. And, the really weird thing is that a lot of these autoblogs were actually being sold for various amounts (many higher than $100). Some of these blogs were aged and had a history of generating revenue and some were brand spanking new. But, one thing was certain, people were buying them left and right.

I then started thinking, why is autoblogging so hot, is this type of business model that I should consider and is autoblogging the wave of the future? I still don’t know why its hot (except that most people want easy money) or if autoblogs will maintain their stickiness. However, I do know that for right now, autoblogs seem to be working (especially for website flippers out there – hint hint) and since I plan on flipping sites very soon, I plan to jump on the autoblogging bandwagon soon.

Here’s a few facts I learned about Autoblogging

What is Autoblogging?

Autoblogging is a method of creating a completely automated blog, so that you don’t have to regularly update it. This process allows individuals to get fresh content, videos, etc. every day or even more than once a day, and make money through Google ads, contextual advertising, or affiliate links.

How to Create Autoblogs

You create an autoblog using a WordPress blog, a domain name. and a plugin. With this plugin, you are able to pull in content from all over the place. Depending upon your keywords and your niche, you can pull content from different kinds of sites that are relevant to your topic. The plug-ins include links back to those sites so that the owners get credit for their articles or posts.

Some people use WP Robot whereas others use plugins from sites like Unique Article Wizard. Both of these allow you to pull articles from their site to populate your blog. However, WP Robot also allows you to pull videos, twitter posts, amazon products, ebay auctions, yahoo answers, and much more.

How Much Can You Make?

You can make $100 or more selling well made autoblogs. If you keep them, the amount you make will vary depending on your niche. It seems as if the most common amount people make from one autoblog is about $2 per day. This is why marketers typically create hundreds of autoblogs. If they create 100 autoblogs, they’ll make $200 a day, which translates into about $6,000 per month. Not too shabby, right?

What are the Risks?

There are many variables to autoblogging, from the keywords you choose to the content you pull. It’s very possible that more than one blog will be highly successful. It’s also equally possible that several blogs will make no money. In addition, search engines tend to look down upon autoblogging sites and it may be harder to get them ranked or keep them ranks, especially for competitive keywords( or at least that is what I’ve heard).

My Verdict About Autoblogging
Autoblogging can be extremely profitable if its done correctly but it carries some risks. As for me, I am going to give autoblogging a try, especially for website flipping. I don’t think I will keep them for my own niche blogging efforts however for website flipping, they seem perfect.

What do you think? Are you going to give autoblogging a try?

A few writers were chatting in a few forums about content revenues dropping for their niche websites and many of them were concerned about this drop in earnings. I have to be honest with you, my niche sites have dropped a bit but I make up for it by adding more sites. : )

My thought is this – many advertisers are cutting back as such there is less advertising available. The most common ones that are cutting back are real estate and some retail type shops (high priced items). On the same token, financial sites seem to be booming. I truly believe that if you’re considering starting or adding to your virtual real estate empire that you “do it now.”

Here’s why – our economic situation is going to improve and when it does, advertisers are going to increase their advertising revenue and sites will start making more money. People will start buying and the economy will improve. Therefore, now is the time to build up your niche sites, to cultivate them, and keep them going strong. Then, when advertising kicks into full gear, you will be ready to collect your cash.

I also believe that now is the time to get multiple streams of income going on with your niche sites. Do not rely solely on such sites like Google Adsense. Instead you should diversify by using various monetization methods including your own books or products, affiliate links to other people’s products, etc. By doing this, you will be better prepared to weather the storm. You’ll be in a better position to win the internet marketing game.

For those of you that need instant cash, try out Associated Content, Textbroker, Demand Studios, and Bright Hub. I know for a fact that they do pay and can help fill in the blanks when you need more money now.

As you guys know, I’ve been trying to figure out this internet marketing stuff for a while now. Although I am definitely making some progress and have learned ALOT this past year that I’ve been at this, I am no where near where I want ot be. However, I had an Ah-ha moment last night and I wanted to share it with you.

I was cyber chatting with one of my friends last night and  I was telling her that I wasn’t getting enough traffic to my niche sites. Now I was making some sales but I wasn’t making many and I really wanted to increase my efforts. I told her that I planned to write more articles and submit them to Ezinearticles.She then told me that was fine but what I really needed to do was create a niche foundation.

She told me that if I had a good niche, I needed to create articles to Ezines and then create a Squidoo, HubPages, Freewebs and Weebly site all interlinking to oneanother. Each one of these would create a nice little network of sites and boost my rankings, traffic and and sales.

I immediately thought about what she said and realize that this was the ticket. This is one of the things that I hadn’t really learned how to do….create networks…and that this is the missing piece.

I was so excited that I almost couldn’t sleep well. When I fell asleep, I had dreams of PayPal cash flooding into my account.

So, my challenge is to create a ton of these niche foundations for my profitable niches to see if I can increase my efforts. What do you think?

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As you know, content is king and people love ready-to-go businesses. So why not create some websites based on some original keyword-rich article content that you’ve created based on a niche? You can then create a website using Xsite Pro or Front Page (or hire someone else to design the site) and then sell it for profit.

With this method, you can easily earn a quick $500.00 or $1,000 or more. To increase your income even further, you could secure top search engine placements about 50 backlinks and really see your hard work and effort soar.

Men and women who want to make money on the internet would almost always rather purchase a “ready-to-go” business rather than spending the time to create their own content-rich site. In fact, these sites can be really hot sellers, especially if you have a good amount of traffic going to them before you sell them.

All you have to do is purchase a domain and hosting. (Remember the domain name tips and suggestions.) Create some quality, keyword-rich articles for the site, either offering helpful information or explaining topics. If they’re interesting and good quality articles, the site will function much better.

Create AdSense ads to place on the site, which will make money each time a visitor clicks on them. Also, do what you can to get as many links back to your site as possible. You can monitor the traffic on the site with this free tool found at www.statcounter.com. Depending upon the quality of the content, how the navigation is, how high you’re ranked in the search engines, and the amount of traffic that is coming to the site, you may be able to sell your site for thousands of dollars!

Here are a few places to sell websites:

- http://www.sitepoint.com

- http://forums.digitalpoint.com

- http://www.buysellwebsite.com/

- http://www.vertive.com/sell-website/

- http://www.nonstopprofit.com/

This is one of the best ways to make money for YOURSELF through your writing talent.

A few weeks ago, I was conducting some niche medical research for a friend of mine with a chronic illness, and I came across a Made for Adsense site that was plastered with Google Adsense ads and had about two pages of non-relevant content.

I was pissed to say the least.

It was obvious that this website owner was only trying to make money off his bogus site and was not the least bit concerned about the relevancy of his content or his user’s overall user experience. He was out for the fast buck and didn’t care about his reputation as a website owner at all.

Well, I immediately clicked out of his site, bypassing any Adsense ads ( I didn’t want him to make one red cent off my clicking) and then found another site with relevant site and immediately bookmarked it so that I could return later. I then passed on the word about this other relevant site.

The whole experience caused me to think about the importance of quality content and how certain website owners give other owners a bad name.

The bogus owners probably don’t realize that quality content is king and that they should always provide the best content ever. After all, that is what draws loyal customers and get you the real sales. Instead they are out for the money. What they don’t realize is that they’re leaving bucks on the table.

Consider this scenario. You are a site owner who writes plagiarized material and then throws it on a blank page with a ton of ads to make a few dollars. Yes, you might get 10 exit clicks amounting to a whopping .40 from every visitor. However, if you had provided relevant content, you could have gotten 1-2 product sales from your recommended products. After all, visitors are more likely to purchase products from owners who provide them with quality content and solid information. They view these owners as honest and take their recommendations more seriously.They don’t just click to get off those bogus sites full of ads screaming “give me money”.So, my lesson today folks is to always, alway, always provide your visitors with a good user experience. It doesn’t matter if you have one visitor or a gazillion.

By doing this, you’ll appease your human readers, build loyalty and will be handsomely rewarded for your efforts.

As for that other site Made for Adsense site, I checked it today and it is now deindexed and I say “Good riddance sucker“. I guess Google caught up with your dumb butt and slapped you silly!

Hooray for Google slapping.