There are lots of different ways to make money
online. Some work, some don't. This week we'll take a look at Autoblogging.
You'll discover exactly what it is, and more importantly, if
it's really possible to generate income with it.
Right after this quick message from today's top
sponsor...
OK, so what the heck is autoblogging?
Autoblogging is the strategy of creating multiple blogs with
plugins that automatically post content for you. It's a way to
take the ongoing work aspect out of blogging, while earning
money via affiliate links and advertising at each blog.
Perhaps you've heard that this blogging
technique is a scam or that autoblogging creates little value on
the web.
After quite a bit of research, I'd have to
disagree. Sure, many autoblogs are worthless and many even
unreadable due to poor quality platforms. But there are many
autoblogs that look just like good quality, human-run blogs. And
many of them pull together some excellent content for
interesting and specific niches.
The reason you may think autoblogging is a scam
may be because you've seen a poorly implemented autoblog or
listened to someone who's tried autoblogging and failed. But the
fact is, there are many folks making money from their autoblogs
as I write this.
But Beware:
If you use a sub par platform with your autoblogs, you will
fail. Search engines easily shut out autoblogs that are poorly
implemented, and the few readers you do manage to get will never
come back to your blogs if the posts are unreadable.
That said, if you do it correctly, you really can generate passive income
with these "set and forget" niche autoblogs.
How much money can you make
autoblogging?
Well, that depends on which niches you choose
and how many blogs you want to set up. Many autobloggers report
earnings of $20 - $30 per month, per blog, and even more in some
cases. Multiply $30 a month times 100 blogs and you're looking
at $3000 a month passive income. Not bad since there's not much
work after the setup phase.
So the first thing you need to understand is that autoblogging, at its core, is not underhanded or scammy. You are
simply aggregating various forms of content and presenting it
under your chosen category along with ads for products and
services that may appeal to that niche audience.
Right after this important sponsor message from
my friend and colleague, Jeremy Gislason, I'll show you the
steps required to earn passive income from AutoBlogging ...
Now that you know what autoblogging is, lets get
into some details...
Just like any business strategy online, there
are simple steps to success that others before you have used.
Follow these steps and you may be able to join the ranks of
autoblogger income earners.
Step 1. Set Aside 10-20 Hours A Week For A Month
"What?" I can already hear many of you saying, "I
thought this was passive income!" Well, it is. After you get
everything setup and running properly.
Autoblogging may sound simple, but it is like
any other online business, there's a bit of a learning curve.
But if you are willing to invest some time, and thought when
starting out, you can follow a proven system and succeed like
many others before you. Before long you could be
generating a nice stream of income from your own portfolio of
autoblogs.
But you have to face up to this fact first:
Every business requires actual work, especially
in the start up phase. This work will entail researching
different niches, registering domain names, and getting familiar
with Wordpress and an AutoBlogging platform and strategy.
I'll share all that stuff with you later on in
this article, but for now just know that you will need to be
willing to work hard if you want the payoff that comes with
autoblogging.
Once you start seeing some profits, you'll be motivated
to setup even more blogs in additional niches so you can
multiply your profits. Which leads me to the next step...
Step 2. You Need to Select the Most Profitable Niches
Blogging for money can be difficult. What types
of topics are interesting enough to engage readers and encourage
them to mark your page and visit it often to read new blog
posts? What niches are the most profitable for blogging? The
answers may surprise you. If there are products and services in
that niche that solve readers' problems, you may be able to make
money in that niche.
Even weird niches can be moneymakers. Things
like tattoos, iguanas, specific collectibles, hypermiling.
Things you may have never considered or even heard of.
Niche blogs give you instant credibility for being an
expert or at least having great knowledge in a field.
(Especially when non-bloggers land at your blog.) When people
read quality content at your blog, they begin to trust that you
actually know what you are writing about. That means they are
likely to click product and service links at your blog -- links
that earn you money.
One reason blogs work so well is because posting to your blog on a regular basis
usually takes time and effort. Not many people want to devote
that kind of time to maintaining their blog on a daily basis
unless they are passionate about the topic. Remember, 99% of
blog visitors have no idea that such a thing as autoblogging
even exists.
That's why having a system that automates
everything including posts, can work so well. It lets you
easily have a dozen or even 100+ blogs where you are the expert - each one
earning a profit.
Which leads me to the automation aspect of autoblogging, the secret behind all the profitable autobloggers
campaigns...
Step 3. You Must Use a Proven, Effective AutoBlogging
Platform
As I'm sure you're aware, setting up 10, 25, 50
or even 100 blogs or more, would be extremely time-consuming.
Adding valuable content to each of those blogs on a regular
basis, would be well... impossible.
That's where autoblogging platforms come in.
These tools cost anywhere from a few bucks to
thousands of dollars a year. I've researched quite a few of them and
some are really good, while others are horrible.
The worst platforms are difficult to set up and leave your
blog posts looking like a Martian wrote the posts. The best
platforms cut your setup time by 90% or more and the auto-posts
read like a real human wrote them.
If I were to get into autoblogging, I would
start
with a program called
Blog Blueprint.
Blog Blueprint includes all the training and all the automation software you need. The creator,
Jason Potash has been around for a long time online and has been
developed a hybrid style of autoblogging that's quite profitable.
He mixes the human element in which is what
makes the difference between horrible autoblogs and profitable
"semi-automatic" blogs. His training videos show
you everything you need to build a profitable
business using his technique.
One of the key components of his package is a
program called Auto Blog Buddy, which is a powerful
plugin for self hosted WordPress blogs (it does not work with
blogs hosted at Wordpress.com).
Auto Blog Buddy is an auto-assisted solution for
adding quality content to blogs. The content is unique and
tightly targeted to the market of the blog's audience. Most
importantly, the content is human moderated so it actually
helps, (not hurts like most autoblogs) you get your rankings in
the search engines… even Google.
In closing...
Autoblogging can be a viable alternative to the info-product model I
use, and can work really well if...
1. You're willing to spend time getting
everything set up properly
2. You select profitable niches and continue
building autoblogs across a wide variety of subjects
3. You use a proven, effective autoblogging
platform that makes easy work of setup and adding quality posts
regularly to your blogs
Well, that's it for today's
gazette.
See ya in a few weeks...
Jim Daniels
JDD Publishing Co.
P.S. If autoblogging is not for you,
grab my
free Info-Product Formula. It
explains how to copy the model I use to earn my living
online.
