Automated Blogging

Automated blogging happens every day, whether you realize it or not. Most likely, one out of every five or six blogs you consistently read may be rehashed from other sources or written months ago. There are some easy ways to tell if automated posting has occurred. While it's not a bad thing, there are some spamming techniques used that can annoy you just as spam email is irritating.

Blogging is a way to communicate with readers on a regular basis on any topic you choose. Opinions, product reviews and technology are a few of the popular topics that bloggers write about. You can use free web services like Blogger or Wordpress to post your blog posts, or use more complicated software that provides more features for formatting and posting.

Many writers blog for one of two reasons. One, they just love to write and want to gain readership. Two, bloggers want to make money. Advertisements on a blog page provides a number of different types of revenue. Google Adsense is one of the most common ways bloggers use their blog to make money. When an ad appears that is relevant to the content in the blog and a reader clicks on the link, Adsense pays the owner a certain amount. This ranges from $.01 to $1 or more depending on the content and type of ad.

Automated blog posting occurs in two ways. Both use software to either create and post blogs, or search for related content to gather in one single place.

One of the most frowned upon ways that automated blogging works is using software to crawl through the Internet looking for similar content and copying that content onto another blog. This updates any RSS feeds and sends out notices to anyone subscribed to your blog. Technically this is violating copyright laws, but it happens all the time.

If you've ever searched for something and a few blogs appear but they all have the same content, someone has used automated blog posting techniques to copy the original blog. There is content available on the Internet that can be used for free. You must search for this license, which is usually listed as a Creative Common License. This content can be used for personal or commercial reasons and reposted many times.

Close to the method used in the previous paragraph is gathering related content together in one blog. Credit is given (or should be given) or the blogger has received permission to repost the blog with the others. Blogs like this are usually providing a convenient place to gather many blog posts about one topic.

The final way that automated blogging occurs is when a blogger writes a number of posts ahead of time and lets the software post the blog at designated times. On average, some bloggers write 10 to 20 blogs at once and then let the software take over to post 1 to 3 per week.

Automated posting software has one purpose: to help you generate or find content in quantity. Some blogging software packages, like BlogSolutions, search the Internet for similar content for easy reposting. Other blogging automation software applications help you get better ranked in search engines and find the best keywords that people might search for.

One of the last types of blogging software that is used is a content rewriter. You upload an article or post into the program and the software will go over it and replace words and phrases with synonyms or other phrases that still mean the same thing. While you can do this manually, it may take you 15 minutes or so to rewrite 500 word article, but programs that rewrite content can do it in a matter of seconds. This is not an ethical way to copy content – remember that even taking someone else's ideas is considered plagiarism.

Plagiarizing is illegal and not very ethical. Think of it this way: how would feel if that 1,000 word article that you worked hard on about the financial market gets copied over and over for blog after blog?

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