Good Auto Blogging Versus Bad Auto Blogging!

The subject of auto blogging is one which generates lots of controversy online, with some heated debates about whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. In this article I want to give examples of both...

The difference between good and bad auto blogging really boils down to what your intention is - are you using it to 'game' the search engines, or are you using it just as a technical tool to continue providing genuine content?

So let's start with the good blogging...

You may write blog posts once a week, or you may write 10 a day- in either case it may be that you want to set up some automatic posting. This means you don't have to be logged in or in front of a computer to publish posts.

You can write several in one sitting, or even just write a single post at a time that suits you, and then set them to be published at a different time.

For example, and this is something I've found a lot, if you start writing one post, but get 'in the zone' and write several posts, you don't want to publish them all at once, because that can lose the leverage power from each post.

What I mean by that is that when you publish a post, there are so many different ways you can use it to benefit, but if you publish too many posts too quickly, it can be hard to keep up, so you end up losing the very benefits you are trying to gain!

So, auto blogging allows you to set them to be published at intervals you choose, giving a more natural regular flow to your blog.

Nothing wrong with that, and a great example of good auto blogging. What about bad auto blogging?

Well, bad auto blogging usually comes in the form of software sold by internet marketers. They have picked up the problem that many people have, of content creation, and come up with the solution of software that 'scrapes' content from other websites.

It really is trying to play the search engines, because normally the software is set to pick up content which is keyword relevant to whatever your blog is about.

There are 3 main problems with this...

Firstly, the software may not give proper credit to the site it takes the content from. This is a legal minefield, and an ethical one too. Secondly, the content is often scraped in such a way that it makes terrible reading to visitors. Any traffic you do generate is hardly likely to stick around for long, because you aren't providing a genuine resource for them.

The third reason why this kind of auto blogging is bad, is because the search engines hate it, and rightly so, because of the bad results it gives to searchers that I just mentioned.

This means it is only a matter of time before they remove any blogs that you use this for, and may well take that further by delving in the other sites you have!

Software like this is usually sold with flashy hypey sales letters - easy to get sucked in with, but I'd advise against it. It doesn't help you or your visitors in the long run, and with a blog it's always the long term picture you should have in mind.

Using auto blogging to simply help with scheduling your posts? Well that's the good model, and software can be found cheaply or for free, so whenever you see a sales letter raving about the bells and whistles, stop and take a moment to ask yourself if it's the good or the bad version!