By now you should be aware of the Google Panda algorithm update (aka Google Farmer) The headlines have been about the big content sites (e.g., articlesbase and eHow), but was it the real goal behind the Google Panda update?  I think not. An out of control uptrend in the blogging community may have been the true target. The Google algorithm change nipping this one in the bud before it took off; and became out of control. Perhaps more than the robot could handle?This trend is called “autoblogging”. OR Content for nothing. The listing below is ahead of the trend. I believe the trend can not be stopped and autoblogging will become an even bigger market.
Also, there is room for plenty of new competition. “Autoblogging” – Average Monthly Searches: 22,424; Vicissitude Ratio: 27.43
If you are doing this measurement yourself careful not to use “auto blogging” as your keyword search. That is for searches looking for automobile blogs. Close the space, it is “autoblogging”.
How does autoblogging work? Break the word apart and you discover “auto” and “blogging”. In other words automatically generated content. Keep in mind I am not writing of content that magically appears from content heaven (although I do believe in heaven  ). Autoblogging is about “repurposed”, or maybe more appropriately “regurgitated” content. The content from large content farms is grabbed, run through a language translator (German is popular), then translated back into English. ERGO. What looks like original content.
You can try this experiment using Google’s Translator. Find an article, drop it into the Translator, translate it back to English (refresh the translator) then take that page over to a service like Copyscape and see if there is a content match (aka plagiarism).
I have had a long standing hunch that the Google robot has a slight edge to weighting negative pages higher than comparable positive or neutral web pages. In conducting a search for “autoblogging” I came across a negative page in results (ranked #4). A content writer bashing the concept of autoblogging.
In his conclusion he wrote “I’m not sure if this article will really accomplish anything, since most of the people running autoblogging sites probably couldn’t care less about the ethical implications that I’ve tried to raise. This one simple article is certainly not enough to stop them. Ironically, though, I would say that there’s a very good chance that this article itself will get picked up and autoblogged somewhere.“.
He was right! However, special mention here to Matt Ward for writing an opposing view. And Matt, if you are reading, I did not use “nofollow” on your link! 
I always recommend to clients not to buy their first Internet Business Opportunity in the Web Services category; where the “client” is another website. In the case of this listing I would make an exception. |
