Autoblog is a process where your blog automatically goes out and gets content and creates the proper links without any human intervention. It’s the lazy blogger’s dream of making money in your pajamas. :)

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Though I’ve not made it big but there are signs that autoblog works.

Anyway, I have to reiterate that my chess aggregator site is not a splog for the reasons :-

  1. Informed the blog owners that I’ll be using their RSS feeds as excerpts only and no one is against that idea.
  2. Strictly No FULL article post (as in Planet Malaysia) which I consider as an act of content stealing!! Only excerpts are shown. Planet Malaysia also claims to be an aggregator but they publish the full articles from all the RSS feeds they read.

Autoblog is cool !

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I like this idea of monetizing with an “autoblog” as I’ve seen a little money coming in from Adsense. Not big bucks but a few pennies a day. This is definitely not what I would have expected from a new blog that’s hardly 2 weeks old.

It’s surprising how little work has gone in here. No promotion except for the blog post here and in my other chess blog. The bloggers I aggregate from also appreciate as my aggregator gives them traffic by highlighting their fresh posts.

Creating the perfect Autoblog

I’m zipping up the WordPress folder for this aggregator and looking for other ways to spice up the template or add more useful WordPress plugins to make the Wordpress ultimate aggregator zip file install. That way when I think of other contents suitable to aggregate I just unzip the entire folder and walla I have my ready made splog aggregator.

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