I’ve been extremely busy as of late, especially with taxes, personal issues and working on other projects to test new things out. One of the things that I’m in the process of testing is automated blogs with strictly Adsense ads (or pay-per-click ads) versus ones with strictly affiliate products.

Now, I’m not exactly comparing the two because when it comes down to it, I’ll probably have both running and I’ll just be tweaking each one to see how much money I can possibly make with very little work.

How Do You Set Up An Automated Blog?

Well, setting up an automated blog isn’t very hard; it just takes a little work just like any other way of building traffic, making money online, etc. You are basically setting up a Wordpress blog with key plugins, taking content from RSS Feeds of your choice and submitting to various sites and directories to build links and get traffic.

I would explain how to do it but it’ll be easier if you guys just read the controversial post on setting up an automated blog written by Jason.

Some Key Things to Keep in Mind

A few things you want to keep in mind based on things I have read from comments and forums are:

- Make sure the content you’re taking is not copyrighted. Some sites bluntly say you cannot republish content from them without permission, and it should usually be easy to see because they should have a copyright on their footer.

- After setting your Wordpress blog up, you basically want to get and save lists that include: keyword-based RSS Feeds, sites to submit your RSS Feeds to and a ping list.

Like I said, once you get these lists, you obviously want to submit to all of them but you also want to save them. You will need them again, especially if you decide to rinse and repeat the process.

- Don’t give up! Supposedly, the worst thing that can happen is you make no money but you gain a Pagerank of some sort. You could always sell links or even just sell the entire site for profit. I mean, you’re not doing much work besides the initial setup. After that, everything should be smooth sailing… for the most part.

Conclusion and Additional Notes

I forgot to reply to some of your comments on previous posts but a lot of people mention the “duplicate content” myth and getting in trouble from the Big G or whatever. Well, there are only a couple of things you have to keep in mind about that.

First, you won’t be penalized by Google if you don’t have duplicate content within your own site. There are codes to avoid that anyways but I’ll try to make a separate post for more information.

Secondly, if you avoid copyrighted material, you should be fine as well. Getting your website banned from search engines is a very, very long process and it’s not even guaranteed.

Below are reasons I found in which they would potentially remove your content from the search engines:

- If the site is a spam site.
- If a webmaster believes the site is engaged in buying or selling links that pass PageRank.
- If the content posted constitutes copyright infringement, which will require a DMCA takedown request.
- If the site is believed to house malware (viruses, malicious software, phishing, etc.).
- If a webpage contains personal, private information, request for removal can be made via the URL removal tool.
- The site owner has modified a page so that it no longer contains the information or image that concerns me.
- The site owner has removed a page/image or blocked it from being indexed by using robots.txt or meta tags.
- You’ve been unable to work with the site owner, but the information appearing in the search results is one of the following:
- Your social security or government ID number
- Your bank account or credit card number
- Your image of my handwritten signature
- Your full name or the name of your business appearing on an site that’s spamming Google’s search results.

So, I’ll try to keep you guys updated. I’m sure some of you guys will ask for URLs of the some of the sites, I’ll consider sharing one or two but strictly with password protected posts, which are only for my e-mail subscribers.

But would you try it out too?  Questions?