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Auto Blogging why it fails every time.

January 10, 2012 By

Concept blogging, is all about finding a niche and producing content that people want to read.

Managing content is not easy, it is not push button, it involves working and doing research…

however, developing this type of blog could hurt your business more than help, learn more about that now.

The use of Auto blogs, has been very popular for about the last 4 years.

Google may be about to start targeting more marginal websites, could auto blogs be next

The number one thing to remember when thinking about developing a website is not what to put on your site but what not to put.

Why Auto blogs just do not work and why you should avoid using them.

About every day on Flippa you can see an autoblog for sale, sometimes the websites go for a few bucks but more and more we are seeing a decline in the perceived value of what auto blogging actually is.

The lights are on but no one is home, sounds like an old song, well it is, and like the song, auto blogging is just the same way the lights are on but no one is at home and google knows it too, dont think they dont.

The reasons are numerous but it all comes down to just one thing.

Are you willing to operate a website?

It is not about the website or the design it is all about the material and the content.

If no one sees it they will not come…

If the lights are on but no one is home, you cannot sell anything.

The simple truth about auto blogging is this if the light are on but no one is home, they just will not come.

The tragedy of the auto blog is that it can never succeed.

Imagine an ant hill, where all the ants did the same thing every day, they eat the same food every day, they listen to the same music every day, never a change, always a grey existence that never changes, that is what most websites are like these days, they just sit there withering away because no one is really visiting them, they are like that ant hill, full of ants, but for the most part no one in the entire world knows about those ants so they go about their lives, oblivious to the rest of the world.

That is what an Auto blog is like, an ant hill where everyone is busy busy busy, but no one knows about them…

Are you lazy?  If you are thats ok, lots of very successful are lazy, but there is one big difference.

They work smart, lazy but smart…

Chances are  you have seen these, ads that promise the moon for the auto blogging life style, the set it and forget it mind set.

But guess what, you already know, it does not work at all.

There are so many of these auto blogging platforms, from WordPress to literally more than you can imagine, each one claiming that they can give you what no one else can deliver.

The truth is that Auto Blogging does not work…

Perhaps that is not what you wanted to hear, but sadly it is the truth, I ran several blogs manually, posting every single day sometimes 10 to 12 times a day, sometimes more. I was able to achieve some success, I started getting some traffic, I started making a little from affiliate commissions, like ebay and amazon and yes even adsense.

But then I made a huge mistake, I got lazy…

I started looking for an easier way to do the same thing and get me here there is nothing wrong with that ok, but and here is where I went wrong, you have to know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

My mistake, cost me several High PR website ratings.

I paid more than $150 for an auto blogging platform, which was reputed to be better than anything out there, it was touted to work when everything else failed to work, but after loosing my PR ratings where I used this auto-blogging platform, I finally realized what I had done wrong, I trusted what someone else told me, just so they could make a few bucks.

So actually I spent a lot of money trying out different systems, I even tried paying a Virtual Assistant to post for me so I could see if that would work, but sadly that too failed, because I found that you have to have at least some interest in what you are posting about.

If you have ever had a good PR ranking then you know how important it can be to building your level of success, because once you get one good ranking, you can use that to link to lower ranked blogs and in turn improve their rankings, it really is a building block to your success.

There may be a few that are successful with auto blogging, but so far I have not see the first one that can say they are successful for more than 30 to 60 days, because, I saw some good traffic in that period, but after that it all went bad, and then it went from bad to worse.

So why does auto blogging software fail to achieve what the people selling them claim?

One of the most important things you can do for your blog is to give it that human touch and that is not often easy to do with automated software, the reason for this is that every single one of these auto blogging software solutions, leaves behind a trail, usually it is something small, like the same type of formatting post after post.

It is this trail that alerts the search engines that something is not right about the blog you might wonder why it matters, all I can tell you is that it does matter and it matters a lot, because you can go from a great rank to no rank and you can go from great traffic to no traffic and that is definitely not what you want.

So the next time you see an auto blogging software special and you read about how you can just set it up once and just forget it, just remember that you read it here, it is a waste of your money and unless you plan on monitoring and baby sitting your blog, you will never see any measurable success.

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Learning WordPress can be easy…

October 18, 2011 By

Creating a website, used to be a difficult and very hard thing to do.

When your considering a CMS system, there is really only one main consideration.

Can you learn how to use it.

Want to learn wordpress inside and out, take a peek at this, Step by Step learning can be easier and more fun than you realize, with thousands of plugins and coding that would make anyone proud, wordpress is one of the most popular CMS platforms out there today.

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WordPress Marketing

May 27, 2011 By

Tools are like shovels if you do not use them you cannot dig a ditch.

Combining memberships with product development,
is one of the fastest growing business models.

Developing WordPress PHP programming is becoming very popular.

Plugins the long and short of using them and why that may change soon…

A cottage industry has risen up around the roots of wordpress as over the years it has grown
from an amazing idea into the single most popular platform for publishing many different types of content.

From Plugins to full featured software products.

WordPress is one of the most popular publishing platforms for
CMS publishing.

With its ease of use and its famous five minute install you just cant go wrong for the money.

As many of you are aware, wordpress is very SEO capable and the Search engines like wordpress a lot.

Using wordpress is not only worth while but could be considered easy to operate.

WordPress themes, are readily available all over the internet, including premium options that are available at many different internet locations.

With so many different wordpress products out there, it is very interesting to see all the different marketing possibilities.

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Why outsourcing by the hour is a waste of your money

November 20, 2010 By

If you want to throw away your money, pay someone by the hour.

Just like you would if you pay someone to mow your lawn, by the hour it will cost you twice as much as by the job.

Simply because you loose your ability and leverage as a buyer, if you depend on someone to do work by the hour the one thing you can count on is that they will have no motivation to finish the job quickly, in fact they will likely take twice as long to do the same work.

Out sourcing by the hour is bad, then you will never, have to worry about who these people are…

Because in reality these guys will do nothing but take your money and rip you off.

Now on to the topic at hand and this is a good topic and one that I can tell you from experience is full of danger for the developer because frankly the idea that you can trust a developer to do the right thing is almost non existent. What I mean here is the idea that an outsourced developer will work by the hour and will do the job for which they are being paid.

So this brings up the idea of working by the job as opposed to working by the hour.

Which is better and how can you get it right the first time.

Well for sure it is better to work by the job, why, well for one thing it is better for both the developer and the customer or client. Think about it say you are an experienced and a talented developer or designer, you know your job, you can do in one hour what it takes others four hours to do, you do it because you have done it so many time before that you could do it in your sleep. Working by the job makes sense to you, so why do platforms, like base camp, provide hourly services, well they do it for the money, and we dont say this to be mean to base camp, they are a good company, but beware of a developer that wants you to pay upfront, on an hourly project because, eventually you will find that they have no incentive to do anything but take your money and find as many reasons to bill you more by the hour.

Just like an attorney will bill you for the lunch they have with you, (working lunch) these guys are worse than an attorney.

Recently I hired a company on base camp, we had an agreement to fix a scripting problem, they wanted a deposit to begin the work, I said, ok, so I paid the deposit, three days later, they apologize that they have not been able to get around to working on the project, keep in mind that this is a maximum of 2 hours to fix this problem.

So, we go through two weeks of sending messages back and forth, and we come to the conclusion that it all needs to be re done because it just is no good, ( surprise surprise surprise ) now its going to be 20 plus hours to fix it, see what I mean, If I had gone to a pay by the job I could have had it fixed by now, and it would have only taken 2 hours to fix.

But these clowns, take three weeks, to tell me what I already knew, and then had the Balls, to ask for another deposit, so they could re do the entire project by the hour, let me tell you that they would never have finished the project, why?

Because they had no incentive to fix the project, because they are getting paid by the hour, there is not need to finish the project, they just keep billing and billing and billing, I can tell you from experience, never hire anyone to do anything by the hour because you are wasting your money.

Need you house painted, it will take them a month to paint it.

Hire them to paint it by the job, and they can get it done in a weekend.

Get the picture. I sure do, hope you can learn by my mistake, never hire a developer by the hour, because all you are doing is wasting you money. So let me tell you from my own experience never ever, hire a developer by the hour because they will never do what they say they will do, they will never perform, because they have no need to.

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The new Ebay is it good or bad?

October 13, 2009 By

UPdate, 10/13/2009

Well our revenue is down a whopping 3200 percent since the change, we are now completely out of the ebay program, it is just not worth it any more.

Good luck to the rest of you guys, hope you do well, but really I can see it, I do not see it at all.

It is obvious now that the new Ebay program is not working for us, we have now removed most of all our ebay affiliate programming and moved to other networks, this new program is really a bad deal.

Many of you may have noticed that over the last few weeks ebay has really changed in fact they have changed so much that many sellers have alleged to have moved to other sales platforms in favor of a more fair and balanced format.

As with the new ebay click program has alleged to have left many affiliates out in the cold there are a lot of aspects about ebay that is not as desirable as they once were, hopefully in the future ebay would consult with its affiliates before making huge changes.

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