Lina raised an interesting question while visiting one of my blogs today. Basically the question is whether automatic blog posting can affect your standing with Google.

You can see Lina’s comment here: http://eprofitnews.org/automatic-blog-wordpress-plugin#comments

Great question.

So I did a bit of checking at one of my own blogs where I am using an autoposting plugin:  http://ConversionChick.com

The main keyphrase there is “automated split testing” as you will see when you visit the site.

But what does Google think of my site?

When you do a search in Google for “automated split testing” without the quotes, you’ll see my site on page one of Google in position 4 as this screenshot shows…

If you add the quotes around that phrase, you’ll see I’m in positions 5 and 6, which incidentally is one position ABOVE the product I’m promoting there.

CONCLUSION:
Google has NOT penalized me for using automated blog posting software.

But how do you know I’ve used autoblogging software?

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One of the changes I’ve made here at http://GaryHarvey.net is to remove the autoblogging plugin that I was using. Actually there were TWO autoblogging processes at work here and I will post a few details here for those of you who are interested in automatic blogging.

Yes, I still use these tools on some of my other web properties. But not here, not any more.

1) Unique Article Wizard

This WordPress plugin from uniquearticlewizard.com is free to use on your blog, and it publishes articles from their paying members. The member specifies what categories to run the article in and one of the consequences is that articles can be significantly off-category.

Another downside is that the content doesn’t appear to be quality-screened so article quality can sometimes be rather ordinary. On the other hand, it’s a useful autoblogging plugin where those issues dont particularly matter to you. And it’s free.

It will also autopost content to your Blogger.com blogs.

2) Free Traffic System.

With this one, there’s no plugin but you register your blog at the freetrafficsystem.com site and create a new author at your blog, and then Nick’s system sends along articles. Unlike UAW, there is no resource panel at the end of the article but there are links within the articles and a link to FTS in the last paragraph.

Your articles must be 450 words minimum and you select both the categories and the specific blogs in his network where your articles are posted. Up to 30 blogs per article. That means 30 keyword-rich backlinks for every article you submit. No limit as to how many articles you can submit per day.

For maximum effectiveness, they suggest you enter some variations so that different versions of your written piece are spun each time it’s published. The degree that you do that is up to you, of course.

Three things I like about FTS are… Read the rest of this entry