Odds are that you’ve heard of word substitution as a way to rework other people’s articles. And if you have, the odds are that you’ve heard this sort of caper can produce nonsense.

Want to see an example?

Somebody out there is using a synonymizer (is there such a word? well, there is now)… a bit of dumb software that replaces individual words or expressions with what are supposed to be synonyms, words with the same meaning.

And the result is first rate garbage.

My original article is shown in bold below, with his garbled version under that in italics… paragraph by paragraph. Some of the most weird bits of mangled English are underlined so you dont miss ‘em.

I’ve no idea what this will do for my position with the search engines (nothing bad, I hope) but our human readers are sure to find it astounding.

I wont reward him (her?) with a live link but the garbage article is at http://sugges#tions4u.net/automatic-blogging-tools if you take out the # mark.

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Automatic Blogging Tools

ORIGINAL: Here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that automate various tasks for bloggers. They’ll save you some time in running your blog and they’ll increase your results, all on autopilot.

GARBAGE VERSION: Here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that automate numerous tasks representing bloggers. They’ll dry you some at intervals in control your blog and they’ll better your results, all on autopilot.

By the way, this article comes to you from Autoblogging Tools – AutomaticBlogTools.com Read the rest of this entry

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