No good post goes unpunished. No sooner than I blog about the joys of using my numerous grandfathered in Blogger blogs at Article Marketing Automation than apparently AMA’s IP address has been flagged at Blogger resulting in no new postings getting added to those blogs. Ever feel like dragging your tongue across barbed wire? Me either. But if there was a time to consider it the d-bag wonders at Blogger might make me consider it now.
Sigh. Everything was going along swimmingly. I never knew what that meant until I considered the opposite effect of that. This Blogger/AMA effort on the blog ship Moneydrop is now sinking to the bottom of the Channel. Or is it?
According to AMA support those Blogger blogs will be removed from the system following the fourth failure. I decided to go in and write down how many articles AMA says got posted to each blog before it gets erased. Why? Because I have quite a few that got a ton of well written, rewritten posts. I know this because I manually check each before getting posted. At least for the ones that have potential. I have so many of these that I never really got around to doing much with them except collect articles. I needed to know which ones I haven’t been paying attention to has further potental.
See I built a Kardashian ass load of Blogger blogs for AMA. On all kinds of topics. Some were/are complete shit. Others are not. Those that developed potential got closer scrutinization. I would allow a post of anything that was rewritten at a very high percentage. And the article had to be laser focused on the topic that I chose for the blog. Eventually I had Blogger blogs that I didn’t write a word for that had relevant, non-duplicated, content. I monetized them with Affiliate programs and a few with Adsense. Things were looking up for basically no work by my lazy ass.
Now Blogger decides to add a new filter to the sewer. Which I’m fine with because as of now they haven’t cleaned out the garbage, like my blogs. They’ve left the flotsam in the water but implemented a filter to not allow anymore to float through. So what that means is I can take the best (read: those with the most posts and best targeted) and self-host. Wordpress makes it easy to import Blogger blog posts. Then I’ll just resume the AMA article postings onto my WP blog.
Why bother? Because I’ve already proven that there are people willing to write shit for these topics. All I have to do is give them a place to dump them and get backlinks. As long as I get the on site SEO right I should be able to get the blog up the search engine rankings.
Yes, I realize the problem is that I’m giving my competitors backlinks and helping them out for the same topic that I am trying to rank for. But as long as the links stay I can pretty much do what I want to the article. Which means for those truly badass blogs I can write a new title that encompasses a truly groovy long tail keyword and also drop the LTK throughout the article as well. Therefore, I may or may not be competing for the same keyword in the SE. Most of these people writing articles aren’t doing a great job of anchor links anyway.
I guess I could just do nothing and collect backlinks to the blogs. But I believe blogs are not meant to be static, so I am going to have to post something to these Blogger blogs that are good every once in a while. But I don’t want to waste an opportunity to continue to build out a blog that people have shown wants to write articles for either. There is Adsense and affiliate gold in there. I just have to dig it out.
12 responses so far ↓
Online Privateer // Feb 2, 2009 at 12:17 am
Sorry to hear that, I wonder how effective AMA will be now with the new filter. I’m sure a ton of those “10k” blogs are/were blogger blogs.
Maybe it’s time to switch to UAW… I just love how easy AMA makes everything. What are your thoughts on those two?
Splork // Feb 2, 2009 at 7:30 am
AMA is great. They stopped allowing Blogger a few months ago. Mine just got grandfathered in. I’m not sure how many of AMA’s sites are Blogger but I would guess a lot less than might be imagined. There was only a short amount of time that Blogger blogs were allowed before they stopped accepting them into the system. I won’t be switching, or using, UAW.
Dinheiro // Feb 2, 2009 at 10:48 am
Splork, it’s more work, i know, but you can still post AmA articles to your blogger blogs manually or with RSS2B. I totally agree with you, and i really “love” blogger blogs. It’s easier to achieve results with free hosting platforms (blogger, squidoo, etc.) than with your own hosting platforms (like a webhosting account).
Many times, i see people wasting money after money using hosting accounts, and in the other hand i see others that won thousands per month only with the free platforms.
Splork // Feb 2, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Free hosting platforms. I do love them. I’m starting to rotate some more content back into Squidoo lens now. A few of my lens are earning a few greenbacks and they are ranking again in Google for me, so I’m going to add some more this week.
From the sounds of it, a lot of people are rejuvenating their efforts by working Blogger blogs and creating crapola. I may have to send a runner down a new trail. Plenty of hosting platforms abound. No use in following the herd too closely.
Dinheiro // Feb 3, 2009 at 5:29 am
Splork, a platform is just that, a platform
What you do with the platform, that’s the question and the “secret”. Just remember the kids school example, the professor tells the class “write a little text about your mother”. Every kid uses the same pen and the same paper (platforms), but do they right all the same thing? 
I think i’ve said enough
Andy // Feb 3, 2009 at 6:59 am
Hi Splork,
Thanks for all the great info in your posts. I found your blog by way of Griz and I am glad I did.
When you say you will move the blog from Blogger to WP do you mean you will just move the posts? Won’t you loose any backlinks you have developed for the Blogger blog or do you have a way to utilize the ones pointed at Blogger.
Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks
Splork // Feb 3, 2009 at 7:19 am
I figure on leaving the Blogger blog where it is, backlinks intact. Maybe updating it myself once a month if it continues to perform.
Thinking it through a little further, I probably won’t move those posts over to WP. But given that there is an group of people eager to write posts on that topic, I’ll go ahead and set up a WP blog to sop up those articles. And then I’ll work to get backlinks to that new blog, since I know that niche topic has potential or is already performing.
Thanks for reading
earlmari // Feb 5, 2009 at 4:04 am
Splork, great info you got here. With the sites that you added other peoples articles to did they monetize well with adsense. What type of dollar figures are we talkin. 3 to 5 bucks a day with adsense.
Or did you have better results with aff links. What sort of conversion rate you got with the aff links. Was the income better with aff links or adsense?
Love the way you created a great auto pilot system. Simply genius !!
Will // Feb 5, 2009 at 5:47 am
Hi Splork, I found your blog via PLRpro. I think you’re doing a great job.
A bit off-topic but I’d like to ask you about BMD. I just bought it today, then came across your comment in “Tools I Use” that there seems to be a big problem with it and you’re waiting for an update. Is this still the case? Is it still advisable to use it?
Thanks!
Splork // Feb 5, 2009 at 7:48 am
Earlmari, those sites are added to Article Marketing Automation. Anyone can do it. Set up a blog and add it in. You’ll be able to collect articles as well on the topics you want, with the quality you desire. It’s free. Not free if you want to add your articles to the system.
I only have a couple of blogs that make more than a buck or two a day with Adsense. That’s my reality. Some people will talk about a single blog they own making hundreds of dollars a day. I don’t have any sites that get the traffic that is needed for that kind of bank. For me it’s quantity over quality. Given that, I need content. Easy content. Because I don’t have the time to update over a hundred blogs. That’s where RSS2B4 and AMA come into play. At least it did before Blogger stopped working with AMA. Now I’m kind of stuck with having to figure out which ones are worth duplicating and move them over to self-hosting or free blog hosts to continue to collect articles and monetize them again. Those that are on Blogger I am having to decide which ones warrant the attention that they’ll require to be viable. That’s where BMD comes into play as I’m trying to build the backlinks.
Adsense is probably a little better overall on Blogger than affiliate programs for these niche blogs.
Lot of work. And I just don’t have, or am not motivated to give it, the time needed.
Splork // Feb 5, 2009 at 7:52 am
Will, sorry about that. I went in and updated that page. Anyway, they’ve made tremendous changes to BMD. When I wrote that Tool page I was referring to ver 3. At the time version 3 wasn’t working well and they were trying to get ver 4 out.
Version 4 is fantastic. I use it every week. I’m fairly conservative about using it as I don’t want to get banned. I’m careful about how many times a week I post from a specific IP, how many accounts I create a week from an IP, how many links I post, etc.
Online Privateer // Feb 7, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I’m still waiting for V5 of BMD as it’s rumored to work on Macs.
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