iContentRobot on the surface looks like an incredible piece of membership. I’ve seen some articles it continually churns out and they do read pretty good. The problem is it’s not like you are going to be dropping in your own PLR to generate hundreds of pieces of unique content. No, the owner is going to provide you, along with 1,000 other people access to the same 50 articles/topics each month.
I’m trying to get my head around what that means. True, every piece of content will be unique. But if 1,000 people are creating tons of unique content on the same keyword, it stands to reason that not everyone is going to rank high for that keyword. If the program spins a new article for you every three seconds, along with everybody else in the membership, won’t that ultimately dilute the keyword? Perhaps you can take the time and insert “big freakin’ blue widget” where it says “widget”. The sales page did say something about a find and replace feature I think. So if you do spend time doing keyword research as normal then maybe it would be worthwhile.
I want a tool like this. But I want it for topics I want to build sites on. I want to be able to use my own articles. And I don’t want to have to join some membership either. Think about what the owner stands to gain: $77 a month for 1,000 users. Who is getting the better deal out of this? Would you bother creating a time sucking, pain in the ass membership if you had a tool like this that could build a page every 3 seconds of original content? I mean, if the tool was making me fat stacks of cash, why share it with the IM contingent? He says he lives a “flamboyant lifestyle”. He has “mini-mansions” and “works one hour a day”. The hell would he need to bother with turning this into a membership? Is “cashing in suitcases full of money” not enough? You gotta wonder why he is so keen on making it a membership if it does what he says it does. I’m just saying I’d sooner churn out the pages for my sites and post them up in a few hours time than have to deal with 24/7 support of a tool and membership. But what do I know? There are almost 1,000 people willing to give the guy $77 a month for access to this thing. I’d probably like the extra mil a year too if I was him.
Honestly I do not believe that unique content is the problem. I believe getting links are. And you know, if someone has to convince me with 23 pages of salecopy how great their product is and why I need to buy, then I’m pretty sure that I don’t.
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Frank C // Mar 27, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I’m working on a program like this but I’m still kicking around the content quality issue. I have it where it will take a base PLR and mangle it using a few randomization techniques and a ‘Victionary’ misspeller. It then adds more random stock phrases to it enough to avoid the dupe filter. But the result is pretty darned ugly. But hey, but if I could get $77 a month from 1000 people from it I’d be happy.
If you want some input into it though, let me know. It’s still very much under development so any ideas would be appreciated.
April // Mar 27, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Quite frankly if you’re going to spend that sort of money every month you’d be better off spending that money on links. Backlinksolutions, article marketer and paying people to submit your sites to directories etc is much better use of money.
Parasites the lot of them.
Splork // Mar 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Hey Frank. I’ve tried out a couple of tools like this and the quality was just horrible. Those that worked OK took forever to set up just one article. I quickly discovered I was able to re-write better than any tool out there. That said, I would love to have a tool that created at least mediocre content. I have no idea how something like that would be programmed. I like the idea of this guys tool. It does generate decent content, over and over. But I don’t want to spend $77 a month for the privledge of not using my own content. Like April said, I’d rather use the money on links. I truly believe that dupe content can be overcome by links.
Frank C // Mar 28, 2008 at 7:32 am
I do agree that link building is important, more important than the content when it comes to building niche sites.
The programming problem with a content generator is that you either have to use a Markov engine, a synonimizer or some other database driven random substitution engine or else you have to depend heavily upon human interaction. What I’m working on uses parts of an text steganography encryption engine I wrote a while back as a learning exercise for the randomization. To that I’m adding in some additional options that allow some fine tuning to the ugliness, such as the misspeller.
The biggest challenge is building the database that drives it. I’d guess that’s what they’re really charging for with their $77/month. I’ve noticed many of these systems don’t make their database public but only provide it via a web service. I think it might be a good selling point to include my database with the program and make it modifiable by the end user.
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