I have a few blogs that I setup awhile back that are virtually on auto-pilot. The content is all unique, automated and 100% free. Also, backlinks are created automatically. For these blogs I usually just put a banner in the sidebar, sometimes I float AdSense to the right of each post, sometimes I add eBay auctions underneath the posts or on a separate page. Also, I usually put some sort of ad on the main page above all the posts.
One of the blogs, on the topic of acai berries, has a conversion (worth $41) every 2-3 days. Did I mention that I don’t really do anything to it anymore? I just let it run on it’s own merit.
Free Blog Content
To get the unique blog content, automatically added, and for free, I look to SK or AMA. It depends a lot on the topic, which network I choose. AMA has a large selection of specific and broad categories to choose from. SK has just broad categories. However, with SK you can also specify keywords for the content that you want. So for the acai blog I used SK. I picked a few categories, like Health, etc. then entered the keyword “acai”. Initially I set it to 10 a day until I reached 10 posts, then changed it to just 2 a day. If the specific category that you are looking for exists on AMA, that’s another great choice for free blog content.
Auto-Backlinks
You can use plugins that will automatically Social Bookmark each post as it gets published. Auto Social Poster is a good choice, plus there’s an Onlywire auto-submit plugin (free) floating around. I haven’t used it so I can’t account for it’s quality. Plugins like these have to be constantly updated to keep up to date with the bookmarking sites, so it’s more likely that a free plugin developer may drop the ball. Granted, the OnlyWire plugin requires just one API call, so it may be a freebie that stays up to date. Let me know.
Also, the free content you get from either AMA or SK has links to 3rd party websites in it (that’s why it’s free), well, a lot of times they link to other blogs, which initiates a trackback link, so you will be automatically getting backlinks from niche related blogs on occasion.
That’s all I really did for, no effort, free, auto-backlinking on these blogs.
Semi Auto-Backlinking
There’s another process that I use for getting backlinks to these blogs. There’s a bit of work up front, then it’s automated after that. You submit an article in a special format (generally 2 or more articles merged together) to SK or AMA. The articles, when processed by SK and AMA, will generate several unique versions of the article. Each version contains your choice of hyperlink(s).
The anchor text can be random and so can the URL, so it’s a good idea to do some deep linking, perhaps to a category page, or a review page if you included one on your blog. Now, slowly over time, you will get backlinks from niche related blogs, which is really just the reverse process of getting free blog content to your blogs (like mentioned above).
There is a fee to do these submissions. It is a monthly fee and lets you initiate as many submissions as you want during your subscription period. It generally takes about 2 months or more for 1 submission to run its course (for slow, natural link building), but you can run multiple submissions simultaneously for as many sites as you have.
Last I checked, when signing up for the free version of AMA, you get to try the normally paid service for free for a short time.
August 3, 2009
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