Generally speaking, many people nowadays opt to go via the ‘quantity’ route. This means that they spend minimal time setting up each blog but therefore are able to set up more of them. In turn, this would provide you with more streams of income – and that definitely isn’t a bad thing to say the least.

Furthermore, since quality isn’t so big an issue when you’re pursuing this route, each of those blogs could be populated with a lot of content. Admittedly, it might not exactly be of ‘stunning’ quality, but it should suffice to provide the websites with a necessary boost in terms of traffic. Despite that, you’ll find that blogs that go via the quantity route alone are not able to rank amazingly well on search engines, nor do they tend to generate tons of traffic.

On the other hand, if you opt for quality, you’re going to either need to source your articles from PLRs (and monitor the quality of those), or you’re going to have to monitor the quality of your incoming RSS feeds should you decide to source articles from that option. Needless to say, this is going to be quite a bit of extra work and so you’ll find that setting up blogs could take longer.

As a result, you’re going to end up with less blogs in total, but then again each of those blogs should generate more traffic and rank better on search engines.

It is worth noting that blogs that focus on quality are a lot easier to sell later on than those that simply opt for the quantity route. In fact, your income potential with blogs that focus on quality is going to be a lot higher.

At the end of the day, you’re going to find that your choice here is very much a matter of preference. After all, does it really matter if you have 10 high quality blogs making $200 a month each (for a total of $2,000) or 100 low quality blogs making $20 a month each (for a total of $2,000 as well!). In terms of the profit that you’re able to generate, you’ll find that the bottom line is always fairly similar.

If you like, you could even opt to balance quality and quantity somewhat.

Regardless, you need to make a decision as soon as possible, because as you can see this one decision is going to define your entire approach to auto blogging. Based on your choice, you can then start selecting sources, choosing the software that you’ll eventually use, and actually kick off your auto blogging efforts!

For starters, there are numerous factors that you need to consider. While it goes without saying that you want auto blogging software that will allow you to automatically update your blog with posts sourced from elsewhere, the big question is – What else do you want? Most of the auto blogging software available nowadays will be able to fit the bill and automate your blog posts, but the better ones come with various trimmings that distinguish them from the rest.

For example, some of the free auto blogging software that you may encounter may not be able to transfer images over to the blog post. Others may not be able to transfer videos. Yet others may actually transfer text over that you would rather not have transfered, such as advertisement, certain links, and other snippets of code.

Needless to say the better auto blogging tools out there are able to deal with most of these issues with ease.

In fact, another area of features that you might want to look at includes how auto blogging software is able to source posts. Although most auto blogging solutions tend to source blog posts from RSS feeds, some source them from elsewhere too including places like ezinearticles.com, Yahoo! Answers, and even YouTube itself!

The advantage of sourcing from alternative sources is simple – not many people source articles from places such as Yahoo! Answers and therefore you may stand to gain a lot more credit as a result. Another method by which some auto blogging software aims to make their articles ‘seem’ different from the originals consists of running the original articles through a translator, and then re-translating it back into English.

Despite the fact that these solutions aren’t perfect, they’re certainly features worth looking into!

All things said and done, your choice of auto blogging software is going to depend on the features that you desire, and the price that you’re willing to pay for it. Some can be pretty costly, so be sure that you look at your budget carefully before deciding to spend extravagantly on auto blogging software that is so advanced that it has tons of features you don’t need.

One of the best ways around both these problems is to choose rare content as your sources for autoblogging. Nine times out of ten, what most marketers do when they’re setting up their auto blogging sources is look for the best sources within their niche for such articles. These ‘best’ sources are the ones that consistently produce high quality content on a daily basis and very often they end up being fairly famous within the niche as well.

On the other hand, if you were to dig deeper into the blogosphere you will be able to find less famous blogs and sources that do produce high quality content pretty regularly. The advantage of using such sources as opposed to their more famous counterparts is partially due to the fact that such sources are less likely to be duplicated many times over and thus you might actually end up getting some credit for the articles.

In the same fashion, if you use rare content as sources for auto blogging you’ll find that the chances of your visitors already having encountered them elsewhere is going to be lessened. So the readers who frequent your site might actually figure that those pieces of content are original – and will have a reason to continue to visit your site!

Unfortunately, this plan isn’t flawless.

While it can work (and does work) in the majority of cases, the fact of the matter is that for some niches (particularly those that aren’t that popular in the first place), there are only a limited amount of sources out there. In such situations, you’re really going to have little choice but to make do with whatever you have.

On top of that, carrying out the research to find such rare pieces of content can be tedious, which is why many bloggers just figure that they might as well not bother and simply rely on the more famous sources out there.

Whatever your choice may be, at least you’re now aware of the options that are arrayed before you.

Instead, the recent trend has been to use RSS feeds as a source of content. With so many blogs and websites out there all sporting their very own RSS feeds, you’re going to find that it is quite easy to locate high quality RSS feeds that are chock full with content for practically every niche that you can think of. The advantage of these feeds as opposed to PLR articles is that they’re constantly being updated with new content and so there’s very little risk of you ‘running out’ of content when you’re using RSS feeds as your source.

Even today, RSS feeds are still the most popular source for auto blogging content. However, in recent times there have been a number of new auto blogging techniques that tend to source their content from various other sources. Whether or not these sources are ‘better’ than RSS feeds is still very much being debated, but it is still worth knowing what the future of auto blogging content sources could hold.

Chief among the new sources for auto blogging content is the usage of YouTube as a source. With the rise of video, the internet is positively teeming with tons of fantastic and informative videos and using them on your blog is bound to appeal to your visitors. As such, it should be no surprise that YouTube is being used as a source of content.

Next in line when it comes to new sources of content is definitely Yahoo! Answers. While this may come as a bit of a surprise, the truth is that within Yahoo! Answers there are numerous niche-related questions and taking those questions and the best answer is a great way of providing high quality content that deals with specific niche-related topics!

These are the two main additions to the auto blogging scene. There are others, that use things such as article directories, social media, and even social bookmarks as sources of content – but they aren’t really that popular as of yet.

Who knows what the future holds for auto blogging. Whatever the case, it is bound to be fairly exciting!

In nutshell the answer to this is: Blogger-based blogs can be automated as well.

For quite some time, the lack of plugin support on Blogger meant that its users were severely limited in what they could do. During that time, the idea of automating a Blogger-based blog was essentially just a pipe dream and was not even close to reality. However, as auto blogging has become more and more popular, new and more powerful types of software have emerged and some of them actually give you the ability to automate your Blogger-based blogs!

The advantages of doing so are tremendous. On the whole, Blogger has a reputation for being indexed quickly and ranking fast on search engines. After all, it is produced and run by Google. So you could get an automated blog up and running in record time if you were using blogger as opposed to WordPress.

More importantly however, Blogger-based blogs are free to create, and being able to create as many free blogs as you desire and mold them into fully automated blogs is certainly going to be advantageous. In no small way this will help you overcome the issues that you may have with needing to find hosting space, and buy separate domain names (as is the case with WordPress installations!). So you could end up saving cash, and being able to produce more and more automated blogs faster than ever before!

By now you should be starting to understand the appeal of being able to automate Blogger-based blogs. While it is true that WordPress offers a lot more functionality and has some great plugins to take advantage of, if you’re just looking to set up some small automated blogs that help you to make a little bit of cash daily (each!), then free Blogger-based blogs are the answer that you’re looking for.

Mind you, there is a drawback. Since only the best and most powerful pieces of auto blogging software can currently allow the automation of Blogger – it comes with a price tag. Think about the long term however, and how much you would end up saving by not having to continuously buy a chain of new domain names, hosting services, and so on.

Think about that – and then figure out whether you can afford to splash just a fraction of the amount in order to gain the ability to automate Blogger-based blogs!

Here and now, we’re going to explore exactly what automated blogging is all about.

Contrary to popular belief, automated blogging does not consist of software that writes blog posts on your behalf. While it would be nice to have a robot that is able to churn out great blog posts about any topic that you feed it, that simply isn’t the case. No matter how advanced the automated blogging software you end up using – it needs to get its blog posts from somewhere!

More often than not, that somewhere ends up being RSS feeds. Basically, RSS feeds are just syndicated content from other people’s blogs or websites and therefore they form a readymade source of content. Without getting too technical, it should suffice to say that automated blogging consists of taking these pieces of content and republishing them onto your own blog – automatically, of course!

Naturally, this makes blogging a whole lot easier and will rid you of the constant need to manually update your blogs. Running one blog is tough enough, but what if you’re running 10? 20? 100? Can you imagine having to write content for each and every blog that you run on a daily basis? That’s exactly why automated blogging is so popular!

Needless to say, in order for automated blogging to truly work, the monetization side of things needs to be automated as well. Thankfully, there are many types of automated monetization nowadays so you should be spoilt for choice in that regard. Still – there are several important considerations that you need to consider especially if you’re promoting specific products.

After all, what’s to say that the products themselves are going to remain relevant.

From this small introduction to automated blogging, you should be getting a feel for what it entails – and what it could potentially do for you. Automating your blog may take a little bit of effort initially, but in the long run you’re going to find that the benefits far outweigh that miniscule amount of initial work that needs to be done!