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Eli^4: Autoblogging to enhance your niche affiliate site

I’ve always been a huge fan of Bluehat SEO…not because I’ve actually done it, but because Eli’s blog is one of the most interesting SEO reads I’ve come across.  Sure, he posts => Google reacts, but either way, it’s good stuff.

So I was doing some brainstorming last night…several people I know have been pretty enthusiastic about blog farming, and I think it’s a really interesting idea without regard to how long it might be viable.

Essentially, the premise is that you’re creating a large number of unique content pages in a semi-to-fully-automated fashion.  We know Google loves blogs (seomfg got out of the sandbox within a week, and had a TBPR on the homepage in less than a month — and we did everything completely legit).

So, let’s say you have an autoblog or blog farm that is generating 5-20 posts a day as an example.  Assume you’re using Eli’s PingCrawl Wordpress plug-in, you can realistically expect to get at least a few backlinks a day (probably 2-to-40, which is a wide range — but either way).

To take it a step further (this was triggered by Aaron Wall’s post on SEO book about WP IP delivery hacks), let’s assume you cloak the entire blog by crawler IP address (I recommend Fantomas’ SpiderSpy for IP content delivery) and 301 everything that Google sees back to your home page — as long as you are either autoblogging or blog farming everything with enough detail that your posts’ titles include your head keyword, you’re getting somewhere between a couple and a few dozen links back to your home page on a daily basis.  And those backlinks show some relevance because all of your fake-blog posts have your head keyword in the title.

Let’s assume your vertical is somewhat competetive.  Whoever is ranking first for your head term is probably lucky to have 10-20% of their backlinks with “head keyword” in the anchor text (unless they rented a lot of links).  So this strategy should pay some dividends, because you’ll be ruling the “head keyword” with inbound anchor text relevance (albeit varied slightly, but also productively).  Especially if you have total control over the title of your auto/farm posts.  Just make sure that most (if not all) of your posts have your head keyword in them somewhere, with slightly different surrounding text.

Hope this is interesting,
=george

PS. It should be noted that, after a short time in this industry, it makes me laugh how poorly people cloak for SEO value.  Look at this example for CareerBuilder — look at the “Jobs” footer link to Careerbuilder.com on usatoday.com with a typical browser UA…and then look at it as Googlebot.  Not that I agree or disagree with what they’re doing (or, especially, how they’re doing it).  But UA checking is for pussies; pay for an IP feed if you’re going to go balls to the wall.