davedorm

Hi guys! Great thread. Here's my scandal...

I started a "legit" autoblog called Starfleet News Service. It was designed to scrape RSS content and aggregate it in one place for Trekkies and SciFI fans to read news on the latest movie and other news all in one place.

Then, in my research, I discovered this thread.

Damn. I mean.... DAMN...

Now I am fascinated with this idea of starting autoblogs on various topics for fun and profit. Thing is, I am ethically against spam of any kind. But the more I look at this scheme, the more I ask myself "wh's getting hurt here?" I mean this truly is a "victimless" scheme. Who are we ripping off? Google? Boo fucking hoo. Kinda like Robin Hood, man, steal from the rich to give to the poor (me).

So here are my concerns:

1) Can this work with subdomains using WPMU?
2) I noticed GoDaddy likes to yank accounts and domains. What about
Dreamhost? Any warnings there?
3) How many feeds should I use in WP-Autoblog per "niche"?
4) How many posts per day is a good target per "niche"?
5) What is the best way to get your site indexed and "out there" for people to
find and use?
6) Rewrite scripts. I found one called WP-Rewriter but it really just makes the
content more gibberish than anything. Does it really matter if the content is
usable? I mean as long as it is "unique" Adsense lets it pass...

Thanks again for a wonderful thread.

Jizzlobber

With WP-autoblog, if you are getting the following error:

Edit this line in 'rss_utils.inc' :

$epoch = gmmktime( $hours, $minutes, $seconds, $month, $day, $year);

to the following by adding +0 after ($seconds):

$epoch = gmmktime( $hours, $minutes, $seconds+0, $month, $day, $year);

cashflowrusty

1-5 = Read the thread. The answers (and alluded answers) lie there.

You said the site was to be a "legit"(your word) site for ST & SF fans.

If you want to tell those fans to read gibberish on their "legit" site, then maybe they should read Digital Point...

Stanley

Is anyone using full feeds instead of partial feeds?

What are you guys doing to spin the content?

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alexb

BamBam, I love you.

Quick newbie question. I've never actually run adsense before, and I've noticed something odd on my new autoblog. On the main page, the adsense blocks have nothing but wordpress-related advertisements, while on my 'About' page, the adsense blocks reflect the content of my site. How do I change that on the main page, or will it update itself automatically?

blueoceanwave

who to use for domains that are around $7 or less (and are not going away tomorrow)? that's what I've been paying with godaddy.

or maybe I should stick with making the domains look NOT like spam blogs and I should be fine.

holrthnthou

after lurking for a while, and trying a few different things with little success, I am going to try this. Thanks for all the great information!!