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Why You Should Avoid Automated Blogging

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Think outside the box for unique content

Think outside the box for unique content

Blogging is a great way to record your thoughts and share opinions with people from around the world. It is a form of wide-scale communication which has the power to build communities and increase consumer knowlegde. If you own your own blog, you own a powerful communication tool - visitors come to your site to read your personal point of view, which is why you should always try and keep your content fresh and original.

A phenomena called Automated Blogging which pulls content via RSS feeds from various other blogs has often been implemented as a good option to ‘real’ writing. However, the Shopzilla team feels that although this may cut down the amount of time that you spend on the internet, a blog needs unique content to drive visitors and to keep hold of the loyal ones. Automated Blogging may end up damaging your site’s reputation. Your users will start to recognise the fact that you haven’t done your own research and if the primary reason for exploring your site is to get a real opinion on a product, event, service etc, why should they come to your blog when they can go and find true, personal posts elsewhere?

Make your site unique and stand out from the crowd - this is a great tip but often is the case where writer’s block may set in. If you sometimes struggle to come up with fresh content, take a look at our post on Overcoming Writer’s Block.  Avoiding automated blogging and providing orginal articles is what tends to bring in the higher revenues and is what the best writers do - they have their own ideas and form established user bases on their own back, using unique content.

Here at Shopzilla, we focus very strongly on content-related advertising and like our Publishers to have established websites, integrating shopping content that matches with the website’s theme.  If your visitor numbers are high and these are people who are really interested in what you have to say, you should see some good results through the Shopzilla UK Publisher Program.

Why not sign up today and give it a go - reward all that effort you put into creating your content by monetising your site through us.

If you have any questions, please have a look at the Publisher Blog or contact us directly.

- Take a look here for more reasons why you should avoid automated blogging.

Finding a Niche for Your Content Site

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Searching for a niche?

Searching for a niche?

How do you choose which niche to promote? And how do you find a successful one?

The best piece of advice we have seen so far is this: write about what interests you.

Affiliates often find that the content needed for creating a successful website can be a slow slog and is often difficult to keep constant (check out our post on Overcoming Writer’s Block for ideas on how to inspire fresh content). So, if you start with a niche in which you’re already interested, one of your hobbies perhaps (?), then without realising it you already have that much needed content. If, for example, you’re a golf addict who likes nothing better than to spend a Sunday on the course, blog about your games and offer tips for better play or advice on which clubs to buy.

As for choosing a successful niche - do some research before jumping in; search Google AdWords for a keyword match estimate and see how popular a chosen niche or keyword is. This will also give you ideas for a domain name which, as we know, can be an important part of SEO.

Do some searches on Google to have a look at the types of sites that appear in the search results for any one, or a combination, of keyword (s). You’ll know what you’re up against then.

If you’ve still no idea what you want to write about, get creative and think about what people look for these days. Can you answer a question for your readers? Can you provide information on a subject for which there’s not much information available on the net? Get talking. The more you talk to others, the more likely you are to find that niche you’ve been looking for.

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