Automatic Blogs or rather automatic blogging gets mixed reviews. Blogging purists generally regard blogs that generate content with automated processes with much disdain. But the truth is the effectiveness of “automatic blogs” cannot be questioned.

What are your blogging goals. This may be the best determining factor for the kind of “Automatic Blog” you create!

When I think of automatic or automated blogs several things come to mind:

1. Blogs whose content is generated through an automated process.
2. Blogs that use RSS feeds for sole or additional content
3. Blogs that use Article Directories for content
4. Blogs that use PLR articles for content
5. Blogs that are created through an automated process

The type of automatic blog that best meets your needs is solely dependent on your goals as a blogger. Your goals will also determine if automation is necessary to your blogging success.

Most blog automation involves generating content relevant to the blogs theme or purpose and its posting to the blog. Your content demands will be different depending on the kind of blog you publish. For example, the needs of an Affiliate marketer will be different from that of a hobbyist or from someone who is writing about a specific niche market.

The goal of the affiliate marketer is selling a product, while the goal of a professional writer or journalist may be a specific story or industry or niche market. The common denominator here is they all require relevant content.

This is what you need to think about if you are considering automatic blogging.

In my next post, I’ll look at using automatic blogs for affiliate marketing. Stay tuned or better yet, subscribe to my RSS feed.

Your comments of questions are welcomed.