Automatic blog posting?

  • I’ve seen other webmasters with blogs that have auto-blog posting.

    I have a few questions regarding this:

    1) How do I go about having my blog being able to post automatically?
    2) Is it illegal?
    3) Where do the posts come from if a blog is automated?

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  • You mean “scraping” other blogs for content?
    https://featheredfibers.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/blog-plagiarism-or-blog-scraping-what-to-do/

    Yes, it is illegal if you are scraping copyrighted content and presenting it as your own. You can be sued for it.

    However, if you are talking about writing a post and having it show up on your site at some point in the future, then you can do that through WP when you write the post. You can set it to actually post on a certain day and time.

    Besides, don’t believe scraping is THE business idea that will make you rich while you do nothing : search engines are no fools, and your autoblog would very soon be close to being entirely ignored.
    Fortunately.

    I run an aggregator that scrapes a lot of blogs and there’s an etiquette with it.

    With my site they are required to sign up to be scraped. I will not automatically add a blog without the owners permission. I also will not check their site for new posts more than once in an hour period. I actually manually set this number to 1.5 hours because I prefer that. I make it very clear that all content is owned by the original owner and I excerpt the post and point to the original source. Also my permalinks point to the original source.

    I also don’t make money off it ?? but it’s an online community aggregator, rather than something to just get google ranking on specific keywords and use adsense to try to make money. Like a poster above said: scraping is not a business idea at all. Original content is the key.

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