OzMan

Most important statement in this thread.

I have some more "common sense" to add...After playing with blogs and several auto generated content/parsing/posting tools for about three years or so, I am slowly but surely abandoning these tools and converting all my splogs to "real" blogs.

This is the only way to go as a real person builds a reputation with surfers and SE's alike and you are essentially immune to worrying about any real or imagined SE changes and you don't need to spend any time on getting backlinks.

The days of 1000 adsense splogs generating $1 a day each are over for most of us. The only ones surviving for now appear to be those that happen to have backlinks that have weight B]for now[/B].

However the days of $100 a day from 100 "real" blogs are there for the taking if you want to put in the effort.

"Fuck Off, I can't even keep one blog updated regularly with hand written unique content, how the fuck could I manage 100 or 1000?" I hear you say.

Well that is where you need to use automation. Not to post someone else's feeds or change them up a bit into kinda readable unique posts and auto post them, but to dramatically speed up how you get the information that you will base your post on and how you get it to your blog.

Pick subjects/niches that you are actually interested in. Unless you are brain dead you should be able to come up with a pretty good selection..and unless you are a real freak, there will probably be quite a few people interested in the same area. Alternatively work the other way and become interested/knowledgeable in the most popular areas.

Ok so how do you come up with what to write? (especially true if it's an actual post with a specific subject or point rather than "Hey click here to check this girl's tits out"... you need to read...A LOT..REGULARLY...LIKE AN HOUR A DAY OR MORE.

Use tools like feed readers and news/authority hubs where you can aggregate the latest news and/or detailed info in one place to save time.

If you really hate reading a screen for extended periods, mix it up and print some of that shit out or buy some books in that subject area. (again more useful idea for mainstream rather than trying to find a book on cheerleaders in Antarctica)

Reading isn't good enough. You have to read fucking fast but still take most of it in so you can regurgitate it out into a meaningful post later. You need to make a concerted effort to dramatically improve your reading speed which probably hasn't changed since high school.

I have tried a few different speed reading programs but the one I currently use is called photoreading and blows all the others away IF YOU STICK WITH IT.

Ok so you know generally where to find the info and how to absorb a ton of it fast..how do you speed up the actual posting part especially if you are a two finger typist? I have just started very recently playing with text to speech software. It is working quite well and has improved dramatically since I last tried it several years ago when I would say "My name is Fred Jones" and it would come up with something like "By the way fried bones"

Lastly there are programs out there or get one made to consolidate your blog list urls and user/passes to speed up the logging in and out to each blog etc part.

You don't need to update every blog daily. If you update each one even weekly and get each post down to a minute or two you will be able to manage to keep a shitload of blogs from having that not so fresh feeling. I'm not there yet but using these guidelines I really believe it is possible to manually update 1000 blogs weekly in a couple hours a day.