Hi Mary,

I agree with you about posting conact information in the form of an image. Many people tend to do this for SEO reasons:

- Not have a spider read contact information that might be repetitive on each page.
- Prevent an increase of spam (if the email address is an image).

Hope this helps and thanks for your comments!
Take Care,
Nick

I can enter any url into the software and it will add the rss feed found there to the database.

When you hit a button that says “run autobloggerpro” it pulls all the posts from the feeds I have added and posts them to my wordpress blog, plus creates a link back to the blog where the post came from. Even the title of the post links back to the blog it came from. If someone clicks to comment, they are taken to where they can comment on the original blog.

So everything points back to the source. In addition to that, I only pulled feeds where the other blog only allowed a summary so a user would have to click over to the other blog to finish reading the post.

I tried to build a blog with it that users would like. Kind of like all my favorite blogs in one place.

I was accused of stealing content and had bloggers telling me to remove their content.

Had I copied a part of their post and put it in blockquotes, then commented on it, would they have said the same thing? Bloggers do that top the NYTimes, SEONews, and other sources all the time. Common practice and ok as long as you link back to the source.

But because it was automated they felt it was stealing. What it was doing was promoting their blogs, giving them valuable links, and helping them but they weren’t smart enough to realize it.

I now use the software only to pull feeds from blogs we own or blogs my clients own. It has helped tremendously. The blog I use it on is a PR5 so the backlinks for my client’s blogs are valuable.

It gets crawled better and more often than many blogs. I have google alerts set up for the client blogs and find often that a seartch engine has picked up the post on a client’s blog due to it being on my autobloggerpro blog.

There are people who misused the software just as there are those who steal content, but thats no reason to believe everyone does.

Just my 2 1/2 cents worth.

On a related topic, it drives me nuts when I’m trying to paste somebody’s contact information from their website into my database and it’s graphic based so I have to go back and forth between screens and type it in by hand. And it’s incredibly common too.

Thanks for the post Nick!