Ahhhh ethics my favorite subject.. The age old question of are Autoblogs ethical. Well let me put it straight. It is considered by some to be of blackhat nature autoblogs or maybe even greyhat to others. In all honesty they are neither. Autoblogs are a very ethical way of delivering high quality content to your readers. Remember before when I said that essentially Google news and yahoo news and other types of sites where basically big autoblogs? They are delivering HIGH QUALITY content to there readers. So if you must consider that an unethical practice then you must also look at the fact that some of the biggest sites on the web are unethical.

Now as I said AUTOBLOGS are ethical yet however splogs are not. What is a splog? A splog is a site made for spam nothing else to manipulate the search engines. An autoblog on the other hand strives on delivering quality content to the reader. I am going to try to go in depth here.

Splog. STEALS content from other websites. A splog is built for the only purpose of manipulating the search engines. These splogs do not last long as webmasters do report websites that steal there content. Which triggers a manual review and then a banning from the serps is sure to be next. This is another reason why the dupe content penalty myth exist right here. In no way shape or form is a splog ethical. Which this is the reason why most whitehat marketers have such a bad opinion on autoblogs.

Now an autoblog on the other hand strives to give quality content to the reader and in exchange make a few coins maybe from some ads or whatever. They may pursue things like link building to help better position there blog but the blog is not built for the sole purpose on manipulating the search engines to rank there other sites. They are usually made for income from the site itself. An autoblog gives credit where credit is due – A linkback to the original article which in turn makes the original author happy and everyone shares in the profit. You see a real autoblog owner understands that traffic trickles down and he wants to keep filtering it either through his ads or to the original author of the article. He also tries to take some time to put a little effort into his autoblog so usually can pass a manual inspection from google.

Well there you go in a nutshell. Any questions ask away on the forum.