I (or someone I hire) drive traffic and build links to every site I own. You can’t make money if you don’t have traffic. Granted, not all traffic is created equal but as you know the more content you have the more keywords you will rank for, and therefore the more visitors you will have.

The plugins and scripts I use are generally pretty smart and at least put up content that is fairly relevant to the theme of the site so it works most of the time.

Of course some sites perform better than others but for me it’s simply a numbers game. The more numbers I have, the better chance for success.

Rick

I’m surprised that the blogs with automated scripts are pulling traffic..!

From what you’ve said in your second para, though, you’re proactively driving traffic to your product pages to sell your products. Is that right?

What I was referring to in the article was attracting natural search traffic.

Cheers,

Martin.

I’m not sure I agree with you totally on this one. I have a number of blogs in specific niches that I use some type of semi-automated to fully automated content generator. To be honest the only reason these blogs exist is to sell a product, whether it be mine or someone else’s.

The reason I use these content generators is to ensure that the bots have something new to report on a regular basis. The product pages are SEO’d but I don’t concern myself with the automated content and when I build links and drive traffic it is always to a product page.

So, I guess what I am trying to say is that in my opinion there is a use for these types of scripts. I do agree though that if if it is your personal or business blog then it is probably not a good idea because visitors will not find anything worth staying for.