Auto Blog Samurai Review

So, the idea is simple.  Let Auto Blog Samurai create your blog posts for you, visitors come to your blog, clicks on the advertisers’ links and you make money.  The sales page for Auto Blog Samurai states the author of the software has made over $4,400 in one month with this software.

It is an excellent idea! No more article writing!  Almost all internet marketers will tell you they would not want to write articles if they can. That is why so many of them outsource it to third parties – ending up with crappy articles.

So what else does the software do?  Essentially, it goes around collect posts from EzineArticle with your specified keyword.  It will also go to ClickBank and Amazon to collect relevant products/services to be posted as ads in your blog.  Oh yes, the software works with Blogger.com and WordPress blogs, so it will work for you.

At this time of this review, the costs of the software is $77. So you will be expecting to make back your money in no time!

Right?  WRONG!

The idea is right, absolutely. I bought the software the moment it came to the market.  I did not fall for the sales page, I fell for the idea.  It was a great idea after all!  Search for articles and post to my blog, all automatically. You can even set the schedule of posting as you pleases.

Wait – Too Good to be true?  Oh well, half true.

First thing first – You need to have a current Adsense Account.  If you dont, good luck.  The blogs you created WILL NOT get you approved.  Why?  Because they are crappy, in all honesty.

You also need to have affiliate ID with Amazon, ClickBank etc.  They are easy to create and you do get approved quite easily. BUT NOT ADSENSE!  My suggestion is that you create a proper blog or have a proper web site with nice contents and all, use that to apply for your adsense account FIRST!  Use that approved adsense account for your blogs on Blogger etc.

Bugs?

The software itself has many bugs to be fixed.  Deleting of the articles which were wrongly fetched didnt work.  The software will freeze if you have too many blogs setup (I tested with 12 blogs setup on Blogger.com) and run it too many times.  The trick is to exit and start the software again, well, it will work again.  I guess it has been around 2 weeks since I purchased the software, but till now there are no announcement that there are bug fix versions coming out.  The author is probably too busy smiling now since he is most definitely making more than $4,400 per month now, considering the popularity of Auto Blog Samurai.

The software also claims to post in more than 20 languages.  That is incorrect.  I have problems using the software to post in Japanese and Chinese.  Seems to me their unicode support is terrible.

Flaws?

Yes, the software does fetch wrong articles for your keywords sometimes.  In the tests I have done, the rate is probably about 10-15% incorrect articles (wrong keywords) fetched.  I am not talking about long tailed keywords.  I tested with “diet pills” and end up getting dating related articles.  You would also need to take note that the software is fetching articles from Ezine Articles, which means you are using the content of another person, you will need to give the author proper credit, which means you are going to loose link juice to the author!  Most of the time, the authors are internet marketers themselves (Who is so free to contribute articles to EzineArticles as a hobby?  No one would do it for fun!) who are and would be your COMPETITOR!

So, when you are using the article, make sure you go through what the software has fetched for you.  11 minutes a blog they say on the sales page.  Well, if you do things blindly, you can probably get a blog set up in 5mins FLAT – yes, that is what I can do.

Use it the RIGHT WAY!

My suggestion is to use Auto Blog Samurai to collect the articles.  Use the articles as a source of information.  Use re-writers and churn out a fresh copy of the information.  For better results, you should combine information of various articles so that your article is unique.  You want to make money, you got to work for it honey, no other means.

It is still a good piece of software, they can probably improved on it and make it an even bigger success.  In the meanwhile, do not expect one click do all and make $4,400 per month.  It does not work that way.

In Short:

Worth A Shot, Use It Correctly, Don’t Expect Miracles

Update – 2010 October 27:

Ok folks bad news. Some of the blogs which we created and deployed on Blogger.com has been deleted by their auto-spam tracker.  There could be a variety of reasons on this, but we feel it could be due to the massive amounts of posts made on a single run.  For example, for each run, you usually collect a X number of articles, Amazon products, ClickBank products etc and post them based on the schedules you set.

That apparently is a no-no for Blogger, and we feel Google may take the same grim view on your WordPress blogs too.  So use it with caution.

We do not recommend more than 5 posts per day, even if you set them on schedule – hey they are using their system, it is easy for them to know if you have uploaded 2000 articles at one run and schedule them till 2015 – that is still spamming no?

To trick the system, you should post maximum about 3 – 5 articles (including all those by Amazon, ClickBank etc.) daily at the beginning,  for at least the first week before ramping it up to 7 – 10 articles per day.  You can schedule them if you like, but our advice would be to upload to Blogger.com ONLY the number of articles on a daily basis, not all at one go.

For WordPress blogs, it should be better since you can schedule them to 2020, spreading say 5 – 10 articles daily.

You can and should check out Auto Blog Samurai and see for yourself.  Experiment and do not be greedy and lazy, one step at a time.

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