Yes, see here: CJ stats This is from 3 sites.

Try displaying 15 - 25 posts per page, and have an opening and closing remarks in your index.php theme file.

Steve

As for Google’s duplicate content filter, I spent months researching and proving that the filter does indeed exist and filters out alot of duplicates. I did this when I purchased one of the adsense ready products that contained tons of articles taken from article submission sites. Google simply refused to index the articles. Believe me, I tested it.

Now I will try to make the posts somewhat more unique but I doubt that it will make any difference. Tell me, are you really making money from this operation? I’m not talking about money that you made through bringing people via ads you purchased. I am talking about through this method you described above i.e. google search traffic via automatic rss feeds.

Thanks for your feedback. Have you looked at your traffic log (Awstats)? It will tell you the last time Google bot came to visit your blog, and how many times so far for the month. More importantly Awstats (or Webalizer) will also show you what keywords were searched in the search engines to arrive at your blog.

Duplicate content is rather over-hyped. Yes, if Google finds that your blog pages are exactly the same (in terms of looking at the HTML code) as another blog/site, then yes, Google will only choose between one of the two sites in the index. You can very easily make your blog “unique” by changing the number of posts to display on a page, or by adding your own opening statement/closing statement around your blog posts.

To see if Google even have your site in its index, do a search for “site:” and see if any pages come up. If the search came up with no results, then yeah, you have a problem.

I had already set up an ebay affiliate type blog but adding in the rss component was something I did after reading your post. While it is kinda cool that I have automatic posting through the rss feeds, 99% of the posts do not get indexed by google.

I done google searches on my post topics and noticed that even after ten pages of google results my blog isnt listed anywhere. I have had the site set up already for several weeks so I know from blogging experience that google does index posts in just a few days. If they havent been indexed yet then chances are they wont be.

Also, my shortstat plugin shows that I have only one hit via Google search results and that was before I added in the RSS feeds. I have had absolutely no hits from google as a result of this tool.

While its nice to have automatic feeds into my blog this tool brings me absolutely no traffic from Google. I’m guessing its a duplicate content filter thing. Google sees that the post is identical to ebay as well as other sites and as a result drops your site.

I also find it frustrating when people talk about these great ways to make money online either knowing or not knowing that it doesnt work.

Sorry if I sound annoyed but I am. Are you having success with this tool? I doubt it.

I thought you might be interested in a new Passive income opportunity. It is called Giblink.com

My initial $150.00 Pro membership has already turned into over $600.00.
Giblink has gone live on October 15th and already has well over 25k members.

Regards,

Jed B. Zimmerman

Deb:
The ebay blogs I built were just pulling items from ebay listings. I only have one RSS feed per blog, but I suppose you can add in your mix of content by pulling from other RSS feeds. Updating is automatically done by the plugin so it’s set-and-forget.

Cr:
Yes, I have encounter that problem before also. It probably means that your RSS feed returned too many ebay listings. What I do sometimes is use the advanced search function, and specify a minimum number of bid or minimum price to reduce the number of listings that way.

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Thanks,
Steve