If you’re a problogger I know you stumbled the word auto-blogging. The word is really popular and the technique is a favorite to lazy bums out there waiting for their wallets to fatten up. If you do not know auto-blogging, it’s a method in which you make a lot of blogs with the help of a tool. This tool or tools helps the webmaster update their blogs with their favorite advertising program running in the internals of their pages. This results to less effort but more money that comes in return making it a favorite choice of earning money online.

The video above describes what blogsense is capable of in automating your blogs. I’ve heard good feedback about this tool but never used it even once. It’s running in version 4 now and I believe the tool is now gaining momentum to blogistas and webmasters out there using the dark arts of blogging. Anyway If you have used the tool kindly leave a comment on what you think about this platform and give as insights on how it performs in your toolbox.

For additional info, autoblogging is not an easy job maintaining a reputable content in your blog. Otherwise if your tool failed in delivering a nicely made content then you’ll suffer the consequences of getting your blog trashed…

1. Read more hack – The younger days of blogger blogs will give you the hassle of tweaking the custom html code of your blog. But the new blogger blog has a feature of read more… similar to wordpress. You can add the read more section by adding the <!– more –> comment in the “Edit Html” section of your post editor or clicking the read more editor to the new post editor of blogger.

2. New post editor – One of the things I hate about blogspot is their post editor, it sucks really bad. The new post editor can be used by going to Settings -> Basic -> Post Editor section. The new post editor performs much better than the old one but still it still sucks to me.

3. Title Tag Hack – The title tag hack enables you to have an Search Engine friendly titles. I’ve posted an article here before describing how you can do it. You can check it out here.

4. Wibiya Toolbar – It’s the newest dig I found a couple of months ago and it’s one of my must-haves in my blogger blog. Adding the wibiya toolbar will do the work of adding the recent posts section, visitor notifier, Social bookmarking,Social Network Integration(Twitter,Facebook), language translation and RSS feeds subscription.

5. Google Integrated Search box – You can easily add your own google custom search box now, The widget is available if you click “Add Gadget” in your blog interface. The cool thing about this is that search results are displayed inside your blog and no redirection need.

6. Favicon – Yeah! that’s right the big “B” logo near the address bar and title tab is an eye sore to some. Adding your own favicon makes your blog look professional and cool. To add a favicon go to “Edit Html” in the layout section of your blog and look for this code “]]></b:skin>” (exclude quotation marks) and paste the code below after the “]]></b:skin>”

<link href=’REPLACE YOUR IMAGE LINK HERE’ rel=’shortcut icon’/>

5. LinkWithin – One of my favorites too aside from the Wibiya toolbar. This improves your content visibility since the thumbnails of images in your post makes it good looking and thus improving Click Through Rate in your blog.

6. Commenting Systems – Intense Debate and Disqus thus it all for you from managing spams and informing you of new arrivals. The Facebook Connect helps a lot^^

7. Embedit Tool – Embeds doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp,txt, rtf, csv and html file formats. And they can download the emded file in your blog too.

8. The Floating Button hack – You can have a “Follow us”,”Feedback”,”Contact Me” floating button with your blog by going to Layout -> Add Gadget -> HTML/JAVASCRIPT and putting the code below and replacing the links needed.

<a style=”display:scroll;position:fixed;center:5px;right:5px;” href=”INPUT YOUR LINK” title=”Feedback Please”><img src=”IMAGE OF YOUR CHOICE HOSTED” /></a>

9. Apture – One of the newest hack/plugin you can have. It beautify your posts and adds wonderful effects to links and other types of media. This is a must have. I even use it here in my blog

10. Email Subscription Form - For good traffic conversions you definitely need this one.  You can add this hack by logging in to your Feedburner account(Register if you don’t have one). Click on the “My feeds” at the top page and click your blog that you registered with your Feedburner account.Click Publicize Tab and Email Subscriptions option and choose Feedburner radio button as the service to provide the email subscriptions. Choose your settings under subscription management. Click Activate and copy the code which is generated, go to your layout section of your blog and click Add Gadget -> HTML/JAVASCRIPT and paste the code you copied and Save.

1.  Blogspot – This is my all time favorite in terms of free hosting. You can easily integrate your adsense code in your blog because of it’s easy interface. Managing and configuring the looks of the ads is very simple to do because of widgets. Just drag and drop and you can alter the position instantly.

2. Tumblr – Tumblr just like blogspot is also one of my favorite blogging platform.  Aside from quick posting and ease of use, You don’t need to worry anything. But putting adsense ads has some complexities behind it. Anyway it’s still a good blogging platform that allows adsense ads to run in your blog, Here’s a tutorial i digged out on how to add adsense codes in your blog. You need a little html/css background but it’s worth learning it.

3. I.ph – You probably do not know this blogging platform but I.ph is one heck of a blog. It runs using Calliope CMS and it’s one of the blogs that can rival blogger when it comes to user-friendliness. Adding adsense is very easy to and you don’t need to tweak any codes just to add one. You only need your publisher I.d. and you’re done.

4. Weebly – Weebly is not a blog but a site creator. It’s one that you call WYSIWYG site makers if you want to make professional looking websites. Although Weebly is a site creator you can also make a blog inside your site. Other than that you can make static pages and widgets. Adding adsense ads is also easy but the drawback is that you’ll be having  shared revenue to weebly.

5. Yola – Thesame as weebly, another site creator which is very similar to weebly’s feature.

6. Squidoo – Your pages are called Lens in which you can expand and customize. You cannot add adsense to your Squidoo lens but you can set it up in such a way that you and squidoo will share revenues with their ads. The share is 50/50 and traffic is really high if you have nice content.

7. Hubpages – Hubpages are really hot these days and people use it too advertise because of high traffic probability. The concept of hubpages are very similar to squidoo, the only difference is that your pages are called Hubs. Adding adsense code is done by yourself and it’s relatively easy but you have to understand that you and hubpages share adspace so you might see your adsense ads or hubpages’ own ads.

1.  Choose a nice template that is SEO friendly and appropriate for your niche. Most bloggers took a long time deciding what template to use. If you are going to ask me I’ll pick for the minimalist design since it’s very SEO  friendly with less clutter to their codes. Greatly designed themes are not that SEO optimized with full of images that makes the page load time very slow.What we want to achieve is a blog with great performance and good looking. Minimalist design is by far the best template that you can use in your blog. Although minimalist design is stuck with the basic colors you can do some serious customizations that would make your blog look good.

2. Display a visible link with your RSS feed in your home page. You can also apply for a feedburner account in which you can use the link for your RSS feed. Readers of your blog which is interested in your content looks for RSS feed in which they can subscribe. If they’re the lazy readers they would rarely visit your site and would read your content to their favorite RSS aggregators.

3.  Monetize your blog right away. Some people believe that displaying ads to a newly made blog is a bad practice. In my case there’s nothing wrong with that. People don’t bother those ads after all! what they want is content and not the ads.I’ll recommend using adsense if you’ll be monetizing your blog, adding it to blogger blogs is relatively easy.Always  remember that your ads should  not be an eyesore to the reader. Masks the appearance of your ads in such a way that it looks like a part of the content. Who knows, you could get lots of money in your week old blog.

4. Add Title tag hack to your blog. Blogger blogs display their pages in search engines in an odd way. Odd way means not SEO friendly, They follow the format of “BLOGTITLE : POST TITLE” and that is not good when users search for information. You can use this link to for the title tag hack customization. If you are thinking of adding meta keywords and meta description tags to your posts I will discourage you of doing that. It will bloat your code in some ay if your post count reached 500. I’ve been there before so trust me with this.

5.Register to Google Analytics and Webmasters tools. This is very self explanatory, you’ll be needing google analytics in tracking your web traffic and Webmasters tools for sitemap addition and tracking for some indexing problems. Sitemeter is a good choice too since it can detect web traffic real time.

6. Change the commenting system of your blog. The default for blogger blogs is that only people with Google i.d. can comment to your post. Change the settings so all people can comment to your post, just make sure that captcha validation will not be disabled or else you’ll be having problems with spam. You can also apply for Disquss commenting system which is very good in managing comments. Disquss commenting system also looks good to blogspot blog making it more proffessional looking. The only downside of this one is that you’ll have another account for comment monitoring which is a hassle in my part.