Auto blog
Auto blog: automatic posts that aren't spun or scraped
A safe auto blog researches each topic, writes an original article, checks it and publishes to your CMS at a pace your site can absorb. A risky one scrapes feeds or spins other people's posts, which is what Google's scaled content abuse policy targets.
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Two kinds of auto blog
What separates a safe auto blog from spam
A safe auto blog
- Researches each topic from live sources and keeps the links
- Writes an original article from a brief
- Checks every draft before it can publish
- Posts a few times a day at most
- Waits for your approval unless you turn review off
A spun or scraped one
- Pulls RSS feeds or other sites' posts
- Swaps in synonyms or machine-translates the text
- Publishes whatever comes out
- Posts hundreds a day
- Cites sources it never opened
What Google says
The rule is about value at scale, not about software
Google's spam policies define scaled content abuse as "many pages are generated for the primary purpose of manipulating search rankings and not helping users". The examples include scraping feeds "including through automated transformations like synonymizing, translating, or other obfuscation techniques", and using generative AI "to generate many pages without adding value for users".
The policy applies "no matter whether content is produced through automation, human efforts, or some combination of human and automated processes", Google wrote when it announced it in March 2024. Its guidance on AI content says generative AI "can be particularly useful when researching a topic", and asks you to "manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content" before publishing.
So the test is not whether software wrote it. It is whether each post adds something, and whether anyone checked it.
The checks
What stops a draft before it goes live
Autopilot runs every article through rules aimed at how automated content fails. A draft that fails goes back for a rewrite, 2 at most. If it still fails, it waits in your review queue with the failed checks shown. It never publishes by itself.
Duplicates. A draft that overlaps another article on your site fails. So does a title too close to a page you already have, so two posts never compete for one search.
Sources. Every outside link must come from the research and have been opened. Statistics without a source link are flagged, and two or more fail the draft.
Internal links. At least 3 links to pages that exist on your site.
Honesty. A headline with an out-of-date year fails. In English, so do hype words and claims of first-hand testing the draft can't back up.
Shape. Title and meta description length, an answer near the top, headings and FAQs are all checked.
Start with review on
Free for 7 days. You read each article before it publishes.
Pace and platforms
Posted at a safe pace, straight to your CMS
Autopilot writes up to 30 articles a month and publishes them under a daily cap set by your domain's age: 1 a day under six months old, 2 under two years, 3 after that. You can change it in Settings. 20 a day is the ceiling for everyone. We learned why on Versely: about 2,500 posts in one month were crawled, and many were left out of the index.
It posts straight to WordPress (self-hosted or WordPress.com), Webflow, Shopify, Framer, Wix, Ghost and Notion, to a Next.js site through our hosted blog or a GitHub pull request per article, and to anything else by signed webhook or Markdown and HTML download. Squarespace has no direct integration, so it uses the webhook or the download. In a CMS, a post can go out as a draft or live, and a retry updates the same post instead of duplicating it.
Limits
What an auto blog won't do
It won't rank on a schedule. On Versely, clicks stayed at ~2 a day until around Aug 10, 2026, then climbed to ~50–90 a day. Plan on at least three months before you judge any provider.
It won't replace what only you know. It researches public sources. It can't interview your customers or share data you haven't published.
It won't write about everything. Your site profile has a list of topics to avoid. Anything medical, legal or financial needs an expert's review before it goes live.
FAQ
Auto blog questions
Is auto blogging bad for SEO?
Google's policy looks at purpose and value, not the tool. Pages generated mainly to manipulate rankings can rank lower or drop out of results, however they're made. Original, sourced articles that someone reviewed are ordinary content.
What is an auto blog?
Software that creates and publishes blog posts without a person writing each one. Old auto blogs copied or spun other sites' posts and RSS feeds. Newer ones research a topic and write an original article. Autopilot is the second kind.
Can I approve posts before they go live?
Yes, and it is on by default. New sites wait for your approval before anything publishes. Turn review off in Settings to publish every article that passes the checks at your daily pace.
Does it work with WordPress?
Yes. Self-hosted WordPress connects with an application password and WordPress.com with a Connect button. Posts arrive as drafts or live, with the featured image and alt text.
Do the posts carry a LaunchRanked credit?
Each article ends with one small line, "Written with LaunchRanked Autopilot", linking to us with a nofollow link, so it passes no ranking either way. Turn it off in Settings any time.
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Sources
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