Automatic site generators

What are some thoughts?

[DavidJohnny]

What are your thoughts on automated web writing tools? Anybody use these? Is it a good fast way to get a presense, or is it just junk?

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:06 pm (utc) on July 29, 2005]
[edit reason] no specific products thanks [/edit]

[tedster]

Are you speaking about autogenerating copy -- machine generation of the text content? Search engines are working very hard to be able to spot that, so it is a high risk, short term strategy at best. If what you want is a quick presence later to be filled in with human written content, then this isn't the way to go.

[DavidJohnny]

Hi Tedster -

Actually I'm thinking more about the products that generate the website, with links, based on all your keywords. There are a couple of these that I know of.

I know the content has to be fresh and my own. It's the site building itself that these products do.

I've read in places that they are a good way to get a large site up in a hurry, with many pages, that the SE's will spot. But I've also heard that they are used by spammers that just put junk up in a hurry, make a few bucks on ad's, and then go away after the SE's bust them and they drop.

Without mentioning a product name, it's hard for me to explain better!

Thanks.

[tedster]

No, we do not discuss these tools by name here. To be honest I don't get your question, given that you know these are spammers' tools. First, you can't have "many pages" unless you somehow have content for many pages. That content will either be machine generated or authored by a human being.

So if you already plan on generating original, real content, then what good is the tool for you? You can't publish a page until you have content, right? And when you do have content, why put up pages that have the recognizable footprint of any acknowledged spamming tool?