@Zulfikar: Well, thank you very much. It will only be a short report covering the key areas.

The topic of autoblogging could really do with a more detailed ebook, and I'll do that if there's enough demand, which I think there probably will be.

It's sometimes a little difficult when you know something, to expect that everyone else knows it too, which is just plain daft but I do it all the time. Then you have the problem of knowing when to stop and exactly who you're addressing.

Is it total newbies? Or is it thoroughly at-home bloggers with technical knowledge who just need a little detailed info about that topic?

I often buy ebooks only to find that much of the information I either know, or in some cases I know more about the subject than the author.

I'll try to get that balance right, but we'll see.

-Frank

@CJ from Article Writing News: Aha! I didn't know about that plugin – I guess there's so many out there it's impossible to keep tabs on them all.

What I tend to do is keep all my favourite plugins in one place all ready to be uploaded. After WP has installed, I FTP them all up and go make a coffee while it's running. Then I just activate the ones I need for that blog.

I suppose if I got a little more organised about it, I'd separate out the plugins I use for different types of niche (and non-niche) blogs into different folders. I'd keep copies of plugins like Smart Update Pinger in every folder as I use it on every installation.

Then depending on the type of blog I was creating, I'd upload only the relevant folder of plugins instead of all of them, which would save a slug of time.

I'll get round to it one day.

-Frank

@Dan B. Cauthron: Hey Dan, that's precisely what keeps the myth going, and it works in our favour. As long as people are running scared of duplicate content, they're making the task easier for Google, which is really cool for you and I who aren't scared of it.

As for CopyScape – Five or ten seconds is a lot of CPU just to check one article. Plus I know for a fact it doesn't work.

I've seen TWO exact copies of one of my sites which have been put up by affiliates. CopyScape hasn't found them, but I know they're there as affiliates are using them to promote and I can see the incoming traffic. Additionally, if CopyScape is relying on Google (I don't know if it is), and Google is busy stripping out dupes, CopyScape is going to have an increasingly hard time of it.

And let's not forget that CopyScape is just there to make money out of other people's fear.

Please keep spreading this though as it will stop everyone else from even attempting to use articles that were intended to be used on other sites. And it makes it easier for us.

Taking it logically (and unrealistically) a step further, there's no point in article directories existing if everyone is too frightened to republish any of the articles. The article directories would then become self-serving content sites. Okay, they're already self-serving content sites, but you know what I mean.

Going back to my original thought, I'm still very confident that if you take your PLR, change a couple of sentences, and re-order the paragraphs, that's enough of a change to get by the dupe checkers. A human would spot it, but I just don't think there's enough CPU out there to make it worth a search engine's while.

-Frank