I must say that this is a great thread to get people started and really just wanted to give it a "bump". You really have to beat the learning curve with a few of these programs, but once you do, you are truly on your way to being an automation master. I have finally got blogbomb running nicely on most of my sites. And mastering SSI tags is essential to being a great automater. I am really an "old newb". I experimented with the bombs a year ago but finally got invigorated to give them a shot. So, I'm going to let you all watch my truly first "tuelz/bombs" mix project. I'm using a variety of static items, and a variety of SSI.

Kurt is right about changing everything. The SE's are always changing. I pretty much lost an entire network years ago because i did the same thing on every site. What a mistake, bombing is about constant change. Taking something and doing it EVERYWAY. This way you will be around now, and later.

Ok, so back to my test site. I decided to make a few pages on weight loss, etc. These are going to be tin splash pages basically just built for some link juice. They are a little spammy. Here's why. I created about 5 different list files rather quickly to use as "prefix/suffix" in some areas of the page. Such as the title, headers, links, etc. I thought this would make the pages appear different in the SE's. (Again these pages aren't really for people, just SE food).

The Dynamic programs I am attempting to use are "blogbomb, fatbomb, and odpbomb". Well, kurt was right, the hardest part is getting this stuff setup.

I have blogbomb working well after a few trys lol. On these pages I have the random feature enabled. So it's getting 4 random feeds on a page. I suppose if I wanted to vary this, I could use replacez and I could chance each SSI tag to include a different feed, vary the amount of feeds, etc. I didn't feel like doing that for this project so just took the easy "random" option.

Next I tried to put some odpbomb data on the page. Well this is just not working at all. Is this program no longer supported, I think my version says 2003 on it lol.

I also can't get fatbomb to display data. Do I have to have a database nstalled to use? Anyway, on the install, it gives an error when you even try to search. I'd like to display maybe 5 fat search results, and not have the option for search. Are there any detailed instructions on using fatbomb and installing databases. I really haven't learned much perusing the old fatbomb forum...

I have also read a bit about "spiderbomb"? Is this program still available, I'm surprised I don't have it, and here I thought I had everything kurt ever made lol. Adds SE results to pages right? Thats pretty cool.

Here's that little issue with fatbomb.

http://www.papersonaltrainer.com/cgi-bin/fat/search.cgi/
Here's an example of the SSII use after I pagebomb the code:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/fat/search.cgi/skin=blankskin&length=20&keywords=1200+calorie+diet+plans"-->

Yes I followed all instructions, have the blankskin template.

Next, I used linez and replacez to change some wording using the textfiles I created and using the shuffle feature of linez and replaces. I used backerz to add back and next links. I think this is a good simple way to link for my purposes on this project, so I added it.

Next, on the bottom of the page I have another tag for links. I plan to do these differently, Adding "2-5" random internal keyword links and a homepage link. This should give my internal pages a bit more of "internal keyword link juice bump".

My question for adding these internal links. Is there a way to take a directory of pages created in pagebomb and turn them into href keyword links, without doing it manualy? Anything bomber style for this?

Another problem I had was while developing the static elements. I had added my markers to the html, and when I used replaces to try to add a "blank space" it wouldn't do it. I instead had to modify my template to have a space in it. Just thought that strange.

Anyway, i just thought I'd post up my ongoing "test" project. For anyone reading this that is new, just keep plugging at the system kurt lays out, there is 12 years of gold here, it will click when it clicks, until then just experiment and read. It will begin to make some sense.

Here's my work in progress:
http://papersonaltrainer.com/pb2/diet-plan-for-low-carb-foods.html

Just use the next/back links for now, I haven't finished the others.
in the keymaps tag I plan on putting authority links "out" of the site. Both to gold/silver sites and other random authority sites.

The 0links at the bottom will be used for some other internal linking as I mentioned above..just need a good system. And I think I have come up with it using replacez. Just need a method to turn my folder lists into keyworded hyperlinks, and I know there is a way I've done it before lol.

Also, is there anyway to make pagebomb not crank out pages with the keywords in every pagename? Or should I just use PAGEZ to try that? Has anyone had problems using the keywords as names of the file? Probably not, but I won't be doing it for every project. Well, let me know what you want to know and see, and we'll all learn with this project.