Use this thread if:

- You're not sure where to post

- Just want to make a comment about a misc. subject

- Off topic/gossip, etc

I'm pretty strict when it comes to posting on threads. This is because there is a lot of technical info here and threads need to be tightly focused for everyone to be able to find the info they are looking for, without irrelevant clutter.

But, there should also be a thread where we can talk about things with less restrictions...That's what this thread is for.

Thanks Kurt for starting this page..

Got 2 things in my mind.. firstly, guys what do you think of onlywire? I just went to check, it seems more than half are down. You simply can't bookmark into them.. I suppose onlywire is getting useless?

secondly, my question is, is it possible to do well with a content site make up of PLR articles and no unique articles, by geting lots more backlinks into it etc?

Christopher

Hi Christopher...

>Got 2 things in my mind.. firstly, guys what do you think of
>onlywire? I just went to check, it seems more than half are
>down. You simply can't bookmark into them.. I suppose
>onlywire is getting useless?

Onlywire is probably OK if you want to only bookmark a page or two.

For more "hardcore" usage, try bookmarking demon. You'll still need to set up a bunch of different accounts, which takes time, but BMD makes it much faster and easier.

>secondly, my question is, is it possible to do well with a
>content site make up of PLR articles and no unique articles,
>by geting lots more backlinks into it etc?

In theory, this should work. Google "should" show the dupe pages with the most links/highest PR.

I'm kind of using this same strategy with www.lizardz.com , but need to do a lot more linking to see if it works.

Other options are to use BlogBomb and Fatbomb (and other resources) and add them to the articles.

Hey Kurt,

I appreciate the sapce here. Thanks!

I've been here for a while now, and still find myselp not knowing sometimes where to post something that isn't a techie thing.

Btw, if it will help the forum to stay in order, why not delete those threads of mine like the one about your WSO. It's over right?

That 'll be at least 3-4 threads out of the way lol.

Mary

I added a large feed I created consisting of 38 full articles to my Newz tuel. I validated it through Feed Validator and fpr some reason my Newz tuel accepts the feed but doesn't show any of the items.

Kurt said it shows up and looks fine in his Newz tuel, so can a few others try it and let me know if it shows up for you with items.

Here's the feed:

http://www.seniordogfacts.com/rss/SeniorDogFeed.rss

Thanks

Ernie

>Here's the feed:
>
>http://www.seniordogfacts.com/rss/SeniorDogFeed.rss
>

Hey All...

Please add Ernie's pheed to your Newz Tuelz and see if it works for you.

Ernie...

It works in my Newz for both IE and FF.

I used Scrubz to "redo" the pheed, see if this works in your Newz:
http://dombom.com/ernie.rss

I'll load it up when I get home from my day gig tonight and see what happens.

BTW, what specifically did you do with Scrubz?

Ernie

>I'll load it up when I get home from my day gig tonight and
>see what happens.
>
>BTW, what specifically did you do with Scrubz?

I entered the pheed into Newz, created a project in Scrubz using the pheed, chose "select all" to include all items, then uploaded.

>>
>>http://www.seniordogfacts.com/rss/SeniorDogFeed.rss
>>
>Newz:
>http://dombom.com/ernie.rss

Both work fine for me.

Noel

Yup, they did for me too Ernie.

Mary

Thanks folks, I did get Kurt's modified one to work.

It did take 45+ minutes to show up in the Newz tuel, but it did show up with items and worked perfect with ZZ.

Ernie

XML feed working fine for me...

Something else..
Google did something again
It seems you have to "migrate" your adsense account to their famous "Google Account". BUT if you have adwords AND adsense, then Google will know all your sites again even if you aren't using adsense or adwords for it

Clever of Google... so they could verify the site linking and knowing if it comes from the same person...

Tasari

LAST EDITED ON Feb-22-08 AT 04:08 PM (PST)
 
Hi guys,

I have a question for all you active Bombers....including you Kurt!

If you had a chance to be a part of a creation and testing team for a new software, Bomb, or pluggin for something like Joomla or WordPress, what would be the number one product you would like to see get developed?

I'd like to know what would be most beneficial to all of us that would help us be more effiecient with what we do best.

I'm not looking for newer versions of older software, but something different, inovative, or 2-3 products put together to make one kind of thing.

Here's the deal, I am seriously thinking of having new software created, but am not sure what market needs what.

If I manage to get something created and you guys pitch in, I'll give a copy free of charge to thos who help.

I'd like the price range for the creation of the product to be between $1,000 - $2,000 if possible. Cheaper is even better lol.

Also please keep in mind that this stuff takes time to create and test.

Okay then, what say you?

Are you interested in doing something like this?

If so, let me know what you are wanting.

Thanks ...

Mary

Hi Mary,

I have a few ideas, but to be honest, they wouldn't be very effective if more than a few people had access to them.

LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-08 AT 09:02 AM (PST)
 
>Hi Mary,
>
>I have a few ideas, but to be honest, they wouldn't be very
>effective if more than a few people had access to them.

Ha ha ha...now you really got me curious Kurt.

I can come up with 2, but as you say, they aren't something for lots of people because neither will be effective after a bit.

I wonder if it would be worth while to go in together with something then.

Anyway, thanks for posting!

Mary

LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-08 AT 09:05 AM (PST)
 
Hey Mary...

Here's something that should be good: A Squidoo updater program.

Right now, if you add an RSS pheed to Squidoo it uses javascript, which means no link juice.

Have a program that will take an RSS pheed, log into Squidoo on a <random> schedule and add items to Squidoo modules.

Admin has option of appending the same module or creating a new one.

And/or program should also be able to take a list of text files and add them to modules one at a time, on a loose <random> schedule. Instead of RSS, you may just want to use text files, adding RSS in version 2.0, if you want.

The key is to be able to update lenses on auto-pilot...

Random could be something like varying +/- 60 minutes for every update.

Same program could be duplicated to update Hubpages and Zimbio.

I can help you with more specific logic, if you're interested.

>Hey Mary...
>
>Here's something that should be good: A Squidoo updater
>program.
>
>Right now, if you add an RSS pheed to Squidoo it uses
>javascript, which means no link juice.
>
>Have a program that will take an RSS pheed, log into Squidoo
>on a <random> schedule and add items to Squidoo modules.
>
>Admin has option of appending the same module or creating a
>new one.
>
>And/or program should also be able to take a list of text
>files and add them to modules one at a time, on a loose
><random> schedule. Instead of RSS, you may just want to use
>text files, adding RSS in version 2.0, if you want.
>
>The key is to be able to update lenses on auto-pilot...
>
>Random could be something like varying +/- 60 minutes for
>every update.
>
>Same program could be duplicated to update Hubpages and
>Zimbio.
>
>I can help you with more specific logic, if you're
>interested.

Now that's interesting...

I was thinking of something similar for Hubpages because they have the no-follow problem. I got as far as RSS, but not text files.

I really like keeping it with the text first and then going with the 2.0 RSS addition. Great call Kurt!

I may take you up on the help too. I'll have to see what's up with everything first.

And of course we'll have to work something out so we both benefit from it.

Btw, is this forum secure enough to continue this discussion?

Now I'm going into my milling mode .... will get back to you.

Mary

>And of course we'll have to work something out so we both
>benefit from it.
>
>Btw, is this forum secure enough to continue this
>discussion?
>
>Now I'm going into my milling mode .... will get back to
>you.

Hi Mary,

For mutual benefit...Allow PARTICIPATING members here to beta test it (and get working versions) and get some good comments/testimonials from them.

Let's continue the conversation via email.

Kurt,

I planned to distribute it here for feedback and testing, so we are thinking on the same page.

Thanks...

Mary

LAST EDITED ON Feb-24-08 AT 03:28 PM (PST)
 
If there was some way in your tool to specify adding video modules and then have it pull from a youtube rss feed you create on your keyword, that would be cool, too. You could set it to change out the video in one or two video modules already in the lens or maybe have modules added like one every two weeks or so for a set time. Don't want it getting too big.

From what I have seen, reading Tiffany's stuff and other things, video on squidoo or hubpages goes over very well.

Edit: I don't mind building lenses or hubpages. They are simple. It's the time having to go back and add to them that is a pain in the behind. This is a great idea, Kurt, and fantastic if you two can get this going. It would be a big help to all lens and hubpage builders.

Plus I didn't realize about the rss feeds in the modules being javascript. Thanks for the intel. That means they aren't worth messing with at this point, then, I guess.

Hey Aspen,

Thanks for the addition. That's a good idea too!

Yes, you are right, they are a pain to add to and keep updated.

As far as the RSS is concerned on Squidoo or Hubs are concerned, there are other benefits to think about...mainly traffic. So keep messing with them.

Btw, I am hoping I can get this project done asap.

Mary

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right spot to post this question. I just signed up and spent the last hour reading through some of the threads here.

My question is.. is there a place to go for a chronological guide to the whole system here? It's a little tough to pop in here and piece everything together in a way that makes sense.

Some quick background.. My main site is an ecommerce store that does some pretty hefty volume, and already ranks #1 or #2 for all of our important keywords. My current link building methods are all pure whitehat. What I'm looking to learn from here is the following:

1) how to get squidoo/hubpages feeding consistent traffic to the money site

2) how to quickly & efficiently build PR sacrifice sites (I think you call these "tin" sites) to throw juice to the squidoo/hubpages

3) any other stuff I can learn to toss converting traffic to the money site

So... where's the best place to start?

Thanks,

Eric

>Hi guys,
>
>Hope this is the right spot to post this question. I just
>signed up and spent the last hour reading through some of
>the threads here.
>
>My question is.. is there a place to go for a chronological
>guide to the whole system here? It's a little tough to pop
>in here and piece everything together in a way that makes
>sense.
>
>Some quick background.. My main site is an ecommerce store
>that does some pretty hefty volume, and already ranks #1 or
>#2 for all of our important keywords. My current link
>building methods are all pure whitehat. What I'm looking to
>learn from here is the following:
>
>1) how to get squidoo/hubpages feeding consistent traffic
>to the money site
>
>2) how to quickly & efficiently build PR sacrifice sites (I
>think you call these "tin" sites) to throw juice to the
>squidoo/hubpages
>
>3) any other stuff I can learn to toss converting traffic
>to the money site
>
>So... where's the best place to start?

Hi Eric,

There's really no "one system", as each person's needs are different.

Each month we look at a different strategy using either Bombs or Tuelz. Each 6-7 months, we'll start over...So some older topics will become "new" again, such as using FatBomb to create hub page and help dedoop content, etc.

At the top of each page are links to particular subjects, with the most important topics highlighted...You should start with the highlighted links and get to know those topics:

Red: Plan and Goals - Each person should have their own, based on their own skills and other assets.

Orange - What we're working on this month (and recent months).

Yellow - Important ongoing topics.

>2) how to quickly & efficiently build PR sacrifice sites (I
>think you call these "tin" sites) to throw juice to the
>squidoo/hubpages

We're covering this right now on the Extreme SEO thread, highlighted in orange. (I will update that thread to point to older resources in a minute)

Building pages is pretty easy, the hard part is where to put all the pages...

Once pages and sites are built, the Web 2.0 Frames page is good for building links.

Also, learn and understand the concept of the blackhole. It's a very powerful concept and can produce "content", cross-linking and one way links.

Our goal is to use RSS as much as possible and it's better to use your own pheeds as much as possible.

RSS provides you with a automated self-linking strategy, content and the ability to submit your RSS pheeds to all the directories, increasing one-way links and quick indexing.

Kurt,

Just my humble suggestion, but you might want to take your last post here and sticky it so others can find the info easier and understand what the different highlighting means and how your 6-7 month start over will work.

How do you all keep track of email addresses and username/password of all blogs / social bookmarking sites / webhosts / etc ????

Does somebody made a nice structure for an excel file ?

You need to :
1) keep your email addresses alive (so visit minimum once a month)
2) see if all your social bookmarking accounts are still alive
3) see if you lost some free webhosting
4) see if you lost bloggers ?
etc.

Let me know

Tasari

Works for me... here is the first headline I saw...

2 Ways To Give Liquid Medication To Your Senior Dog

Calvin

GuerillaCashMarketing.com
http://www.guerillacashsystems.com
Traffic and Cash - What More Do You Need?

>How do you all keep track of email addresses and
>username/password of all blogs / social bookmarking sites /
>webhosts / etc ????
>
>Does somebody made a nice structure for an excel file ?
>
>You need to :
>1) keep your email addresses alive (so visit minimum once a
>month)
>2) see if all your social bookmarking accounts are still
>alive
>3) see if you lost some free webhosting
>4) see if you lost bloggers ?
>etc.

Hi Taz...

>1) keep your email addresses alive (so visit minimum once a
>month)

Use one of the auto email checkers. See the email thread towards the bottom of this board.

>2) see if all your social bookmarking accounts are still
>alive

If you use Bookmarking Demon, it will tell you if there's an error submitting. Creating and using new accounts is an ongoing chore.

>3) see if you lost some free webhosting
>4) see if you lost bloggers ?
>etc.

If you add eveyr resource to your RSS pheed (like you're supposed to), every once in a while create a pheed that shows all items and run a link checker on it.

for example, search for the letter "a" and have BlogBomb display 10,000 items. Then run a link checker on the output.

Delete the items that create the errors from your blackhole. I wouldn't worry about other links, too time consuming to remove them, instead spend the time creating new linking resources.

My software that I use to check for errors in the registry, changed the setting for the .mod extension to a video configuration. Which isn't totally unreasonable since the .mod is common for audio and video. But it is a problem for me, because Tuelz uses the .mod extension. Now my pc tries to open Tuelz with a video player.

What I need to do is modify the registry for the .mod but I don't know the correct settings.

If you use XP and are comfortable using regedit, please check your system and let me know the correct setting for .mod.

I have tried to google for the information. But so far I have not hit on the correct combination of keywords that will give me the information that I need. Although I now know more about the .mod file extension than I ever wanted to know.

Thanks,
Mitzie

>My software that I use to check for errors in the registry,
>changed the setting for the .mod extension to a video
>configuration. Which isn't totally unreasonable since the
>.mod is common for audio and video. But it is a problem
>for me, because Tuelz uses the .mod extension. Now my pc
>tries to open Tuelz with a video player.
>
>What I need to do is modify the registry for the .mod but I
>don't know the correct settings.
>

HI Mitzie,

Are you clicking on tuelz.exe first, THEN trying to open the tuelz by click links?

I don't know a thing about the registery, hopefully someone else can help.

LAST EDITED ON Feb-28-08 AT 11:01 PM (PST)
 
>But it is a problem
>for me, because Tuelz uses the .mod extension. Now my pc
>tries to open Tuelz with a video player.
>

Shouldn't be an issue. All of my .mod show up as video files, but you DO NOT execute those.

You ONLY execute (double-click) on tuelz.exe (it looks like a screw). Access to everything is in the web interface that will show up next. (just as Kurt describes)

Everything should work. I have been using tuelz for years this way with no issues.

Blessings,

Ed

Ed, Thanks for your reply. Maybe the problem isn't that they are movie files, maybe I may have another problem with my pc.

I have been using Tuelz for a couple years also and this week is the
first time I have had a problem. I am still trying to figure it out.
This is the first time that I notice that the Tulez are marked as video files, so I thought that was the problem.

I will keep looking and try to figure out what has changed on my pc.

Mitzie

I have corrected my pc registry and everything
appears to be working correctly.

Cheers,
Mitzie

LAST EDITED ON Feb-29-08 AT 06:04 AM (PST)
 
Great !!

If I have 15 email addresses with each I use for 15 social bookmarking sites (so 1 email address for 1 social bookmarking site).

I suppose there isn't a risk to let the email addresses rotate for another 5 (I could go to 14 other). Your email address is never shown, right ?

Tasari

>
>I have corrected my pc registry and everything
>appears to be working correctly.

Hi Mitzie,

That's good news. I hate it when I don't have a clue and can't help.

>Great !!
>
>If I have 15 email addresses with each I use for 15 social
>bookmarking sites (so 1 email address for 1 social
>bookmarking site).
>
>I suppose there isn't a risk to let the email addresses
>rotate for another 5 (I could go to 14 other). Your email
>address is never shown, right ?

Hi Taz,

1 email account = 1 SB account at every different SB site.

In theory, you can use one email account to get 200+ SB accounts that are listed on the Web 2.0 page, + find some more Scuttle sites before having to use a second email.

The hardest part is verifying each email.

This is why users of Bookmarking Demon should trade their accounts. Set up an account at each service, bookmark your pages, then trade the text files created for the accounts.

Random Sentence Generator
http://www.geocities.com/b_reininger/sentence.html

Output is total nonsense but quiet funny.

Noel

I was checking stats today, and found something interesting, related to my wiki site, www.wikilookup.info.

I found that I have a few pages for which I cannot explain why they show up first in google ranking.
It appears to be an authority page in Google. These pages appear to have no google page rank.

Note: it is a copy of a wikipedia page, yet it ranks number 1 for a few terms.

such as:
woodrow wilson birthplace
when was woodrow wilson born

http://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+woodrow+wilson+born&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS247US247

or
how old is walter cronkite
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS247US247&q=how+old+is+walter+cronkite&btnG=Search

What do you think it means?

Kelvin

Hey Kelvin,

I don't have a clue what it means, other than you're the king of Woodrow Wilson.

If that page has some authority, you may want to use it to link to a blog about the presidential campaign, using "president" for relevancy.

Other than that, I can't think of anything of value...

Quote Kurt:

Our own Mmmmmary Mmmmmurtha makes a good living from her Fatty pages...

Can you share how you are using fatty pages, with out comprising your income?

Kelvin

@Kelvin,
glad I am not the only one who is interested in M.`s secret..

LAST EDITED ON Mar-19-08 AT 08:02 AM (PST)
 
Okay you two,

Here's one of the things I do, but I must warn you that part of it has already been stated in the forum by Kurt, so ...

I built a few different types of blogs that uses an older script created by one of the warriors ... her name is Kathy, but I don't remember her user name. It's similar to this one that is selling now, but much better because it uses direct feeds from merchants!

http://www.warriorforum DOT com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=226173

For each specialty niche topic, I create about 25 blogs that are related to the original Fatty page/ste. Then I place some URLs in the Fatty listings, and what ones I don't, I link them directly to the Fatty page. Just remember to put the blogs on different hosting accounts.

Instead of running traffic to all of the blogs too, I usually run traffic to the Fatty pages. All it is is funneling my traffic, but it cuts down on lots of work too!

The two other thigs I do to get traffic to the blogs other than from the Fatty pages/sites is submit the URLs to high PR directories, and write a review article or 2 of specific products and submit them to a couple of article directories. This takes care of getting some backlinks for the blogs.

Yup! I think I covered everything for this one way of doing things.

Now another way is to build HubPages and lenses. You can run the traffic in reverse of what I stated above. It works like a charm.

Mary

Hi Mary,
looks like there is a datafeed revival at the moment going on.
I guess the script you are talking about is from Kathy burns @ gurugazette!

LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-08 AT 07:33 PM (PST)
 
>Hi Mary,
>looks like there is a datafeed revival at the moment going
>on.
>I guess the script you are talking about is from Kathy burns
>@ gurugazette!

Yup! But I had to modify it a bit to get the SEs to like it again! The big G updated their algs 3-4 updates ago and knocked dowm some of my very high PR sites, plus took me out of the first 10 pages of their results. That's when I had that script revamped. Works like a charm now.

There's really a whole lot of things people can do with Fatty and BBX2 (or ZZ Tuel). They just have to use their imagination, connect BBX2 with it, get a couple of good affiliate programs, and get traffic and links to their sites.

Personally, I had to submerg myself in these threads in the forums and impliment the strategies. It's all there.

Btw, there is even a tuel Bombers can buy from Kurt that allows them to create a smaller set of free tuelz much like his free ones that can bring in good profits if someone knew how to leverage them.

I learned that one from Kelvin lol. I knew it was there, but never gave it a second thought until I spoke with him one night.

Whether people use Fatty directly, or indirectly, they can always generate a profit.

Mary

I am researching Domain Name Registration and Hosting outside of the US.
At this point I need English Speaking countries. Can anyone make any recommendations (good or bad) for any companies?

Currently I have VPS, several paid hosting accounts, and lots of free or cheap hosting accounts. Basically all my current accounts are located in the US. I am looking for hosting and name registration outside of the US. I want to use this for "gold" sites. So I need a reliable company.

Any recommendations?

Mitzie

@mary many thanks for the info!

@mitzie
http://www.servage.net
a lot of people seem to be happy with them!
you need to be aware though that the domain registration process in many countries is different than from the us. In many cases hosting and domain registration is tied together (which is a pain in the a...)thats the reason why so many people even in my country are using services like godaddy and such! The best board to address your question to is for sure: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

>@mary many thanks for the info!
>
>@mitzie
>http://www.servage.net
>a lot of people seem to be happy with them!
>you need to be aware though that the domain registration
>process in many countries is different than from the us. In
>many cases hosting and domain registration is tied together
>(which is a pain in the a...)thats the reason why so many
>people even in my country are using services like godaddy
>and such! The best board to address your question to is for
>sure: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

BlueSky - Thanks for the info. I will check out webhostingtalk and try to educate myself a little more. I am just at the beginning stages of this research. I do have marketing friends in the UK, Canada, Germany and a few other places and they all use US registration and hosting.

Mitzie

Hey Mitzie,

I wouldn't knoe about hosting outside the US as I've never done it.

I think the thing to remember about foriegn hosting is that some countries like China have their own thing going on. Now wheather or not this affects hosting in those countries, I don't really know.

However, I do know that China does specifically block content fron users of that country.

Hope this helps ...

Mary

LAST EDITED ON Mar-23-08 AT 03:47 AM (PST)
 
>For each specialty niche topic, I create about 25 blogs that
>are related to the original Fatty page/ste.
>
>Mary

The "original Fatty page" is it only the results of Fatbomb 2 ? Or did you add more content etc ?

Tasari

LAST EDITED ON Mar-23-08 AT 10:53 AM (PST)
 
>>For each specialty niche topic, I create about 25 blogs that
>>are related to the original Fatty page/ste.
>>
>>Mary
>
>The "original Fatty page" is it only the results of Fatbomb
>2 ? Or did you add more content etc ?
>
>Tasari

Hey Taz,

Good to see you in print kid!

Yes, you can do it that way with just the results from Fatty 2.0 or even Fatty 1.0! I know I do it 2 different ways really depending on if I want some authority sites built with Fatty.

On these types of sites, I have Fatty make pages on the fly, and then I add as much fresh original content as I possibly can, and then let the Fatty pages with BBX2 do a lot of the work.

But people sometimes thing I do this a little butt backwards. If that's the case lol, the SEs are liking some of what I am doing because I am getting good results from them. At least the listings are good, and so is the traffic.

Hope this helps ...

Mary

which is able to find my URL (SITE) in a list of directories (link directories, article directories etc) and list the page where the URL/LINK is included

e.g.

http://www.articledirectory.com/page-where-my-url-is-included-or-listed.html

I guess there MUST be already a tool for this. Paid/free doesnt matter otherwise I have to hire a coder

Merci in advance!

>which is able to find my URL (SITE) in a list of directories
>(link directories, article directories etc) and list the
>page where the URL/LINK is included
>
>e.g.
>
>http://www.articledirectory.com/page-where-my-url-is-included-or-listed.html
>
>I guess there MUST be already a tool for this. Paid/free
>doesnt matter otherwise I have to hire a coder
>
>
>Merci in advance!

Sorry I don't get it... url isn't working...
What is the problem ? You are asking ?

Tasari

Tasari its just an example URL

say you have submitted your site www.belgium-chocolate.com (you are from belgium right? ) to a list of directories (doesnt matter what kind of directories could be link or article directories) dont you wonder where your site (url) is actually listed within those directories?

So what I am looking for here is a tool/script which is able to retrieve this kind of information...
Hope I could make myself more clear this time...

Hey Glenn,

Saw they were saying good things about your Artifact software over on warrior forum in a thread about the new iContentRobot. Very cool!

I picked up Glenn's WSO on the first day and I must say, it is the best content "spinner" I've used. Solid video instruction too.

Yes it does take time to set up, but the results are well worth the time.

Highly recommended.

Ernie

LAST EDITED ON Mar-29-08 AT 02:26 AM (PST)
 
>Tasari its just an example URL
>
>say you have submitted your site www.belgium-chocolate.com
>(you are from belgium right? ) to a list of directories
>(doesnt matter what kind of directories could be link or
>article directories) dont you wonder where your site (url)
>is actually listed within those directories?
>
>So what I am looking for here is a tool/script which is able
>to retrieve this kind of information...
>Hope I could make myself more clear this time...

Yes from Belgium Hummm chocolate

Ok I know what you mean...
So you don't want to check backlinks found in search engines, but want to know every page (of directories) where you site was submitted to. Humm... Normally if you let someone do that you get a report with the info in it, dunno if there is a script like that out...

Tasari

LAST EDITED ON Apr-09-08 AT 04:29 PM (PST)
 
Anybody got a good recommendation for a vps?
Today someone managed to shut my vps completely down...
Most probably they managed to hack into the Nasa over my vps LOL
the hackers installed so many creepy scripts they had to rebuilt it
I Thought this happens only to other people ))

The support is quick and helpful but I had lots of problems with security and since I have to start from scratch I guess it would be wise to change the company!

Maybe we could start a hosting thread?????

www.servint.com has been outstanding for me.

Great price and great service for a VPS.

For you old bombers, they were recommended to me and everything was set up for me by Jeff Hope.

Ernie

>Anybody got a good recommendation for a vps?
>Today someone managed to shut my vps completely down...
>Most probably they managed to hack into the Nasa over my vps
>LOL
>the hackers installed so many creepy scripts they had to
>rebuilt it
>I Thought this happens only to other people ))
>
>The support is quick and helpful but I had lots of problems
>with security and since I have to start from scratch I guess
>it would be wise to change the company!
>
>Maybe we could start a hosting thread?????

Yeah, I second what Ernie said. ServInt.comn is one of the best I've had the pleasure to know and host my accounts with.

Make sure you get a VPS or high. They start at a low price of $49 I believe, and are fully mnaged too!

Mary

I have two posts to make this evening - this one is kind of the "brooding" one...

As I mentioned in the intro thread, I re-trained & returned to the workforce as a pharmacy technician, and will return to IM part-time.

Part of the reason for that was that I wanted something I felt was more secure than working strictly over the Internet. I know there are no truly secure jobs, but I think health care related jobs will be among the last to go if things ever got that bad Honestly, I'm still in post-divorce financial recovery nearly 8 years on, and at 47, I have a lot of catching up to do for retirement, etc. Therefore I felt I needed more stability than what I've found in IM. And having some decent benefits (relatively speaking) thrown in doesn't hurt anything.

Anyway, this leads me to wonder, how many here have something to fall back on in case there were ever prolonged network outages across wide geographical areas?

Whether caused by natural disaster, terror, human error, hacking, hardware failure, or whatever other means, it's possible (for example) for a major backbone , maybe several, to be out or disrupted for days, weeks, even months at a time. Granted it's not that likely due to redundancies, but it's certainly possible.

My way of preparing for that, just in case, is to not rely on the Internet for my primary income - everything I earn online will be gravy. For those that do work online full time though, do you have alternate plans & income sources in place? Is this something that concerns you as well, or does it sound like chicken little?

Whether you do or don't have alternatives, this is yet one more point in favor of Kurt's approach to site building & SEO. Hosting many sites on multiple IPs / servers / hosting companies, in widely diversified geographic areas, will help keep at least part of your business online should the worst occur.

Along similar, but happier, lines, how many here have thought about or actually planned an exit strategy? Assuming you don't want to do IM forever of course!

Jeff

Hey Jeff,

Yes, I think about stuff like that all the time. I use to worry, but that got me nowhere really.

I went thru something like what you wrote about a few years ago. Matter of fact, I am still in a full time vocation, and love every minute of it.

Everything I do online is extra, and yes, I love it too. Although I do tend to spend a lot of time on the Internet doing work, I also know that the meat is in my offline vocation, and so is my security.

It is easy to get burned out doing the two together sometimes though. The good news is that I don't feel insecure anymore. I know what I can do and do it. If it requires me to take some time off to freshen up, I do so.

Right now I am thinking of taking a few weeks off so I can relax and come back fresh.

You know, people learn and grow.

All the best ...

Mary

Hi Jeff and All...

>Anyway, this leads me to wonder, how many here have
>something to fall back on in case there were ever prolonged
>network outages across wide geographical areas?

"Money" sites can be moved in days, if not hours, so this isn't too big of a concern to me.

>Along similar, but happier, lines, how many here have
>thought about or actually planned an exit strategy? Assuming
>you don't want to do IM forever of course!

I used to worry about this, but decided I can do IM for the rest of my life, assuming I still have my "faculties".

If you can think, type and/or speak, you should be able to enjoy a career in IM for as long as you wish.

Having said this, I had a stroke two years ago that temporarily paralyzed my left hand and made my speach slur quite a bit, which greatly affected my ablity to IM...The truth is, if I can't do IM, there's probably not a lot of other things I'll be able to do, either, and IM seems to be the safest option, all things considered.

For a side note, I set up Dragon Naturally Speaking during this time since my left hand didn't work and I could get by...But as my speach inproved, Dragon couldn't recognize my speach and I didn't bother to retrain it as my slurring lessened. At the same time, my hand was improving so my typing got better, and now I'm back 100%. Actually, I think typing was pretty good therapy for my hand.

Right now, I have something to fall back on. My husband has a great job (finally!) that he absolutely loves. I think he will work there as long as they have a spot for him doing engineering.

But last year was very scary. The company he worked for lost the contract he was on. He was so good, they wanted to keep him, so they kept trying to find things to put him on. But it was just little things. So one week he would have a job, the next they would say they were finally laying him off. It became untenable and he finally said let's quit horsing around. After a month of him at home, he finally received another offer and saved my sanity. But yuck!

Although it was at the same salary, it was probably the worst job in the world for him. He was bored to tears and just didn't fit in with the company at all. And they were stupid enough not to take the benefit of his expertise and experience. Their loss. But during that time, it was all I could do to keep him hanging on. He even applied for jobs before I thought he should since he had just started the new one. But he was right and was very fortunate to get the one he has now.

Last year was a real eye opener. We are not ready for retirement, forced or otherwise. I need to get my act together.

As for quitting, I have that option now. But when I look at what I would do otherwise...NO WAY! It's been too many years out of the work force raising kids to go back to being an engineer again. I really don't think after all this time of running things my way, I could stand to work for a boss.

I could lay around all day, watch soaps, and eat bonbons but I'm too fat now. I could spend lots of time reading books, which is probably the only thing I would like to do more of. You should see my pile of books.

Even if I never get my act together and really start making decent money, I don't think I will ever quit IM. Take breaks maybe, but not quit. It's something that can go with me regardless of where we end up. Besides if I didn't have this, my husband would drive me crazy when he does retire and is at home all day. And it keeps me out of the mall, which is what I tell my husband. He thinks he would rather I was at the mall.

We all know that the extension .com is most popular, however it is the most expensive and harder to get based on keywords. I would like to know your thoughts and if you have used other types (cheaper) of extensions.

Tom

>We all know that the extension .com is most popular, however
>it is the most expensive and harder to get based on
>keywords. I would like to know your thoughts and if you
>have used other types (cheaper) of extensions.
>
>Tom

Hi Tom,

I've used other extensions like dot org and dot info.

To be honest with you, it's even getting tougher to find keyword based domains with them too. That is because many people who have good sites also get the other extensions to either protect the original dot com domain, or simply because they can use those domain extensions for other realted projects or products.

Every now and then I do get lucky and find a good one though.

Mary

Hey Tom,

Be creative. Just add "my" to the beginning:
mykeyword.com

There's many other words and numbers that can be added before and after good keywords to make domains.

Kurt,

Have you used any info extensions as they seem to be the cheapest.

Tom

>Kurt,
>
>Have you used any info extensions as they seem to be the
>cheapest.

Hi Tom,

I don't use .info. There's a couple of people that I respect that feel that .info get dropped more quickly. As you said, they are cheaper, which makes the more attractive to spammers.

With all the third party resources right now, you don't need a lot of domains. Just one good thing about having squidoo or hub is that you don't need to buy domains.

>>Kurt,
>>
>>Have you used any info extensions as they seem to be the
>>cheapest.
>
>Hi Tom,
>
>I don't use .info. There's a couple of people that I respect
>that feel that .info get dropped more quickly. As you said,
>they are cheaper, which makes the more attractive to
>spammers.
>
>With all the third party resources right now, you don't need
>a lot of domains. Just one good thing about having squidoo
>or hub is that you don't need to buy domains.

Yeah I am going to look into squidoo and hub as I only have two domain names. One of them is my name tomeleam.com. Not sure of what to do with it yet. That's where I got Bo's buyit bomb script installed which BTW is not working properly doesn't return the searchs properly or like it did before. Geesh!

I looked over the FAQ to use this forum better. As you know it's been awhile, and I have forgotten some things.

I find the rest like images and such, but need to know Attachments how to use.

Thanks

Tom

Tom,

When you make a post, there's an option:
Attachment:
Click here to choose your file

Be aware that there's a limite, I think 200k, so that everyone doesn't fill up my hard drive with attachements.

To view this option, click the "reply" link, then look for:
Attachment:
Click here to choose your file

Hey Kurt thanks!

For various reasons, taxes being one of them, I need to host some sites on non-US based servers and ideally on a cheap reseller account.

I was using Deasoft who are in Australia, but they seem to have completely fallen apart over the last few weeks and I can't even get a response to a ticket, let alone any actual support!

Does anyone have any useful links they wouldn't mind sharing? (Affiliate links are fine and will of course be honoured). I would prefer WHM/cPanel and I need Zend Optimizer installed. I've been looking for a few days but every one I've found that looks hopeful turns out to be hosted in the States, and much as I love you guys I NEED a server somewhere (anywhere) else.

Thanks
Isobel

Hi Isobel,

I believe 1and1.com is based in the UK/Europe.

Why can't you have a US host?

You may want to post this on a busier forum...Isn't there a few forums dedicated to hosting?

LAST EDITED ON Apr-21-08 AT 03:52 PM (PST)
 
Try Google I typed non us hosting and got 9 million results now I know all these are not actually non USA hosting, but the first one looks pretty good its lypha.com Here is the reseller link http://lypha.com/mini_reseller.shtml

Tom

>Hi Isobel,
>
>I believe 1and1.com is based in the UK/Europe.
>
>Why can't you have a US host?
>
>You may want to post this on a busier forum...Isn't there a
>few forums dedicated to hosting?

Hi Kurt,

I could only find an VPS forum or an Exchange one, although I should probably have used the Buy - Sell one, which I didn't see until too late

I need it because I've been accepted for the ebay partner program and in order not to have to deal with US taxes, I have to agree not to use any US services for the sites I put ebay on, and that includes hosting services. Otherwise they make me sign all kinds of iffy forms I really don't want to get involved with!

I've used 1and1 in the past and found them very slow .. you're right though, I'd forgotten about them, thanks

Isobel

>Try Google I typed non us hosting and got 9 million results
>now I know all these are not actually non USA hosting, but
>the first one looks pretty good its lypha.com Here is the
>reseller link http://lypha.com/mini_reseller.shtml
>
>Tom

You know Tom, I didn't even think of that search term! Duh! I did try non-US hosting (with the hyphen) and got less than 200,000 results and most of those seem to be discussion forums. Unfortunately the Lypha website went down as I was looking at it so I'll have to try in the morning, but thank you

I did find some really good-sounding deals on ebay.co.uk with UK contact details but when I checked they were all hosted in the US.

Isobel

Isobel,

Keep trying I am sure you'll find some that will fit your needs.

Tom

Hi Isobel,

I, too, have signed-up for EPN, and also saw the proviso regarding US-based employees etc.
As I don't directly employ any of the staff at my hosting provider, my interpretation of Ebay's Terms is different to yours.
If your interpretation was valid, then any money earned through sites based on US hosting would be liable to US taxation. I can't see that happening any time soon, otherwise a large number of US based hosting providers would be losing a significant chunk of their market.

I have come across similar terms in other affiliate sign-up processes and my interpretation has always been that, as I have no directly employed US representatives, I have no need to pay US based taxes.

I am in the UK as well. My hosting is mostly in the US, but beyond that, I have no direct representation State-side.
I'm no lawyer or accountant, but my belief is, that as I am not a US citizen, nor have I any legal entity based in the US, my only taxation liability, is to the UK.

As I don't earn very much from any Internet based activity currently, my liability is negligible, either in the UK or the US.
Should that change, I would take the precaution of taking both legal and accountancy advice. If you are earning a significant amount from your Ebay activities, it may pay you to do the same and be sure one way or the other.
At the very least it may save you from having to hunt down alternative hosting, outside the US.
As another thought, if you found hosting say in Australia, would your earnings then be liable to Aussie taxation? I don't believe that they would.

That's my interpretation, for what it's worth.
As I stated above, the only way to be certain, would be to take legal and accountancy advice from qualified experts.

Good luck with your return to the Internet scene BTW

Kind regards

Ian

Hi Ian

Great to have another Brit here!

I read ebay's terms very closely and they specifically mention US based hosting services. The issue is not necessarily having to pay US tax, it's more that you have to sign a US tax form saying that you're not a US resident and that you will pay tax in the UK etc etc because the UK and US have a double taxation agreement. Most affiliate programs don't bother until you earn more than $600 in a year, at which point they do ask you to sign it. I've come across this a few times and I'd rather avoid the hassle altogether if I can.

Australian tax law doesn't come into it because ebay is a US company and they will be (hopefully) paying me in the UK so they're not interested in where my servers are as long as they're not in the US.

As it happens I am an accountant, although international tax isn't my speciality

My Australian hosting provider did actually get back to me today with many apologies so I may give them another chance.

Isobel

Hi,
I have just joined the ebay affiliate program and wanted to display the ebay products on my pages.
Could anyone tell me how to do that?

Should I use blogbomb to display those feeds or some other script?

bye,
faraz

I use blogbomb and it works great........

Bob

I guess not many here using Mr. Rat's Amazon script, but I just updated from the "very" old version to the latest one, and thought it might help the people here who are using the older version of script, if any...

It was much easier to update than I thought.

It used to be all templates in the templates folder, but the latest version uses different folders, for ex:

The Older: item_1.template, item_2.template, page_1.template, page_2.template, products_1.template, products_2.template, etc, etc,.

The Latest: Just make a folder associate with; if you were using the item_1.template for the side bar, make folder for the side bar and rename:

item_1.template to item.template and put it in the side bar folder and link to it:

amazon.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Keywords=key+word&templates=sidebar&link_templates=fullpage&max_results=5

You can still use the same variables in the templates, but the display variables are totally different:

input_templates --> templates=sidebar

input_link_templates --> link_templates=fullpage

input_max=5 --> max_results=5

Ut

For the last three weeks I have been going around in circles. I bought this fantastic script on the WSO from Big Mike that enables me to get feeds from Amazon,Ebay and clickbank which to me for only $17 beats this store stacker and Bans hands down.

My biggest fear is when I make my store is I don't know if I'll get into trouble using the names Amazon, eBay and clickbank, but I need to so that the visitors know where the deals are coming from.

On another note I was thinking of using blog bomb also in other sites, but not sure if my hosting provider ( Host Gator) can handle it. I have the original blog bomb from about two years ago and used it when I had a VPS account with servant. Had to drop it last November when my car's water pump needed replaced.

I guess I just need to know how to handle the name question.

Tom

>For the last three weeks I have been going around in
>circles. I bought this fantastic script on the WSO from Big
>Mike that enables me to get feeds from Amazon,Ebay and
>clickbank which to me for only $17 beats this store stacker
>and Bans hands down.
>
>My biggest fear is when I make my store is I don't know if
>I'll get into trouble using the names Amazon, eBay and
>clickbank, but I need to so that the visitors know where the
>deals are coming from.
>
>On another note I was thinking of using blog bomb also in
>other sites, but not sure if my hosting provider ( Host
>Gator) can handle it. I have the original blog bomb from
>about two years ago and used it when I had a VPS account
>with servant. Had to drop it last November when my car's
>water pump needed replaced.
>
>I guess I just need to know how to handle the name question.
>
>Tom

Hi Tom,

You can use "Amazon" on your pages. Just don't do use it in domain names.

If Host Gator can't handle BlogBomb, use ZZ Tuel instead. That's what ZZ is for...

Let me add...For eBay, you probably need BlogBomb, because auctions update more often.

>I guess not many here using Mr. Rat's Amazon script, but I
>just updated from the "very" old version to the latest one,
>and thought it might help the people here who are using the
>older version of script, if any...
>
>It was much easier to update than I thought.
>
>It used to be all templates in the templates folder, but the
>latest version uses different folders, for ex:
>
>The Older: item_1.template, item_2.template,
>page_1.template, page_2.template, products_1.template,
>products_2.template, etc, etc,.
>
>The Latest: Just make a folder associate with; if you were
>using the item_1.template for the side bar, make folder for
>the side bar and rename:
>
>item_1.template to item.template and put it in the side bar
>folder and link to it:
>
>amazon.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Keywords=key+word&templates=sidebar&link_templates=fullpage&max_results=5
>
>You can still use the same variables in the templates, but
>the display variables are totally different:
>
>input_templates --> templates=sidebar
>
>input_link_templates --> link_templates=fullpage
>
>input_max=5 --> max_results=5

Thanks Yoshi...Actually, this is timely as I have a site that still uses Mr. Rat and I haven't updated it yet.

I think I have seen this answer somewhere but I can't find it. Will Fatbomb and Blogbomb work on a windows hosting account? Thanks

Bob

>I think I have seen this answer somewhere but I can't find
>it. Will Fatbomb and Blogbomb work on a windows hosting
>account? Thanks

Hi Bob...

I don't have a clue. I think a person or two have gotten them to work, bu they were very "techy".

>I think I have seen this answer somewhere but I can't find
>it. Will Fatbomb and Blogbomb work on a windows hosting
>account? Thanks
>
>Bob

Bob,

Sorry, I don't know either. I use Lunix always.

I need help

I need to be able to change the IP address of where I submit (my laptop) with Pete's programs... Because I think they are detecting it via IP (blogger is of Google so be careful)

I posted this in the thread of Pete's programs =>
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=106&forum=DCForumID42

Can anyone help me please ? I don't want to get them all flagged, I need to set it up once (then it update via RSS feed alias blackhole pheed)

Tasari

LAST EDITED ON May-12-08 AT 09:53 AM (PST)
 
Hey Tas,

Other than using a Proxy ...

Have you tried turning off or unplugging the power of your Cable/DSL modem for five minutes or so?

THat sometimes does it.

If it doesn't work try it again, or do it overnight while you are sleeping. Wake up and plug it back in. You should be good to go then.

Now if you use Braodband you might want to contact your service provider.

Hope this helps...

Mary

Using a proxy with Pete's software ? With scripts that works fine, but on my own PC ?

I have cable connection, I will try that, but I will have to keep each IP address to be sure not getting flagged.
I ask this because I think blogger checks IP addresses and put the sites after the 1st one as "spam" or am I wrong ?

Tasari

Tas,

I don't use proxy either.

And yes, you are correct about Blogger.

The thing about the cable modem is that once you do it, the IP cahnges permenantly.

I didn't realize you wanted to keep the IP addresses.

Umm ... it seems to me Kurt gave a resolution for this in one of his threads, but I cannot remember which one that is.

I'll try looking for it later this eve if you'd like. Or you can ask Kurt about it.

Did you try Googling for a service that does this? There might be something out there too.

That's the best I've got....

Mary

Okay guys,

Where did you all run off to?

Kurt? Anyone?

You guys still alive and kicking lol?

I've been wondering how the newer Bombers have been doing with their Bombs. Have any of you succeeded in putting up any using the bombs and tuelz?

Just curious ...

Mary

Hi Mary,

>You guys still alive and kicking lol?

Hahahaha! But yeah, I was wondering the same thing, although I'm a bandwidth waste lurker here...

I'm doing great, enjoying my life and websites building.

How's everything everyone?

Ut

>Hi Mary,
>
>>You guys still alive and kicking lol?
>
>Hahahaha! But yeah, I was wondering the same thing, although
>I'm a bandwidth waste lurker here...
>
>I'm doing great, enjoying my life and websites building.
>
>How's everything everyone?
>
>Ut

Very good to hear that somebody is still watching the boards UT!

I figured everyone is busy building their sites and stuff.

I'm here.

I apoligize for things being slow lately. I've had massive PC problems and to be honest, I've has some creative "blocks" recently.

I need folks to comment on stuff to help get me going. For example, I did the StumbleUpon thread and it got no responses at all (although Kelvin did make a post).

When something gets no response, I figure there is no interest. I had planned on us doing StumbleUpon, but when there is no interest/comments, I figured "why bother"?

This month we'll work on RSS again, as well as mTurk.

Hi Kurt,

Na, no need to apologize chief! We still love ya!

Seriously though, we know what you've been going thru.

I guess I wanted to see what other people were doing, and possibly shake the house a little lol.

I know many of us have been working on our networks and sites, so my guess is that it's not a matter of what you are posting or what topics you post.

Besides, I remember what I was like when I first got my Bombs and Tuelz. They were like new toys to me as they still are, so it's easy to get working without poking my head up to see what's going on.

You have to remember that you posted a ton of ideas in this forum, plus people added to them. It's a lot to grasp, apply, and keep up the pace.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with regarding RSS and Mturk.

Mary

>You have to remember that you posted a ton of ideas in this
>forum, plus people added to them. It's a lot to grasp,
>apply, and keep up the pace.

Yeah Kurt, I think Mary's right - sorry, talk about "piggyback posting" lol! - But really, here are a lot of info to digest and apply (I thank you Kurt and everybody here for that), and its kinda easy to get lost here, coz everything here related to some other things.

Of course, its not your fault Kurt, but I tend to side tracked one thing to other. Guess I need more focus.

Thanks again, talk to you later everyone.

Ut

I am also back... I was last week on vacation. The only "real" vacation of this year

Don't worry, just post in topics...

Tasari

>I am also back... I was last week on vacation. The only
>"real" vacation of this year
>
>Don't worry, just post in topics...
>
>Tasari

Lol Taz,

Glad to see you too!

Hey, I have a quick question for you ...

ServInt updated their PHP to 5.2. Are you having problems running BBX2 on your servers or sites/blogs?

I've been talking back and forth with support all night and keep trying to tell them it is a parse error. They are telling me I have something missing in the script.

True I had to reinstall the script maybe a week ago, but it has been running fine until last eve.

Matter of fact, I have the feeds showing on my site here:

www.gamedome4u.com

The problem or error comes up when I add an RSS feed.

If you have the same problem, or did have, how did you get it fixed lol???

Inquiring mind wants to know!

Seems to me I had this same problem when they upgraded the PHP to 5.0 too, but no one seems to know what they did to get it to work again.

I'd appreciate any advice you can give ...

Thanks!

Mary

Hi Mary

I've had that problem with Hostgator.

They recently re-compiled the Perl modules to upgrade them the latest version, and they didn't include one of the XML::RSS modules and my 'zon script stopped working.

I'd hazard a guess you'll find something similar has occurred with your hosting.

I hope you get it sorted soon

Kind regards

Ian

OH and I'm still here, just very busy with other projects at the moment.

>They recently re-compiled the Perl modules to upgrade them
>the latest version, and they didn't include one of the
>XML::RSS modules and my 'zon script stopped working.
>

Hi Mary...

Looks like Ian has the answer...Pay attention.

LAST EDITED ON May-22-08 AT 03:36 AM (PST)
 
Hi Ian,

Thanks for that info. I've forwarded it to support.

It may have been the perl they updated. For some reason I wrote PHP in the fisrt post.

Hopefully they'll get it fixed.

Mary

Btw Kurt, lol yes I saw that....thanks!

I am fixed up now so you guys know.

You won't believe what the problem was, and it took my host and me till about 6:00 am to figure things out.

The feed I entered led to nowhere!

Man, this has turned out to be one heck of a week, andit's starting to show because I'm making stupid mistakes.

So now everyone knows that if you enter a feed that leads to nowhere in BBX, you will get an error message saying to contact the webmaster.

Kurt,

I know, and don't you say one word lol!

Mary

Hi Mary

The feed I entered led to nowhere!

Yup! That'll do it every time

As Kurt points out, you must pay more attention.

Glad you're sorted out anyway

Kind regards

Ian

LAST EDITED ON May-22-08 AT 12:18 PM (PST)
 
>Lol Taz,
>
>Glad to see you too!
>
>Hey, I have a quick question for you ...
>
>ServInt updated their PHP to 5.2. Are you having problems
>running BBX2 on your servers or sites/blogs?
>
>The problem or error comes up when I add an RSS feed.
>
>If you have the same problem, or did have, how did you get
>it fixed lol???
>
>Seems to me I had this same problem when they upgraded the
>PHP to 5.0 too, but no one seems to know what they did to
>get it to work again.
>
>Mary

First of all, I still use latest version of PHP4 ( version 4.4.8 )
Secondly, they didn't upgrade to PHP 5, you can choose to go with version PHP 5

How to help ? Not needed any more

Tasari

Hey Taz,

I meant to say perl, not PHP lol. I ended up using PHP to support too, and I think Kurt. What can I say, it was a very long night.

Btw, I am using PHP 5.2 now, and it is working just fine. What ServInt did was re-add the XML Parser.

Put that together with a usable feed, and it works like a charm!

Thanks for responding, and take care ...

Mary

P.S. I think that's about the dumbest thing I've done in years lol.

I recently went through a complete fatal hard drive crash. What a headache that was. Since then, I've replace the HD with a much bigger one, reloaded XP, and was able to collect some info off the old drive.

One item I retrieved was my Outlook.pst file. When I move it into the Outlook folder, were it belongs, Outlook 2002 doesn't see it.

How do I get Outlook to see, and use, the .pst file? Many have directed me to the MS website but trying to follow their ideas is like pi**in' in the wind.

There's gotta be a way to do this. Anyone have an answer?

Thanks,

John

john, IMO you have to use the import wizard
FILE->import/export

hope it helps regards
Karsten

Hi Kurt,

I arrived at dombom via Warrior Forum, and after reading your WSO I joined at dombom.

So, I thought we got all the perl scripts with our membership. It looks like we have to pay/wait for them.

Should I join through the WSO and save a bunch of money? And/or not have to wait.

Right now I just want to follow your and Dan's advice:

>1- Blog bomb install, config, set up
>2- Get to know RSS inside and out,
>3- get pheeds to make pheeds
>4- Make tin sites
>5- add content to sites, rewrite them for silver sites, add
>gold content to gold sites, and monetize them
>
>6- then fat bomb

But it looks like all I have access to is blogbomb. Is that all I need? Thanks.

>Hi Kurt,
>
>I arrived at dombom via Warrior Forum, and after reading
>your WSO I joined at dombom.
>
>So, I thought we got all the perl scripts with our
>membership. It looks like we have to pay/wait for them.
>
>Should I join through the WSO and save a bunch of money?
>And/or not have to wait.

HI Dave,

If my memeory is correct, you didn't purchase the WSO, instead joined using the normal DomBom membership.

Contact me via email and include your Paypal receipt and we'll work something out...

For those wondering, I'm still here, also. Just been busy finishing up computer HD massive failure and rebuild, car dying when least expected and no one can find the problem, AND...been working with "Social Niche Bulder" software, testing it out. Seems to be a good application. Can be targeted to any niche, has built-in Simple Machine Forum, chat capabilites, photos, videos, it's your own social networking site.

I would guess this application would be a "gold" site, but I may be wrong. That's actually my question. Use SNB with outlying Silver and Tin as pointers? Still deciding on which niche to go for first.

If you use SNB, there are two things you have to be aware of:
1. Must be uploaded to the domain ROOT directory. Too much to change if you put it in a sub-folder.
2. Captcha may not show up if your host hasn't got it "turned on."

Other than that, it was a snap! Then, add Bombz and Tuelz and I see possibilities developing big time. Script also uses a "bad word" file which you can add to. Poster uses a bad word from the list and they can't log in next time. Good safety catch.

Just a little review and a question.

John

Quick question:

Which bomb/tuel did we use to "insert" a "blog" into a page?

I remember in the "old days," we went round and round on this one and found that one of the above did the trick. Not a full-blown blog, mind you, but something that would suffice on a page.

Thanks,

John

HI John,

Are you talking about Commentz? It adds the ability to take and add reader comments to standard html pages.

Not sure now. LOL I remember what Commentz did. However, I seem to be thinking about GfB, possibly. It took pheeds and built pages with the daily/weekly index of pages on the side panel.

That ring a bell?

John

>Not sure now. LOL I remember what Commentz did. However,
>I seem to be thinking about GfB, possibly. It took pheeds
>and built pages with the daily/weekly index of pages on the
>side panel.
>
>That ring a bell?

Both ZZ Tuel (desktop) and Godfather (server side) will do that.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-16-08 AT 09:49 AM (PST)
 
Kurt,

It was before "Tuelz." So, it must be GfB as I was using it on the site where I remember seeing the "archive" feature.

Right now, trying to figure out which niche I want to attack. Then, upload the software that I'll be using and get everything configured. I'll be posting about what I'm running into and how things are going so the new bombers can see what's going on.

Once I figure out the niche, I'll get a long-tail-domain-name and I've got hosting covered. Then, as I'm working on it, I'll let bombers come "in" and look around. Explanations will be posted in this private forum. No need for the "cluck-clucks" to follow us.

This is the fun part of Bombing and Tueling around. When you have your concept in mind, all your pieces ready and then, on to solve the "puzzle."

Maybe someone here can help me with one final question: There's a software, I know I have it and can't think of the name of it. It's either a tracker or tracker-like script that does NOT show your CB affiliate ID in the Address line, only at the bottom of the CB purchase page. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I think it's been on several giveaways as I don't remember buying it.

Now, what niche/name to use????????

John

Hi Kurt

I just looked over the recent WSO and somehow I did not get everyhing listed there.

For sure I do not have INZ.

Is there some download that has everything from the WSO?

Was I supposed to get the full Tuelz package? Or some of the full versions? I have LTD and TuelzBS99

>Was I supposed to get the full Tuelz package? Or some of the
>full versions? I have LTD and TuelzBS99

TuelzBS99 is the full versions and includes the Inz Tuel.

sometimes the tuelz load ok

sometimes i get this error in firefox

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:12345.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

* Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later."

I turned off the firewall and that did not help.

yesterday I re-booted and then it worked, but today no such luck.

using win xp pro with sp 3

Yesterday when tuelzBS99 did open INZ was not on the list of programs.
I tried to open INZ by clicking on it and that did not work.
Windows sees the .mod extention as a video file, I changed properties to have the .mod open with tuelz.

anyone have this kind of thing happen just sometimes not other times?
What else can I check?

Using Tredn micro PC-Cillian 2007 and wondering if that could effect tuelz somehow

>sometimes the tuelz load ok
>
>sometimes i get this error in firefox
>
>"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at
>127.0.0.1:12345.
>
>Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to
>establish a connection.
>
> * Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again
>later."
>
>I turned off the firewall and that did not help.
>
>yesterday I re-booted and then it worked, but today no such
>luck.
>
>using win xp pro with sp 3
>
>Yesterday when tuelzBS99 did open INZ was not on the list of
>programs.
>I tried to open INZ by clicking on it and that did not work.
>Windows sees the .mod extention as a video file, I changed
>properties to have the .mod open with tuelz.
>
>anyone have this kind of thing happen just sometimes not
>other times?
>What else can I check?
>
>Using Tredn micro PC-Cillian 2007 and wondering if that
>could effect tuelz somehow

Hi Warner,

You posted this problem on the Tuelz forum and I repsonded. Did you read my response?

Hi Kurt

No, sorry did not see that, will go look now

LAST EDITED ON Jun-22-08 AT 04:24 AM (PST)
 
When you download the CB marketplace pheed, it comes as an XML document. Is there an applications out there that will bust said pheed down itno RSS units?

If you had this chore, how wold you tackle it?

Thank,

John

John,

Standby on this...

Jeff

Hi guys,

I need a favor from some of you that are successful at making money from using Fatty and BBX on their sites and blogs.

Iam planning to run a WSO in the WF for fully loaded niche businesses and need some testimonials.

These are Joomla! sites with professional templates, content, affiliate products, and the whole 9 yrads.

If you think you can give me a testimonial, please PM me. I'd greatly appreciate it.

Btw, I did contact a couple of Bombers today, so if you were already asked, please consider it.

Thanks ...

Mary

P.S. Btw Kurt, if this isn't the place to post this please feel free to delete it.

>John,
>
>Standby on this...
>
>Jeff

Hey Jeff,

Did you have something cooking on a script that will break down XML to individual RSS?

That would be good if you do. I know I'd buy the product because I've been looking too.

Mary

>Did you have something cooking on a script that will break
>down XML to individual RSS?
>
>That would be good if you do. I know I'd buy the product
>because I've been looking too.

Hi Mary,

I was thinking about something along those lines. But it may not be worthwhile due to some potential support issues involved. Still thinking about it though.

Jeff

LAST EDITED ON Jul-13-08 AT 02:39 AM (PST)
 
Anyone got one? What hassles did you go through to get it? How long til delivery? Someting I'm looking into and was just wondering.

I'm wondering:
Applicant - US Citizen
Bank on file - US based
My location - Non-US based

Wonder what they'll make of that?

John

>Anyone got one? What hassles did you go through to get it?
>How long til delivery? Someting I'm looking into and was
>just wondering.
>
>I'm wondering:
>Applicant - US Citizen
>Bank on file - US based
>My location - Non-US based
>
>Wonder what they'll make of that?
>
>John

Hi John,

I've had one for years. It's nice to have, because you can have instant access offline to your Paypal funds. No waiting 3 days or more for bank transfers, etc.

It takes a couple of weeks to receive it, & they send you renewals every couple of years I think. You get a PIN for ATM cash withdrawal, etc., & I think you have to call from your home phone to activate. Not sure how that will work where you live, or if you can use in ATMs etc. there.

Jeff

Hi John,

Love my Paypal card.

Only problem I've ever had is right now...I was supposed to have gotten the replacement a month ago, but it hasn't arrived.

Part of this is likely due to me still using a LV mailing address. And this isn't any more a Paypal issue and could happen with anything.

> & I think you have to call from
>your home phone to activate. Not sure how that will work
>where you live, or if you can use in ATMs etc. there.

Hey Jeff and John,

Actually, activation is done through your Paypal account, if and when you get your card.

I have had mine for a few years now. I use it to pay the rent. They take the money out of my checking account and when the smoke clears I get a 12.75 cash back. This comes in handy when every dollar helps.

Tom

As some of you know I have been inactive for awhile, and just recently try three months getting back into trying to make some money on line.

This is my first site in over a year http://shopermart.com I used to have 14 sites and mostly was using AD Sense. They were making pennies and I needed the money to keep paying my med bills. So I droped them and kind of backed off, and just work at my part time job.

Could all of you take a look at my site and give me some suggestions, and advice. I would appreciate it. Oh I almost forgot.

I have another domain name that I haven't done any thing with as it's my name tomeleam.com. What kind of site can I make out of it?

I read somewhere that having your own name as a domain name is good for branding?

Tom

>This is my first site in over a year http://shopermart.com I
>used to have 14 sites and mostly was using AD Sense. They
>were making pennies and I needed the money to keep paying my
>med bills. So I droped them and kind of backed off, and just
>work at my part time job.
>
>Could all of you take a look at my site and give me some
>suggestions, and advice. I would appreciate it. Oh I almost
>forgot.

Hi Tom...

Site looks fine, however Amazon will be as tough or tougher to make money from as was AdSense.

My question is, what's your marketing plan? How do you plan on getting traffic?

You need to make blogs and mini sites about each and every topic on your main/gold site. Start another site about mp3s. How to make them, download them, etc.

Also, look for song and musuc reviews, etc.

Remember, getting the first site is only 1-5% of the work. Marketing/promoting it is the other 95%+.

>
>>This is my first site in over a year http://shopermart.com I
>>used to have 14 sites and mostly was using AD Sense. They
>>were making pennies and I needed the money to keep paying my
>>med bills. So I dropped them and kind of backed off, and just
>>work at my part time job.
>>
>>Could all of you take a look at my site and give me some
>>suggestions, and advice. I would appreciate it. Oh I almost
>>forgot.
>
>
>Hi Tom...
>
>Site looks fine, however Amazon will be as tough or tougher
>to make money from as was AdSense.
Well I could use that for the content then, and concentrate on
eBay and Clickbank. How come it would be harder to make money as
an Amazon affiliate?

>
>My question is, what's your marketing plan? How do you plan
>on getting traffic? I am planning on writing a few articles, some
for my site and some to submit to ezine articles and other directory sites.
>
>You need to make blogs and mini sites about each and every
>topic on your main/gold site. Start another site about mp3s.
>How to make them, download them, etc.

I plan on doing just that, but will use either subdomains, squidoo, and other free places. I am in a bind now as I don't have my part
time job anymore, can't walk now (only for short distances) so my
total income right now is $967 a month so things a a little tough
right now and I just stay at home and work on my site. I can't do
to much at a time though as I tire easily.

What can I use my other domain name that is my name for? I hate to
see it go to waste.

Tom
>
>Also, look for song and music reviews, etc.
>
>Remember, getting the first site is only 1-5% of the work.
>Marketing/promoting it is the other 95%+.

Hi Tom,

There are a number of ways to use your personal domain name.

Most use it as a blog. Many others use it just to be able to use the name as an email address. Still others use it as their main marketing site.

I use mine as a blog.

Kelvin

>I plan on doing just that, but will use either subdomains,
>squidoo, and other free places. I am in a bind now as I
>don't have my part
>time job anymore, can't walk now (only for short distances)
>so my
>total income right now is $967 a month so things a a little
>tough
>right now and I just stay at home and work on my site. I
>can't do
>to much at a time though as I tire easily.

Hey Tom,

Sorry to hear about your health...The good news is, there's now tons and tons of free places for you to use and exploit, so you don't need to spend money on hosting and domain names.

I sent you some info a while back. I think you should follow that plan.

Kelvin,

I think I'll use it for a blog too.

Kurt,

oops I forgot to update my email address it's
themage(at symbol)comcast.net

I switched back to comcast when DSL be came
unreliable. Also I will be switching Phone
service.

BTW have a great vacation you deserve it.

Tom

Kurt or anyone else caring to comment,

A few days ago I ran Kaspersky Labs anti virus software to remove ad.yieldmanager. I have recently noticed that tuelz will no longer open. I don't know if the Kaspersky is related to tuelz not opening; howver, I mention it because noticed that tuelz stopped funtioning sometime after doing the run. When I click on the tuelz .exe, I get an hour glass for a few moments and then nothing.

Also, the tuel bar appears to have vanished from my computer. But that's another issue.

I'd appreciate any advice or suggestions.

Thanks,
Evan

>A few days ago I ran Kaspersky Labs anti virus software to
>remove ad.yieldmanager. I have recently noticed that tuelz
>will no longer open. I don't know if the Kaspersky is
>related to tuelz not opening; howver, I mention it because
>noticed that tuelz stopped funtioning sometime after doing
>the run. When I click on the tuelz .exe, I get an hour
>glass for a few moments and then nothing.

Evan,

Does your version of Kaspersky include a firewall? If so, that may be the cause. If it's a firewall issue, you'll need to add Tuelz.exe as an allowed application.

You should be able to shut down Kaspersky - usually a right-click and choose Exit or something similar. I'd try that, then run Tuelz.exe and you'll know for sure.

Jeff

Jeff,

Thank you. Right. I was a little bleary this morning when trying to sort out tuelz. I'll turn off Kaspersky (trial version) and see what happens.

Evan

I'd appreciate anyone's advice,

Basically, to summarize, Tuelz has stopped working, and this appears to be correlated to running Kaspersky Labs anti virus software. However, I have turned it off and even replaced the tuelz.exe but for some reason, tuelz will simply not open. Regarding the tuel bar, I did a reinstall and that is working fine.

By the way, I'm running XP, and in the recent past, Tuelz has run like clockwork. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Evan

>I'd appreciate anyone's advice,
>
>Basically, to summarize, Tuelz has stopped working, and this
>appears to be correlated to running Kaspersky Labs anti
>virus software. However, I have turned it off and even
>replaced the tuelz.exe but for some reason, tuelz will
>simply not open. Regarding the tuel bar, I did a reinstall
>and that is working fine.
>
>By the way, I'm running XP, and in the recent past, Tuelz
>has run like clockwork. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Hi Evan,

This should have been posted in the Tuelz forum...But while we're here...

Exit Tuelz.exe
Restart
Open Tuelz.log in a text editor
Email the contents to me at lvha@aol.com

Kurt,

Thank you. I apologize for posting the Tuelz question here. The other day, I tried to ask the question in the Tuelz thread, but for some reason it wouldn't post. Perhaps I was too impatient. I'll send you the information later today as soon as I get to the computer with Tuelz installed.

Evan

And it's not bad, either.

SE here: http://www.cuil.com/

Story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392021,00.html

Looks good, too.

John

Hi all,

What tools do I need to use to scrape a public domain site?

Ultimately, I want the scrapings to end up in a word press blog. (if that makes any difference)

Charles

>Hi all,
>
>What tools do I need to use to scrape a public domain site?
>
>Ultimately, I want the scrapings to end up in a word press
>blog. (if that makes any difference)
>
>Charles

Hi Charles

Try HTTRack http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html .

It will copy all the pages on the site down to the level you specify in the setup before you set it running. You may need to experiment a little with settings to obtain optimal results.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

Thanks Ian! Now, that I have some of the pages downloaded, I assume the next step is to cut out all of the extraneous information from teh pages. Notetab will cut across multiple open files.

Charles

Hi Charles

You can use a variety of the Tuelz to do what you want.

Replacez, Tagz, Listz and Linez, together with Textpad are the Tuelz I use regularly to manipulate text.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

Hi,

New guy with questions.

I've been reading a lot and I found Kurt's Plans and Goals
post.

I see that step one is just to stick to understanding
BlogBomb, but then I've noticed in other threads that
it seems like Tulz does what BlogBomb does without all
of the cgi and perl stuff.

Is that correct?

If so should I focus on BlogBomb or Tulz to start?

Thanks,
Blase

Hi Blase,

Start with BlogBomb...Follow the more recent posts on the Plans and Goals thread here:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=75&forum=DCForumID42

Thanks Kurt.

I haven't been able to bomb much in the past year or so, but I wanted to share this with you guys.

You can run Tuelz on your Mac with Crossover Mac from Codeweavers. You don't even need to have Windows for it to work. A week or so ago, they offered a free unlocked version as part of a bet some guys in the company had. I still have the dmg file if Kurt wants to post it somewhere.

>I haven't been able to bomb much in the past year or so, but
>I wanted to share this with you guys.
>
>You can run Tuelz on your Mac with Crossover Mac from
>Codeweavers. You don't even need to have Windows for it to
>work. A week or so ago, they offered a free unlocked
>version as part of a bet some guys in the company had. I
>still have the dmg file if Kurt wants to post it somewhere.

Hey Rich,

Would you mind starting a new thread "How to run Tuelz on Mac"? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Hi,

I hope it's OK to post this here.
I didn't see another topic that looked
right.

Quick question...

Is BlogBomb only used on html
type sites, it's not used on
blog sites?

Thanks,
Blase

>Hi,
>
>I hope it's OK to post this here.
>I didn't see another topic that looked
>right.
>
>Quick question...
>
>Is BlogBomb only used on html
>type sites, it's not used on
>blog sites?
>
>Thanks,
>Blase

Hi Blase,

Yes and no. On static html sites, you can use BlogBomb to add rss pheeds to those pages.

You can do the same on blogs, if your blog has the ability to add RSS pheeds. In this case, you generally want to create your own pheeds, add them to Blogbomb, to help you cross-link your resources.

As far as adding content to static pages, ZZ and BlogBomb are similar in this respect. Use BlogBomb on sites with good server resources, and use ZZ on cheapo/free hosting.

The difference: between ZZ and Blogbomb, and why I had you start with BlogBomb are:
1.BlogBomb will also EXPORT RSS pheeds, based on what you put in.

2. Since BlogBomb is on a site (server-side), it can be accessed 24/7. ZZ Tuel only accesses the net when connected to the Net and Tuelz are running.

You want to get Blogbomb set up first so you have one "central control" for all your links to all your resources. You can then call these links (formatted in RSS) using either ZZ Tuel or other installs of Blogbomb.

It may seem that installing BlogBomb each time is hard, but once you get it down, it only takes about 5 minutes per install...And if you have a reseller account that uses WHM/cpanel, it usually has a "skeleton" directory. If you install BlogBomb in your skeleton directory, every time you add a NEW domain, BlogBomb will automatically be installed instantly, totally hands free.

Thank you sir, I am getting it.

Hi,

I am working with BBX2RSS2.2.

I've got it on the server and went
to CHMOD.

In the read me file it says to
set permissions on...

/libwww
data.pl

I don't have either of these files.
I looked in the zip they are not
there either?

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Blase

>In the read me file it says to
>set permissions on...
>
>/libwww
>data.pl

Hi Blase,

Disregard those files.

Sorry about that...

Thanks Kurt,

Boy do I feel better.
I thought I really blew
that one.

I'd like to know Kurt's opinion of MSN Loophole.

Kurt I know you have great respect about Dave and I joined linkvana sometime back based on your recommendation. But what about this Loophole?

Do you think it's worth putting the effort, specially now that the thing has been exposed to the public?

>I'd like to know Kurt's opinion of MSN Loophole.
>
>Kurt I know you have great respect about Dave and I joined
>linkvana sometime back based on your recommendation. But
>what about this Loophole?
>
>Do you think it's worth putting the effort, specially now
>that the thing has been exposed to the public?

Hi Mou...

Usually, I'm pretty opinionated, but not sure what to advise in this case.

I trust Dave Kelly. But, I'm also worried about what you pointed out and that's the public now knowing this. Unless MSN is totally asleep at the wheel, it seems that fixing this (if it works) would be a top priorrity.

I'd say, if you already have the resources set up, most of us probably do, give it a shot. Experience Bombers should be able to do this in 1/4 the time noobs will take.

But if you have to spend more money to set everything up, you should be more cautious.

Again, my opinion on this is very weak, and it should be up to each person...

The question you should ask yourselves is:

Would you rather waste some money and time or miss out on a possible good strategy. Maybe it will work for you for 6 months before MSN fixes it?

Thanks Kurt

I wanted to hear about it from you before taking any decision

~Mou

Hi,

Well I've made good progress.
I did get Blogbomb on to my server.
Everything is working as it should.

Thank you Jeff Hope for the videos you
did a few years ago.

I had to make one change, in the .htaccess
file I put in what Jeff said and it didn't work.

So I thought for awhile and it occurred to me
that my site extensions are htm not html so
I just changed that in the .htaccess file
and everything worked!

So here is the next question.

What is the benefit to me if I have a feed
that shows article snip-its on my site that
takes the reader back to the original site
when they click on the headline?

Is it strictly to draw spiders?

Thanks,
Blase

>What is the benefit to me if I have a feed
>that shows article snip-its on my site that
>takes the reader back to the original site
>when they click on the headline?
>
>Is it strictly to draw spiders?

Hi Blase,

This is an important concept: Just because the RSS pheeds are installed in BlogBomb on Domain A, doesn't mean they have to all link back to Domain A.

Next, you need to learn to create your own RSS pheeds by hand. It isn't hard. Now, as you add a Squidoo lens, Hubpage, static site, you add these to your RSS pheed.

Same with any other site that outputs RSS, like Blogger and Wordpress blogs. Keep adding all your pheeds to this one install of BlogBomb. And if they don't create RSS pheeds, update your "man made" pheed.

Now you have a database of all your resouces that you can use to corss-link all your resources across your entire network. All you have to do is call your "main" BlogBomb. You can do this using the "random" function or the "keyword" function...Or by calling specific pheeds and categories.

Another concept...There are tons of RSS pheed directories you can submit to, just like article directories. Difference is, with RSS pheeds, you only have to submit it once, whereas articles have to be submitted each time you write a new one.

Now your RSS pheeds can be picked up by other sites, creating even more links to your entire network.

If you have a ton of "items" in your pheeds in BlogBomb, you can use the "random" function to make it seem as if your pheed has been updated. (blackhat)

And if you have a ton of items, you can "call" your main BlogBomb using the random function and it will generate content for tin sites.

Thank you sir.

Back to work, time to
learn to build feeds.

This is fun.

Blase

Hi,
I am having a problem at the moment.
I have a few sites where I am using blogbomb and when I need to edit those sites , I have to go on and edit a hec lot of pages.

So, I was thinking of using includes in the html pages. I mean, I would put the navigation links and the ads in the include files and use these in my pages.

I came to know that I was supposed to use a certain command in the .htaccess file -- AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .html

But the problem is that when I add this line in my htaccess file then, blogbomb doesnt work anymore. I remove this line and it starts to work again.

At present my htaccess file has the command --- AddHandler server-parsed .html

So, how do I proceed now, so as to be able to use includes.

Please let me know.

bye,
faraz

LAST EDITED ON Nov-19-08 AT 07:02 AM (PST)
 
Faraz,

You can't use server-side includes and parse PHP together. The server just can't handle that.

What you can do though is call Blogbomb, etc. with PHP instead of server side includes. That will then let you use other PHP includes to construct the rest of your pages.

See the PHP "virtual" function:
http://www.php.net/virtual

You can also use server-side includes to do the same thing - you can "include" small & separate files that contain your nav menus, advertising, and other elements common to other pages on your site, just as you can with PHP. You can even include the output of a PHP file - for example the results of a call to a database - with server side includes.

In short, you can use two roads to get to the same place, but you can only walk on one road at a time.

I should note that Kurt officially supports use of server-side includes, not PHP. So, while I and others may volunteer a bit of info re. PHP, you should be aware that it's outside the "support zone".

Jeff

>Faraz,
>
>You can't use server-side includes and parse PHP together.
>The server just can't handle that.
>
>What you can do though is call Blogbomb, etc. with PHP
>instead of server side includes. That will then let you use
>other PHP includes to construct the rest of your pages.
>
>See the PHP "virtual" function:
>http://www.php.net/virtual
>
>You can also use server-side includes to do the same thing -
>you can "include" small & separate files that contain your
>nav menus, advertising, and other elements common to other
>pages on your site, just as you can with PHP. You can even
>include the output of a PHP file - for example the results
>of a call to a database - with server side includes.
>
>In short, you can use two roads to get to the same place,
>but you can only walk on one road at a time.
>
>I should note that Kurt officially supports use of
>server-side includes, not PHP. So, while I and others may
>volunteer a bit of info re. PHP, you should be aware that
>it's outside the "support zone".
>
>Jeff

Hey,Thanks for the reply.
Guess what. I used ssi for the repeated page elements too and It worked.

I was wondering about reading the posts and I saw Kurt's post in blogbomb thread of how one can use ssi to include certain elements.
I used that And Bam, it worked.

Thanks .

bye,
faraz

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to call fatty2 from wordpress.

can this be done?

Thanks,

Ed

Ed,

Wordpress is running with PHP, while Fatbomb is Perl, and the two don't always play nicely. In addition, Fatbomb depends on input paramaters, such as search term, etc. to operate, so a lot will depend on how you want to implement it.

The PHP/Perl stuff could be done either of the following ways:

1) Create a WP page template for your theme that includes an iframe, and run your Fatbomb page within that iframe.

2) Install the ExecPHP plugin to Wordpress so that PHP will execute on WP pages & posts. Then use PHP "virtual" to run Fatbomb.

Either way, you will still have the problem of getting your input search terms to Fatbomb, because Wordpress will treat any pages it doesn't find as 404. So depending on what you're trying to do, it may be necessary to alter the WP .htaccess rewrite info, etc.

Jeff

Hi Ed,

If you are using FatBomb to call your own databases, you could use RZZ to convert the files to RSS. Then use BlogBomb/RSS to add the databases to WP.

Hi Jeff and Kurt,

You guys are way beyond me in the htaccess, perl, php world!

I wanted to create pages sorta "on the fly".

I thought I would be able to accomplish this by putting in the call to fatbomb via "virtual" and Execphp. I would include the keywords, etc as parameters of the call.

If i remember correctly, execphp chokes on virtual and I get an error. Perhaps I didn't do the call properly.

I'll give iframe a try, if I can figure it out!!

Thanks and Merry Christmas,

Ed

Ed,

I should have mentioned - if it's for visitors, the iframe implementation may be OK. But if it's for content for search purposes, iframes probably won't do you much good.

If you mean you want to create WP pages that contain "canned" Fatbomb results: You can create a page template that contains the PHP virtual call, (along with all the Wordpress stuff), you don't have to use the ExecPHP plugin. You'd have to make a new page template for each set of keywords you wanted to use, because the inputs used with the virtual call would be different.

Jeff

Just a little something to remind you of home:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164807

That's right, bro'. It's SNOWING in Las Vegas!

John

>Just a little something to remind you of home:
>
>http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-164807
>
>That's right, bro'. It's SNOWING in Las Vegas!
>
>John

Hey John,

My sister who lives in Orange CA called me to tell me she is snowed in in Vegas and that they closed the highways home.

I lived there on and off for 20 years...I've seen it snow fairly hard, but rarely did it stick. The most snow I saw accumulate was 2-3 inches on the grass...But the sidwalks were still clear.

I just got back from LV a few weeks ago (Thansgiving)...Had no weather the whole trip until after I dropped my nephew off in Wyoming and all the roads were closed out of Laramie WY, so I had to spend the night there.

Outta nowhere, my Firefox browser isn't retaining my "log-in" on any sites. The info is there for me to log in with but I no longer arrive, pre logged it. Is there a "switch" somewhere in Firefox that has inadvertently been thrown? Where would it be located? This has just suddenly happened and, while not stopping me, is slowing me down a bit.

Any info or direction would be appreciated as I'm not well versed on Firefox.

John

Has anyone looked at this yet? I just ran across it and it looks like it has possibilities, not to mention it's open-source and FREE. Also has some supporting software that's also free.

http://www.boonex.com/

John

>Outta nowhere, my Firefox browser isn't retaining my
>"log-in" on any sites. The info is there for me to log in
>with but I no longer arrive, pre logged it. Is there a
>"switch" somewhere in Firefox that has inadvertently been
>thrown? Where would it be located? This has just suddenly
>happened and, while not stopping me, is slowing me down a
>bit.
>
>Any info or direction would be appreciated as I'm not well
>versed on Firefox.
>
>John

Do you have it set to erase cookies when you close Firefox? Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Settings

Is there possibly some other anti-adware software you just installed that might be clearing cookies?

>Has anyone looked at this yet? I just ran across it and it
>looks like it has possibilities, not to mention it's
>open-source and FREE. Also has some supporting software
>that's also free.
>
>http://www.boonex.com/
>
>John

Dolphin for social sites is awesome!

Jeff,

Checked Firefox where you instructed and everything is "until they expire." Yet, if I turn Firefox off and then restart it, it won't bring me "logged in" to a site. It WILL have the info handy for me to log in but it's just that it's another step that shouldn't be there.

That was my impression of Dolphin as I was reading their "features." They say that they're about to release Dolphin 7.0 that will include "Ray" along with the assorted plugins. They have really put some time into this script.

John

Hi John

I've installed an earlier version of Dolphin on my desktop server, just to see what was involved. It is a very nice script and not too difficult to set up.
My reservations come from 2 sources, especially for those on shared hosting.

1. With video sharing and uploading, it could get very server intensive and will gobble storage space relatively quickly.

2 With the chat facility, you will almost certainly be breaking your shared hosting TOS, as no shared hosting company of which I'm aware welcomes any form of IRC being housed on their shared servers.

It is a different matter for those with dedicated or VP servers as they have their own resources.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

LAST EDITED ON Dec-22-08 AT 05:47 AM (PST)
 
I'm working with Site Niche Builder and they have the "age" locked to "10-60." I've got to expand that field. However, I don't know what page the info is contained on. So, I thought I'd do a search for the word "Age" to find it. No luck. I used IE Search with only that folder on a HD and it wasn't found. Does anyone have a simple "Find" program I could get?

I might also add that it needs to do a search/find in PHP files.

Thanks,

John

Hi John

Textpad has a pretty robust 'search and replace' function and it handles most file types as well.

Ctrl+F5 will search through a list of files for any regular expression.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

>I'm working with Site Niche Builder and they have the "age"
>locked to "10-60." I've got to expand that field. However,
>I don't know what page the info is contained on. So, I
>thought I'd do a search for the word "Age" to find it. No
>luck. I used IE Search with only that folder on a HD and it
>wasn't found. Does anyone have a simple "Find" program I
>could get?
>
>I might also add that it needs to do a search/find in PHP
>files.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John

Hi John,

Use any of the Tuelz, like Replacez.

Here's what you do:
Find:
Your text string

Replace:
Your text string

(Make sure both are IDENTICAL!!!)

Now Replacez will go through all the files and replace the string with the same string...

In Windows, open the folder containing all the files and sort so "last modified" files are at the top. See any modified in the last few minutes?

If so, those files contain your text string. Open those files in Textpad and perform another search to find the text string in the file itself.

PS. Be sure to back up your files before performing a search/replace, just in case...

Hi all,

I was re-reading wordbomb and saw the reference to powerbomb....

Is powerbomb still avaiable? Did something replace it?

Thanks and blessings,

Ed

>I was re-reading wordbomb and saw the reference to
>powerbomb....
>
>Is powerbomb still avaiable? Did something replace it?

Hi Ed,

I dropped PowerBomb many years ago, when I felt the stats gathered were no longer accurate. Ironically, 99% of the keyword power tools have been released since, and they rely on the same sources for their numbers, that I feel are (were) no longer accurate.

And if you have crap data going in, you have crap research coming out.

It shows me that these vendors either don't know what a valid stat is, or don't care, or both.

Thanks for the reply Kurt.

I have basically dumped a lot of keyword research.

The most I do nowadays is using the adwords keyword tool. It is where I start. Then it's the mixing and match you talk about.

Ed

Hi,
I was not sure where to ask this and so I am posting here.

You see, I keep finding different niches and I am interested in most of them. In fact, I found those niches because I was searching for information in those niches.

What I want to do is to create informative pages in those niches but I dont want to buy a separate domain for each of them.

I was thinking of doing something similar to squidoo.
I mean suppose I have a domain called mysite.com , I would like to create pages like mysite.com/federer-tennis , mysite.com/obama mysite.com/yoga-mats .

I want to create pages like these and then add more content to these whenever I get an idea or whenever I read more stuff about this.

So,do you think those pages will be receiving traffic.
One more question - should I just create plain html pages for this or should I use something like wordpress and create categories, the only downside is that it could be a hec lot of categories.

Or maybe I should use some sort of wiki.
At the moment, it seems that creating simple html pages for each topic is better. I mean I feel like doing it this way. But, is there a better way?

I hope I have made myself clear.

bye,
faraz

Hey Faraz...

This is a tough question...Conventional advice is to have a different domain for each niche. On the other hand, sites like About.com and Wikipedia are far from focused on one topic and do very well in the SERPs.

I'm not certain at all, but if you have many different topics you may need to be a real authority, which means a lot of links.

This may be a case for sub-domains, but I'm just guessing. In this case, do what you feel is best, I seriously doubt you will get a good answer to this from anyone that really knows.

You may want to try a variety of different strategies...Maybe set up blogs on subdomains for each topic for some, then static html pages for others.

Having said this, why not pick a niche and fill it with every possible sub niche possible, before moving on?

>Hey Faraz...
>
>This is a tough question...Conventional advice is to have a
>different domain for each niche. On the other hand, sites
>like About.com and Wikipedia are far from focused on one
>topic and do very well in the SERPs.
>
>I'm not certain at all, but if you have many different
>topics you may need to be a real authority, which means a
>lot of links.
>
>This may be a case for sub-domains, but I'm just guessing.
>In this case, do what you feel is best, I seriously doubt
>you will get a good answer to this from anyone that really
>knows.
>
>You may want to try a variety of different
>strategies...Maybe set up blogs on subdomains for each topic
>for some, then static html pages for others.
>
>Having said this, why not pick a niche and fill it with
>every possible sub niche possible, before moving on?

Hmm,
Well, actually I wanted to do this because I keep hearing that we should be building our own virtual real estate instead of building squidoo's business.
So, I was thinking that instead of building a lens on a topic I would just go and put it on a page on my site. Or maybe I could do both.
Hmm, that is possible. I think I will do both and then point a link from the lens to my site.
I will try and use both blogs and html sites and see what happens.

Any other ideas?

>Hmm,
>Well, actually I wanted to do this because I keep hearing
>that we should be building our own virtual real estate
>instead of building squidoo's business.
>So, I was thinking that instead of building a lens on a
>topic I would just go and put it on a page on my site. Or
>maybe I could do both.
>Hmm, that is possible. I think I will do both and then point
>a link from the lens to my site.
>I will try and use both blogs and html sites and see what
>happens.
>
>Any other ideas?

Hi Faraz,

I'm of the opinion that building a VRE includes using third-party resources. Why not leverage Squidoo's existing traffic and authority for your own benefit.

It isn't either/or, it should be "all of the above".

LAST EDITED ON Jan-23-09 AT 06:54 AM (PST)
 
Hi Faraz

I have a site which has many categories under a very broad general headline. When planning the site, I examined all of the options you have mentioned.

In the end, I opted for Wordpress as the platform. Not wishing to have 20 or 30 different installs (with all the associated DB's and logins) of WP, I went with Wordpress Multi User, with all the Multi User functionality disabled, for security purposes.

For each different site/category, WP MU creates a 'Virtual Sub Domain' for that site. Each has it's own Dashboard and is completely customisable, as with any WP installation.

So if, for example, I have a sub-site about Dogs, I can have the WP theme I want for that category. The URL for the site is http://dogs.mydomain.com and it appears as a sub-domain of my main site.

The cool part about it is that you have, as well as the individual dashboard for each site, a central dashboard for all your sites and you can administer them all from the one place. It is all housed in one database, with each sub-domain getting added as new tables prefixed with the name of the subdomain.

It sure saves time when I want to add a new site or category, I just login to the master dashboard and add the new site. It probably takes me less than 5 minutes to get a new site up and running. I then just add the articles I want to be posted over the next few weeks to the Auto Posting plugin I use and I have another hands-free site/sub-domain up and running.

The setup for WP MU does require some 'tweaks' to the server configuration files.

It requires mod_rewrite to be working. ( Usually the case)

It also requires a wildcard entry to the DNS records of your site, to enable the 'Virtual sub-domains' to function.

The site I'm talking about is on Hostgator and they were quite happy to make the necessary alterations to the server config file and also the DNS record for my site.

Works like a charm and I'd say from your requirement that it might well be worth your while to examine WP MU as an option.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

A couple of other things you do need to bear in mind, which I thought of after I'd posted the above.

You can't mix 'ordinary' sub-domains with the 'virtual' ones created by MU. The .htaccess file tries to re-direct the 'ordinary' sub-domain to the MU interface and, of course, there is no MU instance of the 'ordinary' sub-domain there. Result a '401'.

If you want to use other scripts or just plain HTML on the same site, you have to put them in directories ie. http://mysite.com/dogs.

All your plugins and themes have to be installed via the Central Dashboard, before they become available to the individual dashboards for each sub-domain.

Beyond those two items, you can have as many themes and plugins as you wish and just pick and choose which you use on any given sub-domain.

Kind regards

Ian

I have a small favor to ask if you have a membership. PM me.

Thanks,

John

requires a wildcard entry to the DNS records of your site, to enable the 'Virtual sub-domains' to function.

Hey Ian not sure if we talk about the same thing here but with the new cpanel version you dont need this anymore
you just put a * in the add subdomain section no wildcard setup in the dns records

If you do, maybe you can answer a question their online manual doesn't mention. I need to delete, as Admin, a post from a SMF forum. I can't find a "switch" within the software one would use to do that. Do you know where it is and how it's 'tagged?'

Thanks,

John

Disregard above request. Found it!

John

Hi. I have 2 questions about RSS.

I have a strategy where I'm creating a bunch of small white hat sites using static HTML.

I'll want to create a feed for these.

What's the best tool to use to do it? I noticed a post here mentioning a tool that's close to what I need: warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/53544-why-im-ripping-big-mike-off.html#post493686

I'll probably only have 1 - 2 items in the feed as the site will be small. I'm wondering if that's a bad idea or if I should further bulk up with news items?

thanks,

Luke

OK, I've found the answer to my main question - Topic #155 here, How to Create a Man Made Feed.

I'm still wondering about the second. Does anyone know? If I had a one or two page content site, would it work - in terms of getting acceptance in the RSS feed directories - to submit a feed with only 1 or 2 items in it?

thanks,
Luke

>OK, I've found the answer to my main question - Topic #155
>here, How to Create a Man Made Feed.
>
>I'm still wondering about the second. Does anyone know? If I
>had a one or two page content site, would it work - in terms
>of getting acceptance in the RSS feed directories - to
>submit a feed with only 1 or 2 items in it?
>
>thanks,
>Luke

Hi Luke,

In your example, what I would do is combine all of your one/two item pheeds into a single RSS pheed. I suggest adding to it and creating a blackhole type pheed from it or use Blogbomb's random, expoert function.

RSS isn't very powerful for small, static sites, so if you use RSS for these sites, make the RSS pheed "dynamic". But, RSS can be very powerful for linking, but you need a lot of RSS items. And, you don't have to point the links to the same domain.

Once you figure out how to make your own RSS pheed, keep adding to it, use BlogBomb to randomize it, then ping it once or twice a day.

>Hi Luke,
>
>In your example, what I would do is combine all of your
>one/two item pheeds into a single RSS pheed. I suggest
>adding to it and creating a blackhole type pheed from it or
>use Blogbomb's random, expoert function.
>
>RSS isn't very powerful for small, static sites, so if you
>use RSS for these sites, make the RSS pheed "dynamic". But,
>RSS can be very powerful for linking, but you need a lot of
>RSS items. And, you don't have to point the links to the
>same domain.
>
>Once you figure out how to make your own RSS pheed, keep
>adding to it, use BlogBomb to randomize it, then ping it
>once or twice a day.

Thanks Kurt

Where would you host your feed? In this situation would you put your feed or feeds on one domain - separate from the mini sites?

So for example if I had diamondringreview.com, dogtrainingsecrets.com I was planning to have rss on the individual sites like diamondringreview.com/rss.xml, dogtrainingsecrets.com/rss.xml with auto-discovery in the HTML code.

I was thinking there is an advantage to this approach for getting acceptance in certain blog/rss directories?

From what you're saying, would you be suggesting having something like myinterestingsites.com/automatic-feed.xml? with links to both sites?

Thanks!

Luke

LAST EDITED ON Mar-03-09 AT 02:50 AM (PST)
 
Hey Kurt and everyone, I just came across this site in google groups, and thought maybe there was some free stuff here that you might be interested in.
http://121space.com/index.php?showtopic=886
its an old post so some of the sites dont work anymore.

Russ

>>Hi Luke,
>>
>>In your example, what I would do is combine all of your
>>one/two item pheeds into a single RSS pheed. I suggest
>>adding to it and creating a blackhole type pheed from it or
>>use Blogbomb's random, expoert function.
>>
>>RSS isn't very powerful for small, static sites, so if you
>>use RSS for these sites, make the RSS pheed "dynamic". But,
>>RSS can be very powerful for linking, but you need a lot of
>>RSS items. And, you don't have to point the links to the
>>same domain.
>>
>>Once you figure out how to make your own RSS pheed, keep
>>adding to it, use BlogBomb to randomize it, then ping it
>>once or twice a day.
>
>Thanks Kurt
>
>Where would you host your feed? In this situation would you
>put your feed or feeds on one domain - separate from the
>mini sites?
>
>So for example if I had diamondringreview.com,
>dogtrainingsecrets.com I was planning to have rss on the
>individual sites like diamondringreview.com/rss.xml,
>dogtrainingsecrets.com/rss.xml with auto-discovery in the
>HTML code.
>
>I was thinking there is an advantage to this approach for
>getting acceptance in certain blog/rss directories?
>
>From what you're saying, would you be suggesting having
>something like myinterestingsites.com/automatic-feed.xml?
>with links to both sites?

Hi Luke,

I would host a version on each totally unique IP address you have, pining each 1-2 times a day.

Then see if you can't set up a blog on another host/ip and use your RSS to "feed" that blog content, which in turn creates another RSS/ping situation.

>Hey Kurt and everyone, I just came across this site in
>google groups, and thought maybe there was some free stuff
>here that you might be interested in.
>http://121space.com/index.php?showtopic=886
>its an old post so some of the sites dont work anymore.
>
>Russ

Thanks Russ,

I'm going to also post it in the "free stuff" thread.

>Is powerbomb still avaiable? Did something replace it?
>
>Thanks and blessings,
>
>Ed

Speaking of PowerBomb, is anyone still using CherryBomb? It seems that no one has even mentioned it on these forums in a couple of years.

Phil

>>Is powerbomb still avaiable? Did something replace it?
>>
>>Thanks and blessings,
>>
>>Ed
>
>Speaking of PowerBomb, is anyone still using CherryBomb? It
>seems that no one has even mentioned it on these forums in a
>couple of years.
>
>Phil

Hey Phil,

Google (AdSense) really killed the smaller PPC companies, which makes it very hard for Cherrybomb to deliver accurate/targeted clicks, and even then, they are only a fraction of their former worth.

At this point, you're probably better using the javascript versions from any particulr PPC, if you can find one that pays enough to make it worth your while.

Hi,

Haven't been able to be here much since I joined,
my father became ill so I am taking care of him.

To top it off my wife lost here job, which is
the reason for the post.

I have, as most of you do, LOTS of stuff on
my hard drives that I can monetize if I just got
it online.

I am looking for a way to put my wife to work
on this.

What would you recommend she do
to start out building sites?

I am not talking about using all of the tools
that are available here. That could be something
I can add down the road.

I just need a simple plan to get her putting
stuff up where she might make a few bucks
without having to become very technical or
become frustrated right away.

I hope that made sense.

Thanks,
Blase

>
>I am looking for a way to put my wife to work
>on this.
>
>What would you recommend she do
>to start out building sites?
>
>I am not talking about using all of the tools
>that are available here. That could be something
>I can add down the road.
>
>I just need a simple plan to get her putting
>stuff up where she might make a few bucks
>without having to become very technical or
>become frustrated right away.

Hi Blase,

I'd have her start creating original content based on profitable niches, then post the content on all the free resources, like Squidoo, Blogger, Hubpages, etc.

Then check out the resources on the monetize thread, paying attention to the programs that pay quickly.

Free resources:
www.dombom.com/web2/web2.html

Monetize:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=95&forum=DCForumID42

Thank you Kurt,

And the good news is she can write.

I took a glimpse at one of Dr. Andy williams reports over the weekend
named html to wordpress!
He used a site of his own as an example - A 4 years old site about contactlenses with lots of pages and from the stats you could see that the site was getting about 20 - 25 visitors a day!

Since he is acting as kind of seo/traffic expert I found this pretty low....(made me actually wonder how much traffic the so called traffic and seo experts are really able to pull...)

But here are my questions: He said the traffic/sales nearly doubled after the site being transferred to wordpress -

the guy from webmarketingnow also mentioned that in his tests wordpress always outperformed static html...

then there is this kind of blogcontrolsystem named blogsorganizer and I found somebody posting that in his tests wordpress blogs even outperformed this kind of blogs (this is basically a simple php/blogsystem which is controlled by a remote setup site)
I found this strange because with this system you could seo each and every page and they are static sites. I insisted actually that in his tests wordpress always performs better (they have both built in rss)

Any ideas what makes wp so special seo and traffic wise???
Anybody ever tried to combine wp and dombomb??

...

>But here are my questions: He said the traffic/sales nearly
>doubled after the site being transferred to wordpress -
>
>the guy from webmarketingnow also mentioned that in his
>tests wordpress always outperformed static html...
>
>then there is this kind of blogcontrolsystem named
>blogsorganizer and I found somebody posting that in his
>tests wordpress blogs even outperformed this kind of blogs
>(this is basically a simple php/blogsystem which is
>controlled by a remote setup site)
>I found this strange because with this system you could seo
>each and every page and they are static sites. I insisted
>actually that in his tests wordpress always performs better
>(they have both built in rss)
>
>Any ideas what makes wp so special seo and traffic wise???
>Anybody ever tried to combine wp and dombomb??

My guess is RSS. But there's so many variables, it's hard to be sure.

Basically, he's saying the site went from 25 to 50 visits a day, and the sales conversions stayed the same. To duplicate this, just figure out how to get 25 more people a day. LOL

Dr. Andy is a copywriting expert, not an SEOer. Plus, the Bomber method is to use EVERYTHING, including blogs, html and especially RSS.

Again, too many variables to know what he tested and what he didn't. For example, did he test spamming scuttle sites with links pointing to Squidoo? Note likely.

Did he even test WP with the RSS turned off to isolate if it's WP or RSS?

BTW, rumors are Squidoo has some link detection methods which are now busting "in appropriate" links.

hi Kurt,
this is with reference to the third part sales and specials thread here--> http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=89&forum=DCForumID42

I was actually thinking about creating large sites with thousands of pages and am outsourcing the article writing at the moment.
But this plan would take a lot of time and a lot of money and therefore I wanted to know if there was a cheaper and faster way to do this.
Maybe I could spin the content using your tuelz and use it as content on my site. This way I could create large sites much faster and without having to pay a fortune for outsourcing.

I also read somewhere in this forum that you and kelvin brown both have large sites( or are they wikis?)with almost every topic known to man and having thousands of pages. How did you do it?

Is there a way I could build sites that large?

Maybe I could build something like squidoo and get user generated content but I dont know what sort of script would be required to do that.

Well, I have read this post again and it sounds like I am thinking aloud but I really want some suggestions on this or even some brainstorming from some of the members here.

Regards,
Faraz

P.S Please forgive me if I wasn't supposed to post this here.

Hi Faraz,

Kelvin and I have mirrors of Wikipedia. Wikipedia will let you copy their site. It isn't easy to do, but you can pay someone to do it for you.

One thing to note: Our versions are a few years old and Wikipedia has grown alot since then. Managing millions of pages is pretty tough.

However, having a site about "everything" can be a great asset. You don't have to get SE traffic, as you can "point" to your wiki site from all your other sites. It can also be alot of work and take a lot of disk space on your server.

Hi Kurt, and all bombers. The one thing I dont see a lot of on this forum is off line marketing, It seems a lot of people would like to put all their marketing efforts into promoting other peoples business, its usually much easier to get rankings for local keywords but the customers dont know that and pay pretty good for the service.
This is something Im trying to dabble with now, Ive got one customer almost sold for a website maybe 2 and promotion.
Kurt do you think we can start a new thread for this?

Russ

>Hi Kurt, and all bombers. The one thing I dont see a lot of
>on this forum is off line marketing, It seems a lot of
>people would like to put all their marketing efforts into
>promoting other peoples business, its usually much easier to
>get rankings for local keywords but the customers dont know
>that and pay pretty good for the service.
>This is something Im trying to dabble with now, Ive got one
>customer almost sold for a website maybe 2 and promotion.
>Kurt do you think we can start a new thread for this?

Hey Russ,

You can try, but I'n sure if there is interest or not. I'm poor at off-line marketing.

I know its popular on the WF, and I cant believe your not into it, as good as you are at seo.
If you dont like the selling part of it, hire a commissioned salesman

Russ

>I know its popular on the WF, and I cant believe your not
>into it, as good as you are at seo.
>If you dont like the selling part of it, hire a commissioned
>salesman

Hi Russ,

It's more that I hate working with clients. I help a couple of friends, but that's about it.

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@russ - I had a similar idea and am still working with this idea/site!
the question is how much is a service/site like this worth!
A couple of month back I took a language school and since the school was nowhere to be found in G, Y, B I approached the owners and offered a kind of exchange! They wanted me to work with their site but I preferred to set up a kind of resource site on its own domain (say I have some trust issues)
While working on the site I found I sold myself to cheap after all this could mean lots of new students for them!

>@russ - I had a similar idea and am still working with this
>idea/site!
>the question is how much is a service/site like this worth!
>A couple of month back I took a language school and since
>the school was nowhere to be found in G, Y, B I approached
>the owners and offered a kind of exchange! They wanted me to
>work with their site but I preferred to set up a kind of
>resource site on its own domain (say I have some trust
>issues)
>While working on the site I found I sold myself to cheap
>after all this could mean lots of new students for them!

I agree, that is a problem, I think you have to break it down to.
1) what is your time worth, then compare it to the competition.

2)I also think a lot depends on how competitive their niche is.

I think a good starting point would be around $40 an hr. to get started and its usually an ongoing every month thing, to keep their site as high as possible.

so how much time do you invest in linking, building gold, silver and tin sites.
If its 10 hrs a month than you could charge $400 a month
if its 15 hrs than $600 a month and so on.

What do you think?
Russ

If you are spending half of your life setting up Web 2.0 and links on forums so you don't have time for anything else you need
Roboform.

I have been using this for years for keeping my usernames and passwords but now I discovered a far more powerful feature setting up profiles.

I started signing up for a bunch of forums and it was taking for ever so thought their had to be a better way well there is roboform lets yout input details and with in minutes you can half a dozen forums signed up for.

My advice is wait a week or so before putting links on them and they should last a good while.

If any one has been wondering this software is a MUST have for any serious SEO/IM'er it saves hours.

If you are not sure how to do this and have robofrom there are some easy to follow videos at

http://www.roboform.com/video/Video-FormFillerTutorial.html

I am now working on trying to get Macro's working with roboform and then they should be almost hands off has anyone got anywhere with this side of things?

I will 2nd everything Graham said. Roboform is a must.
I have been using it for years, and have well over 400 ID's and passwords, and form fillers saved.

Kelvin

>If you are spending half of your life setting up Web 2.0 and
>links on forums so you don't have time for anything else you
>need
>Roboform.
>
>I have been using this for years for keeping my usernames
>and passwords but now I discovered a far more powerful
>feature setting up profiles.
>
>I started signing up for a bunch of forums and it was taking
>for ever so thought their had to be a better way well there
>is roboform lets yout input details and with in minutes you
>can half a dozen forums signed up for.
>
>My advice is wait a week or so before putting links on them
>and they should last a good while.
>
>If any one has been wondering this software is a MUST have
>for any serious SEO/IM'er it saves hours.
>
>If you are not sure how to do this and have robofrom there
>are some easy to follow videos at
>
>http://www.roboform.com/video/Video-FormFillerTutorial.html
>
>I am now working on trying to get Macro's working with
>roboform and then they should be almost hands off has anyone
>got anywhere with this side of things?