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

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.

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.

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

Hi Blase,

Disregard those files.

Sorry about that...

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

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?

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

~Mou

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

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.

Back to work, time to
learn to build feeds.

This is fun.

Blase

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

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

I wanted to call fatty2 from wordpress.

can this be done?

Thanks,

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

John

http://www.boonex.com/

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?

Dolphin for social sites is awesome!

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

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

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

Thanks,

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

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...

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

Is powerbomb still avaiable? Did something replace it?

Thanks and blessings,

Ed

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.

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

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

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?

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".

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

Thanks,

John

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

Thanks,

John

John

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

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.

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

Russ

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.

Thanks Russ,

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

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.

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

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

And the good news is she can write.

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.

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.

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.

Russ

Hey Russ,

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

Russ

Hi Russ,

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

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

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?

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?