rss scraping and 'auto blogging' - Page 2 - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

psychoul · 10-30-2007, 11:56 AM

bam bam thanks for this idea.

Also the script could be much shorter (I think

)

Code:

<?php
$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>';
  echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';
}

I going to try the technique soon! Thanks for all the info so far. I will report back if I have any good results.

DBWebDev · 10-30-2007, 12:02 PM

Bam bam, you rock. +rep

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 12:05 PM

Cheers guys!

psychoul: Cheers man, i was trying to shorten it but as i said i'm a total newb!

edit: just tested that re-write. It all works perfectly. Pm'd you as well.

psychoul · 10-30-2007, 12:07 PM

no prob man. I am learning my php as well

You can do some pretty amazing automations with php hehehehe

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 12:18 PM

You need to clear your PM box dude!

psychoul · 10-30-2007, 12:28 PM

all clean now

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 12:30 PM

good man!

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 01:15 PM

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the TrackBack URL so it links to the homepage and not the Blog Post?

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 02:27 PM

Hold up, i just remembered that the URL's handle spaces in the keywords differently, in the original they have different replace values.

Any chance you can take a look? I'll IM you later.

Bam

tobsn · 10-30-2007, 02:30 PM

a) The Lyceum Project
b) Text* Snippets: quick fix for the broken wp_newCategory function in the wordpress xmlrpc.php
c) PHP Blogger API

have fun.

solars · 10-30-2007, 05:40 PM

hm, Lyceum looks a lot better than WP MU, especially the db architecture.
does anyone know if wp-o-matic works with lyceum, or if its a lot to change?

bam bam · 10-30-2007, 05:43 PM

So is Lyceum better than WPMU? i can't be arsed to install MU.

emp · 10-30-2007, 05:49 PM

Trying Lyceum now. Will report back in a day or two (when I am done and emerge on the other side)

::emp::

Mike · 10-30-2007, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

once its generated it will look like this - http://thegeekyblog.com/keywords/keyword.php

Then you can copy and paste that list into wp-autoblog and generate an Uber amount of posts.

You got a problem there bambam. Looks like your host isn't happy with you.

ohmichea · 10-31-2007, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vitalize

Would this still work, get traffic if i was to use the one domain and just create sub directories for each niche. e.g celebrities.eblogging.com, randomniche.eblogging.com (not my domain, just an example)

or would you recommend a new domain for each niche?

Does it make a difference if you do niche.whatever.com or whatever.com/niche ??

bam bam · 10-31-2007, 04:10 AM

Fuck.......

bam bam · 10-31-2007, 06:30 AM

haha, just got an email from them, don't go nuts on the Cycle site side of things if you've got shared hosting!

Quote:

Yes, your account was using 70% of the MySQL server resources.

So therefore we had to suspend your account to bring the server back to it normal self.

It's been live for less than 2 days!

bam bam · 10-31-2007, 06:43 AM

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

  //Google and Blogpulse use + to seperate keywords....

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';
}

$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

 //Technorati and MSN use spaces.....

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "%20", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>';
}
?>

Working again now, it's a little shorter than my original. Not much though!

Any input from anyone?

bam bam · 10-31-2007, 07:06 AM

Also, i just made this form - Cycle Site Feed Generator

It's not very good as it still only posts to the .txt file, does anyone know how to change that so it posts to a database?

lazyleo · 10-31-2007, 11:26 AM

Hey guys good posts but since i suck at php and i am too lazy i use online tools to automate stuff its takes a bit longer but then that way i can have diffrent urls and blog posts for all the keywords hence creating lesser similarity level,

i use this and i quote myself

Quote:

The best sources of content i get:-

Live Search Feeds:

Secondly your should do a search for your terms on blog searches avoid Google blog search ( too many use it already

) there are numerous other services...

Use this to generator many feeds..its free and sweet..ResearchBuzz Tools: Kebberfegg -- Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator

After you get your feeds..

SplashCast lets you create your own streaming media channel that combines video, music, photos, text, narration, and RSS feeds. A wizard walks you through the steps of building your channel. Start by uploading media files from your hard drive, or point to files on other sites. Add captions, commentary, and RSS feeds, and your channel is ready to go. Once you're done finessing your channel, you can send it to friends and family, or syndicate it to blogs and social networking sites.

bam bam · 10-31-2007, 12:11 PM

This one is the correct one....

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';
  echo 'http://search.live.com/feeds/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&go=Search+Feeds&form=QBFR<br>';
  echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/search/' . $keyword . '?authority=a4&language=en<br>';
}

?>

I've added Live Feed Search (Thanks Lazyleo!) and i've fixed Technorati.

Once again, create a file called keywords.txt and add your keywords to it. One on each line.
Then run the above script. (Making sure both files are in the same directory!)

edit: i'm concidering adding some more search pages. Download .com have a good blog search result, any others?

emp · 11-01-2007, 07:13 AM

Using the Google Blog search's RSS, I get no links?
Is that right or am I missing something?

From what I can see, the RSS feed gives thew link for the headline, and WP removing it (as there is no linking in the headline?)

Any way around that?
Argh

::emp::

bam bam · 11-01-2007, 07:17 AM

Hmmm thats quite strange, it works fine for me!

I'll have a proper look if you PM me the details (if you want!)

Bam

vitalize · 11-01-2007, 10:44 AM

Decided to give this a try on small scale just to see how it goes.

Created 5 auto blog things about 3 days, creating them all on sub-domains. So far two have been indexed by google and yahoo, nothing from msn. Yesterday received 97 uniques and today 145 uniques across all of them. So traffic wise i think thats decent considering the few minutes it takes to create one of these blogs and that only 2 are indexed. Forgot to set up a channel in adsense for the blogs though so idno about revenue yet.

Going to create 10 of these blogs and from there see what traffic and revenue is like then.

Do you think creating these blogs on sub domains is a bad idea? The domain im using is blog59.com so its pretty generic and i figured it could work.

bam bam · 11-01-2007, 10:47 AM

All of mine are on subdomains.....

Seems to work OK.

Good luck!

bam bam · 11-03-2007, 09:40 AM

Ok, i've got a problem. My most successful blog has lost part of its database when i switched hosting prov's.

As it stands i can't login to the wp-admin section AT ALL because the user database doesn't exsist.

Should i shut it down or try to fix it?

morstar · 11-04-2007, 01:40 AM

before doing the switch, you should backup the sql db and export your blog content into a xml file.

to repair the corrupted db, just restore the backup sql file.

i use this plugin and set a cron job to backup my blog db every night.

ubaidabcd · 11-04-2007, 05:39 PM

I don't know php, and I tried to install bam-bam's WP install and, it all seems to have installed correctly. It only seems to work with this one particular template or I get an adsense deluxe plug-in error, I guess it's probably since the other templates don't support the adsense plug-in?

Anyway that's not a big deal, I'm just testing this out at this time to see if I can get this up and running. I found an RSS feeds and input it into my "autoblog" configuration and visited the site and it posted the RSS feeds to the blog.

So this is all I do? Install 10 feeds on each autoblog and start as many of these as I can on sub-domains? Hope to make a few cents from each blog a day in adsense and scale?

Is it important to find RSS feeds that get posts regularlly? If you get an RSS feed that's never updated then your site won't be updated, correct?

Any other advise? Should I use a large list of pings in my WP so that my blog automatically pings many sites every time content is updated? This is where my traffic is going to come from, from other blogs right? Since it's all duplicate content it won't help with Google.

All in all this was very simple to setup, thanks!

bam bam · 11-05-2007, 05:09 AM

Does anyone know why wp-autoblog doesn't display images from the feeds it scrapes?

purpureleaf · 11-06-2007, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam bam

Does anyone know why wp-autoblog doesn't display images from the feeds it scrapes?

I think I know.
I have digged into its code, I think all it is doing is just copy "content" paramter of RSS, so it your feeds doesn't include image url in it, it won't be in your page.
At least I think somesites do includes image url in their feeds.
So it is up to the seed, not wp-autoblog.

emp · 11-06-2007, 09:45 AM

bambam, are you caching the images?
Works fine on my end.
::emp::

bam bam · 11-06-2007, 10:13 AM

It's not an option in wp-autoblog. I think thats just in o-matic right?

I've still not made my mind up about wp-o-matic, i noticed that it doesn't give atribution to the original author, anyone had any problems with that?

argh01 · 11-06-2007, 10:31 AM

You're missing this important feed, pal.

$keywords="stuff separated by the plus sign"

http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&catref=C5&sacqy=&sacur=0&fsop=2&fs oo=2&from=R6&saobfmts=exsif&_trksid=m37&sacqyop=ge &saslc=0&floc=1&sabfmts=0&saprclo=&saprchi=&saaff= afcj&ftrv=1&ftrt=1&fcl=3&frpp=50&afcj=2701583&nojs pr=y&satitle=keywords=$keywords&afmp=&sacat=-1&saslop=1&fss=0

bam bam · 11-06-2007, 10:51 AM

Damn, i didn't even think about ebay!

Well thats just opened up new opportunities. I'm not gonna sleep tonight now.

argh01 · 11-06-2007, 10:55 AM

bam bam:
if you look at the wp_autoblog_trim_excerpt function, it does a 'strip_tags' on the content. I'm going to try running my copy with '<img>' in the second position in the function and see if I get some images.

In other words, on about line 46, I'm changing my copy to:
$text = strip_tags($text, '<img>');

If you look at the docs for strip_tags, PHP: strip_tags - Manual , that should allow the img tag through the filters, but I don't know if it's the only place that the img is getting hung up n.

argh01 · 11-06-2007, 10:56 AM

ps: wrt ebay links...

I run all my autoblog feeds through feedburner. Is that wrong? Should I not be doing that?

rileypool · 11-07-2007, 01:26 AM

I might as well add to this post a great place to get your keywords is go to Google Adwords and use their tool for generating keywords and put in a real general term, example: real estate and just save all the variations of the keyword examples it spits out to keywords.txt and use bam_bam's php code.

Been redoing all my splogs like this.

Thanks bam_bam! I would +rep you again if i could!

bam bam · 11-07-2007, 04:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by argh01

bam bam:
if you look at the wp_autoblog_trim_excerpt function, it does a 'strip_tags' on the content. I'm going to try running my copy with '<img>' in the second position in the function and see if I get some images.

In other words, on about line 46, I'm changing my copy to:
$text = strip_tags($text, '<img>');

If you look at the docs for strip_tags, PHP: strip_tags - Manual , that should allow the img tag through the filters, but I don't know if it's the only place that the img is getting hung up n.

Thanks man, i'll take a look and see what else i find.

argh01 · 11-07-2007, 02:02 PM

Hay all.

If you added the image tag exclusion to the strip tags in the wp_autoblog script then I'm sorry, you should take it back out.

Here's why...
http://tilatequila.portallane.com/ti...t-episode-105/

That image there is an advertisement from pheedo- someone's gonna get charged for displaying their ads on my site. So it's fubar. Take it out.

I'm trying a different technique. I'll let you know how it goes.

emp · 11-07-2007, 02:30 PM

OK...

Latest about WP-o-Matic

Somehow this has stopped working for me correctly.

The feeds are NOT gotten automatically and itr fetches feeds twice..ARGH

Gonna try autoblog.

::emp::

justaime · 11-08-2007, 12:56 AM

I was actually new to everything this forum discusses until a few days ago I think I spent about 15hrs total reading the forums and following links given by other more successful posters. However, unlike some I didn't just read and do nothing with what I was learning. I've kinda dove right in head first it seems. Hopefully with my ideas and niche I can do something, chances are I will probably screw up and want to bang my head on a wall lol.

Ok so with all that ramble bamble I'd like to thank the much more experienced users for their input they instill as well as Bam Bam for this more than interesting post.

purpureleaf · 11-08-2007, 08:38 AM

bam, do your feeds has full content?
I was trying to find a way to get the full content, including images, to make my page look less spammy.
But the full content usually has the author's name, will it make the page actually more spammy?

purpureleaf · 11-08-2007, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emp

OK...

Latest about WP-o-Matic

Somehow this has stopped working for me correctly.

The feeds are NOT gotten automatically and itr fetches feeds twice..ARGH

Gonna try autoblog.

::emp::

what version are you using? I can't install it, I read from its own page that the latest version does have problem.

eliquid · 11-08-2007, 01:02 PM

anyone got a copy of BAMs wordpress zip he had in the thread.. it is gone now.. gives 404. If anyone got a copy of it, please share!

bam bam · 11-08-2007, 01:06 PM

teh magic - www.thegeekyblog.com/test/wordpress.zip

thydot · 11-09-2007, 12:34 PM

Thanks Bam for the new zip url I want to try this too but didn't know where to start.

thydot

eliquid · 11-09-2007, 01:15 PM

yeah thanks man!

Fewleftstanding · 11-09-2007, 06:13 PM

Looks good

thydot · 11-10-2007, 12:14 PM

I got my first blog set up but I'm wondering if this is the way it should be.

I put into autoblog 10 rss urls I got with Bam's script and ran it. ( about how many keywords should I use the script for?) That produced over 400 posts and created archives for the last 6 months. Is'nt that too much?

I can't find info on how autopost works but today it seems to be adding more posts even though I didn't hit run script on the plugin panel...is that correct? It will just keep posting every day without me hitting the run script button?

I also noticed that some post are off topic and porn related. How do I filter these?
Thanks for any thoughts,
thydot

SurferJoe · 11-13-2007, 06:47 PM

BamBam, thanks!! installing that version of WP with that version of wp-o-matic, it actually works, 1st time.

Mahalo

10-30-2007, 12:02 PM	#52 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 12:05 PM	#53 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Cheers guys! psychoul: Cheers man, i was trying to shorten it but as i said i'm a total newb! edit: just tested that re-write. It all works perfectly. Pm'd you as well. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-30-2007, 12:07 PM	#54 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 12:28 PM	#56 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 12:30 PM	#57 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 01:15 PM	#58 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Does anyone know if it's possible to change the TrackBack URL so it links to the homepage and not the Blog Post? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-30-2007, 02:27 PM	#59 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Hold up, i just remembered that the URL's handle spaces in the keywords differently, in the original they have different replace values. Any chance you can take a look? I'll IM you later. Bam Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-30-2007, 02:30 PM	#60 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 05:43 PM	#62 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	So is Lyceum better than WPMU? i can't be arsed to install MU. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-30-2007, 05:49 PM	#63 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	Trying Lyceum now. Will report back in a day or two (when I am done and emerge on the other side) ::emp:: Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Get your own Bot army! Use promo code blindape199 That's because all programmers are also ninjas.(but not all ninjas are programmers) - LogicFlux Blind Ape Seo

10-31-2007, 04:10 AM	#66 (permalink)
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10-31-2007, 06:43 AM	#68 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	PHP Code: <?php $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); //Google and Blogpulse use + to seperate keywords.... $keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) { echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>'; echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>'; } $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); //Technorati and MSN use spaces..... $keywords = str_replace(" ", "%20", $keywords); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) { echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>'; echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>'; } ?> Working again now, it's a little shorter than my original. Not much though! Any input from anyone? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-31-2007, 07:06 AM	#69 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Also, i just made this form - Cycle Site Feed Generator It's not very good as it still only posts to the .txt file, does anyone know how to change that so it posts to a database? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-31-2007, 12:11 PM	#71 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	IGNORE ALL OF MY OTHER SCRIPTS.... This one is the correct one.... PHP Code: <?php $filename = 'keywords.txt'; $handle = fopen($filename, "rb"); $keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename)); fclose($handle); $keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords); $keywords = explode("\n", $keywords); foreach($keywords as $keyword) { echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>'; echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>'; echo 'http://search.live.com/feeds/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&go=Search+Feeds&form=QBFR<br>'; echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/search/' . $keyword . '?authority=a4&language=en<br>'; } ?> I've added Live Feed Search (Thanks Lazyleo!) and i've fixed Technorati. Once again, create a file called keywords.txt and add your keywords to it. One on each line. Then run the above script. (Making sure both files are in the same directory!) edit: i'm concidering adding some more search pages. Download .com have a good blog search result, any others? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-01-2007, 07:13 AM	#72 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	Using the Google Blog search's RSS, I get no links? Is that right or am I missing something? From what I can see, the RSS feed gives thew link for the headline, and WP removing it (as there is no linking in the headline?) Any way around that? Argh ::emp:: Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Get your own Bot army! Use promo code blindape199 That's because all programmers are also ninjas.(but not all ninjas are programmers) - LogicFlux Blind Ape Seo

11-01-2007, 07:17 AM	#73 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Hmmm thats quite strange, it works fine for me! I'll have a proper look if you PM me the details (if you want!) Bam Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-01-2007, 10:44 AM	#74 (permalink)
vitalize Self Props Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Decided to give this a try on small scale just to see how it goes. Created 5 auto blog things about 3 days, creating them all on sub-domains. So far two have been indexed by google and yahoo, nothing from msn. Yesterday received 97 uniques and today 145 uniques across all of them. So traffic wise i think thats decent considering the few minutes it takes to create one of these blogs and that only 2 are indexed. Forgot to set up a channel in adsense for the blogs though so idno about revenue yet. Going to create 10 of these blogs and from there see what traffic and revenue is like then. Do you think creating these blogs on sub domains is a bad idea? The domain im using is blog59.com so its pretty generic and i figured it could work. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-01-2007, 10:47 AM	#75 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	All of mine are on subdomains..... Seems to work OK. Good luck! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-03-2007, 09:40 AM	#76 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Ok, i've got a problem. My most successful blog has lost part of its database when i switched hosting prov's. As it stands i can't login to the wp-admin section AT ALL because the user database doesn't exsist. Should i shut it down or try to fix it? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-04-2007, 01:40 AM	#77 (permalink)
morstar Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2 iTrader: 0 / 0%	before doing the switch, you should backup the sql db and export your blog content into a xml file. to repair the corrupted db, just restore the backup sql file. i use this plugin and set a cron job to backup my blog db every night. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-04-2007, 05:39 PM	#78 (permalink)
ubaidabcd Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,035 iTrader: 3 / 100%	I don't know php, and I tried to install bam-bam's WP install and, it all seems to have installed correctly. It only seems to work with this one particular template or I get an adsense deluxe plug-in error, I guess it's probably since the other templates don't support the adsense plug-in? Anyway that's not a big deal, I'm just testing this out at this time to see if I can get this up and running. I found an RSS feeds and input it into my "autoblog" configuration and visited the site and it posted the RSS feeds to the blog. So this is all I do? Install 10 feeds on each autoblog and start as many of these as I can on sub-domains? Hope to make a few cents from each blog a day in adsense and scale? Is it important to find RSS feeds that get posts regularlly? If you get an RSS feed that's never updated then your site won't be updated, correct? Any other advise? Should I use a large list of pings in my WP so that my blog automatically pings many sites every time content is updated? This is where my traffic is going to come from, from other blogs right? Since it's all duplicate content it won't help with Google. All in all this was very simple to setup, thanks! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-05-2007, 05:09 AM	#79 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Does anyone know why wp-autoblog doesn't display images from the feeds it scrapes? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-06-2007, 09:45 AM	#81 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	bambam, are you caching the images? Works fine on my end. ::emp:: Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Get your own Bot army! Use promo code blindape199 That's because all programmers are also ninjas.(but not all ninjas are programmers) - LogicFlux Blind Ape Seo

11-06-2007, 10:13 AM	#82 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	It's not an option in wp-autoblog. I think thats just in o-matic right? I've still not made my mind up about wp-o-matic, i noticed that it doesn't give atribution to the original author, anyone had any problems with that? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-06-2007, 10:31 AM	#83 (permalink)
argh01 Little Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 551 iTrader: 8 / 100%	You're missing this important feed, pal. $keywords="stuff separated by the plus sign" http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&catref=C5&sacqy=&sacur=0&fsop=2&fs oo=2&from=R6&saobfmts=exsif&_trksid=m37&sacqyop=ge &saslc=0&floc=1&sabfmts=0&saprclo=&saprchi=&saaff= afcj&ftrv=1&ftrt=1&fcl=3&frpp=50&afcj=2701583&nojs pr=y&satitle=keywords=$keywords&afmp=&sacat=-1&saslop=1&fss=0 Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-06-2007, 10:51 AM	#84 (permalink)
bam bam XHTML / WP Coder for Hire Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Devon, UK Posts: 927 iTrader: 8 / 100%	Damn, i didn't even think about ebay! Well thats just opened up new opportunities. I'm not gonna sleep tonight now. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-06-2007, 10:55 AM	#85 (permalink)
argh01 Little Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 551 iTrader: 8 / 100%	bam bam: if you look at the wp_autoblog_trim_excerpt function, it does a 'strip_tags' on the content. I'm going to try running my copy with '<img>' in the second position in the function and see if I get some images. In other words, on about line 46, I'm changing my copy to: $text = strip_tags($text, '<img>'); If you look at the docs for strip_tags, PHP: strip_tags - Manual , that should allow the img tag through the filters, but I don't know if it's the only place that the img is getting hung up n. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-06-2007, 10:56 AM	#86 (permalink)
argh01 Little Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 551 iTrader: 8 / 100%	ps: wrt ebay links... I run all my autoblog feeds through feedburner. Is that wrong? Should I not be doing that? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-07-2007, 01:26 AM	#87 (permalink)
rileypool paper clique fiend Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 1,303 iTrader: 5 / 100%	I might as well add to this post a great place to get your keywords is go to Google Adwords and use their tool for generating keywords and put in a real general term, example: real estate and just save all the variations of the keyword examples it spits out to keywords.txt and use bam_bam's php code. Been redoing all my splogs like this. Thanks bam_bam! I would +rep you again if i could! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ RileyPool.com - Ain't no shame in my PPC game! POFPrimer.com - The #1 Guide to Make Money Online by Advertising on PlentyofFish.com!

11-07-2007, 02:02 PM	#89 (permalink)
argh01 Little Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 551 iTrader: 8 / 100%	fucked it up Hay all. If you added the image tag exclusion to the strip tags in the wp_autoblog script then I'm sorry, you should take it back out. Here's why... http://tilatequila.portallane.com/ti...t-episode-105/ That image there is an advertisement from pheedo- someone's gonna get charged for displaying their ads on my site. So it's fubar. Take it out. I'm trying a different technique. I'll let you know how it goes. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-07-2007, 02:30 PM	#90 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	OK... Latest about WP-o-Matic Somehow this has stopped working for me correctly. The feeds are NOT gotten automatically and itr fetches feeds twice..ARGH Gonna try autoblog. ::emp:: Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Get your own Bot army! Use promo code blindape199 That's because all programmers are also ninjas.(but not all ninjas are programmers) - LogicFlux Blind Ape Seo

11-08-2007, 12:56 AM	#91 (permalink)
justaime Almighty Great One Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 76 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I was actually new to everything this forum discusses until a few days ago I think I spent about 15hrs total reading the forums and following links given by other more successful posters. However, unlike some I didn't just read and do nothing with what I was learning. I've kinda dove right in head first it seems. Hopefully with my ideas and niche I can do something, chances are I will probably screw up and want to bang my head on a wall lol. Ok so with all that ramble bamble I'd like to thank the much more experienced users for their input they instill as well as Bam Bam for this more than interesting post. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-08-2007, 08:38 AM	#92 (permalink)
purpureleaf Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guangzhou, China Posts: 32 iTrader: 0 / 0%	bam, do your feeds has full content? I was trying to find a way to get the full content, including images, to make my page look less spammy. But the full content usually has the author's name, will it make the page actually more spammy? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter