n00bie Challenge - Page 4 - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

parushing · 10-24-2007, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Now, Run the script. This will populate your blog with all the posts from those feeds and ping the aggregators.
Rinse, repeat with another niche.

I have uploaded the package I am having problems setting the cron to
run the script. Advice please.

Paul

parushing · 10-24-2007, 09:26 PM

Ok this may not be the place to ask this.

I have an rss reed that I am pulling that has a date in the field. I am using
wp-omatic to parse the feeds and create post. I want to change the post
date to the date in in the content of the field.

Also the feed only provided the last 50 records. How can I coax the feed
to give more than that? The search that I am swiping the feed from has
a search engine but the feed it produces is only the last 50 entries even if
the search was from three years ago.

Trying not to to be confusing but maybe one of you pros can chime in.

Paul

Mike · 10-24-2007, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by parushing

I have uploaded the package I am having problems setting the cron to
run the script. Advice please.

If you are using the Autoblogger script that Eli provided in his SEO Empire post, you don't need to set up a cron for it. Everytime someone visits your site it automatically updates. So, no cron jobs to worry about

YAY! (I hate crons, can't figure the damn things out)

Anyhow, as for your second post, not sure about WP-Omatic. Never used it. Concerning the RSS feed, depends on where you got it from, if it's a G**gle feed, then you can pull as many as 100 results per feed. Otherwise, it may be impossible to edit. Just find more feeds that are related if you need to.

Here's my latest site, and it's not a blog: Ticket Depot

The template is from OSWD.org, the results are courtesy of eBay's API and the affiliate program is CJ.com. Now, I know a lot of people are kind of anti-CJ, but I've never really used them so I can't comment on whether they are good or not. Unfortunately, they are the only one that has eBay and works with their API's and RSS feeds.

Yes, you can get RSS feeds from eBay with your affiliate information coded into them. So for all the blogs out there looking for feeds, there's another option.

Anyhow, back to TicketDepot.org, I built this so that I could use it for PPC primarily. I'll do a little SEO for it, but it's going to be mostly a "PPC site". So, one of the nifty things with this site is you can enter:

Code:

http://www.ticketdepot.org/?id=whatever you want here

and it will pull whatever is after the equal sign and populate various places on the page with that. So, put in anything you want after the '=' and look at the title, the query, then look at the source code and you'll see it also puts the query string in the meta's.

The article is static at the moment, but I'm going to update it (eventually) to be pulled dynamically from a MySQL database, based on the URL's query string.

Why would you want to do this? Well, if you are running PPC, especially on Adwords, you want the page to be as targetted as possible for their Quality Score. The more targetted, the higher the QS, the lower your bids could be.

So, how long did this take? I think about 5 hours total. 3 or 4 last night and about an hour today. I'm not as quick about the database stuff (queries and shit) so that will probably take another 3 or 4 hours. Ergh...

Regardless, if I put a more generic article up and insert the URL query string into that, then I can avoid the DB setup for a little while. Yay!

ubaidabcd · 10-24-2007, 11:07 PM

I'm thinking of trying out these cycle sites, but I just have a couple questions:

In the SEO empire article Eli mentions:

"So be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers."

How do you do that? I know where the name servers are in my control panel, but can you put in any information and they won't verify it? Or do I have to find a web hosting company that I'm not using and find out what their nameservers are and use those?

Thanks

bubbles · 10-24-2007, 11:11 PM

If you have a VPS, you can define the main nameservers in WHM. Then you have to go to your register, and create the actual nameservers there. So buy a domain like, abchost.com, create nameservers pointing to your servers IP, and point all your sites to those nameservers. Then on abchost.com make a site similar to this one (its an example host, which I think belongs to Eli)

springer · 10-24-2007, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ubaidabcd

I'm thinking of trying out these cycle sites, but I just have a couple questions:

In the SEO empire article Eli mentions:

"So be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers."

How do you do that? I know where the name servers are in my control panel, but can you put in any information and they won't verify it? Or do I have to find a web hosting company that I'm not using and find out what their nameservers are and use those?

Thanks

Some reseller hosting accounts also give you custom nameservers, keyed to the domain you use for your reseller account. For instance, if your reseller domain is mistergotrox.com, your custom nameservers might be:

ns1.mrgotrox.com
ns2.mrgotrox.com

Then, as above, you just have to set them up with wherever you've registered your domains, if that particular registrar allows that. Sometimes, it's in your account control panel, sometimes you have to ask them to do it for you.

Mike · 10-24-2007, 11:36 PM

Forgot to mention in my previous post: I've never run a ticket website before so I'm not sure how it will perform. Just wanted to get that out there before a bunch of people go running to start ticket sites

The idea behind it should work for almost any niche that has a lot of different "items". For example: baseball cards, records, movies, songs, and so on ad infinitum.

I picked tickets because I had an old domain in my account that I meant to develop. Not TicketDepot.org, that's only 1 day old. The other one is a .info, and I'm not a fan of .info's for PPC sites or "real" sites, so I bought this one. I think I'll use the other "ticket" domain for airline / travel type tickets. Planes, trains and cruises, that sort of thing.

Also meant to add, here's the link for eBay's API stuff: eBay Developers Program

Lot's of good shit in there. And unlike some API programs, theirs is completely free, unless you want to become a 'Certified Solutions Provider', then you'll pay $3000 per year. So, unless you want to develop apps to sell, don't worry about that.

springer · 10-24-2007, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Also meant to add, here's the link for eBay's API stuff: eBay Developers Program

Lot's of good shit in there. And unlike some API programs, theirs is completely free, unless you want to become a 'Certified Solutions Provider', then you'll pay $3000 per year. So, unless you want to develop apps to sell, don't worry about that.

So you used the API to create your search box and not the ebay search boxes available from CJ?

Mike · 10-25-2007, 12:10 AM

Correct. This way the results appear on my site, and doesn't redirect the user to eBay. I'm trying to get data feeds from other ticket sellers, so I can do a comparison. It is my opinion (and you know what opinions are like

) that if a visitor can compare the prices of 3 or 4 different sellers on one site, they are more likely to purchase at that time, than if you one have one. With only one site's prices, they are more likely to keep looking for the best price, and after they have comparison shopped long enough, then they'll buy. So, I want to eliminate the user having to go elsewhere to compare prices.

Oh yeah, back to the API, the code for it was taken from eBay's sample code. Saved me a ton of time. I just edited it slightly, tested it in the sandbox, tested it live, found out I needed to enable domxlst in my server, did that, and it's good. Oh yeah, and the call to LiquidWeb's tech support to learn how to enable that part of PHP took a whopping 7 mins 19 secs

I love LiquidWeb!

ubaidabcd · 10-25-2007, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bubbles

If you have a VPS, you can define the main nameservers in WHM. Then you have to go to your register, and create the actual nameservers there. So buy a domain like, abchost.com, create nameservers pointing to your servers IP, and point all your sites to those nameservers. Then on abchost.com make a site similar to this one (its an example host, which I think belongs to Eli)

Sorry, I don't understand what you or Springer said. I'm unfamiliar with this termonology. If it helps any I have a Godaddy shared account. Although I don't want these sites on my current account. How about I just get a reloadable prepaid card and just use fake account information and sign up somewhere that offers webhosting?

Thanks

Nomara · 10-25-2007, 12:17 AM

So here's an update on my autoblogging work:

I've had 8 autoblogs setup for almost a week now and am making about 15 or 20 posts a day on each one. I get about 20 page impressions on each one according to AdSense. My CTR stinks. Right now it is right around 1%. The one bright spot is that most of the sites are getting indexed pretty well. Some of my sites have 40+ pages indexed in Google and I don't think any of them are in the supplemental index.

So I need some advice:

1. What is the best way to get more traffic? Keyword stuffing? Bigger posts?
2. I think I need to optimize my ad placements. Say my site was valuable to users (and not a scraper site). Would an ad layout like http:// mortgage-marketing. marketing-experts.info be against AdSense's TOS? Could I possibly get banned just for having so many ads above the fold? Or would it have to be a combo of that ad layout and useless, duplicate, or nonsensical content?

Thanks again!

springer · 10-25-2007, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Correct. This way the results appear on my site, and doesn't redirect the user to eBay. I'm trying to get data feeds from other ticket sellers, so I can do a comparison. It is my opinion (and you know what opinions are like

) that if a visitor can compare the prices of 3 or 4 different sellers on one site, they are more likely to purchase at that time, than if you one have one. With only one site's prices, they are more likely to keep looking for the best price, and after they have comparison shopped long enough, then they'll buy. So, I want to eliminate the user having to go elsewhere to compare prices.

Oh yeah, back to the API, the code for it was taken from eBay's sample code. Saved me a ton of time. I just edited it slightly, tested it in the sandbox, tested it live, found out I needed to enable domxlst in my server, did that, and it's good. Oh yeah, and the call to LiquidWeb's tech support to learn how to enable that part of PHP took a whopping 7 mins 19 secs

I love LiquidWeb!

Thanks Mike, you're a sweetheart!

Mike · 10-25-2007, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ubaidabcd

Sorry, I don't understand what you or Springer said. I'm unfamiliar with this termonology. If it helps any I have a Godaddy shared account. Although I don't want these sites on my current account. How about I just get a reloadable prepaid card and just use fake account information and sign up somewhere that offers webhosting?

VPS - Virtual Private Server
WHM - cPanel's Web Host Manager

So, if you have a VPS with WHM, there is a section in the WHM that will allow you to set up your nameservers and assign them to IP addresses.

I seriously doubt there is anyway to use your own nameservers with GoDaddy, even if you get a VPS account with them, but I could be wrong. GoDaddy's weird, at best, with their hosting.

Mike · 10-25-2007, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by springer

Thanks Mike, you're a sweetheart!

That's what I keep trying to tell my wife!

Quote:

1. What is the best way to get more traffic? Keyword stuffing? Bigger posts?
2. I think I need to optimize my ad placements. Say my site was valuable to users (and not a scraper site). Would an ad layout like http:// mortgage-marketing. marketing-experts.info be against AdSense's TOS? Could I possibly get banned just for having so many ads above the fold? Or would it have to be a combo of that ad layout and useless, duplicate, or nonsensical content?

1. No on keyword stuffing. Try doing a little old fashioned link building. If your blog doesn't look spammy, then see if you can trade links, or even get one way links from relevant sites with traffic.

2. Adsense will cut you off at 3 ads per page. Nothing you can do about that. So, No, you shouldn't get in trouble for putting all three above the fold if you want. They can be all the same size, different sizes, different colors, whatever. Just play around with placement. If you haven't seen this, check it out. This is also cool.

Nomara · 10-25-2007, 12:43 AM

Quote:

1. No on keyword stuffing. Try doing a little old fashioned link building. If your blog doesn't look spammy, then see if you can trade links, or even get one way links from relevant sites with traffic.

2. Adsense will cut you off at 3 ads per page. Nothing you can do about that. So, No, you shouldn't get in trouble for putting all three above the fold if you want. They can be all the same size, different sizes, different colors, whatever. Just play around with placement. If you haven't seen this, check it out. This is also cool.

Thanks for the help yet again. My autoblogs are on the edge of spammy, so I doubt I'll be able to get any respectable one-way links. I might try and automate the creation of some wordpress.com and blogspot.com blogs that I can link to my autoblogs. I doubt it will be a quick process, but maybe it will help out after a few weeks or months?

parushing · 10-25-2007, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Nomara

I doubt I'll be able to get any respectable one-way links.

Use Social Bookmarking - You can get tons of one way
inbound links and even use sites like squidoo to create
mini FFA's for your del.icio.us links.

Here is a list of other social bookmarking sites
that will automatically import your del.icio.us links.

netvous
bibsomony
linagogo
shawdow
spurl
simply

So automate your splog links to a del.icio.us account
set up accounts at those other sites and squidoo and
you will create backlinks fairly rapidly.

I was able to take a spammy self generated content
blog to over $100 per day in less than a month and
that is the only link building I did.

Paul

Nomara · 10-25-2007, 02:03 AM

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So automate your splog links to a del.icio.us account
set up accounts at those other sites and squidoo and
you will create backlinks fairly rapidly.

Thanks for the tip!

Quote:

I was able to take a spammy self generated content
blog to over $100 per day in less than a month and
that is the only link building I did.

$100 a day? Impressive! I'd be ecstatic for $1 a day (per blog, of course).

ubaidabcd · 10-25-2007, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

VPS - Virtual Private Server
WHM - cPanel's Web Host Manager

So, if you have a VPS with WHM, there is a section in the WHM that will allow you to set up your nameservers and assign them to IP addresses.

I seriously doubt there is anyway to use your own nameservers with GoDaddy, even if you get a VPS account with them, but I could be wrong. GoDaddy's weird, at best, with their hosting.

Is VPS necessary for cycle sites? even for just a few sites just to test and see how it does? I still don't have any idea what you all are talking about, I'm just going to go with hosting accounts in different names on prepaid cards. It's a longer route it seems, but I don't know what else to do if I can't understand what you all are talking about.

EDIT:

I just thought, it doesn't make a difference if I use a fake name or a prepaid card. I'm still going to get complaints from people to my hosting company, which is what we're trying to avoid, they can still contact my webhost. The idea behind using fake nameservers is so people get the wrong contact info. and your webhosting company doesn't get the complaints.

Damn, how am I going to figure this out?

Only way to do this is to get a VSP?

davr3 · 10-25-2007, 02:59 AM

Whats up all. I just joined this site tonight and after going thru hours of content I really did read some interesting stuff. I read the thread from SEO Mike and its just the type of thing that motivates me. I started a mortgage lead company about 3 years ago and made insane money buying and selling mortgage leads. The market has got pretty bad and just like I started a Mortgage Lead company a few years ago.... this week I have decided to really focus On Debt leads. So I think I will take Mike challenge as well. I have never been an IT guy more of a sales guy but lately I have taught myself how to build websites and do a bit of coding. My work sucks right now but my hunger to get this stuff down is there. So here are the two things I started working on this last week. Please take a look and let me know what you think:

The first page not finished yet: Adsinseconds.com (please keep in mind I am not a techi type of guy)

The idea is taking all the incentive offers from affiliate networks and putting them on one page for people to do. I am already talked to some affiliate networks ant there ok with the incentive offers. I am starting to think I might need a little bit help to clean up this site. If anybody is interested in helping in development on this site you can IM me on aim: Davr3

The second is my debt page that i did myself that i just finished today: Takecareofyourbills.com I am now interested in anybody that can drive quality traffic to the site and start generating leads because I already have the foundation of people that will buy. In the past I relied on spammers to email market for me but I really want to get away from that and develop this page with SEO, natural traffic. Any input is welcome. So there it is. Those are the couple things that I am putting to the challenge that I have started that currently are not making any money. But if history shall repeat itself money is (crossing fingers) right around the corner again.

Any suggestions or service you can provide IM me on aim Davr3

FYI my mortgage company lead site is ezlead2loans.com if anybody was wondering.

psychoul · 10-25-2007, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Here's my latest site, and it's not a blog: Ticket Depot

.....

Anyhow, back to TicketDepot.org, I built this so that I could use it for PPC primarily.

Hi Mike. Nice site you got there.

I think is within my knowledge to create something similar, not tickets of course ( I wouldn't want you for my competitor

). However I would like to ask you something because is something that always bugs me.

In my opinion tickets are a competitive market. I can't imagine how you can approach that with PPC! A person that is looking to buy a ticket for sure it will include the keywords 'ticket' 'concert' 'show' etc. All these words are heavily bid by the big sites. Even if you use a longtail containing one of those obvious words you will have tooooooo much competition.

Moreover, the big guys are targeting all the famous singers, teams, actors names. So even if you dont include the previously mentioned keywords ('tickets' etc) again you will have super too much competition.

I am asking this because many times I thought that I found a profitable niche but because it included a freaking famous commercial word within the longtail, I had huge competition and failed.

Thanks for this great threat by the way. I think, you and other guys helping out here (Aequitas YOU ROCK MAN!!!!! THANKS!) should post your affiliate links (you know, not the sneaky ones, but the obvious ones) to hosting plans as well as the adv networks. It would be a great way for us noobs to say thank you in a way will all appriaciate ($$$) since we are going to use it anyway!Just a thought!

psychoul

Mike · 10-25-2007, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ubaidabcd

Is VPS necessary for cycle sites?

Yes, because if you set it up properly with thousands of feeds, one site will chew up and spit out a shared host. If you're having a hard time with the cycle site idea, I suggest moving to something else. Seriously, a cycle site like Eli talks about takes a little bit of work and is a little more advanced than just setting up a blog and typing in content.

If you just want to test out autoblogs, then use that same script, but stick with 10 or so good RSS feeds. These are harder to find because you want feeds that provide the full articles, not just a short snippet.

Welcome Davr3 and psychoul!

Davr3: If you want to learn SEO to drive organic (aka free search engine) traffic to your site, there are some good threads here for that, and also a shit ton of blogs / sites dedicated to SEO around the internet. Just spend some time reading and learning. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up. If you need a SEO........

Psychoul: You're right, there is probably a ton of competition for a lot of those keywords. Usually what I do is test the waters by bidding an amount I am comfortable with and not worrying too much about my placement. Also, you have to look for related keywords that others forgot about or missed. Here's a good example: "compare prices" gets a lot of searches according to WordTracker, yet there aren't that many people competing for it. Only about a page and a half of sponsored listings. Not bad. The downside to that query is it isn't targetted at all.

Targetting the singers or bands - not a bad idea, and one I plan on using myself. Take Jennifer Lopez for example, she is currently touring with Marc Anthony, but if you search "jennifer lopez" there are only 3 advertisers. Should be able to get in on that action pretty cheap. Still not very targetted, but if testing shows that the conversions are there, then it's all good. If it turns out that nothing converts, then it's wasted money. Only time and testing will tell.

LazyHippy · 10-25-2007, 01:53 PM

Mike are you using a VPS for cycle sites? Run into any problems with resources?

I was going to get one from LiquidWeb, but Eli and the guys in the SQUIRT forum convinced me that a dedi was the only way to go.

Dave_IL · 10-25-2007, 02:02 PM

Just a quick update...

Cycle site blew through my VPS1 at Liquidweb, had to upgrade otherwise I kept crashing MySql process. To be fair I have quite a few other sites running scripts on that server so this just tipped the scales.

Before crashing I was starting to see 400 visitors a day most from moderation of the owners blogs, but I am seeing some good referring links that are live. Soon as the upgrade is done I will kick autopost off again so far I am happy with what I am seeing.

Cash wise I am averaging about .15 a day from adsense when I had autopost running, less right now.

I also have been more active in working with my directory and other sites that have laid dormant for awhile and am seeing results from that work also.

Mike · 10-25-2007, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyHippy

Mike are you using a VPS for cycle sites? Run into any problems with resources?

I was going to get one from LiquidWeb, but Eli and the guys in the SQUIRT forum convinced me that a dedi was the only way to go.

Actually, I'm not running any 'true' cycle sites right now. I started to, then changed my mind. So, I'm not sure about resource issues. Sorry.

Anyhow, if Eli says you need a dedicated box for cycle sites, he would be the one to know.

DBWebDev · 10-25-2007, 02:55 PM

@Parushing: That delicious idea is a right gem! Gonna get that up and running tonight if possible - did you code the auto post links for delicious yourself or found a script online for it?

pfgannon · 10-25-2007, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyHippy

Mike are you using a VPS for cycle sites? Run into any problems with resources?

I was going to get one from LiquidWeb, but Eli and the guys in the SQUIRT forum convinced me that a dedi was the only way to go.

Hippy, I'm running my cycle sites on a VPS, BUT I could only imagine doing 50 at most. If you wanna do it in the appropriate volume, go dedi.

abednego · 10-25-2007, 03:19 PM

Sounds like everyone is doing something completely different than me. I apologize if this sounds off topic. My site which is in the works is using AuctionAds to provide monetization. I know that sounds gay but when you see the end result hopefully you'll understand. Just got the domain and I am working on coding and design as I am writing this. My question is this... What can be done to garner some nice links in a quick period of time? Will this look bad if I grow too quick in the search engine's eyes? Thanks in advance for help/ideas. I am really enjoying reading everyone's progress. Good motivation to actually make some shit.

Mike · 10-25-2007, 03:25 PM

Quick backlinks

Just scroll up a few posts.

parushing · 10-25-2007, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DBWebDev

@Parushing: That delicious idea is a right gem! Gonna get that up and running tonight if possible - did you code the auto post links for delicious yourself or found a script online for it?

There is a wordpress plugin in the package here
rss scraping and 'auto blogging'

That will do the trick. Like anything moderation is the key.

Paul

bubbles · 10-25-2007, 03:51 PM

I have a partially working black hole seo script. Its coded very ineffiently, but should work as far as I can tell. But it doesn't. I'd be willing to post the source if anyone else was interested in getting it to work.

Just a random thought in response to abednego's post on getting backlinks.

psychoul · 10-25-2007, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Psychoul: You're right, there is probably a ton of competition for a lot of those keywords. Usually what I do is test the waters by bidding an amount I am comfortable with and not worrying too much about my placement. Also, you have to look for related keywords that others forgot about or missed. Here's a good example: "compare prices" gets a lot of searches according to WordTracker, yet there aren't that many people competing for it. Only about a page and a half of sponsored listings. Not bad. The downside to that query is it isn't targetted at all.

Targetting the singers or bands - not a bad idea, and one I plan on using myself. Take Jennifer Lopez for example, she is currently touring with Marc Anthony, but if you search "jennifer lopez" there are only 3 advertisers. Should be able to get in on that action pretty cheap. Still not very targetted, but if testing shows that the conversions are there, then it's all good. If it turns out that nothing converts, then it's wasted money. Only time and testing will tell.

Well, my guess is that if you bid on "compare prices" adwords wiill soon increase your bids (if they are not initialy high!) because I do think the CTR will be far from satisfactory. Now I am guessing again (because of the firewall in the office

) that "ticket compare prices" phrase would be saturated so blocked road to that way as well.

The way I see it (and probably is wrong since I am not doing any profits

) is that if I am in a competitive niche and I "think" that I found an undiscovered area, it actually means that others tried it before, their CTR was low, google increased their bids, they stopped that adgroup and that is the reason why that area seems "undiscovered". Make any sense?

SEO_Mike show me the way!

Aequitas · 10-25-2007, 07:08 PM

Lots of talk about adwords/PPC but if you all want to really optimize your campaigns a lot better I just tried out there new optimization campaign tool.

Use that its powerful and helpful, it'll give you a very good idea of the price per click you should be paying for each keyword, yup each keyword, it makes things a lot easier, plus it helps you optimize your ads and everything else.

Try it out, I found some extra keywords, and low bids, by optimizing my campaign a bit more with the tool.

Nomara · 10-26-2007, 03:24 PM

In addition to my autoblogging, I also want to do some eBay affiliate work. I want to target a microniche with almost no competition for the top 10 search engine results as it will boost my confidence and give me some practice (and hopefully make me a buck or two).

I'm not going to say what microniche I am targeting, but for the sake of illustration let us say that it is Noritake China. The first thing I did was some keyword research at SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. When I type in noritake china, here are the top two results:

1. noritake china - 24,766 searches a month
2. antique noritake china - 2,233 searches a month

So now I want to buy a domain with either "noritake china" or "antique noritake china" in it. Unfortunately, no combination of noritake china is available to purchase. However, the following domains are available:

1. antique-china.net
2. antiquenoritakechina.com
3. noritakechina1.com (or any other number)

With the first one, I could use a subdomain and have noritake.antique-china.com as the address. Which would be the better choice?

Aequitas, in your blog post on keyword research you say, "When you buy the domain name it should be the keyword your trying to rank for and no other terms mixed in."

I am trying to rank for "noritake china", but I need to include another word or number in order to find an available domain. So which of the possible domain names is the best choice?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. I hope this thread keeps going!

Aequitas · 10-26-2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Nomara

Aequitas, in your blog post on keyword research you say, "When you buy the domain name it should be the keyword your trying to rank for and no other terms mixed in."

I am trying to rank for "noritake china", but I need to include another word or number in order to find an available domain. So which of the possible domain names is the best choice?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. I hope this thread keeps going!

In a situation like this and this situations does come up a fair bit sometimes, your best bet in buying a domain name is to include one other related term in the domain (Preferably a short term) also make sure its catchy enough that it fits with the other two words you still want to try and hold on to a bit of brandability so maybe the visitors will remember the domain in case they want to come back.

egonitron · 10-26-2007, 06:48 PM

Aequitas, would you recommend domains with or w/o hyphens? I've been readings hyphens are good because there's no question what the words are. Like Penisland.com/Pen-island.com/Penis-land.com

emp · 10-26-2007, 07:02 PM

There will always be debates about this.

Matt cutts says Google likes URLs with hyphens, as words can be seperated at the hyphen. He does not say wether this applies to domain names or only file names though.

(As in penis-land.com/viagra-effects.html)

I think users are quite used to the hyphened domains, non-hyphened might be better for typein traffic.

::emp::

Aequitas · 10-26-2007, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by egonitron

Aequitas, would you recommend domains with or w/o hyphens? I've been readings hyphens are good because there's no question what the words are. Like Penisland.com/Pen-island.com/Penis-land.com

I use hyphans for a lot of my domains, well the ones I want really bad and nothing else works, so I say yes, I've never had a problem with hypans in the domain name, but as emp said a non-hyphaned domain might be better for some type in traffic but if the domain is more then 12 characters long then type in traffic isn't going to be worth taking into the equation anyway unless its really catchy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by emp

There will always be debates about this.

Matt cutts says Google likes URLs with hyphens, as words can be seperated at the hyphen. He does not say wether this applies to domain names or only file names though.

(As in penis-land.com/viagra-effects.html)

I think users are quite used to the hyphened domains, non-hyphened might be better for typein traffic.

::emp::

I agree there are lots of debate on it and as for anything other then the actual main domain for hyphens well I've got no clue.

solars · 10-26-2007, 07:23 PM

well, if you actually imagine a parser, parsing your domains, from a technological point of view, it is pretty obvious.
if your keyword is "penis land"
the parser tries to look up the separate words at first, penis and land

with 'penisland' the entry point is the same, so it looks for a single word called penisland.
which might be something completely different.

I think it depends heavily on your keywords since you cannot rely on the parser splitting your word into possible parts (this depends on the positives it gets from the db)

just try to do an actual search in google and you'll see how it works.

emp · 10-26-2007, 07:32 PM

OK, as far as I can tell, hyphens have been treating me well for document (file names).
I normally try to get a non-hyphenated domain name, but really I don't think it matters.

With google or any other web search engine being the users first click on them thar intartubes, I think domains can be hyphenated like crazy.

It used to be that hyphenated domains were considered spammy, but that doesn't apply anymore.

::emp::

emp · 10-26-2007, 07:52 PM

OK, I can't believe I am just ow beginning to dabble in autoblogs.
THat autoblog plugin shared by bambam and Eli (doesn't work right yet) seems to have no feature to give it a MAX number of posts per day?

IS there any such thing?

Thanks,
::emp::

emp · 10-26-2007, 08:32 PM

Figured it out now..please move along... <cough>
::emp::

emp · 10-27-2007, 06:56 AM

OK.. still playing with WP-o-Matic here.
I am trying to figure out how to use the replace feature, anyone have some pointers?

I know regex, so I am trying to use

Code:

/.*url=(.*)&cid,"$1"

To parse and replace URLs I get from the google news feeds (make them point directly to the url, instead of going via google redirect)

However, as this works as a traditional regex, I am not sure about where to put the replacement string in the interface. Err... the $1, that is.

And.. can this thing replace URL strings anyway?

::emp::

emp · 10-27-2007, 06:58 AM

OK, my bad. Right now, the plugin is not even storing my regex?
Whats up with that?
Do I need to chmod some file, somewhere?

::emp::

emp · 10-27-2007, 07:43 AM

Again, - this feels like I am talking to myself - my bad.

Seems the old regex was throwing sonething in the plugin, probably the , or the "

Here now is a regex to replace the google news stuff:

Code:

 /http...news.*\&amp.url=(.*)\&amp.cid.*\"/
 (check "regex")
$1
 (replace with)

This works fine, but Google escapes special characters in the URLs (? becomes %3F and the like) so unless the receiving server escapes the HTML, you are fucked.

Example:

Code:

http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp%3Fid%3D10435

Should be

Code:

http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp?id=10435

The "add" button for more rules in the plugin does not do anything on my end, or I could add a regex for each of those.

Anyone have an idea?

::emp::

emp · 10-27-2007, 10:13 AM

Damn, middle of the night and no one answers my regex questions?

This forum has gone downhill for sure.

So my regex has evolved (devolved) into this.

Code:

/http...news.*p;url=(.*)\&..p;.*\"{1}/

But that plugin seems to ignore the {1} I put there and replaces everyhting until the last " being the greedy little regex bitch it is.

Any pointers on how to pull this through?

Oh.. the HTML escaping still applies, too.

::emp::

Nomara · 10-27-2007, 11:40 AM

I'm not looking at the Google news feed or anything, so I don't have anything to go off directly, but you can limit its greediness by adding a ? after the .* So...
/http...news.*p;url=(.*)\&..p;.*?\"{1}/

You might need to change the first .* to .*? as well. I can't tell without seeing what you are trying to parse.

Nomara · 10-27-2007, 12:16 PM

And how about using urldecode to handle the encoding?

springer · 10-27-2007, 04:37 PM

Hey emp, I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish but maybe another option might help. I use Rad Geek’s Projects » FeedWordPress and it works like a champ.

Maybe it'll help you, maybe not. I hope it does.

smap · 10-28-2007, 05:48 AM

I'm in. This thread got me pumped up which is great. It's been 3 days now (I think - it's kind of running together and its almost 5am now) 3 days spent getting through this thread - and all the places it spiders out that I didn't understand (most notably Blue Hat SEO Empire ... phew.). The Empire & cycle sites, etc. is way ambitious for me right now so I'm aiming well under that. With all the shit that's stirring in my head I'm not sure I can even come up with a cohesive plan for this challenge - so what do I do - sit back and re-read for another few days or start moving? I think I'm going to do a little of both. I've learned a shit-load so far reading but I'm itching to be doing.

As of tonight I've got one auto-blog started. Promising niche I hope - new TV show ... but very new. Nice Google Trends curve but very recent. Because it's so new I think is going to have to mainly start out as a video blog - there isn't a ton of text/RSS content. I was able to pickup <showname>s.com - <showname>online.com was also available but guessed shorter and/or plural might be better. I could have used some more keyword data for choosing the domain but it isn't there yet. I also picked up a 2nd typo domain of the singular <showname> that I'm 301 redirecting to test type-in traffic.

Hopefully in the next day or two I can get this site running and move on to a WP mU/subdomains (similar to what SEO_Mike has talked about) with niches/keywords I'm more confident I can target. Still need to come up with the niches.

For link-building, I'm inexperienced overall in that area but I'm messing with Eli's rss techniques. I'm out of my comfort zone though in more ways than one.

Since I haven't really done this kind of site before - I'm not sure what to expect monetization-wise - say in the next 2 months - but I'm hoping worst-case I end up with some sites that pay their rent and can be used later to drive links/traffic to real money-makers. I'm not sure if that makes them foundation-sites according to Eli. It's going to take a few more reads until I understand that post.

Fuck that's enough of my rambling. One more drink for me then off to bed! Thanks for all the info shared so far.

egonitron · 10-28-2007, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smap

I was able to pickup <showname>s.com

Careful with trademarks

Otherwise good job, I'm just starting to get kicked off myself, but I keep spending too much time reading and not enough doing.

10-24-2007, 09:26 PM	#152 (permalink)
parushing Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 83 iTrader: 12 / 100%	Ok this may not be the place to ask this. I have an rss reed that I am pulling that has a date in the field. I am using wp-omatic to parse the feeds and create post. I want to change the post date to the date in in the content of the field. Also the feed only provided the last 50 records. How can I coax the feed to give more than that? The search that I am swiping the feed from has a search engine but the feed it produces is only the last 50 entries even if the search was from three years ago. Trying not to to be confusing but maybe one of you pros can chime in. Paul Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-24-2007, 11:07 PM	#154 (permalink)
ubaidabcd Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,035 iTrader: 3 / 100%	I'm thinking of trying out these cycle sites, but I just have a couple questions: In the SEO empire article Eli mentions: "So be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers." How do you do that? I know where the name servers are in my control panel, but can you put in any information and they won't verify it? Or do I have to find a web hosting company that I'm not using and find out what their nameservers are and use those? Thanks Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-24-2007, 11:11 PM	#155 (permalink)
bubbles Domainers... Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 866 iTrader: 3 / 100%	If you have a VPS, you can define the main nameservers in WHM. Then you have to go to your register, and create the actual nameservers there. So buy a domain like, abchost.com, create nameservers pointing to your servers IP, and point all your sites to those nameservers. Then on abchost.com make a site similar to this one (its an example host, which I think belongs to Eli) Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Best Regarded Google Webmaster Mr Khanceff John

10-24-2007, 11:36 PM	#157 (permalink)
Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: marvelously gleeful Posts: 6,024 iTrader: 30 / 100%	Forgot to mention in my previous post: I've never run a ticket website before so I'm not sure how it will perform. Just wanted to get that out there before a bunch of people go running to start ticket sites The idea behind it should work for almost any niche that has a lot of different "items". For example: baseball cards, records, movies, songs, and so on ad infinitum. I picked tickets because I had an old domain in my account that I meant to develop. Not TicketDepot.org, that's only 1 day old. The other one is a .info, and I'm not a fan of .info's for PPC sites or "real" sites, so I bought this one. I think I'll use the other "ticket" domain for airline / travel type tickets. Planes, trains and cruises, that sort of thing. Also meant to add, here's the link for eBay's API stuff: eBay Developers Program Lot's of good shit in there. And unlike some API programs, theirs is completely free, unless you want to become a 'Certified Solutions Provider', then you'll pay $3000 per year. So, unless you want to develop apps to sell, don't worry about that. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

10-25-2007, 12:10 AM	#159 (permalink)
Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: marvelously gleeful Posts: 6,024 iTrader: 30 / 100%	Correct. This way the results appear on my site, and doesn't redirect the user to eBay. I'm trying to get data feeds from other ticket sellers, so I can do a comparison. It is my opinion (and you know what opinions are like ) that if a visitor can compare the prices of 3 or 4 different sellers on one site, they are more likely to purchase at that time, than if you one have one. With only one site's prices, they are more likely to keep looking for the best price, and after they have comparison shopped long enough, then they'll buy. So, I want to eliminate the user having to go elsewhere to compare prices. Oh yeah, back to the API, the code for it was taken from eBay's sample code. Saved me a ton of time. I just edited it slightly, tested it in the sandbox, tested it live, found out I needed to enable domxlst in my server, did that, and it's good. Oh yeah, and the call to LiquidWeb's tech support to learn how to enable that part of PHP took a whopping 7 mins 19 secs I love LiquidWeb! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

10-25-2007, 12:17 AM	#161 (permalink)
Nomara Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 43 iTrader: 1 / 100%	So here's an update on my autoblogging work: I've had 8 autoblogs setup for almost a week now and am making about 15 or 20 posts a day on each one. I get about 20 page impressions on each one according to AdSense. My CTR stinks. Right now it is right around 1%. The one bright spot is that most of the sites are getting indexed pretty well. Some of my sites have 40+ pages indexed in Google and I don't think any of them are in the supplemental index. So I need some advice: 1. What is the best way to get more traffic? Keyword stuffing? Bigger posts? 2. I think I need to optimize my ad placements. Say my site was valuable to users (and not a scraper site). Would an ad layout like http:// mortgage-marketing. marketing-experts.info be against AdSense's TOS? Could I possibly get banned just for having so many ads above the fold? Or would it have to be a combo of that ad layout and useless, duplicate, or nonsensical content? Thanks again! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-25-2007, 02:59 AM	#169 (permalink)
davr3 Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 39 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Whats up all. I just joined this site tonight and after going thru hours of content I really did read some interesting stuff. I read the thread from SEO Mike and its just the type of thing that motivates me. I started a mortgage lead company about 3 years ago and made insane money buying and selling mortgage leads. The market has got pretty bad and just like I started a Mortgage Lead company a few years ago.... this week I have decided to really focus On Debt leads. So I think I will take Mike challenge as well. I have never been an IT guy more of a sales guy but lately I have taught myself how to build websites and do a bit of coding. My work sucks right now but my hunger to get this stuff down is there. So here are the two things I started working on this last week. Please take a look and let me know what you think: The first page not finished yet: Adsinseconds.com (please keep in mind I am not a techi type of guy) The idea is taking all the incentive offers from affiliate networks and putting them on one page for people to do. I am already talked to some affiliate networks ant there ok with the incentive offers. I am starting to think I might need a little bit help to clean up this site. If anybody is interested in helping in development on this site you can IM me on aim: Davr3 The second is my debt page that i did myself that i just finished today: Takecareofyourbills.com I am now interested in anybody that can drive quality traffic to the site and start generating leads because I already have the foundation of people that will buy. In the past I relied on spammers to email market for me but I really want to get away from that and develop this page with SEO, natural traffic. Any input is welcome. So there it is. Those are the couple things that I am putting to the challenge that I have started that currently are not making any money. But if history shall repeat itself money is (crossing fingers) right around the corner again. Any suggestions or service you can provide IM me on aim Davr3 FYI my mortgage company lead site is ezlead2loans.com if anybody was wondering. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-25-2007, 02:02 PM	#173 (permalink)
Dave_IL Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 126 iTrader: 15 / 100%	Just a quick update... Cycle site blew through my VPS1 at Liquidweb, had to upgrade otherwise I kept crashing MySql process. To be fair I have quite a few other sites running scripts on that server so this just tipped the scales. Before crashing I was starting to see 400 visitors a day most from moderation of the owners blogs, but I am seeing some good referring links that are live. Soon as the upgrade is done I will kick autopost off again so far I am happy with what I am seeing. Cash wise I am averaging about .15 a day from adsense when I had autopost running, less right now. I also have been more active in working with my directory and other sites that have laid dormant for awhile and am seeing results from that work also. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-25-2007, 02:55 PM	#175 (permalink)
DBWebDev $0.50/week Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 406 iTrader: 1 / 100%	@Parushing: That delicious idea is a right gem! Gonna get that up and running tonight if possible - did you code the auto post links for delicious yourself or found a script online for it? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-25-2007, 03:19 PM	#177 (permalink)
abednego Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 117 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Sounds like everyone is doing something completely different than me. I apologize if this sounds off topic. My site which is in the works is using AuctionAds to provide monetization. I know that sounds gay but when you see the end result hopefully you'll understand. Just got the domain and I am working on coding and design as I am writing this. My question is this... What can be done to garner some nice links in a quick period of time? Will this look bad if I grow too quick in the search engine's eyes? Thanks in advance for help/ideas. I am really enjoying reading everyone's progress. Good motivation to actually make some shit. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-25-2007, 03:25 PM	#178 (permalink)
Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: marvelously gleeful Posts: 6,024 iTrader: 30 / 100%	Quick backlinks Just scroll up a few posts. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

10-25-2007, 03:51 PM	#180 (permalink)
bubbles Domainers... Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 866 iTrader: 3 / 100%	I have a partially working black hole seo script. Its coded very ineffiently, but should work as far as I can tell. But it doesn't. I'd be willing to post the source if anyone else was interested in getting it to work. Just a random thought in response to abednego's post on getting backlinks. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Best Regarded Google Webmaster Mr Khanceff John

10-26-2007, 03:24 PM	#183 (permalink)
Nomara Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 43 iTrader: 1 / 100%	In addition to my autoblogging, I also want to do some eBay affiliate work. I want to target a microniche with almost no competition for the top 10 search engine results as it will boost my confidence and give me some practice (and hopefully make me a buck or two). I'm not going to say what microniche I am targeting, but for the sake of illustration let us say that it is Noritake China. The first thing I did was some keyword research at SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. When I type in noritake china, here are the top two results: 1. noritake china - 24,766 searches a month 2. antique noritake china - 2,233 searches a month So now I want to buy a domain with either "noritake china" or "antique noritake china" in it. Unfortunately, no combination of noritake china is available to purchase. However, the following domains are available: 1. antique-china.net 2. antiquenoritakechina.com 3. noritakechina1.com (or any other number) With the first one, I could use a subdomain and have noritake.antique-china.com as the address. Which would be the better choice? Aequitas, in your blog post on keyword research you say, "When you buy the domain name it should be the keyword your trying to rank for and no other terms mixed in." I am trying to rank for "noritake china", but I need to include another word or number in order to find an available domain. So which of the possible domain names is the best choice? Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. I hope this thread keeps going! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-26-2007, 06:48 PM	#185 (permalink)
egonitron Banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 128 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Aequitas, would you recommend domains with or w/o hyphens? I've been readings hyphens are good because there's no question what the words are. Like Penisland.com/Pen-island.com/Penis-land.com Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-26-2007, 07:02 PM	#186 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	There will always be debates about this. Matt cutts says Google likes URLs with hyphens, as words can be seperated at the hyphen. He does not say wether this applies to domain names or only file names though. (As in penis-land.com/viagra-effects.html) I think users are quite used to the hyphened domains, non-hyphened might be better for typein traffic. ::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

10-26-2007, 07:23 PM	#188 (permalink)
solars Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 44 iTrader: 0 / 0%	well, if you actually imagine a parser, parsing your domains, from a technological point of view, it is pretty obvious. if your keyword is "penis land" the parser tries to look up the separate words at first, penis and land with 'penisland' the entry point is the same, so it looks for a single word called penisland. which might be something completely different. I think it depends heavily on your keywords since you cannot rely on the parser splitting your word into possible parts (this depends on the positives it gets from the db) just try to do an actual search in google and you'll see how it works. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-26-2007, 07:32 PM	#189 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	OK, as far as I can tell, hyphens have been treating me well for document (file names). I normally try to get a non-hyphenated domain name, but really I don't think it matters. With google or any other web search engine being the users first click on them thar intartubes, I think domains can be hyphenated like crazy. It used to be that hyphenated domains were considered spammy, but that doesn't apply anymore. ::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

10-26-2007, 07:52 PM	#190 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	OK, I can't believe I am just ow beginning to dabble in autoblogs. THat autoblog plugin shared by bambam and Eli (doesn't work right yet) seems to have no feature to give it a MAX number of posts per day? IS there any such thing? Thanks, ::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

10-26-2007, 08:32 PM	#191 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	Figured it out now..please move along... <cough> ::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

10-27-2007, 06:56 AM	#192 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	OK.. still playing with WP-o-Matic here. I am trying to figure out how to use the replace feature, anyone have some pointers? I know regex, so I am trying to use Code: /.url=(.)&cid,"$1" To parse and replace URLs I get from the google news feeds (make them point directly to the url, instead of going via google redirect) However, as this works as a traditional regex, I am not sure about where to put the replacement string in the interface. Err... the $1, that is. And.. can this thing replace URL strings anyway? ::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

10-27-2007, 06:58 AM	#193 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	OK, my bad. Right now, the plugin is not even storing my regex? Whats up with that? Do I need to chmod some file, somewhere? ::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

10-27-2007, 07:43 AM	#194 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	Again, - this feels like I am talking to myself - my bad. Seems the old regex was throwing sonething in the plugin, probably the , or the " Here now is a regex to replace the google news stuff: Code: /http...news.\&amp.url=(.)\&amp.cid.\"/ (check "regex")* $1 (replace with) This works fine, but Google escapes special characters in the URLs (? becomes %3F and the like) so unless the receiving server escapes the HTML, you are fucked. Example: Code: http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp%3Fid%3D10435 Should be Code: http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp?id=10435 The "add" button for more rules in the plugin does not do anything on my end, or I could add a regex for each of those. Anyone have an idea? ::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

10-27-2007, 10:13 AM	#195 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,818 iTrader: 17 / 100%	Damn, middle of the night and no one answers my regex questions? This forum has gone downhill for sure. So my regex has evolved (devolved) into this. Code: /http...news.p;url=(.)\&..p;.\"{1}/ But that plugin seems to ignore the {1} I put there and replaces everyhting until the last " being the greedy little regex bitch it is. Any pointers on how to pull this through? Oh.. the HTML escaping still applies, too. ::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

10-27-2007, 11:40 AM	#196 (permalink)
Nomara Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 43 iTrader: 1 / 100%	I'm not looking at the Google news feed or anything, so I don't have anything to go off directly, but you can limit its greediness by adding a ? after the .* So... /http...news.p;url=(.)\&..p;.?\"{1}/ You might need to change the first . to .*? as well. I can't tell without seeing what you are trying to parse. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-27-2007, 12:16 PM	#197 (permalink)
Nomara Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 43 iTrader: 1 / 100%	And how about using urldecode to handle the encoding? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

10-27-2007, 04:37 PM	#198 (permalink)
springer I AM the shit! Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 696 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Hey emp, I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish but maybe another option might help. I use Rad Geek’s Projects » FeedWordPress and it works like a champ. Maybe it'll help you, maybe not. I hope it does. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings!

10-28-2007, 05:48 AM	#199 (permalink)
smap Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 100 iTrader: 1 / 100%	I'm in. This thread got me pumped up which is great. It's been 3 days now (I think - it's kind of running together and its almost 5am now) 3 days spent getting through this thread - and all the places it spiders out that I didn't understand (most notably Blue Hat SEO Empire ... phew.). The Empire & cycle sites, etc. is way ambitious for me right now so I'm aiming well under that. With all the shit that's stirring in my head I'm not sure I can even come up with a cohesive plan for this challenge - so what do I do - sit back and re-read for another few days or start moving? I think I'm going to do a little of both. I've learned a shit-load so far reading but I'm itching to be doing. As of tonight I've got one auto-blog started. Promising niche I hope - new TV show ... but very new. Nice Google Trends curve but very recent. Because it's so new I think is going to have to mainly start out as a video blog - there isn't a ton of text/RSS content. I was able to pickup <showname>s.com - <showname>online.com was also available but guessed shorter and/or plural might be better. I could have used some more keyword data for choosing the domain but it isn't there yet. I also picked up a 2nd typo domain of the singular <showname> that I'm 301 redirecting to test type-in traffic. Hopefully in the next day or two I can get this site running and move on to a WP mU/subdomains (similar to what SEO_Mike has talked about) with niches/keywords I'm more confident I can target. Still need to come up with the niches. For link-building, I'm inexperienced overall in that area but I'm messing with Eli's rss techniques. I'm out of my comfort zone though in more ways than one. Since I haven't really done this kind of site before - I'm not sure what to expect monetization-wise - say in the next 2 months - but I'm hoping worst-case I end up with some sites that pay their rent and can be used later to drive links/traffic to real money-makers. I'm not sure if that makes them foundation-sites according to Eli. It's going to take a few more reads until I understand that post. Fuck that's enough of my rambling. One more drink for me then off to bed! Thanks for all the info shared so far. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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