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parushing · 10-24-2007, 12:04 PM

Quote:

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, 08:26 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

SEO_Mike · 10-24-2007, 09:15 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, 10:07 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, 10:11 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, 10:35 PM

Quote:

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.

SEO_Mike · 10-24-2007, 10:36 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, 10:55 PM

Quote:

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?

SEO_Mike · 10-24-2007, 11:10 PM

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 · 10-24-2007, 11:11 PM

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 · 10-24-2007, 11:17 PM

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 · 10-24-2007, 11:20 PM

Quote:

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!

SEO_Mike · 10-24-2007, 11:22 PM

Quote:

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.

SEO_Mike · 10-24-2007, 11:29 PM

Quote:

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 · 10-24-2007, 11:43 PM

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, 12:47 AM

Quote:

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, 01:03 AM

Quote:

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, 01:56 AM

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10-24-2007, 10:11 PM	#155 (permalink)
bubbles OMG POLLS Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 763 iTrader: (3)	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) __________________ Best Regarded Google Webmaster Mr Khanceff John

10-24-2007, 10:36 PM	#157 (permalink)
SEO_Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,342 iTrader: (25)	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. __________________ Copeac Mutha Fucka's. That will be all. Auggie's the shiz-nit for Design Work! "How are you going to get things done if you spend so much time planning to get things done?" - chatmasta

10-24-2007, 11:10 PM	#159 (permalink)
SEO_Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,342 iTrader: (25)	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! __________________ Copeac Mutha Fucka's. That will be all. Auggie's the shiz-nit for Design Work! "How are you going to get things done if you spend so much time planning to get things done?" - chatmasta

10-24-2007, 08:26 PM	#152 (permalink)
parushing Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 38 iTrader: (2)	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

10-24-2007, 10:07 PM	#154 (permalink)
ubaidabcd Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,037 iTrader: (3)	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

10-24-2007, 11:17 PM	#161 (permalink)
Nomara Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 40 iTrader: (1)	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!

10-25-2007, 01:56 AM	#168 (permalink)
ubaidabcd Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,037 iTrader: (3)	Quote: