- You're not sure where to post

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

- Off topic/gossip, etc

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

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

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

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

Christopher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I appreciate the sapce here. Thanks!

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

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

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

Mary

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

Here's the feed:

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

Thanks

Ernie

Hey All...

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

Ernie...

It works in my Newz for both IE and FF.

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

BTW, what specifically did you do with Scrubz?

Ernie

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

Both work fine for me.

Noel

Mary

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

Ernie

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

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

Tasari

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay then, what say you?

Are you interested in doing something like this?

If so, let me know what you are wanting.

Thanks ...

Mary

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

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

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

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

Anyway, thanks for posting!

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Same program could be duplicated to update Hubpages and Zimbio.

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

Now that's interesting...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary

Hi Mary,

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

Let's continue the conversation via email.

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

Thanks...

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Eric,

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

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

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

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

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

Yellow - Important ongoing topics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does somebody made a nice structure for an excel file ?

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

Let me know

Tasari

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Hi Taz...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks,
Mitzie

HI Mitzie,

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ed

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

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

Mitzie

Cheers,
Mitzie

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

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

Tasari

Hi Mitzie,

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

Hi Taz,

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

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

The hardest part is verifying each email.

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

Output is total nonsense but quiet funny.

Noel

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

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

such as:
woodrow wilson birthplace
when was woodrow wilson born

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

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

What do you think it means?

Kelvin

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

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

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

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

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

Kelvin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary

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

Any recommendations?

Mitzie

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

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

Mitzie

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

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

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

Hope this helps ...

Mary

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

Tasari

Hey Taz,

Good to see you in print kid!

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

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

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

Hope this helps ...

Mary

e.g.

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

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

Merci in advance!

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

Tasari

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

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

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

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

Highly recommended.

Ernie

Yes from Belgium Hummm chocolate

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

Tasari

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

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

Great price and great service for a VPS.

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

Ernie

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

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

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeff

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

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

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

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

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

You know, people learn and grow.

All the best ...

Mary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tom

Hi Tom,

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

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

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

Mary

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

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

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

Tom

Hi Tom,

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

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

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

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

Thanks

Tom

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks
Isobel

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

Why can't you have a US host?

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

Tom

Hi Kurt,

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

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

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

Isobel

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

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

Isobel