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1) Create a folder somewhere or use the existing "data" folder. I stuck mine in the "data" folder and named it "databases." This is done for purely organizational purposes. If this is confusing just create it in the default/root folder of FatBomb.

2) Next create a file in that folder called whatever. I named mine "datab1.dat" It can be a .dat extension or .txt extension. If you do it in notepad simply rename "name.txt" to "name.dat" once it is on your server (if you want to). Upload in ascii. This is the file NAME and NOT the database name. The two are different.

3) Add info to that file via pipe delimiter format: URL|Title|Description

Example:
http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx.02layhi|Glamour Photography Profits|Learn how to promote and make . . .
http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx.040522|Voodooblackmagic|Online Psychic Readings.
http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx.10kperday|Real Estate With No Credit Checks!|Invest in Real . . .

4)Add DataBase in admin area. The database name is just a NAME that you give it. Name it after your dog, cat or a the cute name you call your significant other. It is just a name that you associate with the database.

For example, if you created a db with Clickbank links it would make perfect (and common) sense to name it "cbank." Amazon db could be "zon."

When adding the path to your db file it is relation to the FatBomb.cgi. IF you put the file in the root FB folder then you will JUST PUT IN THE NAME OF THE FILE.

Chris

I will be working on 2 installs right away.

I for example own www.shopdcmetro.com, a regional small business directory for the DC area. Currently run using the Hyperseek database. I currently have over 1,000 listings in my database.

If I understand correctly, I can add all of those to show prior to meta searches.

The reason I continue to use Hyperseek, is because of the ability to build html pages, that get spidered by other searchengines.

What bomb to you recommend that I include with Fatbomb to provide both meta searches, and static pages?
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I also have a topical database, i.e. http://cooking-recipes.searchking.com. I don't do much with it because of time. I am thinking i can replace hyperseek, with fatbomb here as well.

Anyway that's what I plan. any ideas?

Also, I will continually report here on my finding / status.

Kelvin

Hi Chris,
FYI: I was just working with the databases, and found that the current database uploaded as the sample, is named with a txt extension. i.e. spiderhub.txt.

Question, does it have to be a .dat extension?

When installing a database, you are asked for the path. I had to play with this a bit.

I called it from the default folder of where Fatbomb is installed, and the path at this point is just the file name.

Kelvin

Is it possible to add an images field to the database, i.e.

image file location/URL/Title/Desc.

kelvin

Thanks to your feedback, I was able to add the images and a fake upgrade link.

My database is not aligned properly, so the images are a little out of place, but they are there.

http://www.shopdcmetro.com/cgi/metro/metro.cgi/?skin=washingtondc&length=20&keywords=Washington%20DC

Kelvin

Is there something I forgot to do?

John

URL|Title|Description

Save file as whatever.txt or whatever.dat (either will work).

Call 'whatever.txt or whatever.dat' from admin page as a path (i.e. data/db/db1.dat) in relation to the FatBomb.cgi NOT a URL. If you call the spiders.txt as a path it will just be 'spiders.txt'

The above path (data/db/db1.dat) shows that my database is in the 'Data' folder, sub-folder 'db', file 'db1.dat' in relation to my FB.cgi

Any help?

Chris

For example people that have already paid for advertising should come up first. I have people that have paid for different levels of ads.

So I know I need at least 3 custom databases of my existing directory. The smaller databases may have only 10 to 30 entries.
Where the larger one will have about 1,900.

Kelvin

That doesn't sound bad at all. I'm not sure if anyone knows the outer limits of Fatbomb right now, but I wouldn't think 2000 records would be a problem at all.

Jeff

I agree with Jeff that it 'shouldn't' be a problem.

Best way to check is just to make copies of the largets database and upload a few of them, then add them to the Custom Databases.

Run some tests and see how your server handles it...

I've got a .gov spiderbomb database around here somewhere that's fairly large...I'll try to post it later, if I can find it.

I am not so much concerned about the one larger database, as I am about using several smaller ones.

Kelvin

You are really making a tradeoff of network resources/time (to request and receive engines' data), and shifting it more to your server. Even with several database files, I bet it will run faster than an off-server query as long as you have no more than a few thousand records in each file. As Kurt said, you'll just have to copy it several times to see. I'd be interested in your results.

There's far less data to parse from a database file, as the program doesn't have to parse through an entire web page to get what it wants, and the database files are in a "fixed" format. Also, you're not writing the files, which generally takes longer than just a read.

Jeff

This may be the database Kurt is speaking of...not sure

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=141&forum=DCForumID9

Post 6

Rick

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Since not every FatBomber can access that thread...Here's the SpiderBomb ".gov" database you can use in FatBomb:

http://dombom.com/gov.txt

It has over 8100 records. Try 3-4 copies of this file, starting with one, then a test, then add another, then test, etc.

Directions:

Go to: http://dombom.com/gov.txt

Select all the text and paste into a text document (or use "Save As") and name it gov.txt

Upload to the same directory that you see fatbomb.cgi (or whatever you renamed it).

Go to your FatBomb Admin "Custom Databases" and enter for the file path: gov.txt

Run some test searches and see how responsive FatBomb is. If everythign is OK, repeat, "saving as" gov2.txt, gov3.txt, etc.

Everyone's hosting is different. So it is probably wise to do a little testing...

however, I am confused about the results I get back.

http://www.africanamericanbusinessdirectory.com

Using custom database what is:
All
exact
any

example if I search for "printers" I get 12 results between my database and the selected search engines.

However, if I search for " african american printers", I get 95 results.

I have the admin area set to show 100 results.

kelvin

All - Only returns results containing ALL words listed. Not in any exact order.

exact - Returns only results that contain the EXACT phrase.

any - will return results than contain any SINGLE word of the search results. For the phrase "african american printers" in "any" mode will return links that contain only "african", for examplle.

Any - Returns the most results, but less relevance.

Exact - Returns the least results, but most relevance.

All - A compromise of the two above.

Which you chose is up to you...Having multiple databases also allows that some can be used in "any" mode, while others are used in "exact" to fit your individual needs.

I keep getting "inadmissible id"

My path is data/database and the file is db1.dat

I thought db1.dat was the ID!!!

Help

Graeme,

That's the file name.

The ID is what you want to call it and what you want the database to been "named" when displayed in the SERPs. Certain characters, such as periods are not allowed.

PS. Why are you so excited over this!!!?!?!?

I've been excited since Oct 12 03 when I got my first bomb and the excitement grows everyday:-)))))

Is there a script or program that will allow it to pre populate a form with the link title and or database name, that will email the form to me so I can make the proper updated?

I know how to add a link. But again, I want to make it as easy as possible for the end user to help me, by reporting it.

Kelvin

For that you will probably need to hire Jeff or Chris to write something specific for your needs.

They're pretty cheap...

The free version works for this or u can upgrade.

if you own zeus or a similiar program they will help also. Using a combination of these you can build your links database, and at the same time setup program to request recipical links.

kelvin

What am I doing wrong?

Just for the heck of it try turning off all your se's or setting them to 0. This way you are forcing you db to only come up. If it doesn't come up there maybe a problem.

Chris

Now that I know it's working - how to I get onto page 1:-)

Does the weight matter, or are there some other settings that I need to adjust?

Thanks

Set weight of all engines to 1

Set occurance weight to 1

Set custom database weight to 1000

PS. Graeme...If you can't get number one in your own engine...

I have just got to number one on my own search engine after weeks of optimization.

If you need any advice Kurt, don't hesitate to ask me.

ps: Thanks for putting me out of my misery:-)

This is really confusing.

Nathan

Hi All!

Would someone please explain weights and how to best decide how to weight different databases? Is it just higher numbers mean higher rank in the SE?

What is the difference between weight of engines and "occurance weight"?

Thanks!

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

Nathan,

The license says you have to register for the forum. With this said...You need to be more specific.

If you are a newbie, I suggest you Jeff or Chris to install it and get it working for you.

Rick,

I suggest you mess with the weights and see what happens.

"Occurance" weight are "bonus points" given for each time a URL is found is a search engine's results.

If a URL is listed in 3 engines AND the weight is set to 100, then an "occurance weight" of 300 is factored into FatBomb's ranking equation.

Occurance Weight is based on the theory that a page that is in a number of engines should get some extra points, regradless of rank.

Have been playing around with it but wanted to make sure I was looking at it the right way. I would never have figured out the "occurance weight" till you explained it. Makes sense now.

Thanks Again!

Rick Wilson

http://www.1penplace.com/cgi-bin/fb/seek.cgi?skin=default&length=20&keywords=atv

The resulting page comes up blank except for
the search box and the fatbomb link.
What am I doing wrong?

Do I need to manually add databases? This is
why I asked if I need to purchase spiderbomb.

Nathan

From what I can tell, you have no search engines "activated" and you are only using a Clickbank database which is configured wrong.

If this is so then turn off you db and turn on an se or two and see if it works.

Chris

I disabled the database and then I enabled two search
engines. Still getting the same result.

Nathan

Hi Nathan,

Check and see if you have the data/cache folders in your fb directory:

/cgi-bin/fb/data/cache

I had that problem too. It was the fact that when using something like winzip to unzip the FB files, winzip doesn't extract any "empty" folders. You just have to "select all" when you extract.

So just add a data folder (under you FB directory) with a cache folder in the "data" folder. Then try adding the databases again. Worked for me.

Hope you understood my explanation okay! heh heh

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

Now it looks to me as though you are missing a folder or have a bad path.

Try what Rick has said. Create a folder in the data folder named db (easy name) in that folder place your data file.

In admin area call the file like so: data/db/yourdbfile.txt

Chris

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Use "Spiderhub" as a working example, it resides in the default default directory. Simply just call it by name. See if that works. Then do a progressive path to the "data" folder (if that is where you are storing you db files).

Remember these are paths AND NOT urls.

chris

If so which is the recommended script?

Or would it be better to just wait and gets Bo's bid script?

I think my comedy site, would be a good place to add vidoes, joke books, etc. to the site.

kelvin

Do you mean BIB? I have setup BuyItBomb to work seamlessly with Fatbomb. All it takes is a custom BIB template and Fatbomb engine file. I haven't put together one for BuyItBomb_zon but it certainly can be done. I'll put it on my to-do list.

Bo

However, when I try to install the sample spiderhub database I get this error:
FatBomb
Software Error
Cannot open file 'data/config.lck': No such file or directory at lib/Gamma/Storage.pm line 53.

I also get the same error when I try to change the password.

Have I done something wrong? Should I do a reinstall? I followed the discussion up to this point and it seemed to make sense: spiderhub.dat is in the same place as fatbomb. My path is thus spiderhub.dat But I can't get it to work.

Any help will be appreciated.

Castle

Hi Castle,

I believe you need to change spiderhub.dat to spiderhub.txt . See if that does the trick.

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

Kelvin

>However, when I try to install the sample spiderhub database
>I get this error:
>FatBomb
>Software Error
>Cannot open file 'data/config.lck': No such file or
>directory at lib/Gamma/Storage.pm line 53.
>
>I also get the same error when I try to change the password.
>

I'm trying to follow the samples in this thread for testing out how to create a custom database, but I need some help figuring out what I may be doing wrong.

My cgi url path to the database is: http://www.createandsellproducts.com/cgi-bin/trenchcoatgoat/dig.cgi/admin/add_database

I've uploaded the gov.txt database mentioned in the above posts into the same directory as my fatbomb cgi.(dig.cgi) I go to may fat bomb admin panel and click on the databases link at the top of the admin panel. In the id field I entered gov.txt, but all I get is an inadmissible id error.

Is there a certain path I need to use, even though gov.txt is in the same directory as my dig.cgi?

Also if you could give me clarification on when/how to use the enabled yes/no radio buttons, and the search mode all/any/exact buttons. I'm not sure what these need to be set at.

I also tried other ways mentioned in the above posts such as creating a database folder, and changing a text file to a dat file, but ran into the same type of problem. I also tried changing the permissions on the gov.txt file a few different ways including 777, but that didn't make any difference either.

Hope these aren't too many questions for my first post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
George

In the ID field, just enter a name that you will use for the database - like gov . I think it doesn't want the "." in that field, just letters and numbers.

Then enter gov.txt in the path field (assuming it's in the same directory as dig.cgi).

Enabled-Yes needs to be checked if you want to include that database in your search results, Enabled-No if you don't want to include it.

See post 19 on this thread for explanation of any/all/exact.

You can set the weight of results from that database just as you can with all the engines.

Jeff

There is another thread where you can see the steps taken over about a 3 month period.

kelvin

Another question I have is how are databases like gov.txt created. Was this done using SpiderBomb, and if so does it automatically output in the pipe delimited format so it can be used as a Fat bomb db?

Also are there any other programs/bombs/tools available to create the Fat Bomb data bases? I've never used pipe delimited before, so I not sure the best means to create this format.

George

I'm not positive, but I think the gov.txt file was created with Spiderbomb. I know that Spiderbomb creates its files in the exact format needed.

Other bombs that create or can create this format:

Tasari's AddURLBomb and Tazbomb
Bo's BuyitBomb (with conversion)
Gil's CBBomb (with conversion)
My own Atlasbomb (for your site map)

(I may have missed some)

You can create Fatbomb database files yourself too, for example, using Excel or Access. As long as you keep the right format it will work fine.

Jeff

Yes, the .gov data file was created using SpiderBomb.

Also, any Bomb that has a "format" uses the FatBomb file format, meaning each can be used with FatBomb.

Actually, F A T means:
For
All
The

And F A T Bomb is intended to be used either as a stand-alone Bomb, or with as many other Bombs as possible.

In an earlier post on this thread it says we can change our
"source" readout by editing the "^p" and adding our source
name (in the above post it is an image rather than a name).

I have created a few databases now using spiderbomb, but
I do not see the ^p referred to in this other post.

Can someone help me out here?

Here's the original post on this:
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>For branding, I would like to make my own database results
>stand out, other than just assigning them more points.
>
>Is it possible to add an images field to the database, i.e.
>
>image file location/URL/Title/Desc.
>
>
Kelvin,

Yes.

1 Open your kelvin.txt database in Notetab, free at www.notetab.com .

2. Create/copy the HTML for your graphic.

3. Do a search/replace in NoteTab:

Find: ^p
Replace: <your html here>^p

NOTE: The blank space before the html tag(s) and the ^p and the end of the "replace with". You will need to include it in the "replace", as well as the "find".

This will add the html to your images, etc to the end of the description in your database and the images will be "viewable" in the SERP's...

If you want to sell banner advertising as an "upgrade", for example, you can locate the URL in your database/text file and add custom html for any link.

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's being said here.

Thanks,
Patrick

Patrick...

^p represents the start of a paragraph in Notetab but is "invisible". Type is just like you did here and follow the directions just as I described.

The strangest thing. While everything seems to be working with my fatbomb, the main link is broken. This is what I get

http://www.pinupcollection.info/http://www.shareasale.com/m-pr.cfm?merchantID=9183&userID=01198900&productID=123456789

The db seems to be right so I dont know why my url is added in front of the merchants.

Gil

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Gil,

I'm not sure what you mean. Is it happening with every link in that database? Just the one link? All links in all databases?

>
>>The strangest thing. While everything seems to be working
>>with my fatbomb, the main link is broken. This is what I get
>>
>>http://www.pinupcollection.info/http://www.shareasale.com/m-pr.cfm?merchantID=9183&userID=01198900&productID=123456789
>>
>>The db seems to be right so I dont know why my url is added
>>in front of the merchants.
>
>Gil,
>
>I'm not sure what you mean. Is it happening with every link
>in that database? Just the one link? All links in all
>databases?

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I figured it out. Sorry to bother you Sometimes Dreamweaver adds ../../ to links if a page is moved from one folder to another.

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