LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-07 AT 09:22 PM (PST)
 

Blackhat Tip: Creating a Black Hole RSS Pheed

Download here:
www.DomBom.com/blackhole.zip

What is it? It is an RSS pheed that is always "updating". We will "update" our pheed by mixing and matching random text so that the pheed always looks "new".

Purpose: By using an RSS pheed that is constantly updating, we can then "ping" the major Blog services that our pheed has been updated and these services will include our RSS pheed in their search results.

Goal: To exploit the black hat spammers. Bascially, we're trying to spam the spammers. Black hatters often use the major RSS serach services to create content for their sites. We'll be doing the same using BlogBomb.

What we want to do is get OUR links on THEIR pages so that we can buld massive one way links.

Results: This takes months of constant "update and ping" to achieve results. However, we'll get everything set up in an hour or two and the rest will be on auto-pilot.

What's needed:

Random.cgi script
Text editor
Tuelz - Linez Tuel www.tuelz.com/download.html
Pingz Tuel or other method of pinging

Preperation:

1. Create a list of all the URLs you want to promote. These can be on the same domain, or different domains. Tip: Use your homepage about 30-50% of the time by using it on your list mulitple times.

2. Create a list of all the keywords you want to use.

3. Gather all the relevant content you have rights to use, either original or PLR into one text file.

Create Text Files -

You will need to create 15 text files for EACH of the following:
Links/URLs
Titles/Keywords
Description/content

These are supplied in your download file.

Links/URLs

A. links1.txt
-thru-
15. links15.txt

1 Paste your list of URLs into The Linez Tuel

2 Click "Shuffle"

3 Prefix each line with:
--NEXT--

4 Add Line Breaks AFTER this text:
--NEXT--

5 Click Add Line Breaks AFTER this text again.

Your list should be in this format, noting line breaks:
--NEXT--

http://www.dombom.com
--NEXT--

http://www.tuelz.com
--NEXT--

http://www.google.com
--NEXT--

6 Copy this list and paste into link1.txt and SAVE FILE.

7 Paste the list into link2.txt ...This time, move a few of the first selections to the bottom of the list. SAVE FILE

8. Copy list from link2.txt ....Move a few of the selections to the bottom of the list. SAVE FILE.

9. Repeat with the least, pasting into the next link text file, moving a few of the top results to the bottom.

Titles = Keywords.txt files, (anchor text that will appear on other sites)

1. keywords1.txt -thru- keywords15.txt

Repeat the process you used with your link files and list of URLs above, including using the Linez Tuel. Don't forget to move a few of the top results to the bottom each time.

Create Description Files:

1 Gather all the content you have a right to use, such as PLR and original articles.

2 Paste them all into Linez.

3 Click "Join The Lines"

4 Add Line Breaks AFTER this text:
. (period)

This will seperate each sentence onto its own line.

5 Quickly scan the list removing very short line

6 Repeat steps 1-9 from the URL/Links instructions above.

Install TweakRandom.cgi and Text Files

Modify path to perl:
Find: #!/usr/bin/perl
Replace: your/path/to/perl

Create folder called "rss" in your cgi-bin folder

Upload all the files in the rss folder to the rss folder in your cgi-bin.

Set permissions of the tweakrandom.cgi file to 755

Your text files don't need the permissions set.

Customize Each XML Page

Open 1.xml

Find: XML-Title
Replace: Title of your pheed

Find: XML-Description
Replace: A general description of your RSS pheed or site.

Find: XML-Link
Replace: http://www.Link-to-Your-Main-Page.com

Find SSI path: #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random Replace: #include virtual="/Your-Path/cgi-bin/random

Upload 1.xml and .htaccss

Upload 1.xml to your website.

If the folder you uploaded 1.xml does NOT have an htaccess file, make one using this:
AddHandler server-parsed .xml

WARNING! DO NOT OVER-WRITE AN EXISTING htaccess FILE! THIS MAY CAUSE OTHER STUFF TO FAIL!

If the folder does have an htaccess file, simply add the following line to it:
AddHandler server-parsed .xml

What this line does is tell your server that whenever a file with the extension .xml is requested, check to see if it contains SSI tags. No biggie.

Ping Your Pheed

Open the Pingz Tuel and tell it to ping your xml/rss pheed a couple of times a day.

Repeat

A If you have other IPs you can use, just install the same stuff on your other website(s), and Pingz them a few times a day.

B If you have other topics, repeat the steps above...It's really not as hard as it sounds.

Sit Back

Now sit back and relax. If you've chosen decent keywords, in a few weeks/months, you'll start seeing links appearing to your pages.

Hi Kurt,

Glad to help.

Happier that anything I said you felt was good enough to use.

Kelvin

PS.

I am over 50% of my situations that have held me back.
So start looking for more input.

To All...

I made this post more as notes to myself to remind me to write this thread, so it probably won't make much sense to you guys and gals at this point in time.

I don't want to overwhelm everyone at the start of this forum, but I'll get to this and expand on it in a few days.

I'll probably create a video for it, so you can follow along...

Wow, I just realized something I've been doing wrong for at least a year!

Don't know why I had so much trouble trying to figure it out, especially after reading your post.

Btw, yes I think videos would be good for something like this. Maybe it will save someone else from taking the hard route.

Mary

Kurt,
any idea how long it will take until the directories pick up your feed?
Say I have a blog and will post scraped news (from other RSS feeds)via a blogposting script like rss2etc and put my "backlink" in once in while this should be working similar to your idea right?
Once set up it is on autopilot -
I just wonder how long it will take until my feeds gets "spread around"

Second question: if I submit this feed to as many feed/Rss directories/blogs this should generate backlinks also??

Karsten

Hi Karsten,

>any idea how long it will take until the directories pick up
>your feed?

The directories should do it fairly soon...But the goal is to have the spammers pick it up from the directories and use your links all over their pages.

>Say I have a blog and will post scraped news (from other RSS
>feeds)via a blogposting script like rss2etc and put my
>"backlink" in once in while this should be working similar
>to your idea right?
>Once set up it is on autopilot -
>I just wonder how long it will take until my feeds gets
>"spread around"

You need to keep it going for some time...It can take months to get results.

>Second question: if I submit this feed to as many feed/Rss
>directories/blogs this should generate backlinks also??

That's the goal.

I'm working on this thread and should have it done by tomorrow. I'll have a text "how to" in a few hours, but I need to wait until night to do videos so I don't have cars going by in the background.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-07 AT 08:23 PM (PST)
 
Here's a blackhat program that sells for $100, with the end result being the same as I outlined above.

http://www.wickedfire.com/sell-buy-trade/15532-rss-xploiter-automated-backlinks-via-splogs.html

Based on BluehatSeo's "100’s Of Links/Hour Automated - Introduction To Black Hole SEO".

http://www.bluehatseo.com/100s-of-linkshour-automated-introduction-to-black-hole-seo/

Kurt,

That tool seems to make things easier, but I am wondering if it is worth the price.

Can we also add affiliate links into the system you laid out at the beginning of the thread too like this tool can do?

It seems to me it can, but I wanted to ask to make sure.

Thanks....

Mary

Hi Mary and Everyone...

>That tool seems to make things easier, but I am wondering if
>it is worth the price.

Actually, I think my way above is easier...The program mentioned seems to have some bugs. You will still need to feed it text.

What it does is scrape webblogs.com (?) for RSS pheeds, then subsitutes your URL for the one used, then stores the titles in a database to be used.

My way, you pick the keywords to be used as titles.

>Can we also add affiliate links into the system you laid out
>at the beginning of the thread too like this tool can do?

You should be able to...Seems like a pretty good idea.

Also, my way isn't that hard. I'm doing most of the work for everyone...But there is some repetitive work, and you do need to build a list of keywords, URLs you want to promote and some content.

ok Kurt, thanks!

I was thinking that your's would be cheaper, and it would probable be more controlled.

Very cool....

Mary

My version of the blackhole technique is now ready for download...See first post in this thread.

Kurt,

Found some flaky behaviour in the 1.xml file, so I discovered these goofs.

These lines:

Line 17 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords1.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords15.txt"-->"--></title>

Line 27 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords2.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords-big-seo.txt"--></title>

Line 147 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords14.txt"-->"--></title>

They should be:

Line 17 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords1.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords15.txt"--></title>

Line 27 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords2.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywordsx.txt"--></title>

Line 147 - <title><!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords14.txt"--></title>

Also, and this may not be an error, but I did correct them in my 1.xml file.

A number of title lines have two include statements. Lines 17 and 27 above are examples.

It causes the link title to be two keywords. I changed mine so only one keyword is the link.

Same thing for descriptions, but that I don't see how that would cause any problems.

Just an FYI

Ernie

Thanks Ernie...

>Also, and this may not be an error, but I did correct them
>in my 1.xml file.
>
>A number of title lines have two include statements. Lines
>17 and 27 above are examples.
>
>It causes the link title to be two keywords. I changed mine
>so only one keyword is the link.
>
>Same thing for descriptions, but that I don't see how that
>would cause any problems.

The reason for multiple titles is so that the anchor text that points back to your pages has as many different densities as possible. The system will rotate through different keywords, matching them in different patterns.

This helps cover any "fingerprints" that makes the links look machine made.

But you're more than welcome to make any changes to the files you want...

I understand.

I design large scale data warehouses for a Fortune 50 retailer as my day gig, so precision and order are grooved too deep.

Ernie

Kurt,

You don't explicitly say so, but could I assume this technique is one you should not use on, as you call them, your "gold" sites?

I have it chugging along on one of my "silver" sites right now and was planning to add it to a few others, but wanted to get some clarity from you first.

Thanks

Ernie

>You don't explicitly say so, but could I assume this
>technique is one you should not use on, as you call them,
>your "gold" sites?
>
>I have it chugging along on one of my "silver" sites right
>now and was planning to add it to a few others, but wanted
>to get some clarity from you first.

Hi Ernie,

It probably should be used on tin/silver sites to build links to your gold sites.

Keep in mind that the URLs used in the RSS pheeds can be to multiple domains/URLs/sites.

Once this is setup, it's pretty easy to make a few minor tweaks, then set it up again on a different tin/silver site, and keep repeating. So, instead of pinging one install multiple times a day, ping each of multiple installs once a day.

Also, these blackhole RSS pheeds are excellent to add to Blogger (and other) accounts....In the case of Blogger using RSS Explosion featured in this thread:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=71&forum=DCForumID42

Set up multiple installs of the blackhole, adding the different RSS URLs to numerous Blogger accounts is a good start on a linking/indexing network.

Let me give an example just to make sure I'm understanding this one correctly.

If I have a Cat themed silver site and a Dog themed gold site, I create this RSS feed using any PLR content I want using my best Dog themed keywords, link back to my Dog site and run it from my Cat site.

Now I imagine i could also use Dog themed PLR content as well. The goal is as many one way links back to my Dog site from this feed (which can be replicated and run on any number of "tin/silver" sites) as possible regardless of the feeds dog content relevancy.

Ernie

Hey Ernie,

In this case, you'd use "pet" PLR.

However, a better example would be if your gold site was about dogs...Your tin and silver sites should be about:

dog training
german shepards
pet health
rotweilers
poodles
dog collars
puppy breeding
dogs
dogs
dogs

Kurt,

Now I understand completely.

Thanks for making this clear in my mind.

Off to create more blackhole feeds.

Ernie

LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-07 AT 11:04 PM (PST)
 
>
>

Customize Each XML Page

>
>Open 1.xml
>
>Find: XML-Title
>Replace: Title of your pheed
>
>Find: XML-Description
>Replace: A general description of your RSS pheed or site.
>
>Find: XML-Link
>Replace: http://www.Link-to-Your-Main-Page.com
>
>Find SSI path: #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random Replace:
>#include virtual="/Your-Path/cgi-bin/random

Kurt,

Couldn't find the line #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random in 1.xml file.

Also, can you say how we could check the script is working as intended once everything is set up?

Thanks in advance
~Mou

Update: Ok after I posted the above I checked the xml file from browser:
http://domain.com/folder/1.xml

It's showing the Feed Title and Description but for the rest it's giving the message

"<an error occurred while processing this directive> <an error occurred while processing this directive>"

Obviously I'm done something wrong in the xml file. Any help appreciated.

~Mou

>However, a better example would be if your gold site was
>about dogs...Your tin and silver sites should be about:
>
>
>dog training
>german shepards
>pet health
>rotweilers
>poodles
>dog collars
>puppy breeding
>dogs
>dogs
>dogs

Hi Kurt... without doing any blackhat, would this still work?

Blessings,

Ed

>It's showing the Feed Title and Description but for the rest
>it's giving the message
>
>"<an error occurred while processing this directive> <an
>error occurred while processing this directive>"
>
>Obviously I'm done something wrong in the xml file. Any help
>appreciated.

Hi Mou,

You probabaly have an incorrect path to the cgi file in the SSI tag, or you haven't identified to correct text file in the random.cgi script...

If the other stuff is working, you're getting close...Look for a monor error somewhere...

>>However, a better example would be if your gold site was
>>about dogs...Your tin and silver sites should be about:
>>
>>
>>dog training
>>german shepards
>>pet health
>>rotweilers
>>poodles
>>dog collars
>>puppy breeding
>>dogs
>>dogs
>>dogs
>
>Hi Kurt... without doing any blackhat, would this still
>work?

Hi Ed...

Yep, it will still work and should be the proper course of action. If you have a site about "dogs", you should have a blog about "german shepards", a squidoo lense about "pet health", etc.

You should then use varied linking methods to get links to THOSE sites/blogs/lenses, in addition to your own site(s).

You should also focus on resources that create an RSS pheed and submit all your pheeds to all the right places.

Hi Kurt,

In your instruction you mentioned

>Find SSI path: #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random Replace:
>#include virtual="/Your-Path/cgi-bin/random

I did not find the line #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random anywhere in the xml file .

Is it that you were mentioning the path of the tweakrandom.cgi in the above line or I am missing something?

~ Mou

LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-07 AT 11:52 PM (PST)
 
>Hi Kurt,
>
>In your instruction you mentioned
>
>>Find SSI path: #include virtual="/cgi-bin/random Replace:
>>#include virtual="/Your-Path/cgi-bin/random
>
>I did not find the line #include
>virtual="/cgi-bin/random anywhere in the xml file .
>
>Is it that you were mentioning the path of the
>tweakrandom.cgi in the above line or I am missing something?

HI Mou,

I was using "shorthand". If you're calling tweakrandom.cgi in teh tags that work, do so in the tags that don't. You can use search/replace.

The ssi tags should be identical, except for the text file they call.

Kurt,

I'm not at all proficient with xml still just wanted to clarify this:

In the 1.xml file

The First block XML Title, XML Description, XML Link are all in the order

Title
Description
Link

whereas inside each <item></item> where we are using the SSI tag the order is:

Link
Title
Description

Shouldn't it be the same as the first block?

I may be absolutely wrong . Just trying to understand where I'm going wrong as I've been trying all options including the cgi-bin path to find the error i m getting.

>Title
>Description
>Link
>
>whereas inside each <item></item> where we are using the SSI
>tag the order is:
>
>Link
>Title
>Description
>
>
>Shouldn't it be the same as the first block?
>
>I may be absolutely wrong . Just trying to understand where
>I'm going wrong as I've been trying all options including
>the cgi-bin path to find the error i m getting.

Hi Mao,

The XML/RSS file is correct. Even if it wasn't, it wouldn't produce the error you are reporting.

Did you use Notepad to edit the text files? Although unlikely, Notepad has ben known to cause issues with scripts.

Are you uploading using ASCII/Text mode?

From my end, the problem is that two of the three are working. This means, the third "should" also work.

Post an entire item, including all SSI tags...

LAST EDITED ON Nov-29-07 AT 01:50 AM (PST)
 
>Did you use Notepad to edit the text files? Although
>unlikely, Notepad has ben known to cause issues with
>scripts.

No, I've downloaded an xml editor and made the changes.

>Are you uploading using ASCII/Text mode?

Yes

>From my end, the problem is that two of the three are
>working. This means, the third "should" also work.
>
>Post an entire item, including all SSI tags...

All the files including the .cgi have been uploaded to /public_html/cgi-bin/rss folder

The 2.xml and htaccess file is inside public_html/rssblack folder

Here's the code in 1.xml file

<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="0.92"><channel> <title>Internet Business Ideas and Money Making strategies</title> <description>Business Ideas To Make Money Online</description> <link>http://www.MyDomain.com </link> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link1.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords1.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords15.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions1.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions7.txt"--></description> </item><item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link2.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords2.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords10.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions2.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions8.txt"--></description> </item><item><link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link3.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords3.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords13.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions3.txt"--></description> </item><item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link4.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords4.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions4.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions9.txt"--></description> </item><item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link5.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords5.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords11.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions5.txt"--></description> </item><item><link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link6.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords6.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions6.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions10.txt"--></description> </item><item><link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link7.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords7.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords9.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions7.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions11.txt"--></description> </item><item><link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link8.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords8.txt"--></title><description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions8.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link9.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords9.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords14.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions9.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions2.txt"--></description></item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link10.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords10.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions10.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link11.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords11.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords2.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions11.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions3.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link12.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords12.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions12.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions4.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link13.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords13.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords4.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions13.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions5.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link14.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords14.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions14.txt"--></description> </item> <item> <link><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=link15.txt"--></link> <title><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords15.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=keywords6.txt"--></title> <description><!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions15.txt"--> <!--#include virtual="../cgi-bin/rss/tweakrandom.cgi?file=descriptions6.txt"--></description> </item></channel> </rss>

Here's the error it is showing:
http://www.webnichehosting.com/rssblack/2.xml

Mao,

You told me:
"It's showing the Feed Title and Description but for the rest it's giving the message

"<an error occurred while processing this directive> <an error occurred while processing this directive>" "

This indicates two of the three SSI tags were working...However, this isn't the case, so I've spent an hour trouble shooting with incorrect info.

You haven't installed the random script correctly. Go back and check the path to perl, permissions, upload in ascii, etc.

I'm going to bed...

Kurt,

I'm extremely sorry. I should have said the except for the Feed Title and description none of the items are showing:

http://www.webnichehosting.com/2.xml

I've tried the combinations ...no luck till now.

Anyone here who can do it for me? Definitely I'd compensate your time spent. The textfiles script all are hosted and I feel the path is also right.

~Mou

HI Mao,

Send me your FTP info by email and I'll take a look when I get a chance...

LAST EDITED ON Nov-29-07 AT 07:18 AM (PST)
 
Wow! Kurt,

That's very generous of you. I've sent you the ftp details through mail.
All files are in public_html/cgi_bin/rss folder
The xml and htaccess is in public_html/rssblack

I really wish I could solve it myself without having to pester you about this

~Mou

Kurt,

Another question I had based on the last few non-Ernie related queries to you on this thread.

Should we create multiple XML files? I just have the 1.xml and am wondering if 2-15.xml are needed (you do mention "multiple xml pages") for this to work at its highest level.

Ernie

>Kurt,
>
>Another question I had based on the last few non-Ernie
>related queries to you on this thread.
>
>Should we create multiple XML files? I just have the 1.xml
>and am wondering if 2-15.xml are needed (you do mention
>"multiple xml pages") for this to work at its highest level.

HI Ernie,

I'd use a couple per available IP address.

Kurt,

Thanks a lot for your assistance. The host problem has ebeen resolve. Now the xml script is working partly

http://webnichehosting.com/rssblack/2.xml

I've checked the xml and the text files and apparently they are all same . Any suggestion where I should look next

Thanks once again Kurt
~Mou

HI Mao,

This is strange...

Next, try pasting a tag you know works in place of a tag that isn't working and see what happens.

Then, try switching a working tag with a non-working tag and see what happens.

We'll take it from there.

If worse comes to worse, you can always delete teh items that are in error adn keep the 5 rss items that work...This should be enough for the black hole to be effective.

Thanks Kurt,

I'll try as you suggest and report back

~Mou

Hi Kurt,

To see how the blackhole script is working I decided to keep the 5 items and delete the rests.

The xml feed is fine as you can see here: http://www.webnichehosting.com/rssblack/bizhub.xml

But I found another problem. This is the error message pingz showing:

Also, pardon my noob question... for pingz to work continuously (checking and pinging every 3 hrs) do I have to keep my PC on?

~Mou

Hi Mao,

My guess on the Random script is that your host has a strict time limit and it is timing out after a certain amount of time...This is why all the SSI tags work up to a point, then past that point none of them work.

If it was random "human error", the working and non-working would be mixed, not seperated as they are.

Tuelz has its own (public) support forum and general Tuelz support questions should be posted there.

However, the error you're getting is one we haven't been able to fix as we can't duplicate it on our PCs. This bug affects about 10% of users...Your best hope is to reboot your PC and see if that fixes it...I'm sorry, but other than that we just don't have a fix.

This has to be one of the best scripts on the forum.

If members haven't installed it they are missing out on a very important tool for rss feeds.

I am using it a little different than suggested above.

First of all, I use it for testing other RSS programs. Almost every thread on this forum that deals with RSS feeds has a problem posted about intermittent issues with the feed they are using.

This RSS feed is clean, predictable and perfect. It works every time. Nothing worse when trying out a new program is trying to troubleshoot why the RSS feed doesn't work. Most of the time it is the feed content. By definition it will change and so will your results.

Let's put it this way, if the program using the URL from your black hole RSS feed doesn't work, it's not an RSS feed problem. I have spent days working on issues that could have been resolved in minutes had I known or had available a perfectly working simple RSS feed.

My main purpose I use it is to convert PLR article content into blog posts. There is no easier way. Period.

If anyone is having problems or wants to skip the time needed to install it, there is a post on the skills trade thread.

No reason for every one not to at least try it. You could go out and buy a competing $100+ program that may or may not work on your desktop. Or get it here free.

If there was a tool I would ever like to keep secret, it would be this script. Convert any text file into an RSS feed with your targeted keywords that has a nearly infinite number of unique combinations. It's every marketer's dream tool. Put the feed into a free blogspot blog or WP blog and then use the feed from the blog any where you want. It can be as black hat or white hat as you want.

>I am using it a little different than suggested above...

>My main purpose I use it is to convert PLR article content
>into blog posts. There is no easier way. Period.

That's a brilliant spin off idea THB

>Put the feed into a free blogspot blog or WP blog and
>then use the feed from the blog any where you want.

How do you change the feeds to actual blog posts for WP or blogger?

Thanks in advance

~ Mou

Mou,

I use Smart Auto Blogger to post RSS feeds to blogs. It is a buggy server side script that works for some but not others. But once you understand it's limits and work with in them, it's a great program.

There are other server scripts as well as desktop applications. Each one has a distinctive advantage and disadvantage - which may be opposite for two different people.

They all have unique posting footprints. That's the win-win part about having different members with different tools posting to the same blogs. It dedupes the blog from looking like a mass-generated splog.

Smart Auto Blogger
I am still not over the fact how the screwed the buyers by "selling" the script.

I saw it coming just got an email stating:

"In short, AR Publishing is offering private label
rights to their top-selling blogging software:
Smart Auto Blogger"

I guess thats because besides me and some other "idiots" nobody bought this product.

meaning very soon there will be not support at all so stay away from this product!

is there a script in bomb squad that feed a rss feed into a blog?

Christopher

not that I am aware of but you could use one of the free ones like feed wordpress etc!

>is there a script in bomb squad that feed a rss feed into a
>blog?

Hi Christopher,

Sorry, there isn't.

There are other options we'll get into soon...Also, there will be plenty of things we won't be able to update. This is OK as not every page on the web updates.

We just want to make sure that we don't have 500 blogs all from blogger that never update.

Hi Kurt,

for the black hole rss pheed, can I do this: take all the rss feeds of my blogs and sites, combine them into 1 pheed using blogbomb, then using shuffle in blogbomb to make the pheed different everytime. Then ping this pheed with pingz. Does this works?

Christopher

>Hi Kurt,
>
>for the black hole rss pheed, can I do this: take all the
>rss feeds of my blogs and sites, combine them into 1 pheed
>using blogbomb, then using shuffle in blogbomb to make the
>pheed different everytime. Then ping this pheed with pingz.
>Does this works?

Hi Christopher,

It won't work. BlogBomb doesn't randomize the RSS pheed itself, only what is displayed on web pages as html.

While the content on the web pages will change, the RSS pheed itself is unchanged and remains the same.

BlogBomb only reads RSS pheeds, it doesn't modify or change them.

LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-08 AT 08:10 PM (PST)
 
Oh..

but when i look at the pheed created by blogbomb it keeps changing when i used the shuffle function. Doesn't that works?

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/blogbomb/feedsearch_ssi.cgi?cat=3&random=1&format=rss

Isn't this a random pheed?

If not, is there a way to randomise the pheed created by blogbomb?

Christopher

Hi Chris...

That's not an RSS pheed...BlogBomb is just displaying the RSS as html, and the &format=rss attribute doesn't have any affect on BBX2.

Having said this...It's a good idea and should be a pretty easy modification for my programmer.

Let me see if we can't get this done fairly quickly, depending on his schedule.

Kirill, my programmer, was out of town for the past week, but he's back and will get this mod to BlogBomb done ASAP.

This will allow you to input a number of RSS pheeds into BlogBomb and have BlogBomb export them as a "random" RSS pheed.

Kurt,

That sounds great!

Does that mean we will be getting updates for our version of BBX2?

I have that different one where fatty, BBX2, and Spider all come up in the same cpanel.

Man, that will do wonders for some things I've had in mind to do.

Oh, and thanks for jumping on this one so quickly. ;:

Mary

LAST EDITED ON Jan-21-08 AT 08:49 PM (PST)
 
hi,
After Top hat Bob's help in the help request thread, I have finally been able to make my own blach hole rss pheed.

Thank you so much bob.

Now, the problem is that in the black hole pheed, the top 6 or 7 items work perfectly and then for the rest, I get the error messages --

You can take a look at it here --- http://www.rowlingpotter.com/harry-potter.xml

EDIT: I would also like to add that sometimes I also get errors like the ones below:

This is the first time I opened the page:
-----------------------------
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://www.rowlingpotter.com/harry-potter.xml'. ...

</title><description>
--------------------------------------------------------

This error came up when I refreshed it with the first error:
----------------------------------------------------------------

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://www.rowlingpotter.com/harry-potter.xml'. ...

"--></title> <description> The crew had a short break before
-----------------------------------------------

When I refreshed the page again, I was able to see the contents of the xml which showed the error processing this directive.

Could you tell me what's wrong!

bye,
faraz

>Kurt,
>
>That sounds great!
>
>Does that mean we will be getting updates for our version of
>BBX2?
>
>I have that different one where fatty, BBX2, and Spider all
>come up in the same cpanel.
>
>Man, that will do wonders for some things I've had in mind
>to do.
>
>Oh, and thanks for jumping on this one so quickly. ;:
>
>
>Mary

Mary u gotta thanks me for suggesting this to kurt lol

>When I refreshed the page again, I was able to see the
>contents of the xml which showed the error processing this
>directive.
>
>Could you tell me what's wrong!

Faraz...

Did you check the thread "how to make an RSS pheed"?

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=79&forum=DCForumID42

Post #17

>Does that mean we will be getting updates for our version of
>BBX2?

Hi Mary,

I'll need to get it back from Kirill before I know what it will take to upgrade...I don't think it will be too much.

I'll let everyone know when it's ready.

>
>Could you tell me what's wrong!
>
>

Glad to get you on the right track Faraz.

Your main problem is that your data isn't clean. The default black hole feed requires the text to be letters and numerals only with a couple punctuation marks like period and commas that will work.

Kurt pointed you in the direction of the CDATA post on the other thread.

You have two choices again:

1. Use clean content by typing it directly into a text editor or use Kurt's tools to spin the snippets. You can also find a tool to clean text. I use a plugin for Excel called ASAP Utilities that works well.

2. If your scrape your data, then learn how to use CDATA. You will still get strange characters in your feed and may need to still clean it up.

The other errors you are getting look like you don't have the 15 text files for descriptions, links and keywords uploaded to the server. Or you may have a typo in the text file titles or in your SSI includes. I make that mistake frequently.

Try putting your feed in feedvalidator.org and scroll down the page. It will help you greatly to see the errors messages.

Good luck!

LAST EDITED ON Jan-22-08 AT 00:39 AM (PST)
 
Hi,
I took a look at the CDATA thing that kurt pointed out and will be applying it soon.

I wanted to add more about the other errors . These ones --- error processing this directive.

>The other errors you are getting look like you don't have
>the 15 text files for descriptions, links and keywords
>uploaded to the server. Or you may have a typo in the text
>file titles or in your SSI includes. I make that mistake
>frequently.

Actually, I have checked the errors by replacing the keywords.txt, link.txt and even descriptions.txt.

I mean, I replaced these files in the last few items , with the ones which I found to be working. Although they work for the top few items, they dont work for the lower items.

I haven't checked the SSI includes though as I am not sure what to look for in these.
EDIT: I have used the CDATA tags now, and now I get the error

--- An opening '<' character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://www.rowlingpotter.com/harry-potter.xml'. Line 4, ...[P><description><!>Harry Potter News and Information-- Find all the information you want about Harry Potter]...
--------------------------------------------------------

after I refresh this a few times, the page takes too long to load.
When I checked this using feedvalidator -- it still shows the errors ---take a look here -- http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rowlingpotter.com%2Fharry-potter.xml

What do i do now?

bye,
faraz

>What do i do now?

Hi Faraz,

You can start by posting on the thread I linked to...The thread I linked to is where we're discussing fixing errors.

I understand the confusion, which is why I posted a link to the other thread. Thanks.

To Everyone...

Please no more posts about fixing errors on this thread. Instead use the "how to make an RSS pheed" thread:

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=79&forum=DCForumID42

Hi Blackhole Feederz

In a day or three, I'm planning on creating a few text manipulation
scripts. Once complete, I'll provide these free to members of Kurts'
forum.

I plan to automate the three kinds of files required for creating these
Blackhole RSS feeds. But before I start, I have a couple of
questions;

Why are the first couple of entries moved to the bottom? Would it
be better if the links/URLs, Titles/keywords, description/content
were shuffled and then the prefixes and suffixes added each time
the texts are saved as a new filename?

I also need somebody who has experience in creating Blackhole
RSS feeds to test my scripts.

What other text manipulation would fellow bomberz find useful?

Glenn

Hi Glenn,

>Why are the first couple of entries moved to the bottom?

To change the order. The random script seems to use a time stamp, so if all the items are in the same order, they will often repeat.

They don't need to be moved to bottom, only rearranged in some fashion. Moving to bottom is just easiest to not make an error.

>Would it
>be better if the links/URLs, Titles/keywords,
>description/content
>were shuffled and then the prefixes and suffixes added each
>time
>the texts are saved as a new filename?

Nope. It may be easier (or not), but not better. Adding prefixes and suffixes wouldn't do anything (as far as adding randomness), and could actually hurt, as the method above allows for a little control.

I wouldn't put a lot of effort into recreating this method as, once it is learned, it only take 10-15 minutes to repeat.

The biggest concern with the RSS blackhole is finding multiple IPs to host them on, for maximum "pinging" benefits.

>The biggest concern with the RSS blackhole is finding
>multiple IPs to host them on, for maximum "pinging"
>benefits.

Hummm... Didn't we say that pinging the blackhole pheed isn't a good idea... instead use blackhole pheed for silver sites, those sites should have RSS which we should ping. So we avoid the blackhole pheed being found and blacklisted

Tasari

>Hummm... Didn't we say that pinging the blackhole pheed
>isn't a good idea... instead use blackhole pheed for silver
>sites, those sites should have RSS which we should ping. So
>we avoid the blackhole pheed being found and blacklisted

I should have been more clear, as there's more than one reaason to use the blackhole:

1 Create "ever-updating" RSS pheeds for blackhat pinging

2 Use as content on other sites

3 Use to manage/enhance cross-linking

My most recent comments were regarding #1.

Kurt,

very powerfull stuff!

My first thought would be to create a blackhole for each gold site, for linking, then use some other blogbomb feeds to create more blackholes for silver and tin sites content.

If I have understood completely.

Any thoughts on that, should I keep the blackholes off my gold sites?

Thanks
Jason

>Kurt,
>
>very powerfull stuff!
>
>My first thought would be to create a blackhole for each
>gold site, for linking, then use some other blogbomb feeds
>to create more blackholes for silver and tin sites content.
>
>If I have understood completely.
>
>Any thoughts on that, should I keep the blackholes off my
>gold sites?

Hi Jason,

I suggest you just use them for tin/silver type sites. This is a high risk/high gain strategy. You can sprinkle in a few links to gold sites, but other than that, I wouldn't use blackholes on gold sites.

Thanks for putting me straight Kurt

Hi Kurt, does this still work, I had a script made for this, and just tried to use it about a month ago and it made about 10 pages of rss and that was it, im thinking that my ip got zapped by the source.
If it still works, I would be willing to share the script here if someone could fix it so it keeps going and I always had problems keeping it fixed on my keywords, but I did get backlinks.

Russ1

>Hi Kurt, does this still work, I had a script made for this,
>and just tried to use it about a month ago and it made about
>10 pages of rss and that was it, im thinking that my ip got
>zapped by the source.
>If it still works, I would be willing to share the script
>here if someone could fix it so it keeps going and I always
>had problems keeping it fixed on my keywords, but I did get
>backlinks.

Hey Russ...

My blackhole works differently than the others, in that it radomizes content as opposed to pulling content.

The scripts I've seen, I just didn't like.

However, the over-all strategy works for two purposes:

1. To get back links by pinging the "updating" pheed.

2. By generating "content" that can be used on blogs and sites using RSS.

Also remember, that you can use BlogBomb's "random" function and RSS export to also create a form of blackhole. Make your own RSS pheed including 100+ items that link to your own sources.

If you have permission to post the script, go ahead, I'm sure some Bombers will be interested...

>>Hi Kurt, does this still work, I had a script made for this,
>>and just tried to use it about a month ago and it made about
>>10 pages of rss and that was it, im thinking that my ip got
>>zapped by the source.
>>If it still works, I would be willing to share the script
>>here if someone could fix it so it keeps going and I always
>>had problems keeping it fixed on my keywords, but I did get
>>backlinks.
>
>Hey Russ...
>
>My blackhole works differently than the others, in that it
>radomizes content as opposed to pulling content.
>
>The scripts I've seen, I just didn't like.
>
>However, the over-all strategy works for two purposes:
>
>1. To get back links by pinging the "updating" pheed.
>
>2. By generating "content" that can be used on blogs and
>sites using RSS.
>
>Also remember, that you can use BlogBomb's "random" function
>and RSS export to also create a form of blackhole. Make your
>own RSS pheed including 100+ items that link to your own
>sources.
>
>If you have permission to post the script, go ahead, I'm
>sure some Bombers will be interested...

Yes I have permission, I paid to have it made, I will attach it.

Hey Kurt,

Just a quick question on the RSS blackhole. It may be a complete idiot questions, but there's one thing I still need some clarity on.
You said that this is still pretty much a risky project for gold sites, so best to link to silver sites in the RSS blackhole. My question is this. I'm starting to build silver properties to point to my gold sites, but these silver properties are all on 3rd party platforms, i.e. hubpages, blogger, wordpress, etc.
My gold sites are all self hosted on bluehost. Should I therefore load up the RSS blackhole in the cgi-bin of my gold site and use the URL'S of my silver properties in the txt files...? Is this even possible?

The alternative seems to be to rather have some silver properties hosted on some free (cheap) hosting and installing the RSS blackhole from there...?

Let me know your thoughts on this.

>My gold sites are all self hosted on bluehost. Should I
>therefore load up the RSS blackhole in the cgi-bin of my
>gold site and use the URL'S of my silver properties in the
>txt files...? Is this even possible?

Hi Wiehahn,

Yep, this is what you do. It doesn't really matter what domain/server your blackhole is hosted on especially if you use it to generate content.

And you can ( and should) add URLs to all your domains and web 2.0 properties in the blackhole. It's just an easier way to automate and organize your cross-linking.

Hey guys, sorry for sounding like a total newb, but what exactly is TweakRandom.cgi, and where do I get it? I'm working on a blackhole RSS as my next project and this threw a wrench into it.

Thanks for any help
Chris

>Hey guys, sorry for sounding like a total newb, but what
>exactly is TweakRandom.cgi, and where do I get it? I'm
>working on a blackhole RSS as my next project and this threw
>a wrench into it.

It is included in the download posted in the first post...Or, just use the random function in BlogBomb. Not as versatile, but much easier. Set up another instance if it works better.

Woop, found it, I thought I had my tin-foil hat on too tight. That's what I get for staring at the computer for 12 hours today with no break. Thanks kurt.