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Great Post and just the info I was looking for. I am just launching a Membership called the Auto Blog Blueprint and I am constantly on the lookout for products that will help my users Auto Blog more effectively and this sounds like it might be a great addition. I am going to have to test this out and see whan I finally get some free time.

As you said already, this looks like a great compliment to WP Robot as opposed to being a replacement.

Thanks.

Mike
 
BlogSense 3.5 Released

Header & Footer Content Blocks + Spyntax

With this feature you can create content profiles to append to the beginning or end of each post related to a campaign you have created. You can use this feature to add google adsense code, or specialized content you created.

Also, at the request of our users, the capability to make the content spinnable on every use was added using spyntax formatting to dynamic versions of the same text.


What is Spyntax?

If your block contains content, then you can format that content with a formatting procedure popularly known as spyntax, which will allow you to create spun copies of that content each time it is used. Here is an example of a header block that will appear just before each automated post for a declared campaign:
This is an example of [spun text|rewritten text|text that has been randomized].

Here is how it will output :

Use 1:
This is an example of spun text.
Use 2:
This is an example of rewritten text.
Use 2:
This is an example of text that has been randomized.
It does not alternate them in order though. Rather it randomizes all requests each time. So if you have allot of different places that have options, you will spin allot of different versions of essentially the same content.


Open the YouTube Video below to see more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdoMWcU6iWU
 
BlogSense 3.6 Released

Improvements

Translation Improvements

Added content translation capabilities to the Youtube Module, including both video description and comments, as well as to the Yahoo Answers Module (including questions and answers), and the Drop Posting Module.


Spyntax Improvements

Added infinite levels of spinning. Here is an excerpt from a customer that explains out this improvement:
"Well, I was pretty excited about this feature, but was sorry to find out that it only supports single text spinning. What I mean is that it will work like this:

{Dean|John} is {going to|coming from} the {store|university}

but not something like this

{Dean|John} is {going to|{coming from|will be coming}} the {store|{university|Boston college}}."

...as it allows a much greater variety of spinning.
 
Are you still running the $100 Wickedfire discount?

dropping it down to 95.00. :updown:

Anyway I would have posted this here sooner but Wicked Fire threw me a malicious site warning on my firefox browser... so I left WF alone for a day. Glad to see that gone. Anyway! Here is the newest announcement on BlogSense:


BlogSense 4.0 Release Announcement


Very pleased to announce the largest and best BlogSense update yet, where many new features and improvements have been added as well as feature requests answered. There is quite a bit of information to go over so bare with me read every bit so you have a good understand of the new changes.


ADDED FEATURE REQUESTS


  • Completely rebuilt Yahoo Answers module to improve search result quality management
As many of you may already know, the Yahoo Answers Module was a wild performer, often giving broad results for search terms even when you were using exclude keywords. This problem has been solved by including the ability to narrow results by : category, target region, date range, as well as limiting search results and sorting by relevance or date.​

  • Completely rebuilt Youtube & Hulu Module, changing it into Video Module
This time around we got rid of the feed based youtube search and plugged BlogSense directly into Youtube’s API, allowing for searches by keyword. This has improved the quality of search results.


Youtube video descriptions are now optional, and when include will been formatted to sit under the video with the video thumbnail floating to the right. Looks pretty sharp. Special css class has added for further customization if user desires.​


  • ALL campaigns now have the option to be temporarily disabled and re-enabled.

  • Tagging system improved
You can now create a custom tag database to assign tags to posts. Import a comma delimited batch of tags into the appropriate area, and BlogSense will select a random number of random tags that you specify and assign them to the post.


Also added capability to use already established WP Tag Database as a custom tag database. BlogSense will select tags already in wordpress at random and assign them to posts.


Also, useless tag filtering has been improved for the titles-to-tags method of tagging.​


  • Logout Button Added.


OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

  • Added improved interface to Articles Module for easier browsing and editing (Now Sources Module)

  • RSS Module & Articles Module(Sources Module) : Improved post scheduling options to allow up to 20 days per post.

  • Added capability to add and remove categories to items in-sourced from Articles Module (Sources Module)

  • Added TinyURL url shortening to Twitter Posting due to random failings of bit.ly shortner.

  • Added capability to preview how a video campaign will work, just like RSS and Yahoo Answers Module.

  • Improved the way BlogSense is upgraded to newer versions

  • Changed Spyntax requirements to accept industry standard spyntax. (Spyntax can go into infinite levels)
{word1|word2|word3} rather than [word1|word2|word3]


Also improved the code to spin spyntax’d articles for faster output.​





MAJOR ADDITIONS


  • Index Spy
This little module is in the wordpress section of BlogSense, and was designed to give you the heads up on what pages of yours are indexed in google, and which pages are unindexed. Use this information to better promote your blog and expect some cool things to be done with this feature in the future.​

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  • Content Hooks
This is the probably the strongest addition to BlogSense. Content hooks will allow you to attach random images and youtube videos into your header and footer profile Blocks.


There is no limit to how many hooks you can add, allowing you to create mix and match profiles to attach to other content campaigns.​

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  • Articles Module becomes Sources Module
Now you can easily manage all article source locations from once central management window, changing and saving scrape settings. You can even ADD YOUR OWN sources, declaring what parameters you want to use to scrape this particular location with. If the location has a commenting system with active comments, you can even set parameters to scrape those as well.​

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This was just a briefing of what is new . Expect video tutorials on all new features as soon as possible. It’s been a long month of developing and believe me there is already more to do to keep BlogSense a front runner of Wordpress automation platforms.

HOW TO PURCHASE:

You are welcome to trial this product for a month for only 10.00, and remain on that payment plan as long as you like. Or you can PM me to receive a 50.00 discount off the sales page price (95.00 after discount), but we recommend trialing the software before purchasing. Permanent members will always have access to the private forums as well as free updates and discounts on all other products developed by nohat labs.

We want you to know its our goal and bloodline to keep BlogSense a highly relevant and useful toolset that you will be there when you need it most, time and time again. I look forward to your questions, PMs, and reviews (Be sure to post back here and let others know what you think!)

Sincerely,
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NohatLabs
 
4.2.4 Released

BlogSense 4.2.4 Release Announcement


It’s been about a week since the release of 4.0.beta, and we’ve worked together and weeded out a couple of small bugs, as well as added some new features. Lets take a look:


ADDRESSED FEATURE REQUESTS

  • Regex Search & Replace functions for Sources Module

Before when working with the Sources module, advanced setting were available that allowed you to alter the scrape parameters for the selected source, and add a list of search and replace commands on top of the content you discovered. We took the ladder(String Searching and Replacement commands) and changed it to Regex Search and Replace commands, so you now have the capability to perform even more complex content manipulations on your content. I’ll admit, regex(regular expression) commands are complicated. But sometimes they are the only solution to cleaning out unwanted elements in your scraped content.

A PDF on how to work with regex has been included/embedded in the relevant  areas. Just as before, you will have the option to add search and replace functions directly within the article search’s advanced setting’s section, or you can add them permanently by going into your source management section and altering the parameters there.

And note:… if you have a question on how to write the regex code that will do exactly what you need… take it to StackOverflow : D . Really! they’ll know exactly what commands to run to achieve your desired results.
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  • IndexSpy 1.0 becomes IndexSpy 1.5


IndexSpy was never really meant to rest as is. Organizing data like that screams to have advanced functionality developed into it, and thats just what we have done.

You can now select pages, individually or sporadically, and export them as rss feeds. For Example: 20 pages indexed, 5 pages unindexed. Sort pages by index result, manually select the 5 unindexed articles, and export as rss. You now have a customized rss feed for rss submission.

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That wraps up feature additions. Still more on the development list so keep a lookout!


BUG FIXES


  • 1 post per day , post frequency option did not want to stick. Fixed.
  • In attempting to save images to same server, some sources with .org,.net,.gov,.edu domain endings would not transfer over. Fixed issue
  • Fixed image with occasional youtube thumbnail not saving on same server correctly.
  • Fixed issue with select items not displaying correct values in Google Chrome.


HOW TO PURCHASE:

You are welcome to trial this product for a month for only 10.00, and remain on that payment plan as long as you like. Or you can PM me to receive a 45.00 discount off the sales page price (95.00 after discount), but we recommend trialing the software before purchasing. Permanent members will always have access to the private forums as well as free updates and discounts on all other products developed by nohat labs.

And as always, look forward to your questions, PMs, and reviews.

Sincerely,
adbox
nohatlabs
 
BlogSense 4.5.3.2 Release

BlogSense 4.5.3.2 Release Announcement

BLOGSENSE IMPROVEMENTS


1. Code Restructuring.
The least interesting to you, but very very significant to BlogSense . The way data is stored in the database has been changed to a new standard that will allow the maximum features for each module, while keeping this clean and speedy. This overhaul prepared the way for many of the newest developments.​
2. RSS Importing & Source Campaigns
The RSS Module uses RSS feeds. The Sources Module uses Customized Scrape Profiles and Yahoo search engine results as a RSS feed substitute.

Before we could only create automated campaigns for the RSS module, but we could not chose to review and modify it before it was published, unlike the Sources Module, where we could review and modify information before we published it but we could not create automated campaigns. This now has been solved because the two module have both been re-coded structurally and are now both are identical in capability. For both modules you now have two options: 1) Create Campaign. 2) Import Content.

This will allow you to take an RSS feed, plug it in, source all the content into one display where you can disclude what is irrelevant, and modify and remove content that may not be desireable, and then publish/schedule the material. Or if you would like you can designate your settings and create a campaign that will automatically source content along side your cronjobs.

This is very great feature that I hope will make BlogSense stand out above the rest.​
3. Blocking Content in Preview Mode.
The preview mode has been improved to allow you to quickly scroll through all the items of a campaign, and also provides you with the new option to block unwanted articles from being published. This is another feature designed to take advantage of transparency and place more power of control into the user's hands.
4. Bookmarking Improvements (Very Important)
Until now, BlogSense has had the option to add an Onlywire Account and a Twitter Account for bookmarking purposes.
Now you have the option to add multiple accounts for each service. BlogSense will select an account at random and attempt to bookmark the item through that account.
Proxy support has been added as well.

How bookmarking currently works:

As posts are scheduled they are added to a bookmarking queue. If a service(Twitter, Onlywire, Ping.FM) is active, then BlogSense will attempt to bookmark 1 post per cronjob or direct import attempt for that service and flag it completed if successful. If all bookmarking services are active (Twitter, Onlywire, Ping.FM) Blogsense will send the post data through all three. There is a 1/cyle limit because the bookmarking services themselves have throttles, and attempting to run more than one through their APIs will not work. FYI, this bookmarking module is very new, and under review, and is subject to improvement. Even now a throttling system is being developed to help make sure all new posts are bookmarked, and also a management system is being developed to help you manage your bookmarking queue.

Also as already mentioned, Ping.FM has been added to the list of accepted bookmarking services..​
5. Link Cloaking
The link cloaking script has been improved. Now the script can detect if the visitor is a robot or a real person. If the visitor is a real person he/she will be transfered on to the destination. If the visitor is not a real person it will be redirected to 1.) A random post on your blog. 2) The hompage of your blog. These two options are configurable within your BlogSense administration panel.​
6. Default Author
You can now select which author you want associate with a campaign. You can also change your blog's default author on the fly from within the BlogSense administration panel.​
7. Updating Experience
BlogSense has implemented an auto-update feature. From here on out you will be auto-notified of new versions at the footer of BlogSense. There will be three options: 1) Read about the new update. 2) Download the files of the new update to your hard drive(for future installs) 3.) Auto-update on the fly (where your blog will auto-download the new files and replace them.​
8. Theme & Plugin Loading
Before this one a one-time only deal. Themes and Plugins could only be extracted once, to prevent overwritng. Now there is push button extraction for both Themes and Plugins, and each is accompanies by a warning that files will overwrite if they are already there; it lets you decide.​
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NEW UPDATES


(Content Mixing)


A Fantastic new token system is in place. These tokens are little bits of code you can insert into header and footer profiles that will use the titles of posts to search for extra content and include it if it is found. A pdf that explains the token system can be found here: http://screencast.com/t/YTBjOWYxMWM

List of available Tokens:

  • Amazon Content Token : Will pull itmes from amazon, and use their top rated customer review to upsell the content. (powerful for mixing in additional content)
  • Amazon Widget Token : Will pull items' titles, and images, and create a icon+title row of relevant items.
  • Ebay Widget Token : Will search for items and build a ebay widget out of them. This uses the code structure for Ebay's editor kit.
  • Youtube Search Token : Similar to Amazon Content Token. Grabs the video, stacks it on the description with the video icon to the right of the description.
  • Flickr Search Token : This will search Flickr for relvant images. But these images are always broad. Its best to use the custom flickr hook already available for hooking random images. In that there is much more control.

(Content Spinning)

If you have been spinning with BlogSense, you might have noticed the insanely long time it would take to do it's business. Well this was causing too many server crashes so I outsourced professional help. Now we can spin 2000 words in <1second (versus the 10 seconds it was taking) and we have even increased the power of the spin. Before the spin was opnly spinning 3 and 2 words phrases. Now we can spin 5 ,4 , 3 , and 2 word phrases allowing for better spinning.

As you may or may not know, BlogSense uses a phrase replacement system rather than a synonym replacement system to help preserve readability. It's a system very similiar to the Best Spinner and Magic Article Rewriter and might full just short of their power.


(Heartbeat.php , Bookmarking , Bookmarking Management)

http://screencast.com/t/NzQ4NDNhNzMt

Bookmarking is a fantastic way to get indexed, and I have been loving Ping.fm for this. One of the problems BlogSense faced was how to attempt to bookmark every post in a reasonable ammount of time when some blogs are trying to index 100+ posts a day. Well to do this we have built in a new cronjob system. Instead of running a cronjob every-so-often on /auto/cron_config.php, we now will run a cronjob once a minute on /auto/heartbeat.php.

Running a cronjob on heartbeat.php will allow BlogSense to check for new bookmarks to publish every minute. If a bookmark's time has come, BlogSense will fire it. At the same time we can now use inner BlogSense settings to define when our real cronjob(s) will run. If the time comes to check for new posts and publish scheduled posts, BlogSense will fire cron_config.php itself from heartbeat,php, and even email the output to the email of your choice.

Bookmarks are now auto scheduled 1 every X minutes. X is a random number between two numbers you define in your bookmarking section. This way when you source 50 new items, it will pace them out 20 minutes apart. BlogSense will always only attempt to bookmark 1 item at a time. If there is a backup on the bookmarking queue then BlogSense will keep working as normal until it katches up on itself.

Additionally, if you are a long time user of BlogSense and are not interested in the advanced bookmarking, your current cronjob will still run BlogSense affectively so you will NOT be forced to switch over.


(Twitter Hash Tags)


Thanks to the advice of one of our users, hash tags can now be appended to tweets for better audience targeting and and faster twitter account building.

(Yahoo Answers Redesign)

The Yahoo Answers campaign creation has system has been converted over to the new model which allows for solo-runs, campaign names, and direct imports. Only one module left now : Amazon module. Good things can begin to happen when all modules are on the same system.

(Yahoo Answers: Mass Campaign Creation)
http://screencast.com/t/MjJhYTFlMzQt

This is the start of a good trend. You can now use a list of keywords, or even use categories as keywords, to create multiple campaigns at once. Please see video:

(Keyword Effects)

Added ability to mass create keyword profiles based on keyword lists. http://screencast.com/t/MjJhYTFlMzQt
 
Hi Adbox, since your blogsense have so many features and its makes me confused.
Any plan to offer the addon services for the Blogsense, like you help buyer to configure blogsense to use optimum features ?
 
There needs to be a way for service providers to offer Blogsense blog creation/automation services (IE maybe a reseller package that lets you install on multiple domains?) Or maybe Blogsense team could offer this service for website owners.
 
For developers single site license for 20.00 are offered.

I offer limited but thorough customer support as far as functionality goes, but nothing on the lines of coaching. For that I recommend all my customers to the Autoblog Blueprint


Hope this helps!
 
8/1/2010 UPDATES


(BlogSense) – Prices have increased.

(Campaign Creation) – Mass campaign creation
has been added to the sources module and the video module.

(Post Editing) – Mass search and replace
feature has been added, which will allow you to search for a string in
all your published posts and replace it with a replacement string.

(Post Editing) – Mass Title and Term
editing. In this feature you can sort through your posts, and can
quickly edit titles and tags. Here’s a video demoing these two
features: YouTube - Autoblogging - Mass Search & Replace on Wordpress Posts - BlogSense

(Auto Tagging) All the time I’m weeding out
trashable tags to make the auto-tagging better. If you see some
trash-worthy tags in your posts and would like me to remove them you
can make a request on this thread:
BlogSense Commnity • View topic - Auto Tagging Improvement Request Here

(Tagging) Added new setting to auto tagging
that, if turned on, will take the generated tags and make typos out of
them, adding the typo to the tags as well. In this video this feature
is demonstrated and we go over how and when this feature might come in
handy: YouTube - AutoBlogger Wordpress - Adding Typos to Tags - BlogSense

(TITLE TEMPLATES) – I’ve been reading over
at the Autoblog Blue print and I’m finding out how important it is to
alter your titles when re-distributing unoriginal content. Another
BlogSense member and I talked it over and we decided that the a title
template system that supports spyntax was a must have feature. Here’s a
video demonstration: TechSmith | Screencast.com, online video sharing, 2010-07-30_1130

(Blocked Urls) – We now have the ability to
manually edit our blocked url list.

(Bookmarking) – You can now limit the
amounts of posts scheduled to bookmark by setting a percentage.
BlogSense will randomize the post ids, then take the percentage, and
then clip off the disposable posts.

(Keyword Alterations) There is now the
option to mass apply keyword alteration profiles to all posts in your
database. This is for posts that were published before a keyword
alteration profile existed. All posts published while a profile is
active will automatically be affected.
TechSmith | Screencast.com, online video sharing, 2010-07-30_1145

(Database Changes) On advice of a user, data
is no longer being stored in the wp_options table to save speed.

(Bug) – Fixed autotagging issue with solo run

(Improvement) – Amazon Image Links now have
target=_blank added to them.

(Bug) – Javascript code was making it
through on post content, this has been eliminated

(Improvement) – ShareThis type bookmarking
code is now auto-removed in some circumstances

Improved Robots.txt

Can now edit license information (For
developers/flippers who will buy single site licenses)

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Hi Adbox,

Is this tool able to pull contextually relevant photos from Flickr that are Creative Commons compliant for public use with attribution, and then provide a link back to the original photo per Creative Commons terms?

Tks,

N~
 
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