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Here's my progress so far, but my impressions/clicks are somewhat inflated due to most of my traffic (so far) being from small Google PPC campaigns.

Can a mod shrink this for me?


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purpureleaf said:
where is the "trackback" thing in Eli's code? I think there isn't anything about it in wp-autoblog.php, maybe it is a feature of Wordpress? But I check the blogs which I "scraped", but I didn't find my site in their comments, maybe my trackbacks were identified as "spammer"?
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Are you sure you did not mix up comments and trackback links?

yeah its actually a wordpress feature, the code that executes the pings is in wp-admin/execute_pings.php
trackbacks need an entry in post.to_ping (newline separated urls), rpc pings need an entry in post_meta.

I did not go through the whole code but I guess it just sends the trackbacks, wether or not the receiver can handle it.
I'm using lyceum but I think thats default wordpress functionality
 
Well I figured I'd update my status on this as well and my status is that I just got the fucking internet back up and running about 5 minutes ago after been down for a week, it was supposed to be hooked up at my new house on the first and now its the 6th those bastards caused me a loss of work.

So I'll have to catch up a little bit now but I hope everyone else is doing alright I read a few more posts here but off to catch up on the forum again.
 
does anyone know of a wordpress plugin that would let me pull posts from a database on domainX and publish them on domainY. I don't want this in RSS I just want it to take the posts from a database.
 
If you own both domains, then yes, you can do that:
  1. Login to the cPanel for domainY
  2. Click on MySQL Databases
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and enter the IP address for domainX under Access Hosts
  4. In the wp-config.php file of domainY enter the database information for domainX and for the host use domainY's IP address
Make sense? Or did I just talk you in circles?
 
Aequitas said:
Well I figured I'd update my status on this as well and my status is that I just got the fucking internet back up and running about 5 minutes ago after been down for a week, it was supposed to be hooked up at my new house on the first and now its the 6th those bastards caused me a loss of work.

So I'll have to catch up a little bit now but I hope everyone else is doing alright I read a few more posts here but off to catch up on the forum again.
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I was wondering where you went Aequitas...when regular posters suddenly stop you start to worry that they are laying cold sprawled out accross the laptop with the cat eating them as left overs...
 
Nope, this is all new to me. Granted I am very familiar with the technologies that I'm using and am very good at picking up new programming languages.

These are my first attempts at making a legitimate living off the internet. That is if you don't count this time last year when everybody was banking of MySpace. :D
 
SEO_Mike -makes sense. I guess I would then have to set a cron job to only post X number of times per day. the database has about 800k entries. I also don't want to post all the fields in the database so...
 
turbolapp said:
I was wondering where you went Aequitas...when regular posters suddenly stop you start to worry that they are laying cold sprawled out accross the laptop with the cat eating them as left overs...
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hahahaha yeah my internet service provider sucks ass, stupid Telus, anyone every doing anything should always use SHAW and never Telus, but then again all you in the U.S. have variety as where I'm in a remote place with no variety lol.

rileypool said:
Nope, this is all new to me. Granted I am very familiar with the technologies that I'm using and am very good at picking up new programming languages.

These are my first attempts at making a legitimate living off the internet. That is if you don't count this time last year when everybody was banking of MySpace. :D
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Yeah I know hey but now its called FaceBook growing at 100,000 new members per day, MySpace has or had over 100 Million members and last I checked FaceBook only has 9 Million right now so lots of time to crash the system lol.
 
solars said:
Are you sure you did not mix up comments and trackback links?

yeah its actually a wordpress feature, the code that executes the pings is in wp-admin/execute_pings.php
trackbacks need an entry in post.to_ping (newline separated urls), rpc pings need an entry in post_meta.

I did not go through the whole code but I guess it just sends the trackbacks, wether or not the receiver can handle it.
I'm using lyceum but I think thats default wordpress functionality
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thanks:xomunch:
 
Aequitas said:
Yeah I know hey but now its called FaceBook growing at 100,000 new members per day, MySpace has or had over 100 Million members and last I checked FaceBook only has 9 Million right now so lots of time to crash the system lol.
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I've already tried their flyers without ANY success. Guess I need to step up my PPC game. I was actually quite disappointed. But I'll give it another shot since I've recently had some more practice with PPC campaigns and have gotten 3-7% CTR's.
 
Update: I finally added some feeds to the X7G blogs. 20 blogs on WPMU with at least 200 posts each. Used the script I have at sempros.net/feed-finder.php to pull feeds. Put them in, ran them and called it good.

Something annoying I found out about WPMU: you can edit the themes under Presentation, so to put adsense in you have hardcode it into the theme files by hand. Just edit the files and FTP them to your server. Plus, they are global, so if you are running WPMU be aware of that, particularly if you have it setup so others can create blogs. Why? If someone creates a blog that violates Adsense TOS, YOU can lose your adsense account.

Also, added statcounter tracking to it. Had to hardcode that into the footer, so it tracks anything that has X7G.net in it.

Checked Yahoo! and can see that there are already inbound links to the Student Loans blog. Nice!
 
You can use plugins in WPMU, can't you? If so, here ya go gadsense.zip It's a widget to put adsense in your sidebar. You can actually plug in any ad code you'd like, it's not limited to just adsense.

Sure, it won't help if you want to place the big rectangles on your post pages or just below your header but, it's a start. It's easy to use and best of all, it's free.
 
For the n00bs looking for some helpful information I suggest reading the rss scraping and autoblogging thread that's been mentioned in this thread a few times. I just provided this "great" idea I had (even though its VERY simple) and to some it may just be what they need.

But I just had a question for you all that are familiar with cycle sites and splogs. Say I had a domain with 10 subdomains. Say those 10 subdomains were all setup to use Eli's WP-Autoblog. Those 10 subdomains also have about 150 feeds in each of them. Wouldn't that be equivalent to a small cycle site?

I have a feeling that I'm about to be contacted by my hosting provider. Let me know what you all think.
 
rileypool said:
For the n00bs looking for some helpful information I suggest reading the rss scraping and autoblogging thread that's been mentioned in this thread a few times. I just provided this "great" idea I had (even though its VERY simple) and to some it may just be what they need.

But I just had a question for you all that are familiar with cycle sites and splogs. Say I had a domain with 10 subdomains. Say those 10 subdomains were all setup to use Eli's WP-Autoblog. Those 10 subdomains also have about 150 feeds in each of them. Wouldn't that be equivalent to a small cycle site?

I have a feeling that I'm about to be contacted by my hosting provider. Let me know what you all think.
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Technically yes but think of each sub-domain as its very own website apart from your main domain, you have to think of your main domain as your castle and center of your country.

For instance if you loose a few sub-domains you won't loose you castle it'll stand to fight another day, however if you loose your main domain (Your castle) your entire country will fall victim.

Keep your main domain as secure as possible and blast the shit out of your sub-domains with feeds. As for your hosting provider, well I use GoDaddy and have done some pretty extensive things with my account and have never ever heard a thing from them.

They'll only really care if your placing extreme weight on there servers or if they get a few complaints about your account and its activity. Other then that most providers are pretty good and don't care how much you splog, just as long as you are not in line to hurt them or there reputation they'll leave you alone.
 
I don't know if anybody can answer this or not, but if you already have an account with Godaddy (WH sites), and start a new account with the same CC and account info, (I'm concentrating on autoblogs not cycles) if for some reason it gets out of control do you know if they would ban both of my accounts?

I want to go wtih Godaddy since I know their system but for precautions thinking of going to hostgator so my WH sites are completely different.
 
Godaddy is only slightly less fascist than the google. They are one of the only, if not THE only registrar, that will yank your domain if they get any complaints about you.

Other than still having a few domains registered there, I wouldn't sign up for anything through them.
 
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