rss scraping and 'auto blogging'

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hm, Lyceum looks a lot better than WP MU, especially the db architecture.
does anyone know if wp-o-matic works with lyceum, or if its a lot to change?
 


Trying Lyceum now. Will report back in a day or two (when I am done and emerge on the other side)

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vitalize said:
Would this still work, get traffic if i was to use the one domain and just create sub directories for each niche. e.g celebrities.eblogging.com, randomniche.eblogging.com (not my domain, just an example)

or would you recommend a new domain for each niche?
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Does it make a difference if you do niche.whatever.com or whatever.com/niche ??
 
haha, just got an email from them, don't go nuts on the Cycle site side of things if you've got shared hosting!

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Yes, your account was using 70% of the MySQL server resources.

So therefore we had to suspend your account to bring the server back to it normal self.[/FONT]
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It's been live for less than 2 days!
 
PHP: 
<?php
$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

  //Google and Blogpulse use + to seperate keywords....

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';
}

$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

 //Technorati and MSN use spaces.....

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "%20", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&first=11&format=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/posts/tag/' . $keyword . '<br>';
}
?>
Working again now, it's a little shorter than my original. Not much though!

Any input from anyone? :bigear:
 
Hey guys good posts but since i suck at php and i am too lazy i use online tools to automate stuff its takes a bit longer but then that way i can have diffrent urls and blog posts for all the keywords hence creating lesser similarity level,

i use this and i quote myself

The best sources of content i get:-

Live Search Feeds:

Secondly your should do a search for your terms on blog searches avoid Google blog search ( too many use it already
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) there are numerous other services...

Use this to generator many feeds..its free and sweet..ResearchBuzz Tools: Kebberfegg -- Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator

After you get your feeds..

SplashCast lets you create your own streaming media channel that combines video, music, photos, text, narration, and RSS feeds. A wizard walks you through the steps of building your channel. Start by uploading media files from your hard drive, or point to files on other sites. Add captions, commentary, and RSS feeds, and your channel is ready to go. Once you're done finessing your channel, you can send it to friends and family, or syndicate it to blogs and social networking sites.
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IGNORE ALL OF MY OTHER SCRIPTS....

This one is the correct one....

PHP: 
<?php 

$filename = 'keywords.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$keywords = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$keywords = str_replace(" ", "+", $keywords);
$keywords = explode("\n", $keywords);

foreach($keywords as $keyword)
{
  echo 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=' . $keyword . '&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss<br>';
  echo 'http://www.blogpulse.com/rss?query=%22' . $keyword . '%22&sort=date&operator=phrase<br>';
  echo 'http://search.live.com/feeds/results.aspx?q=' . $keyword . '&go=Search+Feeds&form=QBFR<br>';
  echo 'http://feeds.technorati.com/search/' . $keyword . '?authority=a4&language=en<br>';
}

?>
I've added Live Feed Search (Thanks Lazyleo!) and i've fixed Technorati.

Once again, create a file called keywords.txt and add your keywords to it. One on each line.
Then run the above script. (Making sure both files are in the same directory!)

edit: i'm concidering adding some more search pages. Download .com have a good blog search result, any others?
 
Using the Google Blog search's RSS, I get no links?
Is that right or am I missing something?

From what I can see, the RSS feed gives thew link for the headline, and WP removing it (as there is no linking in the headline?)

Any way around that?
Argh

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Hmmm thats quite strange, it works fine for me!

I'll have a proper look if you PM me the details (if you want!)

Bam
 
Decided to give this a try on small scale just to see how it goes.

Created 5 auto blog things about 3 days, creating them all on sub-domains. So far two have been indexed by google and yahoo, nothing from msn. Yesterday received 97 uniques and today 145 uniques across all of them. So traffic wise i think thats decent considering the few minutes it takes to create one of these blogs and that only 2 are indexed. Forgot to set up a channel in adsense for the blogs though so idno about revenue yet.

Going to create 10 of these blogs and from there see what traffic and revenue is like then.

Do you think creating these blogs on sub domains is a bad idea? The domain im using is blog59.com so its pretty generic and i figured it could work.
 
Ok, i've got a problem. My most successful blog has lost part of its database when i switched hosting prov's.

As it stands i can't login to the wp-admin section AT ALL because the user database doesn't exsist.

Should i shut it down or try to fix it?
 
before doing the switch, you should backup the sql db and export your blog content into a xml file.

to repair the corrupted db, just restore the backup sql file.

i use this plugin and set a cron job to backup my blog db every night.
 
I don't know php, and I tried to install bam-bam's WP install and, it all seems to have installed correctly. It only seems to work with this one particular template or I get an adsense deluxe plug-in error, I guess it's probably since the other templates don't support the adsense plug-in?

Anyway that's not a big deal, I'm just testing this out at this time to see if I can get this up and running. I found an RSS feeds and input it into my "autoblog" configuration and visited the site and it posted the RSS feeds to the blog.

So this is all I do? Install 10 feeds on each autoblog and start as many of these as I can on sub-domains? Hope to make a few cents from each blog a day in adsense and scale?

Is it important to find RSS feeds that get posts regularlly? If you get an RSS feed that's never updated then your site won't be updated, correct?

Any other advise? Should I use a large list of pings in my WP so that my blog automatically pings many sites every time content is updated? This is where my traffic is going to come from, from other blogs right? Since it's all duplicate content it won't help with Google.


All in all this was very simple to setup, thanks!
 
bam bam said:
Does anyone know why wp-autoblog doesn't display images from the feeds it scrapes?
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I think I know.
I have digged into its code, I think all it is doing is just copy "content" paramter of RSS, so it your feeds doesn't include image url in it, it won't be in your page.
At least I think somesites do includes image url in their feeds.
So it is up to the seed, not wp-autoblog.
 
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