Archive for: December 2007

Hot news flash. Ok then, not a flash. But it’s good news for spammers anyway.

Val has unleashed SESPro1.1 on the search world. This pro version is quite the deal. You can install this on your server and generate pages for all your sites on that server. Cool.

There have been several changes from the standard version. One of the best changes is the option to use proxies when scraping. Less bans from the engines that way.

SESPro1.1 works with several generators right out of the box. SES is made to work seamlessly with NicheCreator and with RSSGM and YACG.

Here is some very interesting info from the SES manual:

SE Results Settings

Maximum Description Length?
Sometimes certain sites that we scrape might have a really long description. If you only want part of that description to show up you can set the max length with this setting.

Minimum / Maximum search results to show?
This is the minimum and maximum search results items you want to show.

Remove bold tags from search results?
Pretty self-explanatory.

Remove Html Tags From Results?
Removes html tags from description and title. If you are using RSS feeds then you want to turn this on or you will get all kinds of junk.

Replace external links with internal linking?
Many people think this is one of the greatest features of SESPro. You can replace the URL from the results with an internal URL so you don’t lose your surfer on a click off. As an added benefit it is harder to track you down when you are not linking back to the site you scraped from. You must have a link to your keyword file for this to work and you must be on a keyword based pg for this to work.

Minimum / Maximum Internal Links?
You can replace all of your links from your results or you can replace 1 or 2 of them, it is up to you. If you set the minimum and maximum to the maximum search results to show then all of your links will be replaced.

Link Target?
You have 2 options here self or blank. Blank brings up a whole new browser or tab if you are using Firefox. Self pulls up the link that you clicked on in the same browser and tab.

There’s a lot more good stuff in the manual, but it’s way too much to post here. Things like background generation, proxy testing, string mixing, markov mixing, and lots more.

Almost forgot… this version has the option to cache for as long or short a time period as you wish. It works in conjunction with your other generators too. So if you are using YACG and have cache enabled, you simply tell SESPro that you don’t need cache for this site.

All in all, it’s a very neat set of scripts If you’re interested, Val is very quick to respond to emails and has a forum where you may get info/help from other users.

Here’s a link to go check it out. SESPro1.1 search engine scraper and content generator

~dink

Regrets to any of you who have tried to comment in the last few days. Seems like one of my plugins developed a mind of its own. Was throwing an error message that looked like the Google police had found you out.

I think it’s all sorted out now.

~dink

I don’t do this a lot, but for the holiday season, why not? I belong to a lot of affiliate programs. Some are better than others. Some are great, some are so-so. Here’s something that doesn’t happen much.

One of the powerhouse hosting providers decided to have a special holiday sale. Now, sales aren’t a big deal, they happen all the time. What makes this sale special? It’s not available except thru the affiliate pages. You can’t just go to the merchant page and find the special ’cause it ain’t there.

So what’s the big deal? IPowerWeb decided to let us offer one of their best deals at an even better rate than usual. You get 300 Gigs of space, 3,000 gigs of bandwidth, 2,500 email accounts, and host up to 25 different sites, for $4.95 per month. Now, that price is good for the first time only, but is good for both one-year and two-year signups. After the initial term is up, the renewals will go back to the usual $7.95 per month.

Total savings on the two-year deal is $72. Pretty good savings. Here is the linky:

Not so very shabby at all. Hurry though, the sale ends Dec. 31, 2007.

~dink