Blog Entries tagged 'automation'

Voting Rings in Social Networks

ltdraper — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

A lot of "experts" in social media have made the assertion that if you participate in a voting ring on any of the major social sites, you'll get caught. There is a mystique around the all-knowing data centers that can track your activities on their site. If you cheat, you'll get burned. It's that simple.

I'm not going to pass judgement on whether or not you should participate in voting rings. It's proba [...]

Social Suite Beta Test Conclusions and Completion

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I'd like to thank everyone for their testing on the Social Suite with Digg Analytics and Automation. It was, well, interesting. I've done a lot of beta testing inside client sites but haven't really released a program into the wild since before the internet. (Remember FidoNet and shareware distribution? Yikes!)

At the end of the day we decided that it was usable enoug [...]

Social Suite Beta Tester Saves a Week a Month with Digg Analytics

admin — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

[Note - don't put slashes and plus signs in your article title if you have SEO friendly URL addresses that mimic your title. I'm just saying!]

Beta testing is a very strange thing to watch. Some people ask for access and do nada. Others use the software in ways that, frankly, are puzzling. Some people complain abo [...]

Still Beta Testing Social Media Suite Automation

admin — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

It's been kind of dark on this blog, but we're in a whirlwind beta testing our Social Site Automation toolset. We're going to open up the private beta to around 20 more people, so please feel free to contact me (olivertaco@promote-my-site.com) if you'd be interested in giving it a shot.

You should be familiar with social media marketing and have extensive D [...]

Beta Testers for Social Media Automation Suite Needed

admin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

If you would be interested in beta testing our new social media automation product before it is released, please drop me an email.

You should be

An experienced Digg userWiling to install iMacro for Firefox
To spend at least a few hours using the product (My guess is that you will, like I did, fall in love with this product, so it shouldn't be too painful.)

We're very excited a [...]

Stupid Timesaving Filezilla Trick O' The Day

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

We use filezilla as our Pointy Haired Boss friendly (*cough*) ftp front end. It rocks, and it is free - what more can you ask for?

Lately I've been testing screen capture software and have been spending a lot of time rebooting my PC (install/uninstall) and reconnecting to our servers, shoving a video up, testing it on several different computers. Rinse and repeat.

And it was rea [...]

Humans Versus Robots On Digg

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I don't think you can apply a pure Turing test (human or robot?) to Diggers, because Digg is a highly complex system and you can't know as much as you need to.

But I can look at a diggers profile and see that 24,000 posts in 90 days say.... Robot. And I can look at his "friend" network and see a lines of robots stretching out to the horizon.

And robots run by not very [...]

Free SEO Tool to Ping Lost Backlinks

admin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0100

We all know that some backlinks never make it to technorati and therefore are less likely to be "discovered" by google. And all your backlinks are important for SERPS, high quality technorati traffic, etc, etc. So we built a tool that will automatically generate pings to technorati and pingomatic for all your backlinks. And it is free. (Well, it's ad-supported, but that is close enough to the same thing.)

How and Why

If you'd like an arch [...]

Promoting Your Site Through Efficient Friending

admin — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0100

If you want your content to do well (link juice, readers, fame and fortune- whatever) you either have exactly three options:

World Class Link Bait Pounding Out A Thousand Singles Don’t Be A Friend To Mankind

Baiting a Dull Hook

I know, I know, there are lots of articles about how to create popular content for so-called boring industries. Some of the better ones are:

Is Your Industry Too Boring for Linkbait? SeoMoz’s Most Excel [...]

I Will Take Spambot for 147 Dollars Alex

admin — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

One of the first things that might warn you that Novasoft's SutumbleBot is a social network spamming tool is their blatant ripoff of StumbleUpon's logo.

LogoLicious Infringement

StumbleBot's logo:

StumbleUpon's logo:

Oh, wait, never mind, completely different - one has a b [...]

iMacro SEO Automation Framework

admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

In order to build an efficient SEO automation framework you must carefully seperate value added manual tasks from reptitious automatable steps. For example, writing content on Social Networking is value added, but posting it to 23 different pligg sites and bookmarking the article at 50+ sites is not.

Manual or Automation

But determining which categories it goes into on the 23 pligg sites is an appropriate manual task. So it's not like you are just going to offshore someone [...]

114 Social Media Sites Where You Can Use Automation

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I thought it might be useful to compare the sites that the minor productivity enhancers we've discussed and reviewed actually claim to support.

Social Site Overlap

I thought there was more overlap - very interesting.

Your Own Copy Of This List

And because I HATE it when people put tables up on the web and don't provide an easy to get the farking data, here it is on Google Documents.

Reviews Of These Programs

I recently d [...]

Choosing a Web Application Manipulation Tool

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news
is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.

Real World Web Application Manipulation Tool

We said earlier that a
web
application manipulation tool is one that drives a web site based on a link back to your backend application
containing workflow and data driven information. In a real world setting this tool must have the following
c [...]

Be Careful with Firefox Toolbars for SEO

Don — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Do you look at the source code of Firefox Toolbars that you install?

Few people do. Most people assume that if a toolbar has been written about
in the SEO community it must be ok. One such toolbar was making the rounds a few
weeks ago. I'm not going to name names, but this article will take look at a toolbar that
is actually out there in the wild that you may have downloaded.

Almost every SEO's computer that I've seen has about 30 Firefox extensions loaded. People
write a [...]

Building Your Own Social Networking Automation

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's a hallowed tradition in technology when you need something: build it. And once built, use it to support your core business. Nowadays big companies call it "Eating Your Own Dogfood." So we know that the Microsofties were tortured with Office/2007 (motto: you thought you knew where things were....) long before any of us.

What do YOU Need to Automate your Social Networking Tasks?

We've looked at minor productivity enhancers and semi-automated too [...]

iMacro Introduction and Installation

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

iMacro is an amazing piece of technology and it can help you automate any of your web browser-centric tasks. They have some great examples, a good documentation wiki, and an active support/user community.

Big Savings in Time and Money

We have been big users of this technology for over a year now and have found that it can pay for itself more quickly than an other product we've used. In one recent project we replaced three months of work by 14 people in a data entry center in In [...]

Tag to Rank Automation Software - Not Reccomended

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

To be honest, when I started reviewing Semi-Automated Social Networking Automation Software, I expected to find more software like Tag To Rank . Software with an ill defined purpose, with a confusing website full of grammatical errors, and with a distinctly dodgy smell about it.

In general, I didn't find that at all - some fairly fantastic claims and some pretty hard sells, but I've seen worse from Microsoft and Oracle.

Overview

Priced at $297, this software, well [...]

Ferrari Pricing - Tag and Ping Semi-Automated Social Networking

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The guys at Novsoft have a supercar price on their Tag Automater - it's $297 and $67/month for maintenance. Wow. Actually, no, I mean it: wow. I believe this is the most expensive tool I've found in the SEO world.

Overview

Tag Automater claims to support just 10 sites , which makes the price and the promise of "an Avalanche of Traffic" pretty dubious.

However, the software does support some handy functions:

Automated user/password crea [...]

Server Side Social Bookmark Automation - RSS Bookmarker

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Running in the middle of the price pack, at $297, RSS Bookmarker has several distinguishing features:

Clear and present Privacy Policy and TOSClear return policy (30 Day MBG)Promise of lifetime support Reporting

Site Support

RSS Bookmarker claims to support 34 sites, which is near the bottom range compared to the direct-post URL products reviewed earlier. I should note that the video example shows only 5 sites in the dropdown.

All sites supported are bookmarking sites [...]

Semi-Automated Social Networking Tools Overview

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

If you are willing to spend up to several hundred dollars you can (theoretically) get a fully featured product to help you take your content and place it on a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.

The tools that are under discussion are:

Mass Automateion RSS Bookmarker Tag Automator Web2Submitter Tag to Rank

Invisible Men

Before I start discussing the functionality I should note that I sent several emails to each site's contact information asking some spec [...]