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10.03.08Google2001 search for finding domainsSo, I've been messing around a bit with Googles 2001 search (http://www.google.com/search2001.html) and I've found some great old domains with it. I got the idea when I found some domains that ranked for various viagra search terms back in 2001 that are now unregistered. They are old, plus have backlinks, which is a double bonus. We all know how much Google loves old domains! Anyways, I created a small script that goes through the 2001 SERPs and pulls each domain into a list that is run through a whois search to see if it's available. In under and hour I found ...
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09.11.08You’re not still using Google Trends to figure out whats hot, are you?!?Google Trends is a great tool for figuring out what's hot on the web...right? Alot of us have scrapers that grab Google Trends terms and then use them to create content pages. But the problem is, once something hits Google Trends, it can often be too late for you to really get any traction on the search term. What if you want to find out what's hot ahead of Google Trends? Allow me to introduce TwitScoop. Today, there is a great example of how valuable TwitScoop is. It seems that Kanye West got arrested for beating on some paparazzi...have you ...
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08.26.08Effective and Efficient ways to Mass Install WordpressBlah...commencement of pleasantries.....blah blah....witty charming banter....blaah....introduction to mass install wordpress..blaaah......more witty commentary....blah blah.....install this...ftp that...blah...incredibly complicated....blah..self aggrandizement....blah...... Situation: Shared Host CPanel No SSH Access Solution 1: FTP Transfer Folder to server, Mechanize/CURL Install Process: 1) Collect variables: database, username, cpanel login, cpanel password, keywords 2) If necessary, create databases and users on CPanel host (using CURL, or Mechanize) Here is a function I use to create CPanel DBs: def self.create_db(base_url, cpanel_loc, cpanel_user, cpanel_pass, db, dbuser, dbpass) agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = $USER_AGENTS[rand($USER_AGENTS.length)] agent.basic_auth(cpanel_user,cpanel_pass) url = "http://#{base_url}#{cpanel_loc}/frontend/x/sql/" agent.get(url) agent.get("#{url}adddb.html?db=#{db}") agent.get("#{url}adduser.html?user=#{dbuser}&pass=#{dbpass}") agent.get("#{url}addusertodb.html?user=#{cpanel_user}_#{dbuser}&db=#{cpanel_user}_#{db}&ALL=ALL") end 3) For each keyword in the keyword list, create a different blog 3a) Write local wordpress-config file with ...
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07.08.08I Could Be AnythingSo today I had this idea for a little mini site that parses twitter updates, called I Could Be Anything. I Could Be Anything monitors the Twitter public timeline and looks for messages that can be appended to the words "I am". Back when I was doing my degree, I used to create alot of work that involved typography and poetry, so this was a fun little site to build. I played around alot with how to filter out certain stop words (he, she, etc), and punctuation marks, also I discovered that typically if a sentence fragment has more than ...
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06.30.08Fun with String PermutationsSo, I've been kicking around some new concepts for Datapresser's Content Generation, based on something called String Permutations. For example, lets say I had four word groups: - pronouns (my, your, his, her, our) - subjects (goat, sailboat, cabin) - conjunctions (is, is usually, is always) - adjectives (stinky, leaking, clean) By analyzing all the possible permutations of these 4 word groups, we can see exactly how much content we can spin from it, and what all the possible permutations are. In this case, there are 135 possible permutations: my goat is stinky my goat is leaking my goat is clean my goat is usually stinky my goat is usually leaking my ...
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