[Scrapebox]Finding Auto-Approved Drupal Blogs Which Doesn't Require Registration

**cyberzilla** · #1 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 09:19 PM

Got some spare time so I'm just sharing one more SB method. Hope you like it. I highly recommend Drupal for blog commenting as they are do-follow by default and generally the comments are auto-approved. I always come across high PR pages in Drupal blogs! The only problem is you need to register for an account to post comments. It's a big head ache when you do the manual blog commenting in a large scale. Actually there is a way to harvest auto-approved Drupal blogs which doesn't require registration. I'm gonna show you how I do it with Scrapebox. I used the same technique for harvesting the list which I shared last time. If you don't have SB, you can harvest the same manually from G0ogle by using SEO Quake FF plugin.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)

The above give is the phrase which appears in the comment section when you submit your comment to Drupal blogs which doesn't ask for registration....We need to tweak the footprint little bit to find the Auto-approved blogs. That is where comment submission date comes in to picture.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/25/2011

So this footprint shows that this comment was posted on June 25th 2011 by an unregister user. Now we are gonna utilize the Time Span option in SB to harvest recently indexed pages with the comments posted recently (within a week) Hope you get my point. Basically we are trying to find recent posts which has comments approved the same day or within a week.

I noticed that not all Drupal blogs use the same date format so we need to
compile a list of footprint with variations in the date format. Like this...

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/25/2011
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011/06/25
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011/25/06
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06-25-2011
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011-06-25
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011-25-06
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06.25.2011
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011.06.25
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2011.25.06
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 25, 2011
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 25 June, 2011

Put the above in Keywords field
select ONLY G0ogle for harvesting
Set the time span to past week
start harvesting
Manually post a comment to test the comment moderation.

Most of the harvested blogs won't ask for registration and approve your comments instantly! You can even harvest EDU/GOV Drupal blogs in the same way. Just add site:.edu(for EDU sites) and site:.gov(for GOV sites) in the Harvested field along with footprints in keyword field. Once you find those blogs, harvest all the pages from the blog and use it for blog commenting.

If you don't have SB, use the timeline option in the search tools to see the past one week results. You can install SEO Quake to sort and save the listby Page Rank.

islandcoli · #2 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 10:00 PM

Thanks given, can we use Yahoo search to gather results?

chickenboom · #3 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 10:04 PM

Oh wow, very nice method O_O

**Kalyken** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 10:05 PM

Definitely in on this thread.

**zeetee** · #5 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 10:24 PM

i tried the method and got 6 urls.. great

breakpoint · #6 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 10:37 PM

thank you! I am new to scrapebox and this will help!

chickenboom · #7 (**permalink**) 06-28-2011, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by zeetee

i tried the method and got 6 urls.. great

Then get their root domain, and then get all the links from the domain.

**cyberzilla** · #8 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by islandcoli

Thanks given, can we use Yahoo search to gather results?

Yes, you can but results won't be accurate and time consuming. Unlike G0ogle, the minimum timeline yah0o provides is three months. When you harvest three months of indexed URLs, you have to spend more time filtering the list.

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Originally Posted by zeetee

i tried the method and got 6 urls.. great

Great! Are they all auto-approved with no registration?

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Originally Posted by breakpoint

thank you! I am new to scrapebox and this will help!

Glad it helped you! There are many thread here about SB. Spend some time reading.

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Originally Posted by chickenboom

Then get their root domain, and then get all the links from the domain.

Yes, if it is do-follow & AA, use the site: operator and harvest all the pages.

destination-target · #9 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 04:47 AM

really great method. hit the thanks button already.

jason2009 · #10 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 07:46 AM

I put on "Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on" and last week time frame.I got 100 link with 4 Pr4 and 2 pr3,pr1.... Thanks for the footprint

**bk071** · #11 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:03 AM

Yet another great one, Zilla!

Cheers for the share...

PS: Hows you stomach fat now

**zeetee** · #12 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:10 AM

[QUOTE=Great! Are they all auto-approved with no registration?

[/QUOTE]

out of these six, four were .gov and were not auto approved. it is always hard to get comment posting registration for .gov TLD as their registration process itself is very complexed and time taking.

**sidaz** · #13 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by zeetee

i tried the method and got 6 urls.. great

I got 7

**cyberzilla** · #14 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by bk071

Yet another great one, Zilla!

Cheers for the share...

PS: Hows you stomach fat now

Thanks mate! ya lol it became my immovable asset.

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Originally Posted by zeetee

out of these six, four were .gov and were not auto approved. it is always hard to get comment posting registration for .gov TLD as their registration process itself is very complexed and time taking.

Well, Change the date and try again. I myself got some EDU blogs using this but no GOV so far! But I'm sure you will get many Drupal blogs with TLD. Tweak it until you get it

nikksseo · #15 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:36 AM

really a great share, this method works like a charm,

Thanks buddy.

**nickvincente** · #16 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 08:49 AM

thank you for sharing this, i'm planning to buy sb next month.

**Swiss** · #17 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 03:54 PM

Thanks a lot.
But why put in "25.06.2011" or whatever if you can set the time span?

**cyberzilla** · #18 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Swiss

Thanks a lot.
But why put in "25.06.2011" or whatever if you can set the time span?

Because I want to find the blog pages where the blog post date and the comment approved date is same or at least within a week.

**Swiss** · #19 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by cyberzilla

Because I want to find the blog pages where the blog post date and the comment approved is same or at least within a week.

Ah I see, makes sense for AA.

BenBenBoBen · #20 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by zeetee

i tried the method and got 6 urls.. great

do you use SB proxies or do you have your own?

I'm about to use this method and see if it works...

**virtualc08** · #21 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 05:38 PM

Yet another amazing use of good footprints. I have used similar foot prints for different uses. I will share it someday

Thanks

Regards

**cyberzilla** · #22 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BenBenBoBen

do you use SB proxies or do you have your own?

I'm about to use this method and see if it works...

SB internal proxies is no more working for me. I use my own list of proxy source. For this method, you don't really need proxies as you are gonna harvest probably 1000 or more page only once so it won't ban your IP.

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Originally Posted by virtualc08

Yet another amazing use of good footprints. I have used similar foot prints for different uses. I will share it someday

Thanks

Regards

I will wait for that

**d3ky44** · #23 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 07:04 PM

Very nice i will test right away.

**Knoxgates** · #24 (**permalink**) 06-29-2011, 07:08 PM

Do you think by sharing this method on this forum you gonna get "Thanks" then you are wrong buddy.

You will get REP+3

Jeeeens · #25 (**permalink**) 07-01-2011, 11:10 PM

Great guide! "Thanks" are given!
What tools are you guide using for commenting afterwards?
Sry for the noob question, but i am still learning

thanks in advance

andreaweb · #26 (**permalink**) 07-02-2011, 02:51 AM

very fast method

**cyberzilla** · #27 (**permalink**) 07-02-2011, 03:13 AM

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What tools are you guide using for commenting afterwards?

I scrape all the high PR pages and comment on them manually.

rises · #28 (**permalink**) 07-02-2011, 08:18 AM

This is a great method.I tested it and found that some of them are not Autoapproved.So I think when you scrape the list,it's better to comment on them manually

**cyberzilla** · #29 (**permalink**) 07-02-2011, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by rises

This is a great method.I tested it and found that some of them are not Autoapproved.So I think when you scrape the list,it's better to comment on them manually

Yes, as I said in my OP, You have to manually post a comment to check comment moderation.

teeniegenie · #30 (**permalink**) 07-02-2011, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Knoxgates

Do you think by sharing this method on this forum you gonna get "Thanks" then you are wrong buddy.

You will get REP+3

Plus rep from me too (not like you need it though - LOL)

jharr53301 · #31 (**permalink**) 08-30-2011, 10:53 AM

WOW! This is great thanks - gotta try it

topcarewin · #32 (**permalink**) 10-18-2011, 02:42 PM

Thanks for a nice share you have given to us with such an large collection of information.

MadMX · #33 (**permalink**) 11-11-2011, 03:41 PM

Thanks for this thread!
As I am learning Python at the moment, I thought that it would be pretty nice to have a script that generates all the footprints for every day of the last week to harvest even more blogs.

Was quite useful for me, if you need this, here you go:

Code:

from datetime import *
import os

##by MadMX for BHW
def write():
    print("Working...Wait a few seconds...")
    
    f = open("footprintlist.txt","w")
    for i in range (7):
        #vars#
        date = now - timedelta(days=i)
        dayname = date.strftime("%A")
        daynameshort = dayname[:3]
        day = date.strftime("%d")
        month = date.strftime("%m")
        monthname = date.strftime("%B")
        year = "20" + date.strftime("%y")

        
        
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + month + "/" + day + "/" + year + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "/" + month + "/" + day + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "/" + day + "/" + month + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + month + "-" + day + "-" + year + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "-" + month + "-" + day + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "-" + day + "-" + month + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + month + "." + day + "." + year + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "." + month + "." + day + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + daynameshort + ", " + year + "." + day + "." + month + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + monthname + " " + day + ", " + year + "\n")
        f.write("Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on " + day + " " + monthname + ", " + year + "\n")
    f.close()
    

#Main
now = datetime.today()
write()
print("Done! File saved: " + os.getcwd() + "\\footprintlist.txt")

MadMX · #34 (**permalink**) 11-12-2011, 03:41 PM

Harvested a load of URLs now, but when I check some of 'em many seem not to be using Drupal. Do you have any sort of better footprint which I could use to check with LinkChecker whether they are using Drupal? Would be awesome!

Thanks in Advance!

GoogleAlchemist · #35 (**permalink**) 11-16-2011, 09:26 PM

Dunno what I missed as I put those foots (adjusted the date to todays first of course) in the right box and selected one week timeline, Google only. Scrape gave me a thousand (where others say only half a dozen?) but the results don't seem to be the drupal type of commentable blogs I'm after?

Also, what would be the foot for the drupals that you DO have to register to comment, I have some of those and it's a pita but less spam and worth it for the high pr ********s.

Thanks

yoyo33 · #36 (**permalink**) 11-16-2011, 10:05 PM

Use quotes for footprints for better results!

**cyberzilla** · #37 (**permalink**) 11-17-2011, 03:30 AM

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Dunno what I missed as I put those foots (adjusted the date to todays first of course) in the right box and selected one week timeline, Google only. Scrape gave me a thousand (where others say only half a dozen?) but the results don't seem to be the drupal type of commentable blogs I'm after?

Yes, this footprint is very limited but highly targeted. As far as I know, Drupal is the only blog use those terms for unregistered users. Adjust your date to any date in the past week apart from todays date. Try Yahoo too for scraping as you may get additional blogs for commenting.

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Also, what would be the foot for the drupals that you DO have to register to comment, I have some of those and it's a pita but less spam and worth it for the high pr ********s.

Just do a search for "Drupal Footprints" You will find many