Dearest Opie,
Thought I should post my results from my first campaign. I don't have all of the exact numbers so I'm going to go by memory on some of this.
I was selling one of my websites. I priced it at $1000, if the average sale price is supposed to be last 3 months income averaged x10 then the site should have been priced at $1800-$1900. So it was a good deal to start with.
I used about 600 keywords
Many of my keyword were so similar that I got a lot of duplicate urls in the results. When I say similar I mean something like this
Best Hot Sauce
Best Hot Sauces
Top Hot Sauce
Top Hot Sauces
Being that a lot of the keywords returned a lot of the same results I had a ton of duplicates
I successfully posted to 6175 contact forms
Unsuccessful posts were 6362 so right around 50/50
The amount of "Don't ever f'ing contact me again" type responses were much lower than I anticipated, around 1/3 of 1% of successful posts
The response rate for people who kindly said "thanks but no thanks" was probably around 1% of successful posts
The response rate for people who responded and were actually interested in my offer was probably around 1% of the successful submissions
From that 1% I made the sale
A FEW NOTES
I saw that you incorporated my previous suggestion into the bot, that?s frickin great. I haven't dl'd the new version yet but I will soon
I tried scraping first and then uploading those scraped lists and posting at a separate time, it didn't seem to work...it seemed like it was just counting down
Will start posting in 7 seconds
will start posting in 3 seconds or something to that effect. I can't remember exactly what it did but after about 15 minutes I just stopped it. Though I have to admit I didn't thoroughly read instructions on how to properly do the campaign this way, maybe i did it wrong.
I noticed that the more threads I was posting with the more errors I had. When using 10 threads at the same time the successful posting rate went way down. I don't know if this was the software or my VPS. So I waited till I had about 500 pages scraped and then I started posting with one or two threads and just let it run. I'd suggest that each person monitor this and find the sweet spot
WISHLIST
The ability to automatically blacklist or NOT to post to .gov's or state level .gov's such as .ca.us, .nv.us and so on is really important. I actually saw the bot trying to post to some local government sites and I soiled by boxers. The site was completely irrelevant to the kw's and none of us need to put ourselves in the cross hairs of an eager government employee.
I wish the bot would clearly let me know when it is done scraping
I wish that after the posting catches up to the scraping that the bot would automatically start posting again without me having to tell it
I wish that once I tell the bot to continue to try and scrape after 5 unsuccessful proxies, that command would be remembered for the next campaign, maybe that should be able to be selected or deselected as an option before the campaign even starts
Excellent software, opens up a world of possibilities.
I just bought the 3 month license, will that take effect starting today or when my current 1 month license expires?
