Megalomaniac Midget
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there are a few free online cron services that i use, alot of my blog farm is on super cheap hosting that dosn't support cron
try
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Doing Joomla AutoBlogging Test
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elitesystem
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Im glad to have found this spot! tons of sweet tools in here 
deign23
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The Rss2content uses curl
Hi mate sorry for the very late reply. I've been busy over the weekend.
I haven't used automated cron yet. To be honest, it's because i'm also using cheap hosting service that doesn't support cron. because I'm still doing series of tests.
Currently I'm doing manual feed fetch every other day. Sometimes I use the cron built-in within the R2C component. Yes it updates your content articles.
2 problems:
==> During the scheduled update process, when a visitor opens your site, it displays only the LOGO of your site. Unless the visitor refreshes your site, it will display it full. Although it happens only once on your scheduled task, the rest of the visitors will open your site fine.
==> Sometimes or most of the time, the content in the READ MORE is not displayed or is even dropped. However, the link to rokbox still works.
But it still works.
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as Megalomaniac Midget mentioned, you can use free cronjobs online ***(
HTML:
http://cronless.com/or you can create a php file inside a certain folder example: http://yourdomain.com/cron/cron.php (where your cron php code is pasted inside)
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@letusgo == no problem. but it's deign23 not design32.
Good tainted!
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Megalomaniac Midget
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To run the cronjob you need to make php parse the file cronjob.php inside the
cronjob folder /components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/
E.G.: /usr/bin/php /path/to/cronjob.php (on some servers)
E.G.: GET http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.ph (on some others)
E.G.: lynx -source http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.ph (on some others)
if you use an online cron service, execute http://www.yourwebsite.com/components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/cronjob.php
macpaulos
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Yup running with Article Generator. Using Yahoo Pipes can truncate (limit) the amount of feeds coming in.
Anyone who is using pipes have a feed converter that works?? Headline --> Full RSS.
I had a look around but some don't work and others are scarey complicated.....Just wanna input URLs and be done with it
Anyone who is using pipes have a feed converter that works?? Headline --> Full RSS.
I had a look around but some don't work and others are scarey complicated.....Just wanna input URLs and be done with it
Thanks mate for starting this thread.
I just love joomla and have an autoblog that has been going for 1yr now. It always ranks very high.
I guess its because the niche is very tough but getting content for it is nearly impossible. I had forgotten all about it until I read this today.
Now I will get 3 joomla sites that I had let lie low and start an autoblog section.
Just wondering if I can use it with resources component as I just love the way it handles content on my sites.
Great post guys.
I just love joomla and have an autoblog that has been going for 1yr now. It always ranks very high.
I guess its because the niche is very tough but getting content for it is nearly impossible. I had forgotten all about it until I read this today.
Now I will get 3 joomla sites that I had let lie low and start an autoblog section.
Just wondering if I can use it with resources component as I just love the way it handles content on my sites.
Great post guys.
macpaulos
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To be honest I'm having difficulties. Trying to set up a simple tech blog. I'm looking to setup feeds for different categories...Phones, Desktops, graphic cards, peripherals, laptops...and probably some more categories.
Each category should have full feeds.....which is my main problem. I keep going back to it, spend lots of time researching and the same results happen.....bad feeds not doing what I want.
I'm not giving up though I want this to work so I can expand the site.
Each category should have full feeds.....which is my main problem. I keep going back to it, spend lots of time researching and the same results happen.....bad feeds not doing what I want.
I'm not giving up though
I want this to work so I can expand the site.
AgentOrange_MkUltra
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Joomla is much less likely to be hacked than Wordpress, and it not only about being less widespread. It is also true you will have to spend more time learning, but the possibilities it offers are wider. There are also other CMS suites worth experimenting out there. At least a big & growing one.
deign23
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Hi guys. it's been so long since i've posted here. Well i've been busy tweaking an j00mla autobl0g site for a friend. And due to his requirements, i found out that the Art1cle Generat0r works best for his site.
Anyways, every components has their own advantages and disadvantages. I also found out the these J! components could not retrieve contents from Read More link pages. I don't really know how to fetch the Full content (content after clicking read more). I've also heard of a guy doing Feed fetching thru Y! pipes. Soon i'll be exploring that too.
Good tainted to everyone and Happy New Year.
added: discovery? or realization?
by the way, although most feed fetching components above are fetching intro and full texts, some RSS Feed links do not provide the full contents of their Articles.
i've been thinking before why these components do not fetch full articles, until I realized it today.
Good tainted!
Anyways, every components has their own advantages and disadvantages. I also found out the these J! components could not retrieve contents from Read More link pages. I don't really know how to fetch the Full content (content after clicking read more). I've also heard of a guy doing Feed fetching thru Y! pipes. Soon i'll be exploring that too.
Good tainted to everyone and Happy New Year.
added: discovery? or realization?
by the way, although most feed fetching components above are fetching intro and full texts, some RSS Feed links do not provide the full contents of their Articles.
i've been thinking before why these components do not fetch full articles, until I realized it today.
Good tainted!
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deign23
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When you open Components > AG you will see 2 tabs the FEEDER MANAGER and the CONFIGURATION. Click the configuration tab, below that you will see options, and on the 6th option you will see the "duplicate avoidance chu chu". In its dropdown menu choose No Duplicates on DB, and save it. Try setting the option Get with CURL to YES and save it again.
obviously, when cron fetches feeds in 50s, that would surely cause the server in taking a lot of memory or should i say bandwidth usage. Because it keeps on fetching the same items. and it adds up everyday. if your dupe avoidance is set to no dupe, then perhaps it will work fine.
Installing AG twice is i guess will not commence. unless you rename it to AG2.
Anyway, just wanna ask this questions in case my suggestions didn't work for you.
What command do you actually write on your cronjob? GET, LYNX, ???
What's the frequency of your updates? twice a day? every hour? ???
deign23
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Hi ethan.ky
try using these codes although it still depends on your hosting server:
this one works best for me. No duplicates on DB for sure.
PHP:
lynx -source http://www.yoursite.com/components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/cronjob.php
/usr/bin/php http://www.yoursite.com/components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/cronjob.php
GET http://www.yoursite.com/components/com_articlegenerator/cronjob/cronjob.phpi haven't tried H1 on sh404sef yet.
i haven't monetized much my autoblogs. so far since november i only earned 4.79 in 1 autoblog and 19.89 on my other one.
I haven't given focus to it yet lately til now coz i'm working on an autoblog also with a client.
it's almost done. but need to do some tweaks on fetching full text feeds. sometimes i fetched only the intro text-no read more. sometimes full text-no read more. other times only Titles no intro no full. Sheeeks!
Anyway, i'll give you updates as soon as i'm done with my client's project.
How about you? how many autoblogs have you made? and how's the $$$ coming?
Good tainted!:tee:
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deign23
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Thanks. I will try them
And I fixed the h1 tag problem
Na, I haven't monetized it yet. I only focus on one currently. Got a good domain name, backlinks coming in naturally, though not too much SE traffic :/
Do you do link building for ur autoblogs??
I'm glad you fixed your H1 tag problem.
Not anymore, i did link-building say like 3weeks non-stop of doing backlinking, bookmarking, manual and some automated using tools found around here. So far I'm happy with the rank i have. PR 2/10.
Good tainted!
deign23
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hi buddy. nice of you to join us. actually, I don't have the Manual for the RSS2Feed or should I say RSS2C0ntent.
The manual is usually packaged with it once you purchase one from them. So far I haven't got it either.
In what particular area was your problem? perhaps members here could assist you in some way or another.
aldis
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I followed your instructions ( http://www.joomlaautoblog.info/Joomla-Blogs/final-configuration-for-joomla-autoblog ) but I don't know why the component is not "fecthing the feeds"...
hi buddy. nice of you to join us. actually, I don't have the Manual for the RSS2Feed or should I say RSS2C0ntent.
The manual is usually packaged with it once you purchase one from them. So far I haven't got it either.
In what particular area was your problem? perhaps members here could assist you in some way or another.
deign23
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i get your point there buddy. Well, there are 3 ways to fetch feeds:
1st is by clicking the Manual Load RSS inside RSS2F33d component tabs.
2nd is by enabling the cron within the RSS2F33d component to do fetching once the site is opened by visitors or bots.
3rd is by setting within your hosting site a cronjob to fetch these feeds which differs to the kind of hosting servers you have. But here are some of most common commands:
HTML:
/usr/bin/php /path/to/cronjob.php (on some servers)
HTML:
GET http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.php (on some others)
HTML:
lynx -source http://www.myserver.com/myfolders/to/cronjob.php (on some others)Good luck. PM me your results.
Good tainted!
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deign23
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you need to install rokbox plugin and enable it. then you need to set Add rel='rokbox' to links: in the RSS configuration to YES before feed fetching for it to show the full content (from the source site) wrapped in rokbox plugin. anyway they're still inside your site.
Good tainted!