Scrapebox Folder Structure Organization Best Practice

Hey Guys,

I am using Scrapebox now for a few weeks, or rather days. And I still have some troubles organizing my files well. I tend to loose track of what I harvested when because it's really confusing with all the exporting/importing etc...

That's why I wanted to ask you experienced Scrapebox users how you organize your file structure?

I mean I really like structures because I can work more efficient but this time I am having trouble establishing a working one.

Right now I am having something like this:


General - general files, such as footprints, common words, advanced operators

Keywords - Keyword lists I harvest with. How do I keep track of the keywords I already harvested? What if Scrapebox crashes during a harvest how do I know which keywords have already been "crunched"?

Generally I use a keyword, say, web hosting, get all the suggestion the adword tool gives me and run it through the Scrapebox Keyword Scraper or use Crazyflx's scraping tool. Would there be a better way I am not seeing?

URLs - Harvested URLs containing folders:I don't know if I am overengeneering stuff here or if you came up with a simpler structure.

Would be great to interchange some opinions on that matter.

Actually you are better them me, so I better shut up

I have the same problem, it's especially painful if you use a shared computer. I hope to ease the pain a bit with a dedicated computer.

I'm all ears!

Hey buddy,
I got your email. I am not surprised to see you use the same folder structure I do
Anyway, I have nothing to add here, this is how I run my ops and I don't need anything else.
I have about 20 urls that I consistently maintain backlinks for so for every url I have a folder like that.
And of course the Excel sheet.

Now for your questions:
1) How do I keep track of the keywords I already harvested? What if Scrapebox crashes during a harvest how do I know which keywords have already been "crunched"?
Ans: As far as I know there is no dump file for harvesting keywords, perhaps an option for a future update SF?
Or do you mean when harvesting urls? There is no way to know which keywords have already been used to scrape urls, again, maybe an option for a future update?

2 )Generally I use a keyword, say, web hosting, get all the suggestion the adword tool gives me and run it through the Scrapebox Keyword Scraper or use Crazyflx's scraping tool. Would there be a better way I am not seeing?
Ans: That's about right, you can also check out my keywords thread. I have posted millions of keywords on 100+ topics in there.

Anyway, to make your and perhaps someone else's life easier I uploaded a master folder structure for you to use.
If you simply save files with dates in them you'll be able to keep great track.
[Download]

Hey Maruk,

Thanks for your answer. It's quite hard to put my problems in words Do you have like a temp folder where you dump all the files in abd later move it to your final structure?

I mean surely I understand the folder structure. Could you briefly outline an an example workflow? I think my main question would be how do you NOT get confused with the temp files that one doesn't have to do the same links all over again.

I think I gotta practice it a little more to get my head around it.

Thanks again.

That dude has got a good structure.

Sure buddy, this is my day to day workflow:

- Take a list of keywords or generate one (save a newly generated list to the appropriate folder named 'Keywords')
- Find and test proxies until I have enough to start harvesting from Google (24hr old urls) and Yahoo and AOL (3mnd old urls)
- Start harvesting (about 150 connections per search engine)
- Remove dupes
- Optional: Check for PR and save high PR urls to appropriate folder
- Remove dupe domains
- Load all the files (name, email, etc)
- Start posting
- When done, check for auto approved urls and save them to appropriate folder
- Optional: Check auto approved high PR urls and save them to appropriate folder
- Save all posted to urls to appropriate folder

Next run, after removing dupe domains I remove any urls I posted to earlier. Import URL List > Select URL lists to compare > *URL text file I saved last time

If you do this on a regular basis a couple things will happen:
1) You'll post on fairly new urls only (last 24hrs option)
2) You'll end up with a list of high PR urls to manually comment on twice a week or so
3) You'll build a list of auto approve urls for you to use or sell
4) You keep everything organized (especially with the Excel sheet)

Hope this makes sense and I hope I didn't forget anything!

Regards,
Mark

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Also just for the fun of it: