http://www.macroking.com ... Where Automation Rules! Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:43:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I about fell out of my chair... http://forum.topaffiliatechallenge.com/showthread.php?p=351#post351 Am I out of my league here or what??  LOL Jonathan http://www.macroking.com/oh-this-is-tooo-funny So I woke up this morning to a phone call. Caller ID said "Thor Schrock" so of course, I answered.  The conversation went something like this: Me:  "Hey Thor!" Thor:  "So congratulations on your surge of trffic.  You crashed our server." Me:  "Uh... oops.  Sorry." Apparently the TINY paid traffic campaign I started this morning ... http://www.macroking.com/top-affiliate-challenge-server-crashes-ooops-my-bad Wow, now this is cool... http://www.woodymaxim.com/help-a-brotha-out/ Jonathan http://www.macroking.com/woody-maxim-endorses-me-for-the-top-affiliate-challenge Put Me On Television! "I'm asking for your vote, in the2008 Top Affiliate Challenge" Hi friend, If anything you find on this site has proven to be helpful to you in any way, I humbly request that you vote me a "10" for the Top Affiliate Challenge. Your vote will help me ... http://www.macroking.com/vote-for-jonathan-van-clute-top-affiliate-challange This says it all: http://lpgen.com/launchblog/ppc-quit.html http://www.macroking.com/1kday-here-i-come Whew! What a week! Today marks exactly 1 week since my new product LPGen hit the market. This thing is capable of so much, people are just starting to realize the true power they've gotten ahold of. The feedback is starting to come in... people are ... http://www.macroking.com/lpgen-is-live-at-long-last Man this guy is prolific! Head over to my most favoritest new internet marketing blog, and give this particular post a good reading. It's simple and to the point, but I think gives a nice overview of a subject that many people, including myself at times, get really hung up ... http://www.macroking.com/what-you-dont-know-how-to-choose-a-good-affiliate-offer I found this blog when someone posted in the PPCF Forum about a new free version of SpeedPPC that someone had cooked up. Being a user of SpeedPPC myself and of course also a coder, I just HAD to check this out. I've got too much on my ... http://www.macroking.com/my-newset-most-favoritest-net-marketing-blog Wow, I don't know if any of you who have left messages here in the last year will see this, but I'm going to start getting back to you anyway. I have a script on this page to enable people to leave message for me. I was under the distinct ... http://www.macroking.com/major-backlog-of-messages I got an email asking me about these 3 topics and some specific tools, over on the Warrior Forum. I thought it was worth posting my reply here. You mention 3 needs... tracking, spying, and landing page creation. For tracking, Affiliate Radar is the first such product I've used, ... http://www.macroking.com/tracking-spying-and-landing-page-generation So, a few months back I heard about this soon-to-be-released course all about marketing CPA offers (Cost Per Action for those who don't know the lingo) via PPC traffic (Pay Per Click like Google Adwords, etc.) This was something that really interested me in no small part because I ... http://www.macroking.com/ppc-cpa-alphabet-soup OK, no doubt if you're reading this, you've probably been bombarded by marketers telling you to rush out and get your copy of Project Black Mask right away, before everyone else makes all the money and you're left with nothing. Act now before the price goes up, blah blah ... http://www.macroking.com/project-black-mask-is-a-scam I swear this wasn't in my adwords account yesterday, honestly. All I find in internet searches is very old articles from 2006 about Google stepping into this market, and now it's available in my account. This opens up a HUGE exciting world... as someone who comes from a ... http://www.macroking.com/google-radio-ads-is-this-new If this is the kind of stuff happening to people playing poker online, I'm glad I'm not one of 'em! http://www.macroking.com/for-the-poker-players-out-there This isn't exactly news... I've been bad about backing up data for 20 years. I've lost enough hard drives and valuable stuff at this point that you'd think I'd have learned, but no. I still am just one data disaster away from tears and anguish. So... I did a ... http://www.macroking.com/i-dont-back-up-often-enough You may or may not have heard of PGInsider, but if you are into the black/grey-hat portal building game, or want to be, it's a very useful site, in terms of both the discussions that go on there, and especially the tools that get developed. Adam actually goes and ... http://www.macroking.com/pginsider-has-some-openings-again So I don't know how long this has been the case, but apparently Registerfly's email forwarding system has gone to hell, and I've been unable to receive ANY emails to this domain at all for... weeks? Months? I don't even know! I should have just set it ... http://www.macroking.com/this-domain-cant-receive-email I'm thinking I'm going to like this one... http://www.macroking.com/more-way-to-monetize-online-activity Whether you're a portal builder who's gotten hammered recently by yet another round of search engine changes, or you just want to add yet another stream of revenue to your online business... I think we all need to know more about selling products instead of just chasing clicks. I don't know ... http://www.macroking.com/tire-of-adsense-time-to-kick-things-up A while back, a "big league" adsense earner gave me some heads up about using properly formatted code on my pages, so that the SE spiders would handle it better and rank the pages better. His arguments on the whole made sense, and I certainly couldn't argue with his ... http://www.macroking.com/someone-just-saved-me-a-lot-of-time Have you heard??? There are BIG changes proposed to the domain name registry system - and they are definitely NOT GOOD for us. In fact, they could put a lot of us out of business, or at a minimum subject us to a massive "tax" - based on the market ... http://www.macroking.com/urgent-icann-changes-could-screw-us-in-the-end This JUST came in from the developer of NicheCreator... he is temporarily dropping the price from $499 to $99! That's even less than I paid when I got in the pre-lanuch special! At nearly $500, NicheCretor is a bit of a "deluxe" script and is certainly not for everyone. ... http://www.macroking.com/nichecreator-price-dropped-big-time OK, so this is on a bit of a tangent from what I normally talk about on this blog... but I couldn't resist. There's been a bunch of hype lately about Google once again going after the world to stop everyone from using their name as a verb. That's right, ... http://www.macroking.com/to-google-or-not-to-google In writing a reply to a comment from another post, I remembered something I'm doing that you might also find very useful: I am using Brainstorm Generator quite heavily for identifying target niches & words. I can find loads of subject matter that have large traffic but very low SE ... http://www.macroking.com/really-handy-trick I've been out for a few hours so hadn't been watching my sites. I got back and popped open my traffic tracking software and... thought for sure there was some massive error in the data. After investigating further, it's no error. By the end of today, I will have ... http://www.macroking.com/ummm-all-i-can-say-is-wow OK, I know I've been extremely quiet in recent times... between working on UNCS 3.0, building my own sites and site networks, building some proprietary tools for yours truly ;) , running my other businesses, and - oh yeah - having a life on occasion... the blog hasn't gotten the ... http://www.macroking.com/blogsolution-gets-competition I hadn't stopped in to JScott's MassBuilderNews Blog in a while, and just popped over for a quick look. Lo & Behold, he's back and making some interesting promises. JScott - what are you up to? Where's the promised autoresponder? I for one will surely sign ... http://www.macroking.com/hmmm-whats-he-up-to-i-wonder www.macroking.com/uncs/ Check it out! :) Existing customers will be sent their free update shortly... http://www.macroking.com/uncs-30-is-now-live I will make the sales page live tomorrow... although technically tomorrow is only 10 minutes from now. :) I want to get a good night's sleep for once though so... some time in the next 8 to 12 hours, it will go live and there will be an ... http://www.macroking.com/uncs-30-is-here If you're already an owner, or you are on my announcement list, then you already know. Version 3.0 of my Ultimate Niche Creator Setup system will be released shortly... it is technically ready, I'm just testing the download & delivery mechanisms now to make sure everything works reliably. ... http://www.macroking.com/uncs-30-is-about-to-be-released If you have lots and lots of websites, you almost undoubtedly at SOME point or another have found yourself staring at hundreds, perhaps THOUSANDS, of empty folders because of some script or another that you ran. How do you get rid of them all without going insane in ... http://www.macroking.com/need-to-delete-tons-of-empty-folders I know I sure was. Keeping track of when it was up, down, or sideways. Finding out only AFTER my sites had been down for a day or two that they were offline. Lost income, frustration, even PANIC when the server completely craps out for some unknown ... http://www.macroking.com/youre-sick-of-managing-your-own-server-arent-you I'm going to make this available for sale one more time, as well as upgrading all former owners free of charge. Go to http://macroking.com/uncs.htm if you want to be notified of 3.0 availability. I'm not sure how many copies I'll make available this time, but I'll at least ... http://www.macroking.com/uncs-30-is-coming OK, someone explain this one to me. I am still being hit with as many as a few dozen comment spams per day. The latest one that just came in has me really scratching my head. The link in it is to www.google.ru, Google in Russia. ... http://www.macroking.com/strangest-comment-spam-ever I've had Website Position Wizard ever since it was first announced, and when the paid "Pro" version was released, I jumped on the upgrade. As mass ranking-check programs go, this one was the easiest to work with in terms of push a single button and get all your results. ... http://www.macroking.com/this-tool-suddenly-got-a-lot-more-useful-to-me I have been repeatedly comment spammed recently by someone or someones. I haven't spent enough time on it to bother seeing if it's the same IP on all of them or not. Bottom line is - you are wasting your time (even though they are clearly being automated - and ... http://www.macroking.com/to-my-friendly-neighborhood-comment-spammer I have gotten so used to this amazing little gem, that I tend to forget about it. Well, I just did a major computer upgrade, which means I have to reinstall all my tools, including this one. Which of course reminded me of how absolutely hooked on it ... http://www.macroking.com/i-simply-cant-live-without-this OK, I think I know what you're thinking... "What the hell kind of blog post title is THAT???" Well, you'll probably see in a minute what I meant. Many of you probably know by now that I am no longer using blogs for portal building. Not that they aren't ... http://www.macroking.com/how-to-go-blind-in-a-single-day David from the NicheCreator forum has a nice blog going, I finally went to read it. Good stuff David! Nice thorough reviews of various tools & whatnot. I'm going to have to pop over there regularly to see what's a keeper and what's a sleeper! Check it out! http://www.macroking.com/found-another-blog-worth-reading I felt I needed to go on record somewhere publicly about something, and I'm not going to say what it's about. I'm on to something big. REALLY big. Can't let the cat out of the bag, and to be honest I don't know if I'll EVER let it out ... http://www.macroking.com/this-is-mostly-just-here-for-posterity Just wanted to give a quick thanks to those who have given me salutes in the last few days... The Poor Sucker, MyNiche, and one other who chose not to include their name, and so I don't know if he/she wanted to remain annonymous. Nonetheless, know that your support ... http://www.macroking.com/thanks-for-the-salutes And me without my affiliate link... tsk tsk. If you do portals, ESPECIALLY if you use NicheCreator or RSSGM, you've got to get your butt FAST over to www.PGinsider.com. It's a killer membership site with a limited number of spots, and the software offerings you get just for walking in ... http://www.macroking.com/membership-forum-worth-its-weight-in-gold This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with web automation, programming, marketing, or any of the usual stuff I ramble about here. But I was so blown away by this I just had to share. http://www.prosper.com I can't even really begin to describe it adequately here, so just go check it ... http://www.macroking.com/the-internet-never-ceases-to-amaze-me OK, first impression... I hate Overture results. OK, there, I said it. My first impression about TheDowser Niche Database is a complaint. Hey, I gotta tell it like I see it. But it's not really a huge issue in the big scheme of things, more of a personal thing I guess. ... http://www.macroking.com/first-look-at-the-niche-database TheDowser Niche Database sales page finally went up. I've been sitting here for a half hour waiting for it to go live... looks like they were running a little late. But it's finally there, and I just bought my copy. Haven't even downloaded it yet but I'm ... http://www.macroking.com/its-finally-live There hasn't been anything that has actually had me eagerly waiting for the sales page to go up in a long time. Well, I'm excited about this one so I really hope it lives up to my expectations... TheDowser Niche Database As some of you already know, I have MASSIVELY automated ... http://www.macroking.com/finally-a-new-product-im-looking-forward-to Anyone building portal web sites or doing any type of AdSense or other PPC oriented income stream, has undoubtedly run across "scraping." It's the concept of grabbing content from another web site, and displaying it on your own site. Now, issues of legality or ethics aside (don't even ... http://www.macroking.com/beyond-scraping-way-beyond OK, so it's not really a "drink" at this point, but... after months of sitting idly by and not being implemented, I have finally gotten the Buy Me a Drink script going that some of my reader's generous donations bought for me. So, check the purple box at the ... http://www.macroking.com/finally-you-can-buy-me-a-drink I am now sick AND tired of resurrecting this site due to webhost shennanigans! I was away on the east coast for business for a week, and during that time my previous host made a major move to a new datacenter. That's all well & good but for ... http://www.macroking.com/ok-its-official Wow, had some weird database disconnection craziness, but all seems fine once again. I just hadn't looked at it in a couple weeks, been so busy on other things. But once again, the Macro King is back in action! ;) http://www.macroking.com/im-back-at-last Wow, what a ride this has been... I have learned tons about the process of selling a product on line, and have also enjoyed bringing something so powerful to those who bought it. Thanks again to everyone who has been supporting me both through the donation functions of this ... http://www.macroking.com/sold-all-50-copies-of-uncs Here's a little something that can work both as a security feature if enabled, and a debugging tool if disabled. Anywhere you have include statements (especially your satellite index.php if using my method), you can use the @ symbol to determine if errors are output to the browser, or hidden (suppressed). So ... http://www.macroking.com/scriptsite-error-solving I'm actually almost paralyzed by the shock of this. I just figured out (it really wasn't hard!) a method that will allow me to build pretty much as many sites as I want, at a rate of somewhere around 30 seconds per site or so. This is just ... http://www.macroking.com/i-just-built-50-sites-in-20-minutes Hi everyone... sorry for the lengthy absence, I've had a TON going on. Between "normal" end-of-the-year stuff, creating and supporting sales of my method for centralized control of NicheCreator sites, my other business ventures, and a zillion other things, I just haven't sat down to write here recently. But, you ... http://www.macroking.com/free-article-cms-software Dave W. over on the NC forum just posted this and gave me permission to re-post it here, so this is really hot off the presses! http://www.websitepositionwizard.com/ Check this out! It's awesome and FREE! I just recently got and subsequently recommended Indexing Tracker, which is quite excellent and much "prettier" ... http://www.macroking.com/want-to-check-your-indexing-en-masse-for-free-2 I have decided to begin to take down my thoughts & ideas on programming, with the eventual expectation of turning them into some kind of course, book, autoresponder series, SOMETHING. In the mean time, they will begin to appear here as I sit down and blast them out. ... http://www.macroking.com/programming-posts I told myself I wasn't going to mention this in a public fashion until I was more sure of its results, features, stability, etc. But then I'd hate to think that people whom I consider friends (as I feel many of you reading this have become!) missed out somehow ... http://www.macroking.com/building-sites-on-a-massive-scale I've been intending to write something about this for a while now, but the subject came up today on one of the forums I frequent and so I pretty much said what I wanted to say. This is of course with regards to creating revenue generating "niche" websites. ... http://www.macroking.com/valuable-content-give-me-a-break I should start off by saying I have NOT used this database yet. Honestly, I've been mostly avoiding articles up to this point because they are a pain to integrate! However, this has me about to change my mind. I'm still teetering on the edge personally, but ... http://www.macroking.com/woah-a-dirt-cheap-huge-article-database Here you go... for all you NicheCreator fans/users out there. Steve already posted "+" and "-" keyword tokens on the forum, but nobody had done the KEYWORDCAPS token that was asked for. I really thought someone else would do it before I got to it, but aparently not. ... http://www.macroking.com/nichecreator-keywordcaps-token ... A man playing Polo on a Segway! Wait - back up. Did he just say playing polo? On a Segway?? What the - ? Yes, that's right. Here is a small glimpse into my "real" life, such as it is. Check out the official Segway Polo ... http://www.macroking.com/and-now-for-something-completely-different If you do anything online with blogs, you no doubt know (or sure as heck SHOULD know!) that you need to ping the various blog update services, so that you can get more spider activity to your blog. The trouble is, so many "sploggers" and the like have hammered ... http://www.macroking.com/a-decent-ping-list-at-last Yesterday I wrote about FastContent, a cool little utility for grabbing articles in quantity and formatting them for your websites. I am digging into it a bit deeper, and have found one annoying limitation. It does not seem to handle multi-word keywords as a single phrase. For example, a ... http://www.macroking.com/quick-update-on-fastcontent I'm really happy to have happened upon this little gem. It's dirt cheap (especially before December 15th) and is basically what Orwell wishes it could be. You enter a keyword, and it goes out to a number of article directories and grabs articles on the keyword, and if ... http://www.macroking.com/need-articles-forget-orwell-try-this Well I posted a few days ago about httPulse, all excited about it. I've been waiting for a decent index tracking utility for some time, and preferably a free one. So, several days and 1 software upgrade later, I still can't use httpulse. :( I don't know why ... http://www.macroking.com/httpulse-followup I found a great new resource! Well, it's new to me at least, but looks like it's been around a while. It's called The Excel Addict and it's just jam-packed with all kinds of tips, tricks, and things that are probably in the help file and user guide, ... http://www.macroking.com/are-you-an-excel-addict-you-should-be To cut to the chase and lock in your price now, go to http://snurl.com/nickel_mania If you ever send out links to a list or anything similar, in order to promote products or services, you really want something like Tracking Ace... read on. There was this thing a couple weeks ago called Nickel ... http://www.macroking.com/nickel-mania-are-they-nuts I can't tell you how much time I've spent filtering lists of duplicates... whether they were keywords, stock & option symbols, or anything else, handling duplicate values is a VERY common task in Excel. In the past, I've used many different methods to identify or remove them, all of ... http://www.macroking.com/need-to-remove-duplicate-entries-in-excel I found that on certain computers, the script ran a bit too fast and could blow up, so... I have slowed it down ever so slightly. That's what I get for being a "speed freak" :) Version 1.3.1 available here http://www.macroking.com/another-minor-update-for-the-index-chacker I've been waiting very very impatiently for this for a few weeks, and JUST got the email about it a moment ago. I have not even launched it yet to try it myself, I wanted to get it posted immediately! What am I talking about? Well, here it is ... http://www.macroking.com/exciting-freebie Boy what an adventure... I tried to move this blog to a different account, and unfortunately it went very, very bad. SQL can be an ugly beast! I managed to get everything back up again after Tykoon in the Traffic Equalizer forum pointed me to this awesome WordPress resource. ... http://www.macroking.com/well-that-was-fun Yes, that's right, I just can't leave anything alone. Gotta make it better, faster, cleaner, smarter... we have the technology, we can rebuild it! So, here is the version 1.3 of the script. Read the notes at the top of the file to see what's changed. Definitely the best edition ... http://www.macroking.com/antoher-update-to-the-index-checker-script This is a very cool free script that will go to Google Images and grab pictures that it thinks are related to your keywords, and insert them in your sites. Now, where might one put pictures like that, say, perhaps... NEXT TO YOUR ADSENSE ADS?? Nahhh... that might ... http://www.macroking.com/want-dynamically-generated-keyword-relevant-images-on-your-site It has been suggested that I really should have a way for people to thank me for the goodies I'm throwing out into the world. So... see the sidebar at right. I would prefer to have a "Buy Me a Drink" script running, but I want the donations ... http://www.macroking.com/ok-you-can-thank-me-now OK so he's undoubtedly got LOTS of blogs, but I mean, a "real" blog. You know, like this one. Uh, yeah. Something like that. Oh what the hell do I know? Just go check it out. Link is in the sidebar Blogroll, or check it out ... http://www.macroking.com/jscotts-got-a-blog If any of you use RSS2Blog (and I know you do! ;) ) then you probably already know about issues like having outbound links in your content postings. There are two problems with this, one is the page rank that you are now potentially giving away to ... http://www.macroking.com/post-rss-content-without-linking-to-it OK, fixed the problems and overall made the script far more robust. It works ligtning fast now and should be happy on both IE and Firefox. If you have any troubles with it, please let me know by leaving a comment! Get the new script here! http://www.macroking.com/version-12-of-site-index-checker-is-here One serious one that will stop it working for anyone, and others that may or may not affect most people. In the comments of the script (the top part where I explain the versions, etc.) each line is supposed to start with a semicolon ; but one line starts with a ... http://www.macroking.com/whoops-bugs-in-the-script OK, if you don't already have Excel and you do ANYTHING on the computer that involves keeping track of things, analyzing things, or sorting things, why on earth would you ever put yourself through NOT having Excel?? Whether you like Microsoft or hate them, it doesn't much matter. ... http://www.macroking.com/wait-you-dont-have-excel Apparently, AdSenseLogger is no longer available for download, but as it is licensed under the GNU and gives explicit permission to distribute it, I'm posting it here for all to have, free! Get AdSenseLogger here It is not quite as sophisticated as some other tracking scripts, and there is a new version ... http://www.macroking.com/need-to-track-your-adsense I've had a version of this spreadsheet in my toolkit for a month or two now, but I polished it up a bit and decided to release it "into the wild" so that others might benefit from it. No real documentation with it, but it should be fairly obvious ... http://www.macroking.com/instant-rss-feeds-and-links-for-rss2blog-users You may have seen some buzz about this on various forums if you do any portal site or keyword-based site building. Well, I decided to take the plunge and check it out, not wanting to miss out on the low intro price, just in case it really was as ... http://www.macroking.com/new-monster-site-builder If you deal with sites that consist of hundreds, maybe thousands of files, and have ever needed to change a bit of text on ALL of them, you know this pain! The sheer agony of even considering such a chore by hand... *shudder* Fortunately there is no need to do ... http://www.macroking.com/server-side-find-replace Well, like any good software tester would, I found some bugs. The unfortunate thing is they were in my own code!! D'oh! So, I fixed some things and updated the script to version 1.1. If by chance you downloaded the previous version, PLEASE get the newer one, as ... http://www.macroking.com/update-to-index-checking-script Sadly, a friend and mentor of mine died quite suddenly about a week ago, and I will be attending his memorial service in Las Vegas tomorrow (Sunday), and won't be back until Monday. That, combined with a rather crazy amount of other things that are going on for me ... http://www.macroking.com/away-for-a-day-or-two-at-least Anyone into building portal sites with tools like Traffic Equalizer or any of the others, has probably also heard of if not used Really Simple Site Generator, or RSSG for short. I don't personally know the whole history behind it but it was written supposedly by a young "kid" ... http://www.macroking.com/really-simple-site-generator I'm so used to using this at this point, I tend to forget about it! But if it were to go away... oh boy would I be crying. It's called... wait for it... PC-Com. Now, does that name inspire you or WHAT??? OK, so maybe it has a lame name. ... http://www.macroking.com/like-shortcuts-youll-love-this If you don't know how well you're indexed, how can you know what you need to do next? If you build portal sites especially, pages = income, and therefore more pages = more income. But if you don't know from day to day how many pages you have ... http://www.macroking.com/do-you-know-how-well-youre-indexed So far I must say I am VERY impressed. Though far more sophisticated (and therefore, challenging to learn) than most Macro programs, I'm finding that the logic in its design, plus the built in help file, has me creating flawless macro scripts in nothing flat. You can ... http://www.macroking.com/trying-a-new-free-macroscripting-program One of the least efficient ways you can use a computer is to do everything by pointing and clicking. The mouse/trackball is a fantastic tool, but it is SLOW by comparison to the keyboard. I often find myself hilighting words or phrases for editing, and until fairly recently I've always ... http://www.macroking.com/stop-using-that-mouse You may or may not know about the CONCATENATE function in Excel. Basically for those who don't, what it does is allow you to "stitch" things together from different cels. For example, if I were to put the formula: =concatenate(a1,b1,c1,d1) into a cel, the results would be the contents of ... http://www.macroking.com/a-few-favorite-excel-tricks-2 OK, you may or may not have heard of "page generation software". If you build portal sites, well then OF COURSE you know about them. What are they you ask? Well in simplified fashion, they are programs that take a template created with HTML, and do a ... http://www.macroking.com/page-generators-kings-of-crap-2 Well, ok, so it's really AUTOMATION that's King, not me personally, but I take whatever accolades I can get! ;) So, what's this little corner of the net about? It's all about speed, baby. The faster and more efficient I can work, the better off my life in ... http://www.macroking.com/greetings-from-the-king