Is it just me, or do most sponsor feeds totally suck?

[Bill]

I figured out it was kaktusan after poking around the site for a while, I've seen his posts before. That does make it more trustable, but first person users comments are way more trustable. ;-}

What's the rocket pinger do? It's concept sounds a bit iffy to me... in the sense that it should be mostly superfluous, depending, I suppose, on your attitude about how much pinging one should do.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Chimera

Gallery Scraper was nice, but you must realize also that for those 1000 galleries they scrape the majority have no text

What do you mean by "scrape"?

Most sponsors have tools to let you download delimited lists of galleries, usually with a description available, and sometimes with a thumbnail available too.

What would be ideal is a tool that took a list like that, img src'ed the thumbnail, used a short description for the title, and a long description for the body - can Gallery Scraper do that?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

I figured out it was kaktusan after poking around the site for a while, I've seen his posts before. That does make it more trustable, but first person users comments are way more trustable. ;-}

What's the rocket pinger do? It's concept sounds a bit iffy to me... in the sense that it should be mostly superfluous, depending, I suppose, on your attitude about how much pinging one should do.

I believe that rocket pinger really has outlasted it's time for usefulness. Not that long ago, pinging was really an issue, especially if you were trying to run multiple sites. Most blog scripts didn't do it automatically so you had to do it manually and really ping-o-matic was your only choice for adult. There were others but they all mostly banned adult. Also, back then, ping-o-matic was really suffering through some growing pains.

Rocket Pinger was the first script that I know of that addressed the issue. Like I said though, I think it is pretty much an un-needed tool in todays environment.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

I'm making more sales off of Sponsor hosted feeds than sponsor hosted galleries.
Sponsor hosted feeds are in their infancy and the quality will eventually improve, look at the evolution of hosted free sites
For now don't even bother looking for a decent BBW feed.

Have you seen this one? http://www.xlgirls.com/rss/

[Useless]

I think we should not only continue to have low expectations of hosted content for bloggers, but in fact, should expect even less in the future. And though that's not a good thing for sploggers, it's really not bad for established bloggers or those new to blogging, whom have a better than average understanding of proper linking and SE content creation.

Blogging isn't gathering the same attention and excitement it was a year ago, and even then, some of those who were part of the blogging revolution were warning about the bubble bursting. I wouldn't say that the bubble bursted. It was more of a slow deflation. This state of equilibrium should be good for real bloggers, even if it does mean that fewer sponsors may be willing to make a foray into quality hosted feed/blog content creation.

[Bill]

Has anyone tried this thing?

http://www.adultblogresource.com/gallery2blog/

It claims to be able to do what I described, build a rss feed from a csv list of galleries...

I guess they ask you to put a link on a page reachable by search spiders.

I signed up to try it.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I think we should not only continue to have low expectations of hosted content for bloggers, but in fact, should expect even less in the future. And though that's not a good thing for sploggers, it's really not bad for established bloggers or those new to blogging, whom have a better than average understanding of proper linking and SE content creation.

Blogging isn't gathering the same attention and excitement it was a year ago, and even then, some of those who were part of the blogging revolution were warning about the bubble bursting. I wouldn't say that the bubble bursted. It was more of a slow deflation. This state of equilibrium should be good for real bloggers, even if it does mean that fewer sponsors may be willing to make a foray into quality hosted feed/blog content creation.

Hey Useless I used to think of you as “The Father Of Sponsor Hosted Feeds”

Now I'm thinking your more like “A Varmint That Eats It’s Young”

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Bill

Has anyone tried this thing?

http://www.adultblogresource.com/gallery2blog/

It claims to be able to do what I described, build a rss feed from a csv list of galleries...

I guess they ask you to put a link on a page reachable by search spiders.

I signed up to try it.

Hey Bill I'm curious about that script, how do you like it so far?

[Bill]

Well, it definitely works, and has some nice qualities, including going to the kist of gallery urls and making or grabbing nice thumbs for the rss feed. But it seems to have some problems too.

For instance, as an online tool it hosts and controls the final rss feed - I would rather have been able to download the full finished rss feed and host it myself. Allowing some other website to hold and control my feed makes me nervous

I gather it's a tool meant to be used on thumbblogger. It is supposed to allow you to download and host the thumbs for the feed yourself if your blog isn't on thumblogger, but it seems to have a few bugs.

Here's the blog I'm using for testing - http://www.2anal.net/

Notice what is now the second post down -Anal Starlet Sluts
- that's from the feed I created with that tool yesterday. The image is broken, because their feed is, for some unknown reason, now trying to deliver the thumb from the thumbblogger server, when I set the feed to display the thumb from my server, and uploaded the thumbs for it last night.

My first reaction to it was more positive than not, untill I saw the broken image.

BTW, if anybody wants to link up with that http://www.2anal.net/ splog, my preferred text is "The Anal Net", and I'll link with any other blog or splog, altho of course anal and butt pages are especially welcome.

[T Pat]

I would move on Bill
I haven't had a chance to try out Kaktuson's Gallery scraper yet but it sounds like it would work out better for you.
http://www.cheapestadultscripts.com/gs/
His scripts are easy to install and if it doesn't recieve RSS feeds to edit before posting, I'm sure that would be an easy addition to the script for him.
I added your link to my aggregater

[Bill]

Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion too. The sales text on the gallery scraper program is really thick and crusty - I just want to know exactly what it can do, not read paragraph after paragraph of effulgent praise in sell-speak.

It does say that it can grab text from the gallery - that sounds pretty good. But nowhere does it say that it can take a delimited file and make a feed from it, that I have found yet.

They do have that free trial dealio now, I'm expecting to check it out in the next day or two.

Thansk for the aggregator link - what software are you using to build that aggregator directory, btw?

[HC-Majick]

I just got gallery scraper and installed it, haven't had a chance to actually use it yet, but it does have a bulk gallery import in the admin, and allows you to choose the delimiter.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Bill

Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion too. The sales text on the gallery scraper program is really thick and crusty - I just want to know exactly what it can do, not read paragraph after paragraph of effulgent praise in sell-speak.

It does say that it can grab text from the gallery - that sounds pretty good. But nowhere does it say that it can take a delimited file and make a feed from it, that I have found yet.

They do have that free trial dealio now, I'm expecting to check it out in the next day or two.

Thansk for the aggregator link - what software are you using to build that aggregator directory, btw?

I'm using http://www.newstopica.com/ I'm not thriled with it

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

I'm using http://www.newstopica.com/ I'm not thriled with it

You don't want to know my opinion of Newstopica or the ass wipe that promotes it. But I've got a copy if you want to reimburse me for the loss.

I'm amazed T-Pat has stuck with it this long.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

Well, it definitely works, and has some nice qualities, including going to the kist of gallery urls and making or grabbing nice thumbs for the rss feed. But it seems to have some problems too.

For instance, as an online tool it hosts and controls the final rss feed - I would rather have been able to download the full finished rss feed and host it myself. Allowing some other website to hold and control my feed makes me nervous

I gather it's a tool meant to be used on thumbblogger. It is supposed to allow you to download and host the thumbs for the feed yourself if your blog isn't on thumblogger, but it seems to have a few bugs.

Here's the blog I'm using for testing - http://www.2anal.net/

Notice what is now the second post down -Anal Starlet Sluts
- that's from the feed I created with that tool yesterday. The image is broken, because their feed is, for some unknown reason, now trying to deliver the thumb from the thumbblogger server, when I set the feed to display the thumb from my server, and uploaded the thumbs for it last night.

My first reaction to it was more positive than not, untill I saw the broken image.

BTW, if anybody wants to link up with that http://www.2anal.net/ splog, my preferred text is "The Anal Net", and I'll link with any other blog or splog, altho of course anal and butt pages are especially welcome.

Bill,

Linked you up on:

Blog Maniac - Anal Sex http://www.xxxblogindex.com/xxxblogm...gory/anal-sex/

I Like Big Butts http://butts.pornblogbytes.com/

First Time Sluts http://www.pornblogsurfer.com/first-time-sluts/

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by walrus

You don't want to know my opinion of Newstopica or the ass wipe that promotes it. But I've got a copy if you want to reimburse me for the loss.

I'm amazed T-Pat has stuck with it this long.

It's a combination of Stupid, Stubborn, Damned If I Do, and Damned If I Don't Walrus
I spent a couple days playing with then shit canning another aggregator script last week I’m sure the only way I’m going to get what I want is to get a script coded for me and I just don’t feel up to the grind of putting a project like that together right now.

Hey Bill I spent a couple hours playing with Gallery Scraper this morning
Install was very easy only took a few minutes
It does a good job of scraping galleries but doesn’t scrape feeds
I would buy the script in a heart beat if he added the ability to scrape Sponsor Feeds and Sponsor Hosted Free Sites. Also would like more control over the image grabbing and a thumbnail of the image in gallery details and editing

[Bill]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Hey Bill I spent a couple hours playing with Gallery Scraper this morning
Install was very easy only took a few minutes
It does a good job of scraping galleries but doesn’t scrape feeds
I would buy the script in a heart beat if he added the ability to scrape Sponsor Feeds and Sponsor Hosted Free Sites. Also would like more control over the image grabbing and a thumbnail of the image in gallery details and editing

Yes, I've been trying it too. I'm feeling a little more critical of it than most people here seem to be.

It does do what it purports to do, and the feeds seem well formed and work fine with wpautoblog.

But, like you mention, I wanted more tools and control in the critical importng operations, and I want the same tools in the gallery database editing area.

I don't like that it only allows you to enter a gallery url once, and won't even let you overwrite an older url, you have to delete the first url before you can add it again (and try to scrape it again and re-write the description and long description.

It works best when I use it to import about ten galleries at a time, and then write some original text by visiting the gallery.

I've been using Blog Post Builder and am way more impressed with it. I can do a gallery post almost as quickly, and the post is much higher quality, because I selected and cropped the pic myself, renamed the jpg, put in alt text, and had what I needed to write a good entry.

I was still pretty much planning on buying Gallery Scraper and Blog Organizer - I hope Blog Organizer is more completely thought out than the current version of Gallery Scraper.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Bill

Yes, I've been trying it too. I'm feeling a little more critical of it than most people here seem to be.

It does do what it purports to do, and the feeds seem well formed and work fine with wpautoblog.

But, like you mention, I wanted more tools and control in the critical importng operations, and I want the same tools in the gallery database editing area.

I don't like that it only allows you to enter a gallery url once, and won't even let you overwrite an older url, you have to delete the first url before you can add it again (and try to scrape it again and re-write the description and long description.

It works best when I use it to import about ten galleries at a time, and then write some original text by visiting the gallery.

I've been using Blog Post Builder and am way more impressed with it. I can do a gallery post almost as quickly, and the post is much higher quality, because I selected and cropped the pic myself, renamed the jpg, put in alt text, and had what I needed to write a good entry.

I was still pretty much planning on buying Gallery Scraper and Blog Organizer - I hope Blog Organizer is more completely thought out than the current version of Gallery Scraper.

Bill Blogs Organiser can build a shitload of sites fast and it's nice being able to control everything from one admin
The downside of BO is there aren't a bunch of plugins like WP

I'm going to pass on Gallery Scraper for now, I want to see what photo I'm useing and I'm used to just pasteing the info into a template then pasteing that into the blog

[Bill]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Bill Blogs Organiser can build a shitload of sites fast and it's nice being able to control everything from one admin
The downside of BO is there aren't a bunch of plugins like WP

So you do actually use Blogs Organizer to do part of your daily work?

Would you give me a few examples of the kinds of things you do with it?

How would it compare to something like Auto Blogging Pro, which I gather is the top of the line in commercially available blog control scripts?

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Bill

So you do actually use Blogs Organizer to do part of your daily work?

Would you give me a few examples of the kinds of things you do with it?

How would it compare to something like Auto Blogging Pro, which I gather is the top of the line in commercially available blog control scripts?

Hey Bill I’m not familiar with Auto Blogging Pro
http://www.sexy-solos.com and http://www.retrobro.com are both BO blogs that haven’t been updated in along time. Sexy Solos is Chop’s I don’t know how well it’s doing but I can tell you that Retrobro has made $67 so far this month, and I’m sure it would be doing better if it were a wordpress blog and I was aggressively seeking links.
I helped Chop with his Sponsor Feeds for awhile and we were using BO to post to all of his blog’s it was nice having one admin to manage all the blogs from and the scheduling would be very useful for anyone that writes posts in advance of the date they want them published.
I talked to Kaktus yesterday, he’s graduating in July and will have very little time to work on anything besides his school work until then so I would wait on his scripts if your going to want anything customized.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

So you do actually use Blogs Organizer to do part of your daily work?

Would you give me a few examples of the kinds of things you do with it?

How would it compare to something like Auto Blogging Pro, which I gather is the top of the line in commercially available blog control scripts?

In my opinion, BO is a good blog management tool but it's not auto blogger pro.

If you want to manage your blogs, take in feeds and disseminate where and when they get posted, BO will do a pretty good job of it.

If you want some advanced features like keyword search and replace...well you need apb.

I am currently managing 4 WP blogs with it. Hand written posts and selectively picking where and when to post them to each of the blogs. As soon as I'm able to finish a couple long term projects I'm into I plan on expanding and including feeds as well.

[Pendo]

Originally Posted by Bill

Other than slickcash, which we've all seen, are there any sponsors that make halfway decent feeds?

Yeah, FTV Cash has good feeds.Try them out.