Today I released the “black hat” promotion center to the members.  O.k., a Grey Hat, White Hat, Black Hat promotion center.  (what do you think I’ve been doing all week?).

Enjoy, it’s accessible from the BH members area of NSS2.

This post is for the Black Hat and White Hat members.  I’ve provided both area’s with foundation sites.  The black hat is a little different than the white hat - and I go into that in the videos for each foundation theme.

So what do YOU have to do for each foundation site?

1.) Download and uzip a foundation script.

2.) Upload to your server.

2.) Download a content pack from NSS2 and install to your server.  They are released on a schedule over your first 12 months of membership.

The structure for every content pack is the same. You can just add your own content 100 percent and do any topic you want.

3.)  Edit data.php  (notes are in the data.php file).

4. ) Add keywords to keywords.txt.  One keyword or phrase per line. I don’t recommend more than 3 words for each keyphrase.  Obviously if your a white hat you want to keep that list small (5 to 10 keywords or phrases.)  Black Hats have fun - I have some with 1000 keyword phrases.

5.) Add some content.  BH’s use the “dig scrapper” to gather some related content and upload.

6.) If your feelin froggy you can edit the template.  Check out the includes files for pages to edit.  You can also edit each of the related files:

index.php

template.php

archive.php

keywords.php

video.php

images.php

rssinfo.php

etc…..

Just because I have things one way - doesn’t mean you have to keep them that way.

7.)  Enter your new foundation site into the promotion center (black hats only).

8.) Do some of your own promotion.

Remember foundation sites should be pushing links up to higher levels of your pyramid.  It’s up to you what role they play, how much content you add, etc..

Today I added a little scrapper script to NSS2.  It allows you to scrape articles from ezine articles, images from google images, and the youtube code for videos.

It by default pulls in 15 results for each thing based on a keyword.  You can increase this but if you overdo it at ezine articles they ban you.  I’ve found I can scrape a result set once an hour or so and have zero problems.  If I try and do 4 an hour  I usually don’t get much further.  I think about 50 pulls from ezine articles over a short time period and they catch you.

The structure is thus:

images  (the url the image came from)
images/gfx (The actual thumbnail of the image)

Articles (The article from ezine articles.  (H2 tags for the title, p tags for the body)

video (the embed code from youtube).

To add that content to the “foundation” sites in NSS2 you need to do a couple changes.

1.) Articles need to be reformated a tad.  The following code works for me:

Replace every closing p tag in the articles with this:

Replace:   </p>

With:        </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

I use a program called simple search and replace to do this.  It’s free and can be found with a quick google search.

Then you need to make three folders:

video
articles
rotateimage

The html files in the video and article files can just be moved over as is.  But you want to put the files in the images/gfx folder in the rotateimages folder.

Obviously you can use this for other things than the foundation sites.