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.

Whether you have had RSS REBOUND for a good while now, or if you are a brand new member of NSS 2 I can almost guarantee you aren’t using RSS REBOUND smartly yet.   This is a little concept overview to both get you hyped up about using it and to smack you upside the head a tad.

 First thing:

Using RSS REBOUND is smart, makes sense, and can make you some big money along with promoting every single niche, website, and affiliate program you can think of.

Second thing:

You can do all that in just a few minutes a day.

Third thing:

Do it.

So what do you do?

Make sure you watch the operations video. It will help you be comfortable with all the features so when I say things like: “Pull in rss feeds”,  you get it.

Rss Rebound should ideally be used as an extra content manager for every niche or market you are in.  It doesn’t matter if you have websites in 200 different niches, you can promote them all in one place, have new content for them all in one place, etc..

Let’s say you have 5 websites (I hope you have more or you aren’t paying attention).  The topics are: fishing, boating, sailing, yachting, and bait.

The first thing you do is set up a category in RB (rss rebound) for each of them.  Then you define feed items to pull in (other peoples feeds or feeds from your sites if they generate them), then you set up keywords.  Once you have that all set up, pull in your feed items, and edit them.

If your pulling in feed items from other people, you can *cough* edit them so it’s all your own.  Change the feed link, change words, etc..  Have the feed item point anywhere you chose.  It will also hyper link your “keywords” you set up one time in each feed item.

You can also manually add feed items (advertising, unique content, etc…)

So your feed is all set up – what to do?

1.) Ping that bad boy and get it listed in as many rss directories as you can.  It might take an hour of set up – but remember your promoting all your sites.  I’m sorry to say there is no good automated system for getting listed in rss directories and the software out there is all buggy (let me know in a comment if you know of one and I’ll check it out).

2.) Import your feed (s) into wordpress blogs to populate them instantly.  You will already have your keyword hyperlinks in there, and your advertising.  Boom.

3.) Use your feeds in site generators.

4.) Use your feeds over at squidoo and other places that let you add feed items.

5.) Use your noggin – I have a list of about 10 more things I do with these, but almost all of them are similar to the above in some fashion.  Consider that you can define how many feed items to have in each feed and you can use the same feed in 100 different places and show different content everywhere.  4 items here, 10 items here, 100 items here, etc…

O.K. so we have 5 feed items now, and we do need to update things every now and a then.  I literally ‘work’ with my install of rss rebound a few minutes everyday making changes, tweaking keywords (hey we need different anchor text coming back to each site right – you don’t want 10 zillion links all going to “yacht” right?), adding advertising blocks, pulling in new feed items, etc…

You could literally use 1 install of RSS REBOUND to automate 100’s of sites, and have 1000’s of places giving you free links and traffic.