Archive for: September 2005

If you publish articles on your websites, you know how time consuming it can be. Even if you have ghost writers produce your aticles, you still need to format, add headlines, titles etc before you can publish them to your site… well for over 6 months I’ve been testing a new piece of software that does most of this automatically.

I’ve had hundreds articles written at $5 an article for various websites and used Content Publisher to automatically put them on my sites. No more copy and pasting of articles to your website, or even into a publishing program. With Content publisher it’s all done automatically. I’ve been using this in Beta form for over 6 months now.

Websites I’ve used this on are all PR4 or better on the main page, with all internal article pages being PR3. This on some sites that are only a few months old, and have only a few external links.

Some of the features include:

• Content Publisher creates a separate page for each article, plus an article sitemap that links to each article.
• You organize your content in projects… this makes it very easy to handle multiple sites.
• Automatically import articles from text files… use tags to automatically make title, meta tags and filename.
• Automatically check for duplicate file names.
• Automatically check for duplicate content in articles… imperative if having articles written by ghost writers.
• Analyze articles for density and prominence of the keyword phrases you are targeting… quickly check each of your targeted keywords, at the click of a button.
• Server Side Include generator that automatically creates a related articles section on your article pages… great for increasing internal linking to increase page PR.
• Create templates using some simple placeholders, so that your articles have the look and feel of your main site.
• Content Publisher can create a server side include file (SSI) that links to each of the article map pages… use this on your homepage, and then whenever you add more articles, each one will be automatically found and spidered by the search engines.

Getting back to Hurricanes, including Hurricane Rita. The blog I posted about a few weeks ago is now getting in excess of 350 comments to their 3 to 5 posts that they make daily. Quite amazing stuff when you consider that the blog was likely almost unheard of before Hurricane Katrina. They are now posting on Hurricane Rita of course.

The website shows PR0 in the Google toolbar… I wonder how many visitors a day they’re getting. My blog (this one) gets about 20 visitors a day, and one comment a week. To get 400 comments daily they must be getting in excess of 50,000 visitors daily I think. Would that be an exageration?

Want to put images or photos near your adsense ads… ?

If I told you that you can create groups of keyword-friendly, search engine-friendly and user-friendly IMAGES at the click of a mouse and use them on AS MANY WEBSITES as you want and make money too… would you be interested

I found a program called Image XP that finds the photos, stores them on your server, resizes them to fit your pages and gives you the code to display the images on your pages… even rotates a series of images you have saved, to add variety.

The alternative is to make tables and load images up manually, which is probably not difficult, but rather time consuming. Image XP gets images from 6 different sources at present. The software and images you save sit on your server. It produces the code to add to your pages for you, and after that it is all on auto.

Some quick searches I did got the following results;

“Dogs” produced over 3,000,000 images.
“puppies” produced approximately 1,252,200 images.
“White greyhound pups” produced 42 images.

So as you can see even quite targeted searches still return ample relevant images.

The news about Hurricane Katrina shocked the sh*t outa me. I’m glad I live in Australia.

I am pretty isolated from the everyday news of the world these days, as I don’t have a TV, nor do I keep a radio running and I don’t buy newspapers. All I do is work on my computer when I’m home, and when not at home I’m at work. I get to hear the news in the morning while driving to work, but being in country Australia, the news is mostly local.

While I’m aware there’s been a lot of damage and some loss of life as a result of Hurricane Katrina, I was not prepared for this when I read it…

Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.

It’s been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.

Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.

There are many infants and elderly people among them, as well as many people who were injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the like — all of them in dire straights.

Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of these dead people are kids.

The people are so desperate that they’re doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians.

The buses never stop.

Before the supplies were pitched off the bridge today, people had to break into buildings in the area to try to find food and water for their families. There was not enough. This spurred many families to break into cars to try to escape the city. There was no police response to the auto thefts until the mob reached the rich area — Saulet Condos — once they tried to get cars from there… well then the whole swat teams began showing up with rifles pointed. Snipers got on the roof and told people to get back.

He reports that the conditions are horrendous. Heat, mosquitoes and utter misery. The smell, he says, is “horrific.”

He says it’s the slowest mandatory evacuation ever, and he wants to know why they were told to go to the Convention Center area in the first place; furthermore, he reports that many of them with cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but people are not being allowed through to pick them up.

I have “Bigfoot”’s phone number and will gladly give it to any city or state official who would like to tell him how everything is under control.

Addendum: Bigfoot just called to report that “they” (the authorities) are cleaning up the dead bodies at the Convention Center right now.

I found that on a blog named The Interdictor… scroll down to find it posted on Sept 1st titled “The Real News” at 10:46 PM.