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Blog EntryWebsite Scraping for AllApr 21, '08 4:40 PM
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website scrapingIf you're interested in website scraping, here's an excerpt from a post I made this weekendwebsite scraping script:

Website Scraping Platforms

Web Harvest is an Open Source, Java based platform geared towards website data extraction. As they put it, Web Harvest "offers a way to collect desired Web pages and extract useful      data from them. In order to do that, it leverages well      established techniques and technologies for text/xml manipulation such as      XSLT, XQuery and Regular Expressions.

Web Harvest      mainly focuses on HTML/XML based web sites which still make vast majority of      the Web content. "Web Harvest looks to be extremely powerful and flexible, and it's free, which is always nice. If you're able to write code in Java, you may want to look at it pretty closely.

The Twit88 blog has two excellent tutorials on using Java/Web Harvest to extract data from websites. Web Scraping using Web Harvest, and Java - Writing a Web Page Scraper or Web Data Extraction Tool.

Thanks to MIT's SIMILIE Project, you can use two of their programs - Piggy Bank, and Solvent - to turn your copy of Mozilla FireFox into a data scraping platform. Both plugins are free under the BSD License, and come with sample scrapers to help you get started.

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Blog EntryGet You Feet Wet With WordPress 2.5Apr 1, '08 6:36 AM
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Jotun at make money onlineBookMarkMoney.com weighed in on upgrading WordPress:

If you're at all familiar with WordPress, you noticed that version 2.5 was released. If you're like me, your WordPress Dashboard is nagging you incessantly about upgrading. Seeing as how the new version is a feature release, not a security release, I don't truly feel compelled to update to version 2.5 yet. I've spent almost two months hammering this site into a shape that I like, and until I know that the plugins I use are compatible with the new release, I think I can resist the temptation fo upgrade.

The Roundup:

Dougal Campbell

Peter Westwood

WordPress DevBlog

Lorelle on WP Weblog Tools Collection

Developer Alex King has been hard at work updating his plugins. I expect a lot more updates from various developers are in the works.make money online


Blog EntryBlack Hat Affiliate MarketingMar 31, '08 7:02 PM
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All this and a lot more at make money onlineBookMarkMoney.com

First off, I'd like to extend congratulations to Ruck, at Cash Tactics. This week he announced that his first daughter was born. It sounds like everything is going well, so I'd like to welcome him to a new world of concern. As the old saying goes: If you have a son you only need to worry about one prick. If you have a daughter, you need to worry about every prick in town. My daughter is only 17 months old, and already the boys her age are giving her the eye. I fear that it will only get worse from here.

Now, on to the goodies.

Affiliate Marketing

For those just getting started in affiliate marketing, Sean at  the Warrior Blog has a tutorial that takes you through all of the steps - researching, locating, and then finally cashing the checks. I wish I had known about this when I had first started out. Your First Clickbank Sale.

Build a Niche Store (BANS) is something I've been looking into for a while. When my wife goes back to work, I may just break down and purchase it, since I've heard noting but good things about it. Affiliate Confession has a 7 part series on setting up and using BANS. A very good place to start if you want an easier entry into affiliate marketing.

Build A Niche Store Tutorials Overview - Parts 1-7 Part 1 - What BANS Does And Does Not Do Part 2 - Niche Brainstorming And Getting A Domain Name Part 3 - Installing And Setting Up Your BANS Affiliate Store Part 4 - Tweaking Your eBay Affiliate Store Part 5 - Adding Some Content To Your eBay Store Part 6 - Article Marketing And Getting Links Part 7 - Using USFreeAds.com For Traffic And Getting More Links

Article Marketing

The Warrior Blog has a tutorial on Article Marketing for promotional purposes. I know that a lot of people recommend doing article marketing, but it seems like a lot of work, that I'd be better off channeling elsewhere.

Mashups

Although it's over a year old, Paul O'Brien's list of Mashups created with Yahoo! Pipes is still a pretty good read to help inspire ideas for your own mashup.

I'm not sure of the date on this one, but SEO Book had a nice roundup of specific Pipes.

If you've been dying to create a mashup, but can't program and can't afford a program, Open Kapow may be for you. Using their simple tools, literally anyone can create a mashup in minutes just by pointing and clicking. Extremely useful if you want to use data from sites that don't provide an Application Programming Interface (API) or Ready Site Syndication (RSS) feed.

Black Hat

If you have a Wordpress Blog, then Jimmy at Seeds for Wealth has a technique for raping Digg's traffic. At best this trick is grey hat, at worst it's black hat, but getting links from Digg is never a bad thing.

Continuing along the path to the Dark Side, Jimmy has tips on getting big trafic from BlogCatalog, and another one for using your avatar as visitor bait.

If you've been wondering how certain sellers always rank so high on eBay's Pulse page, someone placed them under the magnifying glass, and found out that there's a lot of cheating going on behind the scenes. estreet at Watched Item watched some top sellers on eBay Pulse, and gathered some compelling evidence that there is rampant cheating going on.

Datafeeds

5 Star Affiliate Programs has a pretty extensive list of affiliate datafeeds ready for integration into your website. Affiliate Datafeeds are great, because they help generate a lot of content for search engines to spider, as well as helping to monetize your website.

Extensive Squidoo Lens on Datafeeds

Tools

Marc Ghosh at Weblog Tools Collection posted this week introducing us to Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine that works with Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPress installations.Zemanta is a simple FireFox extension that creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress, and makes real-time suggestions for related news stories, Wikipedia articles, and Flickr photos. I'm very excited to start using this. You can also keep up to date with the latest happenings at Zemanta's Blog.

WordPress Plugins

Jeffro2pt0 at Weblog Tools Collection rounded up 10 WP plugins that fight comment spam. I personally use WP Spam Free from Hybrid 6, and have no complaints with it. I do disable it every so often to see how much it actually stops, and It's amazing how much of a difference it makes.

Freebies

Since I like free stuff, here's my link to Robbing Craigslist. If you want a free copy, just link to it from your blog too.

Emarket Scout tipped me off the the following: Freebies for Writers, Authors, and Screenwriters., Self Growth Freebies, and Free stuff for Windows Power Users.


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