Monday 27 May 2013

WP Automated Blog Content Posting Tools

Blogging is a great way to build an internet business because it provides an easy way to add fresh new content on a regular basis. Beyond that, the search engines love blogs because of the way all the pages get linked to each other, resulting in websites that get indexed quickly. But the problem with blogging as always been how to add enough content on a consistent basis that will provide the level of fresh new content that is required to get the page rankings to drive sustainable traffic.

That's where the new generation of new technology tools for autoblogging will provide you with lots of help! What was once considered black hat article-scraping techniques, have now turned into sophisticated automated blog posting plugin tools that build real content from multiple sources. And that is what is important in the process... the ability to mix content from multiple sources in one post provides unique content pages that is almost impossible to replicate.

Let's say that you have a niche market with products from multiple sources that you can sell to monetize your blog. With an automated blog posting plugin tool, you can define your automated posts to include articles, video, Clickbank products, eBay products, Amazon products, Yahoo Answers content, and more. Since all of this data is presented in pure HTML by the automated blog posting plugin tool, the search engines will recognize all of the content as unique.

I have set up several automated blogs and am starting to discover a plan to follow over and over as I set up new blogs. Some of these blogs I post one or two new articles per day, others I am posting four to five new articles per day. It really depends on the niche, how many keywords you want to target, and how much content is available that you can auto post.

When I first stumbled across early versions of these tools a few months ago, to say the least I was very skeptical. So I did a lot of research and was very surprised at how many different tools there were available. And just like any other internet marketing tool you consider, there is a wide range of prices and some products are better than others. The real difference between most tools boil down to the following:

    Content sources options
    Monetization capabilitities
    Keyword and content controls

So the bottom line is, if you struggle to write new content on a consistent basis, you might want to consider a Wordpress automated blog content plugin tool.

The best tool to automate your blog [http://homebizdaily.com/blog-for-success/automate-blog-posts-wp-robot-wordpress-autoblog-plugin] is a WordPress automatic blog content plugin that builds unique content on every post your blog automatically creates.


Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?WP-Automated-Blog-Content-Posting-Tools&id=3946636

Sunday 19 May 2013

How to scrape product listings from Amazon using WebHarvy ?

WebHarvy can be used for scraping data from Amazon's website. Product listings under various categories in the Amazon website can be easily scraped using WebHarvy. Information such as Product title, cost, description, details, avialablity/shipping info etc can be extracted.

Scraped data can be easily exported as a local file (CSV, TSV, XML formats supported) or to a database (MS SQL, MySQL). There is no limit to the amount of data which can be extracted and exported. Listings which span across multiple pages can be easily extracted.

There is a small limitation while scraping data from Amazon's website. The first row of products from Amazon's web pages cannot be extracted using WebHarvy. While configuring, you need to start by clicking on the first product in the second row. Or in case the listing displays one product per row, you need to start configuring by clicking on the fourth product, as shown in the demo below. Please contact our support (support@sysnucleus.com) to get detailed instructions (including video demonstrations) in case you face any problems.

Demo below shows how WebHarvy can be used to scrape product listings from Amazon's website:

 The best thing about using WebHarvy for scraping produts from Amazon is that configuring the scraper is incredibly easy. You can start extracting data from within minutes you install the software. And in case you need any assistance you are assured to get a reply from us (support@sysnucleus.com) within 24 hours.

We recommend that you try the evaluation version available for download.

Keywords : Scraping Amazon, Scraping Amazon Product Listings, Amazon Scraper

Source: http://www.webharvy.com/articles/scraping-amazon.html

Thursday 16 May 2013

Scraping Amazon item offers

In my pet project Dealesque, I am trying to compare all offers on a number of Amazon items, the idea being that it can help decide which offers to use to minimize shipping and total cost. Using Amazon Product Advertising API was the logical first step, but it doesn’t return all the offers for an item. It does however return the “more offers URL” for each item. Hence, the old scrapin’ was due, and none too late!

Plain wget-like action would not suffice, since Amazon is taking care to block unwanted traffic. So, mechanize gem to the rescue! It actually allows you to impersonate a real browser:
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agent = Mechanize.new { |agent| agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari' }

After that, you can navigate the site, click away, read any forms etc.
For scraping, what I actually ended up using was to get the content of the “more offers URL” page and parse it using Nokogiri. Something like:
   
page = agent.get(more_offers_url)
root = Nokogiri::HTML(page.content.strip)
scrape_content(root)

For the current development stage, this is doing just fine. Unfortunately, for production use it will not suffice. There will probably be some traffic throttling from Amazon and some benchmarking will need to be done to determine the limits. Also, proxying the requests will probably be required too. But, I leave this for some other times.

The result of scraping the offers for picked items:

Source: http://shcatula.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/scraping-amazon-item-offers/

Monday 6 May 2013

Amazon Product Scraping

Product scraping is important to all companies providing large benefits to those who use it. Be willing to pay for good quality work. By using poor quality product scraping will cost more money in the future. The scraping product is able to do many functions for a business. It can scrape business from the yellow pages of the telephone book, it is able to collect information from places like facebook, email and other popular links.
Using product scraping is easy and cost efficient and can be set up, revised, works easily, and there is support for any questions or concerns. When putting the product scraping together it is best to have all the pieces that are needed so that everything will work efficiently when needed.

First a website needs to be chosen and what information needs to be taken from the website:

Source: http://thewebscraping.com/amazon-product-scraping/

Friday 3 May 2013

WP Robot 2.0 - The Ultimate WordPress Autoblogging Plugin!

WP Robot is a WordPress plugin designed to make it easy to create powerful autoblog sites quickly. WP Robot will allows you to autopost Amazon products, Articlebase articles, eBay auctions, Clickbank ads, Flickr images, Yahoo Answers Q&A's, YouTube videos, Yahoo news and external RSS feed on your blog by just entering the keyword you want the content to be posted. In addition, WP Robot can translate and rewrite any post that it creates. You can include your affiliate ID in any Amazon, Clickbank or eBay post to help monetize your blog.

WP Robot provides a comprehensive, fully customizable, and modular package enabling customers to select the best combination of software to meet all their needs. The software package includes 10 modules that offer an easy to use, powerful autoblog solution for WordPress blogs:

1. Amazon Module

    Automatically create Amazon product posts for any keyword you want to target in your niche.
    Add REAL customer reviews to your blog posts as comments.
    Posibility to scrape the full Amazon description including all tables and images.

2. Article Module

    Automatically post articles for any keyword you specify.
    Templating system to change the look of your posts.
    Option to include author box in posts.

3. eBay Module

    Create good looking eBay auction posts on any keywords you want.
    Add up to 6 different auctions to a single post.
    Editable post template and many other options.

4. Clickbank Module

    Free and included in every copy of WP Robot!
    Automatically post Clickbank ads on your blog.

5. Yahoo Answers Module

    Post targeted questions from Yahoo Answers related to any topic and niche.
    Adds all the answers of the question as comments to the created posts!
    Filter questions by Yahoo Answers categories.

6. YouTube Module

    Add YouTube videos that might interest your readers to your blog without lifting a finger.
    Retreives the YouTube comments and adds them as comments to your blog.

7. Flickr Image Module

    This module helps to add screnshots, images and other media on any topic from flickr.com to your blog automatically
    Has customizable options, that includes choice of image size, licensing and sort mode.
    It can add images to posts created by any of WP Robot's other modules by the templating system.

8. Yahoo News Module

    Post targeted content from Yahoo News related to any topic and niche.
    Choose from many different languages, including English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
    Uses the official Yahoo News API (a free Yahoo Application ID is required to use this module).
    Add up to 5 news stories in a single WordPress post.

9. RSS Module

    Post targeted content from any RSS Feed you can find to your blog on autopilot.
    Posts the full article of the RSS feed (and not just a short description) if available!
    If the module finds any it will also add all the comments available in the RSS feed (i.e. for WordPress blog feeds).

10. Translation Module

    The translation module is different from the rest: It does not add new content to your blog, but instead can translate any content created by other modules into many languages.
    Works together with all other content modules!
    Can translate posts in many different languages.
    By translating multiple times (i.e. from English to Spaish to English) it can also create instant unique content!
    The translation module uses the translation services from Google and Yahoo to translate posts automatically.

Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?WP-Robot-2.0---The-Ultimate-WordPress-Autoblogging-Plugin!&id=3362480

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Delta Ray is experienced web scraping consultant and writes articles on linkedin email scraping, linkedin profile scraping, amazon data scraping, amazon data scraping, yellowpages data scraping, product information scraping and yellowpages data scraping.