Piece of code that queries EZA for a given string and grabs an article at random from the first results page. Again, this is slow as fuck and shouldn’t be used for production sites.
Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with dom, ezinearticles, php, scraping.
By Pigpromoter
– July 29, 2010
Who says you need UBot to run basic scraping tasks? Here’s a trivial script that scrapes centurian.org. It’s unoptimized (i.e. slow as fuck) but it still does a great job.
Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with dom, php, scraping, ubot.
By Pigpromoter
– July 28, 2010
ProFTPD doesn’t allow resuming of uploads out of the box. Here’s a quick hack around it: edit the config file (usually /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf, but can depend on your distro) and add
AllowOverwrite on
AllowRetrieveRestart on
AllowStoreRestart on
Restart the server and you’re done.
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with linux, proftpd.
By Pigpromoter
– July 15, 2010
Creativity fail or uber leet unorthodox marketing skills?
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with fun, wordpress.
By Pigpromoter
– May 28, 2010
A while ago, our former hosting company took a crap and decided to close the joint. Luckily we weren’t running any money sites on that server, so the loss wasn’t so big. Yet, we lost pleech.com. On the bright side, all some posts are cached by Big G, so everything something will be back. In a while. Stay tuned!
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with hosting, pleech.
By Pigpromoter
– April 30, 2010
I never thought the Haiti disaster would be exploited by marketers. Looks like these guys have found a way of spreading their FB spam tool. And capture leads at the same time. How do you spell unscrupulosity?
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with ethics, facebook.
By Pigpromoter
– February 8, 2010
A while ago I ran across ptcnow.info and, must admit, the sales page lured me into buying the ebook. The $14.97 seemed reasonable, considering the advantages outlined there. The Seller advertises the ebook as being “For all audiences from beginners to PROs”. I have been in the PTC industry for several years already and, must say, this was one of the very few lines that made me buy the book. I hoped for some clueful, insightful information. All I got instead was some “you need to advertise to get referrals” mumbo-jumbo. Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with ptc, ptcnow.info, review.
By Pigpromoter
– January 29, 2010
We’ll post a review of the ebook some time this evening. A straightforward and no-BS/sales hype one. Stay tuned 
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with promo, ptc, review.
By Pigpromoter
– January 28, 2010
Triond has announced yesterday that they will integrate Adsense on their pages.
There will be most likely no major fuss for the great majority of Triond publishers. Average articles get less than 100 views per month and, with the 50/50 revenue sharing split, you’d be lucky to get one click per month. It could, however, scale if you have tons of content published.
It has been said that Adsense pays better than YPN lately. Let’s just wait and see how Google will evaluate Triond’s pages and how high the eCPM will get.
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with adsense, triond, writing, ypn.
By Pigpromoter
– November 3, 2009
Later edit: After being contacted by nic.cz.cc, I re-did the experiment. It has to do with action referral occurrence of one: if the user clicks your affiliate link, picks ONE domain, hits the checkout button, signs up for a new account with nic.cz.cc, then registers ANOTHER FOUR, you only get paid for one sale. You are only paid for five sales if the user registered all domains in one go.
According to their site, affiliates get paid $0.14 for every free domain registered.
1. Earn $ 0.14 for every single Free Registered cz.cc Domain! (source)
What they forgot to mention was that you get paid for one domain per customer. If a user registers 5 free .cz.cc domains (the maximum allowed as per TOS), you only get $0.14.
However, it converts nicely, and the minimum thresold ($ 16.57 <— WTF?) is easy to reach.
Posted in Uncategorized.
By Pigpromoter
– November 3, 2009
