14th May 2008
We’ve negoitated a free account for all SQUIRT members to autostumble. This is a peice of .NET Framework software that can run on your computer that will automatically help do social bookmarking exchanges. Please look in the Vault at
Lab for creating your account. You can download the software in the Vault
Autostumble
So what is it then?
- 100% Automated Stumble Exchange Program
- The program is designed to make your page go viral on StumbleUpon
- Rank better in Google- get thousands of StumbleUpon visitors which will get you hundreds of natural links
- Drive thousands of visitors to your page to earn $$$
- Human emulation behaviour: Random URLs stumbled and stumbling delays prevent network detection
- The program constantly runs in the system tray with a simple setup and single click
- Save yourself hours of manual stumble exchanging and don’t risk being caught
How does it work?
Everything has been made as simple as possible. Once you’ve signed up and downloaded the program, it’s a simple matter of entering your user details, the URL you’d like to promote, then hitting the button!
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10th Apr 2008
The vault has now been integrated into part of the forum.. You’ll notice there are 4 sections at the moment.
Scripts
Misc
Databases
User Uploads
Members are now able to share things with the community. When you upload something into User Uploads it will only be viewable by you. These will then be approved and moved to the appropriate category.
There are a couple of volunteers that will help with this.
Please do not upload any copyrighted material as this will be deleted.
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7th Apr 2008
Well march was an interesting month.
As you know bluehatseo.com and robstool.com came under attack from massive DDOS attack.
Its actually still under attack now, however the ips in the bot network have been isolated.
The size of the attack was 65 million page requests per day per server. It took some time to isloate the ips and set firewall rules to move them out of normal traffic.
Nows the time for us to refocus.
We’re working on a user contributed vault, this will also revamp the current vault. Users will be able to upload things to share with the community. All non executeable things will be approved automatically.
However, we will be looking for volunteers to test scripts / executeables that will be uploaded. If interested in volunteering for that send email to me robertmoore(-at-)robstool(-period-)com
Looking forward to getting things done in april!
-Rob
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3rd Mar 2008
Well the squirt layout is now officially revamped.
Back to the grind!
-rob
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29th Feb 2008
In the Labs -> Google Indexing Report, you are able to get a detailed report of which pages on a domain have been indexed versus the pages that have not been indexed. The script crawls your site, then looks up each page and sees if it was in googles index. Once its done it displays the report which shows the percentage of pages indexed as well the numerical counts. It also gives you the list of pages that are not in the index.
The pages not in the index are pages that should be submitted to squirt. This will help ad multiple starting points into squirt.
Also this pulls from the Google SOAP api which doesn’t always give the exact same information as the google.com search. Its also worth mentioning that google has hundreads of datacenters and the results vary from datacenter to datacenter.
A note about other updates.
It has been brought to my attention that there is software out that does a good job of transfering files from one ftp site to another ftp site. The http://www.wsftp.com/products/ws_ftp_professional/ WS FTP Professional allows you to connect to two ftp sites and transfer between those.
The next scheduled update is the “limited” member based invitation system.
Also for the Feb 15th update - forgot to make a post on this.. The template is undergoing some major overhauls.. Some of these are still being ironed out..
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28th Jan 2008
Forum Revamped
Users are now able to send private messages, mark threads as read, view profiles set profiles, the works.
All forum accounts have been recreated.
Your password is the same password you use to login to squirt.
All the old posts are saved in the forum, however new posts that you create will be editable.
The original problem was the way the forum was created, the users were created by putting them directly into the vbb.user table. Although this gave basic functionality the method has been changed to use the internal methods of vbb to create the user. This allows users alot more of the vbb functionality.
Again if you have any issues send email to robertmoore(at)robstool(dot)com.
Thanks guys!
Stay tuned for our update on Feb 15th.
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14th Jan 2008
The SQUIRT processes have been changed from simple scripts to now running as a server daemon.A server daemon is a process on the server that runs 24hrs a day / 7 days a week. Unlike a cronjob that checks every 1 minute, the new setup runs all the time and looks for new submissions all the time. This is a major step in our overhaul of the squirt process.
How does this affect the squirt?
By it running one executable instead of starting a new process for each task it reduces the CPU load by about 80%. One of our major hurdles with squirt is dealing with the CPU power of various servers. Although the SQUIRT server is very powerful machine, the amount of checks that each part of squirt analyzes uses up the most powerful of servers. With the new reduced load this allows us to ADD new features into the squirt promotion techniques.We are currently working on taking the submitted keywords attached to each submission and having some randomly grammatically structured sentences generated for each submission. This will help on some of the network sites that we have developed for squirt members. These network sites and the upcoming generated content will help add a unique content factor to each submission. This will also help get the submissions through faster.You will also see the daemon status in your user panel. It shoes the status of the Linux service such as running or not running and also the version of the service that is running.
What are we working on adding into squirt membership?
Now that we have optimized the squirt processes on a server mechanical level to the most efficient way known to us, we have opened up some doors to adding in some more CPU intensive promotion techniques. [
- Forum Reconstruction using new structure - (This will fix Private Messaging, Post Edits and many other things within the forum) [Expected End of January]
- A new Template - (For the entire squirt process) - An Easier to navigate interface [ Expected 15th of February]
- A clone script - Insert a source FTP SITE and path, and then insert a few destinations, the script then clones the source to the destination, sets all permissions the same. [Expected End of February]
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1st Jan 2008
Eli and I have decided to take squirt in a new direction. Recently the amount of updates to squirt has not been up to the bar that we originally set for the squirt project.
This is mostly due to our project load up until Jan..
We are re-focusing on the entire squirt experience.
We have set deadlines for squirt projects. We will release updates every 2 weeks. On the 15th, and the last day of the month.
The first update in the batch of kick starting the squirt process is a revamp of the actual squirt submission tool. There are several new methods of promotion we are going to include in that. Also a revamp of a portion of the back end to increase efficency.
There are also several other major changes on the table for squirt.
Originally we let past members keep their “forum” account. However we have the need to reinstall the VBB (Posts will be saved) and recreate the accounts. This will fix the problem with the private messages, the editing of the posts and some other user functions in the forum. However by fixing that problem with the forum, the accounts that are not active subscriptions will not be able to be recreated.
This is the update scheduled for the end of january.
We would also like to get feedback on the idea of having a community vault. Exactly like the squirt vault, where you can download various tools and data files, the difference being that the content in that vault will be uploaded by other members in the community.
There is no doubt that the quality of information within the squirt community is astounding. The amount of knowledge within this community is beyond any possible expectations we ever conceived.
With that in mind, I would like to extend a challenge to our little community. We need to double all of our income this year. We’re going to be more efficent, wider niched, higher converstions.
I am very excited about 2008..
I look forward to seeying you guys in the forums.!
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25th Nov 2007
The queue system now allows you to delete things from the queue.
Also navigating within the menus should be easier with more inter-navigation.
-Rob
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22nd Nov 2007
Hey everyone,
First off Happy Turkey day, hope everyone got a chance to hang out with their loved ones this holiday season.
Second, due to popular demand we are proud to announce the queue system for squirt submissions. You can access this by clicking on Promote, and then “Enter Queue System”.
There are 2 methods for queue’ing upcoming promotion. You can do the Mass Add technique which will allow you to queue large lists of sites/keywords quickly.
There is also the single add to queue option where you can add sites one at a time.
The queue system will only submit your available submission.. In other words your limited to 10 submission per day.. The queue system will use your daily allowed submissions automatically.
Also, we have some very cool projects in the works for everyone that are nearing completion. Look forward to more updates.
Good Luck everyone!
-Rob
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