SEO Munchies

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July.

Yes, I’ve  been away since last week friday, and anyone who used the contact form on the site for support got an auto reply saying I will be out.

Before, I start releasing  new tutorials for Traffic X Suite and Amazon Article Maker X I wanted to touch on a few problems I seeing that people are having and I want to leave a few notes on the common ways to fix these problems.

Let’s start with Traffic X Suite.

Traffic X Suite Notes

I’ve noticed many customer have had trouble making blog accounts while others, like myself have no problem making them at all. If you are one that is having problems here are some common reasons why.

 Catchall Not Setup Properly - Your catchall email and domains are not setup properly. I will be making a new manual on this as we only have one that Keith Baxter made a while ago when Traffic X Suite was first released. You can check out his tutorial by right clicking here and saving the PDF manual. Also, your catchall domain file that you must load in Checking Base and Traffic X Base needs only one domain per line. No http://. No www. when adding the domains, one per line to the file. Also, make sure there are no carriage return after your last domain file. Once again, the catchall domain file is a simple text file in it with one domain per line that has been setup to retrieve “unrouted email”. Take a look at the photo below. Your catchall file should look like it, except of course with your catchall domains in it. Another thing, it does not matter what kind of domain name you choose for catchall domains.

 Anti Virus Programs Running Havoc – Another common problem that can cause you to not make any blogs…..Your Anti Virus program. Not only can your anti virus program stop you from making blogs, it can also stop you from finding any MU Hosts with Scout and activating and picking up new blog accounts with Verifier. This is a common problem that makes many programs not work. I’ve helped many friends and neighbors with their computers  before and many of the times their programs don’t work because this little tiny box popped up asking them if they want to block a program trying to reach the net, they click BLOCK, and done. The program will not work. Traffic X Suite extensively connects to the net, finding, making, and activating new blog accounts. The thing is, that little pop up that asks you if you want to block a program does not show on some anti virus programs and blocks our programs right out of the gate. Each anti-virus program is different but most will let you exclude any folders from being scanned and blocked. I recommend excluding the C:\Traffic X Suite 2\ folder and all files under it. Here is the catch, I’ve done remote supports before and I helped the customer exclude the Traffic X Suite folder from being scanned by their antivirus program, and this one in particular, BitDefender, would work, then after it updated it would once again block the Traffic X Suite folder again. Each Anti-Virus program has its own thing so I can’t support exactly on how to exclude Traffic X Suite from the virus program you may be using, but a simple search through the manual or on google on how to exclude folders and files for your particular anti-virus program should do the trick to show you how to do this.  This I know though, those anti-virus programs are a huge resource hog and with it constantly scanning basically everything you do on your computer, it slows it down. I have a huge recommendation. For a long time, I never even used anti-virus protection, because of the problems they cause and all the resources they take up. But, recently found one that I really like and does not seem to hog my computer’s resources, it works perfectly with our programs, and it’s free! I highly recommend using Microsoft’s Security Essentials. You can check it out by clicking here.

Your Location - Over time I’ve seen many users from countries that do not use the internet as much as we do in the west struggle to make blogs. I manually went to google’s search  in other countries and was amazed that not many mu hosts were available. Without any MU hosts available you can’t make much blogs. The 3 major search engines that we search for MU Hosts on, Google, Yahoo, and Bing all will search automatically in your countries search results. The fix for this is running our programs on a US VPS server which runs anywhere from $7.95 a month to $29 and higher. But all you really need is a cheaper one.  I live in the US and I still use Windows VPS servers to run our programs. Why? Because its on a very fast connection, and with a very fast connection the programs are much more efficent in what they are suppossed to do. It also releases the resources  our programs would use on our home or business computers and internet connection.  I will be doing Windows VPS server tutorials with the new tutorials that are coming out  for those of you who are interested in using them. I highly recommend using them. I love them, and use them. It’s also another way that some of our clients are “scaling” their operations which I will talk about in the upcoming tutorials. There is much information on the net on what VPS servers are, and how to use in our case a Windows VPS servers. If you feel like learning a little bit more about VPS servers before I make the tutorials you can click here. There are many good reason to have a Windows VPS server available, and to learn about them. See, you don’t have to only use our programs on them. If you have other programs that hog resources that constantly use the net, running it on a VPS server may be the way to go. Lots of things you can do on it. Its like having an extra computer around on a fast connection.

Correctly Configuring Traffic X Suite Programs - It is real easy for me to forget that their is a learning curve in using our programs. I’ve used it for a while and it’s very easy for me to do things with it. One common problem is just the setup of the Traffic X Suite 2 programs.

For instance, in Verifier, I’ve had customers who did not select where they wanted to save their new blog accounts. So, although they were making blog accounts  Verifer was not saving them anywhere.

I’ve had customers who saved the Scout’s save file in the exact same file that Verifer saves blog accounts. This is a no, no. Scout saves MU hosts to be checked by Checking Base to see if we can make blog accounts on a host. Verifier saves blog account information and also saves a file automatically called Verified Mu Hosts.txt which saves MU hosts we know we can make blog accounts on. The Verified Mu Hosts.txt file will later be put into Traffic X Base to make lots of blog accounts.

It’s very important to have Traffic X Suite programs configured properly. I will be doing new tutorials, that I hope will be easier for you new users to understand.

Now, lets move on to some notes for Amazon Article Maker X users.

Amazon Article Maker X (AAMX) Notes

I noticed that their are some clients who are doing well with Amazon Article Maker X and some that just aren’t. There are a few notes below that will help those of you who are not doing well get the most out of Amazon Article Maker X. There will also be new tutorials coming out with things you need to do to get it working for you, and further on I will teach you how you can scale your operations with AAMX.

Amazon Affilate US – Some of you may be using Amazon Associates Program (Affiliate Program) from another country other then US. You must sign up for an Amazon Affiliate Account at the US site by clicking here. For some stupid, and confusing reason (maybe someone can explain this to me), Amazon will not give you credit for any items purchased through your link if they are from the US (where most amazon sales are made) and you are using a Amazon Affiliate Account outside of the US. Really, stupid right. Yes, overall we are getting screwed.  So, when I’m using AAMX like usual I’m promoting products available to US and other countries, but lets say the person buys through my link is from the UK, I will get no credit unless I have a UK Affiliate account, and that accounts tracking id is what they click through. So, in a later release I will try to do a geo tracking redirect script (if possible), but you will have to signup for each different Amazon Associate program for each country that they allow. If you ask me, its just a way for them to line their pockets a little from every Amazon Associate out there. So for those of you who have a non-US Amazon Affiliate account, this may be the reason you are getting no sales. It is totally alright for people that live in another country to signup for the US program. Thing is, I don’t understand why they don’t have all under one roof so that everyone gets paid for every sale they make, not just by what country they are promoting to.

Keeping Your Blogs Clean - This is someting I need to make a tutorial for, as it is one of the most important things that was left out when Traffic X Suite was first released. I cannot express enough how important this is. You are wasting your time posting if your posts aren’t being posted. For example, I’ve done a few remote supports with customers where I went and checked a few blog accounts in their file, and most of them were dead. MU Blogs go dead, its a fact, unless you start making your own MU Blog networks (which I will be teaching you how to do also, and will be releasing a MU Network installer with Traffic X Suite). Posting to blogs that don’t work are a waste of your time, and you won’t make money that way. I will be making a tutorial on how I clean my blogs, but I basically do it every 2 to 3 weeks. I will find that I lost a nice amount of blogs in that time, and I will just make more.  You can clean it more often if you like, but I do fine just cleaning mine every 2 to 3 weeks. How do you clean your blogs and get the bad ones out. Use the free ENABLE XMLRPC AND CLEAN TOOL that is already packed in the latest version of Traffic X Suite 2. Also, before the cleaning tutorials come out, you can check out what the tool does by clicking here.

Check Your Blog Accounts And See If There Are Posts – Ok, pretty simple, but its overlooked. You won’t make any money if your blogs have not posts on them right. You need to open up your blog account files you are posting to and check a few of them to see if anything is being posted. This is overlooked by many. I had one remote support recently where the customer was posting with AAMX for 2 weeks and was not making any money, or even a click. Now, if you aren’t even having a click, something is very wrong (it also could be what I mentioned earlier, you need a US Amazon Affiliate account). Well, so I went and checked the customers blogs, and there were no posts on it. How are you going to make money with no posts? So check your blogs.

So now you ask, why would there not be any posts? In this particular case the customer did not load a database. There could be other reasons. If you read my Traffic X Suite notes then you’ve heard about what havoc anti-virus programs can play. Another, reason could be that your blogs never had XMLRPC enabled on them, and it needs to be done right away with the ENABLE XMLRPC And CLEAN TOOL. If there are no posts, there is a problem, and there is a way to fix it, because its working fine for most customers. You can send a support ticket in and we will work on it.  The thing is, check your blogs and make sure you have posts on them. Don’t waste your time by making no posts.

Check Your Amazon Affiliate Links On The Blog Posts – Another thing you should also do when checking your posts is check your Amazon Affiliate Links on the posts itself. Make sure it is working. When you click on the link it should go to the products corresponding page at Amazon with your affiliate ID in it. You can see your affiliate id in the url in your browsers address bar. Hey, again, very small thing to do but overlooked.

These next few notes are things I will be teaching in the next AAMX and Traffic X Suite 2 tutorials.

The Age And Maturing  Of Your Blog Accounts – The age of your blogs make a difference on how fast money will be coming in when posting with AAMX or Movie Article Maker. The maturity of it is also very important. I have blogs accounts that are from last year. As blogs get bad, and we clean them out, there will be those blog accounts that stick and never get deleted. I have not done much to mature them at all. I’ve just posted to them, and the’ve aged. Now when I talk about maturing your blog accounts I mean interlinking them, pinging them, and doing whatever you can to get backlinks to them. I will show you some methods that I use and others use t. Infact, I normally don’t do this, because I’ve just let my blogs age naturally. But, if you want to expidite your money making, then its a good thing to help it mature. There is interlinking, there is pinging, and more. I will show you this in tutorials coming up.

Your Own MU Networks – Not all successful AAMX users are doing this, but I have noticed a high percent of them are. I’m not even doing it yet actually. What they are doing is making their own MU Host networks and putting their own accounts mixed in with the public MU hosts accounts and posting to them. Even a good friend of mine, Keith Baxter has kept his own MU Networks and has been making money posting to them with other sources. Why setup your own MU Networks? So you don’t have to rely on other peoples MU Networks to make blog accounts. You will also have more control of the blogs and you can monetize them in many ways, like adsense.

So what are we going to do about this? One of the last tutorials that I will be releasing will teach you how to make your own MU Networks. Not only that, I will be releasing a “mass mu network” installer with a Traffic X Suite update that will be part of the Traffic X Suite 2, and no, you won’t have to pay for it. Along with that, your MU Networks will be free of anyone making accounts on them. Along with the installer there will be an account maker, and only you will be able to make blog accounts on your MU Networks. It will spit the accounts it makes into a compatiable file that you can use with AAMX, Movie Article Maker, Multiplier, and any future content generator/posters that I will release.

Now, when I release the MU Installer and Account Maker it will be in beta. As we use it I’m sure customers will share how we can improve it, and we will work on it. I’m not new to mass mu installers, as I’ve literally made probally near a hundred variations of them for customized programming projects, so it will be pretty good even on its Beta version.

Well, enough talking your head off. These are some notes I wanted to share with you before I release the updated and more detailed tutorials.

I thank everyone for your patience. Don’t know if you noticed, but we got a forum now. You can click here to check it out. You will need to register on it to be part of the community there.

Thanks,
Chad