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1. To create a dynamic growth file you must check the Dynamic Growth File box in the profile section This must be the only thing selected Once you ve done that and saved the profile close the profile section Search for and select your articles Once you ve chosen those make sure the correct profile is selected in the drop down for profiles then click Create Webpages You now have a Dynamic Growth Data file for use with DWG To find the DWG portion in AM simply click on the upper left where it says File and choose Dynamic Website Growth 44 x J x x x E Import d Delete Datafile s PIR Seve Delete New Cn e T ee YY DWG isn t all that different from the regular portion of AM But there are a few variances Keep in mind all settings placed in the Dynamic Website Growth area are ONLY for Dynamic Website Growth In other words these settings will not change any of the similar setting in the profiles section of AM You can however import the settings from one of your profiles into DWG Likewise to the above any changed setting in your profiles will not affect DWG settings UNLESS you choose to import those settings Just like the profiles you Il need to first create a DWG profile name for everything Just go to the bottom of the screen click New and enter the name you want for this project can be anything you want just so lo2. Title of the R S S Fi C d This will be shown on the websites that pick up your feed so make it targeted ysite for the RSS Feed The website address of the site you are having AM create for you 23 Again this may show on any site that picks up your feed so make sure it accurately describes what the potential visitor will find when they get there Copyright Message Exactly as it sounds Whatever copyright message you want displayed with your feed RSS2Blog Settings RSS2Blog is a popular tool that can be used directly with AM well actually the other way around AM can be used with RSS2Blog You can actually create a file that can be used directly by RSS2Blog saving the trouble of extra formatting of potentially thousands of article files 24 TITLE A Title TITLE Body If you are an RSS2Blog owner then you should already know exactly what their tags need to look like Now that you ve gotten ALL of that stuff taken care of make sure to save your profile again After that you should be ready to move on 25 Using Article Miner Searching Tite thor Category Source Riv Words E E ack Ali Highlighted l create Web Pages cle Emporium Article Hub While searching may sound like the easiest thing possible we noticed that some people aren t taking full advantage of the numerous capabilities I m just going to point out some of
3. keeping that in mind I ll give an example sitemap template later on to get you started Default settings for the sitemap do require editing If you ve already made a sitemap template or have one you ll be using somewhere on your computer that s what this first field is looking for It doesn t need to be in the AM folder installed on your computer you can simply choose Browse and find it on your computer To the right of that is the Links per Page box This allows you to tell AM how many links you want AM to put on each sitemap page AM will automatically start a new sitemap page when the first one reaches the limit you ve set On the next line is a spot to input what you want to name your sitemap page If you name it sitemap html then the URL to that page would be http www yoursite com sitemap1 html Note the 1 after the word sitemap in the URL AM defaults to start at 1 Since AM was designed to add content to sites as well as create new ones we didn t want to have sitemaps that had no numbers and cause users to accidentally save over their website s original sitemap DO NOT input the URL it will be at simply input what you want it to be called i e sitemap html links html sitemap php etc To the right of that is the Starting Page Number This tells AM how to number the sitemap pages assuming there is more than one After creating web pages from a specific profile AM auto
4. Auto generated keywords This just spits out the keywords for that article in succession i e keyword keyword 2 keyword3 etc These are ONLY the keywords generated by AM I always highly recommend taking a quick glance at these after your page is generated to pull out any that won t get searched remember AM has no human intelligence factor so it will choose the keywords and phrases that the article is best optimized for not necessarily the ones that actual people would search for Note This tag only works when doing a search for a specific keyword or phrase Since AM needs to know the term to help decide which keywords are best suited for your page it can only find them if you did an actual search for on a keyword phrase Sitemap Links to all articles in search results This is exactly as it sounds a way to link to all those articles The settings for this can be found in the create web pages section of AM You ll be able to set how many links to be shown among other options Note You can use this tag more than once on a page without getting duplicate results showing on the site unless you have a small number of articles being created This way you aren t limited to pulling your links in a single place 34 Sitemap xx xx number of random links to articles in search results This allows you to use sitemap links in a non sitemap environment Basically replace the XX portion of the tag with the n
5. of the growth data files you have created Remember you aren t limited to a single site being dynamically grown we have a customer that has 71 going as of the time of this writing Next we have the Article Settings This is identical to the Article Settings from the profile section 47 AM Dynamic Website Growth i a x File Websites Tools Website Settings Article Settings Sitemap Settings Snippet Settings RSS Feed Settings RSS2Blog Settings Template Red Circle htm Available Tags Title Keywords Author Filename M Generate Keywords Number of 3 word phrases a i zi Number of 2 word phrases a Lf i Number of 1 word terms Available Tags wailable Tags 5 Title Author 5 Body Miscellaneous Eiruentnet Article Path on Server Number of Articles per Run 5 I Make the Article Plain Text Website LLM Active Save Delete New Close Status 0 articles added to the file 0 articles deleted from the file O Articles Total Not Connected A Tag Settings The tag settings let you customize the tags that AM uses to output various things The numbers of things you can do with the tags are only limited by your imagination Basically whatever you put in these settings AM outputs on every page for you You can point to images like if you wanted an image next to your link to grab attention to them add more space after an output s
6. system e Click Next Scheduled Task Wizard Click the program you want Windows to run To see more programs click Browse Article Miner 1 0 0 18 RN Article Miner Install Program x Browse lt Back Cancel e Select Article Miner e Click Next 59 Scheduled Task Wizard Type a name for this task The task name can be the same name as the program name Article Miner Perform this task Dail C Weekly Monthly C Dre time only When my computer starts When log on lt Back Cancel e Select Daily e Click Next Scheduled Task Wizard Select the time and day you want this task to start Start time 3004M Perform this task Every Day C Weekdays C Every fi days Start date 7 31 2005 lt Back Cancel 60 e Enter the time you want it to run e Make sure Every Day is selected e Click Next Scheduled Task Wizard Enter the name and password of a user The task will tun as if it were started by that user Enter the user name fYourUserN ame Enter the password Confirm password If a password is not entered scheduled tasks might not run ee e You MUST enter a password to login enter it here Scheduled tasks will not run unless you have a password set up and use it for creating scheduled tasks e Click Next 61 Scheduled Task Wizard xj You have successfully scheduled the followi
7. the Article Template drop down box Step 18 Optional If you re using the Drupal CMS and have the Node Words module turned on make sure the Generate Keywords Box is checked Step 19 Click Save Step 20 Click Tools gt Manual Upload Single Site to test Step 21 Click Log 66 Step 22 Scroll to the bottom and make sure no error messages are present Step 23 Check the website itself That should pretty much cover it If you have any suggestions for enhancing this section to make it more user friendly simply shoot me an email 67 Other Useful Notes Help Menu A few little useful things to add A link to the Help page that you originally downloaded AM from is found in the help menu and is called How to A link to the AM forums is found in the Help menu under Report Bug Request Feature You can also see the most recent changes to AM by clicking on the Recent Changes in the Help menu We update this after every new version release of AM Finally the update option is under the Help menu There are several options available Reset All Update Information will simply reset the information AM stores to remember what your last update was This will likely cause you to re download previous updates Download ArticleMiner exe will do just that It will download the most recent version of the executable Update will download and update any and all files that are not current such
8. the things that can be done A broad search This is inputting a word just as you would normally This will return results of any kind that contain your term for example searching for the word dog This would return anything containing the word dog i e dogs dogma hotdog etc As you can see if Article Miner locates your keyword anywhere it will be a search result regardless of whether you simply wanted a specific single word searched for or not 26 An exact search Unlike the previous search this type of search will only return results that have an exact match to your keyword or phrase You achieve this type of search by using quotation marks for example dog This would only return articles that contained the word dog by itself in the article I e dog kennel big dog dog breed etc You will not get plurals unless you specifically enter a plural keyword Phrase searching AM allows for multiple words to be searched so instead of a single word you can match an entire phrase such as VA home loans This will allow you to be more precise with your particular subject or niche Category searching You can leave the keyword search field blank and simply select a category This will pull up ALL articles from a particular category Next there s a drop down box to specify what type of search you d like The types include title body and title and body and title or body Title and body w
9. 2Blog Settings Sitemaps Google Sitemap Sitemap Template File Links per page Update Frequent C Article Miner Templates Fen ff j 50 H ka e Sitemap Filename ing Page Priority of Articles Sitemap php 1 a Sitemap Path on Server Snippet Length Date Last Modified Next Sitemap Text lt a href Filename gt Next Sitemap lt a gt Available Tag Filename lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt lt BR gt Available Tags Title Author Body Filename Profile Save Delete New The first thing under the Sitemaps section is Sitemap Template File AM does not come with a default sitemap template to avoid leaving a pretty big footprint if people didn t customize them keeping that in mind Pl give an example sitemap template later on to get you started Default settings for the sitemap do require editing If you ve already made a sitemap template or have one you ll be using somewhere on your computer that s what this first field is looking for It doesn t need to be in the AM folder installed on your computer you can simply choose Browse and find it on your computer To the right of that is the Links per Page box This allows you to tell AM how many links you want AM to put on each sitemap page AM will 18 automatically start a new sitemap page when the first one reaches the limit you ve set On the next line is a spot
10. Article Miner User s Manual Before getting too far into the manual itself let me first take this opportunity to thank you for purchasing Article Miner AM as we like to refer to it is the result of months of programming by a single person It was designed from scratch with input on numerous functions and capabilities along the way by various beta testers and of course our users thanks guys We ve continued to improve add to and enhance Article Miner on a nearly constant basis As such please understand that this manual may need to be changed often Sometimes both Tom and I are quite busy and changing documentation isn t the highest priority if you run into something that you have questions about please begin by using the forum at http www articleminer com phpBB2 Likewise if you have any problems please begin by posting there first This gives us the ability to answer a question only once when several people have it Should Tom decide that the problem requires additional attention he ll ask you to email him or in the case that your question is private in nature we understand some folks don t want to share too much info Again thank you for purchasing Article Miner Sincerely Christopher M Schumacher Installation Pages 3 7 Initial Options Page 9 Profiles Pages 10 24 Searching Pages 25 29 Using the Template Editor Pages 30 37 User Database Pages 38 40 Creating Web Pages Pages 41 42 Dynam
11. as ArticleMiner exe Updater exe any databases that have new articles etc Generally speaking this is the one you ll want to use though pay attention to our update emails as we sometimes have specific instructions 68 Troubleshooting Question I m trying to install AM on a new computer or reformatted hard drive and am receiving the error message that my hardware information does not match your records Answer Please e mail support articleminer com with your AM Username SO We can adjust your account Question I just received an error message that started with Access Violation what do I do Answer Please write down EXACTLY what you were doing All steps to get to that point Then visit the forums http www articleminer com phpBB2 to see if it has already been reported Not all Access Violations are the same so if your problem is not the exact same as someone else s please start a new post with the steps you wrote down in it Question I have updated but an older version of Article Miner still shows What do I do Answer There are a number of things that can cause this problem First make sure if you have a firewall it is set to allow Updater exe to have internet access If that isn t your problem you can open the folder that Article Miner is installed in and open Updater exe manually to update If that still doesn t solve your problem delete ArticleMiner exe and then run Updater exe Si
12. automated installation method is generally pretty simple Before starting ensure the following Simply download the Article Miner installer from the download page you were sent after purchasing After its finished downloading simply run the installer Click next agree to the license agreement click next Article Miner InstallShield Wizard X Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Article Hiner The InstallShield Wizard will install Article Miner on your computer To continue click Next License Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully License Agreement IMPORTANT READ CAREFULLY End User License Agreement is a legal agreement between you either an individual or a single entity and WarOnMarketing for the software product identified above identified as Article Miner or ArticleMiner com which includes computer software and may include associated media printed materials and online or electronic documentation ARTICLE MINER By installing copying or otherwise using ARTICLE MINER you agree to be bound by the terms of this LICENSE AGREEMENT If you do not agree to the terms of this LICENSE AGREEMENT do not install or use ARTICLE MINER Please do NOT order a registration key if you do not agree to this license agreement I accept the terms of the license agreement InstallShield If you want to change the install path you must choose custom Setup Type Select
13. choose this option please make sure you are familiar with RSS feeds and how to use them The Dynamic Growth file is what AM creates for those who want their site to update on its own You can learn more about this by reading the Dynamic Website Growth section Selecting this option will automatically unselect all other options you can t create the growth file at the same time you create the beginnings of your site DWG will add on but only after you have a site begun Finally for those who use the software program RSS2Blog AM can create a file that can be directly uploaded into RSS2Blog for simplicity rather than having to output something then cut and paste and add tags Keep in mind AM will output all the items you ve placed a checkmark next to however you still need to modify each in their respective settings tab P1 go over each setting in more detail once we get done with the general settings That s all there is to the Create Web Pages function 43 Dynamic Website Growth Dynamic website growth is exactly what it sounds like AM will allow you to add to your site in smaller increments rather than creating 1 000 pages at once and putting them all up at once You benefit in several ways 1 You won t get penalized by the search engines that are looking for massive sites to instantly appear and 2 The search engines will come back on a much more frequent basis due to new content being constantly added
14. ction you can press control v Alternatively you can right click on your highlighted section for a menu containing those same options Adsense ads or other dynamic content such as PHP code will not show in the template editor Since they are generated dynamically they need to be uploaded to a server for those functions to work they simply won t work right on your computer Adsense ads sometimes show the public service ads in the preview window but when using multiple Adsense ads it sometimes doesn t show them all Since Google can t access your computer to know the content on the website being built it makes sense that they can t show correctly targeted ads If you choose to use your own template rather than one we have provided you must place that template in the templates folder created by AM in order to view it in the template editor You must also put the images in the images folder located inside the templates folder that AM generates This is where Article Miner looks for the templates and images there is no option to open a template from another folder on your computer at this time Remember if you use a template and intend to put any dynamic content such as dynamic snippets or rotating articles on it you must make sure to name the page appropriately The dynamic tags in AM are all PHP code therefore your template must be named appropriately 1 e yourtemplate php 32 Tag List and D
15. de in HTML AM s template editor is the equivalent of coding using notepad If you don t wish to deal with template creation there are of course other options One such option is to get with one of AM s users Adam Bryner who does template creation specifically for use with AM You can check out 37 his site along with previewing some of his templates at http www articleminertemplates com 38 User Database The user database is designed as a simple and efficient means for you to add your own articles ones you ve written ones you have private label rights to etc to AM to simplify your site creation It gives you the ability to create the entire site meaning unique articles AND republished articles at the same time You can access your user database by moving your mouse to the upper left of AM to File then to User Database Once opened you ll notice a variety of options m 2 Total Articles 12 Save Import Delete User Categories Close Add 39 This is for manually adding an article that has been input in the right hand side Just fill out the fields correctly and click add Do make sure to save after adding articles or at the very least before closing AM The next option is Import Clicking on this opens another page which has all the instructions right there save Change Folder The last option is User Catego
16. ds XML Sitemap and Sitemaps should all be handled through the CMS systems via its modules 3 The scripts are compatible with MySQL databases only The template used for CMS Scripts 1 Should only contain the html code necessary for the article 2 Can only use the following tags Title Author Body Body a b SearchTerm Description Keywords_NOMETA CMS Script Step 1 Open the CMS Script in Notepad WordPad or your favorite text editor Step 2 Edit the variables in the beginning of the script Each of these fields is explained in the script You should be able to obtain all of the information needed from the CMS system itself In Article Miner Step 1 Search and Select your articles Step 2 Click Create Web Pages Step 3 Check Dynamic Growth File Step 4 Enter a name for the growth file 65 Step 5 Click Go Step 6 Click OK to the pop up box Step 6 Click Close Step 7 Click File gt Dynamic Website Growth Step 8 Click New Step 9 Enter a name for the website Step 10 Check the Active box Step 11 Check Use CMS box Step 12 Enter the full url to the script in the address field Example http www yourdomain com Joomla php Step 13 Enter the username and password you setup earlier in the script file in the appropriate fields Step 14 Check the Growth File you created Step 15 Optional Check Randomize Upload Order Step 16 Click the Article Settings Tab Step 17 Select the desired template in
17. dy lt BR gt lt BR gt When output by AM it will look something like this Article 1 This would be the short excerpt for Article 1 Article 2 This would be the short excerpt for Article 2 Article 3 This would be the short excerpt for Article 3 Template 49 This is exactly what it sounds like the template you want AM to use for outputting your article pages Simply use the drop down box to select which template you are going to use you can always come back and change it before creating your web pages if you don t know which one yov ll be using yet Keywords This is where you tell AM how many of each type of keyword to generate for use with the Keywords and Keywords_NOMETA tags AM will scan the articles to find the most optimized keywords and will insert them using those tags AM searches for single words two word phrases and three word phrases You can output as many or as few as you d like Miscellaneous Article Path on Server This is the URL that you would type into your web browser to find the site that the article pages will be found For example for our demo page we wanted everything to be in a separate folder titled fengshui So the article path on server for our article pages would be http www articleminer com fengshui Important You must include that last forward slash for it to work correctly If we had simply added them to the public_html folder it would have b
18. e the site address etc Once you ve done that simply click on Save It s important to remember to save your profile whenever you make changes that way you can avoid having to repeat the process Let s walk through the various settings General Settings Under the General Settings tab are 3 different sections Create Global Settings and Miscellaneous settings Paa EEEREN ate ee Aisha Nia DN TE O OL E LAET ooo The first is Create Sub Directories This tells AM that you want to output whatever AM creates into its own folder Basically it s an easy way to keep things organized for those creating multiple different sites Next is Overwrite Existing Files Pretty self explanatory but basically it s just telling AM that if you ve already got the same stuff created you want to replace it with the new stuff you ll be outputting Usually used for those who have made changes to their site added articles changed templates etc Next is the Default Save Path Rather than force you to save to the same place that AM would normally save to you can choose to save wherever you d like on your computer Just another way for those that like to keep things separate iscellaneous Setti ngs The only thing for this one is the name of your dynamic growth file You can choose to name it whatever you d like but it s recommended to use something you can assoc
19. een http www articleminer com This is how AM will be able to insert correct links such as into the snippets or sitemap tags using the Filename tag into your site The last setting is Lowercase Article Filenames AM by default names your created web pages after the article on the page In general they are all capitalized which means your website URL for that particular article page will have capital letters in it Some people prefer not to use capitals if that s you simply click the check box 50 Finally there s a checkbox called Make the Article Plain Text This does exactly what it says rather than outputting a web page it outputs the article in plain text This was mainly for those that wanted to upload articles into an autoresponder and should only be used as such Next you ll see the Sitemap Settings tab Again exactly the same as in the profiles section C Article Miner Templates Fen fff Sitemap php http CHANGEME 250 2006 01 10 lt a href Filename gt Next Sitemap lt a gt lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt lt BR gt ts r Active Save Delete New D articles added to the file 0 articles deleted from the file O Articles Total Status The first thing under the Sitemaps section is Sitemap Template File AM does not come with a default sitemap template to avoid leaving a pretty big 51 footprint if people didn t customize them
20. election etc The first setting is the Sitemap Tag Item This affects the Sitemap and Sitemap xx The description of what each tag does can be found under the Template Editor section of this manual We have a default value set but as I said you can change this to whatever you d like The tags available for use for each item can be found on the right hand side Our default value is lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt lt BR gt 48 So if you used either the Sitemap or Sitemap xx tag it would have the title of the article hyperlinked to the page containing that article followed by one blank line So if there were 3 articles the output of the tag would look like this Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 The next item under the tag settings is for the snippet tag Again this only pertains to your article pages The only real difference between this tag and the sitemap tag is the addition of the Body tag for use in it The body tag is basically what AM uses to add the short excerpt of the article to your link You can specify whatever length you d like for the snippet in the box titled Snippet Length This value is not the number of words but the number of characters Article Miner also automatically rounds this to the nearest word to prevent cutting off any words The default value for this field looks like this lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Bo
21. es inti Mara neefil articlas ta prama amail ne The template editor is our way of allowing users to edit and make changes to their template without leaving the program It also updates automatically which allows you to see a preview of what your page will look like As you make changes AM refreshes the website preview portion to show what effect your change has on your site Please remember Even though it updates in real time and gives the appearance that changes to your template are being saved they aren t You must remember to save any changes you make to your template before closing the template editor 31 This portion of AM is also where you will find the numerous tags and short descriptions of what they do If you choose to edit your template outside of AM be sure to refer to this manual for the tags and what impact they will have on the finished site To change the template you want to work with click on the link in the upper left that says Templates This will bring up a full list of templates that AM has found in its templates folder If you add a template while AM is open simply go to the Templates button and select Re Scan and AM will update Before I get into the tags here are a few things to keep in mind regarding the template editor portion of the program You can copy a selection of the code by highlighting it with your mouse then pressing control c To paste a copied sele
22. escriptions Title Title of Article Wherever you want the title of your article to appear simply place this tag Author Author of Article Body Body of Article Body a b a part number of article b total number of parts For example if you wanted to split an article into 5 pieces the tag for the first piece of the article would be Body 1 5 You would place that tag wherever you want the first part of the article to go The next tag would be Body 2 5 You would continue until you had all five parts listed Description Short excerpt 200 characters This is exactly as it sounds It s simply a short excerpt of the article SearchTerm Search keywords This allows you to place just the keyword s that you typed into the search box somewhere on your site Obviously if you didn t do a search you won t be able to use this tag Keywords Auto generated keywords with META code 33 Using this will automatically add a few additional META tags to your code These include a googlebot follow tag and a robots follow tag Some people find them useful others see them as unneeded and should use the next tag Note This tag only works when doing a search for a specific keyword or phrase Since AM needs to know the term to help decide which keywords are best suited for your page it can only find them if you did an actual search for on a keyword phrase Keywords_NOMETA
23. forward slash for it to work correctly To the right of that is again a place where you can set snippet length This tells AM how many characters to add from the article and is placed by using the body tag Most people don t use snippets in their sitemaps but it can be a great way to get clicks to an article if a visitor should happen to stumble upon your sitemap Below those you ll find a box labeled Next Sitemap Text If you are going to have more than a one page sitemap we figured it would be nice if you could decide what the text leading to the next sitemap would be Simply enter in whatever you want it to say For example our demo page says Feng Shui Articles Continued Next we have the Link Code box This is very similar to the snippet tag field from the Article Settings that we already went over Basically you can customize how the links on your sitemap page appear here Google Sitemap If you ve checked the box for AM to create a Google XML sitemap for your pages this is where you can specify the details for it Update frequency is simply how often your site gets updated If you update your site daily such as using Dynamic Website Growth choose daily If you don t intend to add on to your site select never You can also set a priority for the articles I believe 1 00 is the highest priority Finally the date last modified AM inputs the current date automatically but you can always put in w
24. hatever you d like for example if you don t plan on putting the site up for a few days you may want to put the date out a few days That should pretty much cover the sitemap settings Snippet Settings The snippet settings are very much like the Snippet Tag Item from the Article Pages Settings This will only affect the snippet file So while it seems redundant to have a similar setting it is necessary to allow the flexibility to make all the different file types unique It s also important to note that at the current time the snippets are output into a single file In other words if you have 100 articles all 100 snippets 20 are contained in a single file or two if you are using two different snippet styles AM Article Miner v1 4 4 Database Date 01 01 2006 oog File Profiles Templates saches Help General Settings Article Settings Sitemap Settings Snippet Settings RSs Feed Settings RSS2Blog Settings Snippet File 1 ippet Template Snippet Filename Arale Tags ST lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR gt Title Snippet Length Author iso Body Filename Snippet File 2 Snippet Template ippet Filename avatble Togs EE Title Snippet Length Author Body Filename lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR gt Profile Save De
25. iate with your site Again this is mainly for those doing numerous websites as it allows them to also run Dynamic Website Growth for different websites you can run one for your site on dogs and one for your site on cats and one for your site on birds etc Article Settings It s important to realize that all the items on this tab affect only your article pages In other words it won t affect a sitemap page nor will it affect an index page Everything here is strictly for pages with articles that AM has output for you AM Article Miner v1 4 4 Database Date 01 01 2006 BAX Eile Profiles Templates Searc Help General Settings Article Settings sitemap Settings Snippet Settings RSS Feed Settings RSS2Blog Settings Tag Settings Article Templates ONLY Template Sitemap Tag Item Affects Sitemap and Sitemap xx i Red Circle html ial lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt lt BR gt Available Tags Title Keywords Author Filename V Generate Keywords Number of 3 word phrases E 3 Z Number of 2 word phrases DE i zi Available Tags go ES Title Author Body Miscellaneous Filename Article Path on Server http CHANGEME l Make the Article Plain Text F Lowercase Article Filenames Filename Separator a Profile Save Delete New Tag Settings The tag settings let you customize the tags that AM use
26. ic Website Growth Pages 43 56 Other Dynamic Website Growth Options Pages 57 64 Using the CMS Scripts 65 67 Other Useful Notes Help Menu Page 68 Troubleshooting 69 71 Closing contact info 72 Installation of Article Miner Important note for those of you who skimmed over the sales page or missed the section discussing the size of Article Miner It s a HUGE program in terms of hard drive size The main reason for this is of course the fact that all the articles will be transferred to YOUR hard drive We did this to allow access at any time regardless of internet connection It also avoids the hassles that can be involved with an online search of directories such as security measures on the directories that prevent automated inquiries searching We could have put the article database on our own server but again what if something happened and we closed it down You would have been left with a worthless piece of software Thus the articles will all be on your computer If Article Miner s server goes down or is removed you l still be able to use it If the article directories disappear you ll still have the hundreds of thousands of articles they had prior to doing so If you are on dialup it is highly suggested that you opt for physical shipment of the CD containing the Article Miner program as well as article databases It only costs an extra 5 and will save you what would likely be days of downloading The
27. ill only bring up the result if the keyword phrase entered is found in both the title and the body of the article Title or Body will pull up all results that have the keyword phrase entered in either one You can also specify which article directory you wish to pull articles from Simply click on the directory to highlight it and AM will pull its results from just that directory By holding down the control button on your keyboard you can choose to highlight multiple directories and leave out the ones you don t want searched 27 Search Results There are a number of options that can be used once your results have been returned Keep in mind you will either have to press the stop searching button which is the same as the search button or wait until the search finishes to use these functions Searches are sorted alphabetically by title as a default You can change the sorting to the following methods Alphabetically by author Click on the author button above the results This can be useful to quickly identify any duplicates that may have been missed Word count This is handy if you have decided on a minimum and maximum number of words allowed in each article Personally I generally want no fewer than 500 and no more than 1000 Just as with author you can click on the word count button above your results to sort it numerically Keyword Density KwD This shows the percentage of reoccurrences of your ke
28. ing down the page and holding the shift key on your keyboard while clicking on another article will highlight all of the articles in between as well You can also right click a selection of highlighted items to check them all at once to save time That pretty much covers the search portion of AM As always we continuously look for ways to improve it so keep an eye out for anything new 30 Using the Template Editor W Article Miner v1 4 4 Database Date 01 01 2006 Eile Profiles Templates Searches Help Tiflet Title of Article Authort Author of Article Body Body of Article Body atbit a part number of article b total number of parts Description Short excerpt 200 characters SearchTerm Search keywords Kepurordst Auto generated keywords with META code Keywords_ NOMETA lt Auto generated keywords Sitemaptt New Save Save As Template PH En aa Teed e aa _New_ swe Save As P 5 mig Sitemapzact socnumber of random links to articlesin search results Smiet o Snippets to all articles in search results Snippetzact F 3 xx number of random snippets to articles insearchresults Dynamic_ Snippets Title places PHP code for dynamic rotating snippets Dymamic_Snippetsyoctt places PHP code for xx number of dynamic iiin Author Body InstallDictt places local path to template tolder used for to preview pictur
29. ippet in the box titled Snippet Length This value is not the number of words but the number of characters Article Miner also automatically rounds this to the nearest word to prevent cutting off any words The default value for this field looks like this lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR gt When output by AM it will look something like this Article 1 This would be the short excerpt for Article 1 Article 2 This would be the short excerpt for Article 2 Article 3 This would be the short excerpt for Article 3 Template This is exactly what it sounds like the template you want AM to use for outputting your article pages Simply use the drop down box to select which template you are going to use you can always come back and change it before creating your web pages if you don t know which one yov ll be using yet Keywords This is where you tell AM how many of each type of keyword to generate for use with the Keywords and Keywords_NOMETA tags AM will scan the articles to find the most optimized keywords and will insert them using those tags AM searches for single words two word phrases and three word phrases You can output as many or as few as you d like Miscellaneous Article Path on Server This is the URL that you would type into your web browser to find the site that the article pages will be found For example for our demo page we
30. lete New Close _Save Delete New Close There are two Snippet Tempate boxes which allows you to make two completely different looking snippets without having to click create go in and modify the snippet template then create again On the right hand side you can set the snippet filename remember if you intend on using both filetypes make the filenames different You can also set the length of the snippet that is output As before this number represents characters not words The default setup in the snippet template looks like this The default value for this field looks like this lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR gt 21 When output by AM it will look something like this Article 1 This would be the short excerpt for Article 1 Article 2 This would be the short excerpt for Article 2 Article 3 This would be the short excerpt for Article 3 RSS Feed Settings AM is able to create an RSS feed for your site which can be used to let others know about your site via RSS feed You can add the feed to places like MyYahoo for quicker indexing The settings here are pretty straight forward 22 tings ting tings Snippet Settings RSS Feed Settings RSS2Blog Settings ursite com RSS Description l Feed Filename What you want the feed to be named preferably something that will help you recognize what site it is for in the future
31. matically remembers the last number you left off at so that you can come back and add on later If you need to recreate your web site make sure to reset this number to whatever you need it at I normally use 1 Several times I have had to recreate a third time because I forgot to reset that number Next is sitemap path on server This is where yov ll input your website s URL for where it will be located For example our demo page has the sitemaps located in the same folder as the rest of our article pages which is 52 all contained in a folder titled fengshui So our sitemap path on server is http www articleminer com fengshui Important You must include that last forward slash for it to work correctly To the right of that is again a place where you can set snippet length This tells AM how many characters to add from the article and is placed by using the body tag Most people don t use snippets in their sitemaps but it can be a great way to get clicks to an article if a visitor should happen to stumble upon your sitemap Below those you ll find a box labeled Next Sitemap Text If you are going to have more than a one page sitemap we figured it would be nice if you could decide what the text leading to the next sitemap would be Simply enter in whatever you want it to say For example our demo page says Feng Shui Articles Continued Next we have the Link Code box This is very similar to the
32. n your server If the filename is just a path then check to make sure your Snippet files RSS Feed and RSS2Blog filenames all have something in them AND you have previously uploaded that file to the server 71 Well I believe that just about covers everything If you have any questions or would like to see something added to this documentation please let us know We re always looking to improve things as much as possible As always if you have any problems at all please contact us The first and usually quickest option is by using the forum at http www articleminer com phpBB2 If you have something you d prefer not to share on the forum then by all means use email You can reach Tom AM support at support articleminer com You can reach me via sales articleminer com Good luck with your site Sincerely Christopher M Schumacher 72
33. nce we only keep the most current version of 69 ArticleMiner exe on the server there s no way you can end up with an old one Searching Previewing an Article ERROR There isn t a template loaded at this time SOLUTION Select a template from the drop down menu If no templates are listed check the Templates folder in the Article Miner Directory if files are listed then try Templates gt Re Scan Articles Question How do I change the file extension on the articles Answer The file extension is obtained from the template So if you re template is Blue html then the extension will be html If you want a php extension Copy or Rename Blue html to Blue php Error Unable to Open Template File Solution Select a template from the drop down to associate with the Profile you have selected This error will go away once you have done so DWG Logfile problems If you see this 70 2006 01 08 5 46 46 AM BEGIN manual run of single site lt Sitename gt 2006 01 08 5 46 46 AM END manual run of single site lt Sitename gt Solution The website is not set to active If you see 2006 01 02 1 53 25 AM ERROR Exception Cannot open file lt Filename gt occurred Solution The file is not in the specified directory to be uploaded If you see 2006 01 05 17 33 58 ERROR Exception Cannot create file lt Filename gt occurred Solution The program is trying to download a file that doesn t exist o
34. ng as you remember what it is 45 The first tab is your website settings ftp articleminer com your_userame SAORI public_html articles aEeeRKR public_html sitemaps public_html v Delete Datafile s Under update you are simply choosing which files you wish AM to update on a regular basis for you It s important to note ALL files except sitemaps and Articles must be already on your server in order for DWG to work DWG was designed to continue to add on to your site and must be used accordingly Next is Import Settings which I ve already explained Under Miscellaneous you can set a date for the website to expire This is so you can tell DWG to stop updating a site on whatever date you choose The default is quite far in the future 46 FTP Settings This is where you ll enter in all the information needed to upload the files automatically to your site Most of them are pretty self explanatory Do remember that you need to include the public_html part for the directories or whatever applies to your server whatever directory you need to upload to for the site to be available for public viewing via the internet Pressing the test button will allow AM to run a quick test to make sure your settings are correct It s important to know that you must include the initial forward slash in your directory location Finally we have Datafile Settings This is a list
35. ng task AM Article Miner Windows will perform this task At3 00 4M every day starting 7 31 2005 Vv Open advanced properties for this task when click Finish i Nescesssncsesenssnsnssonssssencessenssonsnsssnsnssenssncessssnsosesnsnscunsenseossacenscnseusenssesencsssecssansnacenee Click Finish to add this task to your Windows schedule lt Back Cee e Place a Check in Open Advanced Properties e Click Finish 62 Article Miner C ARTICL 2 A4RTICL 1 EXE scheduled C ARTICL 2 YourUserNamel e At the end of the Run line add a space and the word scheduled e Click OK e If you d like to test the new scheduled task open the Scheduled Tasks Folder It is in either the Control Panel or My computer depending upon your operating system Right Click on Article Miner and select Run You should see a brief flash in most cases as the program runs Then check your web server for the newly uploaded article and sitemap 63 There is now a log button right next to the tools one in the Dynamic Growth section of AM Selecting this will open the dynamic website growth log file to aid in troubleshooting any problems you may have see the Troubleshooting section at the end of this manual 64 Using the CMS Scripts Preliminary Notes 1 All Article Uploads to the different CMS systems are handled via the DWG interface 2 The program only uploads articles Snippet files RSS Fee
36. rch Save list load list This will allow you to save a list of results and then load them without having to search the database again This is particularly handy if you are merely checking out different keywords phrases and want to be able to come back later without re searching You can eliminate duplicate results by either title meaning any articles that have exactly matching titles will only be shown once or by title and author meaning if the title and author match exactly it will show only one occurrence To use this feature move your cursor up to the searches link in the upper left of AM click on it and click to put a checkmark next to the one you d like to use You can uncheck a choice by doing the same clicking on it You can also carry over checked items from one search to the next Let s say you did a search on the keyword dogs but also wanted articles on puppies Search one of them check the box next to each article you wish to carry over make sure Carry Over Checked Items is checked it s found in the upper left Searches menu then do your next search 29 Other useful tips for the searching area To delete an article from your results you simply have to highlight it then either press the delete button on your keyboard or use the remove articles button in Article Miner You can hold down control to highlight multiple articles at once Highlighting an article then mov
37. ries This allows you to create custom categories for your articles to be placed in very helpful when trying to keep organized as articles placed in unique categories will be searchable on the search page by AM In addition it will allow you to easily see word count and KwD for keywords you may be focusing on 40 Category Name 41 Creating Web Pages This is obviously where we re going to actually be creating the pages themselves i 2 Tg Tie T 7 i sesonenatensereanill a ac 8 a Be Bc AD m O G GEC ie Bek After Clicking the create Web Pages button after you have everything set up this includes making sure your profile is selected as well as the template that goes with your profile from the buttons at the top a pop up should appear with the various options If you want AM to create web pages simply make sure the box is checked If you want AM to create a sitemap again just check the box and of course make sure you have a sitemap template selected in your profile AM can also create an XML sitemap that you can submit to Google 42 You have two separate Snippet file options this is to allow you to create two different types of snippets without having to generate the file then change the settings then generate the file again handy if you want two different styles of snippets on your website as our Demo site has AM can create an RSS Feed of your articles site if you
38. round color and font color to your liking We understand that some folks may not like our default colors or may find it difficult for their eye to handle To adjust this setting go to the top left portion of the Article Miner screen First click on the word File and then on the choice Options You ll see that the two options for background color and text color are shown there Profiles Once you ve set up your preferred colors the very first thing you should do is to set up a profile If you don t have a profile set up or have deleted one AM should give you a prompt to inform you that one needs to be set up or YOU WON T BE ABLE TO CREATE ANY PAGES The settings in your profile allow AM to determine various things for your website You can create a unique profile for each website allowing for a completely different layout for each one Alternatively you can create a single profile and use it for multiple sites on various subjects This is completely up to you and allows you to customize most of Article Miner s outputs Naming and Saving The first thing you need to do is go to the bottom of the screen There you ll see a drop down box which will be empty as well as the buttons Save Delete and New Click on New You will be prompted for a name This can be anything you so desire basically whatever helps you remember what the profile is for can be the keywords for the sit
39. s to output various things The numbers of things you can do with the tags are only limited by your imagination Basically whatever you put in these settings AM outputs on every page for you You can point to images like if you wanted an image next to your link to grab attention to them add more space after an output selection etc The first setting is the Sitemap Tag Item This affects the Sitemap and Sitemap xx The description of what each tag does can be found under the Template Editor section of this manual We have a default value set but as I said you can change this to whatever you d like The tags available for use for each item can be found on the right hand side Our default value is lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt lt BR gt 14 So if you used either the Sitemap or Sitemap xx tag it would have the title of the article hyperlinked to the page containing that article followed by one blank line So if there were 3 articles the output of the tag would look like this Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 The next item under the tag settings is for the snippet tag Again this only pertains to your article pages The only real difference between this tag and the sitemap tag is the addition of the Body tag for use in it The body tag is basically what AM uses to add the short excerpt of the article to your link You can specify whatever length you d like for the sn
40. snippet tag field from the Article Settings that we already went over Basically you can customize how the links on your sitemap page appear here Google Sitemap If you ve checked the box for AM to create a Google XML sitemap for your pages this is where you can specify the details for it Update frequency is simply how often your site gets updated If you update your site daily such as using Dynamic Website Growth choose daily If you don t intend to add on to your site select never You can also set a priority for the articles I believe 1 00 is the highest priority Finally the date last modified AM inputs the current date automatically but you can always put in whatever you d like for example if you don t plan on putting the site up for a few days you may want to put the date out a few days That should pretty much cover the sitemap settings 53 Moving on we get to the Snippet Settings tab Again no changes here Eile Websites Tools Website Settings Article Settings Sitemap Settings Snippet Settings Rss Feed Settings RSS2Blog Se tings a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR Body lt BR gt lt BR lt a Snippet2 txt href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR en O E New D articles added to the file 0 articles deleted from the file O Articles Total Status There are two Snippet Tempate boxes which allows yo
41. the setup type to install Please select a setup type E All program features will be installed Requires the most disk space O Custom Select which program features you want installed Recommended for advanced users InstallShield es acre Choose Destination Location Select folder where setup will install files Gal Install Article Miner to C Program Files Article Miner InstallShield Otherwise choose next then install Ready to Install the Program The wizard is ready to begin installation Click Install to begin the installation If you want to review or change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard InstallShield Once you ve completed installing AM will ask for your username and password This is ONLY for the first time installing 4rticleMiner dil is missing An attempt will now be made to re download it NOTE If you just installed this is completely normal Please enter your Username o o ooo Cancel Download complete The program will restart Installation should be fairly smooth as AM now uses InstallShield which is what many Windows programs use Just follow the on screen instructions Using Article Miner Initial Options Before getting started with a search and creating web pages there are a number of things that can should be done first The easiest is customizing the backg
42. to input what you want to name your sitemap page If you name it sitemap html then the URL to that page would be http www yoursite com sitemap1 html Note the 1 after the word sitemap in the URL AM defaults to start at 1 Since AM was designed to add content to sites as well as create new ones we didn t want to have sitemaps that had no numbers and cause users to accidentally save over their website s original sitemap DO NOT input the URL it will be at simply input what you want it to be called i e sitemap html links html sitemap php etc To the right of that is the Starting Page Number This tells AM how to number the sitemap pages assuming there is more than one After creating web pages from a specific profile AM automatically remembers the last number you left off at so that you can come back and add on later If you need to recreate your web site make sure to reset this number to whatever you need it at I normally use 1 Several times I have had to recreate a third time because I forgot to reset that number Next is sitemap path on server This is where you ll input your website s URL for where it will be located For example our demo page has the sitemaps located in the same folder as the rest of our article pages which is all contained in a folder titled fengshui So our sitemap path on server is http www articleminer com fengshui Important You must include that last
43. tor will find when they get there 56 Exactly as it sounds Whatever copyright message you want displayed with your feed And last but certainly not least the RSS2Blog Settings If you are an RSS2Blog owner then you should already know exactly what their tags need to look like 57 Other DWG options AM Dynamic Website Growth File Websites Tools Website Set Manual Upload Single Site Manual Upload ALL Update Create Task Manual Upload Single Site Basically a way to test if everything is working properly This allows you to do a single run of DWG in other words if you had your articles to upload set to 3 articles per run this would upload the webpages to your server This only pertains to the site you have checked in your Data Growth Files list As with any DWG uploading ensure the active box has been checked next to the website drop down box where you save your settings Manual Upload ALL Same as single site except this cycles through all of your Data Growth Files Create task Scheduled Task Wizard This wizard helps you schedule a task for Windows to perform You select the program you want Windows to run and then schedule it for a convenient time Click Next to continue 58 e NOTE If this doesn t open up a window like the picture you can find the Scheduled Tasks Folder in the Control Panel or My Computer depending upon your operating
44. u to make two completely different looking snippets without having to click create go in and modify the snippet template then create again On the right hand side you can set the snippet filename remember if you intend on using both filetypes make the filenames different You can also set the length of the snippet that is output As before this number represents characters not words 54 The default setup in the snippet template looks like this The default value for this field looks like this lt a href Filename gt Title lt a gt lt BR gt Body lt BR gt lt BR gt When output by AM it will look something like this Article 1 This would be the short excerpt for Article 1 Article 2 This would be the short excerpt for Article 2 Article 3 This would be the short excerpt for Article 3 On to the RSS Feed Settings guess what No different than in the profile section of AM 55 tings Snippet Settings RSS Feed Settings Title of RSS Feed Website http www yoursite com Description of Site Copyright 2006 YourSite save Delete New What you want the feed to be named preferably something that will help you recognize what site it is for in the future Title of the RSS Feed This will be shown on the websites that pick up your feed so make it targeted Again this may show on any site that picks up your feed so make sure it accurately describes what the potential visi
45. umber of links you want shown AM will insert that number of links with a random choice of links to the articles you ve chosen to use for your site Note You can use this tag more than once on a page without getting duplicate results showing on the site unless you have a small number of articles being created This way you aren t limited to pulling your links in a single place Snippet Snippets to all articles in search results This is a great way to make an alternate sitemap page rather than simply having titles linked to your article It will take a small excerpt from the article to go along with your title so that visitors have a better idea of what the article is about You can also set the length and other options for this in the create web pages section Note You can use this tag more than once on a page without getting duplicate results showing on the site unless you have a small number of articles being created This way you aren t limited to pulling your links in a single place Snippet xx xx number of random snippets to articles in search results Same as above but will output the specific number that you put in to replace the XX portion of the tag Note You can use this tag more than once on a page without getting duplicate results showing on the site unless you have a small number of articles being created This way you aren t limited to pulling your links in a single place 35 D
46. use to create your site 36 Dynamic_Snippets xx places PHP code for xx number of dynamic rotating snippets Same as above except you specify the number of snippets to be shown It will randomly rotate that set number of snippets on your webpage The total number of snippets available for rotation corresponds with the number of articles you chose to use to create your site InstallDir places local path to template folder Used to preview pictures in template This is best explained by using an example lt img src InstallDir images spacer gif width 1 height 1 gt As you can see we simply put the tag in front of the actual image folder AM knows to look in it s own install directory wherever your folder with AM is and looks in the images folder for the image you ve specified This allows those using their own templates to see all their images in the template editor preview The template editor works on the premise that you know basic HTML coding and can place the tags given in whatever way you choose Basically it s a way for you to set up your site without having to ever leave AM Keep in mind that this is not the only way to handle things For example you could create your template in Dreamweaver or Frontpage placing the tags where you want things to show up and then import the template to AM all ready to go There s a lot of flexibility and it doesn t necessarily require you to know how to co
47. wanted everything to be in a separate folder titled fengshui So the article path on server for our article pages would be http www articleminer com fengshui Important You must include that last forward slash for it to work correctly If we had simply added them to the public_html folder it would have been http www articleminer com This is how AM will be able to insert correct links such as into the snippets or sitemap tags using the Filename tag into your site The last setting is Lowercase Article Filenames AM by default names your created web pages after the article on the page In general they are all capitalized which means your website URL for that particular article page will have capital letters in it Some people prefer not to use capitals if that s you simply click the check box Finally there s a checkbox called Make the Article Plain Text This does exactly what it says rather than outputting a web page it outputs the article in plain text This was mainly for those that wanted to upload articles into an autoresponder and should only be used as such The sitemap settings section is pretty similar to the article pages except for the fact that it s used for the sitemap pages only AM Article Miner v1 4 4 Database Date 01 01 2006 i Jog Eile Profiles Templates Searc Help General Settings Article Settings Sitemap Settings Snippet Settings RSS Feed Settings RSS
48. ynamic_Snippets places PHP code for dynamic rotating snippets Early versions of AM required our users to input the PHP code themselves which we found to be cumbersome and confusing To avoid that the dynamic snippets tag now automatically places all that code for you Dynamic snippets are the same as normal snippets except these will rotate every time the page is refreshed visited by someone new This way repeat visitors see something new every time Keep in mind that this tag will output ALL the snippets for all of the articles you have chosen Dynamic_Snippets2 places PHP code for dynamic rotating snippets Early versions of AM required our users to input the PHP code themselves which we found to be cumbersome and confusing To avoid that the dynamic snippets tag now automatically places all that code for you Dynamic snippets are the same as normal snippets except these will rotate every time the page is refreshed visited by someone new This way repeat visitors see something new every time Keep in mind that this tag will output ALL the snippets for all of the articles you have chosen Dynamic_Snippets2 xx places PHP code for xx number of dynamic rotating snippets Same as above except you specify the number of snippets to be shown It will randomly rotate that set number of snippets on your webpage The total number of snippets available for rotation corresponds with the number of articles you chose to
49. yword phrase in each article Generally I sort by this and remove any that are less than 1 5 and more than 6 Just as with word count you can click on the KwD button above your results to sort this numerically Article Directory I don t usually sort by this method as I m not overly particular about where the article comes from In the results themselves you can remove unwanted results by simply single clicking on the article to highlight it and pressing delete on your keyboard or pressing the delete button in Article Miner There are also 2 different ways to go about saving your list These can be found by going to the top of the Article Miner screen and clicking on Searches 28 AM Article Miner v1 4 4 Database Date 01 01 2006 File Profiles Templates Searches Help Load Search cle N Load List dig so youden ont Eliminate Duplicate Results Title Author v Eliminate Duplicate Results Title Keyword Carry Over Checked Items Save search load search This will essentially save the term phrase you entered for searching and allow you to come back and research again at a later time without retyping the keyword phrase This researches the database so it will take some time for the results to show You can also use this method to find only new articles on your keyword phrase after an update When you load a search you will be asked if you want to view only new articles from this sea
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