Introducing Strictly TweetBOT PRO
By Strictly-Software
Today I created a premium version of my popular
WordPress plugin Strictly TweetBOT.
This is the plugin I use on ALL my sites to automatically send out Tweets to various Twitter accounts related on the content of the article.
For example on my horse racing site
UK Horse Racing Tipster I set up multiple TweetBOT Accounts that are
linked to various Twitter Accounts e.g
@ukhorseracetips and
@ukautobot and when an article is posted the system uses the words in each accounts content analysis box to decide whether to send the Tweet out or not.
You can choose to
-Always send the Tweet.
-Only send it if one or more words are in the article.
-Only send it if ALL of the words are in the article.
-Don't send the Tweet if any of the words are in the article.
You can also prevent Tweets being sent if they contain "
noise" words. This can be a list of swear words or other words you would never want tweeted.
Linking your accounts with Twitter is easy and using the new OAuth Twitter 1.1 API.
To link an account you set it up, save it, then when the page reloads a link will appear saying
"Click Here To Authenticate", when you do you will be taken to Twitter where you login and are given a PIN number.
You go back to the plugin admin page
and enter the PIN number in the relevant box. Hit save at the bottom and if the details are correct your account will now be linked to Twitter.
If you have already linked a Twitter account then adding another is easy as it will remember your credentials and authenticate it automatically.
The Admin dashboard will contain information on your last posted tweets and there is a
"Test Configuration" button that will test all your accounts, links with Twitter and any problems you may have. Excellent for checking your plugin is set-up correctly.
The best thing about this plugin is you can use the articles post tags as
#HashTags and with its automatic configuration with
Strictly AutoTags it will wait until the tagging is complete before Tweeting rather than Tweeting on publish which would mean some articles wouldn't have tags at that point.
This is possible because of the new
finished_doing_tagging hook in
Strictly AutoTags which is fired once Tagging is complete. Other plugin authors are free to use this hook as well to ensure actions are only carried out AFTER tagging and not on the "
onsave" action/event.
The PRO version of the plugin is only £25 and contains some very useful features especially if you are sending out a lot of Tweets or have an underpowered server.
It can be bought on my site:
Strictly TweetBOT WordPress plugin
Or on Etsy.com in my shop:
The Strictly-Software shop.
The PRO version extends the performance features including those which enable you to
send an HTTP request to the new article to put it into a cache (depending on the settings of your caching system e.g WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache) and ensure when the first visitor hits it they get a cached version of the page.
In the PRO version you can do the following:
-Add a delay of X seconds so that after the HTTP request is made no Tweets are sent for a while. This ensures the caching system has time to build and cache the new post.
-Add a query-string to the URL as some caching plugins require special keys or query-string parameters to force the page to be cached.
-Use a special user-agent when making the cache HTTP request. This enables you to track the requests in your Apache Access Log as well as white-listing the user-agent to prevent it from being blocked by .htaccess rules.
-Specify a delay between each Tweet that is sent out from your site. This ensures not too many Tweets hit your account at once and not too much Twitter traffic hits your website all at once. Staggering out your Tweets prevents
Twitter Rushes and stops too many new Apache processes from being spawned.
Remember when one Tweet is sent out you will get at least 50 requests to the new post immediately from BOTS who have found the link on Twitter.
This is called
a Twitter Rush and can cause major performance problems especially if you are sending out 6+ tweets (6 * 50 = 300 concurrent requests).
You can read more about Twitter Rushes here.
Any messages back from Twitter such as
posting duplicate Tweets or API errors will be saved and listed in your dashboard so that you can view the status of your last post and all the accounts it tried to tweet to. It will tell you whether the account matched the content analysis or was blocked and the result of any "
sleep" or "
caching" actions.
The PRO version also allows you to:
-Specify the maximum length a Tweet message can ever have e.g 137. This will ensure all Tweets are sent as sometimes when Tweets are exactly 140 characters long they still get rejected by Twitter.
-Turn off the link between
Strictly AutoTags and Strictly TweetBot. If you are having issues with the combination OR just want Tweets to be fired ASAP on publishing whether or not tagging is complete you could turn this option on.
Reasons might be debugging or the use of
categories or
default hashtags instead of using post tags in your Tweets. If you don't need to use the tags against a post then there is no need to wait in the first place so this option can be disabled.
AutoBlogging - Automatic Posting On WordPress
Combining two of my plugins,
Strictly TweetBOT and
Strictly AutoTags, make a powerful force for any
auto-bloggers out there.
If you are posting your articles by importing them from a feed then these plugins make your site a diamond in the dust.
Not only do you have do nothing but when your feed importer inserts a new article
the Strictly AutoTags plugin will do it's job making your article a custom piece of work by:
-Basic content spinning by removing old HTML formatting as B I, FONT and SPAN tags
-Wrapping important tagged content in strong tags to highlight them and tell SERPS like GoogleBOT and YSLURP they are the important words in your article.
-Converting textual links like
www.ukhorseracingtipster.com into real clickable links e.g
www.ukhorseracingtipster.com.
-Converting a certain number of important tags into links to their relevant tag page.
-Adding
rel="nofollow" to existing links in your article that don't already have them as well as those converted to links
Plus
the SEO benefits are amazing (as my sites can testify) as
the Premium version of the plugin allows you to find certain words and tag others. For example you could find words like
al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban but add the tag
Terrorism. You can add as many of these
"Tag Equivalents" as you want.
Also for your "
Site Keywords", the words you want associated with your site, for example for
my racing site it would be
Horse Racing, Racing, Tips, Betting etc, then you can set them to be ranked higher than any other words when it comes to relevancy.
And of course you can specify that words in the Title, H1-6 tags, Anchors, Strong Tags and other content be ranked higher than words outside special format tags.
So the AutoTag plugin does it's magic (read more here) and then once it has completed and you haven't turned the link off between the two plugin
the TweetBOT goes to work sending Tweets out to all relevant Twitter accounts.
The Strictly TweetBOT PRO Version is even better than normal because it allows you to stagger your tweeting so they all don't get blasted at once
causing a Twitter Rush and because you can format each account differently you could have two accounts both going to the same Twitter Account but with totally different messages.
Plus you can use different tweet shortening functions for each e.g
Tweet Shrink or
Text Shrink.
For example if the article was about a horse race at Royal Ascot titled
"Kingman destroys the pack at Royal Ascot" and the first account was using categories (
Ascot, Racing News Horse Racing) as hash tags with the format:
Another Ascot news story %title% which you can read about here %url% %hashtags%
You would get:
Another #Ascot news story Kingman destroys the pack at Royal Ascot which u can rd about here bit.ly/34f53 #RacingNews #HorseRacing
And another account that uses post tags (
Kingman, Night of Thunder, Royal Ascot, Ascot and many more) as
#hashtags with the format:
Racing news from UK Horse Racing Tipster %url% %title% %hashtags%
Would give you this tweet.
Racing news from UK Horse Racing Tipster bit.ly/34f53 #Kingman destroys the pack at Royal #Ascot #RoyalAscot #NightofThunder #JohnGosden
Putting a time delay of 20 seconds in between each tweet would mean that the first tweet would get sent to your account causing
50+ BOTS and visitors to come and hit your new page (a Twitter Rush) and then 20 seconds later another tweet would be sent causing another lot of visitors.
Staggering the tweets prevents Twitter Rushes.
Another new feature is the ability to
send an HTTP GET request to your new post hopefully causing it to be cached by
WP Super Cache / W3 Total Cache or any other caching plugin.
You have the ability to add another time delay after this request to give the caching plugin time to build the file as well as passing special parameters in the querystring (such as special keys or values required by caching plugins to force a cache).
You can also use a special user-agent to make this request so that you can prevent the request being blocked
(for example if you ban blank user-agents like I do) or to identify the request in your log files.
If you don't want to use post tags as
#HashTags you can
use the articles categories or even
specify default hash tags. The system will take the
list of possible tags and then order them by size and try to fit as many into the Tweet as possible.
It will now even try and scan the title of the tweet looking for tags contained within the tweet itself and add a
# in front of the word as this saves room and allows more hash tags to be used in your
%hashtag% parameter.
Buy Strictly TweetBOT PRO
So if you want to
aid your WordPress sites performance consider
buying the Strictly TweetBOT plugin from my site or
Etsy.com or if you
download the free version please consider donating some money.
If you want to
enhance your auto-blogging capabilities then c
ombining the premium versions of both Strictly TweetBOT PRO and Strictly AutoTags Premium Version will do your site wonders as well as saving you time!
If everyone donated just a single pound for
every plugin they had download from WordPress then I would have made hundreds of thousands of pounds by now and could spend my time developing plugins full time AND FOR FREE!
You can also
buy a voucher from Etsy.com for £15 that will let you hire me to set the plugin up for you if you are having difficulties or are not a WordPress or Twitter expert. All I would need is access to your admin area to do the work.
Also if you haven't checked lately
Strictly AutoTags has a premium version which you can buy for £40 and has LOTS more features than the free WordPress version. It also
can be bought with a set-up voucher that you can purchase from Etsy.com.
Also if you could please visit my
facebook.com/strictlysoftware fan page and "like" it if you could. Leave comments and pass it onto your friends and fellow
WordPress developers.
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