Do Not Be Scared!!!

Main Site And Tools Still Running For Now

By Strictly-Software

Just to let you know that the main site with all the tools such as the:

• Best JavaScript HTML Encoder & Decoder available, handles double encoding, numeric or entity.
• Depacking packed code, even if it's been packed multiple times and reformatting it to a readable state.
• My top WordPress Strictly-AutoTags plugin (Free/Professional), which gives you automated #SEO, deep-linking, and automatic tagging of important words with no 3rd party lookups. No need to check a list of names, if John Smith carries out a wicked crime tonight that is in articles you post automatically then it will find the word and bold it to aid SEO.
• My top WordPress Strictly-TweetBot plugin, that allows you to tweet to multiple accounts, only if certain words are found in an article OR NOT, using different hash tags made up from either #posttags #categories or #default tags. The professional version has a way of caching the page first before Tweeting so that you are not overwhelmed by any Twitter Rush when you Tweet. Timers can be placed between each Tweet out as well.
• Lots of free scripts and code that fix holes in frameworks like jQuery.
• SQL Performance scripts and tuning procedures.
• Plus lots lots more....

Is still working and you CAN STILL ACCESS IT......

All that has happened is that I can no longer can access the server, due to new security on the site that hosts it. They have added an extra layer of security in which sends an email out to an address I have no access to requesting the code they sent out to be entered on their site to get in. Therefore I cannot get into the servers site, to then use their Java applet to get into the server to add my ever changing IPv4 address to the firewall.

Therefore when you try and go to www.strictly-software.com you will probably see some sort of warning message from your browser like the one shown in the picture below. It will say the site is not secure and hackers maybe trying to steal your data - that is rubbish. 

All that has happened is that due to not being able to renew my SSL certificate, the site is no longer https, no-one is trying to steal your data. I just have not been able to put an SSL on my webserver.

So ignore the message, hit "Advanced", then you should see a "Proceed To Site" link underneath, click that and you can still access the site for now.

Here are two examples, one from Brave/Chrome, the other Opera.

Chrome trying to block access to the site

Opera trying to block access, click the bottom link to get to the site

So no-one is trying to hack you or steal your information, just go to "Advanced" and then click the "Proceed to www.strictly-software.com" link.

All I would suggest is if you are going to buy one of my top WordPress plugins that you do NOT use a PUBLIC WIFI SPOT. 

Do it at home, use a VPN if you can, but do NOT do it at as you are walking down the street being connected and re-connected to various BT public WIFI hotspots. 

I am sure 99% of them are safe as the users have no technical knowledge to set up their own DNS server and take you somewhere else other than my site, but just to be safe do it at HOME or on a PRIVATE network.

Hope this helps anyone trying to get to the main site.

By Strictly-Software

© 2021 Strictly-Software

Twitter Rush caused by Tweet BOTs visiting your site

Twitter Traffic can cause a major hit on your server

If you are using Twitter to post tweets to whenever you blog or post an article you should know that a large number of BOTS will immediately hit your site as soon as they see the link.

This is what I call a Twitter Rush as you are causing a rush of traffic from posting a link on Twitter.

I did a test some months back and I like to regularly test how many hits I get whenever I post a link so that I can weed out the chaff from the wheat and set up rules to ban any BOTS I think are just wasting me money.

Most of these BOTS are also stupid.

If you post the same link to multiple Twitter accounts e.g by using my Wordpress plugin - Strictly Tweetbot then the same BOT will come to the same page multiple times.

Why? Who wrote such crap code and why don't they check before hitting a site that they haven't just crawled that link. I cannot believe the developers at Yahoo cannot write a BOT that works out they have just crawled a page before doing it two more times.

Some BOTS are obviously needed such as the major SERP search engines e.g Google or Bing but many are start up "social media" search engines and other such content scrapers, spammers. hackbots and bandwidth wasters.

Because of this I now 403 a lot of these BOTS or even send them back to the IP address they came from with an ISAPI rewrite rule as they don't provide me with any benefit and just steal bandwidth and cost me money.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (?:Spider|MJ12bot|seomax|atomic|collect|e?mail|magnet|reaper|tools\.ua\.random|siphon|sweeper|harvest|(?:microsoft\surl\scontrol)|wolf) [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://%{REMOTE_ADDR} [L,R=301]

However if you are using my Strictly Tweet BOT plugin which can post multiple tweets to the same or multiple accounts then the new version allows you to pre-post a page which hopefully gets cached by the caching plugin you should be using (WP SUPER CACHE or W3 TOTAL CACHE etc) before the article is made public and the BOT looking at Twitter for URL's to scrape can get to it.

The aim is to get the page cached BEFORE multiple occurrences of BOTS hit the page. If the page is already cached then the load on your server should be a lot less than if every BOT's loading of the page was trying to cache the page at the same time (due to the quickness of their visit). 

However if you are auto blogging and using my TweetBOT you might be interested in Strictly TweetBOT PRO as it had extra features for people who are tweeting to multiple accounts or multiple tweet in different formats to the same account. These new features are all designed to reduce the hit from a Twitter Rush.

The paid for version allows you to do the following:

• Make an HTTP request to the new post before Tweeting anything. If you have a caching plugin on your site then this should put the new post into the cache so that when the Twitter Rush comes they all hit a cached page and not a dynamically created one.
• Add a query-string to the URL of the new post when making an HTTP request to aid caching. Some plugins like WP Super Cache allow you to force an uncached page to be loaded with a querystring. So this will enable the new page to be loaded and re-cached.
• Delay tweeting for N seconds after making the HTTP request to cache your post. This will help you ensure that the post is in the cache before the Twitter Rush.
• Add a delay between each Tweet that is sent out. If you are tweeting to multiple accounts you will cause multiple Twitter Rushes. Therefore staggering the hits aids performance.

I did a test this morning to see how much traffic was generated by a test post. I got almost 50 responses within 2 seconds!

50.18.132.28 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:41 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 471 "-" "bitlybot"
50.57.137.74 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "EventMachine HttpClient"
50.57.137.74 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "EventMachine HttpClient"
184.72.47.46 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
204.236.150.14 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:44 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 471 "-" "JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/"
50.18.121.55 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:45 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
184.72.47.71 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:47 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
50.18.121.55 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:48 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
184.72.47.71 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
199.59.149.31 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Twitterbot/0.1"
107.20.160.159 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "http://unshort.me/about.html"
46.20.47.43 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 369 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible"
199.59.149.165 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28862 "-" "Twitterbot/1.0"
173.192.79.101 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 471 "-" "-"
50.18.121.55 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)"
46.20.47.43 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 369 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible"
199.59.149.31 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Twitterbot/0.1"
65.52.0.229 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28863 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
66.228.54.132 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:43 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 106183 "-" "InAGist URL Resolver (http://inagist.com)"
199.59.149.165 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28863 "-" "Twitterbot/1.0"
107.20.42.241 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)"
65.52.0.229 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28862 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
65.52.0.229 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28862 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
110.169.128.180 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28862 "http://twitter.com/" "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1"
74.112.131.128 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:15 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
74.112.131.131 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:16 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
74.112.131.127 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:16 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
74.112.131.128 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:16 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
74.112.131.131 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:17 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
74.112.131.128 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:17 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.0" 200 106203 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly/) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:18 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
65.52.54.253 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:19 +0000] "GET /2011/11/hypocrisy-rush-drug-test-welfare-benefit-recipients HTTP/1.1" 403 470 "-" "-"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:28 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
65.52.62.87 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:30 +0000] "GET /2011/11/hypocrisy-rush-drug-test-welfare-benefit-recipients HTTP/1.1" 403 470 "-" "-"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:43 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:15 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
199.59.149.165 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:45 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28860 "-" "Twitterbot/1.0"
107.20.160.159 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:59 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "http://unshort.me/about.html"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:15 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
199.59.149.31 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:04:46 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Twitterbot/0.1"
107.20.42.241 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:01 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)"
107.20.42.241 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:05:07 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:15 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:17 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
107.20.78.114 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:17 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com"
50.16.51.20 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:06:21 +0000] "HEAD /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Summify (Summify/1.0.1; +http://summify.com)"
74.97.60.113 - - [30/Nov/2011:07:07:11 +0000] "GET /some-test-url-I-posted/ HTTP/1.1" 200 28889 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"

Latest Version of Strictly AutoTags 2.8.9 - Donation Only

Latest Version of Strictly AutoTags 2.8.9 - Paid Version

By Strictly-Software

I have just released the latest version of my highly popular plugin Strictly AutoTags plugin.

Strictly AutoTags 2.8.9 is a paid for version which means it has features in it that are only available to those people who pay me £40 first.

The new paid for version includes the following features:at

Strictly AutoTags - Version 2.8.9

• Updated storage to handle new data-description and data-pin-desc attributes so they don't get tagged inside images by mistake. The same goes for shortcodes now handled by the Jetpack plugin so that [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USbkB6rVbpc] doesn't get accidentally tagged either if one of the words within the [shortcode] contained a word e.g [customField sales]
• I have added a new tag equivalent mark up language using a simple method that enables you to match instances of certain words BUT use a different tag. E.G if you want the words Snowden, NSA and Prism to add the tag Police State to your article you would use this markup language [Snowden, NSA, PRISM]=[Police State] 
• To then add the tag terrorism to the words al-Qaeda, bin-Laden, 9.11, WTC and Taliban you would add this [al-Qaeda, bin-Laden, 9.11, WTC, Taliban]=[Terrorism] To put them together you use a pipe so adding these two would mean an input box filled like this [Snowden, NSA, PRISM]=[Police State]|[al-Qaeda, bin-Laden, 9.11, WTC, Taliban]=[Terrorism]
• I've added an option to set the minimum number of letters a tag must have before it is used as a tag. This applies to stored tags or newly found ones. This allows you to skip tags of one or two letters long even if they are ACRONYMS and you don't want to add them to the NOISE word list.
• I've added option to tell system whether or not to convert plain text links like the wording www.msnbc.com into a proper link msnbc.com This is obviously quite difficult due to all the shortened links you can now get, the lack of protocols e.g //twitter.com/strictlytweets and soon UTF8 characters in URLs.
• I've created a new name function to match names like al-Qaeda or al-Nusra Front or even words with commas in like 1,000 Guineas which would be tagged as 1000 Guineas due to the comma being used as a separator in WordPress.
• I've added a new finished_doing_tagging hook into the plugin so other plugins can act once the tagging is finished. This is most useful when using my AutoTag plugin in conjunction with Strictly TweetBot which allows you to use categories and tags as #hashtags in any tweets that are automatically sent out. Without this hook you can run into problems when you have a large number of tags to search through and it's possible a tweet will get sent with their default #HashTags instead of relevant post tags instead like #Snowden or #NSA on an article about the Police State.
• In my latest paid version I have included a new function which will allow you clean out any HTML added by my own tagging process when it bolds and deep-links tags. I use specific classes on my HTML for anchors and spans so I know how to remove them with regular expressions. Obviously the more articles you have the longer this process to clean up will take. You could obviously clean articles out yourself with a simple UPDATE MySQL statement and a RegExp Replace function call but this saves you from having to.

There is a free version up on the Wordpress site, the latest being version 2.8.8, but this has far less features.

When I bring out new paid only versions I may add a few of the older paid for features into the free versions.

However the whole reason I am doing this is, is due to the fact that although over 180,000 people have downloaded my plugin and obviously think it's useful from Wordpress (and who knows how many from my own website), I have had hardly any donations.

It seems hardly worth my time putting the code out on the web for others when I can just use it myself and gain all the SEO benefits it has brought me (which it has!).

Benefits such as:

• Deep-linking a specified number of the most important words in an article to their "tag listings" page where crawlers and users can find lots more content related to that word / tag.
• Also the deep-linking is done on INPUT not OUTPUT. Which means it's faster to load pages as the formatting is already done. Do something once on INPUT not a THOUSAND times on OUTPUT, especially not when thousands of BOTS and HACKERS come crawling using up CPU and bandwidth!
• Hit Highlighting, bolding or using links, around important words that are key and related to an article is a good way of telling SERP crawlers which words are the most important for an article.Automatically doing this without waiting for 3rd party API's to add new tags relevant to the latest news stories (Peoples names, buildings, companies etc) is a lot faster.

The money I have been donated so far by a few people, usually for adding new features to the plugin has certainly not enough been enough money to warrant me spending the amount of time and effort I have on this plugin so so far - and that's A LOT! This is why I have brought out a paid version as the main version which will always have the latest features in it.

Believe it or not a £2-£5 donation maybe a small sign of gratitude but as this is is proper coding and "Open Source", I thought the idea was to take other peoples code and "change", "edit" or "extend" it. Maybe I was wrong but that's what I did with my first sitemap plugin when all the others were giving me problems. I literally learnt Wordpress AND PHP at the same time just so I could make a fast performing plugin that worked with 50,000+ articles.

Also as I get paid £650 a day contracting a fiver just isn't worth a days work I'm afraid.

Also let me remind those people who still cannot read English:

• I don't work for free.
• I don't add new features into an open source plugin just because you want them. It takes time and effort!
• I don't drop everything to help you configure a plugin which has a simple "Test Config" button in the admin panel that tests everything is set up for you and if not tells you what the problems are and what you need to do to fix them. I do this to save support requests believe it or not.
• I also have a "shit list" for tight wads who have stitched me up in the past. Either by promising me constant work, large payments later on, or payments after the work has been done. If they fail to live up to their side of the agreement or are just plain rude they get their name and comment / email put on my very own "Shit List". You can read some of them here: http://blog.strictly-software.com/2011/10/naming-and-shaming-of-programming.html.

The latest is quite funny, not just because of the broken English but because the person seemed to want me to drop everything and fix something that isn't even broken ASAP!

Not only do I not even support or release new versions of the plugin in question "Strictly Google Sitemap" but the problem the person is talking about is a simple case of him not hitting the "Save Settings" button first before hitting the "Build Sitemap" button - DOH!

Have a laugh as you read (his partially corrected by me) broken English request trying to get me to help him out.

hi dear rob i hope you are fine

i have a very bad probelm
my site hosting has limit and i can't build full sitemap with google xml sitemap by arne

i installed your plugin i see very bad problem
when i installed i went in setting of your sitemap
i changed setting when i clicked in manual building sitemap, 
sitemap build but with default settings

dear rob i don't have time to waste!

If only I could build in a Doofus Config Test button to check the user has basic computer skills first before allowing them to use it that would be a money spinner!

I do like the "dear rob I don't have time to waste!" bit at the end. In the real email he left the end "e" of the word waste but I thought I would add it on to help you understand him more easily.

Yes of course, you have no time to waste so I will just drop everything and fix something for your for free. I think not!

This "Tight Wad" list has worked quite well so far and I have had quite a few people contact me and pay me just to take their name off it.

I suppose they have done a Google search for their own name when they were bored one day only to find themselves on my blog in an article about tight arses who talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

Oh well maybe they should have read the specific part of the FAQ page on the WordPress plugin page that states how they should go about debugging any problem and to prevent themselves ending up on my "tightwad list". 

It's quite simple and in the FAQ section.. From the WordPress sites FAQ Section non the website about the plugin.

I have an error.

If you have any error messages installing the plugin then please try the following to rule out conflicts with other plugins:

• Disable all other plugins and then try to re-activate the Strictly Google Sitemap plugin as some caching plugins can cause issues.

• If that worked, re-enable the plugins one by one to find the plugin causing the problem. Decide which plugin you want to use.

• If that didn't work check you have the latest version of the plugin software (from WordPress) and the latest version of WordPress installed

• Check you have JavaScript and Cookies enabled.

• If you can code turn on the DEBUG constant and debug the code to find the problem otherwise contact me and offer me some money to fix the issue :)

• Please remember that you get what you pay for so you cannot expect 24 hour support for a free product. Please bear that in mind if you decide to email me a donation button is on my site and on the plugin admin page.

• If you must email me and haven't chosen to donate even the smallest amount of money please read this: http://blog.strictly-software.com/2011/10/naming-and-shaming-of-programming.html.

• If you don't want to pay for support then ask a question on the message board and hop

Or maybe they should have read the "Support" page that clearly states I don't support this Sitemap plugin any-more. The main reason being that I got Cancer at the beginning of 2012.

              

Everything moves so fast it is hard to keep up and build business models on top of 3rd party code - just look at Twitter and their culling of all the DM message responder applications that put a myriad of companies out of business.

However despite these other SEO features not working the core Sitemap functionality still works (on non MU sites) and I use it on all of my own sites.

However if you want support you must donate. Otherwise you go onto the list: http://blog.strictly-software.com/2011/10/naming-and-shaming-of-programming.html

I just haven't got time to answer questions in broken English that make so sense as if I "must" help them for some reason. It's 3rd party, open source and free code - sort it out yourself or pay someone to do it for you! Simples!

So there you go a brand new donation only version of AutoTags and some reasons why you shouldn't piss me off :)

If your nice I help - I always like to help others, if I didn't I wouldn't be putting all this helpful technical information on the web on my blog would I?

Just remember I have a full time job, a few companies I am partners in or run on my own, contract work and then when I get spare time I do a bit of coding for the Open Source community. 

However if you know my feelings on Open Source you will know I'm not exactly a fan.

Here is a direct quote from article venting my spleen on the topic.

If you can't code and have put a stupid $50 bid on Rentacoder.com to develop a whole website by next week and expect me to do all your work for you just because you found a piece of my code that does 90% of what you need and you require the other 10% doing for free then you can take a running jump.

People like you are the reason good coders work 50 hour weeks for tech companies and then spent all their free time trying to come up with something that might make some money if the world of programming actually behaved like any other kind of market place.

From the point of view of actually making real money I cannot think of a worse idea for anyone than open source coding. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any other business model that acts in a similar way and leaves the person who produced the goods with bog all and the customer with all their hearts desire at a cost of zilch!

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So there you go basically if you want good quality products pay for them.

Otherwise if you get your code for free from unknown sources don't be surprised if they infect your computer with viruses, steal your bank account details, use your mailbox as spam and put crap code into your system.

Websites For Sale - Buy Now

I am in the process of selling a number of domains and if you are interested please contact me to discuss a price.

Most of these domains also have either code associated with them, Twitter accounts and automatic TweetBots that post to those accounts or post articles to the website.

If you are interested in purchasing this code as well as the domain name then obviously this will cost you more. 

The sites are:

www.hottospot.com

• domain
• website
• Twitter account
• Tweetbot

www.hattrickheaven.com

• domain
• website
• Twitter account
• Tweetbot

strurl.com

• domain
• website

A site I have had to take down due to my hosting company not "agreeing" with people being able to provide shortlinks to their websites!

You can see a screenshot of how the site looked before it was taken offline below.




The prices are all up for negotiation and you can contact me by using the contact link in the footer of the page or from this email

It's a bit hard to get accurate statistics seeing that I have had to take 2 of the sites down and put up holding pages in their place which is why I am using screenshots from Google Webmaster Tools.

However all 3 sites have been around for over a couple of years so they will all have site authority and a page rank of at least 3 to 4.

Plus they will have lots of back links from news sites, football sites, my own blogs and sites and many other sites - and none from spammy directory sites that are totally bad for SEO!

For example for  www.hattrickheaven.com using http://www.opensiteexplorer.org and Google web master tools I got these details:

• Page Authority 32/100 
• Domain Authority 21/100 
• 6,419 URLs indexed.
• 134,077  Links to site.

If you are interested in running your own #altnews website email then I suggest buying www.hottospot.com as it already has over 15,000 articles in it's database and uses Wordpress as its back-end.

You should  read this article on it or contact me at   to discuss purchasing options.

Let me know! 

Strictly Tweetbot Wordpress Plugin

Automatically post tweets to multiple accounts with Strictly Tweetbot for Wordpress

If you are a frequent Wordpress and Twitter user then you might be interested in one of my plugins I have developed for Wordpress called Strictly Tweetbot. This plugin is ideal for news aggregators or auto blogging sites which need to run 24/7 and maintain an online presence across multiple spheres with little oversight.

Most people who make use of Twitter will post a message or two about new articles and it is a great way of getting content indexed quickly as you will see from my own investigation dozens of bots, SERPs and social media scrapers will visit your content as soon as a link is posted on Twitter.

Whilst there are many Twitter based plugins already available for Wordpress I found that they didn't really meet all the requirements that my own auto blogging sites required which were:

• The ability to post to multiple twitter accounts
• The ability to post different messages to different accounts
• The ability to post multiple messages to the same account
• The ability to decide whether or not to post to an account by checking the content of the message. For example I have an IT related Twitter account and on a certain site I only want to post messages to that account if the article in question contained certain IT keywords.
• The ability to convert post tags or categories into hash tags
• Using the new OAuth method of authenticating Twitter accounts without having to register each blog that uses the plugin as an application and consumer.
• And of course the ability to automatically shorten the URLs

As I didn't require some of the other features such as the ability to post a tweet from my home page or create daily or weekly twitter digest posts I came up with my own plugin Strictly Tweetbot.

Used on its own it's great for auto blogging but when combined with my Strictly Auto Tags plugin that finds new tags within articles it means all my tweets have relevant hash tags appended to them.

Another nice feature is the reporting tool that enables you to view from the admin panel the last messages that were posted by the plugin as well as any potential problems with Twitter.

You can download the latest version of the plugin from Wordpress at: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/strictly-tweetbot/.

If you like this plugin you might be interested in my other Wordpress plugins:

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/strictly-autotags/

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/strictly-system-check/

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/strictly-google-sitemap/

For full details check out my plugin page at www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-wordpress-plugins