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Ho, Ho, Ho - Santa left RantRave a present

Posted 5 months ago|59 comments|419 views
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It is time for RantRave to see what Santa left for Christmas.

Yep, Santa visited RantRave and left something for everyone. Including Perfect (freaking negative) Horizon. Although Perfect will have to comment on the fact that (Kids cover your ears) there is no Christmas.

So let's jump into the RR present. It is for all.

The site has been setup with RSS feeds for most of the index pages for each category. This is a crucial aspect need for distribution of post to social media.

You can view the process at http://www.twitter.com/@thecypressgang

The automated indexing of posts is not discriminatory of any author.

If the post remains on the site (not deleted by site) it will be posted to social media.

Each post will have at least 4 postings to social media during its life.

Here is how it works for now...

Every post is located in 'All Categories' and moves from page 1 as other posts are made.

Every post in 'All Categories' will be posted from page 1 to social media.
Once a post is bounced from page one to page two it will be reposted from its final resting point.

So, you see those are 2 posts... but did I say 4 posts?

Yes I did...

Not only are all of the new listings posted to social media from the 'All Categories' section.

Each individual section also has the same feature.

So if you post and tag it to politics....

The post will be sent to social media twice from the all categories section AND twice from the politics section. A total of 4 social media posts.

It is time to for you folks to shut up or put up.... get to posting new articles.

What are you going to do?

(Alex Layton - please contact me asap about future plans)

I hope you enjoy your free marketing and remember to write a good descriptive title and a good first line that does not include the title.

Ain't nothing worse in social media than seeing a post that says ----

I'm a Putz that begins my article with my title: (followed by) I'm a Putz that begins my article with my title

Peace and out.

--- Ho, Ho, Ho ---
UPDATE - 5 months ago
A note to the ''Power Users'': Since I have limits on the amount of characters I had to use generic #hashtags. You might try to incorporate your target audience #hashtag into the first sentence of your new posts. Can't wait for the ''Power Users'' to figure that one out.
UPDATE - 4 months ago
I just finished activating all 18 feeds to Facebook. Don't expect too much in the beginning except higher search engine ranks for the pages but let's give it a few days.

Facebook - Cypress Gang

Nothing there until someone writes a new article. Only new articles to be posted starting right now.

Are you enjoying those higher page views?

Just wait. We have only just begun.....

Happy New Year !
UPDATE - 4 months ago
It looks like Facebook has restricted all updates via Twitterfeed.

Twitterfeed is working to get the restriction lifted.

Read more @

http://www.facebook.com/twitterfeed/post...


UPDATE - 4 months ago
FB issue resolved - for now...

FB didn't like me using Cypress Gang as my name and place a hold on the account until I could prove I am a real person.

Done.

The feeds are posting to FB.
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5 months ago: Thanks Bro, that whole twitter has me twitterpated...er patertwitted or something!~
5 months ago: Great job TheCypressGang!

Thank you so much for this! Twitter feed looks great and it will help with promotion of our Rants and Raves.

Now... Do I hear somebody mentioning automated Facebook and Google+ postings? :-)
5 months ago: Once I finish tweaking the Twitter feeds they can be automated to FB with the same process.
4 months ago: Wow!
You are doing a great job! Thank you very much for this free promotion.

If we could only get the Digg and Reddit society going, we would all be doing great. Automation is not possible there but joint efforts are workable...

Who knows what 2012 will bring...

Thanks again!
4 months ago: In the spirit of automated backlinking, I created a RantRave papers. Whenever #rantrave tag is used, story will be added to The Daily Rant & Rave at http://paper.li/DocDarko/1324924925
4 months ago: That is too cool. Every new post from this point forward will be linked as by default the new posts in ''All Categories'' are sent with the ''RantRave'' hashtag.

No muss / no fuss...

THX
4 months ago: You are the Doctor...

When did you start this paper? Looks pro!
4 months ago: Truth, best get to writing. Let's see how the new stuff posts.
4 months ago: I got something up my sleeve...
4 months ago: So here we go....Travel section is now posting....

All sections are posting and every existing post should cycle through the feeds in the next 5 to 6 hours.

After that... all posts will be current and targeted to specific groups in the social media world.

Get to writing and posting. Power Users can search for power hashtags for their first sentence @ http://hashtags.org . If your a Power User you will understand.

Enjoy.... FaceBook is my next target. Then Linkedin... then...

I'M OUT !
4 months ago: Thanks Cypress,

You and the Doc. are going to take this R&R to a new level !:]
4 months ago: Just don't call me ''Code Boy''. My head already hurts from having to crack the aspx code and convert it to html.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
4 months ago: Is everyone's email notification back on-line yet? Alex Layton said the spam attack on the hosting servers caused several email providers to block all emails from that server. He also said that the problem had been resolved, but that it could take a few days for everything to get worked out.

TCG
I'm going to set up a dummy rantrave account under a different email to see if it lets me create a new account. That should answer any concerns about the email problems we were all having.

Great job on the RSS feeds.
4 months ago: To date I am still not receiving any emails. I am using a GMAIL (freaking Google once again) account that forwards to my personal DSL account. I'll get into the freaking gmail and check the spam folder. If they are there I try forcing gmail to pass them through by sender email address.

Will let you know.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
4 months ago: See if you can whitelist them.

4 months ago: I just went into gmail and added

notifications@rantrave.com

to my contacts list. Let's see if that is the fix.

Someone leave a comment......
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
4 months ago: If you are using Hotmail or Gmail, check your spam folder. Yahoo and Ymail seem to be working correctly. Any others...your guess is as good as mine.
4 months ago: First, let me say that I receive E-Mail updates without any problems. So, that's fixed for sure.

I have a different issue on which I never received any response from "official contact."

For some strange reason, revenue-sharing does not work as it should. It is supposed to be 50%, but it looks that it is way below that.

I had over 2,400 views on my yesterday's rant and only 44 AdSense impressions from RantRave site. That is not 50%, it looks as if I didn't get any impressions on that rant at all.

My traffic comes mostly from Twitter, Digg and Reddit which are all respectable sources and not some "black hat" seo.

I do not have this issue on any other site. Only RR seem to be "misplacing" AdSense views.

So, is there any possibility of getting official response on this?
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
4 months ago: Are you referring to page views, or ad unit impressions, or ad impressions?

With all the hi-jinx that has gone on, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has hacked the site and is siphoning off Adsense shares.

Double check your terms, and I'll get word to Alex that there is a discrepancy.
4 months ago: I am referring to the AdSense page views. Figure under Performance reports -> Sites in AdSense reports is ridiculously low for RR considering the number of views reported by RR itself (listed under the rant title on my profile).

My AdSense page views used to be between 25% - 50% of the number of views displayed on my profile. Now, it is ridiculously low.

I hope that there is some official explanation for this.
4 months ago: DrDarko, Don't misread what I said. I'll send you a mssg later via your twitter account.
4 months ago: DrDarko? Ypo can't trust the RR view count as it also includes the spiders. So, If your page was read 100 times by the spiders (13) you have to deduct 1300 views from the RR total.

Using the RR total is not accurate for actual click throughs.
4 months ago: Yeah, I guess that the spiders can inflate the numbers out of all proportions. Still, based on the number of votes I got on Reddit, I expected way more page views.

Best solution would be if we could incorporate Google Analytics for our own posts. If we could add Google Analytics code just like we add Google AdSense code, it would allow us to monitor sources and type of traffic we receive. It would also avoid any misunderstanding...
4 months ago: No, no, no, DrDarko. Don't take me wrong....

I'll break it down for PH....

Let's use round number so the BMa can follow....

RR shows you have 4000 views.

The spider total hits are 1300

So your actual page hits by the public is....

2700 which you split with the site....

Uh.....1350? Does that sound about right?
4 months ago: Yes. Your math is about what I think should happen.
I would also add that, let's say some 50% visitors use ad blocking browser plug-in and should be deducted from the end result.

That should still leave me with 675 AdSense page views (ad impressions) and all I had was around 40! A little too much of a difference if everything is working OK...

Today's figures are more realistic. out of some 250+ total views on my rants, I got 35 impressions. I think that we can safely say that there is some glitch with my rant "In the steps of Che." All others seem to bring in views as they should...
4 months ago: You do know that Google hates this site and has targeted RantRave into the Google dust bin? Right? Wonder why Google hates this site? Maybe just maybe....

We can freely say without censoring by the site....

In my opinion - Google Sucks....

Go figure - a Multi-Billion dollar a year operation (Google) would target such a little site for Google destruction.

Must tell you something about the site. I say it is time to burn Googles rear.

I'm primed and ready to go.
4 months ago: Some other folks got slapped by Google too.
http://www.johnchow.com/live-by-google-a...

However, if we can get this Twitter, Facebook and other social networking stuff going, it can bring way more traffic than Google. Let's just wait and see what happens in 2012...
4 months ago: TCG,

Google posts rants and raves almost right away to the first page of a search with similar wording, unless it it plastered with media blankets on it...
4 months ago: Really? Before or after our feed posts to twitter? You do know that 13 spiders crawl a page when it is posted to twitter. They then look at the number of other links that they have seen and calculate the rank.

It can be complex it you want it to be. Not if you know how to post links without spamming.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
4 months ago: Nice work on the automation. It seems to be working well on twitter.

As for AdSense, I set it up when I joined this site, and thus far I have earned 4 dollars total. I have never earned any money from the adsense stuff so to me it has never worked well...
4 months ago: A positive reply.... I'm gasping for air...

Just wait Bro. I have my sights set on FB, Linkedin and others.

It will now be as simple as throwing a switch.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
4 months ago: Very cool.

I found my rant rave emails in my spam box on gmail today, I am getting them regularly again now
4 months ago: Sorry, I got side tracked. I was busy checking on the new total of my followers.

Come again? You said? Huh?
4 months ago: What is holding you people up? Are you now scared to write a new article because DrDarko and Santa will broadcast your post to the entire world? Just wait until we really get started.... This is just the - A stage - of phase one....

Put up or shut up....

Can you understand that simple phrase?
4 months ago: If the number of new articles continues to be low, I could change The Daily Rant & Rave to update on a weekly bases... For now, I will leave it as it is.

I will see if re-posting to http://watoday.blogspot.com/ will help since I have to do that manually...
4 months ago: actually, I'm impressed that there are 5 new articles today. A total improvement from the 1 to 3 the site has been getting. Who knows. Maybe some of those new members that are wondering if they can stand the heat will jump in.

We know your out there. Join the fun.
4 months ago: Btw... I would be grateful if you know the URL for RantRave RSS (if it exists). By using RSS The Daily Rant & Rave can look much better since paper.li can automatically load images from RSS, while Twitter #tags are limited to text only.
4 months ago: I currently have 18 different feeds working. You want the one for the Page 1 "All Categories"? If so send me a tweet. I'm not going to broadcast it to people that won't appreciate.
4 months ago: DrDarko - How is that "Super Secret Special" feed working out? Remember....

For your eyes only... I would hate to have to track you down and force a rusty knife object into your....
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4 months ago: My blood iron levels are fine so I will avoid mentioning the feed address... :-)

For some strange reason, I can't get paper.li to display images. Your feed works great with all other feed readers.

So, in order to avoid bothering you more than I already do, I will just leave both papers active.

http://paper.li/DocDarko/1324924925 will keep working with #rantrave tag and http://paper.li/DocDarko/1325114810 will use RSS. Since there is 5 hours difference in publishing, the second might catch new rants that the first one misses.

Thank you for all the effort and sorry for bothering you too much...
4 months ago: Really bud. It is no bother. I like a challenge. You get with Papers.li and send me a link of a RRS feed that posts the graphics. I'll look at it and try to make a "Super Super Secret Special" feed for the rag.

BTW. 2012 is going to be fun. Don't ask me how I know.

I'll be playing with FB this weekend. Send me a tweet msg with your page info.
4 months ago: I sent you a RSS with images. Unfortunately, it does not convert RR in a nice way (too much garbage added). Still, that RSS is at the bottom of today's paper at http://goo.gl/t3Q5I

If you can make feed as clean as your existing one and that has images, it would be perfect. However, even the current setup is not too bad.

Can't wait to see FB page for Rant & Rave. I'm sure that we will all "Like" it!
4 months ago: BTW Perfect. Your other prediction about Al leaving the site was spot on!

Thanks for that heads up...

http://www.rantrave.com/Rave/A-Home-For-...
4 months ago: Wow... Go figure... Yet another high profile twitter follower...

The freaking - History Channel / History Magazine...

I see your bet and raise you...
4 months ago: How the heck did you manage to attract History Channel?

Way to go man... TCG rocks!
4 months ago: Actually it is The History Magazine, the official publication of The History Channel.

Who knows. If they like your stuff they might contact you for the rights to publish. Keep in mind RR would have to say it is OK.

Something tells me that RR would say OK as long as The History Magazine gave them the credit for "first to publish".

Start dusting off your history rants and raves.....
4 months ago: Wow... Great...

Unfortunately, the closest I can get to Historical rant is http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/The-Reign-o... and something tells me that it is not what they would be looking for.
4 months ago: You want to have some fun and go fishing? try writing a story about @ GlennBeck # glennbeck and let's see if you can reel them in...

That would be too cool.

Hey Perfect, you might try @ ChrisMatthews # ChrisMatthews

Something tells me Chris Matthews would not have the guts.
4 months ago: Sorry Truthbrary. Didn't mean to leave you out. Somehow I don't think some of these folks would believe that @ God # God would be speaking to them.

However, I'm game.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
4 months ago: Why on earth would I want to attract the attention of such a maggot?
4 months ago: Do I need to change my avatar to a "More Passive and PC" graphic?

Or, hold my last and final ground?
4 months ago: I personally find nothing wrong with your current avatar. However... Some folks might get offended.

Hey... It's up to you, you know.
4 months ago: Hey ya'll... I'm thinking about a feed that will tweet from the archives.

Last on in the All Categories list that I can find is...

http://www.rantrave.com/category/235/all...

You think tweeting archived posts from a year ago would be too much?

They would also tweet a new post from the past everytime a new post is made.

You tell me... Am I stretching?
4 months ago: Since most of the posts on RR are related in some way to current events, I do not think that it would be too useful to re-tweet posts from the Archive. First two or three pages are more than enough to promote the site, especially when you start integrating everything with Facebook.

Your current setup works great.
4 months ago: oops ! I was wrong. The feeds are currently being posted to FB. All 180 articles. Should be finished updating in about 5 - 6 hours.

Happy hunting.
4 months ago: Looks like a slight glitch posting to FB. Will be working on it this weekend.
4 months ago: FB does not like me using Cypress Gang as my account name. They have placed the account on hold until I complete a security check to verify that I am a real person. Problem is... the FB automated security check system could not call me and timed out. Now I have to wait for it to reset and try again. This might take all day....
4 months ago: In the mean time... I'm turning off all secondary feeds and only leaving All Categories Page 1 active on FB. They probably had a cow when the feeds hit all at once.
4 months ago: Santa just cleaned out his useless followers that only follow for ranking points...

Who was thrown out at Second?

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