Automated Link Building Program - Build Links Quickly and Easily

[tami6699]

Begin of march comes the version with the own urls?

[Sick Marketing]

Yes Tami, that is our goal. We are testing and creating documentation now.

Sick

[Steller]

Hey guys just wanted to report back I like the program and it works well for anyone thinking about getting it.

~Steller

[CcKilian]

Subscribed, and anxiously awaiting!

Thanks for the great program... looking forward to testing it out and seeing how many of the links 'stick' using it.

Cheers,
CcK

[Scripteen]

I notice that automatic email verification is not working properly. I tested on yahoo and aol. I was getting almost 0% success until I noticed that email confirmation is not being done so submitting links fails. Can you please look into that? All emails are almost identical since all the websites use the same platform so it becomes easier to match the activation link from the message body.

Other than that, This is a nice software. saves time and money.

[Sick Marketing]

Originally Posted by Scripteen

I notice that automatic email verification is not working properly. I tested on yahoo and aol. I was getting almost 0% success until I noticed that email confirmation is not being done so submitting links fails. Can you please look into that?

Yahoo will fail if you don't have the paid version that allows POP access. The free version does not allow access to POP which is required for the email checker to work. We added a note to Yahoo for the March release so only people who have paid Yahoo will use it.

You may of found a bug with AOL though, try this we automatically put SSL as No and Port to 110 try changing those to SSL as Yes and Port to 995 and try again. Thanks we'll get that changed for March also. Nice Find.

We have added a test login button to the User Manager for March, so you can just press test and know if the email settings you have in the program will work.

Originally Posted by Scripteen

All emails are almost identical since all the websites use the same platform so it becomes easier to match the activation link from the message body.

Actually we use 3 different platforms in the Program now with a 4th coming in the March release.

Originally Posted by Scripteen

Other than that, This is a nice software. saves time and money.

Thanks really glad you liked it!

[Scripteen]

Still AOL doesn't work with all these combinations

port 110 - ssl on
port 110 ssl off
port 995 ssl on
port 995 ssl off

Although I'm fine with manual confirmation since all I have to do is just clicking activation link without having to copy a random generated password or any other abnormal activation techniques used by more complicated sites but I'm trying to get it to work to fully utilize the program.

Please test aol email activation and tell me the proper settings.

[Sick Marketing]

If it's not your personal email can you PM us your AOL email address and password so we can test it for you?

[Spencer Chun]

Nice software, easy to use but I've been getting a 60 to 70 percent success rate on sign ups. I noticed that Backlink checker doesn't detect most or any of the links. What software do you use to verify the links?

[Sick Marketing]

I can't really say how another software works - it may be best to contact them. I would assume that any Backlink Checker is just checking with the SE's on if they have indexed a backlink or not.

If you just did them it could take some time to get the link indexed just like any other link or site. The included Pinger should help make it a little quicker for you though.

[Spencer Chun]

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

I can't really say how another software works - it may be best to contact them. I would assume that any Backlink Checker is just checking with the SE's on if they have indexed a backlink or not.

If you just did them it could take some time to get the link indexed just like any other link or site. The included Pinger should help make it a little quicker for you though.

I think the pinger works well. I'm using Andy's Profile Link Check to verify the links but it is not showing up in the Backlink Checker. Any changes or updates to the software?

[Sick Marketing]

I'm honestly not sure what you are asking.

For checking a link all you need to do is press "Test Link" in the menu bar and it will pull up the page for you. Then you can see whether it is live or not.

As far as updates, we update quite a bit with the next major update scheduled for March 1 or 2 (depending on Beta Testing)

You can see past updates here: Updates | Automated Marketing Tool - Sick Marketing

[Spencer Chun]

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

I'm honestly not sure what you are asking.

For checking a link all you need to do is press "Test Link" in the menu bar and it will pull up the page for you. Then you can see whether it is live or not.

As far as updates, we update quite a bit with the next major update scheduled for March 1 or 2 (depending on Beta Testing)

You can see past updates here: Updates | Automated Marketing Tool - Sick Marketing

Will try the "Test Link" function. Looking forward to the major updates. Thank you .

[jcbradley]

Regarding getting your links indexed, check out backlink indexer and back link booster, both WSOs. no matter what link package you buy that deal with profile links, you have to fire links at them to get a high indexing rate. profile links are great but they have to get indexed to get the most bang out of them and they have a hard time getting indexed on their own.

sickmarketing is giving you time and money saving tools to get these links and now you have to use other methods to get them indexed.

Chris

[ppaamm]

Hello I have installed your program on a Vista 64bit machine. When creating account profile, it crashed. Is it supported on this OS?

Also I have installed in the program files(x86) directory instead of the program default , is it OK?

Thanks

[tami6699]

Try to start is as a administrator (right click: start as administrator).

[Sick Marketing]

tami6699's solution is probably the correct one.

We have tested in XP, Vista and 7 but not Vista 64

Moving folders will not be an issue unless you move it to a protected folder then the Captcha will fail but program won't crash.

Another thing that may cause a crash is if you have malformed syntax in the User Manager advanced spinner - That is a known bug and has been addressed for the March release.

[tami6699]

I don't know your program (wait for the update) but its mostly the same problem on Vista/7.

[elly316]

Can't seem to post a topic on your support forum so will post here, as regards the trial version.

When trying to register accounts I get a message telling me to select the trial.lst from the drop down menu, I have done this but still can't get it to work, any suggestions?


Also having used a few of these sites to set up profiles manually, I know you can use anchor text in the about me section, what is the right way to do this? I have put some in there however get a message about using more than 200 characters and using http:// and should delete these.
Thanks
Chris

[Sick Marketing]

Originally Posted by elly316

When trying to register accounts I get a message telling me to select the trial.lst from the drop down menu, I have done this but still can't get it to work, any suggestions?

Do you only have sites from the Trial list selected? It may be when you tried to run the other lists you checked them and it's still trying to run them. Honestly haven't seen this one before. See if you can give more info.

Originally Posted by elly316

Also having used a few of these sites to set up profiles manually, I know you can use anchor text in the about me section, what is the right way to do this? I have put some in there however get a message about using more than 200 characters and using http:// and should delete these.

We automatically add them based on your URL or Advanced Spinner text selection in User Manager links section

Originally Posted by sponsar

demo hangs inbetween

That does nothing to tell us what is happening or how to help you. In-between what?

[elly316]

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

Do you only have sites from the Trial list selected? It may be when you tried to run the other lists you checked them and it's still trying to run them. Honestly haven't seen this one before. See if you can give more info.

Managed to fix it, I just deleted the profiles and started again and worked like a charm, not sure what the problem was.

Thanks for the quick response.
Any idea when the option to add our own links will be available?

[Sick Marketing]

Originally Posted by elly316

Any idea when the option to add our own links will be available?

Monday or Tuesday

[theredcell]

I just wanted to make a quick post here. I had a few questions on using the program and thought I was going to have wait days to get an answer, especially because it is sunday. QUestions were answered very very fast on the forum. Very good service.

Thanks

Jose

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

Monday or Tuesday

[Mike Linley]

Hmm...just upgraded...dont know how to get all of the sites for the upgraded version though...and now its locked up...its not frozen because it lets me click on things but it doesnt want to do anything...doesnt want to even exit the program...hope end task wont cause any fatal errors!...I am running windows vista..hope there arent any issues with that version of windows!

[Sick Marketing]

What version did you upgrade to? We haven't had a program upgrade since 2/10 - the march version hasn't been released yet.

It's tested on Vista everyday. I imagine we are going to need more information to be able to help you - maybe the Support area would be a better fit for you here - Support Forum | Automated Marketing Tool - Sick Marketing

[Mike Linley]

I meant upgraded to paid version from free version.

[Sick Marketing]

There is no upgrade from Trial to Paid version it's just a login and password to unlock.

Maybe it would be best for you to just reinstall the Trial from the beginning of the thread or from here: Automated Marketing Tool - Sick Marketing and let us know how that goes.

[J. David Rogers]

How long does it take to get my welcome email? It's been over a day. I sent an email to your support team and also haven't heard back yet.

[Sick Marketing]

Usually less than 30 minutes - have you checked your spam folder?

If it's not there PM me your registration email and/or Plimus reference number.

[J. David Rogers]

I've sent you a PM with my order details.

[Sick Marketing]

Replied - let me know if you have any other questions or problems

[J. David Rogers]

Got it, and I'm logged in now successfully. Thanks!

[TheDigerati]

Signed-up but it told me i used a differnet email than what is on my paypal account, I didnt.. I use the same email address.... so I wait for the order confirmation and dwnload..

[Sick Marketing]

Okay keep an eye out for a Plimus email asking you to verify or a Phone Call from them. Plimus does all of our Fraud checking and it must of been flagged for that.

[Sick Marketing]

If you are not a subscriber yet or did not receive the announcement email We have attached it below.

Our March update which was due March 1st, has been delayed until March 5th, while this delay only pushes us back by 4 days it is something we felt we should share with you.

We also wanted to let you know that with this new update comes many requested features. These new features include an email test button to ensure proper email configuration, a decaptcher test button to test decaptcher settings. New step selections to fully automate profile maker, including pinging your profiles and shutting down your PC when finished. We also added code to display list notes, a new auto user spin so that usernames have less of a footprint, and our biggest update is our new Toolkit.

Our much awaited Toolkit is a new piece of software you can add to your arsenal. The Toolkit is included with your normal monthly subscription and will allow you to code your own site packets just as we do every month.

The Toolkit will enable you to either keep a secret link list used only for your link building efforts, or you can share/sell/trade your packets with other Sick users in our market place. The Toolkit will allow you (with some basic coding knowledge and experience) to automate nearly any task on the web.

Although our release date was pushed to March 5th, we are still very much excited about these new features and how they will help to increase your SE rankings.

We understand that 5 days can seem like forever, so until the release you can read the Toolkit manual here http://sickmarketing.com/sickdocs/Th...%20Toolkit.pdf this will help you to understand how things work, if you have any PHP experience it should not take long to pick it up. There will also be a dedicated area in our new support forum (also a March release) for users to exchange ideas and help each other with the Toolkit.

[strikers041]

Hi,
Do you know when the users will be able to add their own sites? Thanks!

[Sick Marketing]

strikers041 please see post right above yours ^^^

[deltafox]

Using the new toolkit, it looks like we have to add each custom website individually one at a time with some coding, with is very time consuming.

Can we just add a simple text list of websites, with the type of site that it (vBulletin v4, phpBB, vBulletin v3, etc), and Sick Profile Maker handles the rest?

I want to add thousands of profile sites that I have scraped, and it's not possible to do it one by one because of the time involved.

[Sick Marketing]

At this time no since Profile Maker is a Fully Automated System it does require a little bit more than that.

However, once you have say a PHP site coded it is just copying and pasting the code for other sites and changing the URL, as long as they all maintain the same basic site template (forms and pages not design)

[deltafox]

So if I write the code once for, say, a vBulletin v4 site, I can copy and paste that code for all the other vBulletin v4 sites that I add. It becomes a code "template," so to speak. There would be a LOT of copy-paste work involved if I add many sites, but I understand the concept.

But let's say the vBulletin v4 code changes suddenly, I'd have to go back and update the code for all the thousands sites I have added. It sounds like a potentially large hassle for the end user to maintain all these code templates.

Here's a friendly customer service suggestion, which you are of course totally free to accept or reject:

Since Sick is getting a monthly fee per user, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect Sick to determine the necessary code for each time of profile site (there's probably only about a dozen or so major ones right?) and either integrate the code into the program (or make it available to users as a template), and then to maintain and update that code whenever it becomes necessary?

After all, a monthly fee is normally used to undertake tedious maintenance tasks to free up time for the end user.

This would be similar to SENuke updating their code that posts to all the various profile sites when the code on those sites suddenly changes. This is the main reason most users continue to pay SENuke a recurring fee, because SENuke transparently stays on top of websites suddenly changing their code.

This would be a huge convenience to the end user, and would raise the quality of your product. I would expect unexpected code changes to be commonplace as profile websites try to fight automated softwares such as this one.

[Sick Marketing]

I understand what your saying and I agree it may be a good idea if we had those kind of resources. There are a lot more resources to be had when your charging $127 a month (SE Nuke) compared to $12.99 a month (Sick Profile Maker).

That being said we do provide 30 precoded sites a month and continuing updates for your $12.99 a month.

I think with users adding there own sites (something that SE Nuke does not even offer) even at $127 a month it would be cost prohibitive to check and code everyones individual scripts.

If it helps you can use our code for platforms we have unlocked such as PHPBB, Soapblox and Expression Engine (we try and add new ones every month but do not guarantee this) since they are already in the toolkit from the monthly sites we supply.

However I do respect and appreciate your opinion.

[deltafox]

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

I think with users adding there own sites (something that SE Nuke does not even offer) even at $127 a month it would be cost prohibitive to check and code everyones individual scripts.

But you would not be checking and coding everyone's individual scripts, just updating the template for each platform (phpBB, ExpressionEngine, etc). So that's about a dozen or so platforms to keep updated.

In any event, it sounds like you are saying that you already will provide the code templates for the platforms you currently support, so we can just copy that for our own use, right?

When these platforms change their code, you will update and make available the updated templates, correct?

Besides PHPBB, Soapblox and Expression Engine, can you name the platforms you do support right now?

Thanks for your time and answering my questions.

[Sick Marketing]

Originally Posted by deltafox

When these platforms change their code, you will update and make available the updated templates, correct?

The code will be updated in the Toolkit for the standard templates but it will not update your already made script, you will still need to do that. There is a find and replace in the toolkit so if it's a simple change you could probably use that.

Originally Posted by deltafox

Besides PHPBB, Soapblox and Expression Engine, can you name the platforms you do support right now?

Soapblox, Expression Engine, SMF Forums, Phpbb

[Scripteen]

Originally Posted by deltafox

But you would not be checking and coding everyone's individual scripts, just updating the template for each platform (phpBB, ExpressionEngine, etc). So that's about a dozen or so platforms to keep updated.

In any event, it sounds like you are saying that you already will provide the code templates for the platforms you currently support, so we can just copy that for our own use, right?

When these platforms change their code, you will update and make available the updated templates, correct?

Besides PHPBB, Soapblox and Expression Engine, can you name the platforms you do support right now?

Thanks for your time and answering my questions.

Just from programmer point of view, Not everyone uses the default template of a platform. So you will need to make a template for every target domain to be able to post to their registration / login forms and post your backlinks.

The guys at sick are doing so great efforts so far for a low price of 13$/month while similar apps like senuke (129$ ) and evo (149$) and the eahper loophole (29$) let alone the ability to make your own sites with sick which gives you ability to work with sites that are not spammed. So you figure out how much are you saving being with sick (As I do)

[deltafox]

Originally Posted by Scripteen

you will need to make a template for every target domain to be able to post to their registration / login forms and post your backlinks.

I hope you are not saying that in practical terms, I would have to code a template for every one of the couple thousand domains that I scraped.

At a conservative 5 minutes estimated per template (since I am not a programmer, I figure I'd be quite that slow, if not slower), that's 2000 x 5min = 10000min, or 167 hours, or 20 straight days of working 8 hours a day just on the Sick Profile software alone to get my domains imported.

And since I will probably never post to the same domain again (at least not more than a couple times), I would seem to be trading flexibility for time-investment. In other words, Sick Profile Maker is VERY flexible with regards to custom sites, but VERY time-consuming to integrate those custom sites.

[Sick Marketing]

Originally Posted by deltafox

And since I will probably never post to the same domain again (at least not more than a couple times), I would seem to be trading flexibility for time-investment. In other words, Sick Profile Maker is VERY flexible with regards to custom sites, but VERY time-consuming to integrate those custom sites.

I would say it all depends on your point of view if you have over 3 different Sites or URLs you want to build profiles to I would think Profile Maker is a huge time saver that grows exponentially to the number of sites you need profiles for.

If you only have 1 site (which is the only reason I can think of that you would never post to the same domain again) I don't see how even a template system would be any kind of a time saver over doing it by hand.

[Scripteen]

Originally Posted by deltafox

I hope you are not saying that in practical terms, I would have to code a template for every one of the couple thousand domains that I scraped.

At a conservative 5 minutes estimated per template (since I am not a programmer, I figure I'd be quite that slow, if not slower), that's 2000 x 5min = 10000min, or 167 hours, or 20 straight days of working 8 hours a day just on the Sick Profile software alone to get my domains imported.

And since I will probably never post to the same domain again (at least not more than a couple times), I would seem to be trading flexibility for time-investment. In other words, Sick Profile Maker is VERY flexible with regards to custom sites, but VERY time-consuming to integrate those custom sites.

You are missing 2 major points.

1- The program developer adds 30 websites each month and replacing dead sites for you each month saving you some time.

2- You can submit the same domain 2-3 times to each website since you don't guarantee that your link will be indexed if submitted one time or the profile will last long and not deleted by website owner.

[deltafox]

Hey guys don't get me wrong, I think this is a nice product and a one-of-a-kind one so far. I am still considering signing up.

But I guess we are not on the same wavelengths regarding easily adding custom domains. So I will make a concrete example of what I would think is ideal. This is just a wishlist of sorts, I guess. What I basically want is adding custom domains to the software to be a no-brainer:


1. I have a site called ABC.com. I want to make a bunch of profile links pointing to ABC.com.

2. I scrape some high PR domains: 100 phpBB domains, 100 ExpressionEngineDomains, and 100 SoapBlox domains.

3. I take my list of 300 domains and add them to SickProfile, simply specifying the type of platform I am adding (phpBB, EE, or SoapBlox). When I run the software, it uses the proper template code for the phpBB, EE, and SoapBlox domain.

4. Three weeks later. Oh no! phpBB has changed its forum code so that a formfield that was once called "UserName" is now called "User." My 100 phpBB domains stop working with SickProfile, and cannot be posted to again.

5. SickProfile to the rescue! Sick programmers change the code template inside the software so that it works correctly with phpBB again. I can continue posting phpBB profiles now. Sick programmers only have to maintain 3 code templates -- one for phpBB, one for ExpressionEngine, and one for SoapBlox. Not a lot of work for a single skilled programmer, in my opinion. Why does Sick think this is too much work on their end? Why force every user to update the phpBB template, in other words, have hundreds of users make the exact same formfield change of "UserName" to "User"?

6. Six months later. Every month I scrape more high PR phBB, EE, and SoapBlox domains and add them to the software. I now have thousands of custom domains added and thousands of profile links pointing at ABC.com.


Is this a pipe dream? If SickProfile doesn't plan to have this capability, I hope someone else eventually comes up with a profile maker that does it. Am I the only one who would want these kind of features? It would make SickProfile a truly SICK piece of software, and help users who are not programmers in any way.

Thanks to Sick and Scripteen for their input.

[Sick Marketing]

It sounds good and we do have plans for a Wizard within the next couple of months to help with the creation of the lists.

However, I don't know if coding a way to automatically "fix" everyones scripts once they are built is as easy as you think it is. It's a minefield of custom user code and exceptions that the program needs to understand and know how to handle without throwing errors or destroying someones script.

I'll toss it over to the coders when we get to that point of view. Until then if you have such a large list your worried about you probably would want to put them in by platform then you could do a Find "UserName" then Replace "User" if this happens.

Thank you as always for your input and we welcome any other point of views on this

[deltafox]

Originally Posted by Sick Marketing

However, I don't know if coding a way to automatically "fix" everyones scripts once they are built is as easy as you think it is. It's a minefield of custom user code and exceptions that the program needs to understand and know how to handle without throwing errors or destroying someones script.

Many thanks for your patient answers. Please ask your programmers if my assumptions are true. Here's a detailed example that illustrates my assumptions:

Let's say I want to add some custom phpBB domains. What I am assuming is that, regardless of the actual specific phpBB domain I add, the code template always looks the same for any phpBB domain.

So let's say I add a phpBB domain called SomePHPBBSite.com. Let's suppose this is the code for it:

Site("SomePHPBBSite.com"3)
Register
Open("http://SomePHPBBSite.com/share/profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true")
Form(0)
Input("username","$username")
Input("email","$email")
Input("password_confirm","$password")
Click("submit")
wait()
GetTitle()
Close()
EndRegister
DO
Click("login")
EndDo

If I add another phpBB site called AnotherPHPBBSite.com, the code will look exactly the same, except for just the domain name in line 1 and 3. Am I right?

So basically, what if SickProfile could keep one "master" copy of the operational code for phpBB sites (lines 3 to 14) "inside" the program, and the user wouldn't ever have to see it or worry about it or personally hand-code it. All we would have to do as users, is dump a list of phpBB domains that we scraped into the program, and Sick would take over.

If phpBB suddenly changes how it works, changes a form field etc, the code would only have to be changed ONCE by a Sick programmer inside the SickProfile program. For example, if all phpBB sites suddenly changed "username" to "user", only line 5 above would need to be changed, ONCE. Voila. Done for every user. Where are the custom code and exceptions? Maybe I'm missing something?

Right now, the way SickProfile works, if the phpBB platform suddenly changed its form field, every single user (hundreds or thousands of users) would have to go through all their code, and do a search and replace of "username" to "user" ONLY FOR phpBB sites -- an error-prone process, and a massive duplication of work across many people.

Why not have Sick maintain the single "master" code template for phpBB sites and make sure it is always working properly? It would only need to be changed occasionally whenever a platform made a sudden change to its code. No need for users to go hunting-and-replacing through hundreds or thousands of lines of code.

If anyone on this thread is a programmer, please give your input as to my thoughts? Scripteen?

Thank you once again to Sick for your detailed and helpful replies.