Eddie J

Kinda hard to track it. I can see what they are searching to get there....and a time or 2 they got a gig in that area so.... But it is producing targeted traffic to their site. I am thinking of getting Core Conversions to possibly push ALL of the visitors to their site and see how that works out.

THanks
Eddie

erinbro

Thanks Zerofill. I do have core conversion and am doing just what you suggest. I know once I get in front of the right person they won't be able to resist it. Yep, might have to resort to a salesperson. What do you think would be a reasonable commission rate if they are commmission only? (sorry to hassle you with these questions - I know you aren't here to teach us every little detail)

zerofill

Depends on your pricing...

Commission only with this type of stuff should be a higher rate...
On average though 30% of the initial ticket is fine. You can even go higher if you want as long as the clients are being locked into a monthly fee. Do not give them (sales people) a residual if possible on any monthly fees you are paid. The reason being is... they will get lazy. Rest on their previous earnings and not produce like they should be. But in reality if you get a bunch of local terms ranking for several niche categories... They should be able to write their own paycheck in sales.

You always maintain the sites so that if they ever drop your services they lose their ranking because it was your site.

Definitely target people you see in adwords ads on the pages you are ranking. Many of them are spending ridiculous amounts of money anyway. So an organic ranking will produce more for them as far as ROI goes if done right.

DSG

D&J when is your "D&J's Magic Monetization Tricks" WSO gonna be coming out. I have cash in hand

Eddie J

First issue that I've run into.

Several issues really but all involve each other I assume.

I am using 200 or so locations and now I'm timing out..even though it was working before. No biggy here so I toned it down to 90 - 100. I may have to go even lower cuz Im getting timed out every now and then. HOWEVER, when I do time out, I still get posts and it still puts the draft in my LPN area....HOWEVER ( yes, again), the blue button in the draft that usually says UNBUILD THE PAGES ( like if I have to edit the post) still says BUILD PAGES.....but it is creating pages....like 300 to 500 pages. I hope you understand what I mean here....kinda hard to explain. Now as far as I can tell, the posts look ok, probably since I'm spinning, but what happens if I have to edit them and cant UNBUILD the pages from the LPN area. (Whew...that was confusing....)


OTHER issue is this. Since I made my shortcodes smaller, I had to create more....and I have a lot more to come. HOWEVER....when I go to PAGE 2 of the shortcodes, it automatically goes directly to my dashboard. THis might be a Wordpress issue....idk. Just wanted to give you a heads up on it....thought that maybe someone has seen it before.


Ok..I'm STILL building pages... lol I figure I'll iron these issues out on the fly....


Any help??

Thanks
Eddie

pupster

Removing the comments box on the 3.0 versions of WP :

[1] Load post or page > quick edit > uncheck 'allow comments'

[2] Settings > Discussion > un-check 'allow people to post comments'

[3] click screen options on either Post/Page Dashboard and un-check 'comments'

This worked like a charm without touching Code.

Let me know

DSG

OR this from obx08,

create a single draft with your shortcode in it ie:city
for that shortcode list go ahead and list ALL the cities you want to do. (not just 20 or so)

go to your draft and click build pages with the draft like normal.

Once it times out click the database button at the top (or however you want to go back to see the posts made)

make note of the city used in the last post created. (assuming the shortcode is in the title)

Now go to the shortcode list and delete all cities up to the last one made. It creates the posts in order going down the list. So by simply deleting the ones from the list up to the most recent one created you can then save the shortcode list again and hit build pages again in the draft and it will continue on down the list. Once it times out simply repeat.

This way there is no need to create multiple drafts. or multiple pages of shortcodes

zerofill

Just did an update 1.52... only for that issue. See if that fixes it.

subprime1

Exellent. That is a way better/faster method.

zerofill

He saved me from typing that... lol

Eddie J

WOW!!!! You guys rule. Worked like a champ.

Thanks A LOT!!

Eddie J

Let me make sure I understand. I can put 1500 cities in ONE shortcode. When it times out, I go and see what my latest or last post is. If that one is for Los Angeles, I open the shortcode, find Los Angeles, and delete from that one TO THE TOP....then save again. I do this until all of them are posted and/or I get no time out?

WHat happens next? Do I need to put all the cities back in for any reasons? WHat happens if I need to edit my posts? Will they all edit and go back up from the draft in LPN? Do I need the cities back in there for that?

Thanks
Eddie

zerofill

Right...

Well unless you need them for something else then no you don't need to put them back.

Not sure what you mean about the rest... if you edit a post itself then doesn't matter what you do with that particular post. If you edit the draft and want to generate more from that draft after you edit it then you will need to either add them back to that shortcode or make a new shortcode and edit the draft appropriately.

Eddie J

So if I have a shortcode, and am in essence slowly deleting the cities in there, ( as they time out, I take them out of the shortcode), AND want to lets say add a banner to the draft, I DONT need the names of the cities in there for that?

Thanks again
Eddie

JASEO

Yes, great tip Eddie. Thanks.

obx08

You actually will need to put the ones you "want to edit" back into the shortcode list...because the thing to remember is that in this new updated version you cant (to my knowledge) go back and edit all the created posts like in the first version. So once you build the page the only way to edit it is to manually go to that specific post. If you wanted to do a "mass edit" the only way to do that without having essentially duplicate posts is to delete all the posts in question, make your changes in your draft, and rebuild the pages again (which means whatever shortcodes u want involved in the posts need to be in the list) ...so its more of a "updated recreation" than it is an edit. hope that makes sense.

It had confused me at first why i couldnt mass edit simply by resaving the draft like in the first version...lol..but finally realized how to work around it

zerofill

@obx08

Yep... re-editing every post is virtually impossible because the time out problems some people have now... would be nothing to the new errors when someone tried to mass edit 500 posts lol.

Our support ticket system already gets things like someone that tried to do 500 posts with a 15,000 word article with almost every word spun... LOL...

They were really mad at us they were getting errors to. But probably not as mad at us as the people on the same shared server as they were lol.

simonbuzz

This looks pretty cool..will but it

Mister Natural

So these "timeouts" are the result of people attempting to submit in numbers to large
for their "shared hosting" to process?
Is that correct?

zerofill

Yeah execution of the script... hostgator for example sets a max execution time for a script to 30 seconds. Apparently can only change it if you are on a reseller account.

eznetbiz

If I want to have a quick start with 30 cities and say 400 words article, do I need to spin the article with Best spinner ? I do not have experience with Best Spinner and do not want to delay the posting to wait for the learning of The Best Spinner.

Eddie J

AWESOME. I'll try this tonight. Never thought about using the "time out" to my advantage....lol I'll just keep the cites that I take out of the shortcode on the side while I continue posting and then throw them all back in there....in case I need to edit the draft.

Thanks for the tip!!!
Eddie

goviralnow

I got a PM from Sandrax about whether I'm seeing traffic and results from the plugin.
I am not allowed to do PM's yet but yes, I am starting to see some traffic from the plugin. I have only used it on 3 local sites so far but intend to use it on more.
The niches are all very different.
Excavations site is doing the best: it has definitely picked up traffic and is showing excellent results.
Limousine site is also ranking well and is getting traffic and phone calls. I am about to lease this one as soon as I get the time to promote it. (I only set this up as a sample site to demonstrate the WP Business Press theme that I now use in conjunction with Local Pages Ninja but it's doing so well I've decided to lease it on).
Website design site is also receiving a lot more traffic.
This is all very targeted traffic.

The only problem I have found with it is that it doesn't work with some plugins and it can do strange things at times. This may well be because I am not used to it or using it correctly yet but I have found that it has created sites without the city eg. draft says {city} websites but
- instead of giving me "Sydney" websites I got just websites (I got the same number of these as I had cities in the LPN settings page - about 30!). Occasionally it doesn't put the proper keyword into the meta tags in All In One SEO properly and I need to fix them from the {city} KW that appears. This has happened even though other pages were fine and the post itself had the changes done properly.

If anyone else has had this problem or can explain why this happens, I'd love to know more.
Also, can other people talk about which plugins they find don't work or do work with this plugin?
I do love it though. The results are amazing and they are so great to show potential and current clients. It really is a no brainer. If you add it to WP Business Press for local business clients, they both save an enormous amount of time.
While I'm sure this could work just on meta data, I've found doing some backlinking, directory listings and social bookmarking can really give the keywords an extra boost. When combined with this plugin, it is hard to miss.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted.

sandrax

Thanks GoViralNow, for putting this info here!
Soon, you'll be able to PM and congrats on your great results.

Anyone else seeing some traffic in the hundreds from this plugin?
Thanks

warrior0112

To GoViral:

Are you using the Wp Businesspress theme with multiple cities? Just not understanding how you are creating many posts/pages for different cities and how you are renting out to a local business when all other cities on that same URL? Hope this makes sense...

Rick

pupster

If you have a general domain name, renting out the post pages to a business suited for a particular area is how you would achieve that end result.

It might be 250 post pages that you would place that company's services on while you potentially look to rent out the others to someone else.

Make sense?

ewenmack

I don't understand the talk about multiple cities when I want to rank for clients who only have one city location.

What am I missing here please?

Best,
Ewen

warrior0112

Yes it makes sense...I was looking at GoViralNow's limo site and it did not look like typical LPN site. I didn't know how well the WP BusinessPress theme works with this system?

Thanks,

Rick

IMWhip

What you're missing is the rest of this thread, your question has been answered probably 100 times and with all the posts you've made here on WF you should know to read the posts before you ask a question like that. Come on really? I spent hours reading the posts before I asked questions, and I have only been on for a couple months on the WF.

-IMWhip

waynzworld69

Hi,

I put up a site last Saturday and last 2 days averaging 60/day.

My only concern is if I build thousands of posts per site on new domains, will this work long term and how many posts/day/week is too many?

Carlsbadd

Put up a site a few days ago and got my first conversion already. It's a nice payout of $47.50 and not even half the pages are indexed yet. Using core conversion and this plug in is so not fair...lol

Oland

I wanted to test the plugin the other day so I created just 10 posts using a keyword and a few foreign cities in a european country. I wrote about two lines of text and let the plugin run. 10 posts were created and I counted it a success. About 10 minutes later I deleted all the posts again.

Then today as if by accident I searched for the keyword and one of the cities. I found that I had several first page rankings for my keyword/cities.
That was quite a surprise as I deleted all the posts about 10 minutes after having created them. The Google spider must have visited my pages right after the pages had been created.

Anyway, I'm a believer!

MisterE

LPN BEST PRACTICES & FLOATING "FAQ"

ADD TO IT AND HELP EVERYONE (BUT READ FIRST, PLEASE!).

This was originated by MisterE and it's still "his baby." I (Big Hombre) have truncated some of his original post on the whys of this. If you want to see that, consult post #1582.

Everyone is free (and encouraged) to add to the Floating FAQ with posts or portions thereof that you think should be here. Use the multi-quote tool or cut-and-paste. Either way, select the info you've posted and hit the BOLD B for easier reference to the info.

The important stuff.

In order for this to work, you must find the last posting of this BEST PRACTICES post to quote and add to. Otherwise it will end as nothing more than SPAM!

YOU MUST DELETE THE QUOTE TAGS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PREVIOUS POST AND THE END OF THE PREVIOUS POST! BEFORE POSTING YOUR INFO!

THEY LOOK LIKE THIS: [/QUOT E] & [QUOT E=MisterE;4411581]

***An alternative method is to simply Select (CTRL-A) the Floating Faqs content and Copy (CTRL-C), then Paste (CTRL-V) into a new post.



Videos and the latest version of the plugin are found there. If you want to be sure you have the latest version of LPN from your Dashboard, go to Local Pages plugin > Licensing > "Check for Updates" and click. Also, you should be auto-updated within 24 hours of a update, so even if you don't see an email you will be notified.


#1 Subprime1:
I seem to remember earlier mentions of duplicate post issues found they were caused by improper use of {shortcodes}.

With the original plugin this could happen by calling { City} instead of {city}.

With the updated version I think some have had it happen when they named a shortcode using the "{ }" symbols. You should name the shortcodes without using "{ }" symbols. Only use those symbols in the text/html/copy of the post/page you are publishing.

#2 Big Hombre
Hey everybody. I discovered two different rank tracking plugins for Wordpress. I'm surprised nobody is talking about them. I will be trying one or both out shortly, but I thought I'd give a head's up to everybody here since it seems like this is now a real issue for all of us.

Many of the tools mentioned here are good (if not great), but some are very expensive and most require you to boot up an app and go back and forth between your site(s) and the tool. What's really cool about these plugins is the promise of making the job a lot easier. You can work right from within WP—to which I say "COOL!"

Website Rank Tracker
Free for 5 keywords. $14.95/mo. after that. Looks powerful but haven't tried.

Rank Tracker Plugin
This is a $29 plugin, but it's got what looks like some killer features (not to mention testimonials). Unfortunately, is a "passive" plugin. It only tracks pages that are getting traffic, so this is not much help with a new blog.

MontyPlums suggested:
Gonna chime in here with another Rank Tracker plugin that I currently use.

SEO Rank Reporter

(This may be the WP plugin we're all looking for. It's free and tracks/graphs your Google rankings on a 3 day basis. —Big Hombre)

#3 Jody_W
SEOBook.com also has a nice Firefox addon, which is also free: Keyword Rank Checking Software & Rank Tracker Tools: SEO Book.com

What I like about it is that you just load up your domain name and your keywords and it does the rest. You don't have to deal with the individual pages. It returns the url for any pages that are ranking for the particular keyword.

#4 Big Hombre
Quoting myself here not because I'm necessarily in love with my own ideas (really!), but because others seemed to find the following helpful.

The strategy I'm currently following is to:

A) Create Categories and Posts around my main and general keywords to give the site some permanent "weight", e.g. "plumbing," "plumbing in los angeles," "plumbing services la", etc. Let keyword volume and common sense be your guide.

B) Create Pages using LPN for main keyword + local neighborhoods/cities: e.g. "plumber los angeles," "plumber hollywood," "plumber beverly hills," etc.

C) Create Pages using LPN around narrow niches: e.g. "unclog sink los angeles." This assumes (having not done any KW research for this) that there is some volume of traffic (either in general or specific to the city) for "unclog sink."

If you do this, you'll cover all the bases and look like an authority site. But bear in mind, I'm new to this plugin, so I can't speak from great authority as to whether this is a good strategy. It seems to be in line with what Jeremy et all are recommending. Your results will undoubtedly vary.

#5 Jeremy Kelsall
(Should probably be #1)

There are several ways to monetize...

You can sell advertising space

You can sell the sites to local businesses

You can set the sites up and broker leads

you can set the sites up, and once they start to rank, put adsense on them.

you can set the sites up, and then use something like our core conversions plugin to display some sort of CPA offer

You can use the results as an "in" to get consulting and SEO work from local business.

You can "rent or lease" the sites

...and that's just off the top of my head...

Webmarket: #547
For those people who are worried about having a site full of virtually identical pages here are a couple of ideas for producing unique content in advance of the spintax update.

1. Use the Related RSS Plugin to give you unique but related news content targeting your chosen city on the sidebar of each post.

2. Use Plugin Creator Pro to insert unique content onto the bottom of each post.

These are just a couple of ideas and I'm sure many of you will be able to think of others.

An afterthought - you could also think about using Mike Johnson's WP Spin Wordpress Spinner

Stretch44:
Ok, so after a solid 5 hours of sleep and reading a handful of more pages in this thread, I think I might have a "handle" on this.

1 - With a domain name that can give you some flexibility, you can create a 150 - 300 word content post or page that you can save as a "draft" within the plugin.

2 - That draft can be pointed at many different geo-specific areas, however the content is the same for each location, except for the actual location that people are searching for.

3 - If the local business you are trying to rank for draws from a 50 mile radius, it would be more advantageous to use city/town names in conjunction with the "niche business" that are in that specific area.

4 - You can write different content for different aspects of the business (such as different services, products, etc...) and use sub domain modifiers so that the posts or pages are different than the post or page that you've created previously (these are new pages/posts not edits of previous p/p).

5 - If you're doing this for a company with different locations regionally, it would be necessary to have one phone number for the main office of the business and they would direct the customer to the location closest to them.

6 - This plugin can be used for building a presence in the search engines that only requires content once, geared toward promoting one business in several locations.

7 - Once a business decides they'd like the kind of exposure that you can give them, in their target area, you can go back into the draft and edit it by putting in information specific to the business that wants the exposure.

Jeremy said:
We set up 2 examples....

One of them would lean more towards a lead gen type site for offline businesses, the other serves as a gateway of sorts for CPA offers.

You could also target professional markets, and put adsense on the sites.

You could also take the pages/posts that rank well and rent/lease them to businesses.

You could also take the sites that do well and sell them to brick and mortars.

you could use the functionality of the plugin to target niches that are more conducive to things like ebooks - Relationships, debt, dog training, etc...

the possibilities are really unlimited.

Nycwriter:
Another way to solve that "duplicate posts on the homepage" problem is to just change the settings under "Writing" to allow only one post to show on the homepage at a time. The rest of the posts are then "underneath" the first one, so it doesn't look repetitive to users when they first get there.

Doing it this way still makes it complicated to navigate to all the posts, your better off just doing pages and not having the links to other pages on the nav bar

For the permalinks......they are at the top of each individual page editing section

Make sure you send another sitemap into google though if you mess with the page's urls.

You could also, just change the title in the draft to just "{city}" and have your settings so that your pages are automatically labeled as

www.yoursite.com/#postname#

here are the examples wordpress will give you in automatically setting your urls, so that you dont have to change every single one.

Default http://zabidey.com/lksdds/?p=123

Day and name http://zabidey.com/lksdds/2011/07/31/sample-post/

Month and name http://zabidey.com/lksdds/2011/07/sample-post/

Numeric http://zabidey.com/lksdds/archives/123

Custom Structure Dr Shawaf's Dental Crowns

Rnhturner:
I use SEO Pressor too. To make it work.

Name the keyword "keyword" without quotes. Write you post using "keyword" (again without the quotes) until you get your good grade and then change all the "keyword" mentions to {city}.

When you save and the new post are created, go and check a post and it will pass the grade to it.

IMWhip:
I don't know if I did something wrong or if using a sub-domain is hurting my rankings. After I purchased local page ninja on the 25th, the following day I put up a site using a sub-domain just to test and see how long it would take to get high rankings and how many 1st page rankings. It took about 6 days before my site even got indexed even though I pinged it and submitted an rss feed, I didn't want to spend to much time or money for backlinks on a test site. When I go to google to check it's indexing I am only showing 3 results. I notice on your delawaredentistx.com site you are showing 10 pages of results. Now I did 71 cities and I used pages not posts, does it take time to get all the pages indexed? Should I have used posts? I know this isn't an SEO product but could you give a little advice, I am getting bummed out reading all the successes (not that I am not happy for other folks) but I am frustrated. I haven't used the updated plugin yet until I figure this out first.I see there is a new upgrade coming out, is this a paid upgrade or part of the first purchase?

Don (Zerofill) Replied -
My opinion...
Use posts... they will always get indexed faster.
Wordpress automatically pings, and many bots know a wordpress blog and will crawl the /feed automatically (RSS Feed) etc...

Make sure the Google XML sitemap plugin is installed

They really just index themselves after that.

Pages are often way slower on a blog for getting indexed though.

When we use pages we really only use them for:

Contact Us
Disclaimer
Terms of Service
About Us
Type pages...

Donp:
I just read through 28 pages of questions, answers and comments and I would say that you 3 have the "patience of Job."

I had a bunch of questions at first but after reading through here I have had most of them answered, some of them multiple, multiple, times. Same questions over and over. Come on people…take the time to read.

So... I though instead of asking a question I would see if this would help someone having trouble with the should I use post or page question/problem;

1. Use post's, Google will index them faster. Pages in wordpress are not designed to be used in the way this plugin works.

2. Google indexes posts NOT websites. Creating a post for the keyword "{city} Painless Dentist" Will not matter if the copy is a duplicate. Each post will stand on its own. (We’ll look at spinning the post below)

3. Build the wordpress site just like you would any site you are trying to get ranked on. Have a contact page, a privacy page and an about page.

4. Add related articles that are not published through the Ninja plugin. Use the word press plugin "sticky post order" to place these on top of the posts that were created with the Ninja plugin. Set up five or six posts and order them with "sticky post plugin", then in post widgets limit the number of post shown to the same number.

5. If you have SEO Pressor, use it. Make sure you have CMS Post Control installed first, then create a “draft” post and then optimize it. Do this before you think about spinning it. Creating a post in this way will force you to create a post that will have a better chance of getting ranked. For those of you asking why your post/pages are not indexed you should look at your content and did you follow proven seo methods, h1,h2, keyword density etc. etc. not the plugin for answers.

6.If you are in the “need to spin” camp, spin away if you want or feel it’s necessary, however be aware that a badly spun article won't convert anyone to your product or service. If you are trying to get a business owner to pay you to advertize on the site think of their reaction to a poorly written article.

7. Slow down with this thing. This plugin could be a game changer for a lot of people. However with people talking about thousands of badly spun pages of content pasted on sites all over the web it makes me think you haven’t got a clue about what internet marketing is.

People… quit thinking short term!

Optimumex:
Note to LPN users who spin their titles.

Keep in mind the current version of LPN uses the title in the url. Which means if you've created a bunch of posts/pages with a draft, then realize you want to make a change, you'd delete the pages made with that draft and build the pages again. And as long as you didn't change the title, it would appear as if you just updated the posts/pages. No harm no foul.

Now that the titles are spinnable, it potentially changes the title - plus the url - every time you hit the build button.

So unless we're graced with the ability to edit the url in an LPN draft (as we can in regular posts/pages) be careful when spinning the titles, unless you know you won't need to make changes to your posts/pages. Otherwise you'll end up with a bunch of "page not found" errors if you delete posts/pages then build them again.

LPN Version 1.5.1 Is Released, On, Or About August 4th, 2011

Purpleman:
Can I ask how you found the update in WP. I have not been able to find any update to 1.51 or see any notification...thanks in advance!

The plugin automatically checks every 24 hrs for updates.

Kab1973:
Just wanted to post an issue I had that Andres solved through the support desk. Maybe it will help someone else. Thanks for the fast response time Andres. 1 1/2 hour wait time is incredibly awesome support in my book. Thanks!

I kept getting a 30 second timeout error and the plugin would only publish a portion of my 70 keyword shortcode list. A little over 60 posts I believe. I was hoping to get a better result with HostGator shared hosting. Andres said it was due to me spinning the article. (Only spun at the sentence level not synonym levels...so nothing major.)

Took away the spintax and the plugin published a 579 keyword list without a hitch!

IMWhip:
Just a quick question on checking site ranking. My site got indexed a few days ago, I have 62 results. I have checked a number of them in rank tracker but none of them are in the top 100. I have 570 posts/cities and an additional 75 pages/cities. Is there a way in rank tracker to check the rankings on all of these without have to use each city as a keyword, does that make sense? Right now I am manually inputting main keyword with different city. I am using the free version of rank tracker. Can one of you help me out, I know this is not as related to the plugin itself, but in order to use it to it's fullest potential I need to know why I am not getting any high rankings. I see a lot of success stories here as far as many high rankings, so I am a little concerned I am doing something wrong. I am using WP SEO Beast by Prashant Sharma and getting a score of 9.5 out of 10 for on-page SEO. Please let me know if you can help

Create a master city list (txt file) template. You can use any spreadsheet program and paste in city/st or whatever and add "keyword" column wherever you want, before CITY or after. Copy and paste into notepad++, remove any empty spaces. I created 2 master templates one for "city KW" and one "KW city".

Now use find and replace with the KW of choice and save as KWcity file or whatever it is. Now when you go to rank tracker or Traffic
Travis just paste them all in.

Zerofill:
But on a side note... this isn't rocket science. Many people are way over analyzing and having analysis paralysis in this thread.

Jeremy Replied:
Quoted FOR TRUTH!!!

We can't tell you what kind of domain name is best for you, it really just depends on what you are trying to do...Just like we can't tell you how many words your content should be, whether you should use images, or how many posts/pages you should use...

it really just boils down to what you are trying to do.

Pmc2001:
Food for thoughts my fellow warriors, make sure you are not logged in your google account when you are doing searches for your keywords. It can be quite deceiving because Google will show your link when you are logged in the first page and in actuality you are not.

Just be aware...use this plugin wisely and it will take care of you.

Marcolav:
out of 270 pages created, Google is only showing 12, anybody has any explanation to that?

It just means they haven't been indexed yet. You can ping your sitemap.xml, submit your rss feed to feed directories, or just hang tight, most of the time google will eventually index your pages. Do you have a sitemap created?

IMWhip:
Quick Q?
You mention to maybe get indexed quicker with a new site something about RSS Feed, could you elaborate. How is this done? Or do you have somewhere you could send me. I am not sure how to implement. I would appreciate it.

You can find your sites rss feed here: www.whateveryoursiteis.com/feed - You can take that url and submit it to rss aggregators, which could get you spidered and indexed a little quicker.

What I like to do is use a service like linkliscious - I can take all the url's to my pages/posts, submit it there and it will kind of mash the url's up into seperate rss feeds and then ping them for me. The service that I use is a "paid for" type deal where I pay a monthly fee, but there are a ton of solutions out there for free pinging and some very cheap solutions for RSS submissions if you wanted to automate the process.

With that being said though - Don't be in a rush. I spent time pinging and submitting rss feeds because I wanted to use that site as an example, and I was putting it up 2 days before this went live, so I needed to try to "hurry" the process along

Even without doing any of those things, your content will still get indexed, etc, and honestly, unless you are automating it somehow, your time is probably better spent either setting up new domains, writing content, or contacting potential clients...just my opinion.

Eddie J:
Just ran across something pretty cool. Some of you are already using it I'm sure but I thought I'd share. I am spinning content and then creating multiple posts for all of my shortcodes. These drafts are the same and plugging in all the AIOSEO stuff was getting tiresome. I thought that it'd be cool if they had a plugin that clones a POST so that all you have to do is change the {city 4} to {city 5}. Well, they do and it's working like a champ.

It's pretty easy to use too for noobs like me. It's called Duplicate Post. After you install it, just go to one of the drafts in Local Pages and scroll over the title. You will see the normal, Edit, Quick Edit, Trash, and Preview...but now there is also the option to Duplicate. I think you'll like it if your strategy is like mine.

The link is WordPress › Duplicate Post « WordPress Plugins

KWall:
I'm not very knowledgeable about the technical aspects, so I wanted to ask you if I was to target small businesses in my local area, and if their site is not on Wordpress, would this tool not work? If not, would I then need to build them a new site using WP in order to utilize this tool?
I've seen where you've said that it would work on new and existing sites, so wanted to clear this up.

A lot of times... most times actually we don't even use this on actual client sites.

We build the sites and are basically selling the rankings to them.

1) Add their information to the ranking posts with phone numbers, links to their sites etc.
2) Display their sites in our Core Conversion plugin on the pages that are ranking...

This is a wordpress plugin though. It only works on self hosted wordpress sites. It will not work on anything that isn't wordpress based. However you can do one of the options above...

You can sell the site to them and let them do whatever they want with it, or maintain it for them for a fee, etc...

Build them a new wordpress blog from scratch for their niche/business.

Build your own CPA/Amazon/Affiliate sites...

Build lead capture sites and sell the leads...

Man... friggin uses for this thing are endless... we haven't even used it in some of the ways we have in mind yet lol.

Purpleman87:
Just an update for 1 of my sites. I had not seen indexing for 4-5 days and was becoming concerned...today BAM!

Out of 346 posts 84 are on page 1 and 8 are in the #1 spot.

All of these cities have a population greater than 1000 people.

Some of this is trial and error as to the steps. Here's what I did
for this site. I'm sure others have a better system but direction
like this would have been helpful to me when starting out...so
here ya go

1. Set homepage to show 1 post
2. WP-CMS Post Control (disable autosave)
3. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (default)
4. All in one SEO (basic)
5. Google XML Sitemaps (default)
6. Create all standard pages (contact/privacy/disclaimer) +AIOSEO title/desc for each
7. install Local Pages Ninja
8. create shortcode - add local page -Write post - save draft - create posts
9. ping sitemap at pingsitemap dot com
10. ping main url to pingfarm dot com

Waynzworld69:
1. In order to track my rankings I downloaded the free Rank Tracker. I have created 1,100 posts. How do I download my keywords that I have created I want to track? For example: dog training minneapolis, dog training rochester, etc. I log into my Wordpress back office and I don't see a way to do this.

2. I have a new domain. Is it possible to make too many posts too fast and then I get sand boxed, or doesn't that happen with this plugin? What would be the max number of posts per day/week that I should do per each new domain?

3. In regards to building a list of cities/states to import into short codes. I downloaded Notepad++ as specified. Then I typed into Google: 200 most populated US cities and downloaded that list. It had other columns of info I didn't need so I deleted each of those by copying, then deleting. Then I tried to import those 200 cities into Notepad++ so I could remove the underlines of the cities and with no luck. Then I just pasted cities into an email and edited from there. It took longer than it should have, but it still worked. Any tips to get this done easier and faster would be greatly appreciated!!

1) hopefully you have a sitemap installed. go to the sitemap and copy all the data, all columns is ok. Open Msft Excel. past the data into excel. It should split it into individual columns. then copy the first column (or whatever column has the urls) and paste that list of urls into notepad++. what you are going to do now is a high-lite and replace to get ride of the url aspects and leave keywords. high-lite a character such as a dash between words and then hit "Ctrl H" to bring up the replace tool. you will see your high-lited text in the top box. click into the bottom box and hit the space bar once. then hit the replace all button. What this will do is replace all hyphens with a space (there by making all your words) continue to do this for any other characters you need to remove. If you are trying to get rid of something at the beginning of the url like "http://" do the high-lite and ctrl H but leave the replacement blank...since you dont want an empty space at the beginning of your keyword. Continue doing this until you have removed all extra mess and are left with just your keywords.

2)No idea on this question. Actually pushing my site to the max right now...worried about this one myself.

3) Copy and paste data into excel. keep in mind if it is a csv file or a text file you can open it via excel and have other options as well more than when you simply paste data in. Once you can possibly remove some extra columns this way and are left with just keywords copy and paste into Notepad++ to make any other edits needed to clean it up (refer to point 1 above).

I know this is long and confusing but I have found that excel mixed with notepad++ is epic and i have learned to manipulate any sort of data in any way i want really. Its great.

Erinbro:
I am now at the point where I would like to start leasing out these pages - if anyone has any recommendations on the best way to approach potential clients it would be much appreciated. I find that emails don't get opened, direct mail gets tossed out, and it is hard to find the right person to talk to if you cold call. Any suggestions would be great cos it would be great to get that income flooding in.....

Ok... it is harder to sell an offline client on a:

"We can get you to the first page of Google."

Than it is for:

"We can put you on the first page of Google now! Or we can put your competitor 3 blocks over on it"

Start out with some commission only salesmen...

If a commission only sales man can't sell spots on pages that are already ranked... he sould just jump off the nearest bridge.

And because of the way ninja works... you can obviously sell them multiple placements on pages since local traffic can be low for many terms but combined it can be really sweet.

And for a magic trick...if you have core conversion...
Show them a google listing you have ranking for a local search term... Go to the page right in front of them on their laptop.

Now put their URL into core conversion and do the google search again...

Salesman can't sell that.. just get out of the game yo! lol

Erinbro:
Thanks Zerofill. I do have core conversion and am doing just what you suggest. I know once I get in front of the right person they won't be able to resist it. Yep, might have to resort to a salesperson. What do you think would be a reasonable commission rate if they are commmission only? (sorry to hassle you with these questions - I know you aren't here to teach us every little detail)

Depends on your pricing...

Commission only with this type of stuff should be a higher rate...
On average though 30% of the initial ticket is fine. You can even go higher if you want as long as the clients are being locked into a monthly fee. Do not give them (sales people) a residual if possible on any monthly fees you are paid. The reason being is... they will get lazy. Rest on their previous earnings and not produce like they should be. But in reality if you get a bunch of local terms ranking for several niche categories... They should be able to write their own paycheck in sales.

You always maintain the sites so that if they ever drop your services they lose their ranking because it was your site.

Definitely target people you see in adwords ads on the pages you are ranking. Many of them are spending ridiculous amounts of money anyway. So an organic ranking will produce more for them as far as ROI goes if done right.

Subprime1:
Issue #1: Basically, when you timeout the build cycle doesn't finish and LPN does not offer to unbuild/delete because it doesn't think pages have been built. If you build again you're duplicating the pages that did get built before it timed out. My work around was to go to dashboard>pages(or posts) and look at what the last {shortcode} built was (I always had a {shortcode} in my title so it was easy to cross reference to a spreadsheet on my other monitor). Then I'd go into LPN the incomplete shortcode, copy and delete all of the unbuild variables, and create a new shortcode to hold all of the unbuilt variables. Then build and create a new LPN draft with the new shortcode and build pages. If you don't do this, you will continue building duplicate pages and you'll never really move forward.

I hope my answer wasn't as confusing as your question. I experienced the same problem so I knew what you were trying to explain.

Issue #2: I don't understand...
OR this from obx08,

create a single draft with your shortcode in it ie:city
for that shortcode list go ahead and list ALL the cities you want to do. (not just 20 or so)

go to your draft and click build pages with the draft like normal.

Once it times out click the database button at the top (or however you want to go back to see the posts made)

make note of the city used in the last post created. (assuming the shortcode is in the title)

Now go to the shortcode list and delete all cities up to the last one made. It creates the posts in order going down the list. So by simply deleting the ones from the list up to the most recent one created you can then save the shortcode list again and hit build pages again in the draft and it will continue on down the list. Once it times out simply repeat.

This way there is no need to create multiple drafts. or multiple pages of shortcodes

Warrior0112:
Besides the following plugins are there any others which are beneficial to sites...feel free to add in any you find beneficial and this probably should be put into best practices

Plugins:
WP CMS POST CONTROL (No longer required with the release of Ver. 1.5)
ALL IN ONE SEO
YET ANOTHER RELATED POST (YARPP)
GOOGLE XML SITEMAP
CORE CONVERSION PLUGIN (PAID)

OK Warriors, the next Floating Faqs are compiled from the first 5 pages:

opportunex:
Does the plugin work with cities in the UK?
Absolutely, if you can create a page or post and you know which cities you want to target then there's nothing stopping it from working.

It really is super simple to use and it works in any area.

Cedricl:
I understand it works for any country. Does it also work for other languages (non English)
It should. Like I said earlier, if you can create a page or post and know which cities you are targeting then the plugin will do it's job.

MisterE:
Free updates for the life of the product?
Yes, Andres is the developer, and as you can see, he is very passionate about the plugin, and uses it in his daily day to day business, so it will be kept up to date.

Elis:
can it wotk with only WP sites?
Yes, it's a wordpress plugin

Helecis:
Are we limited to using All In One SEO?

It should work with any SEO plugin as long as you can input the title, description, and keywords on the page or post you're working on.

rgkweebiz:
If I'm leasing sites on domains that I own, and not flipping them, will the personal use license suffice or will I need the developer's license?

If it is all being done on your own domains, you are good with the regular license.

Donp:
will you have a way for someone to upgrade to the developers license at a later date if needed?

Shoot us a message if you want to upgrade at a later date, but you would need to pay the difference calculated to what the price is at
THAT time....

Manhattan mortgage:
Can you add pages vs posts, use both or just posts?

Works with both pages and posts.

Melody:
where's a good place to swipe a list of 'clean' city names or do you have resource in the file?

I get my lists from wikipedia. Google the state or metro area.

Vrs:
I didn't see a money back guarantee. Is there one?

As with all of our products, refunds are handled on a case to case basis.

if you send me an email that simply says "refund" - my answer back is "NO".

if you have a legitimate problem, or can't get the plugin to function, we will of course give your money back.

GraemeHawley:
Seen at least 2 people ask about duplicate content being an issue, and you don't seem to of answered the question, so can you please explain why you wont get hit for duplicate content using this method?

both of the example sites that we used have dupe content - the ranking report that andreas showed that he gave to his client a few months ago, uses dupe content - It's a non-issue.

Most of your local directory/listing type sites for the most part are created with dupe content, and they routinely rank on the first page, and stay there.

Kasida:
It would really help to see video showing how the plugin works. It would have been much easier to understand. Any chances for that?

The plugin is both a TOOL and a METHOD all in one, so showing a video of exactly what the plugin is, does, and why it works, is kind of giving away the farm.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but "how" it works isn't as important to me as....as long as it works

Your not spamming anyone
your not violating any TOS
Your playing by the rules, and being rewarded for it - The plugin just condenses hours and hours of work down to a few minutes, and gives you results faster than you would ever see yourself in scale.

Dark witness:
so am i right in thinking you don't really need to do any of the other usual seo stuff to get a good rank with this plugin?

Every situation is different, but in the dentist example in the OP, the only thing that I did was ping the site and submit it to a few social bookmarking sites to get it indexed.

Zerofill (Don):
Anyone looking for U.S. cities... and there may be a few countries in there but mainly should all be U.S. cities you can use this thing I made that we use.

U.S. Cities

You can just copy and paste right form there...

AussieT:
Jeremy in the video you mentioned that you are using the "Yet Another Related Post Plugin"
Is this also needed for your plugin to work fully?

I don't think that it's "needed" - But, I use it to help get all the pages indexed etc when the spiders hit

Drhook:
Jeremy will this work with sub-domain name or do we have to use main domain

Andres replied: I've tested it on a subdomain and it works just as well.

Mlbs:
it says on plugin to create draft post but do not publish this ??

You don't publish because the plugin takes care of that for you.

Kcseke:
Do you have to use cities in the city tag or can you use neighborhoods in a city instead? Thanks.

You can use neighborhoods, it's really up to you how you want to target it.

Or you can load up a list of cities AND neighborhoods.

Mtntgr:
white
gray
black hat?

COMPLETELY WHITE HAT...nothing gray, black, or any other color about this

Dubhlinn:
How would i go about adding phone numbers like the skype icon etc to individual pages. Can i do this manually as pages begin to rank? I could offer to place separate numbers on these pages for multiple rental pages.

You can do it manually, just edit the individual page and make whatever modifications you need to make.

Palpatine:
I don't use all-in-one plugin either, but do you know if this works with the Genesis Framework and child themes? I can input the custom title and description underneath the actual post or page content in the admin panel, I think you mentioned that somewhere in this thread, but I definitely prefer Genesis without the all-in-one SEO plugin or ANY SEO plugin for that matter.

It does work with the Genesis framework. It pretty much with any custom fields that are available when you are setting up the page or post.

Dubhlinn:
Also i dont think that the posts look great if i try to sell to one client #example one post after another after another scrolling down the page.

Go into "Settings" => "Reading" and change the default "Blog pages show at most" from 10 to 1 to take care of that.

Quote:
dubhlinn:
I think it would look a lot better if we used individual pages. If we do individual pages is there a way to hide them from the nav bar so we don't have a mess of 50 + page names

Use a free plugin called "Exclude Pages from Navigation" it provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.

Pages 6 through 10:

Markiz:
How the posts are being built? On the fly?

If I understand your question right, Yes!

Morpheus26:
Just to clarify. What this plugin does is change a city name in the title content and so on and create a seperate post or page for each city I add in a list? Is that correct?
So the pages only differ in the city name, everything else is the same. After the plugin created these pages I can manually change things in these pages?
Does the plugin do this for all pages setup or can I say I want this behaviour only on my contact page for example?

Yes that's correct and after the pages are created, you do have to option to go in and change whatever you want manually.
The plugin will automatically do it for the pages that have the placeholder anywhere in the content. If the placeholder is not there then the plugin won't mess with it.

Catgirl07:
Will this only work for "your niche + city" keyword domains.
Was wondering if it would work for any domain eg Joesplumbing.com?

Will work with any domain.

Bostoncitymass:
When adding the plugins (all in one seo, yet another related, etc.) anything in particular we should do with the configuring? I have a few standard tweaks I usually make but for the most part I don't change much. Wondering what your opinions/suggestions are.

Nothing other than the standard setup.

Edc3076:
I use thesis framework, how is this going to react inside thesis? thank you

Andres Replied - I've tested in multiple themes with no issues really. The only thing I noticed is that if your theme automatically creates the menu from the pages in the site, then you would need to use the Exclude pages plugin so that you can prevent a multitude of pages being added to the navbar.

If you use a custom menu, then you don't have to worry about that.

Jaycar:
I just bought your Local Ninja Plug In and I cannot seem to install it. It keeps saying that this plug in does not have a valid header. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Need to unzip the initial zip file you download. Once you extract it... there is another zip file inside along with the video. That zip file is the one you install.

Onecrackedegg Added -
Unzip the downloaded file and you will see 3 items inside:
READ-ME-FIRST.txt
plugininstructions.wmv
localpagesninja.zip

Upload the localpagesninja.zip in your wordpress install (that is the actual plugin) and it should work.

Jeremy Posted:
Just an FYI....

Myself, Don, and Andres are all located on the East Coast of the USA.

So, if you ask a question and we don't answer right away, you're not being ignored, well get you taken care of as soon as we roll out of bed.

zerofill on version 1.5/1.51
The plugin is basically a total rewrite over the original version and works much better.

1) You can use spinner syntax

2) You generate posts/pages from drafts you save by actually telling it to generate posts by pressing a button (no more auto save headaches etc...)

3) You can choose the number of posts/pages to generate or you can let it generate the total in the list of the shortcodes.

4) Yes I said shortcode(s)... You can create multiple custom shortcodes.

5) You can delete all posts or pages based off of a specific draft

6) You can update a draft and generate more pages based off the update to the draft.

7) When you delete posts you no longer have to delete the draft. But it will delete all posts or pages created using the draft you have selected at the time.

All the information will be in the video... You will need a license key to activate the plugin.

When you change over to the new plugin... Deactivate the old one... and then click delete.

Upload the new plugin and activate it.

You will then need to go to the licensing page and enter your key.

The information on where to get the key... etc... will be released when the video and update are here in a few...

MontyPlums
Suggested a great new rank tracking plugin. See #2 above.

The next Floating Faqs are compiled from pages 11 - 15:

Bostoncitymass:
I'm using the "time machine" on my site right now.
They work great together

Yeah that actually is core conversion

Latinguy20:
Here you go, have fun.

Cities (World) - AdWords API - Google Code

You can just download the csv and separate by country.

Ej2012:
as far as new domain is considered.. if I went and bought a new domain today.. would you recommend waiting for x amount of period.. or just go for it.. start using the plugin and move on?

The dentist example domain was bought, and had content on it 12 hours later, and had first page rankings, not long after that....Ultimately, wait a bit if you are more comfortable doing so, but I don't see any reason you "have to".

Radix:
Is there any reason why we can't remove the plugin once the posts/pages are created? Might help to cut down on the footprint if folks were to do that. If this was already recommended, sorry for asking again.

No reason at all. Once you're happy with all posts/pages created, you can delete the plugin.

Only thing is that you lose the ability to edit the draft and have it update all the corresponding posts at once.

Scott_krech:
It's GREAT to "dominate" a local market, as in your examples here, but if the pages rank for a day or so, then are booted, it's kind of pointless.

That's just the thing - That isn't our experience at all.

When you put up a new site and pages/posts are getting indexed, sure some of the rankings will move around, but when the dust settles, and it's all said and done - You still have more than enough first page rankings to do what you need to do with them.

Scott_krech:
4 quickies:

1) What service are you offering your clients that you use the plugin for [local SEO]?

Yes local SEO, get them to show up for the services they offer in the areas they want to service.

2) What are you charging them monthly for this?

Varies from business to business. It's largely based on what their average invoice is and how many new clients I think I can get them monthly. I've been doing this for a while so I always have a good idea depending on the size of the area.

3) Are the sites converting for them?

Absolutely. Pretty much every client that signs up with me stays with me. I've only lost 2 clients and both were because they got out of the business and started a new venture.

4) How are you tracking this?

Mostly by installing a call tracking number that has a whisper tone so they know the call is coming in because of me.

Big Hombre:
1) Is use of the plugin dependent on Google Places/Maps? In other words, does the site being promoted have to have Google Places presence in order to benefit from this?

No, it works completely independently of Google places/Maps.

2) From the other direction, if all you've got is a Google Maps profile and no website, can you benefit from this plugin via promotion from an unrelated site? For instance, can I promote a client's Google Maps profile from my site?

For Google places anymore, one of the "big things" is having a website that ranks well organically, so setting a site up, ranking well for several cities and areas for your client - Then linking the site to your GP Listing, would be a very positive thing for your client.

deltamatrix (good advice if you're confused or overwhelmed)
I would say you should go back to the basics and figure out what works and what doesn't. Use a very basic WP theme, a short simple post without any spinning, and only 1 or 2 shortcodes. Publish only a couple posts to test it out and see what works. Maybe try deactivating un-needed plugins to see if that helps.

Get a very basic system working first and then add the bling and test again. Just a couple posts every time until you have it all sorted out. Then once you are happy with the output and everything works, go ahead and start pumping out lots of posts. Of course you'll check those final posts for quality as well.

jeffbell on posts with numbers after them...
I think there's something to be said about deleting trash between doing a new build on an draft that has been edited. Because before I took out the trash, the number on the end of the permalink went to four. So I think it was counting my resaved drafts, regardless of deleting my builds.

(I saw the same thing. Moral of the story... DELETE YOUR OLD POSTS if you plan on redoing with the same shortcodes! —Big Hombre)

latinguy20 (on new LPN Posts showing up under the LPN Posts, not the regular Posts section, and not showing up on the site at all: i.e. your theme doesn't like LPN)

Try switching to a basic theme like the Twenty Ten, build your posts, then when you're all back, switch back to the one you want to use.

I have to do this with a site right now where the theme is not cooperating and it seems to be working doing it that way.

The next Floating Faqs are compiled from pages 16 - 20:

Ericdpangilinan:
When I tried to add cities, my site turned to "Install Wordpress" page!

Then, after a while, it was back on again. (Whew!)

Now, I found 300+ posts made automatically, so I deleted them.

However, when I was about to delete the last 20 posts made by the plugin, the site turned to "Install Wordpress" page again!

What's happening here?! :-(

My site's still says "Install Wordpress" as of now.

Hope you can help.
I've only seen this once before and I think it has to do with the hosting you're using and that you may have made a mistake and included a {City} tag somewhere instead of {city}.

Just give it sometime and let it catch up, then disable the plugin, install Bulk Delete plugin, delete all the posts, and then when you go to enable the Local Pages plugin again just be sure you are using {city}.

Rh12341:
can you pls confirm if we leave a space between "san francisco" or "los angeles" or if we delete it or replace it with coma, etc..., when we put the cities into the brackets

also is your tag accepting figures into brackets, for ex if we want to target the districts inside a particular city?

this to be sure avoiding mistake before doing it!

You don't put the cities into brackets, they get loaded into a separate dashboard and you can put whatever you want in there, cities, zip codes, suburbs, etc.
Appended (MisterE said) Spaces are perfectly fine as long as the tokens follow the same format.

MisterE:
For those of you with questions....

If you scroll to the top of this page you'll find a "Search This Thread" option, right below the row of page numbers on the right. The search will return only relevant post's to your search query.

Allustrious:
if these potential clients have a newer website (for example) that they may have already spent thousands on, for me to come in and try to say that, "You will need to have your website created/re-created as a wordpress site for our service to work", I wouldnt think these types of clients would agree. Who knows, maybe I'm over thinking things. I would still be interested in Andres thoughts????

Obviously they wouldn't, BUT if you can show them numerous first page rankings for cities/areas, that would probably give them confidence enough in your abilities to pay you even if it was to make more html/static sites for them....So, the plugin doesn't have to be the solution to the client, it can simply be the lead generator for you, based on the results that you can show your client:

"look how many first page rankings I got with this crappy blog and 400 words of content, what do you think I could do, if I focused solely on your site for you to get you results?"

It's a great closing tool...

Wmsgeorge:
using firefox it brought my cpu usage all the way to 100% and stayed there until i restarted. I tried it on my other computer and didnt have a problem in a different browser but I cant seem to use it on my computer which is brand new as of 2 weeks ago.

As far as The CPU usage...I'm no technical wizard, but the plugin is essentially running on and using the resources of your host, so not sure how or why you would see your CPU usage jump like that...This is something that I've personally never experiences, or heard of anyone having any issues with at all.

MontyPlums:
Will this WSO work on an existing domain using Wordpress? Does the domain name need to have Keyword+City in it?

Yes it will work on an existing domain and it doesn't have to be a keyword rich domain. It obviously helps but if your domain already has some kind of authority with Google then that's sometimes even better.


Marcolav:
It seems ALL in ONE SEO will not create a TITLE for PAGES, which could be a reason why Google is indexing pages slow or not at all as opposed to indexing posts very fast?

I am several days into having created about 1,000 posts pages on different blogs and to date only 12 POSTS are showing in google index, and ONE PAGE. The rest of the content on the same blogs continues to be indexed fast so I tend to suspect this has got something to do with the specifics of the content created by this plugin.

All in One SEO works the same both for pages and posts so I don't see why that would make a difference. Posts do tend to get indexed quicker in my experience but that's because of how interlinked they are so it's easier for Google to spider them. Plus they get added to your rss.

If you're using pages, add the plugin RSS Include Pages so that your pages are also added to the rss feed of your site. Then take that RSS feed, go to a site like bulkping.com and submit the RSS feed.

Jeff Klein:
I get that the plugin creates draft pages and that those pages rank but what happens when a user clicks on one of the listings? What page loads since the draft that is ranking is not live? Does the user land on the site homepage, the original seed post/page or some other page we define in the plugin?

No, you use a draft page as the seed post/page but the plugin creates actual pages/posts so that's what people will land on when they find your site on Google.

Vicki247:
are we to get a new domain name with each city, right ?

No you can use one domain name to target as many cities as you want.

Rmhayes:
DOes this change the format or layout of site, or is it just behind the scenes.

The site looks the same as the tool works in the background.

Kreative:
once I've set up my first draft and the cities I want to make pages for.... once I complete it and they're up, can I add content.. not change it but add to it? or will this generate new pages?

You can add content to the draft and save it again as a draft. That will change the content on all the posts you have created. You can also go to the individual posts or pages and make a change. Just make sure that post's city name is not in your city list next time you update the initial draft.

MarketingHuddle:
my question is, how does this approach get page 1 rankings for a specific area when it's just a bunch of pages with different geo-targeted keywords?

Your article will be optimized for that city keyword:

title
image
article content
tags
all-in-one-seo plugin

All will be optimized for your city keyword. Some will rank in a day or two and some will need a few backlinks. It all depends on the competition. With unique spun content, SEO optimized articles, and a few backlinks I think this will work really well for many keywords.

Levyorit:
will it work on autoblog?
can you give me a name of someone i can hire to install the plug?

I don't think it will, you have to actually create the draft post/page that the plugin uses in conjunction with the cities.

As far as having someone install and setup the plugin, I'm sure there are a few people on here that already have the hang of it that would be willing to do it.

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Zerofill (Don):
Local Page Ninja Update Ver. 1.4, July 31st, 2011

The plugin is basically a total rewrite over the original version and works much better.

1) You can use spinner syntax

2) You generate posts/pages from drafts you save by actually telling it to generate posts by pressing a button (no more auto save headaches etc...)

3) You can choose the number of posts/pages to generate or you can let it generate the total in the list of the shortcodes.

4) Yes I said shortcode(s)... You can create multiple custom shortcodes.

5) You can delete all posts or pages based off of a specific draft

6) You can update a draft and generate more pages based off the update to the draft.

7) When you delete posts you no longer have to delete the draft. But it will delete all posts or pages created using the draft you have selected at the time.

All the information will be in the video... You will need a license key to activate the plugin.

Daveshu:
What does it do with the all in one plugin

Whatever you put in there it uses including the shortcodes. Just like it normally ould other than the shotcodes being replaced with the actual words.

Daveshu:
do you end up with a page full of links to all of the pages it creates, etc, etc, etc

You an use YARPP or any other related post plugin to do that. No reason or the plugin to do it.

Deltamatrix:
So everything has to be done in html mode now right? Can we do the work on another html editor and then paste the code in? Or will that cause a coding problem?

Didn't actually try that... but I imagine it will work. Just as long as you paste it back in in with the HTML tab selected.

Zerofill Added -
On a side note... basically when your pasting in from a spinner like The Best Spinner... make sure it is on the HTML tab.

And Again -
IMPORTANT NOTICE:

While I said in the PDF to use only the HTML tab... I have been fine pasting into text only option of wordpress and using the visual editor. But it is safer to directly post into the HTML tab of the editor in wordpress. The visual editor just isn't something we will be taking bug reports on.

Deltamatrix:
I've entered several shortcodes and the cities, etc. lists. When I publish posts or pages the cities, etc. don't show up at all. Any ideas? Everything else is working but the cities, etc. don't show up anywhere - not in aio-seo either.

Are you clicking the "save" button at the bottom? I can't think of anything else that would cause them not to show up...

Robmc23:
I think this is great plugin as well, but like one of my fellow members I can't get the spinning to work for the life of me (done in TBS so I know the spintax is spot on)...

Any thoughts / work arounds?
If you are copying and pasting a piece of content from say...an article directory, into your spinner, then into LPN - That is where your problem lies...In many cases, when you copy and paste from somewhere like EZA, little pieces of "code" get carried over to a spinner...such as TBS, and then cause problems when trying to spin with LPN.

Try typing something straight into your spinner, then COPY AND PASTE THAT INTO THE HTML MODE IN WORDPRESS and see if it works.

Jeremy Added -
For spinning....

You can't copy an article from a website, drop it in a spinner, then paste it into the plugin.

The text HAS TO come from a notepad or something similar as the original source...

...so, you can't go to an article directory, copy that article into your spinner, spin it, then copy and paste that text into LPN

The text has to originate from a text file or something similar...

Also, it works best WHEN YOU COPY THE TEXT DIRECTLY INTO THE HTML MODE in wordpress NOT THE NORMAL MODE, THEN JUST SAVE IT AS HTML.

Zerofill Added -
There are a few people that put spinner syntax in and see a bunch of it in their posts. Here is why... and a solution. I am guessing MAC and Linux users probably don't have these issues...

The biggest problem anyone will have is this...

If you grab something from a webpage or even inside word or some other word processing app. They can leave behind characters that cause issues. Like take for instance:

” <--- That is not the same as "
or
’ <--- is not the same as '


Those... are basically ascii characters like... holding down the alt key and pressing some numbers on your number pad and it generating an ascii character from the ascii table. No need to explain that... Just know that the character encoding can get hosed.

If you want to make sure nothing will go wrong and want to use the visual editor you can. But I recommend doing this:

Grab: Notepad++

Then watch this:

And Spinning Cont.
I was wondering why it worked so well for my posts. A beautiful, clean post with no leftover gibberish. (I had put it into Notepad before copying and pasting into the post)
I'm wondering if it's alright not to use the html tab if I use Notepad to clean the post up first?

In most cases pasting it in as text in the visual editor (using the paste as text button) it will be fine. If the articles is already spun and not in spinner syntax then it will obviously be fine as well.

Mrtrance:
Is the updated version able to do this now? So we can add a number of cities and then do our draft, save it and it will generate those posts. Then if I go back and want to add another set of cities using the same draft do we just delete the cities that have already have posts and paste in the new ones to generate the new posts to the earlier ones that are already there?

Yes that's exactly what I did, the process is slightly different but it works really well to populate a site quickly.

1. Set up cities in shortcodes
2. Write post with the shortcode in content
3. Save draft
4. Publish posts/pages
5. Replace cities in shortcode tab
6. Save draft
7. Publish posts/pages

etc.

Hopefully that makes sense but that's what I did, the only thing to remember is that if you ever hit delete pages/posts, it will delete every single post/page ever created from that draft.

Steve Solo:
a newbie like myself, will i be able to follow the video instruction and use the plugin,..or will I need to get a comp. tech to help me?hmmm
thanks

Andres Replied -
I made sure the video was very detailed, step-by-step on how to install the plugin, register it, and how the different options work. But if for some reason you get stuck just open up a support ticket and I can help.

Roger Gonzales:
Can we also add spunned content in the title of the post?,
Does the spin tool work with nested paragraphs?

No spun content in the title of post. Primarily you want to just worry about having your targeted keyword in there and keep it as keyword rich as possible to have the full SEO advantage.

*** Confirmed To Work -
I think Don mentioned that nested spinning does work but I'm not 100% sure.

Pmc2001:
One major flaw in the system I do not like is the the path includes the local page directory. Any fix to that please it reads www.domain.com/localpage/q.php
Then it does not seem to work with permalinks like keyword.html

That's just the url when you're working with the draft, that never gets published or seen by anyone. The actual pages/posts that are created from that draft follow the permalink settings you have set up.

Bostoncitymass:
Quick question. With the previous version it was letting me post a list about 250 then I would create a subdomain to add more cities. Should we still do that or will the updated version handle a big list all on one domain. Not sure if this was already answered, but there are a ton of pages for this thread and didn't have time to search to see if this was answered already.

You still have limitations as to the number you can do all in one click but now since you can add multiple shortcodes, there's no need to create subdomain to add more cites.

Just add a new shortcode with the new cities and use that shortcode in a new post/page.

This will make more sense once you start playing with it but it's really helpful because you can now create all your shortcodes with the cities. ex: city1, city2, city3, city4, etc.

Create a new local page using city1 shortcode, save draft, publish pages/posts, change city1 to city2, save draft, publish pages/posts, and just go down the line.

Within minutes you can knock out a few states that way.

Pmc2001:
What is a syntax spinner articles...I have no clue lol

Syntax that spinners put out... Like:
Quick brown fox jumped over the lazy {dog|cow|turtle|rabbit}.

Pmc2001:
Is article spin part of the next update Jeremy...thanks

This plugin will never be a "spinner", BUT as of right now (the last update) you are able to use the spin syntax that you get from other spinners such as The Best Spinner, Spinner Chief (free) , SpinChimp, etc

So, you can take your {article|text|content} that {looks|seems|appears} like this, and {load|put it|use it} in the plugin to get {Unique|original|non duplicate} content on any of your {sites|posts|pages} If you are one of those that {buys into|believes in} the duplicate content {myth|lie|bullshyt}.

MFoliot:
I downloaded the update and installed. Created short code for city and Province (i am in Canada). Loaded 215 cities and put in the appropriate 215 provinces. Local Page fully optimized. every time i click on Build pages / post button, i end up with a server error time out. My WP is hosted on GoDaddy. Also reduced the number of cities to 100. same thing happened (time out, Internal server error). Any ideas on how to address

Could be another plugin you have that's causing issues. Do happen to have w3 cache or some other caching plugin? If so just disable while you're building pages and turn it back on when you're done.

If you don't have other plugins then it's probably the hosting. I'm pretty sure godaddy is windows based which makes wordpress run a bit slower.

MFoliot:
Andres. as you know WP send ping back for approval on pages. Am i correct in assuming that we should approve all these pingback?

I'm pretty sure when you get pingbacks, it means that someone has linked back to your site/page. I don't think it's the same thing as Wordpress sending a ping everytime a post is created.

Zerofill:
August 3rd,2011.
We are a couple days early on the new update.

Version 1.5 has been released!

You should now have much less trouble with character encoding screwing up your spinning.
Page templates and post templates etc... should work now for you.
Exclude pages plugin and many other plugins that were available for the normal post or page sections is now available in Local Pages.
Titles can now be spun!

And some other odds and ends...

You can click the upgrade option in your Local Pages menu.
If it doesn't show you the update is available. You can deactivate and delete the current one installed and download the new one from:

Filcan:
Excuse my impatience but how would you monetize an Amazon review site? How would I use the plugin for that? What would be the strategy?

It's all interchangeable...

Instead of using "cities", you could just as easily use MODEL #'S , brands, sizes, colors, etc.....

Think electronics, appliances, clothes, etc...

DianaLensbury:
I'm having HUGE problems executing this plugin with any consistency but it's difficult to get any help from my web host because they don't know what the program does.
First of all it wouldn't run for more than 30 seconds without timing out but after a lot of research I had my web host update the following within my php.ini file...

max_execution_time = 600
max_input_time = 600

...after which it ran perfectly (although it took 9 minutes to create 200 pages). I ran it again but it timed out so I cut the cities in half and it successfully created 100 pages. Now it's timing out after 1 minute so I can't get it to create any more pages.

I've been having these kind of problems for days where it will run successfully once but after that it will time out in a shorter space of time.
It's as if it's taking resources and not releasing them.

Can anybody give me possible suggestions as to what my web host could look at? I'm on a dedicated server (Rackspace) so I'm at liberty to change whatever I want.

From the multiple installations I've taken a look at it's probably being cause by another plugin that also works on per post/page basis. For example one of the ones I saw was an RSS Feed plugin that creates a new feed for every single post and automatically submits them to feed agregators.

Normally that's not an issue but since our plugin makes a lot of pages/posts at once, it's just too much to handle.

Another one that seems to conflict is Caching plugins. Just disable those while you're making local pages/posts and then enable again when you're done.

Paul Campbell Asked -
Andres Replied:
With the new update, 1.51, the SEO Pressor option is back in there. Just remember to use the shortcodes in the main keyword and it will populate them in the corresponding posts/pages.

P.S. Easiest way to get update is to do it through your wordpress backend.

Webmarketer:
I want to be sure that I didn't misunderstand it. I would ask the question again this time in detail.

"IF I have a draft, say about a topic in cities in Wyoming and the plugin generated the pages, will updating the SAME DRAFT--in cities of Wyoming--after editing the contents of the said draft, overwrite the generated pages with the edited/new info OR add pages."

I'm thinking it will overwrite the same generated pages substituting the content with our edits and NOT ADD new pages since I did not make a new post/draft anyway, I just updated the same draft. So I ask because it runs counter to your post 74.
In the new version, if you need to edit any of the content and you want it to apply to all the pages created, then the steps would be:

1:Go to the Local Page and hit Delete Built Pages/Posts.

2.Edit your draft adding in any of the content you wish to add or remove anything you want to remove.

3. Make sure to not change the title of the draft.

4. Save draft

5. Build pages/posts.

Basically what it's doing is deleting the already created pages and then recreating them with the new content. The reason you don't want to change the title is so that you can keep your rankings already established and it only looks like you edited the content, not created a whole brand new page or post.

Karakoram:
I'm guessing here, but if you do this with a spun title, won't the plugin create new titles for the new posts, so Google will show "not found" for the old pages they indexed?

Yes I'm pretty sure that's what would happen so it's something you have to keep in mind if you're going to be spinning titles.

Personally I like my titles to be as keyword rich as possibly and ideally an exact match to my desired keyword so I won't be spinning titles and it's not really necessary but a few people requested it so we added it.

IMWhip:
I ask you yesterday in regards to running 200-400 cities at a time running posts and you said to use {city}{city1}{city2} etc. I presume I go back to draft each time and edit the city placeholder in all the content, is this correct? If so how do I deal with the post tags that I added in the first posting set? Does that make sense? Or if I am wrong can you let me know how to run them, I ran a search on this thread but nothing but older posts came up.

Yes, you go in and change to the correct shortcode. As far as the tags, you'll have to delete the ones in there and add in the new ones. The way I do it, I have notepad opened with the tags already copied and then I do search and replace for city1 and change to city2, etc.

Waynewalters:
I did a search and don't recall seeing this particular situation about indexing. I posted a site this morning with 1612 posts for my state. When I run Google's site:domain.com test it shows me 25 results so far out of the 1612 posts. No biggie about that, I'm patient. The weird thing is the first result shows the first 10-15 words of my article, the second result shows the description I put in All in One SEO for my article and the other 23 results all say "Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post. Search for: Search for: ..." Has anyone experienced that?

You're seeing 2 things...

in some of the results, you are seeing the page description, and in the others you are seeing the tags information....Not really a whole lot you can do about that...

Rudypies:
I went through all of the Q&A and I don't thingI have a question if it's possible to tag a video within the post with {city}. If so, can this be a video from YouTube or it would have to one uploaded onto my server. I'm working on my friend's roofing company website and I'd like to add some instructional videos.

it will work with Video for sure, just put your keyword right above or below where you are embedding.

{city} State Roofer or whatever it is that you are targeting....

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Subprime1:
I've had duplicate page creation issues, but it's always been because my server times out the script, then I hit publish again. I built out a 800+ page site and then had to go back and manually de-dupe a bunch of pages.
The easiest way I found to do that: From the sitemap I used "search/find" [ctrl+f] for the "-2" that gets appended to the dupe titles. Then I just clicked through to each page and trashed it. There may be an easier way. How do you handle it?

Jswanson:
Thanks Big Hombre! One other question, they spoke about a free plugin that buyers will receive that is the bomb! We're still waiting on that too, correct? And honestly, it's not a big deal, I'm just curious. I want to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Yes that is still coming. We want to be sure we release the videos and the other plugin all at once so it's less of a hassle for you guys.

Jeffbell:
I've been reading this looong thread...
Didn't seem how many drafts you can save, and will changing one effect the other

You can have as many drafts as you want. I typically do one draft per keyword I'm trying to target.

Russ1395:
1. Will the posts show up in Google along with the homepage?
2. Do you have to completely finish the site for all of the pages/posts to show up in Google?

1) Yes if you mean will the actual posts rank
2) No... not at all.

Warrior0112:
Is the CMS Post control even needed for Version 5.1?

No... since it won't generate on an autosave out of the blue.

DSG:
Short code question. How do I input short codes for two named states? I have {state} for Wa, {state Long} for Washington. What do I use for Washington State? {Long State} Or {state Long Long} <<that right there cracked me up.

Maybe you could code it for example, so that {Abbrev State} = Wa, {State} = Washington, {State Long} = Washington State.

I'm just building my first site and ran into this. There are 10 two named States by the way.

You can name the shortcodes anything you want, it's entirely up to you.

You could name your {WA} shortcode 'Smurfs' & your {Washington} shortcode 'Care Bears' if you wanted. The only thing you would need to do is in your content, the article, to show the name Washington, you would have to use the shortcode {Care Bears} (curly bracketed of course) in the copy.

What I did for my long and short states, I simply used {or} for OR, and {or long} for Oregon. When I start on Washington tonight I'll use {wa} for WA and {wa long} for Washington. The 'shortcode' names are or, or long, wa, wa long respectively (no curly brackets for the shortcode names proper).

Waynzworld69:
I would deeply appreciate help with the following questions:

1. Are we getting an updated version of LPN today?

Not that I've heard. The latest version is 1.5.1 and released several days back.

2. When I create a post it works perfectly, yet when I go to my website I get 10
duplicate copies of the post, but with different states. I.E. 1 post is dog training alaska, next post is dog training alabama, etc. Why and how do I fix?

There's nothing to be fixed, LPN is doing exactly what it is supposed to.

3. I write my own, unique article, so is there any reason for spinning it?

Only if you want the posts/pages to read differently.

If I need to spin, do I have to buy best spinner, or can I spin it with {word|another word} within the post?

Manually spinning is perfectly OK. LPN is coded to do the spinning as long as you 'Tokenized' {great|best|most awesome|etcetera, etcetera} the article.

You can also use Spinning Software, as long as you paste/import it into the HTML text field (where you write your article in WP). I believe that LPN can only use it's 'Spin Engine' in HTML mode. Warriors, please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

4. I add 2-3 banners to the right of the post on my blog. Is this OK or not? Please explain why if it is not OK.

Perfectly fine. You can monetize your site any way you want. Right side, left side, top, bottom, inbetween, before, after, 2 banners, 16 banners, 4 right 3 left, 1 banner at the beginning, AdSense, CPA, etc., etc., etc. Or nothing at all, you get to make all the decisions.

Pmc2001:
Me too, i need a link to Jeremy's conversion plugin.
Here you go guys.

Core Conversion plugin

Eddie J:
I need to find out the answer to this LPNers. I made a mistake when I first started and put a short code in my categories. blue widgets in {city} Well, that's what they look like on my site. If I fix those, will I lose all of those ranked pages?? Will they show up as 404 when someone clicks them?

Or maybe there is a plugin that hides the categoy but still allows all the pages to work?

I'll add my two cents, since I've seen you ask this question a couple of times. In simple terms, if you set your permalinks to just show the postname in the url ( /%postname%/ ), then you should not lose rankings.

Ex. You'll lose your rankings if the url of the ranked pages look like this:

www.yourdomain.com/category/postname

It shouldn't affect the ranked pages if urls look like this:

www.yourdomain.com/postname

Check the ranked pages urls and see how they look. If it's just the postname in the url, you should be ok to change your category name.

If it really concerns you, run an article through LPN strictly as a test in a test category. Get it ranked for something easy and obscure, then change the category and see what happens.

Erinbro:
Help please - I have been having problems ever since I have started using the updated version. I am getting this message after I try to Build Pages:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function set_post_format() in /home/erinbro/public_html/hairnewyork.net/wp-content/plugins/local-pages/local-pages-core.php on line 402

If anyone has had this problem also and has a solution could you please pm me. I would be very grateful for any help.

I will also send in a ticket but would really like to get this fixed asap.

One thing I found out when I was getting the 402 error was the theme I was using. I was playing around with a theme that was not compatible with this plugin. So I switched to another WP Theme I have and it worked without the 402 error.

Jagreen78:
Could I install the plugin, load my cities, create a draft, let the plugin create all of my posts and then remove the plugin?

Yes, once they pages/posts are built, removing the plugin will not do anything to them.

latinguy20:
How are your permalinks setup?

Also make sure you are including the shortcode in the title of the post or else all 10 posts will have the same title, hence the -3

Finally, make sure in the draft inside Local Pages, that the permalink shown on that page does not have a -3 attached to it.

I think there's something to be said about deleting trash between doing a new build on an draft that has been edited. Because before I took out the trash, the number on the end of the permalink went to four. So I think it was counting my resaved drafts, regardless of deleting my builds. Hope this helps future improvements.

Reimer:
So what is the point of local SEO if your site will be under the google places listings?

1. to get a new site into google places you pretty much have to have a website on the first page. (it helps a lot)

2. Not all traffic goes to google places. many searches want more than just an address and phone number.

3. showing first page rankings is a great way to get a clients trust automatically as far as your skills go.

4. There isn't a point.

Greenacres:
I'd like to know if the WP Super Cache plugin is compatible? Is anyone using it with LPN?

I recommend disabling it while you're building out the pages/posts. Once you're done, you can enable it again.

Same goes for any other plugins that might interfere with the building of pages/posts or any plugin that automatically does something after building a page or post. Like an rss feed creator or ping.fm, etc.

Wild Card:
I know this doesn't pertain to the LPN but if anyone knows an easy way to lose the Comments feature from Wordpress, I'd really appreciate it. I don't want to have to moderate hundreds of spam comments every day. (I've tried the Hide Comments plugin with no satisfaction)

not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but if from your dashboard you go to...

Settings ------------->Discussion ---------> Then uncheck the option to allow people to comment on new content (might say articles or posts)

If you want to remove existing comments, you can do this...

Go to your posts - Select them all, and choose the option to edit under bulk actions and choose do not allow for comments and then hit apply or update.

*scroll down the page and you should see options to "allow comments" and "allow trackbacks and pinging" or something like that. Uncheck them and the comments should be closed when you publish your post/page.

Wild Card Replied To Purpleman87 -
*I could be totally wrong, but what you have suggested will not allow coments to be posted but it will not remove the comment box on the page.

Zerofill Replied -
Basically what shows up for comments is in the comments.php file in almost all themes.

So you can either go to appearance-->editor and click on the comments.php file and delete everything in it and save... so that when the page goes to include it there is no content in it.

Or you can go to single.php and page.php and look for:

Code:

<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

and just replace it with:

Code:

<?php // comments_template( '', true ); ?>

The slashes just tell it to ignore that function call and thus the comments template never gets loaded.

But probably other ways to do it... just the way I always do it heh.. Because many themes out there ignore the discussion being turned off and still show a form or "comments closed" notice.

Pupster Responded With -
Removing the comments box on the 3.0 versions of WP :

[1] Load post or page > quick edit > uncheck 'allow comments'

[2] Settings > Discussion > un-check 'allow people to post comments'

[3] click screen options on either Post/Page Dashboard and un-check 'comments'

This worked like a charm without touching Code.

Subprime1 Replied To Obx08 In Response To HostGator Problems:
Has anyone figured out why some of us can only do like 20-30 posts before it times out and gives a 404 error?
...
The general train of thought was could be a host issue....but so many people use hostgator ...so idk
Most of the timeouts I've experienced are when I build pages with a lot of text, video, images and complex shortcode variables, like (long-kw-phrase+city+st). With a complex setup like that I would sometimes timeout even building only 25 pages at a time.

But with simple pages it's not a problem. Yesterday I put up a site and each build took a couple of seconds. It was so fast I wasn't even sure it was working. Those pages were simple text with one image and a shortcode that holds two variables {city+st}.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DSG
I was having the same issues and emailed support about it. I was using a syntax spin article with 86 cities and getting the 30 second maximum timeout error at line whatever#. ... Andres said he has the same issue and it is basically a host setting. I use Hostgator too and am not done investigating this, theres got to be some way to increase the maximum timeout setting. If I find a way I will let the forum know.
I checked with HG and the only way to increase the 30-second script execution limit (or whatever it's called) is to upgrade to VPS or dedicated. They told me that VPS Level 3 would be equivalent in performance to their shared hosting plan (business level).

DSG Responded -
RE: Hostgator maximum timeout fatal error.

I just got off the reseller forum and it led me to a support post by Hostgator i copied it below.

PHP settings that cannot be changed

PHP has been configured to use the following settings on our shared and reseller servers:
safe mode = Off (cannot adjust)
memory_limit = 64M (MAXIMUM)
max_execution_time = 30 (MAXIMUM)
max_input_time = 60 (MAXIMUM)
post_max_size = 64M (MAXIMUM)
upload_max_filesize = 64M (MAXIMUM)
enable_dl = Off (cannot adjust)
The above settings either CANNOT be changed or cannot be exceeded on a shared and reseller account. These limits are set to prevent extremely high resource usage in shared environments. We have found that a majority of the PHP scripts will work within these limits, and the scripts that require more resources are best suited for a VPS or dedicated server. Dedicated servers and VPS can change and raise these settings to any value desired. Dedicated Server and VPS customers with WHM access can change the limit by going to WHM > Service Configuration > PHP Configuration Editor.

Warrior0112:
Is anyone using Artisteer themes with the LPN plugin?

For the most part haven't had any issues, but sometimes you may encounter one. Artisteer while a nice tool... can be a pita with some things.

eQuus:
This is for adsense, clickbank, etc. What I want to know is how to insert ads for local professionals like plumbers, dentists, etc.

If your going to be doing a bunch of sites and putting clients on those sits. I recommend...

Either using something like core conversion or runnng an ad server like openX...

OpenX is actually a godsend for things like this because you can add every site you own... make every category in it a zone.... every draft you make can hold the code for that zone in it. Then in openX you can change ads in a heartbeat. But it will take some reading on your part to understand openX etc.

LNP Update 1.5.2 Aug. 10, 2011

Mister Natural:
So these "timeouts" are the result of people attempting to submit in numbers to large
for their "shared hosting" to process?
Is that correct?

Yeah execution of the script... hostgator for example sets a max execution time for a script to 30 seconds. Apparently can only change it if you are on a reseller account.

mikemik01

I have been reading alot about LNP and it seems like a great plugin, but I am very new to WP would I b able to trouble shoot this or not

Thanks Mike

warrior0112

Besides the following plugins are there any others which are beneficial to sites...feel free to add in any you find beneficial and this probably should be put into best practices

Plugins:
WP CMS POST CONTROL
ALL IN ONE SEO
YET ANOTHER RELATED POST (YARPP)
GOOGLE XML SITEMAP
CORE CONVERSION PLUGIN (PAID)

Thanks,

Rick

kkeithnr

I previously posted the following:

Originally Posted by kkeithnr View Post
I would just like to chime in with some of my results, first.....I agree with what Andres (latin guy) said in an earlier post-namely, never believe something just because you read it here on this or any other Forum.


I listen to those marketers that have earned a reputation for being effective and honest, however I still test what they say to make sure I am not being sold a bill of goods. I did the same before purchasing this product.

After seeing Jeremy's documentation in the WSO I thought cool, but I need to at least test this to make sure it works.

I did and I am pleased with the results so far; and here are my results so far.

1) First I have a Wordpress blog on a subdomain in one of my sites so I decided to use it to test the plugin.

2) Decided to test 20 of the 200 cities that I posted to.

3) Saw many first page ranking after a few hours, tested again after 20 hours and of those 20here is how they rank:

Page 1 Number 1--(7)

Page 1 Number 6--(1)

Page 1 Number 8--(2)

Page 2 Number 1--(1)

Page 2 Number 2--(1)

Page 2 Number 3--(1)

Page 2 Number 4--(1)

Not Indexed Yet Of The 20 Tested(6)

I have not done any bookmarking etc since posting these.


On yesterday I checked the top 20 mentioned above , and all 20 were at number 1.

Today I ran all 200 keywords through rank tracker and the results are pretty astonishing!!!

187 page 1 number 1 rankings!!!
8 Not in top 100
1 at # 3
1 at # 13
3 at # 4

Funny I broke all of the duplicate contact rules, even took an article that was already on the blog to use as a seed article and left it the same.

paulcampbell

Hi all - so far so great with this amazing plugin!

One thing that has me beat [have used the "search this thread" and searched the PDF] is how to change the "Author" of the Local Page.

Unlike the standard edit post tool in WP, the Edit Local Page tool does not appear to offer an "Author" box so that I can select the author from the drop-down of registered site users. I also checked the "Screen Options" settings, and it isn't toggled to hide it, it is not even an option on that list.

Stumped! Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul

boulderjoe

Actually, I have a VPS account and have raised everything from the PHP script value to the MySQL timeout values with no joy. I've filed a support ticket on this twice, and would be more than happy to give Andres, Don, or whomever access to my VPS to try and figure out what is happening because creating 20 posts at a time is pretty much @#$#@... Any other thoughts what might be limiting us on HostGator? I think the best run I've ever gotten was 75 maybe 100 pages - post creation is even worse - around 20-30 before things crap out.

latinguy20

Just sent you a PM. It could be a couple things but I'll take a look and see what's going on.

-Andres

waynzworld69

On Host Gator, are you using the smallest account? If so go bigger.

Also disable other plugins, banners, and videos when posting and enable when done.

I'm not a guru, but think it may help

waynzworld69

Hi,

I created my first posts 5 days ago. 1,100 total posts. I just ran Rank Tracker for the first time today. I am averaging 60 visitors to my new site daily with this. I went to Backlink Supercharger to index, Social and RSS bookmark and that was 5 days ago.

My results: 349 keywords checked. 10 top 100 listings. 3 on page #1, but for smaller cities.

My questions:
1. Shouldn't I have more top 10 listings?
2. What am I doing wrong?
3. When I post it does hundreds of posts per minute with my Host Gator account. So that's not the problem.

4. Did I make too many posts too fast and get sand boxed, or isn't that a problem with this plugin? Please reply with how many posts I can make/day/week on a new domain with this.

5. In regards to Rank Tracker Free version:
A. It took well over an hour to give me my results. Is that normal, or should I use something else to get ranking?
B. It did not give me index results. Is that only thru paid version, or how do I find out how many posts are indexed?

Thanks in advance for replying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IMWhip

Hey waynzworld69,

To see how many posts or pages are indexed in big G just go to google
and in the search box input "site:yourmaindomainname.com" no quotes and it will tell you how many posts/pages are indexed by the number of results.

Hope that helps a little,
IMWhip

MisterE

I'm #1, I'm #1, I'm #1

I still can't believe how fast, and how high LPN is ranking my indexed sites.

This is unreal!

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!
Mark

FYI
Auto Insurance (thought I'd try out Don's niche, just a test, and just because).
Purchased a mostly generic dot net EMD with 210,000 Exact Match Local Searches.
Most every indexed post that I have checked in Scroogle (for anonymity) has come back in the top three positions of the SERPs. The only one's that aren't on at least the first page are for major cities. Oh poor me ;-)
Competing pages for these top ranking posts ranges between 210,000 and the highest I've seen so far 254,000.

khundawg

This is just what I have observed so your mileage may vary....

1., 2., 3. - Keywords matter. I am going after a combination of a service + city and feel that their is probably a good bit of competition if a city of almost any size. As such, I am seeing far fewer top 100 results than others have mentioned here. I am stoked that I finally got a #1 listing, even if it is in BFE and probably will only get 5 searches per year.

4. I really don't think you got sandboxed. If you did, I would think you would have a big fat goose egg for top 100 results. Couple with that I've done a couple days of 1500+ posts and I've not been smacked yet (but who knows, probably just jinxed myself).

5A. Depends... How many total keywords are you checking? Here's my big tip of the day... Increase your "Number of tasks" setting under Preferences -> Misc. Global Settings. I've maxed mine to 25. Also get Hide My Ass. Seriously, Google doesn't like for you to spam up their system and will block you after about 175 or so keywords. I'm checking over 5k in 150 increments. I do it manually as if I set HMA to automatically update the IP, while the address is updating Rank Tracker is using your public IP and racking up the hits in Google. After a few iterations of IP updates, Google will have put a block on your real IP which makes for trouble.

If anyone has a better way of using HMA... I would love to hear about it!

5B. Not sure. Like IMWhip, I just use the site:domain.com search in Google.

Eddie J

Hi everyone. I have a question. In the LPN area there is a header and it says: Local Page Generated about 3/4 of the way across. All of my drafts show NO there. Is this correct? What exactly is this area for?

Also, I just picked up Core Conversions....now the fun begins.....

Thanks
Eddie

eQuus

When I'm testing, I turn off search engine access in "privacy", just in case the spiders happen to come in when you don't want them to.

IMWhip

Hey Andres,

I sent you a couple of reply PM's. Let me know when you have a chance to read them.

Thanks,
-IMWhip

waynzworld69

Hi,

I created my first posts 5 days ago. 1,100 total posts. I just ran Rank Tracker for the first time today. I am averaging 60 visitors to my new site daily with this. I went to Backlink Supercharger to index, Social and RSS bookmark and that was 5 days ago.

My results: 349 keywords checked. 10 top 100 listings. 3 on page #1, but for smaller cities.

My question: I just checked and I have only 3 posts indexed out of 1,100.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance for helping!!!!!!!

MisterE

LPNers, Do you need a desktop Rank Checker?

If so, RUN Don't Walk to this WSO by Brad and Matt Callen. They're giving away for free to Warriors their all new RANKERIZER. No idea how long it will be free so get going now.

Sorry MAC users (Big Hombre) PC only, for the time being. Parallels or some other virtualization program will work.

Rankerizer WSO

I just tried it with a small sample of my LPN posts and it works great..... A TIP for LPNers..... Of all the first page rankings that I've found so far, they all had ONE THING in common....... BACKLINKS, 30 each for me.

I almost feel guilty about having so many first, or first page rankings............Nah, not true. ;-)

Now if you can do me a favor:confused:
Read my next post.

Mark

MisterE

As you are all aware of the fact that with LPN we are required to deal with large numbers of city, state, keyword type lists.

So far I've been trying to append states to the end of city files.

I've been using Open Office Spreadsheet and have been thoroughly disappointed. Every time I try to save two columns together i.e. "City1 State1" Open Office is adding invisible characters between the two. I tried Don's tip about looking for and removing them in Notepad++ but, no matter what I do they, the special characters don't show up. So I've been manually deleting each of the invisible characters (they take up one space so their relatively easy to locate) by hand. I've also tried search and replace with no luck either.

Have you followed me so far?

My question, or my schooling by those in the know?

Can anybody tell me how to fix this in Open Office, or better yet suggest a free 'text wrangling' program that will simplify all this appending that I'm/we're having to do?

Mark