Getting dirty with RSSG site generator

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Having played with RSSG and RSSGM a few months back I have decided to come back at the system full force. The emphasis will be on two key factors: Making a unique template and growing the site slowly over time.

I plan to use affiliate programs in the sites rather than just adwords, however these will still be included further down the page. I figure that if I can get some affiliate sales converting I will make more money in the long run.

To see an example RSSG website you can have a look at www.badbreaths.co.uk. Here I have replaced the old wordpress site with a generated one. I have yet to see how this will effect the traffic and indeed the adsense earnings but I will of course keep you posted.

I will talk more about the affiliate RSSG site here soon and quite probably in more detail in the forums where I will also be answering any questions you have.

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8 Responses to “Getting dirty with RSSG site generator”

1. Sean Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   By “growing the site” are you meaning generating new keyword pages over time rather than one big whack?

   BTW, I still see some RSSGM footprints, including the location of the stylesheet and the existence of the RSSGM directory (including rssgm/keywords/Keywords.txt).

   Sean

2. Alex Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

   Good work. There appears to be a little bug in RSSG when it comes to creating your Google sitemap - have a look at http://www.badbreaths.co.uk/sitemap.xml and you’ll see it’s forgotten to put a / between the sitename and pagename in the URL.

   I’m going to see if I can sort a fix, will let you know once you’ve written the first post on this subject in the forum

3. Alex Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

   Fixed it

   Open up sitemap_xml_code.php, go to line 55. Replace:

   $sitemap_xml_code .= $site.$file;

   With:

   $sitemap_xml_code .= $site.”/”.$file;

   .. then re-run RSSG.

   :)

4. Dave G Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 1:56 pm

   Thanks alex. Will look to sort later on tonight.

   I created a whole new set of templates for the “other” site which look great and work towards affiliate stuff. I have even removed the google adsense ads in the hope that this will give better conversion results.

   I will PM the address to you in the forums

5. Dave G Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 2:46 pm

   For anyone that is interested, the “other” site is

   http://www.wholesalerextra.com

   Dave

6. Peter Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 10:49 am

   Dave,

   Nice looking templates.
   Did you use RSSG or RSSGM for the 2 sites?

7. Dave G Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

   I used RSSG for the sites with custom templates based off of open source ones NOT made for RSSG to avoid most of the footprint detection etc.

   Will see how things bed into google over time.

   I have NOT placed adsense on the site for 2 key reasons. Firstly because I want all clicks to go via the flags, secondly because if the site is seen as bad I don’t want my adsense account banned too.

8. Dave G Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 2:51 pm

   Thanks for the comments sean. Will look to fix them.

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