Titles and publications

[Yo]

Hi,
 
I'd like to know two things.
The first is How can I assign a unique title for each of my articles?
The second question is, how can I publish (50 posts) directly on my blog each of these articles in automatic?

[Meg]

Hi Yo,
The file names are generated when you create all the articles from your spin. When you generate them, you can use something other than "article", for instance you could use "Glass bead" but you will still get "glass bead1", "glass bead2" etc.

Unique titles can be generated inside the article, exactly as normal, just leave a free line between your title text and the wording of your article.

You can post automatically to your blog using the "post to blog" in the "publish" tab. It's a long time since I used that but I seem to recall that if you create titles as part of the text and leave a complete free line between the title and the article text, that title is used as the article title.

[Yo]

You can post automatically to your blog using the "post to blog" in the "publish" tab. It's a long time since I used that but I seem to recall that if you create titles as part of the text and leave a complete free line between the title and the article text, that title is used as the article title.

Thank you very much for your reply. I have solved the problem with the titles, but the problem of publishing the articles in the blog is not.

I have created a new user "Author" in the blog to make automatic posts, but nothing is published, TBS is blocked.

My question is as follows:
Do I have to generate several articles or is it not necessary? That is to say, with only one article in spintax format several would be published? for example 50?

Thank you very much.

[Meg]

Some hosts have security options in place to stop uploads of files. With my host, I just opened a support ticket and it was solved.

I just tested out TBS there now and successfully published a post on my blog. However, this only uploads one file each time. It posted a correct title, spun from the titles in TBS and then posted the text in the correct place in the blog. In order to publish another article, you would need to operate the "post to blog" again. You do not need to generate the articles into a file, the post to blog chooses one article and posts it for you. I saved the spintext on my computer, posted an article, closed down then tried again a few hours later from a different computer, with the same saved spintext. It posted a different article. I posted 4 articles on my blog (and then deleted them) and they were all different, however, if you close and open TBS at another time, I assume it is possible that you could get 2 articles the same because I don't think it remembers what it posted after it is closed. This should be a very low risk with a large spintext file.
Hope this helps.

In the past, I used a paid-for WP plugin from Amin Motin called Feed me. It allows you to upload a zip file of articles and publish them at a schedule of your choice (hours or days or weeks). I have had a look on Word press at the available plugin options and don't see one exactly like this. I created a zip file containing various articles, like those from TBS and published them on my blog automatically over a few days. The files MUST be plain text, no images.

[Yo]

In the past, I used a paid-for WP plugin from Amin Motin called Feed me. It allows you to upload a zip file of articles and publish them at a schedule of your choice (hours or days or weeks). I have had a look on Word press at the available plugin options and don't see one exactly like this. I created a zip file containing various articles, like those from TBS and published them on my blog automatically over a few days. The files MUST be plain text, no images.

Thank you very much for the answer. What's the plugin you say? I've been looking and two appear in two different websites.
Is it the one in the attached photo?
Thank you very much.

[Meg]

Yes, that is the one I have.

[Yo]

Yes, that is the one I have.

 Great! Would shorcodes work?

[Meg]

Hi Yo,
I do not know.
If you contact helpdesk, they may be able to help you. http://support.prosperative.com/

[Yo]

Hi Yo,
I do not know.
If you contact helpdesk, they may be able to help you. http://support.prosperative.com/

Thanks, but I'm having a new problem with TBS.
I'm creating several articles with the following format:
{Title 1|Title 2| Title 3| Title 4| Title 5} but of those 5 articles with those 5 titles, only half are being published.
Why?
Thank you very much.

[Meg]

Are you spinning ONLY the titles? If each title is different, then when you "generate articles", all 5 should be produced. I did 5 different titles and generated them as one file.
{Best Product for 2018|Best Product1 for 2019|Greatest Product 1 coming for 2019|This is the best product now available|Best product 1 in class for 2019}
As one file, it came out as:
Best Product for 2018
#BREAK#
This is the best product now available
#BREAK#
Best Product1 for 2019
#BREAK#
Greatest Product 1 coming for 2019
#BREAK#
Best product 1 in class for 2019
#BREAK#

If you have only a small amount of text in the body of the article (or it's not spun), then TBS won't be able to make "unique" articles, ie, each one (at least slightly) different from the other.

On the other hand, if you have a LOT of spinning and you only ask for a few articles, it may not have finished spinning all the possible options for the first two or 3 titles before it has reached the limit you set.

[Yo]

Are you spinning ONLY the titles? If each title is different, then when you "generate articles", all 5 should be produced. I did 5 different titles and generated them as one file.
{Best Product for 2018|Best Product1 for 2019|Greatest Product 1 coming for 2019|This is the best product now available|Best product 1 in class for 2019}
As one file, it came out as:
Best Product for 2018
#BREAK#
This is the best product now available
#BREAK#
Best Product1 for 2019
#BREAK#
Greatest Product 1 coming for 2019
#BREAK#
Best product 1 in class for 2019
#BREAK#

If you have only a small amount of text in the body of the article (or it's not spun), then TBS won't be able to make "unique" articles, ie, each one (at least slightly) different from the other.

On the other hand, if you have a LOT of spinning and you only ask for a few articles, it may not have finished spinning all the possible options for the first two or 3 titles before it has reached the limit you set.

I have 558 words in different titles and 2600 words in the body of the article.
Maybe too many titles?
Thanks

[Meg]

Shouldn't be too much.
One more thing to try. Save your text to a separate file and try splitting it in half and spinning the two halves separately if you can. This may need careful checking of where is the best place to split so it spins out correctly. Occasionally a word or symbol may "stop" the spinning, for example the symbol "&", as in Marks & Spencer, for instance. If you know there is a symbol like "&" in it, you could try replacing it with "and" to see if it then spins out correctly. The reason I said to split it in half is that, if one half spins correctly and the other half doesn't, you will know there is a problem in the half with fewer spins. You can then try splitting that half into two pieces, to try and find the rogue symbol.

[Yo]

Shouldn't be too much.
One more thing to try. Save your text to a separate file and try splitting it in half and spinning the two halves separately if you can. This may need careful checking of where is the best place to split so it spins out correctly. Occasionally a word or symbol may "stop" the spinning, for example the symbol "&", as in Marks & Spencer, for instance. If you know there is a symbol like "&" in it, you could try replacing it with "and" to see if it then spins out correctly. The reason I said to split it in half is that, if one half spins correctly and the other half doesn't, you will know there is a problem in the half with fewer spins. You can then try splitting that half into two pieces, to try and find the rogue symbol.

Thanks Meg, I've been on vacation and I haven't been able to answer before.

One last doubt, I don't know if I'll be able to explain myself well.

I need to assign a specific shortcode to each of the titles, for example:

Titles:
1.- Funko Pop Stranger Things 2
2.- Funko Pop Harry Potter
3.- Funko Pop Fortnite

Shortcodes:
A.- [amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Stranger Things 2"]
B.- [amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Harry Potter "]
C.- [amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Fortnite"]

So, I need to assign title 1 with shortcode A, title 2, with B and so on.

Any idea how to do this? If it is with an example would be fantastic, because my English level is very low.

Thank you

[Meg]

On reading through your query I can see three possible ways to do this.
One is to use "protected text". You include your shortcode in the spintext but it never gets spun, so it always stays the same. I am not sure that would meet your needs.

The second way is to use datamerge. I have a 6 page booklet written on this specially for TBS but it may be difficult for you, if your English level is low.
Datamerge uses "PLACEHOLDER" text. You create your spintext and include placeholder text inside square brackets. like [placeholder1] [placeholder2]

EXAMPLE
I like to take my pet for a walk every day.
Use placeholder text in place of "pet", "walk" and "day"
I like to take my [Placeholder1] for a [Placeholder2] every [Placeholder3]

In a CSV file you put different examples of what the placeholder could be, eg [placeholder1] could be "dog", "greyhound", "Spaniel", [placeholder2] could be "walk", "run", "swim" and [placeholder3] could be "day", "week", "month".

You would get 3 different articles saying
I like to take my dog for a walk every day.
I like to take my greyhound for a run every week.
I like to take my spaniel for a swim every month.

This can be used for addresses, shortcodes, anything.

The third way is simply to use the "find and replace" inside a text editor.
So, you put the text
"I like to take my pet for a walk. My pet is short haired." into a text editor and find and replace "pet" with "dog". You get:
"I like to take my dog for a walk. My dog is short haired."
This is probably the easiest way.

[Yo]

On reading through your query I can see three possible ways to do this.
One is to use "protected text". You include your shortcode in the spintext but it never gets spun, so it always stays the same. I am not sure that would meet your needs.

The second way is to use datamerge. I have a 6 page booklet written on this specially for TBS but it may be difficult for you, if your English level is low.
Datamerge uses "PLACEHOLDER" text. You create your spintext and include placeholder text inside square brackets. like [placeholder1] [placeholder2]

EXAMPLE
I like to take my pet for a walk every day.
Use placeholder text in place of "pet", "walk" and "day"
I like to take my [Placeholder1] for a [Placeholder2] every [Placeholder3]

In a CSV file you put different examples of what the placeholder could be, eg [placeholder1] could be "dog", "greyhound", "Spaniel", [placeholder2] could be "walk", "run", "swim" and [placeholder3] could be "day", "week", "month".

You would get 3 different articles saying
I like to take my dog for a walk every day.
I like to take my greyhound for a run every week.
I like to take my spaniel for a swim every month.

This can be used for addresses, shortcodes, anything.

The third way is simply to use the "find and replace" inside a text editor.
So, you put the text
"I like to take my pet for a walk. My pet is short haired." into a text editor and find and replace "pet" with "dog". You get:
"I like to take my dog for a walk. My dog is short haired."
This is probably the easiest way.

Hi, Meg,
I've been testing datamerge and I can't make it work. The problem I have is with the shortcodes, being between brackets TBS does not recognize it, I attach an image of what I'm doing (image1).

If I try to change the word "ShorcodeA" or "ShorcodeB" or "ShorcodeC" to :

[amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Stranger Things 2"] or
[amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Harry Potter "] or
[amazon bestseller = "Funko Pop Fortnite"] or

The result is image 2.

Can it be a problem with "[ ]"?

On the other hand, I send you a screenshot of my spin article (image3).