what has selenoum to do with landing page creation? selenium is a headless browser....
Jason Gonzalez
Ive been wanting to use Selenium to automate Chrome. Reason is cause I used VBA (IE) to automate website data entry, but the one website I automated changed one little thing and rendered a core button on the page dead. Is it as easy as VBA?
Elijah Collins
You don't need selenium. Done successful website browsing automation with it. >Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") >excely.com/excel-vba/ie-automation.shtml
Ryder Phillips
You can’t use VBA with chrome is my point, IE is easy with VBA
Luke Hughes
Selenium has an extension for excel and is 100% vba. Its nearly the same as your usual vba for IE. I have used it to automatize Chrome and Firefox
Alexander Stewart
I have used it for tickets creation.
Oliver Peterson
Not sure how he did it but I assume he used something like a cms website builder like joomla or wordpress What kind of tickets?
Sebastian Ramirez
I worked as IT Support and we had to create tickets for another teams. So I created tool in C# that creates tickets in the ticketing tool based on received emails in outlook.
Justin Flores
I use it to download pictures from roasties in Tinder/Insta to fap to later.
Colton Price
>one user from an Affiliate markerting thread who used selenium to create thousands of landing pages and get more leads That was me who made the thread back in March of 2017. I'm still at it with the autoblogging and still using Selenium though I spend more time working on my crypto bot these days.
Wyatt Edwards
How much does autoblogging get you? I need something to make me money because I'm a neet at the moment.
Ryder Thomas
These days I'm only pulling about 10k a month with the spam blogs, used to be between 30 and 40 but I slacked off a bit a while back after getting approved for paid traffic on the affiliate program I work with. Most affiliates on this program aren't allowed to do paid but I've been with them so long they made an exception for me. And lemme tell ya, that's where it's at. Grossing over 100k a month but after giving Google their cut I still end up with around 50.
Kayden Evans
Wouldn’t google recaptcha fuck your shit up? Also why use selenium when you can do a lot of the browser automation with http calls
Jace Martinez
There are captcha solving services that cost fractions of a cent per. As far as why Selenium, lots of sites have javascript on page that needs to run to get the information you want. Natch you can just write a script to extract and run the javascript with node or something but if you gotta do all that you might as well just use Selenium or Puppeteer. Besides, Selenium is inherently visual so development is just plain easier.
Henry Wright
wtf, thats so much money. Whats your main source of content you promote or is it other peoples stuff? I just want like 1500 a month. I go to community college and live at home in California.
Connor Gomez
I agree, it's a ridiculous amount of money for just throwing a bunch of websites and ads up. The internet is a crazy place and if you find a niche it will make you very wealthy. Just imagine the twitch thots pulling down 6 figures monthly. I mean wtf, right? For affiliate marketing, just find a program to join, be it Amazon, eBay Partner Network, shareasale, whatever. Join it, make some websites with content. The content can be shitty, just has to be somrthing that tells Google to send users to your site when they search for topic X, then have ads about topic X where they csn click. It's that easy, man.
Michael Carter
I never imagined you would still be lurking around here. Your success story in that thread is what inspired me to use selenium and try in Affiliate markerting. Glad to have summoned you, maybe I can squeeze a couple more quality posts from you while you're here.
My idea is to set up automatic downloads of files from various websites that have data from my niche, and create an authority site with paid traffic at first but then build it as organic traffic with social media and seo. How bad is my idea?
Also when you say you automatize blogs you mean copywriting? How can that be automatized?
Connor Brown
You are 10 years late, kiddo
Colton Cruz
Oh hey, how's it going, user. You must be the guy that made the discord server. I dropped by there a few times but I'm too much of an autist for socializing. Glad to see you're still at it. Your idea seems reasonable to me. I've been doing a lot with paid traffic lately but it's just an addition to my organic stuff. My spam blogs haven't really changed. Basically I buy the traffic, people click on my site then they click my ads. I would have been using paid a long time ago but I wasn't allowed to. I'd say if you have sites that already work well with organic, paid is going to multiply your results by 10. If you aren't converting organic though, paid isn't really going to help. As far as my automation, it's literally the entire thing. I have a series of scripts that generate the domain name, provision a host, install the CMS, scrape and spin the content, set up cloudflare, create backlinks, the works. I tell it how many sites I want, then walk away. Come back in an hour and the sites are fully functional. I've heard that every year for the last 5 and yet..
Andrew Baker
Makes sense, I’ve only had to automate a few websites and none had server side js. I’ve heard about the sweatshop pajeet solving captcha thing but didn’t know it was that cheap.
Ryder Ward
>server side js
Disregard that I’m drunk
Cameron Gomez
I've been up all day and I'm about to crash but I wanted to hit you with something else I've been doing since you mentioned algo trading. So I made a trading bot with Python, ccxt, and matplotlib. The issue is a few sites like coinexchange.com have a public api for getting prices but they don't offer a private api for setting and canceling orders. I first thought about using Selenium but then you have to log in every time or have a long running session that's kind of a pain in the ass. Wasn't really happy with either way. So I ended up using tampermonkey and a couple of scripts. When my bot wants to make a trade, it opens a new tab in Chrome straight to the coin's page. The tampermonkey script looks for certain rest parameters that then tell it what I want to do, buy, sell, cancel, whatever then it uses javascript to manipulate the DOM and execute the orders. Clunky but not as bad as Selenium. The upshot is it works so you might find that interesting.
Jose Hughes
Not that user but glad to hear you have inspired more people here.
So you say you also do organic, but afaik that only works with strong authority sites. Does that mean you also have authority sites besides your spam automated blogs?
>spin the content I assume that would be the most difficult part. I can't imagine how a script would deal with grammar, unless there are scripts already made by someone else that you can buy.
Also, how many spam sites you estimate you create in an hour/day?
Thanks for your replies so far.
Lincoln Morgan
I do a lot organic actually. For the longest, that's all I did and I have no authority sites at all. My dirty secret is despite having a lot of success with affiliate marketing I don't have a lot of passion for web authoring so there's no way I'd be able to nurture good authority sites without wanting to blow my brains out. My autism is programming and problem solving so refining the automated spam blogging was the only tenable approach. Organic traffic pointed at automated blogs with scraped and spun content is still quite viable. Google would have you believe otherwise for one simple reason, they have a vested interest in you paying for traffic. This leads them to vastly overstate their ability to discriminate between real and spam content but it's just gaslighting. Of course they catch on eventually but if you're like me, for every site they catch, you have thousands more still generating income. Spinning content actually isn't that hard. I started with a Markov Chain library for Python and just refined it with manual tweaks. Works great. Remember, it's not that a human needs to read it and it make sense. The key is to have content that when Google's bot reads it, the bot "thinks" to itself, if a user searches for X then this is a site about X. It's a subtle distinction. I usually create about 10 sites a day with the cheapest registrar and TLD I can find and I run them all on cheap VPS's so hosting costs are minimal. In total I have maybe 10,000 sites. They come and go though as I abandon deindexed ones. Churn and burn is the name of the game. Alright, I'm off to bed. If the thread is up when I wake up and you have anything else I might can help with I'll follow up. Good luck
