DetectorX
02-18-2009, 11:50 PM
This may be an almost impossibility and was probably already suggested, though Im in the mood to post so ill go for it.
The seeding feature is great though it lacks a bit in realism, I think it would be pretty obvious to anyone looking at a freshly launched review site that was seeded, with any number of reviews, was just that a seeded review site. Unless of course you strip the comment feild from comments.php, and are only allowing ratings without comments. Though even that right now seems impossible, remove the comment field and you just lost your star review category / categories.
Im no programmer, but think the following would be pretty damn challenging. but If pulled off and pulled off right it would be oh so SWEET! OK enough of the babbling, simply put, some sort of content generation for comment seeding. Actual auto reviews based off keywords and other variables pulled from your csv files and maybe some other source files. If pulled off right I would be willing to throw another $150 down on this bitch!
But from what Ive seen of full fledged content generators the possibilities of creating something that would actually create readable, sensible reviews is slim to none. But on the other hand we would not be trying to create pages of auto generated content, just, small, simple, keyword based reviews. That would have to be believable to the untrained eye and possibly unique enough to create useful keyword rich content for spiders.
This addition would half to be smart enough to make reviews based per post, not collectively as in keywords collected from all posts under a category, or maybe that would be useful to, an option to base reviews on keywords, and data per post basis, or specified columns and attributes within csv files, or possibly utilize wordpresse's tags functions to collect keywords from the site and create reviews.
I'm sure its possible, but how probable would it be to create a flexible seeding function described above, that would be able to fool both human and search engine traffic with unique auto generated reviews?
Another seeding function that would be very helpful is one that would alow more control over the ratings output. When building affiliate based review sites, your going to want to give some products, services, review subjects more weight than others being displayed, or featured on your site / sites.
Controlling rank on seeded sites would also be a big one in my opinion...
To try to make some sense, or order of my seeding suggestions
High quality, auto generated comment & rating engine
flexible enough to pull data / keywords from various sources
more control over quality level of seeded ratings per post, category or even other data such as ranking seeds higher per defined keywords found in column.
A more flexible template system, if at all possible, with the ability to create more advanced templates with the addition of html, tags and template specific css files.
I could go on and on, but will spare you the endless babbling. I am not a programmer, so how possible, or probable some of the above is I dont know. What I do know is you wanted suggestions, to add to an already kick ass wordpress plugin, that could easily become one of the most powerful and flexible marketing tools / CMS's / Content Generation Scripts/ so on and so fourth.
If you are really serious about really tweaking the hell out of this thing and creating something really, really special I vote you jack the price up to cover your personal gains and limit number of serial owners to benefit your customers.
It would have to become really, really fucking special though! Hell I would drop a few hundred, maybe a grand or more per year "depending on just how good this thing gets" on a subscription to a script that would effectively handle, create and pass data into content and revenue generating websites.
Though who the fuck knows you may not even decide to add any functionality that would continue to make this plugin useful to me, though I doubt it.
So to close a long winded and hopefully somewhat useful post, I am like everyone else, I want what I want from this thing and then some, probably wont get everything, but you will have an long time subscriber if you keep the ball rolling on this one, I would even be willing to throw in some time and work into this project to see it keep going. Been looking for something like like for some time and havent had the money to have something custom built that would be half of what this plugin promises to be.
You can thank my doctor for the long winded, slightly scatter minded post that is probably more than it had to be, adult ADHD my ass, this shit feels like speed to me, wrong diagnosis, but some pretty killer pills that finally got me focused enough to try to make a somewhat worthwhile post..........
Thanx and keep up the kick ass work!
Looking forward to more progress and more monies made, dX
The seeding feature is great though it lacks a bit in realism, I think it would be pretty obvious to anyone looking at a freshly launched review site that was seeded, with any number of reviews, was just that a seeded review site. Unless of course you strip the comment feild from comments.php, and are only allowing ratings without comments. Though even that right now seems impossible, remove the comment field and you just lost your star review category / categories.
Im no programmer, but think the following would be pretty damn challenging. but If pulled off and pulled off right it would be oh so SWEET! OK enough of the babbling, simply put, some sort of content generation for comment seeding. Actual auto reviews based off keywords and other variables pulled from your csv files and maybe some other source files. If pulled off right I would be willing to throw another $150 down on this bitch!
But from what Ive seen of full fledged content generators the possibilities of creating something that would actually create readable, sensible reviews is slim to none. But on the other hand we would not be trying to create pages of auto generated content, just, small, simple, keyword based reviews. That would have to be believable to the untrained eye and possibly unique enough to create useful keyword rich content for spiders.
This addition would half to be smart enough to make reviews based per post, not collectively as in keywords collected from all posts under a category, or maybe that would be useful to, an option to base reviews on keywords, and data per post basis, or specified columns and attributes within csv files, or possibly utilize wordpresse's tags functions to collect keywords from the site and create reviews.
I'm sure its possible, but how probable would it be to create a flexible seeding function described above, that would be able to fool both human and search engine traffic with unique auto generated reviews?
Another seeding function that would be very helpful is one that would alow more control over the ratings output. When building affiliate based review sites, your going to want to give some products, services, review subjects more weight than others being displayed, or featured on your site / sites.
Controlling rank on seeded sites would also be a big one in my opinion...
To try to make some sense, or order of my seeding suggestions
High quality, auto generated comment & rating engine
flexible enough to pull data / keywords from various sources
more control over quality level of seeded ratings per post, category or even other data such as ranking seeds higher per defined keywords found in column.
A more flexible template system, if at all possible, with the ability to create more advanced templates with the addition of html, tags and template specific css files.
I could go on and on, but will spare you the endless babbling. I am not a programmer, so how possible, or probable some of the above is I dont know. What I do know is you wanted suggestions, to add to an already kick ass wordpress plugin, that could easily become one of the most powerful and flexible marketing tools / CMS's / Content Generation Scripts/ so on and so fourth.
If you are really serious about really tweaking the hell out of this thing and creating something really, really special I vote you jack the price up to cover your personal gains and limit number of serial owners to benefit your customers.
It would have to become really, really fucking special though! Hell I would drop a few hundred, maybe a grand or more per year "depending on just how good this thing gets" on a subscription to a script that would effectively handle, create and pass data into content and revenue generating websites.
Though who the fuck knows you may not even decide to add any functionality that would continue to make this plugin useful to me, though I doubt it.
So to close a long winded and hopefully somewhat useful post, I am like everyone else, I want what I want from this thing and then some, probably wont get everything, but you will have an long time subscriber if you keep the ball rolling on this one, I would even be willing to throw in some time and work into this project to see it keep going. Been looking for something like like for some time and havent had the money to have something custom built that would be half of what this plugin promises to be.
You can thank my doctor for the long winded, slightly scatter minded post that is probably more than it had to be, adult ADHD my ass, this shit feels like speed to me, wrong diagnosis, but some pretty killer pills that finally got me focused enough to try to make a somewhat worthwhile post..........
Thanx and keep up the kick ass work!
Looking forward to more progress and more monies made, dX