Thread: Xrumer / Hrefer Guidance

+1. It would be great to have a helping hand as we go through the learning curve

Originally Posted by Stitch

I'm xrumer new too. How about describing what approach/steps you would tell a family member to take after working with guestbooks. Intention is to get them up to speed and not hand them your linklists on a silver platter.

Would you suggest that they create a master list for each CMS? If so, which CMSes would you have them work on after guestbooks?
For auto approve blogs, would you suggest they purchase an AA list or do you recommend using Hrefer for accumulating AA blogs?
At what point in time would you recommend that someone learn how to improve xas_ai?

Originally Posted by GODOVERYOU

I think we can maybe do something with that....

Want to start an 'education of a newbie xrumer user' type thing where you ask some questions and myself and others answer them?

My first post on the forum - really happy to be here.

I'm also very keen to see what you've suggested here - I've got a dedi with BL and XR installed - have been playing around with BL and CS and managed to get them working but I'm lost with XR. A little help on how to get started would go a long way and the 'education of a newbie xrumer user' would be perfect for this. Thanks.

Originally Posted by PingPongBalls

My first post on the forum - really happy to be here.

I'm also very keen to see what you've suggested here - I've got a dedi with BL and XR installed - have been playing around with BL and CS and managed to get them working but I'm lost with XR. A little help on how to get started would go a long way and the 'education of a newbie xrumer user' would be perfect for this. Thanks.

one thing i have been doing to learn is scrape lists for BL in manual import. This is a good way to at least get some use out of hrefer

Originally Posted by Juvv

one thing i have been doing to learn is scrape lists for BL in manual import. This is a good way to at least get some use out of hrefer

Thanks. Is there a guide or tutorial on this which you can recommend?

Unfortunately not. I had to learn the hard way and I'm still learning. All I can say from my experience is to start with guest books and not to use the sieve filter. Use footprints in additive keywords and make your own word database using the google word scraper in hrefer. This alone will kick you off!

Originally Posted by Juvv

Unfortunately not. I had to learn the hard way and I'm still learning. All I can say from my experience is to start with guest books and not to use the sieve filter. Use footprints in additive keywords and make your own word database using the google word scraper in hrefer. This alone will kick you off!

Yep, that's pretty much what you need to start with.

Hrefer comes with a set of sieve and additive words out of the box that works pretty decently.
If you need a wordlist, these aren't the best, but you will get huge lists by using this Google query:
dictionary filetype.txt - Google Search
What you are doing is simple looking for word lists that are in the .txt format already. One of the top results was: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/cla.../word_list.txt
That would make for a perfectly suitable words list for most people just getting started.

If you need a more specific words list quickly and easily just change your query.
For instance: sport wordlist filetype:txt
One of the results that pop's up is: http://ada.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/wordlist.txt

So that's a really quick way to get wordlists that won't involve much work on your end. Every now and then you will get a file with text on top, but you can take that out with a text editor. If you have one with blank links, you can take those out with excel or notepad++ (I think on np++ - I use excel)

For proxies, I like using Kensai's proxy service from The SEO Bay - Xrumer Forum, SEO and Money Making Discussions Community

Failing that there is also the inurlroxyc/engine.php trick. That is old, but still works. Basically you go hunting for someone else's proxy list and when you find a good one, use it until for some reason, it stops being so effective.

So, you really should have the three basic requirements for hrefer now. A wordllist, a proxy source, and the program has decent footprints already

Yeah thats what I did. I used someone elses list. It was shithouse so I managed to get my own and I just manually scrape and test with SB now. Its a bit slower but I dont mind doing it.

Ive been scraping all sorts of platforms too which has been good. I also have been doing mass guestbook scraping using multiple footprints instead of just doing one at a time. It worked fairly well.

Originally Posted by GODOVERYOU

Yep, that's pretty much what you need to start with.

Hrefer comes with a set of sieve and additive words out of the box that works pretty decently.
If you need a wordlist, these aren't the best, but you will get huge lists by using this Google query:
dictionary filetype.txt - Google Search
What you are doing is simple looking for word lists that are in the .txt format already. One of the top results was: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/cla.../word_list.txt
That would make for a perfectly suitable words list for most people just getting started.

If you need a more specific words list quickly and easily just change your query.
For instance: sport wordlist filetype:txt
One of the results that pop's up is: http://ada.rg16.asn-wien.ac.at/~python/wordlist.txt

So that's a really quick way to get wordlists that won't involve much work on your end. Every now and then you will get a file with text on top, but you can take that out with a text editor. If you have one with blank links, you can take those out with excel or notepad++ (I think on np++ - I use excel)

For proxies, I like using Kensai's proxy service from The SEO Bay - Xrumer Forum, SEO and Money Making Discussions Community

Failing that there is also the inurlroxyc/engine.php trick. That is old, but still works. Basically you go hunting for someone else's proxy list and when you find a good one, use it until for some reason, it stops being so effective.

So, you really should have the three basic requirements for hrefer now. A wordllist, a proxy source, and the program has decent footprints already

Post is great for wordlists. How about a Hrefer tutorial on additive words and sieve. For example, lets take phoca gallery. The main footprint is "powered by phoca gallery". How do you go about finding and using more additive words and sieve filters. "Powered by phoca gallery" as additive word and empty sieve filter results in error msg ="not enought templates".

Empty sieve means that you go to prasing options and tick the box responsible for disabling the sieve filtration. Ticking that box should remove the error.

Failing that, just think a bit outside the box on your list.

/index.php?option=com_phocaguestbook&view=phocagues tbook&id=
/index.php?option=com_phocaguestbook&view=phocagues tbook
/index.php?option=com_phocaguestbook&view=
/index.php?option=com_phocaguestbook
/index.php?option=com



Is phoca what you want me to look into? I have a list for that CMS I think...

personally I would always use the sieve filter when scraping for platforms like phoca. otherwise you will end up with lots of other stuff, blog posts regarding how to remove the 'powered by...' footprint and so on, stuff you don't want in your list.