Showing posts with label submission rotation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label submission rotation. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Infinite Number of Variations of your Submission is now Possible

In addition to specifying alternate entries using tilde ( ~ ) symbol in earlier versions, a very cool feature has been added to the upcoming KnowbForm v1.6.4 beta. That is, users can configure submission profile to create variations or rotations within an entry using pipe-and-braces { | } symbols.

Let's see the difference between the workings of ( ~ ) and { | } with examples.

Alternative entry using ( ~ ):

This is entry number one.
~
This is an alternative entry.
~
This is another alternative entry.

The above specification will create 3 alternative entries for the form field which can be randomly or sequentially selected during auto-population of forms.

Alternative entry using ( ~ ) and variations in entries using { | }:

This is entry {number one | variation 1 | variation 2}.
~
This is an {alternative entry | variation of alternative entry}.
~
This is {another alternative entry | variation of another alternative entry | another variation | yet another variation }. Why not create variations { here | and here} too. {Wherever | Whenever} you want, create variations, no problem at all.

The above specification will create 3 variations for the first entry, 2 variations for the second entry, and 4x2x2=16 variations for the third entry. As a result there will be 3x2x16=96 alternatives for this entry.

Users can define alternative entries and entry variations for any descriptive field like Title, Description, Article Body, etc. This feature is particularly important for article body or entry descriptions to create unique looking articles from the search engine's perspective.

Many sites do not allow multiple submissions unless you vary your title. In such cases variations are very useful too.

Submission variation is very important from search engine optimization (SEO) perspective. Because it will allow you to create many unique submissions without too much time and efforts.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Vary Submission Entries Sequentially or Randomly

The steps involved in site submission using KnowboForm is - a) create a submission profile, b) visit to the submission page, c) auto-fill the form, d) submit and record your submission.

This article discuss an interesting features relevant for step a) and c).

During creation of a submission profile one has to enter submission specific information in the respective fields of a form and store that under a profile ID. Considering the SEO aspects of submission, KnowboForm allows you to specify multiple values for a single field.

Up until v1.6.3, one entry from those multiple values were randomly chosen during filling-up of the form.

In the upcoming v1.6.4 users will be able to specify whether the value will also be chosen sequentially by rotation.

Thus KnowboForm allows you to compose your submission entries by varying unique description, title, and other such fields which is important as search engines usually prefer unique information. Submission variation and rotation is a very important aspects of any website submission and promotion campaign.