BlogBot User’s Guide

Version 1.0 – Original Release Candidate

Michalis “BIG Mike” Kotzakolios

With His Trusty Sidekicks Diego Hernando And John Rogers
(And Our JavaBean Matias Too!)
DISCLA IMER A ND LEGAL NOTICES

The information in this document is copyrighted 2009 by IncansoftTM and is protected

under US and International Law. It may not be shared, reprinted, copied,
redistributed, retransmitted, photocopied, displayed, or stored electronically or by
any means whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.

The information presented herein represents the views of the author as of the date of
publication and is for informational purposes only. For additional information, please
review the IncansoftTM Terms Of Use.

A DDITIONA L DISCLA IMER REGA RDING B LOG NETWORKS

At Incansoft, we have no control over whether or not a given Blog Network will change its
Blog Posting process or even go out of business, taking the network offline. At the time of this
writing, BlogBot was able to process and submit to over 100 Blog Networks.

We have found that over time, some networks will stop working for whatever reason. Because
of this, we cannot make any guarantees that any or all of the networks will continue to
operate into the future.

Additionally, by using BlogBot, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Incansoft and
Incansoft SAC from any problems resulting from your use of it. We recommend that you use
the software judiciously and not abuse it for the purpose of spamming the Blog Networks.
Doing so will most likely result in your accounts being terminated, in effect wasting any effort
you’ve put into it.

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TAB LE OF CONTENTS

DISCLAIMER AND LEGAL NOTICES .................................................................................. 2

ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER REGARDING ARTICLE DIRECTORIES ........................................... 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ 3
BLOGBOT INSTALLATION ............................................................................................ 4
REGISTERING BLOGBOT ..................................................................................... 4
UPGRADING BLOGBOT ....................................................................................... 6
UPDATING BLOGBOT ......................................................................................... 7
WORKING WITH THE GUI ............................................................................................ 8
EXPLORING THE TOOLBAR RIBBON ......................................................................... 9
STEP 1: COMPANY PROFILES ............................................................................ 13
USING COMPANY PROFILES EFFECTIVELY .......................................................15
STEP 1A: IMPORTING COMPANY PROFILES ......................................................16
STEP 2: ACCOUNT PROFILES ............................................................................ 17
STEP 2A: NEW PROFILE ...........................................................................18
STEP 2B: AUTOMATIC ACCOUNT CREATION ....................................................19
AUTOMATIC ACCOUNT CREATION FAILURE ...........................................22
STEP 2C: SEMI-AUTOMATIC ACCOUNT CREATION ..............................................23
USING ACCOUNT PROFILES EFFECTIVELY .............................................25
STEP 2D: EXPORTING ACCOUNT PROFILES (OPTIONAL) .......................................26
STEP 2E: IMPORTING PROFILES (OPTIONAL) ....................................................27
MISC. PROFILE FEATURES ...............................................................27
STEP 2F: ADDING/REMOVING ARTICLE DIRECTORIES ..........................................28
STEP 3: ADDING YOUR ARTICLES ........................................................................ 30
STEP 3A: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR ARTICLES ......................................33
STEP 3B: USING JET SPINNER SYNTAX ..........................................................34
STEP 4: SUBMITTING YOUR ARTICLES ................................................................. 35
STEP 4B: SUBMISSION REVIEW ...................................................................38
STEP 5: SUBMISSION REPORTS .......................................................................... 40
STEP 5A: GENERATING SUBMISSION REPORTS .................................................41
OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT ................................................................................ 43

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BLOGBOT INSTA LLA TION

Please refer to the BlogBot Installation Guide that was included in the zip file you
downloaded or download it here: BlogBot Installation Guide

REGISTERING B LOGB OT

After you have installed BlogBot, you are going to double-click the program icon on
your desktop to launch it (shown below):

During your first use of BlogBot, you will be prompted to enter your Registration Key
(shown in the screen shot below). This is the Registration Key issued to you after
making your purchase.

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Once you have entered your Registration Key, click the Activate button. BlogBot will
communicate with the Incansoft Registration Server to validate your license. A copy
of this information is stored in the Windows Registry for use by the program.

If you receive an error message, please check the Registration Key you entered to
ensure there are no extra characters or spaces before or after the key. If you are still
encountering difficulties registering the program, please contact support for
assistance.

BlogBot is Licensed, not sold to you (see IncansoftTM Copyright) and as such
may be installed on one computer. If you need to install additional copies of
BlogBot, please contact us for information on discounted bulk licensing.

If you are attempting to install more than one copy of BlogBot using the same
Registration Key, all copies may stop working.

NOTE: During each subsequent launch of the program, it will automatically revalidate
your license and check for Updates* and Upgrades**.

An *Update in BlogBot refers to updating the list of Blog Networks it submits to.
During the update process, new networks may be added and/or non-working
networks may be removed.

An **Upgrade in BlogBot refers to upgrading the program executable file and/or

any libraries used by the program.

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UPGRA DING B LOGB OT

If an Upgrade becomes available, the following message will be displayed:

Clicking Yes will launch the BlogBot Upgrade Manager shown below. You must have
Administrator Privileges on the computer you are Upgrading or the Upgrade will fail.

Clicking Download will begin the Upgrade process – do not turn off your computer
while the Upgrade is in progress. If you encounter any difficulties during Upgrade,
please contact support for assistance.

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UPDA TING B LOGB OT

If any Updates become available, the following message will be displayed:

Click Install to have BlogBot begin Updating the available Blog Networks. During this
process, DO NOT turn off your computer or the Update will fail.

Throughout the Update, BlogBot is comparing the list of networks in your database to
a master list on the server. Those networks that we’ve identified as no longer working
will be removed from your database.

Conversely, new Blog Networks we’ve identified will be added to your database,
which you may then add to any existing Profiles and submit as desired.

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WORKING WITH THE GUI

The GUI or Graphical User Interface is designed to intuitively guide you through using
the program. All of the controls and dialogs follow standard Windows programming
conventions to minimize your learning curve and increase your productivity!

We’ll explore each section of the GUI and its controls on the following pages so you
can familiarize yourself with its navigation and operation.

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EXPLORING THE TOOLBA R RIBB ON

As shown below, BlogBot uses an Office 2007 style Toolbar Ribbon to house the
various controls you might need to use when working with it.

The Toolbar Ribbon is segregated into four main sections, most of which are self-
explanatory while these merit discussion:

 Configure – This section allows you to create Account and Company Profiles and
add your Blog Network login Credentials.

 Posts – This tool allows you to enter and configure posts you want to submit to
the various Blog Networks.

 Tools – This section includes the tool to actually submit your Posts
automatically and an Export Tool to backup a copy of your database.

Depending on what you are specifically doing, one or more of the Toolbar Ribbon
controls may appear disabled (light gray). This simply means that the control cannot
be used, because there is nothing for it to act upon if it were clicked.

In addition to the 7 icons displayed on the Toolbar Ribbon, four of these have
submenus as indicated by the small, triangular arrow pointing downwards. Clicking
these arrows displays the submenu items, which may then be clicked in turn to access
those features as described below.

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The Accounts icon on the toolbar Ribbon provides a submenu to Export and Import
to/From CSV files.

Exporting to CSV (Learn More) allows you to export a list of all of the Blog Networks
assigned to a given Account Profile. Importing from CSV (Learn More) allows you to
Import a previously Exported list of all of the Blog Networks assigned to a given
Account Profile.

The Submission Report (Learn More) icon on the Toolbar Ribbon provides a submenu
to Open and Customize Reports.

The Tools icon on the Toolbar Ribbon provides a submenu to Backup your Database
and access the Program Options form.

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We recommend you Backup your Database frequently as part of your overall backup
plan to avoid any loss of data.

IMPORT ANT: Vista and Windows 7 users should be aware that when UAC (User Account
Control) is enabled, your “Real” database file is NOT stored in the BlogBot installation
folder. Instead, it is located in the Virtual Store for the current user as a
“Compatibility File”.

This in turn means that you will need to manually locate and backup the IS0035.db3
Compatibility File rather than use the built-in Backup Database tool. These are
usually found in a path similar to the one shown below:

C:\Users\BIG Mike\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Incansoft\Traffic Mania\BlogBot

The Help icon on the Toolbar Ribbon provides a submenu to navigate online to both
Incansoft and Traffic Mania (Coming Soon) along with a link to a PDF detailing how
you may become a reseller of Incansoft products.

When you click the round, blue icon with the Question Mark (the Help icon), it
displays this User Guide remotely loaded from our server. This PDF always contains
the most up-to-date help information and should be used rather than the PDF
included in the zip file you downloaded.

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CONFIGURING PROGRA M OPTIONS

BlogBot provides several General Options you may set now or at any time in the future
to control how it works.

The first Option, shown below, sets the Default Number of Threads to use during the
Submission Process. For example, the default value of 5 allows BlogBot to submit your
Posts to 5 Blog Networks at the same time. Depending on the speed of your CPU and
the bandwidth available to you, you may increase or decrease this number
accordingly.

The second Option allows you to enter any number of Proxy Servers that you wish to
use. Each Proxy Server is entered with the complete URL or IP Address, followed by a
colon and the Port Number. Proxies must be listed one per line and will be used
randomly during the Sign Up and/or Submission Process.

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STEP 1: COMPA NY PROFILES

In order to use BlogBot, you need to create at least one Company Profile, by clicking
the Company Profile icon on the Toolbar Ribbon, which loads the form shown below.
You may create as many Company Profiles as needed to support your own marketing
efforts, as well as those of your clients.

The information collected on the form for each Profile is a compilation of fields that
the various Blog Networks require. Not every network requires every field of data
however, so only the required fields will be passed to any given service.

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Both the User Name and Password fields will be used as the default to login to those
networks that require login credentials (these must be entered in lower-case). They
are also used when creating new accounts at those Blog Networks that require
registration.

Each time you create a new Company Profile, it will be added to the list box on the
left-hand side of the form under the User Name entered. Selecting any Profile in this
list will allow you to edit it as needed or delete it, if no longer needed.

If you have a very long list of Company Profiles, you may easily find one by typing the
Company Name in the search box above the list. As you type each character, the list
will be filtered displaying only those results that match what you’ve typed.

STEP 1A – EMA IL A CCOUNT SETUP

For each Company Profile you create, BlogBot has the ability to manage the email for
the networks you submit to, including confirming the accounts you create. You are
not required to do this, but then you will need to manually go through each email,
confirm accounts, etc.

As shown in the form on page 13, fill in each of the fields in the Email Account Setup
with the information needed to connect to the email account’s POP Server. These
vary from host to host, but a typical POP Server might be mail.mydomain.com on Port
110.

If your Pop Server requires an SSL connection, tick the checkbox. SSL Connections are
usually required by web mail services like Gmail. If you would like BlogBot to Delete
all of the email for that account, tick the checkbox.

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 NOTE: We urge you to create a separate email account for each domain that will
be used exclusively with BlogBot. This is because Blog Networks tend to send a lot
of email and you can easily manage it through BlogBot with a dedicated email
account.

As previously mentioned, many Blog Networks do not allow email addresses from
free, web mail type services, i.e.; Gmail, Hotmail, etc.

Before Saving your new Company Profile, be sure to click the Test Connection button
to ensure that BlogBot is able to connect to your Pop Server.

USING COMPA NY PROFILES EFFECTIVELY

If you’re operating all of your web sites under a single company or name, you
probably don’t need to use multiple Company Profiles.

On the other hand, if you are in the business of submitting Blog Posts for others,
multiple Company Profiles will simplify this for you. Creating a new Profile for each
client will allow you to manage the submission process easily and expediently.

Additionally, it’s quite common for Internet Marketers to publish web sites under
various pen names. Using multiple Company Profiles allows them to mai ntain the
integrity of the pen names without leaving a trail that can be followed by
competitors.

NOTE: Many of the Blog Networks do not allow accounts with email addresses from
free services like Gmail, Hotmail, yahoo Mail, etc.

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STEP 1A : IMPORTING COMPA NY PROFILES

If you presently have any other Incansoft Traffic Mania Bots installed, you can Import
any or all of the Company Profiles you’ve created in those programs by clicking the
Import icon on the Company Profile Toolbar.

BlogBot will identify any of the Bots installed in the default installation folders and
present a list of them for you to choose from. If you did not install them in the
default installation folder, click the Browse for Folder button to navigate to them.
Then simply select the Profiles to Import and click the OK button.

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STEP 2: A CCOUNT PROFILES

The Account Profiles section is used to create and manage lists of Blog Networks you
will be submitting to as shown below. It begins with the Default Profile (which may
not be deleted).

The first step is to create a new Account Profile, which may contain any combination
or all of the networks. You do this by clicking the New Profile button at the top of the
list.

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STEP 2A : NEW A CCOUNT PROFILE

When the Create a New Profile form loads (shown below), you’re going to assign a
unique Profile Name that you will easily distinguish from any others. You’ll then
select a Company Profile to use with this New Account Profile from the drop-down
list.

Then simply tick any or all of the Blog Networks you plan to submit to using this New
Account Profile. When finished, click the Save button to return to the Account
Profiles area.

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STEP 2B : A UTOMA TIC A CCOUNT CREA TION

If you do not have existing accounts with the selected Blog Networks, you may try and
automatically create new accounts by clicking the Sign Up button on the Account
profiles page.

From here, select the Account and Company Profile combination to create new
accounts for. Then, select the Blog Directories you'll be creating accounts with by
ticking each of their respective checkboxes.

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Next, you need to include a Title for the Blogs you’re creating – you may use Jet
Spinner Syntax to vary the Titles, obviously targeting related keywords you’ll be
blogging about.

Lastly, you need to supply a Blog Name – since Blog Networks use this as a folder or
sub-domain name, it must be one contiguous word or phrase and all in lower-case
text. For example, if you want to use Keyword Elite as your Blog name, you will e nter
it as keywordelite. When ready, click Start to begin the Account Creation process.

The screenshot below shows a number of messages regarding the success or failure of
an account being created.

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When the Auto Sign Up process completes (or you click cancel), the information
displayed here is written out to a CSV file to your desktop for future reference. You
will use this to finalize creating accounts, working through any errors as you go.

As shown below, the Status column of the Account Profiles area automatically updates
as email is received and the accounts are confirmed. You may begin Posting
immediately to any Blog Networks with a Status of Ready.

When you click on any Blog Network that is Ready, the View and Admin Links become
active as well.

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While the View Link opens the Blog in your default web browser, the Admin Link will
open in the internal Blog Admin Browser and will log you in automatically.

NOTE: Any Blog Networks that have a blank Status, were not signed up for
automatically or could not be signed up automatically.

Those networks will need to be signed up for using the Semi-Automatic Account
Creation method discussed in the next section.

A UTOMA TIC A CCOUNT CREA TION FA ILURE

We've identified numerous reasons why Automatic Account Creation might fail at a
given Blog Network. For this reason, it's important to carefully review the error
messages provided to determine how best to create an account.

For example, a message like, ERROR: Try Manual Sign Up, most likely means that the
Blog Network has changed something in their sign up process since we last reviewed
it.

Other messages, like, ERROR: Your Email is Already Being Used, means that you or
someone else previously created an account with the default email address. You
should obtain the login details from that Blog Network and manually add them to
BlogBot.

So, if you do encounter an error, don't panic - simply work through resolving it.

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STEP 2C: SEMI-A UTOMA TIC A CCOUNT CREATION

If for some reason you need to re-signup to a Blog Network (generally as the result of
an error during Automatic Account Creation), you can use the Semi -Automatic
Account Creation method instead.

In this case, you'll select the Account Profile from the drop-down list and then
highlight the Blog Network you need to create an account for. Then, click the Sign Up
link over in the Login Details pane. This is going to open the Sign Up Browser to allow
you to semi-automatically create the account.

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When the Sign Up Browser window opens (shown below), BlogBot navigates to the sign
up page and attempts to fill in all of the registration information (taken from your
Company Profile).

If the service has changed the names of the form fields, making it impossible for
BlogBot to fill out the form automatically, you can right-click over each field to
display a Context Menu. Select the appropriate value and click it to load it into the
form field.

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When finished, click the Sign Up (or any other button provided) to complete the
registration. Then close the Sign Up Browser window and a modal dialog will be
displayed as shown.

Click yes to save this information to your New Account Profile for the selected Blog
Network. Clicking No will of course abort the operation.

However, you may manually enter it later by selecting the service from the list and
entering it into the Login Details pane on the right-hand side of the Account Profiles
area.

You repeat this process for each of the Blog Networks you need to create an account
for. Bear in mind you only need to create one account for each unique Company
Profile that you are using and it’s a once off process.

USING A CCOUNT PROFILES EFFECTIVELY

Account Profiles are useful for splitting services into small groups to simplify
submissions. For example, creating one Account Profile for just those services using
CAPTCHA during submission allows you to plan when to submit them. It’s also helpful
to create a temporary Account Profile when resubmitting to a service that generated
errors during the original submission.

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STEP 2D: EXPORTING A CCOUNT PROFILES (OPTI ONA L)

In order to facilitate speedy data entry for adding User Names and Passwords to your
new Account Profile, we’ve built-in both Import and Export features. Start by
selecting the Account Profile you want to Export from the drop-down list.

Next, click the lower half of the Account Profiles icon on the Toolbar Ribbon to
display the sub-menu items. Click Export to CSV and a dialog window will open to
allow you to navigate to the location where you want to save it.

As shown below, the CSV file contains five columns of data. It is imperative that you
only edit the USERNAME and PASSWORD columns, by adding your login details. If you
are using the same login information for every account, in Microsoft Excel, you can
add your User Name and Password to the first row and then use the “Fill|Down”
feature to fill in the rest of them automatically.

Note that you only need to add login information for those services that have a 1 in
the LOGIN column. Adding login information to services with a zero in the LOGIN
column will be ignored.

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STEP 2E: IMP ORTING PROFILES (O PTIONA L)

After you’ve Exported a given Account Profile and subsequently Edited and Saved it,
you can now import it back into BlogBot.

First and most importantly, be certain that you have selected the same Account
Profile from the drop-down list as the one you Exported. Otherwise you will modify
whichever Account Profile is curre ntly displayed.

Now select Import from CSV on the Account Profiles sub-menu. This will open a dialog
window for you to navigate back to where you saved the CSV file. When you find the
file, double-click it; it will be imported and you’re ready to use it.

MISC. PROFILE F EA TURES

When you select an Account Profile and then select a Blog Network, you can manually
edit the Login information in the pane to the right. If the selected service does not
require this, the form will be disabled.

Any Account Profile except the Default Profile may be Deleted by selecting it from
the drop-down list and clicking the Delete button. You will be prompted to confirm
this action before it is actually Deleted.

The most important thing to remember is that any action you take in the Account
Profiles section always affects the selected Account Profile. For this reason, always
double-check that you’ve chosen the Account Profile you planned on working with.

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STEP 2F: A DDING/REMOVING B LOG NETWORKS

BlogBot supports two types of Blog Networks – the first are those specifically set up
for third party users to establish a Blog on their Network. These are hardcoded into
BlogBot.

Because of this you cannot add these services yourself – we must do it. However, you
may, at your discretion remove any of these services by selecting them from the list
and clicking the Delete Selected Site button.

You may delete the selected service from the current Profile, or choose to delete it
from all of the Profiles, including the Default.

Obviously you need to use this feature carefully – otherwise you could inadvertently
remove important Blog Networks.

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The second type is based on your own existing WordPress Blogs – you can add as many
as you like and post to them as well.

At this point, you simply add the Blog Name, the URL to its location and the User
Name and Password used to login to it.

Click OK and the WordPress Blog will be added to the current Profile as well as the
Default Profile.

There is no limit to the number of existing WordPress Blogs you may add to BlogBot.

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STEP 3: A DDING YOUR POSTS

The next step is to add one or more Posts you plan to submit to the Blog Networks.
You can do this one at a time or all at once.

Start by clicking the Add New button on the My Posts section of the program. This will
open and display the form shown on the next page.

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Start by filling in the Details form as completely as possible. Keywords should be
separated by a comma with the most important keywords entered first. Select an
appropriate Category from the drop-down list as well before clicking the Save button.

All of the fields should be filled in just as you would at a given Blog Network. Use
compelling Titles that incorporate your keywords, along with the Post itself.

NOTES: You may use Jet Spinner Syntax in the Title and Body fields as desired. The
Status field is primarily used by the system itself and should not be changed unless
you are resubmitting the article for some reason.

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 NOTE: By default, BlogBot posts to the Uncategorized Category. If you have
added additional Categories on each Blog (done manually), you can indicate the
Category to post to by entering it in the Category Field.

You may optionally add in an unlimited number of Post Titles and Bodies for each
Post. These will be randomly rotated during the submission process to provide a
variety of anchor text and content variations when being published.

You can return to this section at any time by selecting your Post and clicking Edit on
the My Posts Section to modify it as needed.

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STEP 3A : GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BLOG POSTS

BlogBot provides two different, but interchangeable methods for you to really get the
absolute most you can out of every Post.

First, the Options tab allows you to enter variations of your Post Titles and Bodies.
During submission, it will randomly combine anything entered here and submit it to a
given Blog Network.

For example, if you previous “Spun” a Post into 25 unique variations of it, you could
enter all 25 Post Bodies here and they will be submitted randomly.

By the same token, by adding multiple Titles, you can vary your anchor text and
targeted keywords for broader exposure.

The second method is to use the Jet Spinner Syntax described on the following page.
Once you have set up your Post Titles and Bodies, BlogBot will “Spin” these articles
during the Submission Process.

You may also combine these methods for even greater randomization if desired – it’s
entirely dependent upon how much effort you want to put into each article.

Done properly, you can literally create hundreds of variations of Blog Content,
targeting a broad spectrum of related Keywords, Anchor Text and even links to
different, but related products and services.

This is where the magic happens, so take your time and use it effectively.

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STEP 3B : USING JET SPINNER SYNTAX

BlogBot has the ability to take advantage of Jet Spinner Syntax in Titles, Names and
Post Bodies. This syntax involves using an open “Curly” bracket, followed by each
word separated by the “Pipe” symbol and a final closing “Curly” bracket.

For example, we might use a title like, “Webmaster Automation Scripts And
Software”. Using Jet Spinner Syntax we could do this instead:

{Webmaster|Website|Webpage} Automation {Tools|Scripts|Software}

For each submission, VideoBot will randomly choose one word from each set of
“Curly” brackets to use as the Title of the Post being submitted. The same is true for
each of the Bodies being submitted along with the Titles.

By combining multiple sets of Titles and Bodies along with Jet Spinner Syntax in each
one, you’re able to ensure a wide range of non-duplicate submissions to the many
Blog Networks supported by BlogBot.

Using Jet Spinner Syntax provides an opportunity for you to implement keywords
that also focus on improving your rankings using LSA/I (Latent Semantic
Analysis/Indexing).

This means that by substituting keywords with a broad range of synonyms, you’ll
contextually target your audience better and rank higher in SERPS based on the
overall context you establish.

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STEP 4: SUB MITTING YOUR POSTS

Assuming that you’ve completed all of the setup and added a Post, you’re ready to
begin the submission process. To do so, click the My Posts icon on the Toolbar Ribbon
and then tick the checkbox next to each Post you want to submit. When ready, click
the Submit icon on the Toolbar Ribbon. This will load the Submission Process dialog
window shown below.

If you have assigned the Post you’re submitting to a Profile, it will appear at the top
of the drop-down Profiles list. You can change this to a different Profile by clicking
the list and selecting a different one. All of the Blog Networks you’ve assigned to the
selected Profile will appear in the table below the Details section.

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One final option is to decide how many threads to use during the Submission Process –
for example, the default value of 5 allows BlogBot to submit your Posts to 5 Blog
Networks at the same time. Depending on the speed of your CPU and the bandwidth
available to you, you may increase or decrease this number accordingly.

Now you only need click the Start button to begin. BlogBot will work its way through
submitting the Posts you selected.

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As each Post is submitted to each Blog Network, BlogBot will attempt to correct any
technical issues that may occur. If it cannot, it will report an “Error” in the Status
column for that service.

Note however, that BlogBot cannot detect errors on the server-side of the Submission
Process for any given service. For this reason, a copy of the results page is stored in
the database for your review.

There are many reasons why that may happen, so you should take note of them and
resubmit those pages at a later time. You can easily do this by creating a New
Account Profile with just those services that generated errors or use the Semi-
Automatic Account Creation method.

Bear in mind that we cannot control what happens once a Post is submitted to the
Blog Networks. Whether they chose to accept and publish it is dependent upon their
systems, policies and procedures.

IMPORTA NT: As a member of the various Blog Networks, you should familiarize
yourself with their basic submission requirements to minimize the possibility of your
Posts being rejected on technicalities.

For example, if a given Blog Network has a minimum and/or maximum word count,
your Post would most likely be rejected if you are not meeting this requirement.

BlogBot does not impose limitations on what you my submit - and it attempts to
report back to you on the underlying reasons why your Post might have been rejected.
So, once again, be familiar with how the Blog Networks work before just blindly
submitting articles to them.

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STEP 4B : SUB MISSION REVIEW

You can check the Status of each submission by double-clicking a given Profile in the
Submitted Profiles Grid in the lower, right-hand side of the My Posts area.

This action will load and display the Submission Review dialog window shown below:

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Simply click any of the Blog Networks on the left-hand side to display the results page
for that submission record. It will load the page on the right-hand side for you to
review. If for some reason something went wrong, you can always create an Account
Profile with the Blog Networks that failed and resubmit your Posts to them.

IMPORTA NT: One of the most commonly asked questions we get is, “Why wasn’t my
Post accepted or listed?” and our answer is always, “You need to ask the Blog
Network.” We have absolutely no control over them, their policies or the speed in
which your Posts may be published.

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STEP 5: SUB MISSION REPORTS

BlogBot has the ability to generate Submission Reports for your own use or to provide
to clients.

The first step is to click the Customize Reports submenu item on Submis sion Reports
icon, which displays the dialog window shown below.

Add an appropriate Title and Subtitle, select a Color to use for the highlighted
sections of the Report and then un-tick the Show Logo checkbox, if you do not want
the BlogBot Logo displayed.

Click the Save button to save your changes and you’re ready to run a Submission
report!

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STEP 5A : GENERA TING SUB MISSION REPORTS

Start by selecting one of the submitted Posts and then clicking the Submission Report
icon on the Toolbar Ribbon to display the windows shown below.

The left-hand column displays a list of Profiles the selected Post was submitted to.
Double-click any Profile to generate a report on it. The Submission Report is displayed
in the right-hand pane of the window.

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The right-hand pane also provides a set of tools for working with the Report as shown
below.

Clicking any of the icons will allow you to Refresh, Print, Format and Save the Report
to either MS Excel or Adobe PDF formats. For longer Reports, you may click the
Pagination icons to navigate from page-to-page.

TIP: If you need to further modify the Submission Report, i.e.; adding
graphics or other text, Save the Report to MS Excel and work with it in
that format.

The Submission Report pulls together all of the data from the Account and Company
Profiles as well as the actual Submission Results.

There are no limits to the number of Submission Reports you may generate. All
Reports are generated in “Real Time” so there are no files to store or keep organized.
When you need a Report, simply generate it on the fly so to speak.

NOTE: If you have ideas or suggestions for improving the Submission Reporting
System, please let us know.

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OBTA INING TECHNICA L SUPPORT

Before contacting Incansoft Technical Support, please ensure that your Windows
Operating system is completely up-to-date by visiting Windows Update.

You may need to install or update your version of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to
V3.5, which you may download free from Microsoft.

Next, please take a few minutes to completely read the Help Documentation -
chances are your questions are answered there already.

Lastly, please contact Diego Hernando directly via email ([email protected]) with
a detailed description of the problem you've encountered. Please allow him 24 hours
to respond to your email.

All Incansoft Technical Support is provided on a first come - first serve basis, Monday
through Friday, excluding holidays.

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