[Aaron Nimocks]

What I have started to do on all my free bots was to ALWAYS browse to a page when it is complete. This way I can control where the user will end up. Mainly I have been browsing to other software products but also browsing to UBot Studio using your affiliate code or even one of your pages that has UBot Studio info on it will work.

Here is what I browse to on all my bots.

http://www.ubottutorials.com/complete.php

I also add another variable with each bot so I can track where it comes from. For example my Facebook Friends Adder bots URL looks like.

http://www.ubottutorials.com/complete.php?from=facebookfriends

This is just for future development so I can specifically redirect to certain sites depending on what bot.

My complete.php code looks like below

<?
$site = rand(1, 3);
switch ($site)
{
case 1:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/articlebot/">
<?
  break;
case 2:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/videobot/">
<?
  break;
case 3:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/blogbot/">
<?
  break;
}
?>

If you don't understand PHP here is a brief lesson if you wanted to use this method for promoting more sites or UBot Studio.

$site = rand(1, 3);

This saves a random number between 1 and 3 in the variable $site. You enter the minimum and maximum numbers that you want to get a random number for.

switch ($site)

This function basically takes whatever number was selected randomly and does the switch function that will run the code.

case 2:

The Case is = to whatever number was passed in the switch. So if number 2 was randomly selected then it will be running case 2 until it hits a break.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/videobot/">

This is a meta refresh. The number 3 is how many seconds after the page is loaded it will redirect. The url= is obviously where it will go.

Like I said you can use this for anything you can think of. Redirecting randomly to different affiliate sites is a good idea since your cookie will be dropped. This is a ton more effective than any banner or affiliate link because of this.

[1nspire]

Nice write up Aaron. This was something I started doing from the get go. I think it will be a tremendous asset when we have some control over the compiled bots user side. On a side note I thought explorer automatically blocks third party cookies even on the low to medium security settings. Add the fact that the cookie is only being dropped in explorer only. But don't let that discourage you as there are many uses for forced navigation.

I for one am waiting for the underground to come out of beta before I disclose some of ubot's nastiness. But to pull some of this off I need the compiled bots to not have any browser controls or address bar plus allow an easier overlay or an actual pre-loaded html page to display while the bot does its deed.

[alcr]

Wow! This is just great. Keep it up Aaron!

[Natureboy]

that is gangsta right there...i will be back to inquire more when i get to that stage of the game

[iglow]

Natureboy, on 25 January 2010 - 08:27 AM, said:

that is gangsta right there...i will be back to inquire more when i get to that stage of the game

simple but great idea!

[tooltrainer]

Funny just last night I was thinking of doing exactly this, for a whole bunch of reasons ranging from cookie stuffing to license checking (using this at the start of the script instead of the end) and all kinds of other things.

I said it in another thread around here somewhere, combining a client side bot with server side PHP that you are in control of and passing data between the two has HUGE potential for all sorts of things.

Jonathan

[alphagiga]

Aaron,
how to redirect from complete.php?from=facebookfriends into case? what is the code inside complete.php?

[Aaron Nimocks]

alphagiga, on 13 April 2010 - 01:32 AM, said:

Aaron,
how to redirect from complete.php?from=facebookfriends into case? what is the code inside complete.php?

Here's my code. I dont have anything really to redirect depending on what bot they used. But I added that from= functionality if I ever wanted to do it. This one just picks a random number then goes to that site.

Also from using the from= I can track bot usage with analytics.

<html>
<head>
<?
$site = rand(1, 7);
switch ($site)
{
case 1:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/articlebot/">
<?
  break;
case 2:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/videobot/">
<?
  break;
case 3:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/blogbot/">
<?
  break;
case 4:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/rssbot/">
<?
  break;  
case 5:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/pressbot/">
<?
  break;
case 6:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/socialbot/">
<?
  break;    
case 7:
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.ubottutorials.com/directorybot/">
<?
  break;    
}
?>

</head>
<body>			

<h1>Your Bot Is Finished Running</h1>
<br />
<p>You will be redirected to one of our advertisers. Thank you for using our software!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

</body>
</html>

[Dangazzm]

Wow, I see a lot of potential for this PHP script... selling advertising space for a free bot anyone? Will help inspire people to release free bots more often.