Making your own auto-submitter...

One of the tools that adult webmasters use one hell of a lot these days is an AUTO SUBMITTER. This is a bit of software that will help you submit to link lists, TGPs, and other places which require you to fill out some information such as your gallery URL and title. Adult webmasters probably fill out more of these forms than anyone else, so using some kind of tool often makes a lot of sense...

OK, I confess - we're not going to learn C++ programming this Sunday morning and be building the next Link Up Pro or Russian TGP submitter. Instead, we're going to look at a tool which consists of some basic HTML, but which will probably be something that you'll use every day once you've got the hang of it. This is something that anyone out there can make, and which has a lot of applications.

I'll provide source code at the end, which can then be customized with ANY editor - to suit your needs. First, let's see an example:

My search engine submitter:
http://www.topniche.com/newbie-booster/resources/making-a-submitter/main.html

Wow! So this could be useful! All we have here is 2 sides of the page. On the left, there's a list of places to submit to. TRY IT! Click on the 3 search engines that are already listed and see how this thing works. On the right, you'll see te welcome message change to the search engine that you've clicked. On the left panel (which NEVER changes while you're clicking links) there's a box besides each search engine. Why? Well this is to keep you organized. While you don't need help on 3 engines, think about when you've go 200 TGPs on there - checking these boxes as you go will help keep you sane.

The form check box doesn't actually DO anything. As there's no submit button here, it's really just a dummy. It will never record any information - it's just there as an empty hole that we can peg as we go down the submit list.

Using a simple page like this, you can streamline submitting your sites and pages EVERYWHERE there is. It's an invaluable tool, and the best thing is it's 100% FREE! (The best price in the world...) You can run this from your hard disk - OR upload it to the server. Whichever makes more sense or is easier for you. I'll give you the zip file in a second so you can play with it and start to use this, but first get some strong coffee - and let's look under the bonnet of this baby and see how she ticks...

The three elements...

This submitter is made from three pretty simple parts, but 3 parts which also have to be correctly structures in order for it to work properly. The three parts are:

1) main.html - the page that contains the html frames.
2) right.html - just a simple page with a welcome message.
3) left.html - the page with our list of places to submit to.

Now let's look at this in depth.

1) main.html
http://www.topniche.com/newbie-booster/resources/making-a-submitter/main.html

This has 4 lines only of html code:

<frameset cols="150,100%">

<frame src="left.html" name=left>

<frame src="right.html" name=right>

</frameset>

There's really not much here that you need to edit. You can use this for EVERY one of your submitters that you make as an adult webmaster - and there's no real reason to edit this part at all. If you want to edit the with of the panel on the left - edit "150" to anything you'd like to. A higher number will make the panel wider and so on. That's about it for this part of the code really - simple huh?

If you DO want more info on frames, check out these 2 links:

http://manda.com/frames/
http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms09.htm

2) right.html
http://www.topniche.com/newbie-booster/resources/making-a-submitter/right.html

This page is equally simple, I'm glad to say. You can write anything in here - or leave it BLANK. As the submitter must have something in there when we start, I thought we might as well have a nice welcome message in there. You COULD put a descriptive title in there, to help you remember what this list is. Something like, "TGP2 submission list - no recip" - or whatever will keep you organized.

The code is really simple:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FF0000" ALINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#FF0000">

<CENTER>

<H1>Welcome to my submission tool!</H1>

</CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

3) left.html
http://www.topniche.com/newbie-booster/resources/making-a-submitter/left.html

Hmmm... this part is a bot more complicated.

Here's the code:

<FORM> <input type="checkbox"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE=-2><A target=right HREF="<A href=http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp target=new>http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp</A>"><A href="http://www.hotbot.com" target="help"><FONT COLOR=#393768>Hotbot</FONT></A></A></FONT> <BR>

<input type="checkbox"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE=-2><A target=right HREF="<A href=http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl target=new>http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl</A>"><A href="http://www.altavista.com" target="help"><FONT COLOR=#393768>Altavista</FONT></A></A></FONT> <BR>

<input type="checkbox"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE=-2><A target=right HREF="<A href=http://www.google.com/addurl.html target=new>http://www.google.com/addurl.html</A>">Google</A></FONT> <BR>

</FORM>

From the TOP!

<FORM> starts the form tag. - Without this - those sexy little form boxes would not work.

<input type="checkbox"> - Inserts our check boxes, to help with the submission.

<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE=-2> - Making the text a nice neat, SMALL font size.

<input type="checkbox"><A target=right HREF="http://www.google.com/addurl.html">Google</A> - Note the target=right. Every link must have this on it so that it pops up in our page on the right side.

<BR> - Moves us to the next line so that the next link will appear below this one.

</FORM> - Says, "This is the end of the form. All links should be BEFORE this one, but after the first one.

Adding new ones and deleting the dead wood

With this submitter, it's not going to be a case of building it once, and then just using it. Part of the process will be adding in new places to submit, which sound attractive and farming out the ones that have shut down and gone. So you're probably going to spend a lot of time working with left.html. Make sure that you know how to add in sites. (I'd recommend copying an older one and pasting it down below another - using one line as a template so to speak.

Additional form fillers

There's a number of tools out there that you can use to fill out forms. Roboform is a popular one, and there are many more. These can go a long way to increasing the speed that you'll be able to fill out those submit forms with.

Source code / .zip file:

OK, enough from me - let me post the ZIP file, so that you can start building YOUR autosubmitter today. Here's the link...

http://www.topniche.com/newbie-booster/resources/making-a-submitter/submitter.zip

Have fun, and let me know if you get stuck on anything...

TOM ^"^

Enter TOM'S NEWBIE BOOSTER

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