HUGE UPDATES - Hot Fix 4 | Monetization Engine

Ladies and gentleman;

Here are the updates we have promised for weeks, and you’re going to find a lot of cool features to play with and a vast improvement on a lot of aspects.

There are new features and bug fixes…we have more exciting features coming your way for free as usual, and I will begin updating everyone via happar.com/blog.

*READ ALL INFORMATION*

INSTRUCTIONS:

To install update-package-4.hap , save this file in your local PC, log on your Happar installations(s) and go to “Update Manager”. (Don’t manually upload this file on your server(s) and don’t extract it. Just use the Upload Manager).

Update Package 4 will make quite a few changes down to the core of the script. This is the broadest Update Package we’ve ever released, adding new functionalities and changing the philosophy of the script in a few fields.

Explaining in a few words what the UP4 adds:

Introducing two new Site Modes: “Maintenance Mode” and “Keyword
Pause Mode”;.
Keywords no have 3 Status Modes: Banned, Pending and Active.
Keywords-Descriptions, Articles and Blog Posts; all three areas are now
100% HTML/Javascript compatible.
Implementing a CSV file importers for Keywords, Articles and Blog Posts.
From now on you can add content in bulk in your Happar installation(s).

*WARNING*: we no longer recommend Scrapped Articles to ON if you don’t have added any custom content on your site (custom articles, keyword descriptions). The reason is scraped articles increase the duplicate content on your site very much and if no custom content exists, Search Engines may notice it and cause you problems.

RECOMMENDED: Keep the best of both worlds: 1 scraped article per page and add many custom articles and keywords-descriptions.

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NEW FEATURES DETAILS

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1) KEYWORD STATUS

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Change manually via admin panel -> Keywords Manager. Each Keyword can now
have one of the three available status modes:

Banned: Keyword doesn’t appear in links in frontpage, RSS or sitemap. If
visited anyway, the user will see a 404 error, that the URL doesn’t exist.
Pending: Keyword reacts as if banned. We use this Category so people can
add keywords to be enabled in the future (read also about the Keywords Pause
Mode below).
Active: The normal keywords’ mode, as you know it up to now.

In “Keywords Manager” you can now order your keywords by status, ID, alphabetically or alphabetically by description. The “status” field can be changed using this table. A CSV file (read below) is another way to change the status of keywords and/or add more in bulk.

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2) SITE MODES

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Site modes can be changed by visiting the “Admin Home” in admin panel.

Maintenance Mode: When in this mode the Happar installation is unaccessible from the frontpage. This means visitors see a “Temporarily Unavailable” error and are asked to come back later. This Mode should be enabled when changing core-settings of happar or similar reasons. Unfortunately currently we don’t support exceptions, so you won’t be able either to see your installation when in Maintenance Mode.
Keywords Pause Mode: In this mode Happar stops accepting keywords from the
frontpage. The search-form disappears (but not the keywords links) and visitors are only allowed to see search- results-pages of the existing keywords in the DB. If someone tries to search for a new keyword using the address bar directly, and they’ll get a 404 error, that the URL is unavailable. BUT the keyword is added in Happar’s DB as “Pending”. The same happens in “Pause Mode” if someone clicks a Youtube Video or a Scrapped Article. You can later determine the fate of these keywords by either “Banning” or “Activating” them from the “Keywords Manager”.
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3) ADD CONTENT IN BULK WITH CSV FILES

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ABOUT

CSV stands for Comma Separated Values. You can add multiple keywords (with description and status), Articles and Blog Posts (with author and keywords fields). CSV files is a simple format but has many variations. Currently we support the default (delimiter character is a comma (,) , enclosure character is double quote (”) and Microsoft variation: delimiter (;), enclosure (”).

Most spreadsheetapplicatios can create CSV files. OpenOffice creates files in the default csv format while MS-Excell create files in Microsoft format. We also offer support for any other custom CSV format, if you know it’s delimiter and enclosure characters. Together with this Update Package we send you test files for each section. These are created using Openoffice, thus are in “default csv format”. Feel free to create yours in MS-Excell, but at upload time, select “Microsoft Format” or you’ll get an error about CSV fields number.

You can use these test-files in:

Keywords: “Keyword Manager” -> “Add Multiple Keywords”
Articles: “Articles Manager” -> “Add Bulk Articles”
Blog: “Blog Manager” -> “Add Bulk Posts”

As you’ll see the entries appear at once in each section when a CSV file is uploaded.

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TIP: Keep in mind that Keywords-Description is now a 100% HTML/javascript compatible field as well as Articles and Blog Posts. In case you notice your old articles/blog posts now missing a few “new lines”, go to the appropriate Manager in the admin panel and edit them to add HTML “Line Breaks” where needed (HTML-code)

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HOW TO

CSV files should have the number of columns expected for each use (currently 3 for Keywords and 4 for Articles and Blog Posts) in the order expected in each section. Happar will ignore the rest columns (if exist). See the test csv-files to understand what this means, and then create your own in your favorite Spreadsheet.

ADVANCED OPTIONS

Hovering your mouse in the CSV areas in admin-panel you will get more details on the various options available. Our CSV importer supports a feature we call “Field Naming” (disabled by default). When enabled, the first line of the CSV file must contain the names of the columns (happar has a default value for each column, but you may change it). Then Happar picks the correct column independently of it’s index in the CSV file.

For instance you can use this feature to import CSV files which were created for other applications and pick only the columns Happar needs, without creating a new CSV file. You’ll also notice that some columns are “marked” as [U] (Unique). Happar will try to match each entry in the CSV file with an entry in the DB comparing ALL the Unique fields. If an existing entry is found, happar will check the status of the “Update flag” checkbox next to the name of the field, in the admin-panel. Only checked fields will be updated.

EXAMPLE: ARTICLES (go to Articles Manager -> Add Bulk Articles)

We assume that “Fields Naming” is not used (default), so you need to have a 4 columns CSV file for this section. Its columns should be: title, author, keyword, article

Please note that in Advance Settings the first 3 fields are marked as “Unique” and only “article” offer an “Update flag” checkbox.

So when uploading your CSV, Happar will read it entry by entry and try to find an existing article in the DB which has the same title, is written by the same author and its attached to the same keyword. If successful, the “Update flag” determines if it’s article-text will be updated or not. In case there is no match, the article will be just inserted in the DB.

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OTHER CHANGES INTRODUCED IN THIS UPDATE-PACKAGE

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FEATURES

We use 3 search engines to get the results for keywords since update-package-3. In this update we select 2 of them for each keyword pseudo-randomly and pick the same way the results to display. Pseudo-Randomly means that each search-results-page picks the same 2 engines and results every time it is created. But the results will differ on another domain for the same keyword.
Same pseudo-random algorithm is used now for youtube videos as well.
CSS Settings Manager offers a new button to shuffle all the IDs Names automatically of a template. TIP: DO use this feature!
Articles Manager now offers the same WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML-editor as Blog Manager.

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