This is just a teaser for a series of articles on dynamically creating webpages on the fly based on keywords. Whether it’s based on a list of related keywords to your target set or simply based on what a user is searching for, the more content that you can provide related to the term, the better off your chances of it being ranked well in the serps (not to mention will provide a better user experience).

Here’s an easy one for you, it will pull a youtube video based on whatever keyword you give it. For use in a wordpress installation, make sure to enable the Exec-PHP plugin before inserting the code.

There are two parts to this, the youtube class and then the actual code to call it and display the video. This was taken long ago from a post on WF, though has been slightly modded. I forget who originally provided it but thanks. :)

Instead of having one huge php file with all the various functions, I’ve found it easier to separate each task into separate class files, that way on the actual page I only need to use the include() function and call up the script using my keyword.

Create a file called youtube_class.php and insert the following code:

<?php 

class youtube{ 

    function get_youtubevideo($theproduct){
        ///do youtube stuff
        $theproductencoded=urlencode($theproduct);
        $apicall = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?vq=$theproductencoded&max-results=1";
        //Initialize the Curl session
        $ch = curl_init();
        //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        //Set the URL
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apicall);
        //Execute the fetch
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        //Close the connection
        curl_close($ch);
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
        // Check to see if the XML response was loaded, else print an error
        $contentcenter.="<div class=\"leftside\">";
        //show the video if a video was found
        if (!empty($xml->entry)) {
        $media = $xml->entry->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
        $vidtitle= $media->group->title;
        $vid= $media->group->content->attributes()->url;
        $contentcenter.="<h1>Video for " . str_replace("-"," ",ucwords($theproduct)). "</h1>";
        $results = '';
        // If the XML response was loaded, parse it and build links
        $vid = str_replace("?v=", "v/", $vid);
        // For each SearchResultItem node, build a link and append it to $results
        $contentcenter.= "<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\">
        <param name=\"movie\" value=\"$vid\"></param>
        <param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param>
        <embed src=\"$vid\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed>
        </object>";
        } 

        // If there was no XML response, print an error
        else {
            //$results = "Dang! Must not have got the XML response!";
            $contentcenter .= "<h2>Error: No video found</h2>";
        }
        $contentcenter.="</div>";
        return $contentcenter;
    }
}

?>

Now on whatever page you’d like to display the youtube video, simply insert the following code:

include_once("youtube_class.php");
$theproduct = 'topic';
$videoshow = new youtube();
echo $videoshow->get_youtubevideo($theproduct);

Typically you’ll have the keyword that you’re using to generate the dynamic page already stored as a variable, in which case you can just replace $theproduct = ‘topic’; with your variable(i.e. $searchkeyword).

Here’s a simple php script that you can use to not only cloak the referrer information, but also to rotate through your affiliate links so that you can test different offers and/or different advertising networks.

In order to hide your traffic sources you need to send the user through a double-redirect before pushing them along to the advertisers page. This can be done many different ways, but for the sake of this post I’m just going to use a very basic PHP redirect. For this setup, have the offer link on your landing page point to link.php, which will immediately redirect them to offer.php. Once they reach offer.php it will randomly select one of the affiliate links and redirect them on to their final destination. It’s that simple.

link.php

<?php
/* Redirect browser */
header("Location: offer.php");
/* Now the next line just makes sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>

Now here’s the second file – You’ll want to replace the URL’s with YOUR affiliate links. If you’d like to add or remove offers just add or remove one of the “$affiliateoffer[] = ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=1788&t202kw=’” lines.

offer.php

<?php
$r = $_GET['sub'];
$affiliateoffer[] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=1788&t202kw=';
$affiliateoffer[] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=2788&t202kw=';
$affiliateoffer[] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=3788&t202kw=';
$affiliateoffer[] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=4788&t202kw=';
$affiliateoffer[] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=5788&t202kw=';
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$random_number = rand(0,count($affiliateoffer)-1);
$dur = ($affiliateoffer[$random_number]);
$moneysite = $dur.$r;
header("Location: $moneysite");
?>

There you go, now you’re safeguarding your leads as well as testing out networks/offers. Remember, the secret to having sustainable campaigns is to always be testing!

Let’s face it, the UI for the Ad Manager in Facebook is horrible, especially if you’ve got a large set of campaigns & are having to deal w/ the ebb and flow of interns rejecting + accepting ads (not to mention deleting/re-submitting them after they’ve been rejected).

Apparently there are other scripts/add-ons available that make this process a whole lot easier, but as was recently pointed out over on the WickedFire Forums, there’s a guy out there who’s actually trying to sell this script for $99.95 (or if you’re dumb enough to send him $25 now to secure your spot in the ‘pre-order’ the script would only be $85 after his discount). He’s since updated his blog to announce that his program would not be released on time after-all, adding that:

…Some rookie on WF totally stole my steam and posted some FireFox plug-in that works pretty sweet with FB to do lots of stuff I had planned.

Well, that rookie just knocked out a working script in one night (while allegedly drunk) meanwhile you’ve only been talking about the project since November 20th….hope you learned a lesson in being quiet.

Nathan from WF from just released what he claims was a drunken coding effort, but regardless is a great Greasemonkey script that streamlines managing Facebook ads. He even was so kind enough to add in a ‘dickroll’ option allowing you to partake in the kind of entertainment that only makemonies.com can provide.

You’ll need the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on in order to use this, install that first from the mozilla add-on site then, after installing & restarting Firefox, download and open (with Firefox) Nathan’s fbo.user.js script (which should then add it to Greasemonkey). Just head on over to the Facebook Ad Manager and partake in your newly acquired abilities of awesomeness.

Some brief features:
Here’s the old campaign screen, forcing you to click through far too many screens just to perform basic ad management functions:

Here’s the improved campaign screen, now with added shortcuts:

Now this wouldn’t be complete without the MakeMonies shout-out…
The Old Menu Bar:

The *New* Menu Bar: