Doug Anderson's
Article Collector

So you've built a web site and have signed up with several web sites that are sending you articles that you could post on your site if you had the time, but you haven't got the time ... and now you've got over 100 articles waiting for you to do something with them. But how do you get them out of your e-mail program and into your web site? Copy and paste each one? Too much work!

This program is a pre-processor for your e-mail. It collects your POP3 e-mail and analyses it. It looks for spam, and it looks for articles you want to save. You can dynamically add more spam keywords, or add the addresses of known friends, and define keyword filters to allow the program to capture the incoming article and store it on your hard disk, in text or HTML format, ready for you to insert into your web site.

After the program has processed your e-mail, then it invokes your normal e-mail client (Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, whatever) and it can process what's left.

You can sign up with various article senders, such as Unique Article Wizard, and they will send you several or many articles a day on the subjects you choose. Normally, you would tell them to send the articles to your blog, where the article will either be posted or placed in a queue, or to your regular e-mail address where the article appears in your InBox. It's difficult to get the article out of your InBox and into your web site.

If you send an article directly to a blog, the only way to make money from it is through AdSense and Kontera, both of which pay almost nothing per click. It would be far better to capture that article, route it to 3-Click Article Poster, and monetize it with affiliate links, whch can pay up to 1000 times more than Ad Cents. You can potentially make US$20 or more per sale, instead of 3 cents per click.

Here is the start-up screen; I have blacked out my mail server info.

After the program to signs onto your mail server, it starts downloading and analyzing your mail.

Here, it has read and downloaded 37 messages. You can see that it has already decided that some messages are spam, some were articles and have now been saved on the hard drive, and some it can't tell (CHOOSE). You can double-click a line and a preview window will open allowing you to view the entire e-mail and see if any links (URLs) are embedded in the message.

There are buttons here to allow you to select text addresses and save those in the spam or friends lists.

How are articles saved on your hard drive or re-routed? Here is my routing definition for articles about radio-controlled cars coming from Unique Articles.

You can see that you can select by category, keywords, subject, and body text, and then route the article to your blog, and/or forward it to another e-mail address, and optionally save the article on your hard drive.

This program also interfaces with 3-Click Article Poster to monetize the article before posting it to a blog.

This program is still in development but is very close to completion.
If you are interested, please contact me by e-mail.