{"id":6289,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"definitive-tutorial-on-setting-up-zennoposter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/definitive-tutorial-on-setting-up-zennoposter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definitive Tutorial on Setting Up Zennoposter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zennoposter is one of the many tools to arrive in the recent trend of automating various internet marketing tasks. While the idea of automation itself isn\u2019t new, Zennoposter\u2019s complete lack of any coding makes it exceptionally easy to use. Much of what you want to automate is handled in the background, so you don\u2019t need to worry about<\/p>\n

The program is essentially a macro shell, into which you can \u201ccode\u201d without coding various tasks you want completed.<\/strong> This can cover a wide range of tasks, from email processing and sending to blog commenting, forums registration, and article posting. If you have something you need done routinely and repeatedly in the course of your marketing, you can probably automate it through Zennoposter.<\/p>\n

The biggest drawback of the program as a whole is just how free-form it is. There\u2019s a lot going on, and it has a steep learning curve, even without needing to code anything. It\u2019s also a risky tool to use; if you\u2019re not careful, you can go overboard with black hat SEO Tools & Techniques<\/strong><\/a> and earn yourself a penalty.<\/p>\n

Though, more likely, you\u2019ll eat an IP ban<\/strong><\/a> and need to \ufb01gure out how to keep using the program \u2013 or the site you were banned from \u2013 in the future.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>How to Set Up Zennoposter?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Zennoposter works with a sort of \ufb02owchart model. It\u2019s graphical, hiding the actual code behind the GUI so you don\u2019t need to deal with it. This image shows a good basic example.<\/p>\n

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On the left is the project \ufb02owchart, and on the right is an embedded browser window to record the actions Zennoposter will take and iterate. You can see the steps of the project \ufb02ow already.<\/p>\n

The project clears cookies to prevent errors with session memory, then visits WordPress.com. Once there, it \ufb01lls out a website form in the box, then clicks the create website button.<\/p>\n

That alone is a very simple process made with Zennoposter, used for bulk blog creation on WordPress<\/strong>. It\u2019s also not a complete process; it leaves blog creation partway through and doesn\u2019t take advantage of it in any way.This is where you can expand the project or create more projects to take up where this one left o\ufb00.<\/p>\n

If you notice o\ufb00 to the bottom left of the image, you see a variables section. This allows you to create lists which you can expand the process. For example, the process just creates one website, but you could list ten di\ufb00erent names in the variables section and it would iterate the process ten times, each time using one of the variables.<\/p>\n

You can do this on the back of other processes as well. Create a process that registers ten email addresses, then uses those ten email addresses to register ten websites, then check each email address for the veri\ufb01cation email to con\ufb01rm the creation of that website, and so on.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Account Creation<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the primary things many people use Zennoposter for is creating accounts for various web services.<\/strong> You can use the program to create fresh email accounts, new websites on free hosts like WordPress.com, accounts for commenting systems, and so forth.<\/p>\n

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Account creation can be a bit of a complex task to automate, and for good reason; many of these companies don\u2019t want people automating account creation, because it\u2019s most often used for spam.<\/p>\n

When you go to create an account through Zennoposter, you will want to use the action recorder to go to the site and record going to the \u201cjoin us\u201d page. In there, you can use a macro builder to create a name\/email address\/password for each relevant \ufb01eld. You can use the variables section as well, if you want to use a list rather than a randomly generated name. Any \ufb01eld can be set manually, \ufb01lled in from a list, or created dynamically.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all you need to create an account, but you can go on further. You can select a set of text from the con\ufb01rmation page and create a check to make sure the account creation worked, which will thrown an error if the process fails for some reason or another.<\/p>\n

Often times, you\u2019ll need to verify the creation of an account, and to do that, you need email processing.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>Zennoposter Email Processing<\/span><\/h3>\n

    What is email processing, in the context of Zennoposter? Well, the general idea is that you give the program access to your email inbox, and it looks for emails of a certain type, and performs a certain action on those emails.<\/strong> For example, checking email inboxes for account veri\ufb01cation emails and clicking the links in those emails to verify the creation of the account on whatever site it was for.<\/p>\n

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    Email processing requires POP3 access. POP3, if you don\u2019t know, is one of the protocols<\/strong><\/a> used for pulling emails from a service into a client. In other words, if you\u2019re using<\/p>\n

    Gmail for your email, but you want to access it through Zennoposter, you need to give Zennoposter POP3 access to the Gmail email servers. Some webmail services don\u2019t allow POP3, while others do. Gmail, in fact, does allow it, but they catch on very quickly to abuse.<\/p>\n

    Essentially, the more volume you have going with your automation, the more risky it becomes. Gmail will catch on sooner than others, but other free webmail services will terminate accounts if it looks like they\u2019re being used to automate large-scale spam operations.<\/p>\n

    The easiest solution to this problem is to use your own email server or dedicated server, where you as sysadmin have control over the \ufb01ltering rules. You won\u2019t be blocking yourself, and no one else will be using the email system, so you don\u2019t have to apply \ufb01lters at all.<\/p>\n

    Using POP3 email through Zennoposter will require the name of the POP3 server, as well as the port of access \u2013 generally 110 \u2013 and the username and password of the email account. It\u2019s quite simple to implement, as well; just record a macro and \ufb01ll in the information as requested.<\/p>\n

    For a good demonstration of both account creation and email processing, you can view this video series.<\/p>\n