AdvancedSubmitter Documentation
AdvancedSubmitter © 2002-2007 Brain Bricks Software

Welcome to AdvancedSubmitter!

AdvancedSubmitter is one of the most flexible, powerful, user-friendly, customizable and feature rich submitting tool today.

AdvancedSubmitter is a multi-tool. It incorporates a site manager, a gallery duplicator, form-filling software, an ftp-client, an email-verifier, integrated database, multiple internal web-browsers, image recognition software, thumbnail building software and integrated submission statistics.

This tool will allow you to drastically speed up the process of building and submitting galleries without worrying about being blacklisted. Use it to efficiently submit to major Thumbnail Gallery Posts, Movie Gallery Posts, Link Lists, Top Lists, Search Engines - every site that has some sort of form. Although AdvancedSubmitter has been build with the gallery submitter in mind it can also be used by anyone who would like a site and form filling manager. If you have to fill forms on a daily basis and some or all of the information is identical then AdvancedSubmitter is for you.

If you are familiar with older versions of AdvancedSubmitter you can check what is new at version 4.1 here

Additional information and an ongoing friendly conversation of AdvancedSubmitter issues can be found on the programs' forum.

    1. Quick Guide
    2. Settings Tab
        2.1 Active Submission types
        2.2 Galleries Settings
        2.3 Reciprocals Settings
        2.4 Form Filling Settings
        2.5 Ftp / Email / Stats Settings
        2.6 Autosubmission Settings
        2.7 Browser Settings
        2.8 Registration Settings
    3. Page Creator
        3.1 Advanced Reciprocal Placement
        3.2 Gallery Characteristics
        3.3 Category Matching
        3.4 Internal Statistics Activation
    4. Database
        4.1 Sites-Compact view
        4.2 Sites-Full View
        4.3 Field Rules - Generic
        4.4 Field Rules - Site Specific
        4.5 Rules Engine
        4.6 Database Tools
            4.6.1 Choosing a Default Database
            4.6.2 Import/Export Sites & Rules
            4.6.3 Actions Over Submission types
            4.6.4 Clear Database Content
    5. Page Submitter
        5.1 Form Filling
        5.2 Submission Control Box
        5.3 Create Site-Specific Rules the Easy Way
        5.4 Autosubmitting
        5.7 Shortcuts
    6. Tools
        6.1 Email AutoConfirmer
        6.2 Integrated Statistics
        6.3 Ftp Client
    7. External Tools
        7.1 Thumbnail Builder
        7.2 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tool
    8. Common Questions and Tips & Tricks
        8.1 Common Questions
        8.2 Tips and Tricks
    9. Tutorials
        9.1 Step-by-Step Tutorial
        9.2 OCR Tutorial

1. Quick Guide

Although the program includes extended functionality, there is only a small number of necessary steps to start using it. Please follow them carefully:

Step 1: Upload the reciprocal images in a directory on your site. The reciprocal images of the demo database that comes with the program can be found on this directory: c:/program files/AdvancedSubmitter/recips or as an additional download for previous program versions or the unregistered version. This step is obligatory only the first time you use this program.

Step 2: Fill the required fields at the settings tab. You have to set at least the type of your submission (TGP,MGP etc) and general data you use when submit galleries (name, email, reciprocals directory). Don't forget to save your settings otherwise they wont work! This step is obligatory only the first time you use this program.

Step 3: Create a gallery and use the PageCreator tab to build the clone-files with the required reciprocals. Make sure you enter the right info about the path on your site where you will upload the pages and basic info about your gallery (description, etc)

Step 4: Upload the created files to the directory you stated at step 1.

Step 5: Use the Submitter tab to directly open the submission pages. The program will fill the needed fields automatically.

That's it! You can start using the program immediately and discover its functionality slowly by interacting with it.

2. Settings Tab

Use the settings tab to decide about global program data like the default names used when auto-complete fields and the active type of your submissions (TGP, MGP or whatever submission type you create). Don't forget to save your settings to take effect!

2.1 Active Submission types
Here is where you set the active submission types. You create galleries and submit only for the sites of these specific types. You can select up to seven different submission types. The program will create reciprocals and submit for all the sites at these submission types.

2.2 Galleries Settings
The program can name duplicated galleries in many ways. Note that all naming options can be combined.

You can use site names (as they are set in the database) instead of pure numbering to create better names for galleries

You can set a desired gallery prefix or suffix

You can use letters instead of numbers to better distinguish between created galleries

You can select the number of letters or digits that are used to number galleries

You can smart reduce the file names by removing phonemes and keeping only the first 4 letters from every site name

You can add random characters at the end of the file name to avoid people traversing your subsequent galleries

2.3 Reciprocals Settings
It is obligatory to set the directory on your site where you will upload the reciprocal files (it should be a full URL like http://mysite/TGP/reciprocals/). This is the default URL where the program will search for your reciprocals. Also, here you can set your own reciprocal. This will be included in each duplicated gallery as an added reciprocal. An advanced option allows you to customize the reciprocal table characteristics. You can set your own type of table (width, border etc) to personalize the reciprocals appearance.

2.4 Form Filling Settings
Fill your submission name and email. These are generic data will be used when auto-filling forms.
Use the extra keys to set even more default values to use when submitting. For example you could set another nickname or an alternative email for specific sites, fill a country field any many more special fields. Extra keys is a convenient way to set flexible global variables apart those that are provided by the program.

2.5 Ftp / Email / Stats Settings
Here is where you set your ftp and email info. The program will use them to upload files and auto-confirm emails. Also, here you where you set the mail URL of the server which collects statistics for your galleries. This info is provided from AdvancedSubmitter stuff.

2.6 Autosubmission Settings
In this tab you configure the parameters of autosubmission process. More precisely you can:

Set the number of internal browsers you want to use (from 1 to 10). Some times it is better to use fewer browsers when autosubmit to improve stability. This highly depends on your machine configuration. A powerful machine combined with a good connection line should not have problems using all 10 browsers.

Set the maximum time a site is allowed to finish during an auto-submission session. If a site cannot finish given this time period the auto-submission process continues with the next one.

Select the trigger-keywords to mark a submission as incorrect when autosubmitting. If the program finds any of the selected words here on the confirmation page of a submission it informs you by marking this site gray. Afterwards, you can revisit this page, see the confirmation log and resubmit if necessary.

Control the autosubmission Scheduler. With this tool, you can schedule several submission for a later time. You need to have a) pre-made the galleries b) uploaded at your server c)Saved each submission status so it can be reloaded.

2.7 Browser Settings
Browser options will help you improve the experience when submitting. Here is a list of the things you can do:

Hide pictures, activex and java applets to speed-up the submission process
Disable scripts (javascript, vbscript)
Internally handle pop-ups. This option redirect all redirects of submitted pages to the initial window and kill all pop-ups at intitial page of the submission form.
Automatically transferred to the exact position of the submission form

2.8 Registration Settings
In order to use the regular version of AdvancedSubmitter you have to register it first. The registration procedure will ask you for the login you got when buying /the software and then it will communicate with the registration server to validate it.

Basic Settings in Pictures

3. PageCreator

PageCreator is where you duplicate galleries and add the required reciprocal information.

The obligatory steps are:
(a) State the exact path in your server where you will upload the files (Note: This is necessary for correct auto-form filling)
(b) Use the dedicated button to browse and select the initial gallery page
(c) Select the number of reciprocals-per-page
(d) Click the Create Files button. The program will create all needed files depending on the active submission types and the rules for naming galleries you have set on settings tab. It will place all created galleries at the directory of the initial gallery.

All other fields are not mandatory and you should start using them one at a time.

3.1 Advanced Reciprocal Placement
If you want to precisely place reciprocals use a  tag directly inside your gallery's html.
If you want to exact position each reciprocal you can use recipXXX tags (recip001, recip002, ...) inside the gallerie's html. These tags have priority over all other reciprocal placement techniques.
If your gallery doesn't include a  or recipXXX tags then you can put reciprocals only on the top or the bottom of pages.

3.2 Gallery Characteristics
Gallery characteristics are a set of fields (gallery description, category, amount of pictures etc) that are used when auto-filling forms. You should set only those that you need during the submission process.
You can set up to six alternative fill-categories. If the program cannot find the primary category it will try the second one, then the third one and so on. The program includes 2 main and 8 additional description fields to better customize your description to end-sites needs.

3.3 Category Matching
The program has a set of 7 categories that can used during submission (when selecting the category field during form filling). All these categories should be treated as one broad-field. The program starts from the initial category, if it cannot find a matching category it continues with the second and so on.

In recent versions of the program this main idea has been expanded so it can allow much broader category matches.Each category can now be separated to up to four parts using the special character |.

For example, a category may be: teens | pictures
This means select a category that includes BOTH words "teens" and "pictures". Possible matches may be "fresh teens pictures" or
"teens unsorted pictures" but it won't choose "teens" or "teens videos"

There is also a negative matcher. For example: teens | ~pictures
This means select a category that includes the word "teens" but NOT the word "pictures"

3.4 Internal Statistics Activation
The program can internally collect gallery statistics. This is possible through a special invisible image line which tracks visitors for every created page. This option is activated through the "collect statistics" check box (available as an extra service)

4. Database

From the internal database you can add new sites or create rules to fill forms. You can add sites using a site dedicated view and you can sort/group the records according to several rules. Rules can be applied to every site (generic rules) or to specific sites (site specific rules). Rules can be combines in many ways.

You can also group sites and rules according to any field. This is helpful when, for example, you want a basic view of different submission types or when you want to see the generic rules for filling the category field. Use your imagination for a lot more options.

Rules Tips:

Without form-filling-rules no form will be filled
Generic rules are applied to all sites. Site specific rules are applied to specific sites
In case of a conflict, site specific rules have priority over generic rules
Use the integrated variable names to refer to certain variables when adding rules

Sites Tips:

Use Sites-Full view to add and preview reciprocal tables
Use Weight field to group sites together. The weight field determines the basic order of the sites at the Submitter tab and how reciprocal are placed during the page duplication phase

4.1 Sites-Compact view (
In sites-compact view you can quickly add new sites to the database or search for a particular site.
Here is a small explanation of each field.

In the field 'Recip Image or Text' every text that ends with .gif or .jpg is considered an image. If it starts with '<table' it treated as a table. Else it is simple HTML. All images should be located in a directory on your server.
Use the 'Weight' field to group sites. All sites are ordered based on their weight.
Use the 'Type' field to create group of sites. On Settings tab you can decide about the active submission type.
Use the 'Autosubmit' field to activate/deactivate auto submission for certain site.
Use the 'Active' field to activate/deactivate certain sites.

4.2 Sites-Full View
Using the sites-full view you can see detailed info about the sites. The functionality is identical to that of the compact view with the extra fields 'Recip-Table' and 'Single Recip'.
The 'Recip-Table' is a memo type field where you can paste big amounts of reciprocal html (like big tables)
'Single-Recip' determines whether the specific site should be put in his own dedicated gallery when duplicating.

4.3 Field Rules - Generic
The generic rules are applied to every site. For common fields is better to add rules here.

Every record must contain a field name and a desired value
There are certain variables you can use on the value field to use dynamic generated content
- _EMAIL to fill the field with the email you have given in settings tab
- _NAME to fill the field with the name you have given in settings
- _DESCRIPTION to fill the field with the description of the gallery
- _DESCRIPTION2-10 to fill the field with the alternative descriptions of the gallery
- _COMMENT to fill the field with the comments for the specific gallery
- _URL to fill the field with the URL of the current gallery
- _PICS to fill the field with the number of pictures or movies of the current gallery
- _CATEGORY to fill the field with the category you have selected for the current gallery
- _KEY1 to _KEY20 to fill the field with the extra keys you have set

4.4 Field Rules- Sites specific
In site-specific fill-rules every rule must determine the site for which is valid.
Note that these rules are more specific than general rules and in case of a conflict they determine the actual win rule.

Every record must contain a valid site name, a field name and a desired value
There are certain variables you can use on the value field to use dynamic generated content
- _EMAIL to fill the field with the email you have given in settings tab
- _NAME to fill the field with the name you have given in settings
- _DESCRIPTION to the fill field with the description of the gallery
- _DESCRIPTION2-10 to fill the field with the alternative description of the gallery
- _COMMENT to fill the field with the comments for the specific gallery
- _URL to fill the field with the URL of the current gallery
- _PICS to fill the field with the number of pics or movies of the current gallery
- _PICS_2DIGIT to fill the field with the number of pics or movies of the current gallery (use 2 digits)
- _CATEGORY to fill the field with the category you have given for the current gallery
- _KEY1 to _KEY20 to fill the field with the extra keys you have set

4.5 Rules Engine
AdvancedSubmitter has an internal rules engine that allows you to combine variables and other text. For example, lets say that we have set the PICS variable as 12, the DESCRIPTION variable as "my gallery" and NAME variable as "submitter". Below are some rules and the corresponding results.

_PICS _DESCRIPTION = 12 my gallery

(_PICS Pictures) _DESCRIPTION = (12 Pictures) my gallery

(_PICS Pictures) (_DESCRIPTION) From _NAME = (12 Pictures) (my gallery) From submitter

4.6 Database Tools
Database tools offers a variety of batch actions over database data. By using them you can import or export data, rename or delete submission types, clear the database or change your default database.

4.6.1 Choosing a default database
All data are stored in a centralized database that relies on AdvancedSubmitter directory (TGP.mdb). Its easy to exchange this file with other user or use the database subscription service to get fresh databases. For your convenience there is an internal database selector which allows you to easily switch between databases.

4.6.2 Import/Export sites
The program has a built in import/export functionality that allows you to backup your data or further manipulate them using an external program. The export function creates a simple text file. The first line contains the data-type, the second the fields and the rest lines are the actual data. If you have used any other program that export sites then it is easy to convert its output to be compatible with Advanced Submitter's required input. The easiest way to understand the used format is to play with the export function and see the results.
The program can create several types of output. Make sure you export the desired type of data.

Importing determines internally the type of imported data. In case of an error a warning/error message will be presented. The process will not halt on warinings.

4.6.3 Actions over submission types
Here you can rename or completely delete a submission type. Also you can randomize the weight field of a specific submission type. The weight field is used to place reciprocals. This means that this action will randomize the way sites are grouped together.

4.6.4 Clear Database Content
This action delete all data from database. Use it only when you want to start a database from scratch.

Adding Site Specific Rules in Pictures

5. Page Submitter

Using the integrated submitter you can efficiently submit galleries. Advanced Submitter will do the majority of the work - browse the needed submission page and auto-fill forms. Most of the times you will have just to check that everything is ok and press submit. Using the autosubmit mode (for the sites you know all fields are correctly filled) you can avoid even this step! The autosubmit option uses all internal browsers. When pages are loading the headers of browser tabs report the current loading percentage so you know with a glance which have completed and which need some more time.

5.1 Form Filling
Advanced Submitter will try to fill forms as accurate as possible. You will have to fill only the remaining gaps (if any). In case of a failure you can create your own generic and site-specific rules to fill the remaining fields. The program can fill both standard input boxes, textareas or drop-down lists, radio and check boxes. Use the button "fill links" to fill the fields before the page completes downloading. Otherwise the autofilling process is automatically called upon page loading completion.

The program includes a form-position algorithm that locates the exact position of the submission form inside the page. To activate this option go to settings->browser and select the "Scroll to the submission form" checkbox.

5.2 Submission Control Box
There are several handy site-specific and generic actions that can be activated by right clicking the sites area.

These options are:

Show Field Names. This option shows in a memo box all the form fields of the currently browsed site
Order Sites By... This option allows you to select the method to order sites. Available options are Weight, Name, Auto-submit status, Single Reciprocal status or based on its grayed status. An additional advanced option order sites by their Google's pageRank
Browse Multiple Next. It browse the next set of sites using the tabbed browsers
Submit with Email. This tool pop-ups a window with prefilled email info and allows you to submit a gallery by email
Show LocalGallery. This option shows the local version of the gallery that correspond to the selected site
Show RealGallery. This option shows the distant version of the gallery that correspond to the selected site. This is the actual gallery that you will submit. This option is useful for previewing the gallery and avoiding any sort of problems with it.
Show site's main page. This option will try to locate the main page for the selected site and browse it at the current browser.
Show confirmation page. This option is enabled ONLY if you have auto-submitted that specific site. It brings its confirmation page
Browse offline version. It browse the last stored version of the submission page of the current site
Site specific options. It includes options to edit or delete a site
Mark/Unmark a site. It toggles a site's color. Useful for marking problematic sites
Save/Load submission state. It stores in a file the current submission status. It allows you to reload a previously saved submission stage and continue submitting
Autosubmitting. It fires the auto-submission process
Checking for Form's Presence. This tool passes through all sites at the current Submitter view and checks for the presence of a form. It marks gray all sites that do not have a form inside their submission page.

Available options at the submission control box

5.3 Create site-specific rules the easy way
An easy shortcut to add site-specific rules is this:
- Browse a submission page
- Right click on the site name --> edit site --> edit site specific rules
This way the program turns database boxes to drop down boxes and it pre-fills them with values taken from the submission page. In other words this process allows you to create site-specific rules using a few mouse clicks (registered version)

5.4 Autosubmitting
To autosubmit for all sites that have checked their corresponding check-box, right click on the sites area and from the pop-up menu choose auto-submit. The program will pass through all the checked sites and automate the submit process for them. Make sure that for all sites that you include to your autosubmit list the program can fill all required fields correctly. The autosubmit process can use one or all internal browsers. Before initiating autosubmission it is a good idea to hand submit to the list first to make sure everything is going smoothly.

Advanced Submitter can be set to monitor auto-submissions and save confirmation pages while at the same time it tries to determine which submissions failed. You can later easily visit the submission results for every site and re-submit for the problematic sites. Possible problematic submissions are marked gray so you will be able to distinguish them with a glance. You can activate the autosubmission log from Settings->Autosubmission. For all sites you have autosubmitted you can view their autosubmission-log just by clicking on them at Submitter tab.

Autosubmitting in Pictures

5.5 Shortcuts
While you are at submitter tab you can use a variety of shortcuts to speed-up the submitting/control process. The list of shortcuts are as follows:

ALT+L: Show Local Gallery
ALT+G: Show Remote Gallery
ALT+M: Toggle Gray Site
ALT+S: Submit via Email
ALT+0 - ALT+9: Go to Specific Browser
ALT+A: Start - Stop Auto-submission
ALT+W: Save Submission State
ALT+R: Edit Site Specific Rules
ALT+B: Browse the Selected Site
ALT+I: Toggle Image Downloading
ALT+Q: Go To Next Browser
ALT+N: Next Site
ALT+X: Multiple Next Sites
ALT+P: Next Site on Next Window
ALT+F: Submit Form

6. Tools

6.1 Email AutoConfirmer
Auto-confirmer downloads messages from a user-specific email account, search and discover possible confirmation links and allows the user to easily click on them or it automatically visits all of them. The auto-confirmer uses an internal browser to actually visit all pages.
The user can create custom rules to exclude discovered links that are not relative with the confirmation process. Also, he can read the downloaded messages to ensure that everything is ok.

Tips:

Double click a message to view it
Use filter URLs button to exclude all URLs that don't have any of the predefined patterns. You can manipulate the patterns from the "Accepted URL Patterns" tab
Double click a URL to manually confirm it
Single click a URL to view the confirmation log. This action is activated only after you have autoconfirm the URLs.

6.2 Integrated Statistics
Use this tool to view how your submission did, how many hits you received and from which sites the visitors came. The program offers bar, pie and line graphs, as well 3D views. In order for statistics to work you have to enable the collect statistics checkbox when creating galleries. The basic benefit of the internal statistics is that they are integrated with the program and the added image-based line which collects data is invisible.

Statistics track traffic on gallery pages. To discover the exact sites that produced the traffic you can create unique files per site. If a gallery has three reciprocals this will create three different galleries with those three reciprocals.

6.3 Ftp Client
The internal FTP will allow you to upload created galleries or any other needed file with a click of a button! The process is very simple. After having created galleries you should go to the FTP tab. Click the button "Upload all galleries" and the program will automatically connect to your ftp site (you should have set its name and login/password at the settings tab) change or create the appropriate directory and upload all galleries. It couldn't be easier than that! If you have to upload additional files, like images, you can create the needed directories and upload a set of selected files using the internal file explorer.

7. External Tools

7.1 Thumbnail Builder
The thumbnail builder is an external tool that is bundled together with AdvancedSubmitter for your convenience. It includes all needed functionality to create professionally looking thumbnails from a user-selected part of an initial image. ThumbanilBuilder uses sophisticated algorithms to ensure the highest possible quality for your thumbnails.You can have up to 5 different collections of sizes for which you want to create thumbnails. Thumbnail builder can be called directly from pageCreator tab.

Thumbnail builder in pictures

7.2 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tool
The optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tool allows you to train the neural network that is used by the program for translating images to characters. This is useful in cases that the already trained neural network does not understands some characters due lack of specific training. More about OCR and how to use this tool can be found here

8. Common Questions and Tips and Tricks

8.1 General questions

What is the difference between the free and the commercial version?
The free version adds a custom reciprocal to each created page. The commercial version give you the ability to remove or change this reciprocal with one of your own. There is no time limit to the free version.

Also, the free version lacks some extra features. Here is a list of the most important of them:

- Auto submission mode & submission log
- Integrated Thumbnails Builder
- More description and more category fields
- Fill Browse Fields Support
- Image Recognition Support
- Browse Multiple Sites at once, auto scroll to the exact form position, disable javascript / activex and so on
- Email Submissions
- Internal ftp
- Email auto-confirmer
- Integrated statistics (as an additional module)
- Site copying to different submission types
- Saving / Loading of submission states
- Aggregated gallery duplication and submission for several submission-types at once
- Advanced gallery naming options and reciprocal's placement
- Free technical support (via email or icq)

Why you wrote this program?
I was looking for a highly sophisticated submission tool and couldn't find one that would fulfill all my needs. Furthermore I couldn't afford buying pictures and certainly was not fond of the submission process itself. So I though I could do what I know and like best (that is programming) and through the tool I could get my advertising share. However, since then, Advanced Submitter has become much more powerful and much more complete than any other similar tool in the market. And I found that it takes me more time developing it than previously submitting :-(

What is the ultimate goal of this program?
The ultimate goal is to develop a program that would take less than an hour work a day and could get back more traffic than any other tool out there.

To hand-submit takes a long time. Why should I prefer it and not choose an auto submission software?
Hand submission gives you full control to the submission process. You can become partners to several big sites and get easier approvals, you can avoid to confirm emails, you can add your own preferred sites and avoid being blacklisted. Furthermore, many sites today use sophisticated techniques to ensure that a user actually pass through the submission page. The highest quantity and quality traffic comes from these sites.

How much traffic should I expect from each submission?
This totally depends on the amount of sites you submit, their quality and of course the quality of your gallery and the descriptions. However a good gallery submitted to about 50 well selected sites should produce more traffic than most of the auto submitters that post to more than 1000 sites.

Do you offer database updates?
We offer database updates through our dedicated database updates site http://updates.advancedsubmitter.com. However, note, that if you want to make a lot of $$$ you have to invest some time on building a custom database according to your needs. The program itself has a database that is updated at the time of each program's release. Depending on the time that has passed since then a portion of the database may have been outdated (site comes and go all the time)

Do you offer statistics about submissions?
Yes, we offer statistics through our dedicated statistics service. You have to buy an extra license at http://stats.advancedsubmitter.com to activate this option on the program

Can I fill drop-down lists, radio or check boxes?
Advanced Submitter can fill all drop-down lists. Since version 1.1 it can also fill check and radio boxes. To check a specific check-box put as value the words "true" or "yes".

Can I fill thumbnails fields?
Yes, AdvancedSubmitter can autofill thumbnail fields by using site-specific rules. The program treats thumbnails fields as regular fields although the mechanics of filling such fields is a lot different. However, for user's prospective the difference is minimum.

Can I fill passcode fields?
Yes, AdvancedSubmitter includes a highly advanced OCR module to recognize images and transform them to characters. Read at http://www.advancedsubmitter.com/ocr.html for the details

Can I automate the filling of my partner login/pass for several sites?
Yes, just use site specific rules. If you are uncertain on how this can be done read the basic AdvancedSubmitter's step-by-step tutorial at http://www.advancedsubmitter.com/tutorial/index.htm

Is there a way to auto-submit sites?
Yes. There is a special mode in which the program auto submits the sites that have their special attribute "auto submit" set to true. Right Click the sites list on the Page Submitter page and choose start Auto Submit. To stop Auto submission right-click again and choose "stop Auto submit". Keep in mind that the auto submission process differs from the way other programs do it because it passes through the actual submission page. This has certain advantages but also disadvantages.

Is there a way to submit to sites that don't require a reciprocal.
Yes. Move all no-reciprocal sites to their own dedicated submission type (e.g., TGP_NoReciprocals) and when creating galleries for this submission type set a high number (1000+) to the reciprocals-per-page field- this way the program will use the initial gallery for all submission.

Is there a way to group sites together when creating reciprocals?
Yes, use the 'Weight' field to order and group sites when creating reciprocals. This order is also used at the pageSubmitter tab.

Some sites that use TGPBrownie give me "sorry, fix your bot and try again"..
I know what you are thinking, that this guys somehow found that you are using a submitter. Wrong! The problem is with TGP Brownie script and it means that your description was too long. Make a smaller description and try again. Ha!

I want to download and install the new program version but I don't want to loose my previous database customization
It is easy to delete the database that comes with the program and replace it with your existing data.

(a) make a backup of the file TGP.mdb that relies on the program directory just in case ...
(b) Export all sites, generic rules and site-specific rules. You must have three text files now.
(c) Clear all database from database tools tab
(d) import sites, generic-rules and site-specific rules in that order

Or you may just copy the file TGP.mdb at AdvancedSubmitter program directory to a safe place and then replace with it the TGP.mdb file that the program writes on your disk.

The program cannot be installed or it doesn't work after installation or when I create galleries I get a memory error at address FFFFFF
If you cannot install the program try to re-download it. If it shows a message about something not working after installation try to download the proper for your language and windows MDAC and ADO versions. These ships with windows 98,ME,XP but they were not installed in some early windows 98 and windows 95 versions. Also, some international versions of windows use older MDAC and ADO versions (even in windows ME or 2000).

What if I have more questions?
Visit our dedicated support forum at http://forum.advancedsubmitter.com. This is an invaluable resource of answers to any issue you may encounter through program's usage.

8.2 Tips and Tricks

I've got many partner accounts that want to set with AdvancedSubmitter but there are only 20 variables (extra keys) to use
You should NOT use extra keys to set partner accounts. On the contrary you should enter directly your login/password on value field at "site specific rules" tab.

Is there an easy way to add site_specific_rules?
Yes. Browse a submission page and then press "Site Specific Rules" button. This way, text boxes turn to drop down lists from which you can directly select the site and target form field.

Is there a way to send email submissions?
Yes, right click on a site and choose "Submit via Email". You can set a templetized email to be send during submission.

I can see many sites on the database. However, PageSubmitter shows only a small percent of them
PageSubmitter shows only sites that belong to active submission types. You can set the active submission types from settings (it is the first option)

Can I create a new submission type?
Absolutely. Just add a new site and write a new value as its type instead of selecting from the drop down list. The program will add the new submission type automatically.

Can I combine variables and text?
Yes, you may create a rule that has value "_KEY1 test_text" for example. If _KEY="my text" the target field will show "my text test_text". The same way you can combine many fields in a value. Take for example this one "_KEY1 _KEY1". This will bring "my text my text"

Is there a way to pause my submission and continue in another point of time?
Yes. Just save your submission Info. You can load it back in a later time and continue directly from where you were.

Is there a way to take full control of reciprocals placement?
Yes. Use the special tags recip001, recip002 and so on directly inside your gallery. When the program finds such keywords it replace them directly with the required reciprocals. You can place reciprocals even vertically!

Can I control the ALT part or the FONT of the reciprocal that AdvancedSubmitter creates?
Yes, you should add your recip on the recip_table field insted of recip and image fields. This way you can make it whatever you want. Note that inside the recip_table field you can use the special tag _RECIPROCALS/ that will be replaced with the actualy URL to the reciprocals folder over the web as you set it on settings

Is there a way to use different submission profiles?
Yes. At settings tab there is an option to export/import settings. This is the exact same as submission profiles.

Can I use AdvancedSubmitter to submit to Link Lists, Search Engines, Forums, ...
Absolutely. AdvancedSubmitter can be used to submit to ANY site that has forms

Can I be blacklisted for using an autosubmitter
AdvancedSubmitter is a hybrid submitter that combines the best of handsubmitting and autosubmitting. Is up to you to use it efficiently and not over do it with autosubmissions. Noone will blacklist you just because you AdvancedSubmitter since you submit real forms and you pass from the actual submission pages.

Can I check what happened after autosubmission? For example, what error sites give me?
Yes, On settings->browser check the option that says "Save Confirmation Page". Then, after autosubmitting, a simple click on a site will bring its confirmation page. You can even use up and down arrow keys to traverse the list fast.

9. Tutorials

9.1 Step by Step Tutorial

Check the step-by-step tutorial online here

9.2 OCR Tutorial

Check the OCR tutorial online here

Last Modified September 20 2005