Iterative Research
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] U guys still in business?Hi hectorsuper,
Yup, the platform is still online and the system is still under development. I have removed the January 2017 reference from the website.
We’re moving slower than we’d like due to other projects at the moment, but Viral Headlines is definitely not abandoned.
Joe @ Iterative Research.
Thanks achro. I’m aware of this problem. Unfortunately, my server is overloaded (and post saving currently requires a roundtrip to my server in this version) and I cannot currently allocate more resources to it. I have a plan (new version of the product) coming soon to balance the load more appropriately. I am working on a complete overhaul of the product that increases stability, adds statistical reporting features so you can see what’s going on a bit more clearly, reduces load and actually improves the conversion rate performance.
Right now, I have a minority of users pushing more than 10,000,000 impressions a day through the headline testing tool. It is generating large improvements for these users, so I am not inclined to just cut them off without having an appropriate alternative for them, but I do need to fund the infrastructure a bit more fairly so that smaller users can get access to the tool as well.
If you would like, send me an email at joe@iterative.ca and I will make sure you are brought up to date with developments when the new version is available.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Plugin crashedI will see what I can do with regard to deploying multiple servers (one in Europe, perhaps) before I expand the pro version to public access. I appreciate your testing. 🙂
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Facebook/Twitter, auto repostingIt might be – if you have another plugin that is specifying your title tag (instead of the standard WordPress/theme call to the_title()) then you might only see your primary title show up there. If there’s no other plugin (say, many SEO plugins, for instance), then the title tag itself will be optimized the same way as the title you see.
If you do email me a link I can take a look for you and let you know what I think is going on there.
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Facebook/Twitter, auto repostingThanks for your interest. Automatically calibrating specific headlines for Facebook, Twitter and Google is a feature that is available in the pro version.
Fitting the advanced model which includes the necessary properties of social sites is a substantially more computationally intensive process — we compute an optimal headline for virality (sharing and resharing with clicks in from the social service) per platform and provide a set of tools for both your own sharing of it (as the administrator) and your visitors sharing. It is all pretty cool.
If you would like, enter your email address here: http://toolkit.iterative.ca/headlines/buy and I will keep you informed on availability of the pro version. There is no obligation to purchase, ever. 🙂
Automatically reposting is not currently available (as I do not think most users will want that) but we do reset the Facebook cached headline for new shares to continue the testing. Additionally, we could discuss a custom solution to reposting depending on your needs. Email me at joe@iterative.ca to discuss that further if you are interested.
Joe.
p.s., I just re-read your second paragraph. Swapping to the baseline suggests that you are trying to override the title tag — this is probably an interaction with a different plugin on your installation that is changing the <title> tag but not utilizing the WordPress title functionality. If you can send me a link to your website via email (or here) I can take a look and see if there’s a plugin interaction I can help you with (and fix for all users!).Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Plugin crashedI repeated that same test (pingdom) a few times this morning and cannot reproduce the load time you see. I am getting around 50ms negotiation/DNS/connection and 2ms content time, for a consistent total of less than 55ms load time, both locally in Canada and from Pingdom out of NYC. This is going to be dependent on your users’ location and network connection, but continue reading:
The log and success files are loaded at the very bottom of the page, so they should not effect the user perception of speed — the page will render just as fast as if they weren’t there. Those requests are made in parallel and at the end of the run and in most renderings won’t even start to be requested until the page is starting to render.
That said, my server hosting this stuff is in California. From my ISP in Canada, I can achieve 50ms round trip requests to it. If you are across the ocean, there may be some structural delay that will necessitate a server somewhere in Europe. I cannot set that up today, but I will do some testing to see if a significant issue exists and if it warrants adding a second server for geographic diversity.
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Plugin crashedThis is great feedback. The plugin currently takes in to account the administrator’s behavior (as you are seeing in #4), but that is a bug, I will fix it shortly. The other advice is all great.
The basic version of the plugin is not language dependent (it works fine in any language) – we do not currently consider the content of the headlines. The premium version of the plugin considers the content of the headlines and other properties of the user for selecting the best per-user approach.
If you get a chance, can you elaborate on point #5? What do you mean statistics on how to operate the headlines?
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Plugin crashedI appreciate your patience. Please update to the latest version (1.4) where I have moved everyone to the latest version of the API. I’ve done extensive testing on this version — including on fresh installations of WordPress — so hopefully all the issues you’ve had thus far are gone. 🙂
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Plugin crashedI’m so sorry! Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I’m still (re-)getting used to the version control system (SVN) that the WordPress plugin repository uses. It has been years since I used it!
This should be fixed now if you download again. I have not promoted the version number.
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BulletProof Security] 403 Error Upon Logging Injoinfof,
I believe I can help you. The following line doesn’t make sense, because you are already inside the PHP interpreter when you set that redirect. The “<?php” part indicates that the interpreter should be “turned on” for this part of the file, but it is already on.
$redirect_to = '<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>';Try changing it to:
$redirect_to = get_permalink();Yours,
Joe.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Resource capacity?Our server does the hard artificial intelligence computations right now.
There is a roundtrip to the API server when you create a post with multiple headlines (upon save) and then one every hour after that to update the calculations. This is the majority of the “load” you will sustain and it should be minor (kilobytes a day, at most). In the future, we will update more or less frequently depending on how much traffic your site has.
This also does not create a dependence on our server — even when our server is offline, your machine can continue sampling the headlines with no errors. The sampling operation which happens on your server is cheap — basically just a few multiplications for each headline.
Please let me know if you have any performance issues (or any other issues). I am eager to investigate and resolve any problems you have. You can contact me here or via email at joe@iterative.ca.
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Other languages than English?Hi again Jean-Paul,
I just did some testing with accented characters, broader UTF-8 characters and other possible encoding issues to be sure – everything seems to work fine. Please feel free to try this out for your Dutch website!
I am happy to help you out if you run in to any issues, but I think everything will go well for you. 🙂
Joe.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [The Best Title Testing Tool for WordPress] Other languages than English?It should work for any language! I will test for sure later today.
If you’re running in to an issue, please send me an email at joe@iterative.ca so I can check it out for you.
I will also add a feature to disable the advice and analyzer (the small blue box under your titles) for non-English languages shortly as it will not be beneficial at the moment.
Joe.