RSSE is stalling...

[cstarre]

When I generate the pages, when the program gets to the index page, it stalls and will not complete the process. I even let it sit overnight and it was still stuck on "fetching content for index page".

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Calvenn

[deegz]

I'm having the same problem, except it doesn't even get to the index, it stalls during the generating pages area. I've tried to re-do it 6-7 times and it still stalls.
deegz

[hill5940]

i'm getting the same problem hase nobody got an answer to this

[goaltending]

I am having the same trouble.  I sent an email to support.  It was suggested that I make sure that a firewall is not stopping the software.

I did that and it still stalled.

Next thing to check was if the feed was valid.  They all were valid.  Still stalled.

They said that sometimes if you have extra spaces after the keywords or the end of the document that can cause a problem.

I was finally able to get it to generate the pages by watching what keyword it stalled on and then removing it and restarting.  That was successful...but then it would not generate the index page.  

Is there a limit to how many keywords can go in?

GH

[fidgety]

Hi Everybody. Read all above and decided to join because I'm getting similar results from my RSSE.

OK!
Set up my first campaign with 4000 keywords dropped in straight from wordtracker. All feeds, text units, links etc. were filled. Managed to generate all pages successfully.
First test went ok.
Then I decided to test again with a cleaned list by putting it through the recommended list cleaner. This time it got to the end of the generation process but was unable to create the index page(I got an out of bound error??) Also by this time I was unable to save a project without it being corrupted. In other words I could no longer upload a project. Further repeated tests with the same settings now resulted in hang-ups while it was fetching content for pages. I tried to delete certain keywords that it was getting hung up on but that was just hit and miss.

OK!

Next I used the same settings but reduced my keyword list to aprox 4 or five key phrases inserted manually(This way I could have full control on the format). This resulted in the same hang-ups. In this case it never got started. I think I finally solved this problem by clearing the text units.

OK!

Next I re-did test with 4000 cleaned keywords and no text units. At various stages on each test session generator hung up.

It all points to this issue about spaces and or undesirable symbols within the keywords and or text units.

This may ring familiar with others. I will keep testing but any ideas would be welcome.

[tomtom]

I saw the same problem when I used MASSIVE text units and 3000+ keyword lists.. but the fault seemed to more in the template then anything else, I dont know what was worng, but a change in template worked.. If it hangs, first try to reduce your keyword list to 4 and make a site wiht index page, if that works, then try to make one wiht less text units and full keywords.. this way you will find where the problem is.. normally if everything is done right there is no problem creating massive sites..

tomtom

[trevk]

I am not sure if this helps, but this is what I received from Omar.
"I am just creating my first site and my system has "froze" part way through. Is there anyway to recover or do I have to start again. "
Omar's response
"If for process frozen check your keywords list for any blank lines (specially at the end) or illegal characters (? @ # $ % ^ & etc). Also do not use a very big list of keywords (specially if you have multiple feed sources). If for some reason the process frozen, nothing was actually generated, so is nothing that can be recovered"
"What is your recommendation for the number of keywords and number of feeds."
Omar's response
"Well.. thre is no fixed amounts. usually you should try to keep your generated sites under 1000 pages, not to rise any flags to SEs. A new site with thousands pages coming over night is not something normal.
 
Usually a feed return 10 items for each keyword. If you generate one page for each item, then 1 feed and 1 keyword would generate about 10 pages
 
A simple math formula would be like (Number of feeds * Number of keywords * 10) < 1000
 
Generally you can use like 1-3 feeds and 10-100 keywords"

Hope this helps.

Trevor

[tomtom]

I am not sure if this helps, but this is what I received from Omar.
"I am just creating my first site and my system has "froze" part way through. Is there anyway to recover or do I have to start again. "
Omar's response
"If for process frozen check your keywords list for any blank lines (specially at the end) or illegal characters (? @ # $ % ^ & etc). Also do not use a very big list of keywords (specially if you have multiple feed sources). If for some reason the process frozen, nothing was actually generated, so is nothing that can be recovered"
"What is your recommendation for the number of keywords and number of feeds."
Omar's response
"Well.. thre is no fixed amounts. usually you should try to keep your generated sites under 1000 pages, not to rise any flags to SEs. A new site with thousands pages coming over night is not something normal.
 
Usually a feed return 10 items for each keyword. If you generate one page for each item, then 1 feed and 1 keyword would generate about 10 pages
 
A simple math formula would be like (Number of feeds * Number of keywords * 10) < 1000
 
Generally you can use like 1-3 feeds and 10-100 keywords"

Hope this helps.

Trevor

Hmm, well it might be that it works FASTER and is more STABLE with less then 1000 keywords.. and I do see the point in not adding 1000's of pages in a new site at once.. this makes all the sence.. BUT there is no real problem in creating bigger sites.. I have used lists with 4000+ keywords AND at the same time had "text items" wiht over 5000 "lines" (break) in it.. and yes it is slower in creating.. and it hangs now and then.. but mostly when it looks like it is hanged, just wait.. suddenly it is done wiht calculating something and starts generating....
But again, it is more wise to create sites with a couple of hundred pages.. then maybe add a wordpress in a folder and have the wordpress updated with a CS feed.. and for the real creative you can then use the wordpress rss feed and create "news boxes" on the pages you created in rssE autoupdated of course....

tomtom