Announcements11 Jun 2007 07:59 am
Alright let’s get this over with 
SQUIRT Is Now Open
squirt.robstool.com
Please be sure to register using the same email address as is on your Paypal Account.
Once you have registered and subscribed your account will be activated shortly and you will be notified by Email. If your account isn’t activated by the end of the day please send an email to Eli at BlueHatSEO.com with your Paypal email address and Email address on your account.
Good Luck
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first!
Hey Eli, I subscribed, signed up, and paid but still logged in as guest, is this something you’ll change manually?
I got my receipt.
Yee Haa
Did anyone else noticed the site (bluehat) go down one minute after launch?
Luckily I was refreshing like a crazy person!!!!
and caught the premature exploitation of the squirt tool…
I didn’t even read anything I just went straight to paypal!!!
And to Jack above, I think it takes up to 48 hours to upgrade your account…
p.s. we taking bets on how long it takes to sell out?
I had two computers set up…just in case
I has a squirt - thanks for the opportunity Eli.
Im registered but… yup I’m a guest still too. Now we wait?
Yeah, I’m in too but no account upgrade yet, hopefully soon - I want to play with these new toys. Looks pretty good so far.
Yeah, I was still getting logged in as a guest too. I think I ended up paying more than once, but PayPal said I had already sent the payment, so I should be good to go. Just got the SQUIRT activation notice.
Nice!!!!!!!
hmm i got the paypal receipt, but no activation notice yet.
bet they are ALL gone
and… all that f5(refresh) “like a crazy” is what crashes sites
I just woke up, hit refresh, and it was up
. Funny thing is, Eli got his times wrong, he said 10am mountain and it’s only 9 down here. I noticed last night before I went to bed… Thank god I did normally I don’t wake up for another 4-5 hours. I think I paypalled twice though 
I regged and my acct was activated minutes later. Weird how the site keeps going down.
I’m in. I’m surprised I signed up, but I dunno… i’ve been reading this site forever so I figured I’d give it a whirl.
Hi Eli,
I got a email from paypal that I have an active membership, after that i registered with my paypal email but if i want to login i receive an cookie error, but i have nowhere else problems with loggin in.
perhaps you may help me
greetings RRF
Yippy! I am in too. I expected the crash with so many people logging in at the same time and refreshing the screen like crazy (just like me).
I also registered and payed (shows up in paypal as “Plex Home Theater”) but my account still has guest status.
I’m in
I hate setting alarm clocks. I thought the whole point of SEO is so you don’t have to set alarm clocks.
But I’m in!!!
Order # S-3HX098604M931032K
Signed up and stoked, just waiting for verification.
Sweet. Can’t wait for it to upgrade.
I figure, if it let me sign up and send Eli the cash, I’m in… right?
Your in and your account will be activated soon if it isn’t already
Sending you and email eli- I got in, but paid you twice in my panic to get signed up!
Hope to get that cleared up soon…
I’m in. Congrats to Eli for making $10k/month in minutes.
Hello
I have this little problem. I live in the middle east , and as you know theres no paypal here. I have a cousin in the US, he has a paypal account. He will pay for me and i will pay him via western union every month.
However i have one question :
I want my login email to squirt to be different than the paypal email. Is this possible ?
or if you can put up other kinds of payments i would be so grateful.
woo im in, i think
getting that guest thing tho, thats scary lol
Payed and got the confirmation, tried to log in but got a cookie error similar to Raven Riley Fans, hmmmm let me figure this out.
oh and it was paid to plex home theater yeah?
lol
yeah plex home theater
third. looking forward to this
glad i refreshed when i did
lol. let’s go make some money
I am in lets get to indexing
I’m in!!!
Order S-3HX098604M931032K
Still a guest for now, but I’m just glad I got my spot
ahh fuck, my primary paypal email is diferent from the one I signed up with.
Eager to get my activation too, but I understand why they might trickle them in through the day rather than crash the tool with one too many eager beavers testing things out at 12:02
My payment went through but I am still just a guest
Had to set the alarm clock…But I’m in…
S-3HX098604M931032K
I’m In! Thanks Eli!
Hi,
I have already subscribed but still in guest status. I’m looking forward to the automatic update of my status. Thanks for the tool!
Accounts are being activated now, please allow through the end of the day. Until then feel free to browse as a guest and check out the Vault.
The cookie errors are just temporary due to the absolutely massive server traffic right now.
Thanks for the patience guys
My payment also went through and it shows that my email is used for the SQUIRT registration, but my login fails. Hopefully that doesn’t mean anything bad for me…
Can’t wait to check them out.
Hey Eli, I sort of signed up twice. Allow me to explain, I paypalled twice on accident. Signed up, realized I signed up with an email diferent from the one paypal used, signed up again with correct email. I swear I don’t want it twice, any chance I can shoot you an email to clear it all up?
I did this too..sorta. I hit pay twice as I wanted to pay straight from CC, not using my paypal funds.
I’d like a refund for the second payment.
Who’s got the over/under on how long it takes to sell out?
I say less than 50 minutes it will take to sell out…
but more than 30 minutes…
I have multiple emails under my paypal account. I think that’s where I messed up with.
I signed into paypal with a non-primary, but the payment email was sent via the primary.
Had to register twice. If anyone else has multiples, take that into consideration.
Yeah that’s what happened to me as well. I’m worried because I signed up again under the primary email but not sure if I signed up in time with that one. Not sure how Eli is going about deciding who the first 100 are, scared that if I signed up late with the primary email I didn’t get in…
Not sure how Eli is going about deciding who the first 100 are, scared that if I signed up late with the primary email I didn’t get in…
The 1st 100 would probably be the 1st 100 that payed via paypal. Otherwise it would not make any sense… I’m sure payments will be closed after that mark is reached.
It’s odd… I can sign into the tool right now with my second account [the paypal primary email], but the one I registered 1st is giving me a ‘login failed’, or something like that. I think to balance out the server load, only accounts with paypal paid emails are getting through.
I had paypal cancel my 2nd subscription that I made by accident (sorry eli) so that other people could still get in.
My 1st subscription is still active, so I’m not worried. You can’t cancel the charge I found out, so Eli will have to refund us dumbasses.
(I thought that reselling the 2nd account wouldn’t fly w/ Eli- considering how generous he is w/ free info… so I felt it safer to just cancel
)
Thank God I paid, though I’m still guest… Just can’t wait to see how this works!
Signed up and waiting for activation. Thanks Eli for all the work you put into this site! And congrats on the $$ you will be making today
Accounts are being activated now, please allow through the end of the day. Until then feel free to browse as a guest and check out the Vault.
The cookie errors are just temporary due to the absolutely massive server traffic right now.
Thanks for the patience guys
Even if you have subscribed twice, I’m sure you can resell your second subscription for higher than $100 and make a profit
OMG!
My credit card was working an hour ago, I specifically bought a VCC from my CC supplier for that. Those VCCs never failed me, including an hour ago.
And now I’m trying to pay for SQUIRT, and Paypal said CC denied by bank.
Lucky me I had a friend who quickly loaned me PP money. Otherwise I would stay out forever.
BUT I’m IN! Horah!
In as well and account activated. Encountered the first bug (easy fix). Can’t wait to put in the first 10 sites!
Payment worked…ready to rumble. Let’s do some squirting
Hi Eli,
I signed up, but paid twice by accident. Could you please refund one of my payments?
Thank you,
Bill
P.S. Are we going to have access to your content scrapers?
Certainly, please email me at eli at bluehatseo.com
Just saying “Hi” and signed up. Looking forward to seeing how this tool performs.
Thanks Eli - looks hella cool.
If you look at your paypal receipt you can see what number you are. I’m #4.
Who were the first 10?
Where does it say what number you are? I don’t see anything like that, except maybe “Item Number 4″
If you look at your paypal receipt you can see what number you are. I’m #4.
There is a line in the email that says…
Item Number: 4
I think this is more accurate…
Subscription Date:
Jun. 11, 2007
Time: 08:59:37 PDT
Still waiting for the activation.
I think we are all #4
We are all #4s
50 minutes after SQUIRT opened. And 64 comments so far. Maybe even more will come in the time I write this comment.
This means the 100 spots will be out very, very soon.
I just hope Eli keeps his word, and does not let more then 100 people in.
As cruel as this may sound, but if I pay 100 bucks per month for something, I don’t want anybody else to use it, otherwise Google will learn how to fight the tool in no time at all.
Ditto for the ‘got a receipt but still a guest’ thing. Eli said to wait, though. I can be patient for any information he has to offer. Oftentimes it’s the only really useful info I can find for AM. Not sucking up, I swear–there is so much B.S. out there it’s insane.
Doh. Sorry oh well 11:53:10 EST. Any Idea then what number we are at? I’d love to know the first few people and the last person.
anyone who accidently signed up twice, thats perfectly okay. Just email me at Eli at Bluehatseo.com with the paypal account information and i’ll take care of it and cancel your second subscription and process the refund.
Thanks,
Eli
lets start the fun
Yeah the site was down for a bit, I finally got through via a proxy, glad I did though.
My subscription time:
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:58:37 -0700
My time:
Time: 08:58:31 PDT
looks like I’m a member but is anyone else getting thie:
Your current user status is : Member
Please check your url and try again
Based on:
Adjusting promotion techniques to fit your current trust factor
You have not been charged a submission for this submit
“Please check your url and try again”
means that it had a problem pulling your whois information. If the site is registered and of a supported tld (supports most of them) it will likely fix itself later when the whois load lowers. If not than email me at eli at bluehatseo.com and with your url and i’ll take care of it for you.
Thanks,
Eli
Eli
I am having problems too.
Most of my domains have whois privacy enabled - is that a problem?
yeah i tried out a site and got the same comment.
OMFG guys!
I’m sorry bout all the rush this morning. We’re trying to respond to all the emails and make sure all the accounts get activated. We sold out in 2 mins 21 seconds. We’re trying to gracefully shut down the registrations now.
Quite a few extra have leaked past but the registrations are starting to slow down so we should be able to stop it. Eitherway the tool is more than capable of handling 300 accounts while remaining at 100% affectiveness. However we’re trying to get it stopped before it reaches 250 members. Also, we got reserved rollover sites and network sites ready incase something like this happened, they’ll be activated later this afternoon. So I can be absolutely certain the early daily volume won’t lessen the power of the tool.
So far the servers are doing fine despite being hit digg effect x 10 this morning.
lol, ever wonder what 1400 concurrent processes looks like? Bluehat alone was using up over a gigbit/sec of bandwidth at the time of the release. 
For those not getting in there will be a waiting list posted later this afternoon that you can join incase any slots open up.
In! Nice. Whats with the bunny? lol.
Thats my pet bunny named Roady. He’s a 4lb 5 month old dwarf rabbit.
He’s the mascot
so eli, what you’re saying is…. you’re rich now?
Eli,
please get back to me, I have emailed you. I can’t do subscriptions cause credit card I use in PP has expired and I need to do expanded use over again. I am willing to pay for 1,2,3 months upfront with a single payment - until my card is verified in PP again.
You should have your response shortly.
Don’t worry we’ll get you taken care of. Just keep that paypal window open cus all the buttons are being taken down.
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!
If you did not get in, please check back later today for information on how to join the waiting list.
Whoah guys whoah
Eli,
Can we use any type of site with this? like MFA/BH sites?
Any type of site you’d like will work
The tool doesn’t care.
tried a couple of sites with .co.uk tld’s and got the error i mentioned above.
So I tried another site and really had to laugh when I got this:
Estimated SEO Rating:19/60 31%
It was just a site I had kicking around and thought Id see how the tool goes on a few sites I dont care about.
Ell is there a prob with .co.uk tld’s?
Great to hear it was so popular, Eli. I can’t wait to start trying this out.
Eli could you please check if tld’s other than .com’s are accepted as well? Tried .co.uk and .info without success. Thanks mate.
Hi Eli,
I have been trying to log on for the last 90 minutes (off and on), but I am still getting the cookie error.
Is anyone else still seeing this problem?
-Mike
I’d try a different browser just to see. It’s been thoroughly tested on all browsers except opera. If it still doesn’t work on another browser it’s probably just the current load spitting out partial headers, should be fixed by later this afternoon. If not than email me at eli at bluehatseo.com and I’ll take care of it for you.
Thanks
Yeah, I tried 4 different browsers on 2 different machines. Thanks. I will give it a break for a while and try this afternoon.
Try deleting your cookies.
mike, could it be that your emailadress has a special char like - or _, cause i have the same problem with my login, but a testemail without one of this chars works without problems.
Tried my .Info domain too, and didn’t work.
.net works though.
I hope this problem is fixed ASAP.
And I also hope you activate my account soon enough.
I can’t even log in. error message.
Hi Eli,
Just signed up and everything is very easy to use. In the future, will the Analyze SEO function show us what we can do to our sites to improve our SEO rating?
Yes it will. My version of the analysis tool gives me detailed stuff that needs to be done, the reason I didn’t include that verbage was because it used our own little “in office lingo” plus some confidential techniques, so we took it out. However we will be rewriting it and have it give you a detailed plan of attack on your site.
http://squirt.robstool.com/lookup
I have tried this portion of the tool a few times and it hasn’t worked. It says:
“Please check your url and try again
Based on”
Any thoughts Eli?
I get that too now although I did manage to get 1 site in.(a .com) Now I tried with a .be and it doesn’t work anymore.
The vault looks nice by the way. I’m definately going to have some fun with those !
thanks !
Not sure what’s happening. I used “Promote Site” as a Guest which said something about getting full access as a member (I’m now activated) so I thought there was more information to gain from that tool as a member. I tried using it again (as a member) but it gave me errors for the URL - then it said I was being charged for the the submission? Was I charged? If so, how much? And why?
Maybe a small explanation for each tool would be helpful. I would really hate to misuse such great tools.
Thanks.
Your account will be activated shortly. Thanks
I can’t get the lookup tool to work either.
Not complaining about the extra people who got in, but 250 is a lot less exclusive than 100.
It is a lot less exclusive. It also means that $10k / mo income has now more than double. $25k x 12 = $300k/yr. Wow.
Yeah, now we just have to get the tools to actually work. lmao
It sounds like i am the only one who found the “back door” to get their subscription in hours and hours before the opening bell, unless the other sneaky bastards aren’t talkin
I sent that a nice long email to rob and he got back to me really quick, he seems like a great guy.
Everyone who has joined think about suggesting a forum for just subscribers to pass ideas back in forth. I don’t think it will take away from bluehat chat if we talk in a private forum as well.
Greetings All!
I agree. This may also keep some prying google eyes away if we accidentally let some secret slip.
I was thinking a forum would be good as well. Or even a seperate blog.
I fourth that. Don’t want to run it, though. Any takers?
i would run it if i had one other memeber to split the moding, etc.
of course as long is ok with eli or rob.
“Login Failedm - Form”
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Can we use SQUIRT to submit multiple pages of a single site? Do you recommend doing it, Eli?
You only need to submit one page, the tool will deep crawl as far as is needed and automatically promote the rest.
Thanks
Hi Eli,
But the tool only allow to target three keywords. Let’s say each sub-page has one different targeted keyword, does the deep crawl help to promote the rest of the keywords in other sub-page by only submitting the main domain (home page)?
The subpages it crawls will be targeted using a splitting of your title tag. Just use up to three keywords that you would like your main page to rank for.
Even if the site contains thousands of pages?
If yes, do you recommend us to submit the sitemap or just the page we want rankings for?
Hi Eli,
I just shot you an email to check whether my account is activated. I still see ‘guest status’ in my account when I logged into it. I think I have signed up quite early this afternoon. Thanks for checking.
I’m getting the url error on a regular .com - anyone else have this happen, or is the server just getting slammed at the moment?
Try removing the space between regular and .com
If its still doing it email me at rob(at)robstool.com and i’ll look into it more.
Oh, my fault - I meant a regular old .com domain name - not a .co.uk or .be or anything.
i think everybody should just relax for today and let eli sort out the problems. no need to hurry.
Well I tried 3 different .com urls but no function.
I get the same:
Please check your url and try again
Based on
About the keywords Eli.
It says one per box is best, but for example if I wanted to target student loan consolidation, would I really just put student, loan and consolidation in separate boxes?
Thanks, C
Yep that will work perfectly.
Does this limited keyword field mean you are out of luck if you have mini-niches within your site?
example…
Sports Memorabilia
-basebal memorabilia
-football….
-basketball…
I just got upgraded to member:
:)
Cool,
btw great blog trigatch
thanks for the mention.
Eli,
Since much of what the tool does is a “myster” perhaps when you finish sorting everything out you could write a quick blurb about the basics of using the tool:
-how often to submit the same site?
-how long does it “promote for” when submitted once?
-how does the tool use the keywords and whats the best format/strategy for keywords with this specific tool?
-can we target different keywords for specific pages within a site?
thanks!
hm the Analyzer tool still dont works for me,i get the please check…… message,anyone else?
That is most likely caused by either some error in your domain such as a space or the tool not being able to pull your whois data at the moment. This will be settled by the end of the day. If it still doesn’t work email me at eli at bluehatseo.com and I’ll take care of it for you.
Thanks for your patience,
Eli
D’oh! Missed the registration…
Dying to find out how to get on the waiting list.
The only thing that seem to work properly is the vault. Analyzer dont work, Promoter dont work
Hope this will be sorted out soon…
I have tried domains with the tlds se, nu, com
The messages I get is:
“Please check your url and try again
Based on”
&&
“Please check your url and try again
Based on
Adjusting promotion techniques to fit your current trust factor
You have not been charged a submission for this submit”
Maybe we should set up a bugzilla instance
This will be fixed within 24 hours. If it still doesn’t work please let me know.
I got the same problem with .it domains Eli
Are we going to have to remove protected domain registrations? I’ve got some protected at godaddy. Also, does our domain reg. email have to be the same as our squirt email? I’ve been getting some url failures too. We really need a forum. As time goes on I’m sure some of us could help others taking some pressure off eli
humm, try with and without the WWW. I think I just got a couple to pass?
jon
99% of my domains are at GoDaddy and protected. None of the ones I tried worked.
Can anyone confirm if subdomains work?
this is being taken care of. Please check back later. If it still doesn’t work email me at eli at bluehatseo.com and I’ll take care of it for you
thanks
Hey guys, I have been using this tool with some protected Godaddy registered domains with success.
This makes me relatively certain that all your errors are simply due to stress loads on the machine today, since it has been working fine with protected domains before.
Eli is clearly busting his back to make everything work under such intense server load. If we’re all patient, Im 100% certain all will be resolved in no time at all.
I’m getting the same error as everybody else…
Please check your url and try again
Based on
Adjusting promotion techniques to fit your current trust factor
You have not been charged a submission for this submit
I’ve tried a .net, .com, .info, and a .org. None of them work…
Is there something that I need to do in order to get it working?
The tool doesn’t seem to work with ff for me only ie7.
are you having troubles logging in.
Also seems to work fine with .com.au for me
I would really like to see a forum as well. I think it might help everybody.
Yes - we need a forum for this quick!
Agreed. We can’t go on forever discussing this in the comments section…sheesh!
It seems that everything looks to be working now, in FF and IE. The same domains that I was having issues with earlier and working just fine now. So everyone that’s having issues, please be patient.
I just tried promoting a site and arrived on a screen saying:
Recording Submission
Running multiple promotions
Sounds good but should something else happen now or is that it? Do I have to keep this window open? What has it just done? Do I ever submit this same site again? What about submitting it again using different keywords?
I think a bit of instruction about how this tool is best used and what it does after submitting a site is urgently needed.
It seems to work just fine if you leave out ‘www’
so put in something like this http://yoursite.om
Hi Eli
I’m still getting this login failed - cookie error.
Tried on 2 machines and 4 browsers and erased cookies as well.
Can you give me a hint?
Frank
MMmm weird, I’m a member now, and when trying to submit my urls, it eventually stops during the “analysis”
For instance I have:
“Estimated SEO Rating:27/60 45%
Adjusting promotion techniques to fit your current trust factor
Recording Submission
Running multiple promotions”
And it doesn’t go further…
None of my submissions work, they all got the same kind of error, just as though the script is crashing without displaying any error message…
from what I can tell that means the script is done. Eli mentioned it was very slimlined and didn’t have much output at this point.
Aur,
From my understanding, this is the entire output of the script in action. The magic happens behind the scenes my friend!
That output is what you should get for a successfull submission
Ok I hadn’t understood that…
Thanks for your help!
out of curiosity, what % is everyone getting with the anaylizer? My best so far as been 50 or so, and I was happy to get that.
53/60 for my commercial powerhouse. Can’t seem to get any higher then that.
I notice sites that though that still rank ahead in Google that have 40/60.
Obv Eli isn’t google so his algo isn’t going to mimic it exactly, interesting none the less.
I feel like a retard now, didn’t even think to analyze other peoples sites. I wonder how strongly eli geared these tools towards google, or if they use a more general promotion that will help with all the SE’s. When I personally make and market a site I tend to get great results in google but fairly shitty everywhere else, wondering if the tool is as biased as my own techniques…
I’d like to put in my vote for a forum ASAP also.
It would be great to be able to discuss much of this stuff and swap resources.
I get different SEO scores when I do “analyze” and when I submit site for the same URL using the same keywords (it went up)? But then went back to analyze and it was the lower number again?
Eli, you kick ass. Everything working well now.
Hi,
I’ve got problems with the cookie error as well. Haven’t even been able to log in a single time so far.
Thats an easily fixed problem. It usually means you have a - or some other character that messes with the cookie headers in your email. Go ahead and send an email to eli [at] bluehatseo.com and let me know what your account’s email address is and i’ll fix it for ya.
I have these results for some of my sites:
Estimated SEO Rating:33/60 55%
Estimated SEO Rating:43/60 71%
Estimated SEO Rating:28/60 46%
And what now? I thought that tool was supposed to give tips or something on how to improve etc.? Or something which tells which factors on your site determined that rating.
Little confused.
Oh yes, and what if I have long tail keywords consisting of more than 3 words? How to best fill in then?