1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing our SGW software. As you know already SGW stands for Self Growing Websites. It is a concept we came up with and developed our software based o n it.

The main idea of SGW is to update (grow) your websites with fresh original targeted content on a regular basis in a very unique human way. The best thing is that this process can be completely randomized and automated.

SGW contains a system of Input and Output modules, which closely interact with each other, processing and adding all kinds of content to your website based on very advanced settings for each particular module.

Also the advantage of SGW, not offered in any other similar product is that each module can be easily turned on or turned off, depending on your website’s requirements. You will also be able to install additional modules at a later time.

1.1 System Requirements

In order to successfully work with SGW, please make sure that you have the following:

PHP version 4.3.x installed on your server
MySQL database (http://www.mysql.com)
Cron jobs functions on your server (make sure you have access to cron. If you host has cpanel, it's very easy to setup.)
FTP access to your server and ability to change file permissions on your server

1.2 Installation Procedure

Please note! If you don't know how or don't want to install the script by yourself you can use our SGW Installation Assistance ( http://www.self-growing-websites.com/sgw-install.php )

As soon as you have downloaded our zip archive with the script, unzip it to your desktop. You can do it with the help of www.winzip.com or www.winace.com

After that, upload the folder “sgw” to the root of your hosting account, using any ftp client (for example http://www.cuteftp.com/ ).

When you open sgw folder on your server, it should look like this:

After that, open up your browser and type in the following:

http://your_domain.com/sgw

where “your_domain.com” is your actual domain name. You should see the following screen:

On the next screen, choose the interface language of your script (currently there are two languages available: English and Russian).

Click “Continue” button.

On the next screen, you will need to specify absolute path to your website, URL of your website and MySQL database information:

Little blue question marks, next to each text field or element of the script will allow you to view additional detailed information.

Absolute path to your website should look like /home/your_username/public_html without closing slash “/” for Unix servers or c:/yourfolder for Windows servers.

Virtual path (URL) is your website's URL.

For example: http://www.your-domain.com

Don't put a closing slash after your URL (“/”)!

Before installing the script you have to have a MySQL database setup on your server so you could specify the following MySQL database information:

DB HOST – usually it's localhost

DB Name - full name of your database

DB Username - user name that has full access privileges to your database.

DB User password – database password for that user.

Database can be created from the cpanel of your hosting account or by installing the WordPress blog (from Fantastico tab of your cpanel)

If you decide to install WordPress blog you can pull MySQL database information from the following wordpress file: wp-config.php

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After that, click “Continue”.

On the next page specify your SGW admin login, email and password.

Also you will need to provide your full name and email that you used for purchasing SGW in order to activate the script. That was made to prevent illegal distribution of SGW. If you fail to provide correct information your script will not work!

If you think that you provided correct information and you get a message that your script is not activated, please contact us at support@self-growing-websites.com

Click “Continue”. You should see the following screen:

Your installation is finished.

Every time you want to login to your SGW Pro control panel you should go to http://your_domain.com/sgw

2. SGW PRO INTERFACE (Engine)

The SGW engine is designed the way that you can easily plug new modules in it or unplug the existing ones.
None of the similar tools have this powerful structure.

When you login to your SGW Control Panel, you will get to the main page “Home” where you can read important announcements and updated news about SGW development from our company. These RSS news are taken from our main website http://www.mgwaycorp.com

Your control panel contains the following tabs:

Home, Output Modules, Input Modules, Test & Log, Modules Setup, Options and Logout.

Let start from the right.

Logout– will log you out of the script

Options – has 2 sub tabs: User and Cron

User tab allows you to change any of your user information in case you need it such as admin login, email, password or your script activation info:

Cron tab will be described in Chapter 5 – AUTOMATING THE SCRIPT WORK.

Modules Setup is very important tab. It shows you all the available modules and allows you to conduct operations with them:

1st column shows you the name of each module, its current installed version, what group it belongs to (input modules or output modules) and its current status (On or Off).

2nd column allows you to conduct operations with each module depending on your needs such as:

Install – If you uploaded a new module, this option will install this module into your SGW engine. (works the same way as in most CMS systems)

Update – If you uploaded a new version of existing module, this option will update this module in your SGW engine.

Turn On/Off – will accordingly turn particular module on or off depending on your needs and site requirements but WILL NOT DELETE IT FROM THE SYSTEM.

Delete – will completely delete particular module from SGW system removing all the corresponding files.

As soon as you change any of the options, always click on “Update Settings” button!

3rd column will show you if particular module was activated through our tracker. (It was done to prevent illegal module distribution)

4th column shows you if you have the latest version of particular module. We have developed an advanced system of version comparison where your script will ping our tracker checking if you have the latest version installed. If new version is available you will see a download link in that spot to download and upgrade that module to the latest version.

Test & Log tab will be described in Chapter 4 – TESTING THE SCRIPT.

Input Modules and Output Modules tabs will be described in Chapter 3 – SETTING UP THE MODULES.

3. SETTING UP THE MODULES

To better understand how input modules interact with output modules please see the following diagram:

3.1 Input Modules

The responsibility of input modules is to take any kind of content, such as html pages, php pages, txt files, articles, rss feeds etc., process it in some or another way depending on your module settings and send it to particular output modules so output modules, in their turn, could add that content to your website in one or another form in a random periods of time.

The whole algorithm is developed to as closely as possible simulate human updating of a website to avoid search engines penalization and to grow your website randomly over time.

3.1.1 Pages Module

Pages module is very advanced input module that can work with the following output modules: Archiver, WordPress and Sitemap manager.

Pages module concept:

Pages module can process the following types of premade content that you want to add to your website using our “drip” technology:

- static pages generated with the help of third party content generators with absolutely any extension such as .html, .htm, .php, .csv, .shtml, .txt, and you can even come up with your own extensions.

- articles in the form of html pages or txt files

- any other static data in the form of files that you think is useful to add to your website.

Pages module does not generate content! But it can work with premade content by “feeding” it slowly to your website!

First what you need to do is to create a folder on you server, lets call it “contentpages” and set its permissions to 777 (CHMOD 777).

Then upload your html pages or txt articles into it.

After that, in pages module specify a relative path to your content pages directory. If you created that folder in root directory it should be just /contentpages without closing slash.

File extensions for processing – here you can specify what files in that folder you would like to be processed by the script. Very convenient feature if you have for example txt, html, php files all in one folder in only want html files to be processed.

After you are done with extensions, click “Scan” button. SGW will scan your content folder and will add information about your files to the database.

In case you did something wrong and want to redo the process, you can clear the database by pressing the “Clean” button.

Number of hours to change file's date and timestamp: Let’s say you select 5. When the cron job runs, SGW will pick random time within 5 hours of current time and will change processing files date and timestamp to that time.

I know it sounds confusing, but it is very powerful feature. It will create an impression that current file was just created and uploaded to your server even though it was uploaded long time ago. This will help to eliminate footprints for the search engines and even make your machine generated content look like human content.

The quantity of files for each processing: Let’s say you select from 1 to 10. For each script execution by the cron job, it will be processing random number of files from that interval.

The method of adding content to your blog or main page: If you want Pages module to post snippets of text with links from your content pages to your blog, here you have two options: all content from currently processing pages into one single post or separate posts.

Post title will be taken from the following tag: Here you can specify where you would like the title for your blog post or newly generated page to be pulled from. You need to specify the tag, without brackets.

For example: title

That means that SGW will look for <title></title> tag in your processed page and will make it a title of your blog post (or newly generated page, if you select archiver as your output module).

Text will be taken from the following tag: The same thing is with text. SGW will look for that tag in you processed page and will pull content within that text for your blog post or newly generated page in archiver. That way you can make post to your blog or have completely new pages generated in archiver, based on templates and snippets of text from your premade content pages.

The number of symbols of blog post text: Specifies how much text should be taken from your snippet:

- all text or

- random number of symbols.

Allow HTML tags: Specifies what html tags should be left in that snippet of text. Should be separated by |. All other tags will be automatically removed.

Next (blue) section (see image above) will be responsible for links.

Insert links to pages into blog posts: You need to specify where backlinks to your content pages will be inserted in your blog posts or newly generated pages:

- before post text or

- after post text

Html tag for links anchor text: Specify any tag where you would like you link’s anchor text to be pulled from. If you put: title, then each link to your content page will have title of that page as its anchor text.

Links anchor text will be as: Here you can add an additional phrase to your link text if you need to. For example: Please read more about…

You can put it before actual link text or after.

The links will be pointed to subdomain: If this feature is needed, enter URL of your subddomain. (For example, your blog is located at your main domain, but your content pages are located at subdomain and you want your links to be pointed to 'http://subdomain.domain.com' instead of http://domain.com/subdomain). Enter without closing / slash. For example: http://subdomain.domain.com

Next (grey) section will allow you to specify Output module for Pages module:

You can choose either Wordpress module to make posts to your blog or Archiver module to generate new pages on a random basis based on predefined templates.

If you choose WordPress module, you can also choose WP category to make posts to and Blog user to make posts from.

(Please, note that you need to specify settings for WordPress Module before using this feature.)

Ping remote services for this module with updates: Will activate pinger module to ping remote websites for all Pages module updates (Please see Chapter 3.2.4. for more info.)

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you do any changes.

Conclusion: So if you pair Pages Module (input) and WP Module (output), they will take random number of pages out of your content pages folder, change their timestamp, post snippets of text from these pages along with backlinks to your blog, updating your sitemap as well (please see how to setup WordPress Module in Chapter 3.2.3).

Search engines robots love blogs, so they will be able to index your content pages fast and very easy.

Then if you pair Pages Module (input) with Archiver Module (output), instead of posting to blog they will generate new pages based on set of predefined templates and snippets of text from your content pages, updating your sitemap as well (please see how to setup Archiver Module in Chapter 3.2.2).

3.1.2 RSS Wizard Module

RSS Wizard module is very advanced input module that can work with the following output modules: Archiver and WordPress module.

RSS Wizard Module concept:

It can take several groups of any RSS feeds, shuffle them, format them in every possible way and send them to WordPress module for adding posts to your blog or Archiver module to generate updated news archive based on templates and these formatted rss news.

To read more about Archiver module or WordPress module, please see the appropriate chapter.

In RSS Wizard module you can specify 3 groups of rss feeds instead of just one (like in most other software) so you could send it to 3 different output modules:

Each rss feed should start with a new line!

The more rss feeds you can specify the better randomization you will get. Unlike other products (such as rsstoblog, powerrss, etc), RSS Wizard module pulls only unique news from your feeds and never repeats them till all the unique news from current feeds are processed. (In comparison, rsstoblog will publish the same news from your feed, thus creating a duplicate content and raising search engines red flag)

In the form below you can specify look and feel format settings for each of your three rss news groups:

RSS feeds group title: Here you can choose to show on not to show the title for each rss news group. You can have it in the form of text, link or image logo.

Each rss news group can be formatted to its maximum extend with the help of html.

HTML before group's title: You can insert any HTML code before newsgroup's title. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ). Do not use double quotation marks!

HTML after group's title: You can insert any HTML code after newsgroup's title. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks.

Number of news to show from each feeds group: Specify how many news to pull from each group. Setting up the interval will allow you to have a random number of news each time from lower limit to upper.

HTML before RSS news group: any HTML code to insert before each RSS news group. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ). Do not use double quotation marks!

HTML after RSS news group: any HTML code to insert after each RSS news group. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks!

Links settings: You can choose to “Convert all links to Javascript links” This is very powerful option, unavailable in other similar products. Converting news links to javascript links makes them non-spiderable by search engines. That means you won’t leak your PageRank to any outside websites.

You can also choose to open all links in new window so people won’t navigate away from your site.

Few words about explaining what each rss news is made of.

Below is an example of rss news feed from MSN. Most rss news within any feed have the following 5 elements:

- Title

- Link

- Description

- Date of publication

- Author

Within RSS Wizard module you can tweak all 5 of those elements. You can enable or disable them, change their order and so on.

For even more precise formatting you can wrap html code around each single news within the group (how good is that?):

By changing news element from the expandable menu you can specify settings for each particular element.

News Title:

Order number for this news element: You can set it to “Not visible or select any order number for News Title from 1 to 5.

HTML before and after News Title: – wrap each News Title with any html code. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ).

Convert each news title into link?: Put checkmark if you want every News Title to be clickable.

News Link:

Order number for this news element: You can set it to “Not visible or select any order number for News Link from 1 to 5.

HTML before and after News Link: – wrap each News Link with any html code. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ).

Substitute original link text with your own phrase: Leave this field empty if you want links to have original link anchor text.

News Description:

Order number for this news element: You can set it to “Not visible or select any order number for News Description from 1 to 5.

HTML before and after News Description: – wrap each News Description with any html code. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ).

Allow HTML tags: Specifies what html tags should be left in news description. Should be separated by |. All other tags will be automatically removed.

Length of news description: You can specify how much of news description should be shown: all text or random number of symbols.

News Author:

Order number for this news element: You can set it to “Not visible or select any order number for News Author from 1 to 5.

HTML before and after News Author: – wrap each News Author with any html code. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ).

News Date of publication:

Order number for this news element: You can set it to “Not visible or select any order number for News Date of publication from 1 to 5.

HTML before and after News Author: – wrap each News Date of publication with any html code. Within your HTML code use only single quotation marks (for example: ).

Next section will allow you to specify output module for each three of your rss news groups:

First choose Group1, Group2 or Group3.

I would recommend to always “Shuffle rss feeds news within current group”. That way you will have completely unique set of rss news that nobody else have. That makes your content extremely original and unable to reveal that it’s taken from somewhere else.

Then select an output module for current group. Currently it can be WordPress module (where it can make posts to your blog using your group of feeds) or Archiver module (where it can generate static archived news pages based on set of templates and your group of feeds).

You can also select “PHP include file”. By clicking on “Generate php include code” button you will be able to get a snippet of php code which you can insert into any php or html page so you could have always updated news from your group. If you familiar with CarP script, this little feature will allow you to do the same thing CarP does and even better.

Joint settings of RSS Wizard module with Wordpress module Group #1: If you selected Wordpress module as an output module for Group #1, here you can specify what category of your blog you would like to post to and under what blog user.

Always preview your current settings for each news group before going to test, to make sure your news group looks just like you need it.

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you make any changes.

Repeat the above process for Group #2 and #3.

After you are done setting up the module go to Test & Log tab (more info in Chapter 4 – Testing the script).

3.1.3 Articles Module

Articles Module is our new very powerful module that can pull unlimited number of articles from various article directories based on keywords. After processing those articles on one or another way it sends them to Archiver Module for static pages generation based on set of changeable templates or WordPress Module for blog posts.

Articles Module stays above many other standalone similar software. Here are some features:

Based on provided keywords searches the following directories with millions of articles: ezinearticles.com, prweb.com, articlefeeder.com, findarticles.com, selfgrowth.com (more directories will be added later).
You can refine your search by Title, Body or Author of the articles.
A "test" button to quickly see how many articles your particular keyword pulls.
You can set any number of articles to pull with each processing, for example: 10 or 1000. You can even set a random interval of articles, for example from 15 to 50, to avoid footprints.
You can specify the number of paragraphs in each article: - keep all paragraphs or, let say, keep random number of paragraphs up to 5.
You can specify html tags to be removed from articles or leave all of them intact.
You can shuffle paragraphs within each article or even shuffle paragraphs among all pulled related articles, thus creating totally unique content! This is a very powerful feature that will never get you delisted for duplicate content!
This feature can randomize your content even more! You can add a random phrase at the beginning or at the end of each article. Easy upload of your phrases file.
You can highlight your keywords in text by making them bold, italic or underlined.
You can convert your keywords to any url of your choice and specify how many keywords to convert. Very helpful for providing one way backlinks to your other websites.
You can leave or remove author's information with a simple click.
By choosing Archiver Module as an output module you can make S.G.W. generate static, highly optimized crosslinked pages with your formatted articles in any way you want: all articles on one page or one article per page.
By choosing WordPress Module as an output module you can have articles to be posted to your blog. You can even choose specific category and specific author or just set it to random category and random author.
High Level Of Customization and Uniqueness

3.2 Output Modules

The responsibility of output modules is to receive content from input modules and add It to your website in one or another form in a random periods of time.

The whole algorithm is developed to as closely as possible simulate human updating of a website to avoid search engines penalization and to grow your website randomly over time.

3.2.1 Sitemap Manager

Sitemap Manager was developed to keep your sitemap file updated with links by working with other modules such as Pages Module, Archiver Module and WordPress Module.

Tag in your SiteMap for links insertion: Allows you to set a spot in your sitemap where links will be inserted. Please, specify just the name of that tag. For example: links. All the links will be inserted within that tag (opening <links> and closing </links>). Make sure you have placed this tag <links></links> in your sitemap code as well, for example:

<html>

<title> Sitemap sgw</title>

<body>

<h1>Sitemap</h1>

<links>   links will go here  </links>

</body>

</html>

Path and name of your Sitemap page: Path and name of your Sitemap page. Path should be relative to your website with opening slash.

Please see image below:

The following options will allow you to format the look and feel of your links in any way you want.

HTML tags to insert before each link: Will allow you to insert some html code before each link, for example: <li>.

HTML tags to insert after each link: Will allow you to insert some html code after each link, for example: .

New links will be added to sitemap: This option will allow you to specify where to add fresh links to your sitemap: at the top or at the bottom. We are also planning to implement sitemap pagination later on.

It is very easy to link from your WordPress blog to your sitemap. You can choose what blog category you would like to insert your link in and click “Insert” button. (Please, note, you should setup your WordPress Module before using this feature.)

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you make any changes.

After you are done setting up the module go to Test & Log tab (more info in Chapter 4 – Testing the script).

3.2.2 Archiver Module

Archiver Module can generate highly configurable static pages based on any content sent from any of the input modules such as Pages module or RSS Wizard Module. Within the module settings you can specify templates for page generation, path to directory to store those pages, set filenames and page titles generation pattern.

Based on your settings the module will generate individual pages as well as monthly archive pages (sup-sitemaps) and you will get a brand new website with unique content out of nothing :). A system of special tags is available to dynamically generate pages filenames and titles.

The next diagram reflects the structure of pages generated by Archiver:

The way it works, with fresh content Archiver generates index page and monthly archive for each month with links to individual pages created within that month.

Next time the script runs, the content from the index page goes to individual page and a new index page is generated. Monthly archive is updated accordingly. That way you have your archive growing with always fresh content on the first page.

There are 3 groups of settings in the module:

- for archive index page,

- individual pages, and

- monthly archives.

Take a look at the first two sections of the Archiver module:

Relative path to directory to store archived pages: First you need to create a directory on your server where you want your pages to be generated. Here you need to specify relative path to your archived pages directory on your server with opening slash and without closing slash "/" (For example /archive_pages. Directory permissions should be CHMOD 777. The pages generated by this module will be stored in this directory.

Main archive page settings

Specify the file name:* Here you will need to specify the file name for your index page. it can be with any extension you want, for example: index.php, archiveindex.html, indexnews.ppp etc.

Choose main page template: You can pick one of the templates or choose “Any on random basis” which is very powerful feature. Every time your index page is regenerated it will be based on random template.

Template operations: You can preview and edit your templates right from your module.

Recommendation: Do not use the default templates in order to avoid footprints. Please edit the existing templates or upload your own ones. The templates can be uploaded to:

SGW/modules/archive/templates/

Make sure that this folder and template files are CHMOD 777.

There are 5 custom tags that can be used in the template:

<$SGW_page_title$> - Page title (News title, article title, etc.)

<$SGW_page_content$> - Page content (news body text, article text, etc.)

<$SGW_page_previous_page$> - link to previous page

<$SGW_month_archive$> - link to monthly archive

<$SGW_index_link$> - link to main/index page of archive

You can use all or some of these custom tags in the template.

Make sure you preview your template for any errors before leaving the script to work on its own.

Below you can see how template editor looks:

Individual archive pages settings

Filenames will be created as:* To generate individual archive pages filenames there are several special tags available. Use only these available tags!!! Add a file extension at the end. For example: .html or .php

The following special tags are available for use to create file names:

%title% - Title of page, without changes
%title-% - Title of page, with dashes, for example: Title-of-page
%title_% - Title of page, with underscores for example: Title_of_page
%year% - The year of the post, four digits, for example: 2006
%fullmonth% - Full name of the month, for example: February
%month% - Month of the year, two digits, for example: 02
%day% - Day of the month, 2 digits, for example: 14

Several examples:

archive_%month%_%year%.html will look like: archive_03_2006.html
%title-%.html will look like Title-of-page.html

Number of hours to change file's date and timestamp: Let’s say you select 5. When the cron job runs, SGW will pick random time within 5 hours of current time and will change this file’s date and timestamp to that time.

This will help to eliminate footprints for the search engines and even make your machine generated content look like human content because it wasn’t created at the same time.

Crosslink individual pages: Will place a link on current page to previous page (to make sure that all your individual pages get indexed by the search engines).

Link title to previous page: Here you can specify what you want to see in that link title. You can use the same special tags as above.

Several examples:

Previous news: %day% %fullmonth% %year% will look like Previous news: 24 March 2006
%title-% will look like Title-of-page

Choose individual pages template: You can pick one of the templates or choose “Any on random basis” which is very powerful feature. Every time individual page is generated it will be based on random template.

Template operations: You can preview and edit your templates right from your module, using special tags.

Recommendation: Do not use the default templates in order to avoid footprints. Please edit the existing templates or upload your own ones. The templates can be uploaded to:

SGW/modules/archive/templates/

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Monthly archive page settings

Link text for monthly archive pages: Here you can specify what you want to see in that link title. You can use the same special tags mentioned above.

Several examples:

Archived news: %fullmonth% %year% will look like Archived news: March 2006
%title-% - %fullmonth% %year% will look like Title-of-page – March 2006

Monthly archive filename: Use the same special tags to generate monthly archive filenames. Add a file extension at the end. For example: .html or .php

Choose monthly archive template: You can pick one of the templates or choose “Any on random basis” which is very powerful feature. Every time monthly archive page is generated it will be based on random template.

New links will be added to monthly archive: You can choose where to add new links at the top or at the bottom of the page.

Template operations: You can preview and edit your templates right from your module, using special tags.

Recommendation: Do not use the default templates in order to avoid footprints. Please edit the existing templates or upload your own ones. The templates can be uploaded to:

SGW/modules/archive/templates/

After you are done with templates you can choose to add links to your sitemap and activate Pinger module to ping remote websites with updates on your newly created pages.

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you make any changes.

After you are done setting up the module go to Test & Log tab (more info in Chapter 4 – Testing the script).

3.2.3 WordPress Module

Module WordPress is responsible for adding generated content from input modules into your WordPress blog in the form of posts. Change all settings carefully, because it will influence the correct work of your script.

This is pretty simple however very important module.

You will need to provide some information about your WordPress blog installation, such as:

DB HOST: usually it’s localhost

DB NAME: full name of your database

DB USERNAME: user name that has full access privileges to your database.

DB PASSWORD: database password for that user.

If you don’t know that information you can pull it from the following WordPress file: wp-config.php

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Ping remote services for this module with updates: Will activate Pinger module to ping remote websites for all WordPress module updates (new posts to your blog). (Please see Chapter 3.2.4. for more info.)

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you make any changes.

After you are done setting up the module go to Test & Log tab (more info in Chapter 4 – Testing the script).

3.2.4 Pinger Module

Pinger module will allow you to ping or notify a number of services about your website updates. The services and search engines then will crawl and index your website, publishing your content and increasing your site's popularity.

You can control what updates you want your Pinger module to ping by activating it in each module. At the bottom of most modules you will see:

Connection of Module >insert_module< with Module Pinger

So just choose “yes” or “no”.

In the module, enter a list of ping servers you would like to ping with updates. Each one should start with new line:

Don’t forget to click on “Update settings” after you make any changes.

After you are done setting up the module go to Test & Log tab (more info in Chapter 4 – Testing the script).

4. TESTING THE SCRIPT

It is very important to test the script before you can setup the cron job and leave it running for you automatically updating your website.

You can test it after each module setup or after you setup all modules. It is a matter of personal preference. There are three tabs under Test & Log tab: Test settings, View log, Review.

When you click on Test & Log tab you will be able to see what modules are currently installed in your SGW engine, and if they are activated or not through our tracker:

If you click on “Test settings” every pair of input and output modules will run their task. If you see nothing on the screen, please wait: it might take a few seconds.

Please note: Only those modules will run their tasks that are turned On in Modules Setup tab! Make sure your turn all necessary modules “On” and the ones you don’t need “Off”.

If you see a number of messages ending with the following:

Please check "View Log" for more detailed information.

that means that you can review the log now. Click on “View log” tab.

Your log will look something like this:

It shows processing dates for each time SGW runs and the results for each particular module in three different colors: green, yellow or red.

If it says “inactive”, that means that module is turned Off in “Modules Setup” tab.

Green means that this module performed its task successfully without any problems.

Yellow means that something was done and something wasn’t. You can click on yellow bar to see more detailed message.

Red means that module failed to perform its task for some reason. You can click on red bar to see more detailed message, then go back to that module for corrections.

You can always clear the log data by pressing “Clear Log” button at the upper right corner.

“Review” tab reflects the Modules Interaction Diagram with all available modules for SGW. The diagram is clickable. By clicking on any module you can get to the webpage where you can read this module’s manual, update it or purchase it if you don’t have it.

5. AUTOMATING THE SCRIPT WORK

In order for SGW to work automatically, only one cron job is needed to be setup on your server. We suggest that you set cron to run once a day. However it is possible to set it up differently, so it could run the script as often as you need.

Here is the screenshot of standard cron manager in cpanel at most of the Unix hosting providers:

5.1 Setting up a cron job for SGW

You need to set your cron job to execute the file go.php

Below is a list of possible cron commands. If the commands below do not work on your server please contact your host support and ask them for the correct cron command to execute php scripts for their server. If all else fails, that means that your hosting provider does not support cron jobs and you most likely need to you use third party cron solutions such as http://visualcron.com or webbasedcron.com

Make sure to change the path, domain name and/or username in the commands below before using them to what you really have. The folder in the examples below is named 'SGW'. Rename that to reflect the folder name of your SGW installation if it is not the same.

You need to set your cron job to execute the file go.php

/usr/bin/php /home/username/public_html/sgw/go.php
/usr/local/bin/php /home/username/public_html/sgw/go.php
php public_html/sgw/go.php
php -f /home/www/sgw/go.php
POST http://www.your_domain.com/sgw/go.php > /dev/null
GET http://www.your_domain.com/sgw/go.php > /dev/null
curl http://www.your_domain.com/sgw/go.php > /dev/null

Go to “Options” tab then “Cron” tab to see your possible commands to run.

As soon as you successfully set your cron job, SGW is ready to work day and night 365 days a year building your virtual real estate for you in a very unique “human” way.

Don’t forget that little blue question marks , next to each text field or element of the script will allow you to view additional help information.