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Note: Before using the Find Job Area you need to train Zeus with at least 100 Keywords using the Train Job Area.

Click the 'Find Web Sites' button in the Find Job Area and hold on to your hat!!!

As Zeus is searching the web you'll need to read the following:

Zeus is currently running in AutoMode.

There really isn't that much to know about the AutoMode. Zeus takes care of himself. The longer your Zeus is online, exploring the Internet, the more ThemeSites or potential link partners he will find.

Your Zeus is now automatically exploring the web, collecting data from web sites that he has judged to be similar to the keywords you chose during his training. He will seek out and find these ThemeSites by matching his Theme keyword training against a Uniqueness score derived from an analysis of each web site visited.

Zeus will extract hyperlinks, host email addresses, other email addresses, keywords, META contents, descriptions, titles and theme uniqueness, from every web page he visits. Zeus then parses, analyzes and filters the raw data into coherent information. After scoring the web site, he saves a condensed analysis of it to a Microsoft Jet Engine Database if he believes that this is a ThemeSite that matches his training.

Your ThemeSite Data Browser will use this powerful relational database to organize the data from the ThemeSites Zeus finds. You will learn more about the Viewer later.

Zeus is not a random wanderer like most web robots. He explores in an intelligent fashion, not bothering other web sites. With his training, he is virtually automatic. He follows all Robotic rules and laws, making it easy for you to follow the Robotics' Operator's Rules. Zeus can solve all web-traversing contingencies and is 'net-responsible' when requesting pages. He will not request pages, too fast, from the same server, even on '~' web hosting sites. He makes decisions quickly to go on to another site. He doesn't have to download an entire web site to base his decision to store data into the ThemeSite Database. He quickly makes decisions after scanning the Robot Exclusion File (if there is one). He decides to stay or go on to the next web site. If he stays, he goes to work gathering information.

As your Zeus grows in knowledge, training and experience, the number classifying and identifying him to webmasters, will grow in value respectively. You can view this number by clicking 'Help > About'. The blue number is your robot's IQ or robot intelligence quotient. This is calculated from dozens of variables pertaining to your Zeus' training and experience levels.

Hold your mouse cursor over the numbers at the bottom and the buttons at the top to get a brief understanding of what each one means. If you would like to view and help select the next 500 web sites Zeus will visit, click the 'Edit Next 500' button at the top.

After Zeus has found enough Themesites click the 'Pause' button at the top and wait a moment for Zeus to stop. Note: If you have the free version Zeus will stop after finding 25 ThemeSites.

You will know he stops when the Mode Box in the bottom left corner says "PAUSE". Now you're ready to approve or disapproved the Themesites Zeus has stored for you to review later as potential link partners.

TIP: Take a few minutes each week to teach your robot more keywords and Themes. This pays off in increased ThemeSites for your Link Directory and as your email base grows, your chances of getting new reciprocal Link Partners will grow also.

Common FAQs:

Q: Zeus keeps looking for the robots.txt, but returns a 404 error message because there isn't one. Is there a file that I need to put into our site for Zeus? And why, if I need to?
A: There are four Laws of Web Robotics and the second one states:

II. A Web Robot must obey exclusion standards and follow the Standard for Robot Exclusion.

(Koster 1994b)
In 1993 and 1994, robots sometimes visited web sites where they were not welcome. Sometimes these reasons were robot specific. Perhaps a robot blasted servers with rapid-fire requests or competitors wanted to keep certain robots out of their pages. Other sites needed to keep them out of certain areas. Such as directories containing CGI scripts. A need arose and a standard was placed into existence. The widely adopted Standard for Robot Exclusion proposed by Martijn Koster is an attempt to address this need.

What Zeus is doing is requesting the robots.txt file from the current website's server and since the file doesn't exist, the server is returning the error message. This is supposed to happen. When a website has this file, Zeus will load the robot exclusions into the listbox at the bottom of the Data Window. As he loads each page to be visited in that website, he checks the list box and if a pattern matches, he goes on to the next page listed in his dinnerplate.

A webmaster can control, to a certain extent, where robots are allowed to go in his website. Zeus follows the standards but you will find a lot of robots, including the ones from the big search engines, completely ignore the standards.

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