Also just by looking at your errors, it seems as if either LWP is not visible to Perl or you will need to install LWP or even some other modules.

I hope that helps.
John

So I copied the LWP directory and filed it in both /perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 and /perl5/5.10.1 but now when i run the script I get:

“BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/5.10.1/LWP/Simple.pm line 14.
Compilation failed in require at rankingfactors.pl line 22.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at rankingfactors.pl line 22.”

I am running OSX 10.7.2.

Any thoughts?

Open Terminal (logged in as user/myname)
Run the export script
perl /applications/xampp/htdocs/book/downloads/chapter-4/rankingfactors.pl

I would get the long list I originally sent you.

To get it to work, I did this:
sudo -s
cd /applications/xampp/htdocs/book/downloads/chapter-4/
perl rankingfactors.pl

Was I missing something from the beginning? If not let me know and I
am happy to summarize what I did in the blog post responses in case
someone else needs it.

Thanks again for all the help. I will more than likely hit you up
again, your insights are great, the book is great, and these tools are
phenomenal.
—

and the previous email…

—
Here are my permissions. The rankingfactors.pl file and the
index.html file in the reports folder do not have the @ in the
permissions. Could that be the cause? What kind of extended
attributes are those files supposed to have, and is it complicated to
change them?

Chapter-4 Folder:
drwxrwxrwx@ 12 root admin 408 Jan 20 15:45 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 13 root admin 442 Jan 20 15:58 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 10 Jan 7 2010 dos.bat
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 0 Jan 11 2010 find
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 259 Jan 8 2010 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 72290 Jan 12 2010 rankingfactors.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 63307 Jan 12 2010 rankingfactors.pl
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 73616 Jan 11 2010 rankingfactors.pl.original.txt
drwxrwxrwx@ 6 root admin 204 Jan 12 2010 report
drwxrwxrwx@ 21 root admin 714 Jan 12 2010 serptemp
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 52 Jan 11 2010 setpath.bat
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 1360 Jan 8 2010 view.php

Report folder:
drwxrwxrwx@ 6 root admin 204 Jan 12 2010 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 12 root admin 408 Jan 20 15:45 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 10133 Jan 12 2010 bing.html
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root admin 9408 Jan 12 2010 google.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 258 Jan 12 2010 index.html
drwxrwxrwx@ 24 root admin 816 Jan 12 2010 maps
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You can send it to johnj (at) this-website.net.

John

While looking I tried again on my laptop and got the same results. Once up and running on my desktop the same things happens. Checked for the folders and they are there…and your sample reports for ‘buy shoes’ are there. I have a screenshot of warnings, where do you want me to send it?

-Jason

My best advise would be to rerun the script/scenario again. Also make sure that the report folder exists. If you have another Mac or PC try runing it there as well. Please send me a screen shot of the missing file warnnings the next time you run it.

Thanks!
John

I will add my thanks to everyone else’s. Awesome work.

When I run the script I get the same thing as Matt above;only the file does not exist prompt happens multiple times and the last few lines read:

..finished average page size analysis
..finished optimum number of words analysis
file does not exist (repeated 25 or so times)
problem code:3 Bo such file or directory
..finished website size analysis

When I go looking for the report it does not seem to have generated the file(s)

Any thought? Thanks in advance for any help.

Sorry for delayed reply. Please see other related posts and try following directions. From your message there is a problem in locating one of the Perl modules (Simple.pm). You need to find a way to get the script to see this file. Also see this link: http://discussions.apple.com/t.....dID=988677

Regards,
John

Thanks for your comments. Now to answer your questions:

1) Yes, patience is the virtue (lot of processing going on). Yes DO ignore the warnings. This happens from time to time. Some reasons include timeouts in retrieving a particular page. The report should still be accurate based on all data the script was able to get.

2) The .profile file is typically placed in your user home directory. You can find further helpful information in these 2 links:
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html
http://serverfault.com/questio.....ow-leopard

You can have multiple commands in your .profile file.

I hope that helps.
John

• I have copied (and double-checked!) that the files ‘TreeBuilder.pm’, ‘Element.pm’ and ‘Round.pm’ are in the correct locations in my brand new XAMPP installation (version 1.7.2)

• When I execute the script, I get the following:

Starting..
..cleanup done
..getting SERPs
..got the SERPs
..got the real titles
..finished partial title comparisons
..finished keyword title comparisons
..finished title page copy comparisons
..finished domain name exact keyword analysis
..finished domain name partial keyword analysis
File not found when calculating keyword density.
..finished description META analysis
..finished header tags analysis
file does not exist
..finished keyword proximity analysis
..finished outbound links analysis
..finished outbound link PR analysis
..finished average page size analysis
..finished optimum number of words analysis
..finished website size analysis

• The script hangs for a while at the keyword proximity analysis (but eventually gets past it – I noticed a few people reporting this hang in the PC instructions but patience seems to be the virtue!) – when I look at the report generated there *is* data in the keyword density and header tags columns. Should the warnings in the script be ignored or do the ‘file not found’ errors mean that the data in the report will be inaccurate?

• Also, in which directory do I put the .profile file so I don’t have to enter the ‘export path’ line everytime? Should the .profile file contain *just* the ‘export path’ line?

I have no experience with perl and really appreciate your help!
Thank you
Matt