Category: Blackhat

The contest is in this post.

I’ve said this before. In different ways. In different media. My view is that all SEO’s are spammers, and, the two main differences between traditional SEO’s and Blackhats are the speed of deployment and depth of penetration by the BH.

With those thoughts in mind, this contest is open to anyone. Doesn’t matter what color your hat is. Or, even if you don’t wear a hat. You can participate if you wish.

Alrighty then. So you want/need inbound links for indexing and ranking purposes. You are getting sick of being blamed for all of the forum spam in the world. You’re tired of sending your trackbacks into a spam trap. You don’t like working your tail off to get a link with nice anchor text, only to see it disappear from where you put it.

I made a post about a way that I use to keep most of those things from ruining my day here. The key to making it work for me is to use free blogs. Some of our newer friends don’t know how to find or use these important resources. So, the contest.

I’ve found a good place to put up some blogs for ranking and indexing. I want to show you where it is and how I use it. Then I want you to show me that you can do this. The folks who can do it the fastest (within reason) will be the official winners. Of course, even if you don’t finish in the top ten, you will still be a winner because you have a new resource.

The reasons I chose the site (below) are, first it has no captcha, second it is very new. The no captcha should be obvious. The new part means that it hasn’t had time to be spammed to death yet. First few thousand blogs stand a better chance of being in it for the long run.

The site: Google The sign-up page: Fish Google

The rules: Create blogs. Not too difficult, huh?

The Prize: Bet you thought you’d win a new Mercedes. Not.

First part. 10 points for each blog created in the first 36 hrs. Plus 10 points for each post created on each blog. The top five entries will get a link with their choice of anchor text for one month on my blog side bar. After a month it will be moved to a permanent page and stay there.

Second part. Lasts 7 days. 5 points for each blog created during the week. The entrant with the most blogs created (with at least one post on each) will get 20 bonus points. Second most gets 15, third 10, fourth 5. At the end of the week, the top 5 in points will get a permanent link on my side bar with the anchor text of their choice. And a permanent link on the permanent page too.

The points collected for the first 36 hours will be included in the 7 day total. So, the early adopters will have a distinct advantage.

The winners will be selected by an impartial jury. That’d be me. Here’s what you do: At the end of the 36 hour period, email me a list of your domains addressed to contest, care of this place. I’ll tabulate the winners and post them. The 36 hour period ends at 12 midnight Friday, Jan 25, 2008. My time is GMT -6, so plan accordingly.

At the end of the 7 day period (12 noon Thursday, Jan 31, 2008) do it the same way. Be sure to include any blogs you created in the first phase.

Following is an example of my way of doing this. Note that I have violated one of my practices in order to show you this. Namely, I put up links on the very first post. Normally I wouldn’t have a page like this until the third post. Here it is in all of it’s radiant glory: Enhance your sexual experience

No, I don’t give a rats ass what you think of my content. No, I don’t give a rats ass if you don’t like my choice of aff programs. No, I don’t give a rats ass how you do it either.

No, I don’t give a rats ass if you don’t go and get your free blog. It matters not to me. I don’t have any connection to the site. I won’t benefit from any activities you may,or may not, engage in. The point is to get links that the spiders will follow to index your pages.

Newbies, listen up. You’ll very likely see some huge numbers of blogs created on the free site. Don’t be discouraged because you can’t create them that quickly. That will come later in your career development. For now, concentrate on getting up some blogs and making posts on them. Then put up links in your sidebar.

I have the distinct feeling that I have forgotten something, but I don’t have a clue what it might be.

Edit..Crap….I remember now. You should use a different email addy for each blog. Keeps the admin from bagging you right off.

Well, that’s it. Go make some blogs. Let’s have some fun. May the best spammer win.

~dink

Before I begin, I want to thank Nick (where in the hell did your url go?) for rattlin’ my cage; and Perk for reminding me that my pursuit of world domination is not what everyone else thinks is important.

<!– begin pre-launch hype –>

Huge contest coming soon

• Thousands of prizes
• Hundreds of winners
• Gallons of ‘Secret Sauce’
• Link juice spilling over
• Fun for the whole family
• Easy to enter
• Easier to win….Big

<!– end hype –>

I don’t want to give away all of it yet, but this idea sounds like it will be fun. It will be useful to some of our newer members, and allow the more advanced spammers to show off their skills.

I’m hammering out the final details (read: the fookin server is down) on this little plot, even as I type this. So, oil up your mousepad, slam in another stick of memory, warm up your fav spam machine, and keep your feed reader open. This is gonna be fun.

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Interesting tidbit: My friend XMCP over at slightlyshadyseo wrote an excellent article that was published on YOUmoz. (Nah, I don’t need to link to them.) If you ever wondered how to increase your profits, generate more traffic, and have more sex in your life, go read it.

Note to XMCP : Don’t hang with them too much or you’ll turn from slightly shady to mostly whitey. rofl
~dink

Hot news flash. Ok then, not a flash. But it’s good news for spammers anyway.

Val has unleashed SESPro1.1 on the search world. This pro version is quite the deal. You can install this on your server and generate pages for all your sites on that server. Cool.

There have been several changes from the standard version. One of the best changes is the option to use proxies when scraping. Less bans from the engines that way.

SESPro1.1 works with several generators right out of the box. SES is made to work seamlessly with NicheCreator and with RSSGM and YACG.

Here is some very interesting info from the SES manual:

SE Results Settings

Maximum Description Length?
Sometimes certain sites that we scrape might have a really long description. If you only want part of that description to show up you can set the max length with this setting.

Minimum / Maximum search results to show?
This is the minimum and maximum search results items you want to show.

Remove bold tags from search results?
Pretty self-explanatory.

Remove Html Tags From Results?
Removes html tags from description and title. If you are using RSS feeds then you want to turn this on or you will get all kinds of junk.

Replace external links with internal linking?
Many people think this is one of the greatest features of SESPro. You can replace the URL from the results with an internal URL so you don’t lose your surfer on a click off. As an added benefit it is harder to track you down when you are not linking back to the site you scraped from. You must have a link to your keyword file for this to work and you must be on a keyword based pg for this to work.

Minimum / Maximum Internal Links?
You can replace all of your links from your results or you can replace 1 or 2 of them, it is up to you. If you set the minimum and maximum to the maximum search results to show then all of your links will be replaced.

Link Target?
You have 2 options here self or blank. Blank brings up a whole new browser or tab if you are using Firefox. Self pulls up the link that you clicked on in the same browser and tab.

There’s a lot more good stuff in the manual, but it’s way too much to post here. Things like background generation, proxy testing, string mixing, markov mixing, and lots more.

Almost forgot… this version has the option to cache for as long or short a time period as you wish. It works in conjunction with your other generators too. So if you are using YACG and have cache enabled, you simply tell SESPro that you don’t need cache for this site.

All in all, it’s a very neat set of scripts If you’re interested, Val is very quick to respond to emails and has a forum where you may get info/help from other users.

Here’s a link to go check it out. SESPro1.1 search engine scraper and content generator

~dink

The glory days of MFA sites are long gone. You know, the days when you could register 100 dot info’s and make 10, 000 subdomain sites each with 10,000 keyword pages, and get them indexed and producing adcents pennies.

The engines (especially Google) have refined their algos to the point that if you could get that many pages crawled, they wouldn’t last two days.

On top of that crapola G has seen fit to completely disable your adsense account for no apparent reason.

Now I’m not saying MFA’s are dead. They still have a place in a well rounded business plan. Black hat business, that is. If you still have an adsense account you should be making a bit of cash. It’s just somewhat more difficult to grow exponentially any more.

Many/most of the big-time bh guys have gone to affiliate marketing instead of adsense. There are several reasons for the move. More money is probably the biggest one.

So, the question was asked a while back. I think it was Nick, but not sure, who asked “how do you get a fresh site indexed without tripping all the filters?”.

Here’s my suggested method.

1. Do not use dot info domains.
2. Do use com, org, us, biz, etc.
3. Build the site. If you intend to use redirects, don’t do it yet.
4. Find some free blogs. Register a bunch of them. The type you chose isn’t as important as whether they have an auto pinger. WordPress is my favorite because of all the wonderful plugins that are available.
5. Make you some blog content. Here is where you can get creative. Try the markov plugin for YACG 2. Matter of fact you could use the entire YACG app to make the posts automagically. Or, if KaptainKrayola has released his K5 content generation program, that would work well too.
6. Make a couple of posts to your blogs. Don’t put up any links yet. Just some posts that contain your main and two or three related keywords per post. The more content per post, the better. If you can do between 500 and 1k words per post you’ll be in great shape.
7. After two or three days of posting content to the blogs, put your target site in the blogroll. No links in the content of your posts. Just the blogroll. On each blog, use different anchor text pointing to your target. Remember that about half of your links should be to the index page. The other half should be pointed to interior pages of your target site.
8. Continue posting to the blogs. Use different combinations of keywords/phrases in the content. All should be relevant to your target, of course.
9. If you have about ten blogs, posted content daily to each, at the end of ten days or so you should have some nice positions for some of the phrases.
10. Expand your blog network. Work them the same way as the others. Use auto posting software to help free up your time.
11. When you have about thirty blogs working, it’s time to expand your target horizons. If you have other sites that share similar keywords/phrases, add them to the blog roll now.
12. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

To stay low you must not call undue attention to your site. That means: if you are promoting affiliate stuff, you should concentrate on the ultra long keyphrases. The tightie whitie aff marketers will nark you in a heartbeat if you try to go for their keywords.

The beauty of the system I outlined above is that you don’t have to rely on someone else’s site for backlinks. That means no more pissed off webmasters out after your head. It also means that you control the anchor text and title for all of your links. That’s golden.

Stay low by playing your blackhat tune soft and slow. Softly by having your own backlink control. Slowly by posting content instead of links.

Try it out the next time. I think you’ll love it as much as I do.

~dink

Our ongoing attempts at gaming the engines sometimes work well, sometimes fall flat. I’ve found a couple of tools that will make the work easier and the results better.

If you remember our discussion on the future of blackhat marketing (Blackhat 3.0 or what) , Nick commented that the need for good content was one thing that we need to concentrate on.

The mighty G has supposedly been working on a deal that they label LSI. MS is said to be doing something like that already. Y? Who knows.

So we need unique content. Content that is semantically correct. The very best that my Markov generator can do is make nice reading content that is spammy as all getout and not semantically correct.

So where are we to get a content generator that will spit out correct sentence structure? Heh. Thought you’d never ask.

Kaptain Krayola has written a unique content generator. He says on his blog that it will be unique every time, and pass the semantics test. He has tested it a lot and I’ve seen results that made a believer out of me.

The Kaptain indicates that he will have his API ready soon and plans to put up a site just for the application. Give him a visit and check out K5.

There comes a time in every Blackhat career where you need a shed load of G-mail accounts. Most of the time I need several at one go. Now, G makes it fairly easy to get them, but if I need eight of them right now, well that’s a different deal.

Along comes my favorite Black Hat coder with the answer. Esrun has made a Gmail account creator that’s free and easy. If you do need lots of Gmail accounts, check his tool out.

That’s it for this issue. Keep those cards and letters coming. Santa will be reving up his reindeer before we know it. LoL

~dink

Ya. You prolly do, or you wouldn’t be here reading this.

Any business needs a plan. Blackhat marketing is no different. Before you can plot your course, you need a compass.

One of the most important parts of web marketing is linkage. Linkage here means inbound links with correct anchor text, and where to get these links.

The golden fleece for many Black Hat SEO’s is a top rank for one of the viagra terms. I’ve heard it bantered around that the #1 spot for ‘Buy Viagra’ has been worth as much as $10,000 U.S. per day. Read that again….Per day.

Now, I don’t advise trying for that lofty spot just yet. However, you can learn from those marketers who do aspire to reach fame and fortune in the viagra market. Then you apply the techniques you learned to a series of smaller niches.

So, how do you study the viagra serps? The hard way is to log into google search every day and research the top ten playas. Looking at their inbound links. Finding who linked to them and guessing why. Then trying to figure out who linked to the one who linked to the one who is on top.

Confusing? Time consuming? Complicated? Yep. But there is an easier way to keep tabs on the Viagra Serps. Earl, the head honcho over at syndk8, has been studying the viagra serps since Hector was a pup. Well, ok, for years anyhow.

Earl has decided to share his knowledge, and experiences, in obtaining the viagra search results pages intel. You can go over to his blog and study his results of the Viagra Search Engine Spam phenom. You are even invited to join in and ask questions via the comments button.

**Caution. Don’t try to spam the spammer. I mean it. Don’t even try.**

So, he asked, “What has this to do with my business plan? Or the compass nonsense?”

“You want to make money?” says I. “If you apply what you learn from the buy viagra serps, you’ll have your plan and compass.”

Get your buns over there and start catching up on the important intel on that site. You won’t be sorry you did.

~dink

Those of you who have been following this fiasco soap opera have realized several things.

For you others here are a few things to think on.

1. This site does not have a slew of backlinks.
2. The two articles in discussion are about a topic I’ve never written about before.
3. The traffic that is coming is real. Real searchers looking for info or products with the search terms that lead them to that post. (damn shame I don’t have anything for them)
4. I have lost count of the number of first page listings there are for that blog story. It’s a bunch.

If the post here were on a black hat page, it would be classed as highly keyword stuffed. Maybe a better term would be keyword blasted. Something like 2400 items with two common phrases. Myspace and layouts.

Google, in it’s infinite wisdom, saw all those juicy keywords. There they were, all in a row. Surrounded by other words and phrases that are very similar. “YeeHaw. Passed the LSI filter. Let’s index that page right up there at the top.”

Your takeaway? If this had been your blackhat affiliate site, you could have cloaked and redirected that traffic to a pay site.

Even if you don’t have a ton of backlinks, even if you can’t write good sales copy, you can get top listings in Google. All it takes is for googlebot to come by and scoop up massive amounts of keywords within the same genre.

Remember back in SEO SEM for new blackhats I wrote this:

What you may not know is that some of the advice out there is dead wrong. You may see this advice often: “Never try to optimize your page for more than two or three keywords. It just won’t work and the engines will not be able to place the page correctly”.

(Your gonna love this………) I told you so.

~dink

Internet years. Whew. They go by so fast.

I was working on a new set of sites over the weekend. I haven’t done anything in this niche before, so I looked up a few neat keywords. Decided on which ones looked to pay off best and made some pages.

Then it was time to get some links pointing in the right direction. I was very close to pulling the trigger on the automagic spaming machine, but I didn’t. (more…)

For those of you who have been living under a rock, cloaking is defined as presenting one set of data to a search engine and a different set of data to a human.

There are all sorts of cloaking mechanisms, scripts, and programs. Any server-side language has the capability of doing cloaking work. What you choose would depend on the level of programming skills you have, your budget, the relative strength of the cloak you require, and the risk you are willing to take.

I only have one site that is cloaked. It uses a small php snippet to separate the wheat from the chaff. The user is not redirected. The snippet is quick acting and subject to being found at any time. The only reason the site is still active is because the target niche (and the long-tail) is relatively obscure. ie no competition to rat me out.

As I told you in another post, I believe that cloaking will be one of the ways that blackhat marketers will evolve. Or, more accurately, a combo of cloaking and great content will help assure the future.

After looking around for a few days, I have come to the realization that if I am to cloak with any degree of success, I need to learn a lot more about the business.

I consider myself fortunate to have made friends with one of the masters in the cloaking game. In fact, he may be the master. I have asked him if he would write us a primer on cloaking.

Look for an article on cloaking from Fantomaster in the very near future.

~dink

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve prolly noticed that I generally don’t use the term(s) Black Hat SEO, or Blackhat SEO.

The reason for that is simple. Well, simple for me. I believe that bh seo is dead. It’s no longer a descriptive term with an accurately identifiable entity.

Say what? (more…)