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.

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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

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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

It just struck me that all of my blathering about keywords and their importance might not be very clear to some folks.

I posted a rather long story about keywords and the way to select the right keywords for your niche over on the syndk8 blog site.

The story is aimed at those who may be rather new to the keyword generation subject. It covers a lot of the basics and a few advanced keyword selection tactics.

If you want to read up on how to select keywords, or if you want to get a little refresher on keywords generation, go read Good keywords are the key to marketing success.

~dink

Yep. Free. As in no charge, no strings, no obligation.

L3vi is celebrating his birthday by offering you a month of keyword heaven at no charge. The thing is…the deal will only last until next Monday. If you have wanted to give Wordze a spin, now’s your chance.

There is also a little known, and awesome, script that L3vi has written that can make you some serious cash. It uses his api for Wordze and looks up the freshest entries on Google Trends. The script then polls the Wordze program for the long-tail keywords that are associated with the trends.

Since Gooooogle updates the trends every hour, you should be able to hook up a cron and grab the freshest of the fresh. Work a little magic with your favorite content generator and….hey presto! the latest long-tail keywords to make pages for your site(s). How many pages can you generate per day?

Do yourself a favor and take the best keyword generator on the market for a free one month test drive. You won’t be sorry you did.

~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

Regrets to any of you who have tried to comment in the last few days. Seems like one of my plugins developed a mind of its own. Was throwing an error message that looked like the Google police had found you out.

I think it’s all sorted out now.

~dink

I don’t do this a lot, but for the holiday season, why not? I belong to a lot of affiliate programs. Some are better than others. Some are great, some are so-so. Here’s something that doesn’t happen much.

One of the powerhouse hosting providers decided to have a special holiday sale. Now, sales aren’t a big deal, they happen all the time. What makes this sale special? It’s not available except thru the affiliate pages. You can’t just go to the merchant page and find the special ’cause it ain’t there.

So what’s the big deal? IPowerWeb decided to let us offer one of their best deals at an even better rate than usual. You get 300 Gigs of space, 3,000 gigs of bandwidth, 2,500 email accounts, and host up to 25 different sites, for $4.95 per month. Now, that price is good for the first time only, but is good for both one-year and two-year signups. After the initial term is up, the renewals will go back to the usual $7.95 per month.

Total savings on the two-year deal is $72. Pretty good savings. Here is the linky:

Not so very shabby at all. Hurry though, the sale ends Dec. 31, 2007.

~dink

We have mentioned affiliate marketing several times in this blog. Have you tried affiliate marketing? Done any good? Why not?

Do you have a clue as to why you aren’t making money with affiliate marketing? Here is a list of 99 reasons why you will fail at affiliate marketing. The article is over at affearners.com.

I like #35 “You think affiliate marketing will get you rich quick”. Yeah. Right. That’s what a lot of folks think. Put up a snarky site and wait until the checks start rolling in.

The list is worth reading through. There are some that I recognize from my early days. Even some that I’m guilty of yet.

Drop on over and see how many of the reasons apply to you.

~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

LOL I was trolling around in Digg the other day when I came across an interesting story.

Seems this blogger has outed Yahoo! for sneaky affiliate work. Now, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. But, the actual finding and outing did surprise me.

I’m not too big a fan of any SE as an ad delivery vehicle, I’m just jealous cause I didn’t think of it first. Yahoo has been an affiliate marketer as long as I can remember.

The particular way that this slippery affiliate snuck their aff id into the (supposedly) organic listings makes me wonder how long they have been doing it.

Anyways, here is a link to the story on Digg.
Yahoo Busted!! Cookie Stuffing Their Organic Results!

Go read it and get a few chuckles. Digg it if you like it (Hey, it’s not my post nor my blog it points to) but do read the story. It will give you a new perspective on what honest BH spammers are up against.

~dink