Archive for August, 2008

When BlueHatSEO released their Ping Crawl WordPress plugin, let me tell you – it looked perfect for the case study I was about to do. The only problem I could see was the number of backlinks it would generate would be too many too fast, especially for a smaller network. So my first task was [...]

When BlueHatSEO released their Ping Crawl WordPress plugin, let me tell you – it looked perfect for the case study I was about to do. The only problem I could see was the number of backlinks it would generate would be too many too fast, especially for a smaller network. So my first task was I needed to take down the number of backlinks per post. I decided 1 per post would be good to just continually add automated backlinks on for a little while.

Next I decided that 1 per post was too many, considering the fact that I would be generating almost 1500 pages of content a day. 1500 backlinks per day to a blog that is pretty much completely crap… that wouldn’t be too good, now would it? I decided to take the trackback posts down to a frequency of one in five. Aka 1 out of every 5 posts would get 1 link (theoretically – do a search in the code for “rand” and you’ll find it).

Oh, and of course to make the plugin a little more automated friendly, it fetches those trackback links based on your TITLE, not your tags. The main reason I wanted this change was I wanted to use it for not only with my custom splogs, but I wanted to try it also with my Datapresser account.

So without further hesitation, here’s the code (and of course you’re not required to give me anything for the modifications, but I don’t mind a backlink or two. )

Splog Ping Crawl Modification

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Here’s the next weekly post of niche ideas. I went ahead and posted them a day early, so enjoy!

Running Shoes
Laptop Batteries
Oil Heaters
Fog Lights
Dollhouse Furniture (ohhh yeahhh)
Juicer
Star Wars Legos
Salad Spinners
Cigar Cutter (Talk about untapped …)
Gift Boxes

There’s the next 10 niche ideas. Stop thinking about ideas and just get to it already! Have a great Wednesday (hopefully [...]

Here’s the next weekly post of niche ideas. I went ahead and posted them a day early, so enjoy!

1. Running Shoes
2. Laptop Batteries
3. Oil Heaters
4. Fog Lights
5. Dollhouse Furniture (ohhh yeahhh)
6. Juicer
7. Star Wars Legos
8. Salad Spinners
9. Cigar Cutter (Talk about untapped …)
10. Gift Boxes

There’s the next 10 niche ideas. Stop thinking about ideas and just get to it already! Have a great Wednesday (hopefully you will with this list …)

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One of the concepts that I keep telling people when they talk to me is links aren’t everything. Don’t get me wrong though, links are a very important factor in ranking for terms. The main point that I try to stress (and Whitehat’s always stress this obviously) is that content is king. So I did [...]

One of the concepts that I keep telling people when they talk to me is links aren’t everything. Don’t get me wrong though, links are a very important factor in ranking for terms. The main point that I try to stress (and Whitehat’s always stress this obviously) is that content is king. So I did a few case studies and did some attempts. Let’s go over some figures and see what really makes sense based on a case study I did this month. I ran 5 spam blogs with not one ounce of hand written content, and added 30 links to each. The content is all generated via keyword scraping & reposting using EPN (eBay partner network). I also had a friend do a regular phpBay site. At the end of the month he made $300 and a few hours of work (including domain, redesign, content, and linking). He paid $20 for social submissions & $8 for the domain, I paid $8 per domain for 5 domains for $40, but made $600 by the end of the month from 1 hour worth of work.

I could have made almost the same using one domain and just using orphaned sub-domains, but I decided separate domains were a good way to study it. So, what was the difference and how did I make more? Was it the links? Was it the multiple sites? Or was it the fact that for every page of content on his phpBay site I had 1000 pages of my own?

It was a mix of everything, but links was not one of the factors. I was raking in on longtails across 150-300 different unique terms every day while he got 100-150 uniques a day from one term (and that’s not bad for only $20 worth of social submissions!). He targeted one niche, I targeted thousands. As important as content is, so is redundancy and dedication. One main factor that plays a big role in long term blackhat income with this method is the fact that all 5 of my sites were sandboxed down and almost banned after the month, but are still getting traffic today. But now instead of each site getting 150-300 a piece, they get that combined. It’s still not bad, but it’s not near the same amount of income anymore.

The life expectancy of his phpBay site is certainly longer than my little 5 site network, however if I did the same amount of time put into mine as he did, I would have actually had 25 sites by the time his 1 was finished – and earned roughly $3000 (theoretically). Just keep in mind that your content and terms are what makes the income, not necessarily just links.

Going to do another few case studies over the next two or three weeks, I’ll post the results to see what you all think. As always the Request a Post page is up, leave a comment if you have any requests or questions regarding something I haven’t mentioned yet.

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I know one of the biggest challenges with my splogs when I ran a smaller network (when I say smaller I’m talking under 1500) was keeping the content to stay with the times. Running a blog on “Brittany Spears” only worked for a while until Lindsay Lohan took the lime light. This method would actually [...]

I know one of the biggest challenges with my splogs when I ran a smaller network (when I say smaller I’m talking under 1500) was keeping the content to stay with the times. Running a blog on “Brittany Spears” only worked for a while until Lindsay Lohan took the lime light. This method would actually keep my content on the blog current with keywords, but not sidetrack it from the original concept. So here’s the “situation” I’ll be running through. Let’s say you’re just starting with Blackhat SEO and you decide to give a markov-based blog farm a try. Your goal is not to just generate links like everyone else usually does, but cloak all visitors from search engines to one of your CPA (Cost Per Action) based landing pages.

Your goals for this first farm to get your feet wet is simple. Cloak content to the search engines, and foward all SERP based hits to the landing page to try to convert to a lead. But there’s a kicker: where will you come up with these topics? What about the content and monetization? This is where good ol’ Google comes in. Google has a nice little tool called Google BlogSearch and they were nice enough to allow output to RSS feeds. Lucky for us RSS is the format that our blog farm will use to get the content and input it into our blogs. This is broken down into three different stages of operation from start to finish.

1. Content – The content is controlled by GBS (Google BlogSearch) and is given as original work. This is not unique what so ever, and will be seen as duplicate content in the SE’s (Search Engines) unless you either add more content to it or change the structuring and use synonyms using Markov and the like. This is where the plugins come in that will handle all of this for you. First off, grab a copy of Eli’s zipped wordpress install that’s mentioned in his SEO Empire post. To find it, you’ll have to read it (hint: look for “wordpress I compiled”). This one has a feature I didn’t want though, which was post trackbacks to each URL. It also doesn’t morph the content, but I’ve given you the keyword to help you out which is markov. Then look at GBS for your link (for example, heres the url for blue widgets). This is the feed you’ll want to use.
2. Hosting – You’ll either need to find free hosting or purchase some, I highly suggest you keep the number of results on the GBS feed low – in fact, probably under 20. Your blog will grow slower, but at the same time it will grow more consistently. This will also help you keep under the radar with your host, and if you’re not in their head about running their CPU through the roof the complaints may be easier to handle if you receive any.
3. Linking – This is up to your imagination. If you keep the trackback feature in Eli’s install, taken care of. Personally I would throttle that back to 1 in 100ish so that you don’t get too many backlinks too fast. The goal of these sites is to get the content indexed over time so it doesn’t raise any red flags.
4. Monetization – If you’re cloaking you also need to get another plugin to read off the referrer and/or IP address and cloak the correct content to the SE’s and display a landing page to users. This I’m leaving out there for you to figure out on your own. To get you pointed in the right direction, try looking up PHP scripts that have the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']. This is a very dated way to do it, but it will get the job done 9 out of 10 times and won’t take that long to setup. Other ways to monetize are obviously adsense (which I HIGHLY discourage) and CPA (which I highly suggest). If you haven’t started with CPA you should signup as soon as possible and take a look around. Use the A4D square advert on the right, they have some great offers for traffic like this.

So now that this is taken care of, the content read from GBS will automatically also take other titles and content as the other blogs in the niche are updated. Using the brittany spears example this could give a few of your farms posts such as “Brittany Spears vs Lindsay Lohan” or “Brittany Spears and K Fed”. The whole point of the GBS is not just unique content from multiple sites, but also to increase your traffic as much as possible without setting off any alarms.

Just figured I would throw this out there for anyone interested in trying to get started, and yes these methods still work; I’m using them right now. If this is too basic for you, feel free to say so, I’m taking suggestions for future post ideas and concepts.

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To mark the start of this amazingly cool blog, I’m going to post 10 niches that are getting traffic _right now_ so maybe you can get a piece of the action. Most of these niches will be physical products and/or general product categories.
Here you go:

Softball Bats
Wireless Keyboards
Camouflage Pants
Black Pearls
Ping Pong Tables
Easy Bake Ovens
Bonsai Trees
Yoga Mats
Chalkboards
Aviator [...]

To mark the start of this amazingly cool blog, I’m going to post 10 niches that are getting traffic _right now_ so maybe you can get a piece of the action. Most of these niches will be physical products and/or general product categories.

Here you go:

1. Softball Bats
2. Wireless Keyboards
3. Camouflage Pants
4. Black Pearls
5. Ping Pong Tables
6. Easy Bake Ovens
7. Bonsai Trees
8. Yoga Mats
9. Chalkboards
10. Aviator Sunglasses

There’s the first 10 of many to come. Wheather you do money sites, quick and dirty sites, or just MFA sites – it’s all up to you. Just wanted to kick things off right.

Enjoy the content to come.

Contempt

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Leave a comment on this post with what you’d like to see written about, and I’ll see what I can do.

Leave a comment on this post with what you’d like to see written about, and I’ll see what I can do.

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