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I just want to clear something up that most people are not understanding. BlackHat SEO is not taking shortcuts. Most of the people that talk about BlackHat SEO in such connotation usually have never done it themselves, or even seen the code behind one of the tools. Ok, I’ll admit that the newbie-ish BH tools [...]
I just want to clear something up that most people are not understanding. BlackHat SEO is not taking shortcuts. Most of the people that talk about BlackHat SEO in such connotation usually have never done it themselves, or even seen the code behind one of the tools.
Ok, I’ll admit that the newbie-ish BH tools like pre-made doorway pages, etc are pretty lame. Those are shortcuts. Those are people that really have no idea what they’re doing on a grander scale with writing their own code. The whole point of doing BlackHat SEO correctly is that when someone looks at your page and/or site they can’t go “this looks blackhat”. They will look at the page and it will appear to look whitehat on the surface.
Let’s look at the reality. If BlackHats only were for shortcuts, the methods and techniques would be completely dead by now. Automation is key. How you go about your automation, is the lock. Anyone can have the key to their success, but how many put it in the right lock and turn? That really sounded like a “how to make money online” eBook and I apologize, but I’m sure you get my point.
The whole reality is – if you’re one of those people that states that BlackHat SEO is taking shortcuts – I invite you to try it out for yourself. After you take 8-9 hours writing a scraper to correctly parse results, 4-5 hours to learn how to make a good automated link spammer and countless other hours learning other details – get back to me regarding how much of a “shortcut” it is. The whole point of being an automated-based BlackHat SEO is to create a system that will reap long term benefits and/or short term massive benefits. That’s just of course my opinion on it.
Heck, I’m just ranting – but you know what. Sometimes it just gets me wiled up when I hear about some people saying such things. Anyway, I’m in the Fort Lauderdale airport writing this waiting for Dave from ScarySEO to pick me up – so my apologies for rambling.
On another note, updated stats for the EPN Redundancy experiment:
People sent to eBay: 308
One:
Blogs: 972
Total Posts: 67771
Two:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 92829
Three:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 78160
Four:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 49771
Going along quite nicely. Only crashed the Dual Xeon about ~15 times now. SoftLayer, you ROCK!
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Well I just received an e-mail from the Affiliate Summit crew. I’ve been approved for a press pass to cover the event. This means I’ll be writing about how uber leet Nickycakes and Tobsn are when they present (which last I heard they are presenting). You can read more about the information at http://www.nickycakes.com/nickycakes-speaking-at-asw-08/ I [...]
Well I just received an e-mail from the Affiliate Summit crew. I’ve been approved for a press pass to cover the event. This means I’ll be writing about how uber leet Nickycakes and Tobsn are when they present (which last I heard they are presenting).
You can read more about the information at http://www.nickycakes.com/nickycakes-speaking-at-asw-08/
I leave for the airport in about 6-7 hours to get on my way to Scary SEO – I’ll update you all when I get some more information … or you know … get bored in the airport. Hell, maybe that’ll give me a reason to write a few more posts!
Any requests? Anyone?
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Well it’s about that time. Here’s a few raw stats from my stats page so far (across all of these only about 2-3 domains are indexed): People sent to eBay: 204 …in the last day: 14 One: Blogs: 972 Total Posts: 56070 Two: Blogs: 971 Total Posts: 66630 Three: Blogs: 971 Total Posts: 52186 Four: [...]
Well it’s about that time. Here’s a few raw stats from my stats page so far (across all of these only about 2-3 domains are indexed):
People sent to eBay: 204
…in the last day: 14
One:
Blogs: 972
Total Posts: 56070
Two:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 66630
Three:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 52186
Four:
Blogs: 971
Total Posts: 34251
Those are the beginning ones. I’m adding a few more things such as keyword mutation and multiplication. So far with only 4 domains being indexed, and the only index is the root page – the “to EPN” stats are nice. Before anyone asks, that’s AFTER I filtered out the Spiders, automated clicks, etc. I’m assuming most of this traffic has come from the ping services when I did a single pingout themselves. I guess we’ll see. I’m going to most likely do one more in a day or two and see what happens.
The content generation alone has already crashed my dual xeon twice (and yes, everything’s optimized – Dual 2.0 Xeon with 4 GB RAM / Dual 250 GB SATA II’s). My average transit usage per day is 100 GB. This should most likely bring me to around 3 TB by the end of the month, so most likely I’ll throttle it back a little so I don’t get about $2000 in transit overages.
Anyway, this is just the first update. I’ll update this more as time goes along. By the way, already $30 more spiked into EPN than average over the last 2 days. Guess it’s working so far.
I’ll be updating this more as I’m down in Scary SEO with the CMC crew. Until then – automation is key kids. And if the key is turned right, you’ll see results. 
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As you do research into the realm of BlackHat SEO you’ll often read a lot of articles and/or content about spam blogs. Here’s the skinny on exactly how that works (at least for my empire). Each of my projects will change on a day to day basis on how it works. One day I may [...]
As you do research into the realm of BlackHat SEO you’ll often read a lot of articles and/or content about spam blogs. Here’s the skinny on exactly how that works (at least for my empire). Each of my projects will change on a day to day basis on how it works. One day I may be massively spamming WPMU blogs with XMLRPC, and the next uploading post content with a delay for the next 5 years. It all depends on the mood I’m currently in. This is one of my bread and butter ideas that not a lot of people will use, but should.
With this technique you’ll be able to blast out backlinks for whatever you want on a hourly basis, and make sure to distribute it across multiple Class C IP’s for your use later on. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this you’re at least somewhat familiar with what a spam blog is, and you’re decently familiar with what an RSS feed is. These will be the basis for this technique that I’m about to explain. The best feature about this technique is that people running these blog networks should have no idea that you’re doing anything bad at all. The CPU load won’t spike, ram usage won’t increase, nothing. And on top of that, you have 100% control without releasing any source code.
So what exactly am I talking about? I’m talking about instead of using a plugin such as FeedWordPress with some Markov in it, you use just straight FeedWordPress and skip the middleman – you modify the feed itself. This way whenever the feed gets a hit you can Markov a few articles up and serve them out. Yes, this would use your resources a little more – however with this you can put this into the first article for a day or two: “I really like <LINK>RC cars</LINK>” and then you have backlinks across an entire blog farm. Or even down the ratio, every other link you do it. If you base it on referrer and/or IP address you can make sure one blog doesn’t post more than one link, or sublet it out to certain farms within your control.
The whole point to using your own feed as the source is the fact that to the administrator of these free blog hosts, you’ll appear to be a normal user. Doing your normal calls here and there for importing feed items. You’ll get unique content. You’ll drive traffic. They’ll love you! All the meanwhile you’ll really also be making your own money inserting links and link strength across thousands of sites.
Anyway, that’s my little tip of the night. Wanted to test out my new iMac with a little type-o-thon. Hope you all enjoyed the read.
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I just found out about this “microconference” a few days ago and I had to look more into it. Sr. Search Specialist from Overstock.com will be there. Full time HUGE SCALE SEO/SEM’s will be there. But of course, more importantly, I will be there. The conference’s agenda is off the charts … 4 total hours [...]
I just found out about this “microconference” a few days ago and I had to look more into it.
Sr. Search Specialist from Overstock.com will be there.
Full time HUGE SCALE SEO/SEM’s will be there.
But of course, more importantly, I will be there.
The conference’s agenda is off the charts … 4 total hours of full non-disclosure action with specialists. Party-bus over to a casino. Most importantly, free breakfast and lunch! Woohoo!
It’s the 24th and 25th of this month down in Deerfield Beach, Florida. I’ll enjoy my linkspam on the rocks, while looking at the chicas on the beach! 
Course Material:
- The Code of SEO: Coding and Design concepts that improve your SEO efforts
- Link Building: The Basics and Beyond
- SEM Strategies: How to make paid search work for you
- Protect Your Rep: Online Reputation Management
- SEO Tools Sponsored by SEOmoz
- SMO Tactics: How optimize social media for use in your SEO
- Importance of Analytics: Beyond clickstream data
- SEO Project Management and Educating Clients
- Information Architecture and Content Creation Plans
- Video Search Engine Optimization
I would say this is going to be a kickass conference, for more info check out Scary SEO or another review of Scary SEO..
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The EPN Redundancy Experiment is a half case study, half test of the “scraper sites” method. I’ll be launching roughly 70,000 blogs which are each completely automated to see what kind of results I can bring in via EPN. All of these blogs are 100% link-spam free, no cloaking/cookie stuffing, and points the visitor directly [...]
The EPN Redundancy Experiment is a half case study, half test of the “scraper sites” method. I’ll be launching roughly 70,000 blogs which are each completely automated to see what kind of results I can bring in via EPN. All of these blogs are 100% link-spam free, no cloaking/cookie stuffing, and points the visitor directly to the product they were looking for. In other words, these are an A+ on the scale for “user experience”.
The goal for this will be I want other domains to pick up the slack when the earlier ones go down. The main achievement I’m going to attempt to achieve will be “rolling commissions”. This means when the sites are penalized (if they do get penalized) and go from 300-400 uniques/day to <100, I want another domain to step up index wise and take over. For this redundancy experiment I’ve chosen to use a number of domains under 10, but each will contain roughly 1000 sub domains that all have automatic content updates & product pushes.
This will be an experiment to see how much in commission I can receive by the 30th of next month. Let the fun begin!
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