Since I completely dropped the ball on getting that post out the day after the uBot one, I figure I’ll do it now. Boom shakalaka. So let’s break this bitch down, we’re talkin’ bout… Link Farm Evolution So. Link Farm Evolution is software primarily being pitched by busin3ss. Upon looking at the software itself it’s [...]

Since I completely dropped the ball on getting that post out the day after the uBot one, I figure I’ll do it now. Boom shakalaka.

So let’s break this bitch down, we’re talkin’ bout…

Link Farm Evolution

So. Link Farm Evolution is software primarily being pitched by busin3ss. Upon looking at the software itself it’s priced into a simple sales page (see here). The entire suite itself is based on making longevity-based properties to upward link to your sites. In English, this means to have several properties running for a long time in a non-churn-and-burn methodology. These will create good properties that you can use long term to promote several niches if you wanted to. The whole point of having these is that within 3-6 months or faster, you could have 1500 PR3 properties where you can put whatever links that you want on them and turn it into cash.

Using this is probably one of the smartest things that you can do. With a little time every day put into this, after a month you could have a link farm network big enough to compare with some of the big boys. You won’t outrank them, but you’ll be within 10-15 spots – and that’s an accomplishment in itself. The bottom line is that LinkFarmEvolution is a low-hanging-fruit sex machine. It’ll help you conquer niches over 2-3 weeks that others don’t even see, pushing your sites to the top quickly. If used correctly, it’s one hell of a strong ass tool to have in your arsenal – if not THE strong ass tool in your arsenal, to which your other tools create power for.

In one of my other posts I put up this picture:

Now let me explain where LFE comes into play with this. If you’ll notice the level that says “WordPress’s, Bloggers, WPMU’s…” that’s pretty much is the description of Link Farm Evolution. I of course didn’t throw this in when I made the diagram itself because it wasn’t public at that time, but now I can actually say that. So the bottom line is that when it comes to the link networks I build, I trust on LFE to handle that tier for me. Thus far it hasn’t screwed anything up, and keeps producing great middle-tiers. Works great with XRumer under it, hint hint.

So let’s sum this up as much as we can. It’s great for middle tiers, produces great properties that usually won’t get penalized, works great with reinforcement, and is overall a vital part of all of the networks that I personally build – and probably yours as well if you purchase it.

So overall, I think it’s worth the $297. So again, this is a quick writeup of it just to give you an example of what it exactly is and how it works – hit me up in private if you need anything else regarding how to properly design and/or implement a link network using LinkFarmEvolution!

As for what other posts I need to throw out soon, and/or what I’ve been up to, more posts coming soon after I get a few more of these sites stable so I can use the information in posts. So don’t worry, I just don’t want to post shitty content to keep you on my blog doing this and that, I’d much rather only post when I have something good to post.

Kisses,
Contempt

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Here’s something that most people dream about doing, but most will never get there – and here’s part of the way that I -would- do it (yes, would – not am, because I don’t even have enough time to finish this up). This is the literal step by step plan on how to blanket an [...]

Here’s something that most people dream about doing, but most will never get there – and here’s part of the way that I -would- do it (yes, would – not am, because I don’t even have enough time to finish this up). This is the literal step by step plan on how to blanket an industry over several different traffic sources, both free and paid so that it all ties together. You can skip the paid if you want, especially since most of that being automated may mess it up – but the others can be taken care of via some scripts/programs, etc.

The Online Marketing Blanket

We Cover Everything Broski

The first step within this is obviously setup a landing page, site where people can order, hub page, money site, whatever you want to call it. This is where the majority of your cash will be coming from. This should definitely be handled manually to make sure that it’s done correctly. Monetization, content, etc.

Step two is simple – use LFE to create a smaller site network where you can begin to drop links to your mini-nets and site hubs. This is a way to smother your smaller links with broader ones which will reinforce in numbers and upward carry the juice to the top. If you haven’t purchased LFE yet, make me some money and order via this link -> LFE. Now once you have the site network for LFE built (probably over a week or two) and you have it, either buy XRUMER or just a blast and evenly distribute links to your LFE hubs. If you have a friend with xrumer it shouldn’t be too hard to actually give that a shot. Now you have xrumer links going to LFE links that are going to mini-hub/site/microsite links, which are going to your money site. Nice eh? Keep on building out this network while factoring in direct links via trackbacks, comments, etc and you’ll be sittin’ pretty.

Step three – Make sure that you have ALL of the sites setup with an opt-in form so you can mail them with an autoresponder (I recommend Aweber to start). Example, “Free 10 day e-Course on how to lose 20 lbs!” with 10 days of 2 paragraphs + 1 affiliate link. Schwing! Passive income from linking networks is an utter win, especially since most people say you shouldn’t monetize them so they look legit. Let me ask you a question, when was the last time you saw a website that was only 5 pages in the weight loss niche without any form of monetization on it? Monetize the bitch with -something- that won’t necessarily link that site to your others. AdSense is alright, but don’t use it on all of them. The last thing you want someone to do is see “47 other sites with this AdSense ID” *click* and find your entire network.

Step four – Your network should auto scale itself. If you need help with automating the expansion, consult your local uBot guru and if you haven’t gotten it already and you’re not a programmer – get it. This is the only program out there that will allow you to do what I do without knowing how to program to a decently higher level of programming knowledge. In other words, use uBot to automate things such as LFE, wordpress.com, ArticlesBase, etc. YOU CAN DO IT! YAY!

Step five – You remember those autoresponders on the linking sites and opt-in forms? Make sure your affiliate links are using redirect scripts and/or prosper202 links. If the offer goes down or you find a better payout, redirect somewhere else instead of logging back into your email place (Aweber) and changing it.

Step six – If you’re feeling daring, try out some PPV. I’m just getting started in this myself but it’s decent for leadgen. Right now I’m using MediaTraffic (Ask for JIMMY – he’s straight to the point, call, tell him, he says ok, hang up, get it done) because I don’t feel comfortable enough in PPV yet to throw down a G for TV yet. Currently I’m just messing around with an opt-in page for Aweber on PPV, currently paying about 40-60 cents per double opt in. Not too shabby, that’s like 250% ROI on an email submit broski. It’s worth a shot, and if it doesn’t work out – it’s only 20 bucks for Aweber and like $200 for the initial deposit for MediaTraffic.

Step seven – Grab your copy of uBot and find some sites where you can just do the same iterations over and over to get your result. If that’s links, sales, whatever – find a site that is templated so you can write one bot for all of the sites. This will get you a lot more exposure and grow your opt-in list as well. Opt-in is key when it comes to things such as this, because it can turn one short-term click into a long-term revenue stream.

Step eight – PPC. Well, I’m not going to lie – if you want to know more about PPC go read this. Specifically point 6.

That’s all I can really think of right now but that should get you all thinking straight in regards to how to blanket a niche. Think of all of the different points and places where a person will go to read up on, check out, buy from etc a specific product or niche. Find those, and find a way to put yourself on there or in the way. Bank hard. Laugh. Grey Goose. Ryan Eagle. Bofu Their Wolfe. Stop. Bankin’time. Have a good one. And in all seriousness I really will try to post more often. Go buy something from one of my affiliate links so I can make monies online.

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I’ve gotten a lot of questions and people asking about the best way to use uBot, whether it’s worth purchasing, etc. I have a general rule – if I’m asked the same question or topic at least five or so times, I’ll write a post about it. So here goes nothing: uBot Pros: Ease in [...]

I’ve gotten a lot of questions and people asking about the best way to use uBot, whether it’s worth purchasing, etc. I have a general rule – if I’m asked the same question or topic at least five or so times, I’ll write a post about it. So here goes nothing:

uBot

Pros:

• Ease in Use
• Newbies can learn how to use it quickly
• Can write powerful automated tools, many that actually even rival mine in terms of what it can do.
• Can be exported and given to friends to use (hint: outsourcing…)
• Can even outsource captcha’s using the built-in technology (extra charge but extremely cheap for the captchas themselves, not a charge by uBot)
• Ease in Use
• Unlimited Possibilities, even into having it log into your bank accts and check your balances for you.
• Could even make it find you a date on a friday night from CraigsList! (additional fee’s may apply)
• Ease in Use
• When combined with LinkFarmEvolution (FUCK YAH!) you can create automated linkfarms that get auto-created … Hint hint. Post coming soon.
• The possibilities are literally endless.

Cons:

• uBot won’t do my homework, or yours.
• uBot doesn’t come stock with a ‘make money’ button, but it does however allow you to make one.

All in all I must say I’m completely impressed with uBot. uBot is probably the best way to take the powerful programs and scripts that I have made over the years, and allow someone with no programming knowledge to pick it up and do almost the exact same thing. The power behind this is truly amazing and I must admit, I’m planning on making uBot a consistent component in my daily tasks for my staff (you know, when I find someone I can’t just replace with a script/program). But the bottom line is this is a blackhat seo and/or automation specialized blog, so I felt as if I had to do a review of uBot. It’s completely worth the cash, the staff are knowledgeable and know what they’re talking about. Seth is an amazing programmer and I won’t deny that, this suite is nothing short of flawless. Definitely give it a shot.

Oh, and you know me guys. I got you all a discount. Original price is $245 I got it down to $199 for you all.

Order Link: Cheaaaa UBOT!
Coupon: bofizzle

Next is the review of LinkFarmEvolution, which will come tomorrow. Check out the sales page as well though, because uBot + LinkFarmEvolution = utter complete win.

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(Note: I know I haven’t posted in a while, and trust me you have all let me know. I apologize, and hope this post somewhat makes up for it. I even included a diagram! Be happy! ) Often when I talk to people about what I do I can’t really sum it up with the [...]

(Note: I know I haven’t posted in a while, and trust me you have all let me know. I apologize, and hope this post somewhat makes up for it. I even included a diagram! Be happy! )

Often when I talk to people about what I do I can’t really sum it up with the term Blackhat SEO, or anything of the like. Usually it ends up being Automation and Scalability. First, I do want to say this though: automation is not simply a field or a thing to do, it certainly is a mindset. Once you start thinking in the right way with automation your mind hardly ever stops as you try to break down every little thing behind a certain task and make it all powered by scripts and programs. One of the concepts I’ve thought about lately when thinking about new scripts and programs was for niche research – but why stop there? Originally it was very simple.

• Check root keyword search volume (organic).
• Check average CPC on adwords.
• Report to me.

The whole goal of automation is to take as much human interaction out of it as possible, and the goal of scaling is to be able to replicate this many times over and over. So let’s take this one step further and look at automating almost the entire process.

• Check root keyword search volume (organic).
• Check average CPC on adwords (if over a certain number, continue)
• Check exact match domain names.
• Find exact match that’s open on any TLD worth using.
• Register using the eNom API or writing a cURL script through NameCheap.
• Point DNS to my servers using API.
• Create cPanel account via WHM on server to allow resolving and showing of said domain.
• Use FTP to upload YACG and do the initial installation of it, posting adsense on pages for initial monetization.
• Install in-text script for secondary monetization on terms in content itself, Kontera comes to mind.
• Ping out said website, submit to a few aggregators.
• Drop 100-200 backlinks (including deeplinks) to website.
• Social bookmark a few of the pages for initial indexing (autopligg come to mind?)
• Report to me.

See the huge difference when you go with the automation mindset and see how much is really possible? Total we’re talking about $2 cost per 500 keywords researched (Going under the 1000 captcha’s for $2 from Decaptcher). This could most likely end up being a $100 a day after domain costs, but the sheer numbers alone would probably start making it back via monetization within a week or two. Now, will this always work? No. Will it work for now? Probably yes.

Back to the original idea behind this post though, Automation is a Mindset. Once you really get on a roll you’ll start thinking about how to automate damn near everything. One way you could comparably think about what I’m talking about is a dish washer. Someone figured out how to make a device that washes dishes. That’s amazing! Helps everyone on a daily basis, but it would be in my mind to try to figure out how to create some way to get all of the dishes in the house into the dish washer so I can literally leave them anywhere and have them picked up. Robotics FTW. The bottom line is that anything can be automated even more and to a better extent, the question is how and how much.

Let’s go with another example, though. I drew up a diagram for a WickedFire thread that was posted in the Traffic & Content section over there about a SEO Network. Here’s the diagram, and then I’ll explain somewhat on how I automated it:

Now comes the somewhat impressive part. I have this entire system automated but the social bookmarking. Sadly I still have to type about 5 keys and click 2-3 times before the social bookmarking works how I want it to. The WPMU’s are all autogenned and uses the WordPress backup file to load about 150,000 markov’d posts delay posted over 3-6 months (think DataPresser but a little less clean on the output). The micro URL’s are added via the blogroll so they expand out with all of the new posts, and then a few of the posts are all bookmarked for fast indexing and incremental indexing with the growth. The micro’s themselves are basically article re-writes, only about 5-10 pages per site. These are somewhat of a way to “link launder” your links to your main site, so you can some-what clean them from completely spammy and automated to clean and respectable. After time if done right, the micro’s will end up around PR4ish with a gooooood number of backlinks, including deeplinks.

The whole point behind that example is that everything under “Money Site” is automated, and can be scaled out almost infinitely. That’s actually all that I have right now on this subject – but please for the love of God let me know what else you all want me to write about. I’ve been considering posting some scraping classes that I have and the like but I’m still not sure whether I should post them in Ruby or PHP, etc.

As always, hit me up on Contempt.me (Skype username) with some feedback.

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I normally don’t post reviews of conferences and/or conventions, but this one is worth the mention. Besides, I’m currently sitting in an airport waiting for my flight so there’s not much else I can do besides listen to music for 45 minutes. So I’m going to give you all the top 5 things I heard [...]

I normally don’t post reviews of conferences and/or conventions, but this one is worth the mention. Besides, I’m currently sitting in an airport waiting for my flight so there’s not much else I can do besides listen to music for 45 minutes. So I’m going to give you all the top 5 things I heard (tips and realizations). If these seem a little dull and/or more known, forgive me – but with the current state of my body due to alcohol and lack of sleep, I’m going to do my best.

1. It’s not about how not to get caught, it’s how to prolong getting caught.
This is one thing that I definitely had burned into my head after introducing myself as “I do a little blackhat”. The bottom line is that you’re going to get caught doing blackhat unless you are really, really good at “automating whitehat” (grayhat) which is a completely different thing. Automating whitehat would be like … automating directory submissions, trackback requests on a moderately slower level like 5-10 per article and making sure it’s all related content. This would be like posting about blue widgets, and then sending out 5-10 trackback requests about blue widgets. If for some odd reason you can’t see where I’m going with this, check out Splog Ping Crawl …

2. Is Your Out Worth Your In?
Something that Sugarrae mentioned in her talk (and I also think mentioned to me the night before) is “is your time spent on something worth what you’re getting for it?”. This seems like common knowledge, but really think about it. Assume your time is worth 10 dollars an hour, and you work 40 hours a week ($400/week). Is the tool, or site, or method you’re working on going to return that within 6 months? 1 year? 2 years? It’s all about priorities. One thing that rae mentioned was that she doesn’t usually count on something to be really profitable until after a year. Me on the other hand, I’d like to have it profitable by the 2nd or 3rd month. Different priorities, different methods, different guidelines for your projects.

3. Brandable and Long Term, or Short-Term Churn and Burn?
Different projects warrant different techniques and methods, as well as require entirely different guidelines and goals. If you’re going to go longterm on a good whitehat niche, spending $2000-$5000 on a site startup may be warranted if the return would be there. I know I just started trying a few grayhat/whitehat domains and running them with the intent of no return until 6-8 months out. Until then I don’t mind running a few splog networks for testing.

Don’t get me wrong, I do use BlackHat SEO almost on a daily basis. Here’s the rub, most of the time I use BHSEO for testing theories and methods with mass generation. Just wanted to clarify that so you don’t think that Contempt is a whitehat!

4. Stop Thinking, Start Doing
This wasn’t exactly an unknown saying to me. We often throw it around on WickedFire and I’ve found myself mentioning it to someone, pulling back and going “wait, wtf am I doing”. Even I need to reality check myself every now and again. At IMSB I was reality checked by 3 people really. It’s not necessarily what they said, but how and why. First was Steve Plunkett – sitting down with him for nearly 3 minutes yielded the yells of “WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT IS THAT IN YOUR CODE” which made me slap myself endlessly. I also need to mention, the caps are there for a reason – security told him to quiet down right after.

The second person was Rae (who I mentioned above). I’m not quite sure why it hit differently when she said it, but the mention of figures from her put other things into perspective for me about success and non. Thirdly of course, was and always will be, XMCP (SlightlyShadySEO). There’s normally a bunch of passing back and forth between Shady and I but for some odd reason, I listened closer this time (not saying I didn’t listen before bud ). I’ve put a few things into play and and trying a lot more techniques on different projects. Longshot? Doubt it. Will it work? It will if I’m trying hard enough.

5. GO – TO – MORE – MEETUPS
The people, the information, the drinking (oh and trust me, I set records… ask anyone at IMSB about the cherry bomb har har har), and the atmosphere in general. “Shit just got real” is a line I say in my head consistently as I listen to people I talk to. Hardcore affiliate or beginning SEO, the perspective on it is worth it alone.

Thanks again for everyone I met, the people I got drunk with the Cherry Bomb (you know who you are), the ButterMyRoll Crew (again, you know who you are), and of course above and all Search & Social for putting on another amazing event. If you’ll be at AdTech, drop me a comment we’ll have to meetup.

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One of the aspects of BHSEO with Affiliate Marketing in mind is data integration. This could be from RSS feeds to straight XML files, even just research on one product and finding offshoots yourself. I haven’t given away any “stunning” code lately (or any for that matter …) so I figured I’ll release a little [...]

One of the aspects of BHSEO with Affiliate Marketing in mind is data integration. This could be from RSS feeds to straight XML files, even just research on one product and finding offshoots yourself. I haven’t given away any “stunning” code lately (or any for that matter …) so I figured I’ll release a little source here to help you all along with automation. I’m going to keep the post here short and sweet, and let you all use your imagination with the code itself but I’ll give you a few unique uses for it.

Before I start telling you how to use it, here’s what you need – and what you may want to have.

What you NEED:

• PHP 5
• WordPress
• Desire to Learn and Think Abstractly

What you may want (and will help …)

• phpBay
• WFReview
• (these will be at the end of the post as well so you can decide AFTER you see why)

Here’s a few things to think about with the code …

• This uses XMLRPC so will work with Splog Ping Crawl
• Can be integrated with Google Blog Search for avoiding duplicate content penalties *hint hint*
• Can be used full steam, throttled back, etc.

Now I’m going to admit this right now. It’s 3:15 in the morning right now and I’m tired as hell – but I did want to get this out because I promised a few of you I would get it done. So please forgive me if the code itself isn’t so clean, but my goal is purely to prove it can be done – and it’s not too hard to do either. My goal here on Contempt is to help you re-think about Automation in general and help you create ways to make your online endeavours much easier. For some Automation in general is considered blackhat, and to those people I’d like to remind them to wake up. Everything in life is getting automated whether you like it or not. Personally in my opinion blackhat seo is nothing other than a label for “holy shit that’s automatic”. Usually this is by people that don’t know how to do it, or have a problem looking at their newfound power and ability and can’t control it enough to not go overboard. This usually results in “i can spam links, go buy viagra go!”. It’s true – the same methods that I use sometimes could be used as an attempt to rank for buy viagra – and you know what, I’m sure with some time I could – but why? I want long term residual income off my endeavours, and right now I’m doing enough research to plan the methods down to successful ones so I don’t make stupid mistakes over and over on sites I’ve invested money into.

Anyway – like I said – It’s 3:30 so I’m ranting. Let’s move on. Here’s my overall goal with this post. In the following code I’m going to show you very simple code to extract information from a CSV, and how to format it into a good post for a review or shopping site. Here’s how you do that using PHP5 ..

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
echo "$c - ".$data[$c] . "<br />\n";
}
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
?>

I wrote this up quick to view the first 5 rows in a datafeed file. This’ll allow me to look at (with most feeds) the names of the fields, and then the first 4 lines to see sample data. This is an easy way to sort out “oh #5 is the URL” and “#10 is the image”. Next we’ll work on a template file so that when we post it to wordpress it’ll at least look decent. I’m not going to say my HTML is stellar, but I’m doing this as I write this so it’s purely an example. Here’s an example with a quick table, 2 sections – image and purchase URL on the left, description on the right … and of course, phpbay under it haha – Contempt style!

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
$purchase_url = $data[8];
$image = $data[25];
$desc = $data[12];
$title = $data[16];
$var = "<center><table width=\"50%\"><tr><td>
<a href=\"$purchase_url\"><img src=\"$image\">
</a></td><td>$desc</td></tr></table><br><br>
Used Items:<br><br>[phpbay]$title, 10[/phpbay]";
echo $var."<BR><BR><BR><BR>";
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
?>

And just so you all have this, here’s the function that I use to post to WordPress blogs with XMLRPC. The external libs I’ll throw into a RAR (click here). Here’s the function:

Code block

<?php
function post_to_blog($url, $pass, $title, $posttext, $nick = null)
{
$xmlrpcurl = $url;
$client = new xmlrpc_client($xmlrpcurl);
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
if(isset($nick))
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$nick");            //your wordpress login
else
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("Admin");            //your wordpress login
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$pass");        //your wordpress password
$params[] = new xmlrpcval(
"<title>$title</title>".            //the title of your post
"<category>1</category>".    //the category
$posttext);                                 //the body
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("true");          //publish now = true
$msg    = new xmlrpcmsg("blogger.newPost",$params);
$response = $client->send($msg);
}
?>

So yeah, when we put them together we have this…

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
$purchase_url = $data[8];
$image = $data[25];
$desc = $data[12];
$title = $data[16];
$var = "<center><table width=\"50%\"><tr><td>
<a href=\"$purchase_url\"><img src=\"$image\">
</a></td><td>$desc</td></tr></table><br><br>
Used Items:<br><br>[phpbay]$title, 10[/phpbay]";
post_to_blog("http://myblog.com/xmlrpc.php", "password", $title, $var);
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
function post_to_blog($url, $pass, $title, $posttext, $nick = null)
{
$xmlrpcurl = $url;
$client = new xmlrpc_client($xmlrpcurl);
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
if(isset($nick))
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$nick");            //your wordpress login
else
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("Admin");            //your wordpress login
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$pass");        //your wordpress password
$params[] = new xmlrpcval(
"<title>$title</title>".            //the title of your post
"<category>1</category>".    //the category
$posttext);                                 //the body
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("true");          //publish now = true
$msg    = new xmlrpcmsg("blogger.newPost",$params);
$response = $client->send($msg);
}
?>

So there you have it. Loading a CSV file into wordpress with a template, to start up your own affiliate-based eStore. Once again I thank you for joining me on this Code-Enriched version of Contempt Can’t Sleep. I figured keeping this short and sweet would be more beneficial than posting with fluff and other dumb crap to try to impress you.

The reason I recommended phpBay is because of the fact that it’ll allow you to post direct links from PJN (PepperjamNetwork) or EPN (eBay Partner Network) with the new items. New & Used. The WFReview will actually allow people to rate the items, comment on them with star ratings, and post random generated ratings on them to make the site look like a good well traffic’d site. A must have for larger scale op’s and just fun in general! This also is an easier way to automate the CSV to WordPress operation. So once again, those links are in this paragraph if you wanted to try those out.

I hope you enjoyed the read as well as the Contempt experience, and I hope it’s worthy enough to have you pull the trigger on subscribing to the feed!

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Automated Link Building is obviously one of the key tools of a BlackHat SEO. Most people don’t define the different types, but I figure I could do a little cheat sheet on the types and then go into a little more complexity on how they work, and how serious they could be. There’s obviously the [...]

Automated Link Building is obviously one of the key tools of a BlackHat SEO. Most people don’t define the different types, but I figure I could do a little cheat sheet on the types and then go into a little more complexity on how they work, and how serious they could be. There’s obviously the basics like referral spam, comment spam and trackback spam. One that not many people talk about is creation spam. This probably goes by a different term for each person, but I usually call it that – even back when I was running the blog Rephraser.

Referral Spam is the art of getting a link from a site that lists the most recent referrers. This could be from sites that just put them on the sidebar, or even AWStat / Webalizer stat pages. Here’s a few little fun ones for you all to look at … here’s a few .edu links for you all (you have to sort them obviously – 226 at the time of this post) .edu links – and here’s a few .gov (once again, manually look at each one – 11 at the time of this post …) .gov links. I highly suggest you think about these footprints before actually using them. I am giving you these for research only (obviously), and I won’t be held responsible for your actions if you do use them. Referral spam for these types of links is simply just hit the URL over and over and over again with your URL as the referrer. Most of them will give you a link back if you’re in the top ~10. Not to shabby, huh? This method usually does -not- require multiple proxies to work.

Comment Spam is the next method and is obviously a little more known. It’s leaving comments on blogs, guestbooks, etc with your anchor and url in there somewhere creating a link. Usually this is great on wordpress blogs that DO NOT have Akismet (props to you guys – wish I met you in Vegas! ). This is all of those beautiful comments talking about cialias and online dating in the same comment, conveniently linking. Also a lot of comment spammers now a days use a method called seeding (much like email seeding) in which they post with specific keywords and strings and then scrape the Goog results for which sites index’d them – and then blast those all at once because it’s almost a guarantee’d link drop. This is great for the 10,000 links in a hour type blast. The two factors that people need to think about with link blasts are not only IP addresses, but destination URL’s as well. Most people don’t think that it’s throttled by URL, but sometimes it is. Keep an eye out.

Trackback Spam is my personal favorite. TB spam usually gets through a lot more, and I’ve never seen a trackback request be captcha’d. The one thing I’ve seen to stop it is the “is the site actually linking to us” plugin, which is easily circumvented via a closed hidden div with every URL of every link drop. After drops are in, remove URL’s – easy circumvention and won’t affect the user’s experience. This is also a nice little thing to do with Splog Ping Crawl if you’re up for the modification, modify it so it’s in a drop down so to the user it’s hidden but in Google’s eyes it’s not blackhat because it’s not cloaked, and it’s not taking up your users experience. Great way to help keep it whitehat but still get blackhat results. Zing!

Creation Spam is one of my up and coming techniques that actually works a lot better with trackback spam filtered in, but it’s basically a way to fast-track Eli’s Keyword Real Estate. My definition of creation spam is signing up for a blog, free hosting, whatever – and posting a full site with content and links to another one of your sites. The goal is to make this look at whitehat as possible. We’re talking about a YACG type site with just Wikipedia scrape, copied content, and links to your sites. The reason behind this is when you combind this with Trackback Spam – you have a great way to filter and cycle your link farms. Throw 1000 links at once of these bad boys, and then have your site linked off from it with 2-3 keyword-optimized links and you’ll be passing juice “legitly” in no time. The best example of this is to have a whitehat ecommerce site, we’re talking about 600K product pages on a 2-3 year old aged domain. Use creation spam for around 100 sites, drop 1000 links to each (total 100,000 link juice to site – theoretically, obviously) and then maybe throw in a 100 social bookmarking and 2000 directory submission on the main domain as well for some cover. This results in a good flow of juice to the site, easily covered by other sites, and should keep you afloat for a while. For me, I usually use these 4-5 levels deep (1000 creation spam sites to 100 to 10 to 1) etc.

Now comes the real fun part. Let’s talk about scaling out. Usually personal link spam programs do one site at a time, maybe a list of a few hundred sites. My personal arsenal has the rate of around 3000-4000 sites/minute if the list is pre-determined. This means – best case scenario – 4000 links per minute. This doesn’t mean 4000 to one site, but I can split them however I want. The way I have this coded is I optimized the web classes, threw in multi-threading, and database caching with fast RPM drives. I try to keep it as fast as possible. Then I went ahead and made it work with multiple boxes. I can do 10 dedicated servers, each doing 4000 a minute – that’s 40,000 sites/minute combined. Talk about some nice links huh?

Another scale that most people don’t consider much anymore is forums. This is obviously due to the XRumer spam (which I must admit, I like ) and a lot of speculation that forum backlinks are de-valued as a result of it. Don’t count them out completely though – they can still be used to cover up link spam in the backlink overview tools like linkdomain on Yahoo. This should keep prying eyes away from your actual links that help you do some damage. Just because they’re penalized doesn’t mean they won’t help. Keep that in mind. After all – a link is a link.

Now most people will tell you that I go overboard with my operation – but as most of you already know, I like to be very effusive. My current setup allows me to scale almost infinitely. Currently I run a network of spider boxes and hub boxes, that just keep looking for new links day in and day out. As I said above the 3000-4000 a minute is a true number – but what I didn’t mention is that’s per box. Just to give you an idea of what can be achieved, yes – I do have a network like this running and mainly I use it for research and of course because I find it fun. Don’t think that all blackhats are limited by out of box applications. This is completely coded from scratch across a programming language, a scripting language and of course I use MySQL for the database portion.

I just wanted to throw that in there to help put in perspective what’s actually possible. I hope you all enjoyed the read, and I know a lot of you were on my ass about a new post – I hope you think this was worth the wait! Feel free to use the Request Post link to request any upcoming posts and/or give me ideas for future posts, maybe I’ll get a few more out soon.

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I know one thing that I deal with all the time is duplicate content penalties. If you do even basic forms of blackhat you’re heard of automation of blogs, scraping content, RSS feed’s and the like. Everyone with half a brain cell knows that there are duplicate content penalties in Goog’s algorithm that prevent scraper [...]

I know one thing that I deal with all the time is duplicate content penalties. If you do even basic forms of blackhat you’re heard of automation of blogs, scraping content, RSS feed’s and the like. Everyone with half a brain cell knows that there are duplicate content penalties in Goog’s algorithm that prevent scraper sites from gaining too well of ranks. But the real question is, to what severity does Google evaluate your content as “duplicate”?

A while ago (we’re talking about 2 years out) when I was just getting started in Blackhat SEO, Brad101 from WF introduced me to something that I like to call the 30% rule. He taught me that if 30% of the content on the page is unique, that you should pass most of the duplicate content penalties. At first this made a little sense but not enough to try, then I started to dig a little deeper. How exactly do news sites get away with it? Most of news sites is duplicate content anyway. Is it a per-domain uniqueness factor? If so, the 30% rule would make it work great! What if it was a per-page factor (which there’s enough proof already that this is most likely the case) – in which the 30% would work great as well again!

Once again, if duplicate content was so harsh that it was per paragraph or something – then news sites would be penalized all over. A lot of people would read that and say “but usually the backlink back to the author clears penalties” – ta-da! Think about that. Could that possibly be why autoblogs work so well *gasp*? If you post duplicate content and link back to the author, most of the time it’s a win/win. The author is -usually- happy due to a backlink, you’re happy because you may actually rank with your authority over the original site, and you can do this on mass quantities.

There’s a few tricks and tips you’ll find out as you mess more and more with these. One of the things that I’ve found quite interesting is that links themselves count as content, yet don’t have duplicate content penalties. I’m not obviously 100% sure on that one, but my sites wouldn’t be doing so well otherwise. If you read my EPN experiment I was able to send around 55,000 total users from Google to Ebay Partner Network via my splogs. This was actually click thru’s to EPN, not just to my sites. Probably on my sites alone I pulled a little over 100,000 uniques/month which equates to almost 3500 uniques/day. Not bad for a total setup time of a little under an hour, huh?

Don’t always assume that Google is going to fuck you. You shouldn’t be afraid of the Algorithm, you should be afraid of the manual reviews. This is just my opinion, of course – Google is getting smarter by the day. Have fun, and try to stay ahead of the curve!

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First off, I apologize for not posting recently. That’s 100% my bad. So here’s a few updates and onto today’s tips and concepts. Here’s the update for my EPN experiment. First I’m going to say this, I made a stupid move and got them de-index’d (GOOGLE ONLY!!!). What does this mean? I’ll tell you what [...]

First off, I apologize for not posting recently. That’s 100% my bad. So here’s a few updates and onto today’s tips and concepts.

Here’s the update for my EPN experiment. First I’m going to say this, I made a stupid move and got them de-index’d (GOOGLE ONLY!!!). What does this mean? I’ll tell you what I did wrong so I don’t do it again.

People sent to eBay: 35068
…in the last day: 1586

Total Posts: 278495
Total Posts: 333839
Total Posts: 385137
Total Posts: 283437
Total Posts: 347109

Not too shabby, eh? The reason that they got deindex’d was I didn’t throw any backlinks to the subdomains what-so-ever. I’m starting to now to see if they’ll get re-included (which is possible), especially since a manual review of these sites will pass.

Now for the concept of black hat skillz on white hat buildz. One of the biggest tools in a BHSEO’s is his or her tools. Everyone knows that. Let’s start using these same tools and concepts in a whitehat way to benefit the sites legitly. Let’s take a SERP scraper for example.

Using the right footprint for wordpress blogs, you can easily get a list of 1000 comment-ready pages from blogs. This can be used easily for comment and/or trackback spam. However it can also be used for whitehat use as well.

Or another example would be the trackback spam. Yes, this is still blackhat, but it simulates reinforcing link growth. Example: drop 5 links per day to a new domain, on day 10 drop 50, 11 drop 150, 12 drop 300, etc. Exponential growth from blogs (and yes, Google is Footprinting) will simulate a viral release. Natural ranking bonus? Possibly.

Use this as a base to look at the tools you have and figure out a way to use them on legit sites. Scrapers can be used for whitehat, blackhat and everything between. Make smart decissions and find multiple uses for your tools; after all its all about the ROI isn’t it?

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Looks like the EPN is in full swing. Maybe it’s the liquor I just chugged, or my stats page really does look good .. Here’s the stats, enjoy. Total Posts: 133621 Total Posts: 173975 Total Posts: 166715 Total Posts: 113024 Total Posts: 147097 I’ll give a big shoutout to my woot-o-riffic splogs running that dedi [...]

Looks like the EPN is in full swing. Maybe it’s the liquor I just chugged, or my stats page really does look good ..

Here’s the stats, enjoy.

Total Posts: 133621
Total Posts: 173975
Total Posts: 166715
Total Posts: 113024
Total Posts: 147097

I’ll give a big shoutout to my woot-o-riffic splogs running that dedi into the ground. Woohoo!

On the real side of progress, here’s the main points …

People sent to eBay: 1867
…in the last day: 493

Have a good Friday night everyone, I know I will. I’ll post a few more things most likely in the next day or two. Just been a tad busy.

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