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.

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.

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.

1. Ashtrays
2. Khakis
3. Lip Gloss (or general beauty)
4. Microphones
5. Black Pearls
6. Video Cards
7. Air Mattress
8. Coffee Mug
9. Digital Cameras
10. Fiber Optic Lighting
11. Mouse Traps
12. Barbie Jeep
13. AA Batteries
14. Butane
15. Rock Climbing Shoes
16. Bobbleheads
17. Tents
18. Camping Equipment in general
19. Shoe Horn
20. Wedding Invitations
21. Sundials
22. Ski Pants
23. Key Chains
24. Maglights
25. Scarecrow Sprinkler <– The BEST for last!!

Hope this makes up for the missed posts. Happy SEMing!

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 …)

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