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

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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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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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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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A lot of people often correspond the Ebay Partner Network and Blackhat as being a cookie stuffer. That’s true in some cases, but not in mine. I’ve been doing some smaller studies and seeing what kind of damage I can do with EPN, and now that I’ve hit $1000 I figure I should report how [...]

A lot of people often correspond the Ebay Partner Network and Blackhat as being a cookie stuffer. That’s true in some cases, but not in mine.

I’ve been doing some smaller studies and seeing what kind of damage I can do with EPN, and now that I’ve hit $1000 I figure I should report how I did it and more importantly, my response to the “random terminations” that EPN has been doing (in my opinion).

As of right now here are my stats “all time” and I will round to the closest logical number to make it easier to understand.

Clicks: ~13100
EPC: ~$7.95
Earnings: ~$1000

These are not exact results obviously, but here’s the funny thing. I hold a high EPC, I don’t cookie stuff what-so-ever and all of my visitors go to the products that they’re looking for. That’s my whole reasoning for me not being terminated from EPN so far. There were some days where I had 300-400 uniques a day, per site and I was running maybe 3-4 sites. I’m about to scale this out to about 700 and see what kind of numbers I can run with that. We’ll call that the “followup EPN & Blackhat casestudy”. This is not using any link spam what-so-ever and also no cloaking. The methods for the content itself is actually whitehat so it’s very hard to consider this blackhat at all. The only reason I am, is due to the fact that the sites DO get penalized due to … I’m assuming “lack of good quality content”.

There’s a good detail to that, though. They may be penalized, but instead of pulling 300-400 uniques a day they still pull 30-50 uniques a day per domain. So my assumption is that with 700 of them running, even when penalized, I’ll be able to keep up with around 21,000 uniques/day lowball and 35,000 highball. Obviously this is a goal to shoot for, but the actual reasoning behind dictates probably higher penalties and problems trying to scale. I guess we’ll find out just how much it will, assuming I don’t kick the crap out of my server and send it into a million pieces and/or start a datacenter fire.

My costs for this case study were low. A total of $50 was spent. Yes, you heard me right, $50 was spent and over $1000 return. The timeframe for this was really thrown off, I would work a little on it then let it sit. Total time invested in this was about 4-5 hours. 5 hours and $1000 later, that’s not bad for $200 an hour. A total of 4 domains were used, and I have 7 sitting which I’m going to use for this next test.

The method behind this is obviously a win/win situation.

For EPN

• I provide high-converting traffic
• I don’t cookie stuff
• I provide volume
• I provide sales
• There’s no reason for them to terminate me.

For Me

• Low Time Invested
• Low Money Invested
• Big Profit Potential When Scaled

Now, to address the “random EPN terminations” I believe that they have an algorithm on the backend that runs every now and again (like the Google slaps) that calculates both your EPC, conversions, and more importantly in/out keyword purchase ratio. Every time I read about someone that got terminated they were doing whitehat and legit things (with the exception of a few, obviously). What I think happens is that EPN tracks the keyword that the user came in on, and compares that with what they buy. If the user buys something later on that isn’t related to that product (to be safe lets say the same product category) – you get flagged. This will not happen due to one person of course, but lets say if 40%+ of your ‘sales’ are from unrelated searches, you get a ‘termination’.

This is just my take on it, but it does explain why I can keep on with my account and consistently provide traffic and make money – and some white hats have been terminated. But of course, this is my opinion and I can’t confirm it what so ever.

Hope you enjoyed the read.

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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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