(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.