Alrighty. So when it all comes down to it for blackhat, one of the primary goals is simple. Not getting caught. Sounds simple, but it’s definitely not nowadays. The trick is to be able to trick a human. If you can trick the humans, you can trick the bots. And more than that, webspam complaints [...]
For those of you who have not heard, widgetbait is dead. At least in it’s previous, useful fashion. To summarize, JustSayHi got the smackdown for distributing widgets that contained a link back to their online dating site. The technique worked incredibly well, ranking them for tricky keywords like “online dating” or “free online dating”. And [...]
Ok. So some topics with this has been talked to death, and I’ve covered some elements of it before. But I wanted to cover it a bit more in depth. We’re not talking in terms of “how to frontpage” or any of that. This entry is about how to have the articles you submit to [...]
Ok. So after the dramabomb that was yesterday, I thought I’d drop a more traditional entry. The guide here is going to be essentially for people that are constantly worried about the big G getting wise to their tactics. Especially with Google’s recent “shading in” of most whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more [...]
Ok. So this entry is going to be a challenge. If I get too specific, then these links are going to become worthless. Too broad, and you all aren’t getting your 2 minutes worth of quality. But either way, what I’m going to discuss here are “not quite cross site scripting” attacks. Shoving your own [...]
Ok. So when one thinks backs to the pre-Matt Cutts days of Google, what comes to mind? For many, it’s link farms. The golden scepter of early SEO, a properly implemented link farm allowed you to rule your niches with an iron fist. Guess what? The same is true today. It’s just a lot more [...]
Alright. So I’ve talked about link velocity before, but I’ll re-hash it quickly for those who missed it. Link Velocity is essentially the rate at which a site is gaining inbound links on a day to day basis. For anyone on an aggressive link building campaign, you eventually saturate your potential links. You have few [...]
Ok. So for whitehat and grayhat projects, there is an eternal scramble for links. After getting tired of hunting down message boards and blog posts recently, I decided to organize all the data. Holy crap, it makes a huge difference. This works for blackhats, whitehats, grayhats, and anyone else. As long as you’re doing decent [...]
Alright. So I decided I’d pump out a script for you guys today. Here’s the premise: You’re doing a link exchange. Or writing a wordpress plugin that will give credit back to you via link love. Or making a free wordpress template. Or a myspace layout. Or really anything. No matter what, if you’re getting [...]
This was the answer to a question posed to me by a reader. He already got the answer, but I figure I might as well share. Anyone whose ever had a site that gets exponentially larger(a scraper blog, a forum, or anything with large amounts of user contributed data) has at some point noticed a [...]
