Slightly Shady SEO | Blackhat is Back, Baby.

Ok, so awhile ago I asked people for some niches to test blackhat on, and more specifically gauge the longetivity. 2 niches have been chosen. One by me, and one by the users. I cannot divulge them yet, but I can give some specs.

Both are moderately competitive. One has has a series of 10 firmly ingrained sites that populate almost any short or medium tail search. Number two has heavy affiliate saturation, and one or two sites that are firmly ingrained at the top.

I’m using 2 very different approaches for each:
Site 1: The site itself is an edu blog I managed to procure(yes, legally). The URL makes it look a little suspicious as a blackhat rig(it’s too many directory levels up). The nature of this means it’s important to dodge complaints, so it’s very tightly filtered as far as traffic goes, and I’m disallowing every major search engine(except Google) to prevent people from seeing backlinks. In addition, I’m hiding the URL in the links I’m sending out, so no one but the search engines will really know it’s an edu(god willing).
The script to do all this is untested, and perhaps a bit messy.
This is a niche I’ve tried to crack before, so this should be fun. I will be dropping about 5000 links every other day on various domains. The initial list of domains is restricted to those domains with a PR higher than 0. The second list is much larger (120k), but is not filtered in anyway. There is a low success rate on each of these; about 4-10%..

Site 2: I’m going to promote it whitehat to begin with, as I have designed up a full featured site for it. The backlinks will not be hidden, as I’m unsure which search engine will rank it the easiest, so I do not want to void out Yahoo/MSN. Once indexing and trust is secured, it will be promoted selectively, by overloading form values that don’t sanitize their input properly. It’s a very very risky way to promote, especially in a market saturated by SEO professionals, but hopefully before I have to get to the blackhat stage, I can saturate the linkdomain: command with whitehat links so the blackhat ones will be pushed past the 1000 limit of Yahoo. It’s all legal, as no hacking or file modification is required. I have pre-selected about 125 sites that will allow this manipulation. The lowest PR domain is PR4, and the highest is PR7. They average to about PR5.8. This is the first time I have ever tested this promotion method, but it should cause a LOT less pollution of the internet/forums, with much higher returns. I will once again state that no files are modified, or created. It’s an entirely reasonable form input that just so happens to return what I want.

Both Sites:
Neither site has any form of cloaking, and both are relatively complex, forcing me to use unique code modified off previous libraries I’ve used. Neither promotion method is the typical way of promoting a site. Both will have a robots.txt file, and neither will have a sitemap.
I have taken out a special VPS for this, and have completely wiped out my XRumer config to ensure seperation of the two. Different link lists to drop links on will be used for each. Depending on how initial runs go, I may need a clean e-mail domain for sign-ups. Message text/subjects will be moderately sneaky, and will vary. In case of failure, I’m allowing myself 1 retry for each niche.

Let’s see how it goes.

Update soon.

Posted on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 6:51 pm in the category:Link Spamming, backlinks, challenge, seo. Comment RSS 2.0 feed. Comment it , or trackback this post.