http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/20/the-great-fire-wall-of-china/ It turns out there are some disadvantages to living under a communism. Who knew? http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/23/the-physics-of-google/ There are many like me: scientists of the physics of Google. If you're reading this, odds are you are one of us. Together we form the environment of the World Wide Web. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/08/seoktoberfest-sold-out/ Like we didn't see THAT coming . . . http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/10/no-it-doesnt-take-10-years/ Wrong, wrong and wrong with a 2500 year old aphorism sprinkled in. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/10/russian-georgia-war-bombs-google-maps/ In communist Russia, Google maps searches you. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/17/bolt-the-worlds-fastest-man/ Bolt - the perfect name for the worlds fastest man. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/20/marsian-technology-brought-to-earch-by-the-jpl/ It's not quit as cool as plastic, but we've been overdue for some space aged technology from NASA. Now it's here. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/09/two-important-new-google-ranking-factors/ What does Google consider scholarly? http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/15/beijing-dream/ Living the dream. http://seoblackhat.com/2008/08/20/9s-vs-0s-in-pricing-value-vs-quality/ According to Small Biz trends Book Review of the Art of Pricing: 1. The Nine and Zero Effect. People associate the number nine with value and zero with quality. Look at the difference between fast food and a gourmet restaurant. A burger meal can sell for about $4.99 while a gourmet entree at the best place ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321547/ I asked, and you answered. I thank you deeply. Below is a (mildly edited) list of the things that people are expecting from this blog, or the reasons they ended up here. I want to learn some black hat skills to make money online Some tips and tricks from black seo field. How you get links? How you keep links? ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321546/ (Most) SEOs are leeches. We identify phrases with popularity and then push content to the top of the search engine listings for these phrases. Some people build their own buzz and create search volume for phrases that didn’t have any before. Knowing how to generate both visibility and popularity for relatively unknown phrases can take you from being ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321552/ There is one truth not even Matt Cutts will dare to challenge: Buying links will help your indexing and your ranking. Why does Google have a problem with it? Well, let’s look at it from Google’s point of view. They figured out a way to make money by providing relevant results in their search engine listings. To achieve this they ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321550/ Go read this awesome post from your friendly neighbour Mad Hat There seems to be more intelligent conversation on Perez Hilton sometimes. What’s the point of that response? It doesn’t add to the conversation in any way. Rand, why is it pure hypocrisy? Why is it attention baiting? It’s like grade school. You’re a sissy, na ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/285614694/ What would you do if you were driving by the street and a few thousand kilos of lemons fell of the sky? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/274841580/ My friend Darkseo partnered with Busin3ss. Only good things can come of this union. These two gentlemen came up with Blog Farm Explosion. Now, I quitted developing blog farms ever since social bookmarking and tagging came along. Especially since Google got pretty good at unveiling link schemes that lived in same IP ranges. I just didn’t feel ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321551/ Doesn’t matter if as soon as possible (within the hour) there was a message in users’ control panels letting everyone know what happened. Doesn’t matter that they admitted their mistake, communicated promptly and solved the crisis timely. Nor the fact that they promised to refund incorrect charges made to members. They got beaten up. Shit happens. None ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321549/ I will tell you why I think YACG Mass Installer Is Fucking Great A little over a year ago it was really easy to crank up a few million pages generated by some publicly available page generator such as RSSGM, get indexed by the search engines and watch your Adsense income roll in. I already explained why Adsense ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254321548/ This blog has 340 RSS subscribers, so I am asking all 340 of you. Plus those who visit the website instead of subscribing. Why did you subscribe? What do you want from this blog? If you took the time to subscribe I’m sure you can spare one minute to reply to this thread and let me know what ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlackHatSeoDiary/~3/254331513/ (not the latest novel of John Grisham) Later that night Mr Blue Hat SEO decided to piss off the stupid kids of the syndk8 crew… Fuck it, he thought. Not like any real spammer will give a shit about this post anyways, the guys who can crack a captcha read my blog as pure entertainmet. That’s if they ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/cookie-stuffing-revisited/ Recently my blackhat seo hacker friend Chewie went on some seomoz thing and talked briefly about cookie stuffing. Before reading any further you might want to read my post on dropping affiliate cookies which explains what/why/where/when and also my cookie stuffing code examples page. However if you already know the basics then you can get going ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/negative-seo-duplicate-content/ Duplicate content has been a problem for people for a long time. The basic idea is to create many copies of the content on someone elses website to confuse search engines about which one is the true author of the content and force them into supplemental results. Generally this method is unlikely to work ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/scraping-adlabs-search-funnels/ Just uploaded a new script for scraping keywords from AdLabs search funnels, go ahead and check it out Download: AdLabs keyword scraper http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/linking-to-bad-sites/ I recently performed a test which actually quite suprised me. For years there has been the obvious talk of linking to bad neighborhoods but its always been hard to know for sure which sites Google considers “bad”. When I started seeing those “This site may harm your computer.” warnings last year, it got me thinking. But ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/youtube-music-player/ There’s a project I have wanted to do for a long time but I can’t see myself ever having the time. However I’m sure someone out there might be interested so here it is… Everyone knows you can find pretty much any song old and new on youtube, I myself use it quite often instead of ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/msi-wind-review/ Well I finally got my hands on the MSI Wind which in my opinion is better than the eeePC. It compares closely to the eeePC 901 which hasn’t been released yet. It uses the new intel atom processor and has an 80gb standard HD rather than a smaller solid state like the eeePC 901 uses. It’s ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/ukskydivingcom-moan/ So 2 days ago I book a sky dive with ukskydiving.com who are “North london parachute Centre”.. North london my arse, it’s in March, Cambridge and cost me a ridiculous 4 hours travelling (1 hour into London then 3 onwards) and the ticket from London to March station was £77! What a joke, they want ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/quick-post/ This is just a quick post with no real seo focus. To start with, I have a special promo for Boysstuff this week! 25% of anything in their catalog. Okay their prices are a little high to start with but with 25% off they’re pretty good! Just use the coupon code RTN25 before 31/03/2008. The old saying ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/dropping-affiliate-cookies/ So I have run into a bit of a debate on the syndk8 forum about the legalities of the whole cookie dropping thing. Let me make something clear from the get go, I personally don’t give two hoots about people doing this. I have tried it in the past as proof of concept and in the ...] http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/free-pr-links/ This is a method of getting free links. The links: Have Google PageRank (PR) Allow you to use your keywords as the anchor text I’m not going to argue about how accurate PR is. At the end of the day, it’s a quick and easy way to see how much a link is likely to help you. If ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/301486314/ Quoting Richard Koch (’The 80/20 principle’) again, more on time management. The name ‘time management’ gives the game away: it implies that time can be managed more efficiently, that it is a valuable and scarce resource, and that we must dance to its tune. We must be parsimonious with time. Given half a chance, it will escape from us. ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/301394183/ There’s only a few things I like better than having to type a captcha before I can get to my porn or post to my favourite wob2.0 site, things like getting kicked in the crotch, food poisoning and Alanis Morissette. Without further ado, here is how to break captchas part one. — Wintercore - Breaking Gmail’s Audio ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/371572336/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://laconi.ca/trac/">Laconica &ndash; Trac</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.indexhibit.org/">Welcome :: Indexhibit</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.eatock.com/">Index : Daniel Eatock</a></li> </ul> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/370617753/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.reviewsforjoomla.com/Demo/">Demo - Review script for Joomla and Mambo</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.skyscanner.net/">Cheap flights - low cost and budget airline specialist in Europe &amp; Australasia</a></li> <li><a href="http://oooff.com/scripts/adwordsCampaignBuilder/demo/">PPC Campaign Builder v1.0</a></li> <li><a href="http://autopinger.com/ping_health.aspx">Autopinger - Ping Health</a></li> <li><a href="http://reductivelabs.com/projects/pu http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/368722043/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sheldonbrown.com/euhansen.html">Planning Your Own European Bicycle Tour</a></li> </ul> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/372458670/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.trendmapper.com/">TrendMapper - Trends on Search Engines</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.crowdscience.com/">Crowd Science Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="http://sqlbuddy.com/">SQL Buddy - Web based MySQL administration</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.email-standards.org/">http://www.email-standards.org/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.airsafe.com/events/regions/eu_nofat.htm">European Airlines with No Fatal Passenger Events Since 1970</a&gt http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/373968867/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.adcouncil.org/">Ad Council : Home</a></li> <li><a href="http://osocio.org/">Home - Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.maatkit.org/tools.html">Maatkit: a toolkit of utilities and tools for MySQL</a></li> </ul> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/226244702/ via iTulip: In America, land of the bubbles, the next pop will be the biggest. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/376814602/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.joanpiedra.com/jquery/greasemonkey/">jQuery &amp; Greasemonkey: How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey</a></li> </ul> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackhat-seo/~3/363582823/inspiraa <ul> <li><a href="http://www.freedom-engineering.com/">Freedom Engineering - Ben Woods</a></li> </ul> http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/04/01/what-happens-when-you-outsource-your-link-building-to-save-on-it/ Clearly not linking to this mess but for the sake of a live example: www.musicstaff.com/links.asp On the surface, it’s a legitimate decently looking 1997 site with a legitimate business model. But if you look at their links page… sketchy is not even descriptive enough of a word. There’s everything there from discounted adjustable beds to ringtones ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/04/02/proof-that-googlecouk-is-a-separate-search-engine/ You think I’m mad? Lately I have seen so many weird things in google.co.uk that are way too different from google.com that it would lead one to believe these are two separate search engines! 1. Why else would google.co.uk show ads for searches for something like http://www.somedomain.com/somepage.html? Especially since they are ads for the same somedomain.com? ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/04/06/pagerank-changing-not-that-i-care/ … but I’ve been seeing discrepancies between different tools and toolbar PR on multiple sites - could it be an update? http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/05/19/google-crawling-speed-and-search-query-popularity/ Last night I have been researching something and came across some weird stuff in Google. A lot has been said already about Google updating the SERPs more often for the more competitive markets (e.g. “buy viagra” and such) but I saw the proof of the opposite: the less popular a query is (=the less competitive ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/05/04/quantcast-closes-the-backdoor/ You know why I used to love Quantcast, among other reasons? Quantcast.com is a PR 6 authority domain, not very old (registered in 2005) but it gained popularity fast and has 1,480,000 pages indexed in Google. Until recently, you could query any domain and it would create a page for it - and guess what, ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/03/31/exclusive-10-discount-on-fantomaster-cloaking-tools/ If you have been looking for blackhat tools now is a good time to shop for some of the best tools available in this industry. I have negotiated a special discount for my blog readers with nobody other than the great Fantomaster, the maker of the best cloaking tools out there. Generally speaking, for those ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/05/04/google-adwords-scores-leaking-why/ Last week, everybody was discussing Google’s leaked AdWords score values. I guess enough guesses were voiced already about what those values might mean so I wouldn’t bother posting about it if not for one thing. I believe one more question that needs to be asked is WHY these values leaked. Here are the two scenarios and ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/06/15/tramadol-dogs-update/ You may remember a post I did about tramadol for dogs and spam associated with it a while ago. Well so, recently I noticed in my stats that I am getting referrals from Google searches for related terms, e.g. this one. I checked and well, it appears that out of over 23,000 results in Google.co.uk ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/06/06/blackhat-newbie-bootcamp/ The news has reached me that Bompa, a.k.a. the newbie babysitter of Syndk8, has started a Blackhat SEO Bootcamp - basically, a standalone version of his newbie babysitting at Syndk8. Who is it good for? Clearly, newbies. Those same newbies who come to syndk8 without knowing the first thing about SEO in general, let alone ...] http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2008/06/22/your-ads-are-busted/ Recently, I got approached by SEOQuake developers (of SEODigger fame) who let me know about their new tool called AdsSpy. AdsSpy is a tool that does the opposite of SpyFu - if SpyFu lets you see “inside” AdWords and who bids on what keywords, AdsSpy lets you see what sites belong to the same owner ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/354436122/ UPDATE: ASE Boston starts during Restaurant Week in Boston, which means that all the expensive restaurants in the city have special reduced price menus, which is great, but also means you need to make reservations ASAP if you want to even get a seat. One thing that Nickycakes prides himself on is his experience with eating ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/356401261/ Ok, so Nickycakes is, at heart, pretty lazy about some stuff.  The ad spots on this site havent changed in months and the people advertising haven’t even been billed for them in months, mostly because it’s a pain to keep track of whos buying what ads and when to bill them all for like $300 ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/342741022/ Looks like Affiliate Summit East Boston Tickets are about to sell out in the next couple days, so if you’re planning on going, now is the time to get your tix.  ASE is shaping up to be an awesome time.  A bout 75 people signed up with the free code Nickycakes posted last month and ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/373749154/ Alright, so back in January, Cakes’ boy homeboy Yi sent him a free 20″ monitor which, at the time, was a huge improvement to the tiny 17″ single monitor setup he’d been using for years.  Here’s the state of Nickycakes’ home office back in Jan: You’ll notice a few key parts in this pic.  First, the ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/371361569/ It’s been a while since Cakes posted the super-popular gaming campaign (read: Still Can’t Make Money With Facebook Ads?) which consistantly gets hits every day despite that campaign being gone for months.  So it seems like a good time to put another good one out there. Almost every day someone PM’s Nickycakes asking if facebook ads ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/342960169/ Well, Nickycakes managed to get his hands on these a little early, so enjoy!   Sorry for the formatting, but its copy/pasted and the Cakes is far too lazy to format it properly.  This is why your ads keep getting rejected: Summary of Policy Changes 1. Personalized ads • You can only use profile attributes (age, gender, location) in ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/358015883/ Recently there has been a lot of competition between the Affiliate Networks trying to 1-up eachother by offering bigger, better, and more expensive rewards for affiliates bringing in top volume.  Big screen TV’s, motorcycles, laptops, vacations, ipods, gift cards, and pretty much anything you could think of.  There are, however, some awesome affiliate program rewards ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/355578176/ Ok, so ASE is less than 1 week out, and judging from the number of people signed up just through Nickycakes’ link alone, turnout should be awesome.  At affiliate summit west over the winter, things were a little crazy.  Had the Cakes not hooked up with some peeps early on, it would have probably been ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/363463640/ Well, it was certainly awesome meeting everyone at affiliate summit boston.  Nickycakes had an awesome time, met a ton of great people, caught up with people from the last summit, ate a lot of good food, and got a lot of new ideas. The Cakes would like to formally appologize to everyone he sent to Underbar ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/368482606/ Ok, so it’s been about a week since Affiliate Summit East Boston 08 finished up, and Nickycakes this it’s high time for a post detailing what went down.  First a small disclaimer.  Some events and people have been left out at their request, many understandably so.  If you feel like you want to be removed ...]