February 2006
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Blue Hat Techniques04 Feb 2006 03:59 am
Blue Hat Technique #7-Indexed In Google Within 48 Hours
Attention Spam Recipient!
**Limited Time Offer**
For only $29.95 you can be listed in Google within 48 hours and have top 10 placement in Google for any keyword you choose GUARANTEED!
Really?! COOL! I’ll take “Real Estate”, “Computers”, and hell “Internet” to.
I know none of you are amateurs. So as much as I was hoping to bust some pace-makers I won’t bother explaining why this is a scam.
The funny thing is; I get about four or five of these type of emails a day and every time I delete them I catch myself having a quick half second wandering thought. Perhaps, they do know something I don’t. NAH! Then I proceed to hit delete. Admit it, no matter how good you are you catch yourself doing the same thing. I refuse to believe I’m the only insane person in the world.
There is however some truth to the wonderful offer between all the guarantees.
you can be listed in Google within 48 hours
Now to get some things straight. I have no idea what these scammers are talking about. I never bothered to ask them how they plan on getting your site into the Google index within 48 hours. There are really three possibilities:
1) They are straight up lying
2) They are using some crazy blackhat technique
3) They know what I am about to share with you
So to stomp out any myths. Yes, you can get indexed in Google within 48 hours. No, it is not a blackhat technique. It’s really not even that sneaky of a practice. In fact, Google probably likes it because it makes their system better.
Now that I beat around the bush for too long. Here is how you get listed in Google in 48 hours.
1) Get some Google Adsense code.
2) Put the code on the page you want indexed
3) Go to the page in your browser and hit refresh every couple seconds or so until the Community Service ads go away and real advertisers start to appear. This usually takes around 40 or so refreshes, but it really depends.
What happened? Google Adsense does not get paid for the community ads. So they make no money until they can determine exactly what your site is about so they can display relevant ads. So when Google sees people hitting this page with Adsense that isn’t in their index it rushes its little spiders over there to find out what the page is about and spider its content quickly before Google loses more money. For efficiency sake, it uses the information to add your site to the index. This usually happens within 48 hours. Using this technique I’ve seen an entire site go into the index within a couple hours. Some times I’ve seen it take up to 3-4 days. I’m not going to
Guarantee
anything, but I will say this. It works!
For those of you who don’t have an Adsense account, but are in way too much of a hurry to create one. This is probably bad advice, but I’ll say it anyways. Borrow someone else’s. You’re going to remove it soon anyways, and they probably won’t get in any trouble for it because no one is there to click on it.
Two quick side notes for you. First, someone is probably wondering if this is just as good as Google naturally finding your site through other peoples’ links. My research shows yes. Second, this technique may be against Adsense’s Terms of Service. I’m not sure if it is or isn’t, so at the very least DON’T click on your own ad. That’s click fraud. Be nice to Google and their advertisers, and hopefully some day they will be nice to you.
Random Thoughts03 Feb 2006 09:20 am
Don’t Follow The Herd
From reading the title you already know what this article is meant to convince you of. So I will keep it short and spare you the rhetoric.
Search engine rankings are a competition. The people who follow the standard promotion techniques inevitably will always lose. This applies especially to common free promotion techniques. This perhaps became the most transparent with Google’s decision to devalue what was coined the DMOZ affect. In short the DMOZ affect was the sites that were listed in Google’s ability to gain a good page rank and inbound links solely because of the large number sites that mirror dmoz. At this point Google has even gone so far as to stop crawling once they realize the directory is a mirror of DMOZ. The same practice has even been noticed on MSN and Yahoo seems to be in the process of following suit.
The question now is how far will this go? At the moment people are loving the benefits of article writing. I personally believe this is the next on the major search engines chopping block. Will the search engines start devaluing links coming from article directories? Maybe, in the mean time here’s a good philosophy to go by.
Do what everone else does and then some more. This is the only true way to be competative. By regularly reading BlueHatSEO.com you’re at least at a good starting point to moving beyond the herd. I wish you all the success you deserve.
Blue Hat Techniques01 Feb 2006 12:31 pm
Blue Hat Technique #6-Content For Your Website
With the new trend of article sharing there has been raised concerns about duplicate content penalties. So now that everyone is in a fuss about whether or not to use widely spread articles on article submission sites fears begin to rise as to how search engines will react to this. Well, consider this, the author probably submitted the article to a 100+ article directories. Plus, we’ll assume the article was actually used by a good 10 websites a month. By end of a Google update(3 or so months) thats 130 sites that have the exact same article as you do on your website.
This is bad for several reasons.
1) Your site stands much smaller chances of ranking for small phrases and keyword that aren’t used much, but bring good traffic simply because many articles = lots of potential phrases for people to search for. No matter how small the phrase that fits your article you still have 130 sites competing for it.
2) Possible duplicate content penalties. These are a gray area. None of the research I found has been able to accurately explain if or how search engines penalize a site for having the exact same content as another site.
3) You have to link to the authors site and sometimes the article directory you received it from. Search engines then know you are not the original author and they rank the article directories high and the author’s site highest. You get lost in the middle.
Question of the day: How do we get expert content that is truly fresh and not going to be used on any other sites?
This is so stupidly obvious I can’t believe it’s not already ragingly popular. Ask an expert! Can’t find one? Try using chatrooms like IRC. It’s easy to find a chatroom on almost any subject, and chances are if there are people in it. Not only are they bored, but they truly enjoy talking about the subject at hand. Ask them a long pointed question, that will induce a rant. I’ll give an example. What dogs are most impressive in a dog show and why? A question of this manner will induce a huge rant and probably a debate. With a little editing and cleaning up you have yourself an unique expert article on subject.
This tactic is advantageous for several reasons.
1) The content is completely unique. You will be the first to have it. Chat room content generally doesn’t get posted on websites or forums. No one will have content like this.
2) With a little fact checking it will be useful and reliable content for your visitors. This helps if you already know a little bit about your field.
3) It’s MUCH easier than writing your own articles.
Matt Cutts On Webmaster Radio
For those of you who missed the show Matt Cutts gave on Webmaster Radio. You missed a pretty fun chat. I think I actually had almost as much fun in the chat room as Matt Cutts did on the air. Exception of course would be the one or two pissed off webmasters who were upset because their site was outranked by some spam pages. Infact one stood out as being insistently persistent on spamming the chatroom to find out “is it worth the effort to report the spam pages that out rank me?� To a person that obviously is putting a TON of work into trying to personally ask Matt Cutts this question, I can’t help but ask, “wouldn’t it be easier just to fill out the Google’s quick n’ easy report site form?� That aside, the chat was great and so was the interview.
Unfortunately I didn’t get any of my questions asked, but that could of been because they were a little too direct and hard hitting. Ok, so they weren’t hard hitting from a PR point of view or even a digging for secret information aspect, but they were intended to hopefully stomp out a few big rumors that have been circulating way too long for their own good. For Instance, How much actual affect does Page Rank have on the SERPS? Perhaps now we will never know.
Either way I’d have to say the interview was a success even though it went off topic quite a bit. Matt seemed to really harp on subdomain spam although never said Google planned on doing anything about it. I guess you’re safe for another day about.com.
They weren’t too willing to let me post a transcript on my site, so I didn’t harp on the issue, but I will tell you about what I thought the highlights were. Matt did dispel some rumors around the sandbox and it’s relationship to a domain’s age. He said in a PR man’s round about way not to look too deeply into Google’s Patent. He concluded that there are other factors that put sites into the sandbox, and age wasn’t one of the important ones. This tells me two things. One, there is a sandbox effect. Two, the reasons for a site being put into the sandbox aren’t what we think. Perhaps in his next interview he will be willing to indulge in that topic more.
T Minus 5 Minutes
For those of you who aren’t aware Matt Cutts will be doing a live interview on Webmaster Radio in five minutes. I’ll try to post some of the transcript after the show for those of you who missed it.
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