Comments on: Black Hole SEO: The Real Desert Scraping

by: search engine optimisation

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:36:25 +0000

That is very smart … I am sure Google will hate that type domain

by: Geeks DIY

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:13 +0000

This seems like in interesting way to hijack some search traffic and take advantage of it. It’s a good introduction, to a concept which has a lot of room for us to put our own spin on it to make it work really well. Specifically like Matt was saying about choosing 5 out of the 30K.
Thanks again for a though provoking article!

by: biyografi

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:19:03 +0000

thanks for article. good tecnicks

by: biyografi

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:33:01 +0000

I don’t think Google can do anything against subdomains.

by: seo

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:58:12 +0000

www.seondesign.net : is your changing of your techniques habit good for you?

by: Sheela

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:11:42 +0000

lol@spammy text.

by: MSN hacken

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:59:45 +0000

You convinced me. It is really possible to make a decent income with a website or blog without working with it. I think with your skills and unique tips I will get more traffic and more ways to get money. I will going to monetize as much websites as I can handle.

by: Madhuri Dixit

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:45:21 +0000

Eli you always amaze! I have been working non-stop ever since coming across your gold mine of a blog. Your techniques are always orginal and thought provoking, yet sometimes they are just common sense spun with a genius twist.

by: Eli

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:21:54 +0000

excellent example

by: SEOsnafu

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:00:06 +0000

“…article, piece of media, or video becomes popular and quickly produces it’s own search volume”

Now this sounds even more interesting.
Leave Brittany Alone!

by: Nick

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:55:24 +0000

I really like this website and it makes me wish I’m a programmer so I can understand any of this stuff a bit better.

But I have a question, which probably is the next best thing for a guy like me who really wants to take advantage of these tactics using my own black hat sites…

If I would explain these concepts to a programmer… would he understand it like he should?

by: execute

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:47:59 +0000

this is a great idea!
i just finished to build my scraper…

a few questions:
1) you think i should keep the old layot of the page, or i should just grab the content and ignore the html tags (with some expections - like p, br, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, font, ul ,li)
2) should i keep the original links? right now i’m changing all of the links to: 90% - link to some random page on the site, 10% - outbound link
3) To help SE index my site, i added 5 random links to pages on the top and bottom of each page, and i built HTML Sitemap, and XML Sitemap. is that a good idea ?
4) I changed all the filenames from the original filenames to the page title. So if there was a page called article2.html with the title “Black Hole SEO: The Real Desert Scraping” I’m calling the file “Black_Hole_SEO_The_Real_Desert_Scarping.html”. is that good?
5) Should I wait until the old site is not indexed before I publish my site?

Thanks, Nadav

by: Brandon Adcock

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:35:15 +0000

Man, I wish I knew how to program

by: kameir

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:16:07 +0000

Do you think it will last more than a couple of months before this gets busted by Google?

by: Eric

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:21:52 +0000

Eli what do you mean by “How about exploiting natural traffic demand generated by article branding?”

What is article branding? Are you saying that because we are scraping articles from a previous website than that content must inherently be of interest to searchers?