Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics

I’ve been getting a few Emails lately about my post on Proper RSSGM Use. So I thought I’d make a quick revisit to the post to help out a few people.

In the jist the emails boil down to long winded speeches about their hatred for installing Article Dashboard and how much bullshit is involved with Zend Optimizer. All I can say is, I completely agree, but don’t forget to use your thinking brains and shoot for some originality when faced with problems like this. Perhaps a Wordpress install? Or you could just get mad and fustrated and end up kicking your poor dog named Wiki out the backdoor. Oops I didn’t just say Wiki outloud did I? You didn’t just hear that.

Lay back and relax while I hypnotise you. This will only take a moment.

You didn’t hear aaaaaaaaaaaaaanything.

Since cloaking and IP Delivery(delivering specific content to only the ips of SE bots) are pretty much the epitome of Black Hat SEO, and none of us are blackhat I thought I’d start a small chaptered tutorial on sneaky alternatives. Understand, ANY form of displaying separate content to engines than what you display to regular users is clearly against the rules(with the exception of flash of course). So these definitely still classify as Black Hat and should never be considered Blue Hat. However, since a large portion of you are going to be experimenting in IP Delivery and various other cloaking methods I might as well teach you some safe methods of doing it, because obviously one wrong move/one missing IP could be the one that gets you banned very quickly. My experience with people who perform ip delivery in particular are that they are VERY cocky about it. Even though it’s a very smart well thought out technology. In all reality they don’t deserve to be cocky about it at all. Infact it’s in their best interest to be as paranoid as possible. The more paranoid they are, the better their sites’ perform. I suggest you take the same mental approach.
Method 1-The Wayward Advertiser
I call this method the Wayward Advertiser because it tricks the engine into thinking your just displaying a auto rotating banner advertisement. No big deal, SE’s have been dealing with those since the early 90’s. This “advertiser” however will force any nonbots to be displayed another page through a redirect. This is very simple.

Step 1
Create your bots view page. This is the page you want to be keyword stuffed and SEO’d to it’s max since that is all the search engine will see. Then put in the frame code. Make sure the frame code is something similar to 468×60 pixels. This is the standard advertisement size. The frame will pull a page called something similar to adspace.html. Of course be creative with it, but give away nothing that this page will be a redirect. Do everything you can to make it look like a legitimate refreshing advertisement page. That includes the filenames.
View the Botsview source here

Step 2
Create the adspace page. This page will contain three different types of code. First it will contain a framebuster sniplet. This will cause the page to bust out of the frames and in return display another page that only the users will see. We’ll dub that page the userviewpage. The second will be in the actual body. This will be a meta refresh tag, that will refresh to the userviewpage as well. This is a failsafe. I like to set this to 3 seconds just incase the user doesn’t have javascript enabled. The next will be either a 468×60 pixel image or some form of link that looks like an advertisement. This will obviously be so incase the search engine decides to follow the frames. Everything will look completely legitimate as an advertisement and it will leave.
View the adspace source here

Step 3
Create the userview page. This will be the real content you want the visitor to see. Of course this isn’t totally necessary you could just redirect the users directly to your affilliate link or whatever you’d like.
View my userview source here

Would you like to see an example?

I will periodically post the rest of the chapters of this over the next couple months. Obviously there are many different ways to accomplish a good cloaking effect. Gimmie some time and I will slowly work my way through a large portion of the quality ones.

Akismet has protected your site from 796 spam comments.

This was from a 24 hour period on Blue Hat SEO. So once again the topic of blog spam has come up. Blog spam is extremely popular, and just because I’m now a blogger myself doesn’t mean I have an excuse to suddenly become naive and pretend it’s not an EXTREMELY powerful and effective way to market. Search engines have been trying their little hearts out for the last couple years to make blog spam useless, but the facts are; They still love every single last link. As it stands now I still can’t come up with a faster way to get indexed than to put up links on 10,000 PR3+ blogs.

Like all highly public link bombing techniques such as comment spamming and trackback spamming, it’s a dying technology. Since I’m a very outspoken advocate of not following the rest of the marketing pack I’ve tried to give out some unique blog spamming tips like how to spam gov and edu sites to help narrow you from the rest of the crowd.

So as boring as this topic is I’m going to come back with another one, and say hey spam these guys. Yes they accept trackbacks
http://blogs.msdn.com/

Just for the record. Since I know for a fact that at least two of the major ppl that spam my site are also regular readers of it, I wanted to state spamming me only slows down how many posts I do a month, not inspires them. So don’t think you’re teaching me something new or impressing me. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind Blue Hat getting spammed or link bombed. If I did, I’d be a hypocrite. Just don’t get the wrong impression.

Update 8/25/06- The spam has stopped completely. Thanks guys. I appreciate it
I’ll give you one more for being so nice: http://blogs.technet.com/

For those of you who are familiar with the popular RSSGM scraper I did want to point out a method I found to properly utilize it. Back in the day I created a couple RSSGM sites, and they got banned pretty quickly (2-5 months). For the sake of cheapness I also put it up on a couple white hat sites(article directories), and surprisingly THEY ARE STILL THERE! It was actually kind of shocking. I put up the RSSGM on subdirectories of Article Dashboard installs. Linked to it on the main page. Then boom, for some reason the article directory gave the RSSGM install quick indexing and some trust credits. So the RSSGM sites still are there, still rank, and are fully indexed.

For shits and giggles I later added multiple RSSGM installs on the same domain and they surpringly also stuck. Kinda funny if you ask me. So if your getting fustrated with your RSSGM installs getting banned so quickly try what I did. They both are free scripts and it works surpringly well.

Just thought I’d point that out since I’m sure there’s a few readers here that I know would really find use from that information.

Hi guys and gals,

I’m having a boring Friday. Which is weird since normally Friday’s are packed with crap to get done. However in light of that I decided to give out another Neat Trick and Hack. Yes I will start putting a lil’ work into the Neat Tricks and Hacks section. For those who don’t understand, the Neat Tricks and Hacks section is mearly a place for mods and SEO tricks that are cool, but I just don’t feel they warrant a place in the Blue Hat Techniques section.

The one today is REALLY easy and doesn’t require any special tools or scripts. You can do it by completely by hand in hardly any time at all. The trick is great over a long period of time and can be done regularly.
Getting Started
1-Go to Wordpress.com and register an account. Log into that account. Keep the browser window open.

2-Go to a wordpress account that obviously doesn’t exist like EliIsGreatInBed.wordpress.com

3-Look at the bottom of the page. You’ll notice something like “The blog you were looking for, eliisgreatinbed.wordpress.com doesn’t exist but you can create it now!”

4-Go to your favorite search engine and search for “The blog you were looking for” “exist but you can create it now” site:wordpress.com
Here’s the link in Google

5)-Open up each result and steal the account simply by typing in the blog title and clicking next.

6-When you are all finished and got enough to keep ya happy log back into your main wordpress account. Each blog you just took will be attached to that account. You can then click on each one and add links on the blogrolls to your main sites!

For those of you reading this post late, sorry you probably missed the land rush and there probably aren’t much Wordpress accounts left. I discovered this trick about 9 months (there were about 9,000 results back then) and I’ve been steadily taking accounts about once a month since. In the spirit of sharing this trick I’m going to retire this trick from being used by myself,. and share the wealth. Personally I’ve used this trick to acquire xx,xxx amount of high quality links. These sites are already in the engines. some of them still rank for their terms. Most still have inbound links from other sites and blogs. Some even have page ranks. I managed to even get one PR6 blog and several PR5’s and dozens of PR4s. Eitherway it’s easy, quick, and it gives you good solid long lasting links. For those of you who are finding all the results already taken, I suggest looking towards the back or middle, or hell just check back later. They pop up all the time. So in two weeks when teh rush dies down there should be a whole new batch for you to snag up.

Enjoy!

If you enjoyed this trick, I have one request. Post some of your good account findings in a comment below. I may even give out a prize to whoever scores the one with the most pre-existing inbound links or highest page rank.

I feel kinda bad about not keeping this site updated as much as I should lately, but I’ve been really busy with the newest projects. Seriously folks, I really do plan to put more time into bluehatseo I just need to get some of the stuff on my desk done first.

In the mean time, since you all have been so loyal and visiting way more often than I actually update. I’ll keep ya busy with a small wordpress hack I’ve developed.

What Is It?
It’s technically not a mod or addon, its just a small template hack. It causes every person that reads one of your posts to automatically ping that post to all the most popular ping services through Pingomatic. This actually saves you a lot of time and creates a nice little circle of promotion. The more visitors your wordpress blog gets the more it gets spread. It also is 100% safe from proxies and possibilities of getting banned from ping services, since every ping comes from the visitor not from your server. I really do hate sending out blogs n’ pings through the server. Infact I avoid it at all costs.

How Do I Install It?
Login to your wordpress account

Click on the Presentation tab

Click on the Theme Editor

Edit the Single Post(singlepost.php)

Scroll through the code till you find
<?php require(’post.php’); ?>
Right below it put this snipplet of code in
pinghack.txt
And your done!

I have plans in the future of writing a Blue Hat Technique for using this same principle to boost the power of blog networks through “interpinging.” This will in a sense utilize the blogs that get more traffic to boost the blogs that get less traffic, which in return boost the rest of the blogs. Causing an upward spiral in a closed blog network. If anyone has a unique idea for this and would like to get featured on Blue Hat SEO.com by actually writing the Blue Hat Technique you are welcome to. I’ll be happy to post it up.
If you’d like to see one of the strange effects of this trick click here.

Getting sick of exchanging links with graybar sites? When I’m forced to do link exchanges for page rank I take a lil different intial approach. I use the ever cool Page Rank Search Tool on SEOChat.com. It allows you to search Google and sort the results by page rank. Start by looking for phrases on your topic.
ie. “Key Phrase” exchange links url

Now if someone would just invent a search engine where you can search for html tags and include an API, I would be in heaven. They could call it Spamgine.