Free Links Freebie- Abandoned Wordpress Accounts.
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. 
Thanks! that is a handy trick Eli… maybe someone else would care to share one or two also.
Wow, those went fast… Someone already snatched em all up. Saw the same idea for blogger blogs a few weeks ago, but think Google may have closed that loop hole.
patrick,
actually blogger can’t be done at the moment. been that way for awhile. However I will give you all a hint. There are two other places you can do this same trick for. One in particular is very good. I won’t say what they are but good luck hunting
Wow, your site is that lacking in content?
1)how can i find the blogs which does not exist.can u give me the simple ways to find it out.
2)in my Presentation tab there is not theme editor option available.
Argh… have they blocked this now?
I am getting stuck at step 5 I think… When I open the result, I see a default, non-edited blog (hello world message, etc)…
WHERE do I type in the blog title? when I try typing it in on my page (the page from step 3) it always says that blog already exists…
What am I missing here?
Thanks
Michael
Hello everyone.
Thanks for the kind responses.
Michael, if it comes up with a default wordpress page then that means someone already stole it and it just hasn’t updated in Google yet. Sorry, but you gotta try the next result. It was no surprise to me that there was a huge rush to snag all these up. The cool thing about this trick though is that it’s never dead until wordpress says it’s dead. Until then, just keep it in the back of your mind and maybe put it on your schedule to snag some a couple weeks from now.
Glad you all liked the trick. I got a sleeve full of them, and I’ll retire them out to you all consistantly throughout the year.
Just check back often for em.
PS. Some sorry sap actually registered EliIsGreatInBed.wordpress.com. All I’ll say is. Build it big. Build it high buddy!
Hi Eli,
Whilst I like this idea… I’m a bit lost as to the point?
Why search Google for WP blogs that you can claim, when you can just register and create your own? What does finding the ones listed in Google get you?
Ah… think I just got it. They’re listed in Google… is that it??
Andy
eli,
hi you are a star i’ve had loads of fun with this one today. 3 pr5s,1 pr4 and 2 pr3s. none unfortunately from wordpress. i think they closed the loophole by saying “this username is already taken” on even pr0 blogs but i used the techniques and some refinement on the search strings to search out some other sources. thanks bruv most fun i’ve had since that moveabletype exploit
itchy
It’s still working, as I’ve gotten a handful of blogs today, but all greyed out in the google toolbar.
Are you seriously saying you can get PR3+ through this method?
Andy
Thanks itchy, enjoy man.
Hey andrew,
since wordpress forwards you when you go to an inactive account it’s impossible to tell your prs until after you snag the account, but yes PR3’s are very common.
Oh, cool.
I’m making that part of my daily strategies. Coupled with an automated tool I’ll be writing to log in, change the blogroll links, and add the details to RSS2Blog which’ll then feed spun content to the blogs, should be a nice little backlink earner
Kudos for sharing,
Andy
Cool Andrew,
I did forget to mention one tip. If you attach too many blogs to one wordpress account they will eventually delete your account. The blogs still exist and you can log into them individually but the main account where they all reside will not be able to be accessed. Just fair warning. That sounds great though. Keep me updated on the project.
Eli,
Thanks for sharing that. I’d already suspected, so I’m adding a max of 10 subdomains per account. I’ll probably go onto add one to one account, another to another account, and so on, looping to the first account again, so that I’m not just signing up 10 subs to 1 account in 5 minutes.
Andy
Note to anyone reading this thread after 12/06
Guess Wordpress got on this one - many of the good sites now show that the account was suspended for violation of the terms of service. Many of the good names also have less than 4 characters a dash, or an underscore which the signup will not allow.
Perhaps this work best:
in a couple months when the grey (or blue) hatters forget and move on to the next set of easy links
With a script to automate some of the more menial tasks
Wow. This trick is still working. Just like Matt L said, you can’t sign up anything less than 3 letters and that have underscore in them. There will always be new accounts created. Just got to stay on top of it.
It still works but at this point you just gotta be fast as hell.
I guess thats what happens.
Just found this site and I am amazed at the amount of info. Not sure how much I can use for my few sites but the ideas are great.
On this one though, how many wordpress blogs can I have using one email? Should I keep it to a certain number and then use different email accounts for others?
A new search on Google only reports 2 pages this evening. Either Google or Wordpress is getting a hand on this to weed out this method. But I agree, it is a pretty slick way of gaining “trust” in search engines.
I guess we will see wordpress accounts with aged and non-seo used blogs for sale 6 months down the road.
Christoph
hehe nah ppl are just fucking it up.
Check this out
http://jarrollo.wordpress.com/
Hi Eli, I tried with Word Press and failed in getting good blogs, but I got myspace accounts with 8 PR4, 83 PR3 and so on, thanks for nice info.
Is this trick still working?
Dino, it doesn’t seem to work with wordpress anymore.
Maybe theres other blog sites/software this would work on. Have a look.
Wordpress now “keeps” the URL and displays an account violation page instead. Same for blogger last time I checked, but I’m sure there are more gems out there just waiting for us…
Looks like this method is dead for wordpress. Any tips Eli?
Nice little trick. Now it doesn´t work any more, but could be helpful in the future. Also portable to other platforms.
This is a cool trick. Thanks A LOT for sharing it. Will be using it from now on.
Hi, I’ve been doing this with myspace but now I realise they’re 301 redirecting all outgoing links through msplinks.com.
Is there anyway to get around this or is myspace now dead in the water for this?
There are only 17 results in Google! Wordpress have caught on.
This is exceedingly clever! Unfortunately, I’m about a year late to take advantage. Took a peek at the google pages for this and yes, not much there.
Yeah, we are too late, but there are other loopholes opening up all the time! Happy hunting!
I am late..