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
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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..

Nice tip. I wish i read the post before wordpress and blogger stoped this. I would have loved some of the free sites that are already listed and have pr.

I’ve only just found this also, late again (:

Argh to late as with all your little tricks.

That makes two of us

Sadly…It seems there still are no more

Interesting…Why would they do that? I don’t understand…maybe it still counts since it is a 301?

ahhh, to have been doing this years ago…

You never cease to amaze me buddy. You inspire ideas and creative thinking haha. Pure hacker mentality

Very educational. Thanks!

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Eli, do you not mind that this guy is pimping stuff on your blog? (see post above)

Cool trick, definately not working anymore. Nice idea in theory though.

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Yes, they have since implemented a system where a name can not be used again. Seems like a bit of a waste, as someone could register mutli business names or popular company or keyword names, and never use them, make them unavailable to everyone else.

Another dead technique. Of well, maybe next time…:(

quite a clever trick will use

I´ve create a tool to help me to find lost blogs… thanks

Hmm, so maybe this trick is dead, but this got me thinking.

Say I run an ecommerce site. Wouldn’t I want to register every fathomable related term on wordpress.com and then link back with keyword rich anchor text? I would imagine that the presence of the keyword in the URL+keyword in anchor text would definitely help build “relevance” for the ecommerce site.

But alas, by comparison, I am a completely newb. Is my logic correct or not at all?

Yes your logic is correct, try it on not just one social network site, but many!

Yes, your correct and you can use the same technique accross many social network / blog sites.

Great idea, I’m going to try it out and see what I can find. Very nice indeed! Thanks!

Christ - the amount of idiots who don’t know the difference between your and you’re…

You are high thinking person for writing blogs and articles.

This is a solid trick though I’m sure there’s NOTHING left after you publicized this lol. Nice find!

Happy new year and thanks for the post.

Loving the blog Eli, I like this idea. Now off to see if there are any left.

Doesn’t even work unless you speak russian and can guess PR in advance.

Cool trick but all used up.

They’re not just used up. WordPress does not allow names (URLs) to be reused anymore. Once a blog is deleted, it’s gone forever. It cannot be re-registered. Link spam trick is dead.

See here too:
[7] http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/complaint-strange-blog-deletion-policy-and-confusing-warnings

I learned a lot from you Eli, thanks for sharing.
I started to set up WordPress blogs to link to my website but they all got banned next day for spammy links. I think I had too many links on the blog’s page and they picked it up. Also I read somewhere to use a proxy when you open a new account with WordPress to cover your IP address.
I still keep trying to get my website to the 1st page of Google…
I need a lot of luck or … hard work.

Interesting

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Great tips! .htaccess is really important…trust me I know…

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As you might expect, this trick no longer works in 2010.

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I’m surprised at how many abandoned wordpress there are available. If someone takes the time, they really can make some serious money off it them.

Sorry… kinda like a noob here (I am a noob). How do I steal the account when wordpress says the site already exists?

Cool trick but all used up….

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

yes they went fast. I was going to use some for my used car [9] http://nabacar.com site.

Nice trick, Eli!

This is a nice trick

Oh dang that would have been SWEET had wordpress not changed up the way they privacy and archive sites. Dang the content aged like that is gold-ish and just sitting dead as a door.

Wordpress is still a mystery to me so this article is huge help for me. Thank you for that”

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Great post Eli

Yeah it surely is, i wonder if it is still working

Nice thanks for feedback

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It is no free links without Google see it.

You need to get a good blog for any website to have a chance at making it in the real world. If you can get one that has a start already all the better. Less new junk on the net and reuse and recycling. It is green man!

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I guess it no longer works…should have read your post earlier

Great advice, tahnk you very much for the tip. I´ll definitely give it a try!

neat trick for WP…easy enough for newbies

Ah… think I just got it. They’re listed in Google… is that it??

Anyhow, maybe the search engines can employ these developers who develop these spam tools!

so you dont just abandoned or deaactive it ..there is a chance!