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Blue Hat Technique #1:Let The Scraper Sites Work For You

Posted By Eli On January 18, 2006 @ 7:37 am In Blue Hat Techniques | 32 Comments

Although it’s rarely talked about it’s no secret that link spammers are increasingly pushing the limits on third site scraper pages in hopes of pushing those of us with legitimate sites down. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the practice; black hat seo companies are buying hundreds of domain names, putting them on separate servers and putting up scripts that read related keywords to a topic and write pages for those keywords that contain links to their sites. These companies are spamming thousands of pages hoping to gain thousands of links. In order to keep those pages from being detected as spam their scripts search Google for each individual word and link to the sites on the top 10 as well.

I personally believe the top search engines are well aware of this practice and are working hard to impliment algorythms to deaden their affects on a site’s rank. For instance, in the latest update Google has appeared to lessen the affects of multiple links to one site on the same domain. This, for the moment, seems to be the best way to control this aspect of spamming. They can’t after all punish any site for an inbound link, because that would open a whole can of worms with sabatoge.

I would like to offer those of you with legitimate sites and linking popularity practices the way to not only beat these spammers, but get thousands of them working for you by showing you my system for beating them and keeping me in the top 10 and them in the bottom 100. The trick these spammers use is quantity, they buy hundreds of domain names and hosting accounts on hundreds of servers. This costs them a lot of money, but in the end it’s worth it to them because they gain thousands of one way links.

So how do you beat someone with all this money to spend on spam promotion? Get them to spend that money promoting you. If you can get them to promote you as well as themselves then by all theory you come out equal with them. You get thousands of other spammers to do the same thing, they end up all equal, and you end up above all of them.

First lets look at an example
[1] http://www.toshibatvs.com/wide-screen-tv.html
as you can see this domain is setup for the phrase “Toshiba Tvs.” Which is then broken down to hundreds of small related phrases like “wide screen tv.” This particular page on the bottom left links to the top 6 sites that rank for that phrase in google. Mine is one of them. I do not own this spam site, they just link to me to look legitimate, so the link to their site will look legitimate as well.

Here’s how you do it
Use their own tools. These scripts use overture keyword tool and google keyword suggestions to find thousands of small competition words for their spam sites to be based on. Look for your main keywords and let the tools break down to much smaller low competition phrases. If you have a legitimate site you can easily rank for many of these phrases simply by putting them somewhere in your site. The first thing I did was make a HUGE list of these phrases, all of which have very low competition. I painstakingly went through the whole list and took out all the ones that in no way pertain to my site. I then took all the remaining ones and scanned my site for those phrases. Anytime one of those phrases would not show up in one of my pages I found an appropriate spot for it that fits my content and I put it in. Boom! your now top 10. This won’t bring you much traffic, it helps, but not a whole lot of good will come from ranking for these thousands of keywords. Except for the fact of course that anytime some spammers script pulls those same keywords from a search using a bigger more competative phrase, you now get a link on their spam page. They spend the money for the domain, they spend the money for the servers and the hosting. They even put in the time to promote inbound links to their spam pages. Your the one that benefits equally from it. The great thing is, once you do this, you’ll instantly start seeing a couple spammers with their hundreds of spam sites linking to you, then more and more and more. This pushes the page their linking to into the top position they they get stuck competiting amongst themselves at the bottom 100. They get a couple thousand links, you get tens of thousands of links. The more spammers that come out of the wood work in hopes of conqueoring your keyword, the more you win.

I have recently starting putting this practice into many of my sites and most of them have skyrocketed above their black hat competitors in the serps for all keywords and high competition keywords. Remember, black hat seo companies will always be coming up with ways to beat the search engines. They may benefit for the short run but they always lose in the end. I stick by one rule of thumb that has always created success for me, “Don’t try to beat the search engines, you will always lose. Focus on beating the people beating the search engines because they will always lose.”

32 Comments To "Blue Hat Technique #1:Let The Scraper Sites Work For You"

#1 Comment By Nomad On October 18, 2006 @ 1:25 pm

Nice #1 tip. Keep up the good work man.

#2 Comment By John The Artist On June 9, 2007 @ 8:45 pm

Eli,

I presume that this one still works but would it be worth the time to mine a good batch of longtail keywords with something like Wordtracker and insert those where appropriate?

#3 Comment By phrench On June 21, 2007 @ 9:41 am

The BH pages surely use “nofollow”.

And also I guess it only works if you’re already in the top ten.

#4 Comment By Raimis On October 16, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

It would be very hard to guess the keywords spammers use and there is still chance that they will rather link to sites with bad PR and position than your. Just wondering what does they use for anchor text? Do they use the same keyword they are building their sites around or maybe the title of for exemple my page if they link to it ?

#5 Comment By david deangelo On January 18, 2008 @ 7:16 am

Very interesting concept. I noticed that a article I submitted to a article directory got picked up by a scraper site which randomly changes the words using theasaurus and have a whole blog that replicates different articles in a different way. The articles becomes hard to comprehend but still they seem to be using this as another way to get backlinks

#6 Comment By WebHostDesignPost On August 3, 2008 @ 10:33 pm

This is interesting. I guess it more of luck to have a spammer site grabbing something of yours and having them stay long enough around, before the search engine catches on to them.

#7 Comment By Used Tires On May 4, 2009 @ 1:05 am

So I am going to try to read your site every day, starting from the beginning, and trying to leave comments… on posts that I feel like leaving them on, lol.

That scraper site you linked to already seems down, which is kinda of like the point that most of these scraper sites don’t last. Although… I do hate them to death, because sometimes they rank really well, and where they shouldn’t be, because they are all pure spam… so much for that “content is king” mantra. Although… I have noticed that its mainly working better on yahoo, so perhaps Google has been and still is superior, lol.

Till next time,

Jean

#8 Comment By Nikita Willy On May 12, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

I’m starting here, Learn about bluehat seo from #1. I’m sorry my english is not good enough. :D

Thanks.

#9 Comment By Peter On September 24, 2009 @ 4:14 am

good post, this is the first time I read Blue hat series,learn a lot!

#10 Comment By Fort Wayne Real Estate On August 18, 2010 @ 10:30 am

Wow. I had no idea that SEO people would go so far as to do something like that. It a pretty sneaky business, eh? I really like the idea that you’ve provided though, Eli. I look forward to reading more about your link building strategies as well.

#11 Comment By Kitchener Real Estate On August 19, 2010 @ 10:21 am

Typically it depends on the business. Most businesses prefer to use Keywords in their website page and even as part of their business name.

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#14 Comment By Luis On September 20, 2010 @ 3:25 pm

Damn spammers….grrr…thanks for the article.

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#19 Comment By economics research On February 23, 2011 @ 5:12 am

Search engines now can detect spam links, spam comments and even articles. From one hand - this is good, because it is a war with black seo. From other - a simple blogger must think about how to protect, optimize and promote his site. He’d rather spend this time on writing his thoughts.

#20 Comment By Bread Machine Reviews On March 20, 2011 @ 3:13 pm

There’s so much great info in this article, but it’s old.I wonder if it’s still practiced?I’d hate to dig up a bunch of longtails only to find that this doesn’t work.

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#24 Comment By Eugene Yeng On July 19, 2011 @ 7:29 am

Very resourceful article. will read on the other articles over the days.
Not usre if we have like many internal pages with those long tail keywords, won’t they dilute our main page PR as we try to rank them? Well, I guess not much and the PR we gain from these Spammer sites will eventually be lots more. Any comments?

#25 Comment By Referencement Internet On September 24, 2011 @ 1:33 am

This is a great idea, before I didn’t think fighting against those massive black hat tactics could work, you are actually making them work for you…
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I presume that this one still works but would it be worth the time to mine a good batch of longtail keywords with something like Wordtracker and insert those where appropriate?

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