Black Hat SEO Digest

Black Hat Future? Slightly Shady’s Take and Mine….

Today Slightly Shady SEO put up a post about the future of the black hat side of things. It was pretty much to the point and straight up along the lines I’ve been saying. He talks about 3 methods – speed, stealth, and do it yourself.

Go read his post –> Slightly Shady SEO

Over at Black Hat White Hat I talked a few weeks ago about using your own web properties to increase your links. It’s a good plan and one that isn’t talked about much but should be a given.  I covered this a little in one of the Day8 topics, but I felt it was important enough to go over again.

Some easy ways are to use some of the social scripts that are out there – elgg, dolphin, scuttle, pligg, etc…

My take on the future of “real” black hat seo?  It’s going to get harder and harder as time goes on.  The search engines have a vested interest in stopping you, your competition has a vested interest in stopping you, and diminishing returns on your efforts will slowly sap your will (and others) to keep building pages and sites.

Jumping up above the ‘real’ dark stuff and giving yourself a way to stand out from the crowd and even have others bury your spam in real content on a site you own only makes some sense.

Regardless no matter what direction SEO goes in the future it’s going to get harder and harder for the little guy.  If you look at some of Google’s experimental search pages in the Labs – you might see what I’m talking about.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 8 – Gaming your own networks.

You should be using every opportunity to get links pointing to your sites, and to be honest it gets harder everyday.  Between human reviewers, advanced spiders looking for black hat sites, and your competition willing to report you to improve their rankings.

You have a few choices to keep up with the game.  Massive trickery – or you just give up and spend a few weeks building up your own pretty much undetectable link farms.

(personally I like both ideas – cover all the bases).

So how do you create you own little link farm?   I’m building a tool that’s going to help you with your linking in day 9 – but in the mean time there is plenty that you can do.

Idea one:  Datafeed sites that focus on just a certain product (or even just sites or blogs that review certain types or brands of products).  Pull in a couple rss feeds from your other sites and just sit back.  Do some minor link building to get it indexed.  It’s there and waiting for you to add your links to it at any time.  Nothing wrong with it either – and the good news is that those rss feeds might just help you stay out of the supplemental index.   Put up a comment system so others can leave reviews or some way for others to add some comments.  Hell – even if you pay someone to leave a comment on every page it will help.

Idea two:  Set up your own social network sites.  Scuttle is one option but I like ELGG. http://elgg.org/  It takes about 10 minutes to set one of these sites up – and you can pull in your rss feeds to make additional pages.  I threw one up a week ago to support our reality sites, and I’m already getting a few dozen visitors a day.  My link building?  One blast with Bookmarking Demon.  I’d talked about this in the past over at black hat white hat - but I hadn’t done anything ’serious’ with it because I had been using the dolphin social network and it was a pain to install and customize.

However, I’ve built up hundreds of links (that have been spidered) that point to just about all our reality sites between the two systems and since elgg is so easy to install I am going to be stepping up on this big time in the next few weeks.

I’ve even got a few other people to start up and use the system…. so far they all look legit.  Either way they are helping to hide my spam.

Combine the two methods to push links from your datafeed sites to your profile pages on the social networks and you are good to go.  Just remember you need outside links as well – with out outside links coming into your network it’s just going to sit there.

Nothing ground breaking here – and I’m sure if you put some thought into it you can find dozens of ways to make sites that don’t look spammy, allow others to add content, and of course make you some money while it’s all happening.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 10 – MICRO SITES Samples

I’ve already gotten a few questions about day 10 and the micro sites.  I put this package up a few months ago – but it might help you guys who want to put up sites fast.

Here is a sample:

http://adverev.com/sample/photo/

Here is where you get them:

http://adverev.com/sample/ 

Nothing fancy — but they are made to target the categories in Commission Junction.

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