30 Days to a kick ass foundation – Day Seven – Time to start going ‘dark’
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I’ll probably never be finished with Day 6. I’ll go back occasionally and add more places to build up links over time, but right now it’s time to get your first “black hat” site off the ground. Wait – did I say “Site” – I meant sites – and lots of them. And Fast…..I’m going to make this one easy on you – but you are going to need to do a little leg work and probably for some of you get a little ‘scared’.
AUTO POST YOUR SITE MAPS TO WORDPRESS BLOGS
Why? Well for the first time in your webmaster life we are going to be working with software, moving to the server, then tweaking a wordpress plug in.
Lot’s of places to mess up right?
(IGNORE THAT – I MADE IT PRETTY DANG EASY)
Don’t sweat it – and of course since we are using wordpress and this is the first thing you will be doing on it, if you mess up you can just delete the blog and start over.
Step one: Go download XENU.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Install it on your pc.
Step two:
Spider your site and “export page map to a tab delimited file” using xenu.
Step three:
Install wordpress on your black hat server or hosting account. Make a couple posts and wait one or two days. You want to make sure your spidered by at least Google. (or just be a parasite and use any wordpress mu sites you can find out there.
Turn “pings” off (or leave em on if your brave – test it out and see what happens).
While you are waiting find as many wordpress MU (multi user sites) as you can out there. Join and make some intelligent posts. You want to be approved and off the radar. http://syndk8.net/blogs/stmadeveloper <– I did just a few there to show you what it looks like. If you spam Earl he might either give you a kiss or come after you with a bat – who knows. If you find ones that are abandoned just go to town.
Step four:
Upload the files to any host you want. Needs to be php5 for this to work. I deliver this in a zip file in the newsletter when you get to day 7. Sure I could post it here – but I feel like being mean and making you opt in so you know when I put a new day up – let’s me abuse you too.
Step five:
Turn your pings back on, and make a couple posts. Don’t feel like writing? Do the “digg method”
End result is you now have thousands of pages, all with links going to your sites. If you want you can also add the NSS 2 command center code to your blog. You just have to install the plug in wp-exec for it to work.
Everything will probably make more sense if you watch the video I made to help you. It only takes a few minutes and I won’t help you if you haven’t watched it 
Plenty of room to and ways to use this – use your imagination.
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G says:
March 5th, 2008
2:06 am
I know you have “post in progress” at the top – so you might not have finished this part – but in case you missed it …
Under step four you have “Download this file” with no download link.
admin says:
March 5th, 2008
2:17 am
I hit “publish” and didn’t realize it at first. I thought I had just saved the post so I could finish editing it later.
It’s been spidered and indexed already so I’m just going to leave it up – once I’m done the video and the instructions I’m going to make it available to you guys/gals anyway.
admin says:
March 8th, 2008
5:45 am
The script is complete guys – and it’s delivered via the newsletter when you hit day 7.
Drop me a PM in the 0-98 forum if you need it faster, didn’t get it, or the dog ate it.
admin says:
March 12th, 2008
8:48 pm
There is one thing I forgot to mention up there – that I should have. If your sitemap is very large you might have to break it up into a few pieces. Size limits are different for each server – so if you get a size error warning make it smaller.
I break mine into a few pieces just so I can do it in stages anyway……
admin says:
March 14th, 2008
7:05 pm
You can also add a line of code to the php file to raise the memory limit. PM me in the other98percent forum if you need a hand.
pr0xy122 says:
May 17th, 2008
3:01 pm
Great guide man, thanks for the free scripts too.
Jeff says:
June 6th, 2008
9:15 am
So did I get this correctly?
You post the sitemaps to blogs you consider black hat, but you do use sitemaps from your white hat sites as well?
Or is it sitemaps from middle level sites only?
admin says:
June 6th, 2008
8:39 pm
I pretty much use it for everything. I also use wicki pages, and anything else I feel like (authority sites) at the same time. Search engines need to figure out what’s trusted, etc…
Note: I ONLY do this on sites that can’t be tied to the sites I’m linking to anyway. That means different person registering accounts, getting hosting, etc… My wife, and her sisters, my parents, my sister, and the dog, are all active webmasters that can barely turn on a computer
admin says:
July 30th, 2009
3:14 am
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE XML-RPC ENABLED ON YOUR BLOG FOR THIS TO WORK. IT’S UNDER THE SETTINGS –> WRITTING TAB.
Sam says:
April 20th, 2010
1:28 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the method, but don’t you think it is a bit detectable by google? I mean, having a blog that all of a sudden posts hundreds or thousands of articles with links directed to one site only…that rises all kinds of flags as that blog being a spam blog, plus the money site will probably get banned. What do you think?
admin says:
April 21st, 2010
12:14 am
@sam
Read through some of the comments up there. Sure it’s a spam blog – but there are plenty of ways to hide it.
A lot of those ways are talked about all over this blog and through the 30 day guide.
Let me ask you this — what makes you think YOUR sites are the only ones you have to promote? If you put up a 1000000000 page site that links off to hundreds or thousands of other sites who’s responsible for the spam?
Google can’t tell – and if you get pegged you might just end up with less weight for the links, or supplimental results for some things.
The odds of getting banned are small enough — the odds of them doing a manual review and tracing back your other sites are really really really small.
Sam says:
April 21st, 2010
12:34 pm
Yeah you’re right, I was thinking about that, in fact I started x.e.n.u.ing a lot of other websites. Do you have any idea why w.i.k.i.p.e.d.i.a and other sites deny access to x.e.n.u.?
Sam says:
April 28th, 2010
4:58 pm
Hi,
I have some issues right off the bat. The index.php file appears as txt file when I go to the web address http://site/folder/index.php. if I go to other files in the folder it is fine, the upload works (although sets a question mark in front of the very first line of the sitemap document) and the script is broken giving the following error and stopping there
What’s our Status for this url? ok
Fatal error: Call to undefined function xmlrpc_encode_request() in /web/htdocs/www.site.com/home/images/goblog.php on line 72
And of course no posts are made. The xmlrpc file is found. I am posting on a third party wpmu site.
Thanks for your help.
Sam says:
April 28th, 2010
5:06 pm
Hi, Have no idea why but the index.php file now displays fine… however the other issue stays. I did enable posting with xmlrpc in the blog settings. When I go to the address I get this message
“XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.”
admin says:
April 28th, 2010
5:14 pm
Couple things to check.
1.) Delete the .htaccess file. You probably don’t need it.
2.) That you’ve uploaded everything to right place. Looks like you’ve uploaded files to your image folder with the error message – but you said it’s in a folder when you typed it.
3.) Your fatal error may be related to the htaccess file. Start there.
4.) If you go try and visit a sites xml-rpc file that is the message you get. Doesn’t mean anything is wrong.
Sam says:
April 28th, 2010
9:07 pm
Hi, thanks, I forgot to tell you that the .htaccess had already been deleted. I did not really get the second point. Should it be in the main folder of my server and not in a sub folder? I uploaded all files inside a folder called images, and I am executing the scripts from there. Is this wrong?
admin says:
April 29th, 2010
12:45 am
Sam,
If it’s all in the same folder you should be fine. Your earlier message made it seem like some were in the images folder and some weren’t.
Third party mu sites are hit and miss btw. I’ve had some work and some not. Also the xml-rpc file is always there but that doesn’t mean they have the option to post that way enabled.
Probably the easiest way to help you is for you to drop me a private message at the other98percent.com forums. I’m admin in there – just register for a free account and click forum when you are inside.
Sam says:
April 29th, 2010
10:25 am
Ok, thanks, for the moment I’ll try with another mu site.
Sam says:
April 30th, 2010
3:14 pm
Hi, the forum says I need someone to approve my account. I cannot send a PM until then. Thanks
admin says:
April 30th, 2010
3:52 pm
Sam,
Shouldn’t if you join other98percent. Doesn’t appear that you did.
*(at least I don’t see a sam signing up recently.)
What username did you use so I can get you approved.
Sam says:
April 30th, 2010
3:56 pm
samsamsam is my username
admin says:
April 30th, 2010
3:58 pm
All set.
Sam says:
May 7th, 2010
4:36 pm
Hi,the content of each post is the description of the page only and the keywords. Is there supposed to be some randomly generated text in addition or it is just that?
admin says:
May 7th, 2010
5:34 pm
That’s it for this. It takes your site map and posts it to your blog.
If you don’t want to stand out you can :hide: the category your posting in, use plugins to add content to the posts — or even hack into the goblog.php and add any thing you want.
Sam says:
May 8th, 2010
12:13 am
Thanks, no clue about hacking to add things, but what about plugins to add content? Never heard of any. Do you have suggestions?
admin says:
May 9th, 2010
4:11 pm
Well there are several plugins that hack into the wp loop and add things. Eds Ebay Plugin *if your in nss 2* is just one example. There are others to display rss feeds, etc….
Hang tight – I’ll put one up here in a day or so that grabs your category title and puts rss contnet in your post or something.
Sam says:
May 10th, 2010
10:01 pm
Great, thanks
Ed says:
June 27th, 2010
2:37 pm
Having issues with this script? I helped a user yesterday that had xenu spitting out things in a different structure than I seem to get. Don’t know if he changed settings, if xenu changed, etc….
Here is how you fix it if it’s happening to you.
In his case the cvs file had a different structure so we have to look at the file xenu spits out. Here is what he had:
address is position 0.
status code is position 1,
status type is position 2,
type is position 3,
size is position 4,
title is position 5……….. (name variable below)
Look for this in goblog.php.
$name = $tabbreaks[3];
$statusurl = $tabbreaks[2];
$Link= $tabbreaks[1];
In the text file you are using the link is actually in position 0…. and a few other things are in different spots.
We’ve got to fix the numbers in this chunk of code to match… like this:
$name = $tabbreaks[5];
$statusurl = $tabbreaks[2];
$Link= $tabbreaks[0];
So no matter how xenu is spitting out your csv file you are good.