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Black Hat Digest Hacked….

I got an e-mail today pretty much asking me where the heck the next day was.  I figured I couldn’t hide it anymore – Black Hat Digest has been hacked.  Here is the proof:

Yep someone took a chainsaw to the site – it was very traumatic.

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The reality is I can’t possibly keep up with you – you are going to get ahead of me.  That’s perfectly o.k. though because you aren’t required to wait for me.  Just do more of what you have learned…. or learn some more on your own.  Since I usually have to code something up and I support you when you need help, and all that extra stuff – I won’t get this done in 30 days back to back.  Probably a new post in the series once a week at this point.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 9 – Datafeeds Overview

For day 9 we are going to be covering affiliate datafeeds.  What’s a datafeed you say?

Most affiliate networks that have real merchants (sears, walmart, etc..) offer datafeeds of the entire merchants catalog in CVS or some other format.

For the rest of day 9 I’m going to cover ways you can work this stuff to your benefit.   It will be in a series of posts like the previous few days and I’ll cover some different ways of doing things.

I’ll keep wordpress in the loop – and provide the code to my Black Hat members of NSS 2, and I’ll be making a few additional datafeed driven sites for the members area as well.

Might possibly add some code here for you guys as well.  I have a few dozen little scripts and tools I use to make sites and posts out of datafeeds.  Most are going to have to be cleaned up a bit before I hand them out regardless.

Bear with me while I work – You will notice that every “delay” in a new day appearing here usually results in something to help you on your way.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 8 – More Blog Links

Day 8 is kind of boring all around.  It’s about gaining some trust, traffic, and of course spider’s coming to visit you.  I wish I could say you could automate everything but if you aren’t a programmer you just can’t.

There are tools out there to automate certain things, but comments that get you the trust, the visitors, etc… aren’t one of them.

Obviously, since this blog isn’t always about hard work there are ways to make it easier.  In fact – this is probably the easiest way to get a blog going…. and of course get links to whatever you want.

Here is the original link love post – go read it and then come back for a little twist.

For those of you to lazy to click on that link. It basically talks about how to use Digg to blog effortlessly, and the fun little benefits it gives you.  For those of you who have little hamsters running around in your head now, it’s time to think about how to make this work for you a little more even.

Ready?

Set up a foundation site that is a wordpress blog.  Add some ‘real’ content to it.  Digg those content items.

Set up a Black Hat level site that is either wordpress or wordpress mu.  Through digg make sure you blog about 50 related posts and then your posts from your foundation site.

Instant traffic – new IP loving you.  Lot’s of trackbacks sending you bots and traffic, etc..

If you keep thinking you will see plenty of ways to make this idea grow.  If you go the MU route you have plenty of places *subdomains* to go crazy from as well.  The links from digg are legit, get your BH sites spidered, etc…  They even pass along some trust.

Since you aren’t asking other people to ‘digg’ you – you aren’t going to get buried, etc…  You are doing something nice for them and blogging about what they already posted to digg.

Comment Request:  I normally only use digg for this – are there any other social networks that allow you to blog from inside them like dig does?

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