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X Evil (and/or quality) Bloggers

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:52:38 +0000

I recently reskinned Black Hat Digest and noticed that a number of the blogs that I’d been linking to just weren’t ‘alive’ anymore. They either hadn’t posted in over 8 months, or were a parked page or whatever. I figured it’s time for an update. The original post here was all about “Evil” bloggers – but it turns out most of the evil bloggers aren’t posting anymore, or have moved onto warez and other stuff that’s way to deep. I’d rather see more “Quality” bloggers here (You know – the ones that don’t blog about their lunch more than a technique, research, programming, etc…)

There isn’t much financial incentive for “black hat’s”, SEO guys, or programmers to actually put out good information. So those that do should get some credit, your support, and hopefully your encouragement to keep posting. You can do that by linking to them, engaging them in comments, and passing the link love back to them however you can!

So with out further ado – the update list of evil and/or quality bloggers who actually post and are worth reading:

1.) Black Hat Digest and Black Hat – White Hat:

O.K. – Obviously there are two blogs there for spot number 1, and I get to go first since it’s my list. However, BHD is filled with tutorials, code snippets, guides, ideas, and concepts. Enjoy and learn something. Here is a great example post you should go check out: http://www.blackhatdigest.com/using-xml-rpc-to-get-the-last-category-created-on-a-wordpress-blog/. There are about 3 or 4 hundred pages of content here – I’m sure you’ll find something to learn. Both blogs are updated constantly – I can’t find any other BH/seo related blogs that stay updated and are filled with info in my bookmarks – a sad day.

2.) Blue Hat SEO: (honorary mention since he’s not posting)
Eli doesn’t update much (if at all anymore). But I’ll give him credit for being on the first bloggers to talk openly about having different tiers of websites. I happen to know he isn’t dead so maybe he will decide to do some posting again. Even if he doesn’t his blog is a great read for ideas – just remember most of them are quite old so you definitely need to update the ideas to deal with todays reality. Start here if you haven’t read his blog before: http://www.bluehatseo.com/seo-empire-part-1/

3.) Quiet Affiliate:
There are some more decent reads and some code examples here. Enjoy a great writer, that appears to be taking some time to make his posts extra nice just for you. Here is a post to get you started: http://www.quietaffiliate.com/source-code-ab-split-testing-for-your-landing-page

4: ThinkDif:
I love this blog. The author spends quite a bit of time making thoughtful examples of real world issues to help with things like facebook, linkedin, and some rather fine just general programming examples. Here is a great post on getting started with Facebook Programming: http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/todo-and-not-todo-when-developing-facebook-application/

O.K. I had 30 bookmarks in my “SEO BLOG” folder. That’s what left that has posted in the last 8 months. You’ll notice instead of the title of this post being “10″ Evil and/or quality) Bloggers, it’s titled with an “X”. That means it’s up to you to add to it in the comments! Share your site (Yes if it sucks you will get called out on it), or just share a site you enjoy.

Black Hat Digest – Real “digest” finally!

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:40:55 +0000

When I initially bought Black Hat Digest I had every intention of making it a blog where I just link off to other posts, code, etc…

Never really worked out that way, but I did make a “digest” category where I planned to highlight other cool bloggers.

Didn’t happen that way either

Now it seems that most of the blogs I used to read are dead, abandoned, crappy, etc…

Still I’ve made a syndicated section where I’ve got Contempt.me, nickycakes, blackhatdigst, seocracy, and I’ll add in a few others (If your worthy just make a comment here asking and I’ll add you in.)

Here it is:

Syndicated Black Hat Websites and Blogs

Digest – Search Engine Stuff

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:54:29 +0000

Curious if you’ve been banned? Want to see what a search engine see’s when they check your site? Here’s a list of places to let you do things like that. As always feel free to add more resources in the comments.

Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/) – tells you everything about your visitors
Google Banned Checker (http://www.iwebtool.com/google_banned) – check whether a site is banned by Google or not
Search Engine Bot Simulator (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html) – SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.
Indexed pages (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages/) – check the no. of indexed pages for your blog
Spider Simulator (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/) – simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/redirect-check/) – checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.
Search Engine Position (http://www.iwebtool.com/search_engine_position) – Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!
Search Listings Preview (http://www.iwebtool.com/search_listings_preview) – Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! Search

Digest – Keyword Tools

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:53:18 +0000

Plenty of places to find keywords, phrases, etc. I’ve already told my views on wordze here often enough that I won’t mention them. Here are some ways to check how your doing with your keywords, analyze them, etc..

Keyword Verification (Search Engine Placement Check – Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool) – checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Keyword Density Analyser (Mark Horrell – Keyword density analyser) – another SEO tools for keywords
Keyword Cloud (Keyword Cloud – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) – a visual representation of keywords used on a website
Keyword Density (Keyword Density – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) – another SEO tool for checking keyword density
Keyword Difficulty Check (Keyword Difficulty Check – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) – see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases
Keyword Optimizer (Keyword Optimizer – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) – optimizer your keywords with this tool
Keyword Suggestion (Keyword Suggestion Tool) – Find related keywords matching your search

Digest – Places to check page rank

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:50:32 +0000

If your paranoid and don’t want to install the google toolbar – or seoforfirefox. Here are some other places to check page rank……. or if you want to see your future PR:
Rank Checker (Ranking Tool) – Get a overview of your website’s ranking
PageRank Lookup (PageRank Lookup – SEO Tools – Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) – check the PageRank for a website
Google PageRank Prediction (PageRank Prediction – Predict Page Rank Predictor) – check predicted PR of a site
Multi-Rank Checker (Rank Checker) – View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk
PageRank Checker (PageRank Checker – Check Your Google Page Rank) – View your Google PageRank on differnet Google servers

Feel free to add other PR resources in the comments here.

Digest – Slightly Shady

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:53:38 +0000

I really enjoy reading Slightly Shady’s Blog. His posts are always well thought out and he takes the time to really dig deep into things.

If your looking for specifics you probably won’t find it there – but concepts the man’s got under control.

Super Linkable <– One of his recent and Good posts. Enjoy.

* This is the third post in the “digest” section. I’ll keep showcasing bloggers who send out good info. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Black Hat Digest – recommend!

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:47:32 +0000

I’ve started the digest portion of Black Hat Digest. So if you see a good post, or article, or resource, etc… Leave it in a comment here. I’ll check it out and review or mention it.

Just no spam thanks

Digest – Tellinya

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:34:40 +0000

I’ll probably be mentioning 5ubliminals blog a number of times in the digest. I love it. He’s an awesome coder who has taken the time to share some great code.

I think his best piece of work might just be his xml-rpc code. For any of you who have been trying to work with wordpress it’s a huge time saver.

Remote Control WordPress

I’ve got my class, and I use his class probably more than I do my own. His is clean, fast, and works nicely.

Starting the “Digest”

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:31:36 +0000

When I originally bought “blackhatdigest.com” I’d planned to set up a scrapper kind of site. I’d just scrape the results of the places that had good info and post it here.

Obviously I never did that. Instead I turned it into a place where I could help my customers and clients learn more.

That doesn’t mean that the “digest” wasn’t a good idea – there is still a number of great bloggers and people spitting out info out there. So I’ve added a category to this here blog o’ mine. It’s called “digest” and I’ll be showcasing quality bloggers, and great coders who actually teach, help, and are worth reading.

Sorry – I’m still going to ramble, and make my own posts as well.