A short update on latest developments aka proof of life.
An intriguing story about time anomalies, paranormal shit and scheduled posts on Wordpress.com that bend the laws of quantum physics.
Is referer spam traffic worth anything? Let's see with a small experiment. I'll ref spam a sample of 100.000 - 1.000.000 hosts (subdomains) depending on how fast it goes and update you with results.
I'm also interested in your actual results if you care to share them about ref spamming as traffic and not links source.
Wordpress did a Microsoft-ish security move that gets me thinking about those who run security there. Funky!
Everybody talks cloaking! It's time for me to somehow cover this subject. It's a chaotic, long post but you might get a few points on search engine cloaking from it.
UPDATE: Take a few minutes and read this paper. It somehow reinforces what I said here about interlinking and such practices. It's a good read:)
First steps to a footprint free existence.
Books always know better then 'online experts' and common sense combined with know-how of internal functionality can answer a lot of questions to which the 'experts' fail.
Remember! A celebrity does not always get it right just because of personal fame or charm. Celebrity status can be achieved over-night (usually by doing something really wrong or stupid), getting it right and knowing stuff takes a lot of study and practice.
I'll discuss here the myths behind search engines processing JavaScript and CSS to find on-page factors' violators and why this just doesn't work! I'll also show you a historycal mistake that gave me goosebumps.
No such un-exhaustible commons! But if you drink alone it lasts longer. Share it and you won't know what hit you when it ends.
Follow the Black Dots dear Blog-Farmer and see how deep the Rabbit Hole goes!
This is a Short Guide on How Not To Setup Your Link Farm (aka blog farm) and will soon be followed by a How To Do It guide!
I just bumped into a thread on WickedFire where ELI from BluetHatSEO.com claims to have setup a .htaccess redirect to the WhiteHouse.gov against a DDos attack.
I bet those who know what I'm talking about are already laughing but for those who are not … please keep reading …!
The tools PHP provides for send emails are simply hilarious and when it all comes down to more advanced stuff you gotta make your own functions.
I went one step further and provided this pretty SMTP class for use in PHP to deliver emails. It supports a lot of cool features including SMTP AUTH for servers that require login, attachments, to, cc, bcc types to destinators and MIME encoding for HTML messages.
Learn to use it and, as my explanations surely suck, test it and ask your questions.
I shall reply promptly!
Trying to fight worm spreads, Microsoft imposed a limit in tcpip.sys to a maximum of 10 half-open connections during one second. Even if this will not affect the average user it will be the difference between night and day for the black hat SEO.
Learn how it works, where to get the patch and how to apply it in this post.
Normalizing special characters from languages like: Spanish and French to their ASCII equivalents is not a really easy task in PHP. My goal is to turn all characters that resemble a t (Ţ) to a t and all those that resemble a c (Ç) to a c and all those that resemble an o (Ŏ) to an o and so on … you get the idea.
And the provided code will do just this!
In this post I will discuss this video by Nancy Andrews and some stuff along the long-tail side of SEO :)
A small tip for black hat SEO who use MFA sites. There are two ways to build MFAs: the smart and less smart way. I'm for the smart way and the reasons are listed here.
strip_tags php function to strip html tags from text has some small issues which lead me to write my own replacement for it. It might come in handy to many of you good PHP coders out there.
This is an updated version so if you got it already overwrite it with this new one.
Short while back I published a tutorial on how to easily find and extract text blocks within HTML. Time has come to evolve. We need to dig deeper and get the sentences out of the text chunks.
Had greatly improved speed based on (PR) Papa Rage's comment in last performance bottleneck post but had to go further as DNS resolving functions in Windows are as slow as it gets.
See what happened, in terms of speed, after rewriting the DNS resolving functions with a twist.
For about two week I will be hiding in the Blackhat Research Lab along with some fellow Blackhat Research Scientists to figure out the new changes in the search engines. We will be running a series of tests and I will share some of the results.
Comments will be handled as usual but I won't be posting during these two weeks unless the sky falls :)
Care to contribute? Enroll!
Large scale link-spam is out. Surgically inserted links to blackhat sites are the future … but will be covered in a future post.
It's almost impossible to get blackhat sites even indexed in MSN in a decent timeframe. Has MSN smartened up? I would read (between the lines) this Interesting Comment from WebMaster Forums' Jeremiah and Interesting Post in their Webmaster Blog.
Most of you will learn almost nothing from this post (so reading is optional :)) but you'll see the things I struggle with, on a daily basis ;) And later on I'll have a cool piece of software for you … not this one :)
Another day has passed and another problem was solved. See how I overcame a bottleneck in performance on a violent scraper C++ software.
Given too many choices people will make the wrong ones. So, we should guide them (and their navigation throughout our sites) the right way - our way!
Choose your destiny!
Please help me make some sense of this: (read the post)
First part of the blackhatvolution series where we will discuss on-site and off-site blackhat methods that work and will keep working as most are now obsolete or have extremely diminished income potential.
How can you find out? and Why you need to know it? Importance of knowing a blog's homepage url.
Google backlink searches show almost nothing but Yahoo! tries harder but may miss some important links which could explain unexplainable high rankings.
The basics of web-scraping plus some practical advice on how to do it right and get what you have been aiming for.
Blackhat Rule #1:
Any shared resources (commons) are eventually destroyed by over-use!
… so how can you find what nobody is showing you!
I have a list of English words containing the following forms:
And you can have it too by downloading it from the site ;)
A simple function to variate text based on given patterns that can serve a lot of purposes.
Very short linkspam code of ethics. Might be worth paying attention to.
Use the Peekaboo method to flash your black-hat sites to the search engines and get them indexed faster! A method that requires coding finesse and returns rather good results.
A quite simple way to get some targeted traffic and potential prospects for your products.
I just received the spam of the century. It got past my junk filter and read it by mistake as Outlook pops it up for you. And I have seen pure penile poetry.
This page will point you to the article content scraping scripts I published. Bookmark it as any article educational scraping script will be linked here.
Free articles for the taking should be easy to access and retrieve. I made this script especially to demonstrate you how to use PHP and cUrl in order to get the content you need from ArticleInsert.com.
GoArticles.com is a huge databse with nonsense articles published only for SEO porpouses. Worst of all, the site is havily cloaked and I will provide an educational script to uncloak it!
