I just bought my own subscription, and just setup a campaign. Because it was just launched today, I don’t have a solid “review” for you at the moment. However I did want to get the word out because last time, it sold out pretty quickly and the memberships are limited. So if this looks like it’s something you can use, I’d at least try it out for a month. There’s several levels of subscriptions, with varying # of links you get per month. The larger packages are pretty expensive though – but once membership is sold out, you can’t upgrade, so definitely choose wisely..

The other thing I like about Link Aloha, which sometimes isn’t offered with other “services” like this, is that you see detailed reports of where the links are coming from. Another cool feature is that you don’t even need to supply your own content, though you can if you want. The system scrapes articles for you and spins them and submits them. Just need to give urls and keywords and you’re golden.

Check it out here: Link Aloha v2

Xrumer 7 has some great new features… One being that you can now control how Xrumer7 CACHES the files used within your projects. Sounds very dry, however this is an important update, and you’ll understand why in a minute.

Due to this new feature (introduced in Xrumer 7, beta 5) – you can now turn OFF the cache of the #file and #file_links macro. What does this do for us? It’s simple. It allows us to use files that it is CURRENTLY creating DURING the spam run. Why is this so awesome? Because we can add something like this, to your project post template:

#file_links[c:\xrumer\Logs\(put your current project name here)\Anchors id###.txt,10,L]

Using the #file_links[filename.txt,10,L] macro allows you to call a text file from your server, and post a random line from it, or several, in a list format (or single line with space in between). Most people use this to add url lists that they want to promote to their posts. They create a text file of urls they want to promote, and call it in that macro, and then Xrumer, as it’s posting, will grab x # of urls from it and post it in the thread it’s creating. But usually, you have to create that file prior to creating and running your project. With Xrumer 7′s new cache option – you can change this to have it NOT cache these files, therefore – you can have it call a file and post whatever is in it, even as it’s being changed or created while Xrumer is running.

We all know Xrumer creates a log – an “anchors_id###.txt” file during every blast. In that file (which is located in your project folder, which is within the LOGS folder), it adds BBCode formatted urls, 1 per line, using the title of the post as the anchor text. It gives you a list of urls it’s created for you. By creating a project with some post content, you add your links you want to promote in the content like normal, but you can now ALSO add a file_links macro pointing to the anchors text file log it’s GOING to create during the blast. What this does is randomly select links from the CURRENT blast it’s promoting – thus creating a random, open-ended link-wheel. This is basically getting links to your current blast, as it’s blasting, thus helping promote the blast, but this also helps get the threads you are posting INDEXED. You do all this in ONE shot! It’s no longer necessary to send your blasts to some paid service to get indexed. It’s doing this AS it’s blasting! I’ve been doing this for weeks now, and the results are amazing. Let’s go through how to do this, one step at a time.

1. First, you need to edit your xuser.ini file, located in your Xrumer folder. (Make sure Xrumer isn’t loaded while you edit these txt files – and probably a good idea to backup any file you edit). See screenshot:

2. Search for “URLLOAD_CASHTIME=” – the default setting is 120. Change it to 0 to turn it off. See screenshot:

3. Load up Xrumer and create a new project.

4. Add your post content how you normally would. Add any links you are promoting with this blast in the normal fashion.
- Since you don’t have any urls in the anchors txt file in your logs folder (because you haven’t run this project yet) – we’re going to hold off adding the macro to call the anchors file.

5. Start your blast. Once you get 10 or so sucessful posts, stop the run.

6. Edit the current project. In the post content – add this line somewhere:

#file_links[c:\xrumer\Logs\projectname\Anchors id###.txt,10,L]

(see screenshot)

Note regarding that macro:
- I’m assuming c:\xrumer is your xrumer folder.
- “projectname” you would obviously change to the projectname.
- “Anchors id###.txt” will vary, depending on the linklist ID# you are spamming. If the linklist filename you are using is, for example: LinksList id400.txt – then the anchors txt file would be “Anchors id400.txt”. You can verify what the file is (and verify there’s urls currently in it) by just going into your logs folder, looking for your project folder, then checking what the anchors txt filename is in there – that’s what you will use in the macro.

7. Preview the post – you’ll now see anchor text links of the 10 last posts you just posted before you stopped the run. If you don’t see that – then the macro command you added is wrong somehow.

8. Save the project.

9. Continue the blast from where you left off.

10. That’s it! You are now blasting with much more power than before. All your posts will have links randomly pointing to previous submissions you’ve just done – therefore aiding in the indexation of your current blast, AND promoting it, making it more powerful at the SAME time. This is incredibly powerful.

You can find more information like this by joining BHSeos.com – a private blackhat SEO forum with custom backlink tools and advanced blackhat strategies for promoting businesses and websites online.

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Synnd is not really a “backlink tool”. It’s a “social presence” tool. All the social activity a site receives, actually is part of search engine algorithms. This is becoming more important, and a bigger ranking factor every day. If a site continues to get bookmarks, stumbles, diggs, twitter mentions, etc.. every day – the search engines will take these as a “vote” of popularity, and thus will rank it accordingly. Because these social accounts (that are utilized by Synnd) are bookmarking, and commenting on SO MANY different types of sites – it’s more likely to NOT be considered as “gaming” the system, since they aren’t all voting for your site, they’re posting about thousands of different sites all the time, like a normal user would.

Synnd has many subscription levels, and there’s a newer one called “Synnd Lite“. It lets you use their system without paying a lot of money – so you can see the positive effect it has, and can get used to their system without spending a lot of money. There’s a webinar that I think you should check out. It explains the importance of social media and why you should utilize it.

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In the account settings, depending on the type of account you subscribed to, you can actually brand the reports and add your company logo to the top and export as PDF. This is very important if you are a SEO agency. You can choose to receive an email when the report(s) are finished. Here, you can also add various API keys. It’s important to note that LinkResearchTools accesses many external data sets and some of those require API keys (such as SEMRush, Sistrix, and SEOMoz). SEOMoz you can use a free API with limited access, and the others I believe you need to have an account with them. I also want to point out that it does not, by any means, require these metrics to get the most out of LinkResearchTools. It’s great if you have them, and be able to add additional data to these huge reports, however it’s not completely necessary (all the information I’ve writing about below was retrieved by only using a free SEOMoz API key and nothing else). Most of LinkResearchTools information is given to you without the need of those APIkeys. Here’s some information about each of the reports you can run:

The Backlink Profiler (BLP) report

What this tool does is analyze a domain/site, or a specific page on a domain – and gathers all the backlinks that point to that domain or that specific page, allowing you to analyze the backlink data in a number of ways (has numerous graphs, charts, lists, ranking measurements, etc). What’s great about this though – is that it’s not relying on any one source, but rather calling numerous resources (I think there’s about 20). For instance, Yahoo Site explorer – for one of my domains, shows about 5K backlinks, yet Google shows about 400, and Majestic SEO shows about 8K, and so on. It gathers all of them, and gives you enormous amounts of data about EACH backlink, including when it was found, the page rank, the dofollow status, how many backlinks that url itself has pointing to it (this is a huge factor in how strong that backlink is), the mozRank (from SeoMoz), ACRank (MajesticSEO), when the domain was created, what type of site it was (blog/article/forum/etc), the “Juice” factor (something unique with LinkResearchTools and it’s very cool – will go into more detail below), the cache date, if the url has any digg/reddit/fbshares/fblikes/tweets pointing to it, and a LOT more. When you run a backlink profile report – there’s several functions you can choose to include in the report (the more you add, the slower it will take to process – and some you just might not be interested in, so it’s good to only choose what’s necessary).

The “Juice” Indicator is a really interesting ranking metric. Basically, it’s telling you how good of a backlink source is. It can tell you if that page is ranking #1 for a unique phrase on that page, whether that page was found in numerous pages of the site (ie. archive pages, etc), it will tell you if it’s not indexed in Google, whether it’s not alive at all (404), and it will tell you if it’s DUPLICATE content (it found multiple copies of the content on several other sites in the index – such as a syndicated article/press release, etc), and it will also tell you if the page doesn’t really have much content, and might not be worth getting your link on. This is a very cool metric that can quickly identify good backlink sources.

Once the report has finished compiling, the first thing you see is “Link Profile by Metrics”. This is a great way to show large amounts of data. It uses bar graphs, and then shows you how the backlinks are showing up, related to Theme (it tells you the various overall themes of the backlink sites, such as whether they are personal blogs, or sites related to xyz niche, etc). This is fantastic when analyzing several competitors, because you can quickly see any trends regarding the top ranking sites for your chosen niche/keyword and try to similarly gather the same type of themed backlinks as they have, since it’s working for them. It quickly and easily shows you how many backlinks have the above-mentioned characteristics (pagerank,Fblikes,diggs,site type, ACrank,backlinks, MozRank, etc) and you can filter them by only showing the do-follow links, or no-follow links, or sites that just mention the url (instead of linking to it), and it also allows you to filter the backlinks that show up in the reports, but are not actually found on the page (it’s good to remove these when analyzing competitors, but when looking at the profile of one of your own sites, it’s good to find these links and figure out if you can get those links back!)

The next main part of the report is the Anchor Text Breakdown. It will show you the percentages of various anchor texts used, and whether they are do-follow, no-follow, or not found. This is shown by default as pie graphs, but you can also have it show a table of data (everything, by the way, is exportable to CSV/XLS and even PNG/IMAGES).

The last portion of the backlink profile report is the actual dataset listing. Here, it will show all the backlink urls in a sortable table – so you can sort via various metrics (age/pagerank/mozrank/etc) – so you can find out the best backlinks (according to whatever metric you choose). You can also easily filter this list – to show very specific lists, such as: show only the backlinks that have at least 50 backlinks (from Yahoo Site Explorer) pointing to that url, or show links that have Page Rank greater than 1, or show only DOFOLLOW links with a page rank greater than 2, that have at least 1 Digg bookmark. There’s many ways to view this data and this service makes it extremely easy to pull only the data you want to see.

The Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA) report

What this does is compare your site (or any site) to a list of competing sites (or pages) in regards to their backlink profile – using several metrics that you can choose to utilize. You start by adding your url, and then a list of competing urls. You can even just enter a keyword and it will grab the top ten urls and add them to the competing pages list for you. Then you can decide to compare various aspects of them, via various metrics, such as link status and anchor text, Yahoo backlinks, SEOMoz and Majestic Rankings, themes of a domain, type of site, traffic stats, social votes, and more. This is really useful if you want to outrank your competition by outdoing what shows up most prevalent in their linking profiles. For example, one of the main features of this report is that you can classify the list of anchor text keywords that show up repeatedly in the backlinks of your list of sites you entered, by choosing Brand, Money, or Other as a classification. So you can see if your competition is mainly using targeted money keywords, or brand names mainly, or other random anchor text. If most of your competition is using brand names for keywords, chances are it would benefit you to do the same. Let’s say your competitor is showing that they use brands in 65% of their backlinks, and you are only using 30%. If you want to outrank them, one thing you should consider is raising your branding anchor text ratio beyond 65%. It takes a bit of setup on your part, but it’s well worth it. Another useful feature is that it will show you whether your competition has a lot of people (or themselves) tweeting and/or FB sharing/liking.. Whether their links are mostly Do-follow or not, whether most of their backlinks have more backlinks pointed to them, what their authority ranking is (for example – if most of the competition’s backlinks aren’t high quality authority backlinks – that means that it won’t take many “good” links to beat them – or that you can just concentrate on getting more “regular/sub-standard” links and you’ll probably do fine with just getting “more of them”). Just keep in mind that what it’s showing you is what their BACKLINKS are showing (not what their main urls are utilizing). So if you’re seeing a lot of tweeting showing up – it means there’s people tweeting their backlinks, not their sites themselves.

The Common Backlink Tool (CBLT) report

This allows you to enter a group of competing URLS (up to 50) and find which backlinks are most common (at least 2 of them having the same backlink) among your competitors – allowing you to target new backlink sources. It’s a great way to find out where your competition is choosing to get most of their backlinks. I like to put a list of 10 competitors (the more the merrier) – and then sort the urls that show up by Juice rating (this is going to point out the best backlink sources that are actually easy to obtain for yourself) and then make sure it shows up on at least 25% of the list of the urls you added, so I’d make it show only backlinks that were common across 3 or more competing urls. This will give you a great list of good backlink sources that you should try to target. This report will also show you the common themes of your competitions backlink profiles, such as whether they are choosing blogs as the most common backlink source, or forums, or sites related to certain themes (niches).

The Juice report

This allows you to see a list of competing sites – and a general overview of their backlink profiles, not in detail, but more to compare to one another. It’s a way to see how competitive a keyword is (you can enter a keyword and have it compare the top 10) or you can just add your own list of urls. For instance, when I look up one of the keywords that I’ve targeted, I can immediately see that more than half of them have more than 1,000 FB votes, so naturally – facebook is an important aspect of this niche. I can see that most in the top ten have at between 11-100 re-tweets pointing to their urls, that 40% are PR0, 40% are PR6, and 20% are PR5 domains. That half of them have between 100 and 1000 backlinks, and that most are ranked pretty high according to SeoMoz ratings. I can also see that 90% have more than 100K indexed pages so if I want to rank in the top ten, my site will most likely have to be big

Strongest Sub-Pages Tool

This report analyzes one domain at a time. It’s here to tell us the strongest pages of that site. Why would you want to know that? Well – there’s a few reasons that come to mind. First – it’s a good method to analyze a large site that you can get backlinks from, in your niche. Let’s take forums and blogs for example… Forums and blogs are great places to get good backlinks. I would take my keyword, and add Forum or Blog to the keyword and see what forums/blogs are in the niche. Pick a top ranking forum/blog, and get it analyzed. Now you will know the best pages to try and get a link from. For forums, it will most likely show you sub-forum urls near the top, since those are always linked to the most, and that tells you it’s good to start a thread in those particular categories if possible. But it also shows you individual threads that would be good to join in the conversation – with your link in the signature. Same with blogs – it will tell you the posts that are ranked the highest – and would be best to comment on those first. Another reason to use this report is for your own sites – in regards to pushing link juice to other pages that aren’t doing so well. So let’s say you have a very high ranked page according to this report. And you just created a new post and you want that to get more traffic and rankings. You can easily add a link somewhere on the strongest page of your site, and that will take some of that authority and trust that that page has, and pass it along to your new page that you want to do rank better. You can also take these urls and quickly create a backlink profile on them, by just clicking the links in the list.

The Link Juice Thief

This is a very unique tool – something I’ve never really even thought of to look for in this way. What this does is analyze your competitors outbound urls – meaning it scans the pages on the domains you enter in the list (or scraped from the keyword you enter) – and looks for where those sites are linking TO. If they are linking to a page ALREADY, and you can actually get a link on THAT page – you are in a sense, getting your competition to link to YOU (indirectly). This is very cool. Many sites, obviously you won’t be able to get links on, but there’s definitely going to be some that you can perhaps comment on or in some other way, get your links on. For example, if your competition links to a blog post in your niche, and you go and post a comment on that post they linked to, they’re then linking to a page that you are already on – thus linking to you. This tool makes it extremely easy to do your own link juice thievery!

The Link Juice Recovery Tool

This tool will analyze a domain and let you know if any of your backlinks are pointing to a page that doesn’t exist. This is very useful – especially when outsourcing, as they may make typos when linking to your site(s). Another very nice use for this is when you are buying domains. You want to make sure any backlinks pointing to the domain you are buying, are pointing to a page that either exists or is redirected to a page that exists. This will let you know of any sites linking to pages that you should updatec/create/redirect.

The Missing Links Tool

The missing links tool will compare the backlinks of your site, and the backlinks of your competitors, and then will give you a list of domains where your competitors have links but you don’t. Naturally, you’ll want to get as many backlinks that they have, as possible.

Over-all, this set of backlink research tools is my favorite, out of all that I’ve tried so far. It utilizes numerous data sources to compile these reports – which is great because any one service, by itself, generally misses a lot! The reports are completed in a very timely manner (doesn’t take hours, usually less than a couple minutes actually), and presented to you in a very precise, and easy to read information – with very helpful graphs, charts, and tables full of sortable, filterable information – so you can gleam out exactly what you need, and get rid of the info that you don’t need. Another useful feature is that you can save these reports as spreadsheets, images (all the charts, graphs, etc – you can actually save them as images to import into your own reporting if needed), or brandable PDFs (great if you’re a SEO agency). The support has been quick to respond and I am confident that the reporting and services will only get better. Definitely a good investment if you are interested in researching your competitors’ backlink profiles, and/or examining your own sites to find areas needing improvement.

To learn more about Link Research Tools, visit http://www.linkresearchtools.com

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BHSeos.com is doing a promotion with Senuke X. We’re offering 4 months free of BHSeos.com subscription. This is unique, because BHSeos.com is not open to the public – it’s $50/month however it’s a closed forum, not open for new registrations (there’s a waiting list though).

So right now, the only way to even get into BHSeos.com is through this promotion. Senuke X is launching in an hour or two. They have a lifetime license subscription (first time ever). It’s $1995 I believe. If you buy Senuke Lifetime subscription using our link – we’ll throw you $200 worth of membership of BHSeos.com (4 free months access). Here’s the link:

http://senuke.com/amember/go.php?r=102020&i=l2

What is BHSeos?

It’s a private blackhat forum with link building case studies, xrumer tutorials, product reviews, but that’s not all. We build our own custom backlink tools, most notable being BHSeos “Backlinker”. This is the MOST powerful backlinking tool on the market. You can get thousands of links with the push of a button (literally). There’s nothing like it available anywhere. Subscription (if it was available) costs $50 a month. We’ll give you 4 free months access to BHSeos if you purchase SeNuke X with the link below. When the 4 month’s is up, you can choose to renew, or not.

That’s not all…

We’re also working on INTEGRATION with Senuke X. Senuke X allows commandline access to 3rd party tools – to be utilized DURING the run. In other words – you can have Senuke X create a linkwheel or a bunch of web 2.0 properties, then open up Backlinker (automatically) and it will get hundreds of links to all the new link properties you just created, then close backlinker, have Senuke X build some profile links, then open Backlinker up again, backlink those new profile links, close it, go back to SeNuke and bookmark all those links. Do you see the power this can have? There will be NOTHING like it.

You’ll only benefit from this if you are a BHSeos member.

So – go ahead and check out SeNuke X using the link below. Remember to clear your browser cookies prior to clicking the link though!

http://senuke.com/amember/go.php?r=102020&i=l2

Once you purchase Senuke X – just send us a message here and we’ll do some verification and start setting up your subscription!

TOOL IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED – DO NOT PURCHASE.

NEW Link building Packages!

I have my team create backlinks for your sites/urls – using high PR sites that allow public user profiles (similar to sites used in Angela and Paul’s link packs, etc). Just register for free on http://ezprojects.info (if you’re not already a user) – and you can start ordering your jobs right away. All payments are processed by Paypal – and the job gets sent to my team and they start working on your job(s) right away.

So – once you’re logged in to ezprojects.info – you can select your job and add your job description and pay. To start ordering link building jobs – you have two options, a 50 link package, and a 100 link package. The prices are as follows:

- 50 link package is $25
- 100 link package is $45

If you compare those prices with the competition – you’ll see that these prices are extremely fair. Just take a look at these competitor prices:

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Those are MUCH higher than what we are charging.

What we need from you – in the job description, is the url(s) and the keywords/anchor text you want to be used. You can also include any bio text you want them to use (something generic will be used if you don’t – it’s optional). You can add as many urls as you want – however the links will be split evenly between the # of urls you add – so if you add 1 url, you’ll get 100 links pointing to that url. If you add 5 urls, you’ll get 20 links per url. So obviously, don’t add a lot of urls, otherwise the links won’t do much for you. Once the job is completed, you get a report that included where your links were placed (url), including the anchor text that was used. This is very useful, for further promotion of those links.

So check it out – these types of links can be very helpful for your sites, especially if you further promote using BHSeos tools!

Go to http://ezprojects.info and sign up today!

We’re very strict in limiting the saturation effect on our tools we provide, so we cap the # of members subscribed to our forum and our tools (which are included in your membership, such as Backlinker, Facebook Socializer, ReferralDaemon, EmailDaemon, ProxyScraper, SerpScraper, and more!).

That being said – there are some slots open (due to various reasons, such as cancellations, not being able to pay the monthly fees, etc, etc) and we’re temporarily opening the registration page until these slots have been taken. Note: Just registering does NOT save your spot. You MUST subscribe ($50/month) to secure your membership.

The forum is full of great information, members, tools, and a lot more. You won’t regret it.

If you’re on the waiting list, OR if you’re just reading this for the first time – Go to:

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1. Sign up
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3. Login and go to the subscription page and subscribe!

This is open for probably just a couple days (or until the spots get taken).

Thanks!

BHSEOS.COM IS CLOSING TOMORROW!  WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1st, 2010.

Sign up today at $50/mo or you’ll have to be put on a waiting list and wait for someone to cancel their subscription (which never happens).

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However – we are still closing the doors to BHSeos.com once we reach a certain # of members. So whenever that happens (it’s going to happen real soon) – you will not be able to subscribe at ANY price. We are doing this to prevent over-saturation and to keep support at a reasonable level.

Thank you.

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** THE PRICE IS NOW $50/MO **

Just a friendly warning… BHSeos.com is increasing the price of subscription to $25/month on Friday, Oct. 22. It’s currently $10/month, and if you subscribe at the $10/month rate, you get locked in at that price (you won’t pay more, even if we increase the price in the future).

EDIT: We have raised the price to $50/mo.

I highly recommend you get in now, while the price is still so UNBELIEVABLY low. Your subscription entitles you to all the programs we create for our members, as well as the discussions, methods, tips and tricks that are available in the forum threads (see previous posts to learn more about the forum).

Click here to register now before the price increases!

UPDATE: The Price For Subscription to BHSEOS.COM is Now $50/mo. Please do not ask to get in for $25. You can’t. The Forum will be closing (for new registrations) soon so I’d get in while you still can. This is a warning!

Please understand that this is NOT an expert guide to cookie stuffing… This is to be used to get you an IDEA of what you can do with this program, and a few ways of keeping your stuffing activities out of the lime light. I do NOT claim to be a cookie stuffing expert, nor do I claim I make millions doing so. I make decent money via my online activity, and most of it is NOT from stuffing… I just want to get you guys & gals started, and get some basics down so you can start to *think for yourselves*. Internet Marketing, and in particular, cookie stuffing and other black hat activities, is ALL about creativity. There are many ways to skin a cat, and I guarantee other “experts” will have some better ways of accomplishing what I am about to tell you. That’s okay! You will learn from mistakes, learn from experience, etc.. what I guarantee is that you will NOT learn from reading and doing NOTHING. Try it… change it… improve it… that’s what it’s all about.

Okay – let’s get started….

There are NUMEROUS ways of getting your visitors cookied with your affiliate links, thus making a commission if they visit the merchant you are stuffing and still have your cookie. When using The Cookie Labs – the visitor will get stuffed IF and only IF they meet the requirements you set. The Cookie Labs *REQUIRES* a referrer. Let me say that again… The Cookie Labs REQUIRES a referrer. This is to prevent someone from getting stuffed by visiting your site directly, or by viewing the source code (browsers refresh the page when viewing page source code and since it’s a direct visit, there is no stuffing activity so there is nothing to see in the source code). Another way TCL prevents you from getting caught is that it will never allow google or other search engines from caching your cookie stuffing activity – it will never stuff when someone does a “site:yourdomainhere.com” query or by putting any instance of your domain name in the search query. Many AM’s will do research on how your site reacts when a visitor comes to your site from the SE’s and the easiest way to get your site to be listed in the SERPS is by doing a site query or by putting the domain in the query – both of those methods will never show any stuffing activity (even if you add “google” to the referrer). Basically – if you want to stuff your search engine referred visitors – you add google,bing,yahoo as the custom referrer and they will get stuffed only if they see your site listed from a KEYWORD you rank for (nothing else).

Testing TCL campaigns…

Since there are so many security measures in place (like the methods mentioned above), it may be a LITTLE complicated when you are testing your campaigns out – since you can’t easily get stuffed by just visiting your site. So how do you test? The easiest way to test your campaign is by putting a link to your cookie stuffing site, on another site. Then on your TCL server – make sure the “drop frequency” is 100%, add your reflink, and for the custom referrer, just add a period. By adding a period, you are telling TCL to stuff visitors coming from ANY referrer (any other site). Once you got that setup, and the link on another site. Click the link and see if you got a cookie. If everything is setup correctly, then you have successfully setup your campaign. The next thing to do is to change your reflinks to use appropriate referrers and start your traffic campaign and watch the cookies get dropped. If you are still having problems, contact support and we’ll look into it.

Okay – let’s get into setting up TCL from scratch.

First – you install the server side script. This is your cookie stuffing campaign management system and will control all your cookie stuffing domains. Edit the config.php file to use your details (admin name/pword and mysql username/pword, etc) and upload the files. The next step is to upload and activate the WP plugin on the site that you want to stuff (or use the standalone script on a non-wp site).

Login to your TCL server using the username and pword you setup in the config.php file. Your dashboard should look like screenshot above.

Now you need to add your domain to the dashboard. Click on Add Domain and enter the domain URL (not including http OR www) and the drop frequency (you can change that later though). If you are testing, always put it at 100% so you can be sure your test will get stuffed (screenshot below).

Once you’ve added your domain, you need to add your “Reflinks”. These are your affiliate links that you will be stuffing your visitors with. Your reflink will be the controlling factor of what your referrers will look like to the affiliate company. So if you put in a bare affiliate link, ie. “http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P9ZBFA?ie=UTF8&tag=whatever” – that will drop an amazon cookie but it will also leave your cookie stuffing site as the referrer. To be honest, it’s not that big of a deal when stuffing Amazon, however, just to get in the practice of being safe – you shouldn’t use a bare affiliate link. Now, because you are using TCL, chances of an affiliate manager seeing any cookie stuffing activity going on, with your stuffing site, probably is pretty low (like i said earlier, there’s many security measures in place to prevent this) – however there’s just no reason to risk it. It’s better to avoid your stuffing site from EVER being in the picture of any promotion you are doing (in the eyes of the affiliate companies). Screenshot of adding reflinks is below:

So how do you prevent your stuffing site from being in the referrer? Well, for one, you don’t use bare affiliate links. There’s many ways to do this, and we’ll focus on two easy ways…

The first way, and the easiest way, is to use something like CPA-Redirector. You can get that pretty much anywhere (it’s originated at http://contentgeneration.org and there’s a WP plugin based version at http://wpblackhat.com). We have a modified, standalone version on our forum – http://bhseos.com. Basically, you setup CPA-Redirector on ANOTHER site, that has nothing to do with (and has NO TIES to) your stuffing site. That means that you create a wordpress blog or php site that is on another hosting provider than your blackhat sites… You make the site whitehat – nothing funny going on… just some content and a bunch of affiliate product banners… So if you’re stuffing amazon, you make sure the whitehat (cpa-r) blog has amazon product banners on the side or something.. You choose a post or a couple of posts to be the referrer… We won’t go into setting up CPA-R – but basically, you set it up by adding your bare affiliate link (ie. “http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P9ZBFA?ie=UTF8&tag=whatever”) into CPA-R on your whitehat site, choose your magic number and then you’ll have your reflink! So it would be something like: http://whitehatsite.com/some-post/?mn=1234

Now that link redirects to your your affiliate link page, BUT it also makes the referrer show up as:

http://whitehatsite.com/some-post/

SO…

You take your new “affiliate link”,

ie. http://whitehatsite.com/some-post/?mn=1234

And you put that as your “reflink” into your TCL campaign. Now – you’re stuffing your site with a CPA-Redirector link – that will get your cookie dropped, AND at the same time, spoofs the referrer, making it look like the visitor really came from your whitehat site.

Okay – the other method is very similar. You need another site, just like with CPA-R, however – all you need on that other site is an affiliate link to amazon (or whatever you want to stuff). But that link is really just a PHP file on your site – which is just a double meta refresh (or DMR) – making it so that the referrer is now that whitehat site, not your stuffing site. This basically accomplishes the same thing. So on this whitehat site, you’re promoting amazon products let’s say… and one of the links, it should be something like Click here to visit amazon.

In the redirect.php file, you will have something like this:

http://nopaste.info/fc7c37da49.html

What that does is force the referrer to be your whitehat site. That’s all. So now – your “reflink” for your TCL setup will be something like: http://whitehatsite.com/redirect.php

About that DMR code – please note two places that may need to be changed to fit your needs. First, the “redirect.php?stage=2″ portion of the code. If you name the php file something other than “redirect.php”, you’ll need to change that to reflect the file name you chose… Also please change “http://youraffiliatelink.com” to, well, your affiliate link

That’s it.

So getting back to TCL…

You are in the setup of your domain.. Adding reflinks – you add your new CPA-R link (or your DMR link) as the reflink, and now you need to choose the required referrer. What this means is that your visitors will ONLY get stuffed if they come from [the referrer you setup for that reflink].

That’s the basic setup of a Cookie Labs campaign. It’s extremely simple once you know what you are doing. And before I forget – once you setup the campaign – you must PRESS THE PLAY BUTTON next to the domain to start the campaign. You can play, pause or delete any of your campaigns whenever you want. So you need to remember to start the campaign before you test… and you do so by pressing PLAY. If you see a Pause button showing, it means it’s started and you are now stuffing your visitors (assuming the requirements were met).

So let’s say you have an autoblog and most of the traffic is organic. So you want to stuff that organic traffic – you would add “google,bing,yahoo” as the custom referrer in your TCL campaign. What that will do is ONLY stuff visitors that were searching for something in google, bing, or yahoo and your site showed up for the query. No one else will get stuffed.. So if they saw your site link in an article somewhere, or some other site – they won’t get stuffed by clicking it.

If you want any referrer stuffed, you add just a period. However, that’s not wise. The idea here is to only stuff certain visitors that you are controlling… You drive traffic to one particular site or framework (like Facebook, or twitter) – then you use that as the referrer.. That way – if an Affiliate manager comes snooping around your stuffing site – they’ll never get stuffed because they probably won’t know your custom referrer.. It’s more protection for you.

So this is where you need to get creative. One way is to use facebook as the custom referrer – then you create a facebook page that entices people to click to your stuffing site. If the visitor comes from facebook, they get stuffed, if not, no stuffing activity is happening and you’re safe from prying eyes… Remember – you don’t need to sell ANYTHING. You just need to get them to visit your site. So say ANYTHING. Say “click here to get free tickets to [some concert coming up]” or “click here to view [new movie here]” or “click here to see Britney spears naked!”. See what I mean? Just DRIVE THE CLICK. Doesn’t even matter if you deliver. As long as they visit your site – they get stuffed and if they buy anything on Amazon, you get PAID.

Using twitter for the custom referrer. This one is easy. Get a bunch of twitter accounts (you can buy them or create them yourself) – using a program like Tweet Attacks, it’s incredibly easy to get thousands of tweets out – using proxies and multiple accounts to prevent the appearance of “spam” and just make the tweets interesting enough that they’ll click to your stuffing site. Remember – you just need to drive their curiosity…

So – Amazon is a 24h cookie. That sucks. You’ll only get commissions if they visit Amazon and buy something within 24 hours of you stuffing them. So you can either just accept that, or you can get creative and get your visitors on an email list. Send them emails every day or every couple days – make the emails interesting, so that they’ll keep coming back to your site. You’ll need updated content on your site – reasons for them to return. Make a joke of the day site – tell them to see the new jokes for today, they need to visit your site, and then email them about new jokes released (Yes, that’s a really silly idea but it’s creative methods like this that will get people visiting your site and every time they do, they get stuffed and you get PAID).

It’s a whole different ballgame than trying to sell things. You aren’t selling anything when you are stuffing. You just need traffic. You CAN pay for the traffic (I would advise NOT to use Google adwords, as they are just too damn expensive nowadays) however you really need to be stuffing something targeted and something that’s priced high enough to get you larger commissions for that to be profitable. You can easily lose your shirt if you are paying high prices for traffic and you are relying on 4% from Amazon and they end up buying an mp3 song or something…

So if you still haven’t bought The Cookie Labs – you can still get a $50 discount by using this link:

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PS. We will be getting into specific methods for getting traffic to your stuffing campaigns on our forum: http://bhseos.com

It’s only $25/month right now, however that will increase VERY soon so I highly recommend you register now, and lock in this incredibly low rate…

First – you create a new project. Here’s a screenshot of what the project details looks like:

So you fill out the project name, base URL, main keywords, and the captcha service you use (currently Decaptcher and DeathByCaptcha is supported) – and you need a captcha service because all current plugins require captchas to be filled out. Then you check the plugins you want to use for this project.

Click on the next tab, which is “Page Spider”. This tab will allow you to spider your site’s XML sitemap so that it can auto-populate your deep links as well as the meta keywords used. But don’t worry, you don’t need a sitemap or even deep links to use Backlinker (however it’s better to build links to pages other than your index page). You can go to the project overview, where it shows all of your urls and keywords, and you can add them in manually. So go ahead and save your project, click the “Is Active” checkbox and your project is ready to be started!

Go to the status tab and choose the # of threads (you can use a maximum of 50 threads, however there will be lower success rate if you don’t have enough bandwidth/processor/ram to support them). Click Start and it will begin the process. Here’s a screenshot of what a running project looks like:

Many new features and plugins are on the way, including a better GUI, scheduling, new targets to spam, etc.

Backlinker is exclusively for BHSeos.com members only and it’s included with your membership subscription (as are all our custom programs). This new tool by itself, would be several hundred dollars, plus many new and exciting programs are on the way, as well as in-depth tutorials and discussions about blackhat methods and strategies, advanced seo techniques, and more. Currently, membership is only $10 a month. Check out BHSeos.com now!

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UPDATE: The price for BHSeos.com subscription is now $25/month.

Read here to learn more about what BHSeos.com is about.

One of the main features/benefits of this community is not only the conversations in the forum, but the custom tools we are developing for our members. When we launched (just the other day), there were two tools available – ProxyScraper, and Keyword Generator (which also gave you competitive analysis data for the top ten results). Within just 2 days – we now have Referral Daemon, which is a referrer spam tool with an evil twist, as well as Facebook Socializer – which is a simple yet very effective Facebook Friend Adder.

Referral Daemon takes referrer spamming to a whole new level. Once you input the url you want to promote, add a custom user agent to use, and click Start – it’s completely on auto-pilot. What makes this different from other referrer spamming programs is that you don’t need to harvest and scrape any target lists. It scrapes recent links posted on Twitter, spams them, then grabs all outbound links on those pages, and spams them, and continues to grab THOSE outbound links, and spams them — to no end. It won’t stop until you want it to… It brings visitors as well as backlinks from stats programs publicly indexed on search engines. To get started, all you need to do is enter the URL you are promoting, and click Start. That’s it. There’s a couple options you can change, such as # of threads, and the user agent you want it to use, but besides that – this is a one-button spamming machine.

Facebook Socializer is a simple Facebook friend adder. It adds new random friends to the facebook profile you input (you just need to enter an email and password). You tell it the # of friends you want to add, and it goes and grabs them automatically in the background. It even browses profiles, and checks their guestbooks/walls/etc. then looks for more friends, adding them no more than one a minute (anything more than that, and you get blocked). It tries to act like an actual facebook user browsing the profiles. All that with just the push of the button. Nothing to configure, nothing to learn. It couldn’t be simpler.

Simple but effective programs, and this is just the beginning. We’re working on some VERY cool tools so I’d definitely get in now while the entrance fee is so low!

And don’t forget! There’s a program request forum also. Facebook Socializer was a member request – and it was fulfilled within a day (among other scripts that have already been written for other requesting members). That’s what BHSeos.com is all about – providing useful information and tools to help fellow blackhat marketers.

These programs are exclusive to BHSeos.com members so I definitely recommend you sign up now!

Click here to register! It’s only a $25 per month subscription…

UPDATE: The subscription cost for BHSeos.com is now $25/month.

BHSeos.com is a new forum managed by myself (Larceny) and Nuls. This is NOT just another blackhat forum. What we are trying to do here is to create a community where the members can engage, discuss, and learn about all things related to blackhat marketing. We will be offering tools to help automate and create successful marketing campaigns, so that you or your team can better manage your sites and/or your clients’ sites. We’re also focusing on the technical aspects of SEO and various blackhat methods, but more specifically the tools needed to get the job done ie. automation, content creation, promotion, indexation, backlinking, networking, competitive analysis, and much, much more. We will also be reviewing new programs that come onto the market, AND creating our own custom programs (EXCLUSIVE TO BHSEOS.COM), which will be supported in the forum (as well as best practices guides). You will also be able to request custom programs to be developed. Ever had that great idea but didn’t have the programming skills to bring it to life? Now’s your chance! We’ll take the best and/or most common requests and develop them (so everyone in the forum can benefit).

What BHSeos.com offers you:

- A forum to provide solutions for blackhat marketers, by way of discussion, programming knowledge, and support for custom tools and scripts.
- A community where like-minded individuals can get (and give) advice regarding various techniques used to advance the visibility of your sites, or your client’s websites.
- BHSEos will be providing custom tools for all our members (tied/licensed to your forum account). Examples of such tools could be but not limited to: content/SE scrapers, proxy scraper, keyword generation and competitive analysis, mass pinging, RSS generation, referrer spamming, mass backlink generation, and more. We currently already have available: proxy scraper, and keyword gen tool (which also shows you competitive analysis for 1st page results, ie. page rank, domain age, backlinks for page and domain, etc.) – More programs are on their way!
- We will also be taking requests from our members to develop future tools.
- Members can request custom scripts to be made for their individual purposes.

We will be giving back to our members in any way we can. Requests can be made (need a template? need a certain script? Just ask!) – however, we will not be focusing on getting and sharing all the latest, cracked warez as this takes away from the developers that we support, and it also takes your focus away from getting done what needs to be done. It’s all about return on investment, and that includes time.

This is a private forum, and will cost $25 per month. This is needed to support the forum and the time it takes to develop our custom tools. Please understand that the $25 fee is not for profit, but is there to try and prevent (ab)users that register everywhere just to download everything and not contribute useful posts.

To get started – go to http://bhseos.com/register.php and register to BHSeos.com (don’t forget to use a VALID email address and CONFIRM your email!).

Once you have registered, you will need to subscribe to BHSeos.com. You’ll receive instructions on how to subscribe.

That’s it! Once you’ve subscribed via Paypal, you’ll get immediate access to the forum AND the exclusive BHSeos programs. Don’t forget to introduce yourself!

Can’t wait to see you inside!

UPDATE: Price for BHSeos.com is $25/month. Also – the forum will be closing soon (for new registrations) so get in now while you still can. Heed this warning!

There are two options, the base Social Backlinker plugin, and then there is Social Backlinker Pro. There’s several unique features that make even the base version of this plugin, light years ahead of others. Plus there’s add-on modules you can buy (at a low price point) – which open up more sites to promote your posts.

You can purchase Social Backlinker now by clicking here.

Let’s start with the base plugin. What Social Backlinker does – is basically ping, and bookmark your posts. The base program comes with these modules: Twitter, identi.ca, Tumblr, Delicious (pre-Yahoo accounts only), Diigo, Blog.com, Ping.fm & StumbleUpon (however there are more available for purchase). What makes it different from other similar plugins, is that it doesn’t only bookmark and ping your posts at the point of posting. It does so, to MULTIPLE accounts (hundreds or thousands if you want) – but also at RANDOM times. You set a percentage of randomness and whether or not you want it to run at the time of posting or just at random times, and you can set the start date. So let’s say you had 10 accounts for one module – you can have 1 account get used every time you post, and then you can have another account start running at random times, from a week out. Then you can have more accounts start posting randomly next month. You can have it start new accounts all the way till the next century if you wanted. That’s what is so cool about this – you can make it seem like your blog is naturally growing in popularity. This is VERY different from other auto-bookmarking plugins.. They usually only work with one account and they usually run only at the post date. That makes your blog promotion seem very un-natural (is that a word?). There’s no randomness or growth involved with it. That’s what I love about Social Backlinker. You decide – at what percentage – you want the posibility of this account posting a random post of your blog. And it will continue to do so – “possibly” posting another post of yours to this account.

When you install and activate the Social Backlinker plugin – you need to add your verification email to the configuration. Once that’s done – you can start either manually adding your accounts, or you can import a CSV file with the account information. That’s the easiest way. And if you want to get the accounts created for a cheap price – contact me on my blog and I can have them created for you – and even output into the correct CSV format for Social Backlinker. Once you have added all your accounts – you need to decide which accounts have what percentage of posting, whether you want it to post random posts, or if you want it to run every time you write a new post on your blog, how frequent you want the account posted to (how many minutes in between each run), and whether you want that account to show up in the sidebar (widget) of your blog theme. A great feature of this plugin is that if you have hundreds of accounts like I do, you don’t have to do this for each account. You can select multiple accounts (or all of them) and give it a range of options and it will randomly set each account based on your range that you set. I typically will have it set 25%-45% chance of posting and have the frequency set between 300 and 450 minutes. I’ll usually set one account per module – to post every time I post. And I don’t add any accounts to the sidebar. And I have each account start posting at different dates – depending on how many accounts I have, I’ll have them start over a period of a few months – to a year (if I have a LOT).

Now – the fun stuff. Social Backlinker PRO. This is just an amazing feat. What this adds to the feature set is actually really impressive. One of the main features is called “content fuzzing”. What this does is add OTHER links and content to your accounts – other than your own links and sites/content. So let’s say you have an account – not starting to post for another month. Well, instead of that account just sitting there, doing nothing, you can have the program start scraping and posting other links and content to it – that have nothing to do with your blog. This gives the account some randomness, some content to get indexed, and it makes it seem more natural. And it will continue to “fuzz” your account even when it IS posting your content and links. This is a very important feature and will add longetivity to your accounts – since they don’t appear to be self promoting (these social sites don’t appreciate that). With content fuzzing – you can also have it link to other accounts of yours, as well as it will spin the content using taggable templates. You can view the full documentation on the SB sales site. It will randomly select any one of your templates – allowing for extremely unique and random content. Really impressive for a bookmarking plugin (you can hardly even call it that anymore).

Another PRO feature is the ability to use Proxies – so that not all the postings appear from the same server. Pinging your profile urls is also an added benefit of the PRO version as well as an exclusive add-on module “Amplify”.

The last, but extremely important feature that the PRO version gives you, is an activity log. This will let you know what the plugin is doing, and when. And also show you possible errors you are experiencing (this could let you know that you have a closed account or you entered the account data wrong).

I highly recommend Social Backlinker Pro. It’s one of the easiest, hands off ways to promote your blogs. It adds random and continual growth and “buzz” to your sites. I have put this on all my blogs (including this one) and will continue to.

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I want to get something out of the way, right in the beginning. I’m not here to tell you whether cookie stuffing is safe, or whether it’s honorable or not, or whether or not you will get your accounts banned or not (we will get into this later). You will have to make this decision for yourself. All I can say is – you CAN make decent money doing it, and you’ll need a script to help you achieve this.

So – what IS cookie stuffing? It’s when someone visits your site – and they get your cookies, regardless of whether or not they clicked on your link. It’s like “forcing them” to click your link, however it’s not visible to them, and nothing really happens… they don’t click anything, nothing pops up.. You’re not infecting them.. You just get paid a commission if they eventually visit the merchant that you are targeting, and buy something. That’s it. There’s several sides to the argument of whether or not this is right – however it really depends on how you are using it. There ARE in fact, legitimate reasons for using scripts like this – but I’m not going to get further into this matter. You will decide whether this is for you or not.

The Cookie Labs is the easiest stuffing script you’ll ever use. But don’t let that fool you – it’s very advanced and very well written. I know the programmer – and he’s a great guy that definitely knows what he’s doing and he WILL support this project.

Let’s start with what you get when you purchase The Cookie Labs ($50 OFF when purchasing through this link!).

First – you get a WordPress plugin AND a standalone script (to stuff PHP sites that aren’t based on WP) and potentially more plugins (like pligg or joomla) could be easily added if there is enough demand.

Second – you get a centralized control center – which is a self-hosted script that you (easily) install on one of your domains. This is where you control ALL your cookie stuffing campaigns, ie. the drop frequencies, the affiliate links used, the custom referrers <-- more on this in a minute, whether you want to play, pause, or stop your campaigns. It lets you know how many cookies have dropped, the CTR's, the domains you have running or paused, etc.

The centralized control server feature is important -- Many other CS plugins don't have this. And imagine you had a link network, or 1000 autoblogs. And you wanted to change something. That would take days of logging in and out of each site. With the centralized server - you click one button or change one reflink - and ALL your blogs will be dropping the new cookie. It's amazing, and very efficient. You can bulk add 1000 domains if you wanted - and have them all stuffing the same cookie - or each one could have their own cookies... You can have it stuff multiple cookies and it will randomly select one (so if you wanted to make it more natural by having a dozen reflinks or banner links from various parts of your site).

Let's go over one of the most important feature of this plugin. The ability to cookie stuff based on referrers that YOU set. What does this do for you? It allows you to stuff ONLY the visitors coming from a site of your choice (you can just put the domain if you want it to stuff them if they came from ANY page of that site OR you can put a specific URL in case you want to stuff based on a specific landing page). So not only can you choose to stuff based on a referrer (only stuff visitors coming from facebook for example) but you can ALSO stuff *different* cookies based on *different* referrers - in other words, the reflink (affiliate link or whatever you use) is tied to the referrer you set. Here's a screenshot of the control center showing multiple reflinks using specific referrers set.

So you can have different CS campaigns running on the same site – based on traffic coming from different sites. This allows you to stay under the radar. How? Because let’s say you decided to put a bare affiliate link in the setup (something you shouldn’t do) – that would show your cookie stuffing site as the referrer. BUT you at least remembered to set the referrer to facebook. That means if the affiliate manager comes poking around your site – they will see NO evidence of cookie stuffing because there IS NO cookie stuffing going on. They didn’t come from facebook! And no – it won’t be in google’s cache because the plugin is smart enough to NOT cookie stuff when being visited by Google bots and the likes (other search engines). Another thing you can do is only stuff visitors that come from the search engines (by adding “google, bing, yahoo” to the custom referrer option) – however that’s usually not very smart since most AM’s will check the SERPS (precisely for this reason and checking google cache) – but you can if you want.

Ideally – what you want to do is have two step process. You send traffic to one place (whether it’s a site you own, or facebook, or twitter, whatever) – and get people to click over to your cookie stuffing site. Then in your Cookie Labs control center – you set the custom referrer to that first site. Now – even if someone were to somehow find out about your cookie stuffing site – they would never get stuffed, because you are only stuffing people that came from a site you specifically sent traffic to. YOU control who you are stuffing, and then YOU control the game. If you want to make more money, then send more traffic (via PPV, PPC, organic traffic, whatever). It’s that easy!

I’m pretty excited about this script. Most cookie stuffing scripts… they just don’t do this much (or if they do – they’re incredibly complex to setup). This product is extremely easy to use and works very well… There are MANY, MANY ways you can utilize this program to make money – and I will be going through these methods soon (starting another site/forum – more on that later). But one quick way is to just use this as another, easy way to monetize your sites, ie. do you have sites that just don’t convert very well? Do you have a blog network that isn’t necessarily there to make you direct income? What about an autoblog that gets loads of traffic but no sales? Throw this plugin on it – if you get traffic, you can make EASY money. I promise you. Cookie stuffing is the one, for sure, way to make money online, where you don’t need to sell ANYTHING. You literally get paid for having people visit your site. They don’t have to read anything, or click on anything – if they go to the merchant’s site that you stuffed them with – you will make that commission.

When you first purchase this powerful plugin – you’ll be asked to send the domain URL that you plan on installing the Cookie Labs control center on. They will then unlock it for you – and you can get started right away! If you know how to install a WP plugin – you’ll be able to easily get this going in no time. It may take up to 12 hours to get your domain unlocked (just due to time differences, etc) but you won’t be waiting long. Also – you need to have ioncube installed on the server. If it’s not installed – just ask your host to install it. It’s pretty standard though so it won’t be that hard for them if it’s not already there.

Keep an eye on this blog – for MANY more methods to using this program (and others coming soon)!

Oh – and if you buy from this page – you will get $50 discount. It costs $189 regularly… For my readers – it’s only $139. I highly recommend this – it will be supported, and will only get better.

ISA comes with a list of targets so you can get started with the software right away. A “target” is a site that is utilizing one of the services it knows how to create accounts and post on. There are 5 types of sites it can spam – Status.net (or Laconica), Yonkly, Revou, Jisko, and Elgg. They are all pretty similar, all twitter clones. The sites or targets that IAS comes with are already heavily abused and account creation successes are getting very far and few between. So how do you get hundreds of accounts? By scraping your own fresh list of targets to spam. The easiest way to do this is to use my favorite program, “Scrapebox”.

In order for Scrapebox to do it’s job – it needs a footprint, which is a common element within the sites you are targeting. Footprints are typically some phrase that’s on every site that uses that software, or some common element in the URL strings. Below, I list some common footprints you can use with Scrapebox – so it can scrape the search engines and get a fresh list of sites that have those common footprints. There’s one problem though – Scrapebox works better when you are using a footprint WITH a keyword. It uses one connection per keyword & footprint combination. So if you don’t enter any keywords, it will only use one connection and can only find a small amount of sites.. So what I do is scrape a list of general keywords (such as: computers, sports, electronics, celebrities, etc) – then I get a huge list of keywords associated to those and enter those in combination with the footprint – so I can have Scrapebox actually scrape a really large list of targets. You will, of course, get a LOT of duplicates, since there are only so many sites that use these micro-blogging frameworks – but with a huge list of keywords, you should still get several hundred new targets that others won’t be abusing since they won’t bother with taking the time to do all this (even though it only takes a few minutes – internet marketers are lazy by nature… it’s why they chose this field… they were lured by the gurus’ who told them they can make money in their sleep… hah)

Anyhow – back to the footprints… Here’s some footprints to get you started:

- Footprints for: Status.net & Laconica
allintitle:”Public timeline -”
“a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software”
“It runs the Laconica microblogging software, version”
“It runs the Status.net microblogging software, version”
allintitle “Public Timeline -”

Note: I found [strong]2,451[/strong] unique domain targets using Scrapebox

- Footprints for: Yonkly
[FOR YAHOO] inurl:”yonkly.com”
[FOR GOOGLE, BING, AOL] “Yonkly, Knowledge not Noise”

Note: I only found [strong]367[/strong] unique domain targets using Scrapebox (you need to scrape the yahoo footprint separately and then combine them and remove duplicates)

- Footprints for: Revou
“Tell the world what you’re doing at this moment!”

Note: I found [strong]897[/strong] unique domain targets using this footprint.

- Footprints for: Jisko
“Powered by Jisko”

Note: I found [strong]782[/strong] unique domains using Scrapebox

- Footprints for: Elgg
“Powered by Elgg, the leading open source social networking platform”

Note: I found 2,742 unique domain targets using Scrapebox

So – I found a total of 7,239 fresh targets to use with ISA – targets that for the most part, aren’t being abused by everyone. And that’s only with the footprints I mentioned above. There’s probably many more footprints that will get you more results… And if you target other keywords too – you’ll find different targets..

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But first, I thought it would be good to talk about HOW to find the footprints needed for programs like Scrapebox. What Scrapebox does is this: it takes your footprint and keywords, and combines them to create a search query (note: I’ll talk about this a little later, but for now – just know that that you don’t always need keywords, however you will get much larger lists if you use a large word list or keyword list). It then takes that search query and inputs it into Google and/or Yahoo, Bing, and AOL – and records all the sites/URLS that are listed in the results – up to 1000 URLs per query or keyword. Then you can remove the duplicate URLS or duplicate domains and go from there (export it for use in another program or check the page rank, or to be used with Scrapebox’s blog commenter).

So what IS a footprint? It’s something that a search engine can identify easily in your target sites – and it’s common amongst any site that uses the particular framework or CMS that you are targeting. It is important to find a footprint that is found in most, if not ALL the sites that use that particular framework or CMS – AND that it’s NOT found in unrelated sites or sites that are NOT using that framework or CMS. In other words – you want to find a phrase or some aspect of the site’s code that is only in that type of site…

Let’s take the most basic footprints you can use… The “Powered By” footprint. This is a common attribute for sites that use a common framework or CMS. You’ll usually find it at the bottom of any site that uses a particular framework, and it usually links back to the home page of the framework or CMS, however sometimes it’s just regular text. Doesn’t matter though… What you are looking for is the text that’s particular for your target.

For example – if you want to find “pLog” sites.. a footprint you can use is:

“Add comment” “power by plog”

If you enter that into Google – you’ll get a list of pLog sites because it’s now showing all the sites that have BOTH those phrases that I put into quotes.. You might be wondering why I used more than just “power by plog”. Well, it’s because not ALL pLog sites accept comments. It’s an option that the site owner can turn off. Since I’ll be spamming them – I don’t want a list with sites that I can’t utilize – so I make sure it also says “Add comment” somewhere in the site.

You can mix, match, and combine queries. You can make them as complex or as big as you want really… Generally, the more complex the footprint is, the less amount of sites you’ll get back. But you don’t want useless sites either – so make sure it’s general enough to get a large list but not so general that you’ll get a list with sites you can’t utilize. That will either slow down your program (the program that you are importing this list into) or make it not work as well…

Let’s look at another footprint:

“comment” “Powered By ExpressionEngine” –forum

This is to find Expression Engine sites. So I used the popular “Powered By …” phrase, plus the “comment” phrase, but ALSO I added: -forum. What that will do is find all the expression engine sites that do NOT have the word “forum” in them. Remember, you can use various operators and expressions in your queries and these will help you out tremendously. The only problem with certain operators is that they will not always work with all the search engines. Many Google operators or expressions will not work with Bing or AOL… So sometimes I’ll have two sets of footprints – ones that work with Google, and ones that are more universal and will work with all (or most) of the search engines. I’ll then scrape the Google ones first (making sure Scrapebox is set to only scrape Google), then I’ll do the other 3 search engines with the other footprints that aren’t unique to Google’s parameters, and then I’ll combine those lists and remove the duplicates.

So how do you find these phrases? What I will do is take at least THREE sites that I KNOW are using the framework or CMS that I am targeting, and open them in my internet browser. I’ll then view the SOURCE CODE. This is important because you want to view the page as the search engines do – which is usually just plain text or source code. It’s important too, because some sites don’t make it very easy to find the common traits – because they’ll use images or hide things with CSS or the page is just too big or complex to find little bits of common text. It’s just much easier to look at the source code.

So what you need to find are unique phrases or bits of code that are found in ALL three (or however many) sites you have open.. And make sure it’s specific to that type of site – meaning it’s not found in other sites..

The first thing you want to look for is the name of the framework or CMS you are targeting. If that’s not present anywhere (check all your sites – sometimes the developers of the particular site remove any instance of the framework or CMS – although this isn’t the norm, so even if one of them does it, the majority won’t.) – then you need to start looking for other common traits.. Something in the navigation or the footer that is common to all the sites that use that framework…

Something to remember: You are looking for unique phrases, but this does not mean you can’t use common words or phrases.. Sometimes it’s the ORDER of the phrase(s) or the fact that all the sites have ALL the parts/words or phrases whereas other sites might have part of it, but they won’t have all of it.. So you can then make sure in your query that it’s looking for sites that have ALL the words, and not just SOME of the words..

For example – if you want to find Blog2Evolution sites.. one of the footprints you can use is:
“Your email address will not be revealed on this site.” +”Your URL will be displayed.”

Those phrases/words by themselves aren’t very unique, however, with that query, you are telling the search engines that those entire phrases are BOTH required to show up on the page somewhere… That query will then give you a list of Blog2Evolution sites.

You always want to test your footprints in Google.com – just to make sure they are pulling the right sites. You don’t want to waste a lot of your time, proxies, and bandwidth, scraping a big list of sites that are worthless (remember – a footprint that isn’t pulling the sites you want – it will STILL pull sometimes LARGE lists of sites, and if they aren’t the target you are looking for – it’s a big waste of time and energy…). So once I find a good footprint (or what I think is a good footprint), I’ll just copy and paste it into Google’s search field and look at the results. If the search results are showing the type of sites you are looking for, you’re good to go. Just make sure you look at a few pages, and also make sure there ARE multiple pages (if it only finds a few results, then your footprint is obviously TOO specific). Also – many good footprints won’t be 100%. There WILL be some sites that show up, that you won’t be able to use, or aren’t the right type of site. That’s okay.. As long as it’s not the majority, you should still be able to use the list (a good program will just skip the sites that aren’t valid, or it won’t spend too much time with them).

Once you have your footprint(s), you can then scrape the search engines to get a big list of targets. I generally will use public proxies (harvested and tested with Scrapebox) when scraping search engines (if I’m blog commenting – I use my own private proxies). The # of proxies depends on how many queries you will be doing. Sometimes you can get away with only using 30 or so, but generally I like to have at least 75.. The more the better.. 150 or more is optimal.

So, going back to what I mentioned earlier about Scrapebox needing keywords with the footprint… If you are entering one footprint at a time (in other words, you’re not using the multiple footprint mode) – you don’t need a keyword. However, you do need to remember a few key points:

1. Scrapebox will use ONE connection (meaning ONE proxy) per footprint/keyword combination. That means if you don’t have any keywords listed – it’s not going to scrape with multiple threads, so it will be slower. This also means that it’s just using one proxy – which isn’t good because if you are using public proxies, and the particular proxy that it chose for this thread wasn’t working at that time, or is banned, you will get bad results, if any.
2. The search engines typically will only show you 1,000 results per query. So if you are using a footprint with no keywords, that’s only one query and you will get at MOST, only 1000 results. That’s not a lot, considering many will be duplicates or numerous URLs from the same domain.
3. Since you will only get 1,000 results, you probably aren’t getting all the sites that have that footprint. Using large keyword lists or word lists will get you much better/longer results…

That being said – I do it both ways (wow, that sounded wrong).. I do one run with just the footprint and no keywords (and I’ll either use NO proxy for this, or I’ll use one of my private proxies if my proxy gets banned), and then I’ll do a run with a large word list. The word list can either be targeted – meaning you want to find sites related to a certain niche (however your list will be MUCH smaller this way and will probably have 90% duplicates since targeted keyword lists by nature have similar words that will output similar results) – or you can use a very general word list (the more general, the better). However, you don’t want a normal keyword list like you are used to. You want general, UNRELATED words (unrelated from other words in your list). You basically want the search engines to find as many sites as possible – so if you use similar words, they will find similar sites – so your list might be big – but once you de-dupe it, it will be MUCH smaller (probably by 95% at least). The reason I also do a run with no keywords – is that if your target isn’t related to any of the words you have in your keyword list, then you won’t get a lot of the sites that are using that framework or CMS. So to get the best target list possible, I will do a run with no keywords (just the footprint) and combine those results with the run I did with my large word list.

When using a keyword or word list, the trick is to use words like “computers, electronics, women, man, sports, college, education, science”… You get what I mean.. General keywords.. Broad keywords.. Words that will output many more results than very specific keywords. Another trick is to use a “common word list”. You can find these all over the web. The only problem with these is that many are words that aren’t related or used with your target framework or CMS, and/or they are in multiple languages, or they are in alphabetical order and have very similar words (in other words, you don’t want to use a dictionary).

Here’s a list of words (mostly nouns) that you can use: wordlist1_nouns.txt.

Remember – that word list is around 1K words – that’s a LOT of search queries.. Even when using hundreds of proxies, many will get banned. This is one reason I don’t do multiple footprints at once… You’ll start getting bad or no results
due to the proxies being banned. Even when doing one footprint at a time, with a large word list, you can still get banned – especially if you are running one footprint after another. So you might have to harvest and test new proxies in between runs, or unlock the proxies using Scrapebox and Decaptcher. Another thing you can try is to make the list smaller. Cut the list into 3 separate lists and do 3 different runs.

So, to recap:

1. Load at least 3 websites that you know are using the CMS or framework you are targeting, in your browser.
2. View the source code to find similar phrases or common aspects of the sites in question, and make sure they are in all the sites you are looking at. Also, make sure they aren’t too general (if it’s too general, you’ll get a lot of unrelated sites).
3. Test the footprint (query) in Google.com and make sure it’s providing the targets you want.
4. Load up Scrapebox and add the footprint/query into the program (make sure you have loaded good/tested proxies).
5. Don’t import any keywords and start harvesting your list.
6. Remove duplicates (depending on what you are using this list for – you’ll probably want to remove duplicate DOMAINS).
7. Import your word list into Scrapebox and re-harvest your list.
8. Remove the duplicates again. That’s it!

I hope this has been helpful.  As always, let me know if you have any questions and…  Have Phun!

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Also – I’m going to be revamping and reorganizing the site so it’s easier to find the information you are looking for. I’ve also incorporated a backlink list feature that I’m testing out right now – it’s currently showing hundreds of sites you can get backlinks from – but you’ll only get access to this if you’re on my list. It’s completely free for my readers – although it’s a work in progress so it’s not ready yet…

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When you login – you’ll see two main options in the “Dashboard” – Create New Article and View All Articles. Viewing your articles is how you can check to see if the articles are done (you will also get notified via email when they are completed) and if so, you can download the completed articles there.

When you select “Create new article” – you’re brought to the main order page where you configure the type of article(s) you need. It starts with the article title. Below that you can select whether you want expedited service (36 hour delivery). This is good if you are in a rush for content. The next step is to state how many words per article you want. I typically go for 500 words for web 2.0 properties or general content, but for money sites, you should go for longer articles, 750 words or more. It will be worth it in my opinion – the more content, the more authority you will seem to have in the eyes of the search engines (of course, this is my opinion and not fact).

The next step is to specify your keywords. The more keywords, the more expensive. Generally, I stick to one keyword (which is included in the price of the article) per article – but for longer articles, you might want to add another. Then they ask for Keyword density. Personally, I don’t care – but I definitely want it minimized so I can submit to sites like Ezine Articles. I’d just enter 1%. The next question is pretty unique – it asks what Style you want the article to be written. The choices are: SEO Informative, SEO Promotional, Blog content, forum content, and Ezine qualified article. I’d choose SEO informative if you are worried about keyword placement, etc.. Blog content for web 2.0 properties, and Ezine qualified article for money sites and article site submissions. Then you select what type of output you want the article given to you in. This is good because sometimes you get some strange formats with extra characters.. I’ve seen it all… You can choose from: .doc, .docx, .txt, and .html.

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The strength of this tool (and it’s weakness) lies in the targets it’s exploiting (status.net and revou). They are extremely easy to spam – and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon so I am guessing this tool has a long shelf-life. As you know, many tools that do things “too well” – end up ruining the very targets it’s exploiting because too many people take advantage of the loopholes – too quickly. You’ll see this happening all the time with Web 2.0 properties that tools like Senuke uses.. That’s one of the reasons programs like Senuke and SerpAssist are so expensive. The programmers need to stay on top of all the different platforms (there are a lot of them) and make changes when the platforms change. This is very time-consuming. However, status.net sites have been around for awhile and have been spammed since the beginning and nothing has really changed. For example – the reason Instant Social Anarchy can create so many accounts so quickly is because it doesn’t have to verify the emails! (That little nugget was provided by a friend – Omgriffin) Here’s another tip: Do you know what other site doesn’t make you verify the email? TWITTER.COM — Yes, you see a warning at the top, but go test it out – having that warning message that you haven’t verified your email doesn’t prevent you from doing anything on Twitter. So they are just opening the floodgates for spammers to have their way, and that’s exactly what this tool does.

Let’s start by going through step-by-step – what you need to do to start utilizing this tool.

1. Create your project: First – you choose a project name. I typically will choose a name corresponding to the domain or niche I’m promoting. Then you select which networks to spam. The networks available right now are Status.net, Yonkly, Revou, Jisko, and Elgg. You also are able to add your Twitter username and password – I’ve never done this and I’m not positive on what it does (it obviously will post to Twitter but I don’t know how often or what it’s posting – in the documentation it mentions something about posting your affiliate links for Instant Social Anarchy here, but again, I don’t know what this entails.). You then select your Profile Template – this is basically just giving your profile a name and adding a bio or “about me” text. This is where you can put something like “I’m a stay at home mom working part-time on the internet”. You want to make it sound natural. After you select your template, there’s a checkbox to allow posting to explicit sites. What this means is that it will post to sites that are adult in nature (there are several sites that cater to adult subject matter). Depending on what you are promoting, you might not want to associate with this type of link so it’s up to you.. Next – Save your project.

2. Register Accounts - This is extremely easy (one of the best things about this program is that it’s quick and easy to use). Here, you choose “concurrent tasks” level which is just how many threads you want it to use. If you have an old computer, set it low, below 10. If you have a new(er) computer, set it to the max, 35 I believe. I set mine to the max – it goes much quicker then. Captcha Service – you can choose between 3 services I believe. And this part is a little strange. The user interface for this part is very annoying because it’s not very easy to tell how to select a different service. In the menu tabs at the top – there is a “Manage Anti-Captcha Services” menu option where it slides out the list of services. Although it doesn’t slide out all available services – only what’s default to be setup. So you have to CLICK on the menu option “Anti-Captcha Services” – and then, and only then will you be able to select a different service. I use Decaptcher, as it’s the cheapest I believe… Many other services are just white-labeling Decaptcher’s service anyhow and charging a premium for it. Go with the source I always say… The next part of the Register Accounts setup is the Link Pool. This is where you tell the program which urls to promote and what anchor text to use. You can upload a CSV file in this section – and it’s in this format:

url;keyword1,keyword2,keyword3

So I would just create a text file with your text file editor, and write them out. HOWEVER – the platforms you are exploiting, they use link shorteners (like Bit.ly) and you can argue that you won’t get the link juice that you would using normal anchor text links… So even though I don’t use this in my posts, it will pull this information when creating the accounts and using those links in your profile so you should still create a link pool.

The next step is optional – using custom usernames. If you don’t use a custom username, it will select a random set of characters (random letters) which looks really spammy and is not ideal for SEO purposes but it does so to make sure the accounts get created (using a username that’s already existent will make the program not create the account). The other reason you should use random usernames is that it leaves less of a footprint (ie – the SE’s won’t see all the same username posting a thousand links in one day). It’s up to you – I recommend using both. Ideally, the program will get updated so that you can spin the username. Until then, I’d try using both and see how your results compare. I haven’t done enough testing to say which way is better.

That’s it – just hit “Register Accounts Now” and it churns away, creating hundreds of accounts for you. It’s that easy.. Like I said before, there’s no email verification or anything. In less than an hour, you’ll have hundreds of accounts on several platforms.

3. Submit Your Post: Here is where you create a spun post. Just type in the post you want to write – remember there’s a limited # of characters, although I’m not sure what the limit is. Just think of Twitter when writing your posts. I recommend putting bare URLs as they turn into links anyways. This will get you better link juice then using a link shortener. Make sure you spin the URL so it’s not all posting to the same URL or site.

That’s really it… You can choose your link pool, and choose the # of threads (I would put it to the max but you may have to lower the # of threads if you are using an old computer), but other than that – it will log into your accounts and submit your posts extremely fast.

There’s two other features that this program will do for you – join groups and add friends. I have no idea how beneficial this is to your campaign. I have to do further testing.. But it doesn’t hurt – it makes the accounts seem more natural. It may increase your accounts’ lifespan but I don’t know that for sure. I checked some of the accounts that I had created and they did in fact have friends and joined groups – but when looking at the groups, they mostly looked like it was one or two memebers, and the rest were Instant Social Anarchy accounts so I highly doubt you’re going to get any increased traffic from this. In fact, I doubt you’ll see any traffic from these sites…

This tool is NOT going to get you to the top of Google. This tool will NOT bring thousands of visitors to your site. What this tool does is get you QUICK and EASY links – and it does so very well. These sites are pretty spammy and low quality. That does NOT mean they are worthless. In fact, this program is very good at getting your sites indexed. I have seen backlinks already showing in YSE from this and it’s only been a couple days so it does in fact work and it works quickly. These sites are constantly updated because of the nature of them, so they are spidered frequently – thus your links show up in the index very quickly. And the links you post will get indexed very quickly as well. I suggest running a campaign from Senuke or SerpAssist or Xrumer and then put those links through this program. You’ll see significant increase in indexing time – plus you add link juice to those links, making them more powerful.

Another good thing about this program is that it’s a one time fee. You pay once, and you don’t have to pay again. I’m not going to tell you that this tool is better than all the rest – that you should only get this tool and nothing else. In fact, quite the opposite. If you DON’T have any other tools – then I wouldn’t recommend this. As I am mainly using this to index URLS that get created from OTHER tools. If you use Xrumer, Scrapebox, SerpAssist, or Senuke – then this tool is a fantastic supplemental tool in your arsenal.

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I want to start out by saying a few things about Howie… I know many of you don’t like his tactics. I hate all the spam I get from his crap. I hate the fact that he said he was going to “retire” which ended up being a publicity stunt – trying to get people to one of his workshops because it was going to be his last… He didn’t retire.. didn’t even slow down – if anything, he got more involved with his email spam campaigns . I hate the fact that he promoted this amazing tool that was supposed to be the next SeNuke killer – doing tasks in hours that would take a whole team of outsourcers to do in weeks… This tool never worked..

That being said – there ARE some tools that he created (or had created) that DO work – and they do some very cool things.. Tools that are different than a lot of the crap that’s out there. And this is what I’m going to talk about in this post…

There are two main programs of Howie’s that I recommend..

The first is IM Leadership. This is a program that includes some videos, some case studies, some blueprints, but that’s not all you get. You get access to the IM Leadership forum. This is run by a guy named Martin. This guy, Martin, knows more about local marketing than anyone I’ve ever met or read about. You can ask him questions on the forum, and you’ll get your answer, sometimes the same day. He knows his stuff and he shares it freely on the forum. This forum is worth ten times what you pay for IM Leadership. If you want to go into selling your SEO expertise to local businesses – then IM Leadership is all you need. I’ve spoken to SEVERAL people IN PERSON that have utilized the information that’s available to IM Leadership members and they now have a dozen clients that pay EVERY month – local businesses that pay $2K a month for you to promote their business online. And let me tell you – it’s MUCH easier than doing affiliate marketing. Local SEO is MUCH easier to dominate. Take *ANY* keyword in *ANY* market, and add a local town, city, or even state, and you bring the competition down to levels where it would take you a week or two to dominate. Compare that to month’s of SEO work to dominate a more general, national market that a billion other affiliates are promoting… There’s just no comparison. I could go on and on about this but I want to talk about some other cool programs of Howie’s that I use.

Howie’s Private Lab

In Howie’s Private Lab, there are dozens of programs/scripts (some you’ll never need – but some are very useful and very unique). Note: these are all hosted online – they aren’t programs you run on your workstation.

Here’s some of what you’ll get:

Automation Tools

The Article Tool 2.0
Classified Ads
Bookmark Generation 3.0
Google Drill
Directory Generation 3.0
Howies Pinger
DocPoster
HTML2pdf
Pad Creator
Pad Submitter
Image Poster
Podcast Submitter

Keyword Tools

Keyword Addiction
Keyword Secret
Keyword Generation

Content Tools

Info Product Generation
Data Feed Generation (BETA)
Press Release Generation Format
Feed Generation (BETA)
Name Generator
Press Release Generation Submitter

Research Tools

Google Black Hat Scraper
GuruName Scraper
ServiceGuru Scraper
BONUS: Web 3.0 Visibility – Rank Checker

And then there are about 3 dozen more “quick tools” which are things like page rank checker, broken links checker, spider simulator, and much, much more. Most of these rarely work though, so I ignore them.

Let me explain some of the tools that I personally use on a daily basis.

Feedgeneration: Amazing blackhat tool that scrapes content from numerous sources, creates SEVERAL (hundreds) of RSS feeds. What’s unique about these feeds is this – they are from several sources, all mashed together, and the item titles become links that you provide (your URLs that you want to promote or get indexed) – so it takes the item title and uses that as the anchor text.. Then it adds your keywords and links before AND after the content (you tell it how many links to add and using your keywords for anchor text).. It doesn’t stop there – these are projects that are continually being added to… So your project could start out with just 5 feeds, but a couple months from now – that same project will have grown into 200 feeds, with thousands of items, all containing your links… This is amazing for getting your content indexed AND getting them backlinks.. AND you can use it as autoblog content – which will have your links in them.. The uses are endless.

Blackhat Scraper: This is a tool that monitors all the major pharmaceutical and gambling keywords and then notes down all the sites that are ranking in the first page of Google. It keeps a list of them and sorts it by how many times they show up in the first page. You can find out which sites are ranking well at the present time in Google. This is very useful information because you can then get links from these sites yourself.

People Generation (creates several profiles on some social sites, etc)

DocPoster: Posts documents you create onto doc sharing sites <– these aren’t the best for backlinks, the sites usually use flash, and the links may not be followed BUT they almost Always end up on the first page of google for any keyword I try… This is great for traffic..

Pad creator and submitter: This program creates a screensaver using images it scrapes from Google images using your keywords, and then creates a pad file with your links in them – and it then submits them to software sites. These sites put your links in the descriptions so it’s an easy way to get more backlinks..

Press release submitter: This creates accounts automatically for you on all the free press release sites and then uploads your articles with your links in them, to the sites..

Podcast submitter: This actually takes your articles and creates a podcast out of them – it then submits to podcast sites and you get more backlinks…

And Datafeed Site Generator: This will create whole websites based off of product feeds you get from various sources (CJ, Amazon, Shareasale, wherever). Great way to create huge, product filled sites. Very cool.

As you can see, you get a ton of tools from this package. You won’t use everything that’s available but the ones I specifically mention are very helpful in promoting your sites in many different ways. It’s important to get links from varying sources. These types of tools help you accomplish this.

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I setup 5 sites – each getting 200 links each (this is the default and base subscription level – something I plan on upgrading in a month if the results stay consistent). For each site – I followed the best practices which I talked about on my initial post here. It’s basically just not overdoing the # of keywords and the # of pages (keeping it to about 2 pages and 2 keywords each). You don’t want to add too many pages or keywords because you are only getting 200 links per month and if you spread yourself too thin, you will not see the results you’d expect.

Let me give you some background history on the sites…

3 of the 5 sites are aged about 2 years, and are actually cloaked – meaning they are just landing pages for human traffic coming from search engines, but are really blogs with thousands of posts using garbage content from a blackhat plugin. They were *NOT* ranking for my key terms, but they were ranking somewhat okay for long tail traffic. Basically, they made only a few hundred dollars every couple months (each site).. The landing pages were CPA offers… I did some heavy backlinking when I launched these sites but haven’t really touched them in over a year..

1 of the sites was a niche blog that I started about 9 months ago. It was ranking just okay… not too much traffic.. I make about a hundred dollars a month from this one… It’s a clickbank product site. I promoted this one pretty heavily for the first 3-5 months but have slowed down a lot in the last couple months…

The last site is a new site I started about a month ago – did some very minimal backlinking, a legit press release, and some video submissions… This one is the only non-wordpress site – it’s a very small, e-commerce (php) site selling real products.

I chose these 5 sites because it gives me a broad range for the testing… ie. some somewhat aged domains, blackhat sites with junk content, quality site that’s under a year old and a brand new site that doesn’t have many backlinks and is not a wordpress blog. I wanted to find out what kind of sites Linxboss would work well with…

Here are the results (and so far, I think this is fantastic):

I am using the difference in rank position from the starting point (where I ranked when I added the site into Linxboss) and where it stands now. There’s a few things about this that aren’t 100% because if I wasn’t ranking for the particular keyword at the starting point, and I am ranking for it now (it happened with about 8-10 keywords – total) – it assigned it a crazy value for the number difference… it assigned it a change of X where X would be the # of competing pages.. This makes sense because of I didn’t rank at all before, and now I rank at say position 5, and lets say the # of competing pages was 1000, that means the # of change is 995.. That number would throw off the averages… since the # of competing pages was sometimes in the hundred million range.. So obviously I couldn’t use that number – I assigned them a value of 500… So keep that in mind when I show you the results below..

Site 1 (Quality blog – about 9 months old): For 14 keywords, the average POSITIVE change in position is 73.6. What that means is that if my keywords were in the 100th position, they are now in the 26th position. So on average – each keyword improved 73.6 position slots (These are averages… so some of the keywords went from being the 20th position to the first position, and so on)

Site 2 (New non-wp blog selling real products): For 14 keywords, the average change in position is 164.33 (again, this is a positive change – meaning ranking improved this much on average for each keyword). Note: SEVERAL keywords are now on the first page of Google (some in the first position) where as before, they were located on the 6th to 10th page.

Site 3 (Cloaked Splog): For 8 keywords – average improvement in rank position: 246.43

Site 4 (Cloaked Splog): For 12 keywords – average improvement in rank position 134.25

Site 5 (Cloaked Splog): No change – most not even ranking at all (and never were) for the chosen keywords… Not sure what’s up with this blog. I get traffic, so it’s obviously ranking for long tail keywords but not at all for target keywords. It’s not penalized or de-indexed either… This one is a mystery…

So 4 out of 5 sites have improved DRAMATICALLY. And for the most part – the only change is LinxBoss. The Quality blog and the new e-commerce site did have some outsourced backlinking during this period – but it was minimal and I definitely attribute the changes due to LinxBoss.

This is just the FIRST month!

Word of warning… Don’t bother checking the results for at least 3 weeks… I checked every week and after 2 weeks – my rankings for the quality blog dropped severely.. I attribute this to Google analyzing “new data”. This happens with new sites and any site where you make dramatic changes either to on-site SEO or off-site SEO (linking). This happens all the time. If you try Linxboss out (and I recommend that you do) – don’t worry about your rankings after a few weeks because they make get worse before they get better but if you stick around – I think you’ll like the results. I will post another update next month.

What these results tell me is that this system can be used on NEW sites as well as OLD sites. However, as I stated in my initial review – you should NOT rely solely on this type of system. The links you are getting from systems like these are … well, they’re pretty easy to figure out (footprints). So you want to mix them up with other links (bookmarks, blog comments, profile links, social sites, no-follow links, press releases, forum signatures, whatever!).

Remember – Linxboss is a CLOSED membership – so when you click the link below, and fill out the form, you’ll be put on a waiting list. When I joined, I also had to go on a waiting list, but I was contacted in a week saying I can join, so I don’t think the wait is that long. I definitely recommend you give LinxBoss a try. It’s worth it.

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The Autoblog Blueprint 2.0 is not just a couple videos and a couple PDFs; it’s a COMPLETE system involving NUMEROUS steps, modules, plugins, themes, headers, and a forum (with a wealth of information) – all outlining every step it takes to create a money making autoblog empire. Whether you want to build a blog network to promote your “true” money sites, or you want an autoblog empire that will become your money sites, or (if you do what I do), build a link network that is ALSO monetized in such a way, so that even if your money sites don’t produce what you intended, the link network behind it will not only be paying for itself, but will also be bringing in money that you can actually live on.

Don’t expect a short list of steps, with a cookie cutter wordpress configuration that you can duplicate a hundred times and expect to retire. As with any program that you expect to make money with – the more you put into it, the more you’ll get out of it. You can probably find that anywhere and trust me – you won’t be doing yourself a favor by using it. I don’t recommend anything that I don’t personally use and have benefited from – so please trust me when I say that this is worth the price of admission…

Here’s what you’ll get, with your lifetime membership of Autoblog Blueprint 2.0:

You get an Autoblog optimized wordpress setup file – which is a copy of wordpress fully loaded with all the recommended plugins and settings. This is just a base setup though – you still need to customize it to your needs… You also get some headers and wp themes – but the rest of the program is spread out into 4 main modules and the forum which is very helpful. Here’s a rundown of the rest of the blueprint:

When you login to the membership site – you’ll see a top navigation comprising of 7 main links:

- Getting Started
This is the first place you should go to when logging in for the first time. It explains, in general terms, how the site is laid out, what to expect, where to get started (obviously), talks about the 30 day money-back guarantee, and a brief overview of the program/method.

- Module 1
Planning your strategy (Niche Research, Domains, Hosting): This page goes through what you should be thinking about when setting up your autoblog empire. I think this is the most important information you could ever read because once you get the basis for your strategy and planning down, the rest is just repetition. The best advice I can give someone is to come up with a strategy and REPLICATE it. Obviously it has to be a strategy that brings in some money – so developing it will not be easy and it won’t be overnight… It will be ever changing and improving – but once you get the broad strokes down, you can always improve on the next site (which will hopefully bring in more money than the last, and so on). The best part about having a winning strategy documented is that you can then hand it over (parts and pieces) to outsourcers (your team) and then THEY can replicate it – and multiply your income. This module goes through three steps (Niche research, domains, and hosting). Videos and text instructions are included…

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Auto Blog SEO Overview: This module is about getting your blogs installed correctly, installing the right plugins, putting together a theme, and what essential pages you need on all your sites. Videos and text instructions are included…

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Content and Monetization Overview: Module 3 is about how you get your site indexed and monetized. It goes through how you plan on making money with your sites and what techniques to use. Videos and text instructions are included…

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Backlinking: This module goes through how you will promote your site (getting backlinks to your site) and how to use social media to maximize the traffic to your site. Videos and text instructions are included…

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This page goes through each step briefly. It just gives you a broad strokes idea of what you need to do next. Assuming you know most of the details, this is a good page to go to for a quick rundown…

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All in all – this is a lifetime membership and will be improved upon (I initially bought into this awhile ago – back when it was version 1, and because I was a customer then – I got upgraded for free to version 2.0. I assume the same will happen once v3.0 comes out). More videos, and instructions, and techniques will always be coming out and you can bet that it will be added to this membership site.

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What link networks are good for is SUPPLEMENTING your efforts. A good link network will get you consistent linking. This is very important. Typically, a self-promoted site will have this type of link velocity: it get lots of backlinks one week (or one day), then none or very few the next, and then a bunch more one week, month, or day, then none or very few. This goes on and on. It’s just they way we work. So there are spikes in the promotion of the site. This is a fairly obvious footprint to Google saying that you are trying to manipulate their search results. Natural link growth is slow and steady (and yeah, there are some spikes for things like viral content, etc, but for the most part – it’s slow and steady). This is why link networks are (for the most part) good for supplementing your own efforts. When you stop linking to your site for any given amount of time, your link network keeps on going. It should consistently get you links every day or every week.

This is where LinxBoss comes in. This is a linking network – and it’s a little different from some of it’s competitors. First of all – it’s not a blog network where you submit articles or content with your links embedded in the content or a resource box. You just submit urls and keywords which the system uses for anchor text. It then places the links on a categorized site (you choose the categories – it’s got plenty of choices) – and they have a HUGE network of sites (over 1700 sites and it’s growing every day).

So this makes the system extremely easy and painless. There’s no content to worry about. Of course, it’s a trade-off. You don’t get the relative content surrounding your links. BUT that’s okay because you aren’t going to be ONLY using this system for your link building efforts, right? You’ll be submitting articles and blog posts anyways. Like I stated before – this is to SUPPLEMENT your efforts, not replace them.

You start out by setting up a site. You get 5 sites for the main subscription price (which you can upgrade if you need more sites to promote). You can add as many pages as you want, and you can assign 4 keywords per page. You get 1000 links every month. What that means is you get 200 links per site, per month. This is important because it splits that 200 between the # of pages you setup, AND the keywords you assign. I’ll talk about “best practices” and what to avoid, later. Once you setup the site (all you do is give it a name and domain url and choose whether you want to use Google USA or Google UK, etc – for ranking reports), you then just have to setup the linking page (page urls, keywords, and categories).

The linking setup is really simple. Just add the url, a primary keyword to use, and a secondary keyword to use (you can have up to 3 secondaries, for a total of 4 keywords per page), and choose the category that you want the link to be associated with. You can setup as many pages per site as you want. That’s it! Oh and you can setup “other” keywords that you want it to track your rankings for, but not necessarily use as links. Again – I’ll talk about what you should and shouldn’t do, later.

The next step is where LinxBoss truly separates itself from the rest of the herd. It’s called L4L or “Links For Links”. The system actually goes out and finds the backlinks that your site already has (it shows you the list) and starts to build MORE backlinks to your backlinks. It “promotes the promoters”. It builds off of what you have already done for your site. This doesn’t cost anything extra either, and it doesn’t subtract from your 1000 links. It’s completely automatic – all you do is tell it the long tail keywords to use as anchor text (add at least 10 long tail keywords).  This is a VERY beneficial feature to utilize.  When setting up your pages and keywords, REMEMBER to click L4L to setup the “Links for Links”.

Another upcoming feature of L4L is “offsets” and “authority pages”. I’m not positive what these will look like because they’re not released yet (as of the date of this post) but they should be released this week. It’s supposed to look at the backlinks of your competitors and the ranking sites and will locate other links that you, too, can get for your site. It won’t get the links FOR you, but it will tell you the sites to try to get the links from – and then you do it yourself, and then you enter the URLS where your backlinks are so that it will start pushing backlinks to those urls as well. Again, this is included in your subscription. It doesn’t cost anything extra. The L4L system definitely makes this link network unique. I don’t know of any other that does this type of thing.

Best Practices

In your linking (pages/keywords) setup, you don’t want to add too many pages or too many keywords because the # of links will be spread too thin to see any results. This is a BIG mistake for people trying out the network. They think (and I did at first, too) that it’s better to have links going to numerous pages and using numerous keywords so that you limit the footprint. DON’T DO IT! Setup just a couple pages and a couple keywords per page to start. That’s it! Of course, you can change it at anytime – and you should once you get the rankings you want for those pages. But you don’t want to spread yourself too thin. Think about it – let’s say you setup 10 pages on a site, and add 4 keywords for every page. The primary keyword gets 50% of the links, and the secondaries (you can have 3 secondaries) split up the remaining 50% of the links. So if you get 200 links per month – each page is only getting 20 links per month. (That’s not enough for ANY campaign) Each page’s primary keyword is only getting 10 links and the other keywords are splitting up the remaining 10 links per month. That will NOT help much!! Sure the domain as a whole still gets 200 links per month but you won’t see the specific rankings for your specific keywords – you’ll be getting “authority” because of the # of links, but that’s it. You need to limit the keywords and the pages you add to the system.

Linxboss comes with a “traction” report. It’s basically a ranking report. It lists all the keywords that you added to the system, and checks Google and Yahoo and then reports what your ranking positions are for those keywords. It even keeps a history so you can your rankings improve or decline. So far, I’ve seen it to be very accurate, although it doesn’t update very often (I think it’s every 4 days or something like that).

The training is very good – helpful videos are included that go through every step. Like I said, this system is extremely easy to setup (I had all 5 sites setup within 15 minutes) and is run completely on auto-pilot. The only reason to log in again is to make changes (don’t make too many changes at first) or to check the progress of your ranking positions. It will tell you exactly how much it’s helping so if you try it out for a few months, and followed the best practices (they have several videos on this) – and you don’t see any results (I can’t believe you wouldn’t though) – then cancel your subscription! The links are permanent. You won’t lose them.

I’ve been using the system for only a month and I already see results. I haven’t been using it for very long, so I can’t conclusively tell you whether it’s worth the $127. I’ve setup 5 sites – some aged, some pretty new, some already have thousands of backlinks, some with under a hundred or two – so I’ll post my findings when I have enough data to provide. I really think I’ll see some good results (I already am seeing significant improvement in the short amount of time I’ve been using it) but again – I don’t want to give a false impression… I don’t have conclusive data yet.

NOTE: LinxBoss is *CLOSED*. A network this good has to set a max number of clients otherwise the network will get too diluted (too many out-bound links, a finite # of sites, etc). That being said – there are openings when a member closes their account. Click the link above and you will get put on a “waiting list”. Don’t worry! I get my account after just a week of waiting.

I highly advise you to get on the waiting list. I don’t know how long they will even allow waiting list signups… They’re offering a LOT for the price, especially since they added the “Links For Links” system. I can’t imagine they will have this publically available for much longer. Get in while you can.

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For the first method – I’ll use Article Video Robot (to be called AVR from here on). AVR is a very quick, but powerful way to build video backlinks for your sites. AVR creates videos from text (articles that you upload/post or ezinearticles.com articles) – the videos consist of background music, background images and a computerized voice narrating your articles. There’s three ways I use AVR. First (and this is the quickest way) is the 1 click Ezine Article converter. What this does is create a video based off of an ezinearticles.com article. When you choose this option, you are brought to a setup screen asking you a few questions – the URL of the ezinearticles.com article of course, and then any other options you want to configure (although none of them are required). The options I usually configure are “Customize Video Background”, “Customize Article Narration Settings”, and “Customize Introduction Frame and Author’s Name”. I make these changes for a few reasons – I change the video background usually to have no background or just a solid color (the backgrounds are pretty ugly). I change the article narration settings because it’s set to change the narrator voice for every paragraph. I think that is annoying so I set it to only use one of the voices (“David”). Then I change the standard video introduction phrase – I make it so that it includes the keywords and title that I want. I do this because Google is now starting to automatically create text (captions and transcripts) of videos that have speech in them so you want it to be as relevant as possible.

Once you set those options – it brings you to the last step – which is where you can preview and edit your video, which I never bother to do. Trust me, these videos are not pretty, they are not the best looking/sounding videos. They are there to give you video site backlinks, that’s all. So I don’t really care that much about what they look like. The other option in this step is to distribute your video. This is important and is the main reason why you are doing this. AVR not only creates the video, but it also syndicates it across 17+ video sites as well as publishes it to twitter, facebook and any other blog you own. You can, of course, download the video and distribute it yourself – but why bother when this can do it for you in seconds!

Once you select “Distribute Video” – it brings you to a page where you enter the title, description, tags, and category. The title gets pre-entered as the title of the article – and assuming you used a good title with your keywords – it should be fine. The description however, needs to be modified. You MUST add your http://domain.com (obviously change that to the site you are promoting and remember to just add the URL, don’t use HTML) in the beginning of the description (make sure it’s the FIRST item on the description) – this is important because it’s where your backlinks come into play – plus it’s there so someone can check out your site if they are intrigued in doing so. Then for the rest of the description, make sure you add your keywords and any other relative information about your niche/video. The tags – obviously add your keywords, and choose your category (based off of YouTube categories).

Next, you get brought to the video site selection. Here is where you can tell it your login information for all the video sites (you need to setup accounts first). Once you enter and save this information, and future videos you produce, it will be all setup for you already. So here – I will select all the sites and click Next.

The next page is the new “DynaSubmit” feature. This is a great feature – it allows you to make other variations of your titles and descriptions and tags. This is good so the search engines don’t see this as just an average video spamming run. It makes the video submission look more independent of each other AND you can get more keyword penetration this way. Change your titles and descriptions and you can target more keywords. I usually will create at least a few variations here. But you don’t have to. It’s not crucial. Just a nice benefit. It really depends on how much time I have and if I’m doing several at a time or not. If you have the time – do it.

That’s it – You click “Next” and your video gets distributed to numerous video sites and you get the backlinks. You can then view your progress and once they start posting, you can see a report which has a list of all the video URLs – which is very useful for further promotion. Remember – never just get a backlink and let it “sit”. It may never get indexed! All that work for nothing. So I always “promote the promoters” (usually with fast automation tools like Scrapebox and Xrumer).

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SerpAssist is not your ordinary link builder. It doesn’t just submit your article or blog post to a dozen sites. It actually allows you to VISUALLY diagram out your network, exactly how you want it – connecting your various hubs as complex as you need – to get the most link juice possible, and it does so completely automatically. It performs the tasks needed to complete your linking network – and it does this on private servers so your CPU is not even being used. This allows for absolutely NO slowdown on your wkstation, and you can go ahead and focus on things that matter. No one, and I mean, no one likes doing link building. I do it every day, and I hate it. Especially when dealing with sub-par programs that are buggy and slow, and half the time they don’t even work properly. I really have to say that SerpAssist is unique – although still having plenty of room to improve. I’ll go through the steps you can take to build out a truly unique network that no other program could possibly build as elegantly as this program does (without any manual intervention on your part – besides initial setup).

When you first load up the program, you’ll notice that it logs you in, checks the program version, and updates the site list. This is a small, but important detail because unlike other link building programs, SerpAssist relies on a central server that keeps an updated site definition file – so you don’t have to install new updates when various web 2.0 sites or bookmarking sites change (and they change often!). When the central site list gets updated, so does your local version (when you reload it).

SerpAssist then brings you to a project list page, where you can either load a previously built project (which when highlighted, shows a preview of your link diagram, so you can see what that project looks like), or create a new project. Creating a new project is extremely easy.

First, just give it a name and a main domain URL. Then fill in the “Target Page” details (up to 3 I believe). It asks for a Target Page Title, URL, and keywords. Then the next tab is the profile page. This is where you choose which sites to create accounts with, using yahoo email which it creates for you of course. You can create several profiles – so you can group the accounts or use several accounts/profiles to build out a huge network.

So you create a new profile – it fills in random user details for you automatically, then you select your sites to create accounts on (you can highlight multiple/all sites at the same time). Once you choose the sites to create, it adds them to the “Task List”.

The Task List is an interesting feature and something that sets this program apart from the rest. This is where you submit your tasks to the central server, like creating accounts, confirming accounts, posting articles, pinging, RSS submitting, etc. The best part about this is that you can schedule the tasks.. So you can have it create and confirm some accounts one day, have it post articles the next day, have it bookmark them the day after that, and so on. It’s truly revolutionary the way this works, and you don’t even have to have the program running for it to work! Like I said before – all the actual tasks that the program completes, they are all done on numerous central servers – NOT on your wkstation. So there’s no need to leave the program running, hogging your CPU resources. You can open up the task list at any time and check what has been queued, submitted for completion, and what has been completed (and when it was completed).

You can choose to have all the accounts created before you design your diagram, or you can just keep everything in the queue, go straight to the designing of your network, and THEN submit all the tasks. It uses a complex dependency algorithm, which allows the server to decide which tasks need to be completed before other tasks, in order to get all the linking to be logical (you can’t link to a site that’s not created yet because you don’t know the URL yet!).

So – you’ve created your profile, and sent all the account creation tasks to the task list. I usually submit account creation and confirmation tasks prior to building out the diagram, but it’s not required. I also will create several profiles so I can create bigger, more complex networks (it will only create one account per site, per profile, so you may need more profiles created to allow for the same blog/website to be used more than once in the same link network). The next step is to make sure you have your article(s) setup. You need to have the content setup before you can assign “items” (or articles) to the various web 2.0 sites. So you click on the “content library” tab and will need to click on “New” to create a new article. It will ask for a name which is just like a project name, only to be seen by you, then a “subject”. The Subject is spinable and is used in various places – it’s used as the article title for web 2.0 sites and for bookmark sites – and the description in bookmark sites is hard coded to have something like “article about [keyword]” (although this may change in future releases). The next thing is the keywords and tags. These are used in the obvious places, but also in the profile anchor text so choose wisely.

In the actual article content – you paste in your spun content or you can spin it there (there’s a basic thesaurus available but I always do my spinning in TheBestSpinner and just copy/paste). One thing that’s special about this is the links. You need to highlight your anchor text in your article and press “Add Link” button. This puts a LINK# tag around them. It will add a LINK1 tag for your first link, and a LINK2 tag for your second link, and so on. The latest version of SerpAssist will now spin your article locally when you choose an article to be associated to a blog on your diagram – so that way, if you have links in spun variations – it will actually know to only allow you to use the links that are output in that version of the spun article. So if you have a spun sentence and it has a link with anchor text 1 in one variation, and you have another variation with anchor text 2 – when you build out your network diagram and choose what links to use to target whatever site – it will actually show you the anchor 1 text if that’s what was randomly chosen or anchor 2 text if that was the version that was chosen. Note: You might want to manually edit the link tags to show the same link # if it’s just another spun variation of the same link. During network diagram design – you will be selecting your article (item) and what links point to where. SerpAssist is smart enough to only allow you to link to a site if that link shows up in that version of the spun article, so if you screw up with the spinning, its not a big deal – just edit your article appropriately. Or you can choose to not spin your links but I recommend it because it will add more variation to your articles.

Okay – So you’ve created the accounts, you’ve created the articles – now you need to design the network. This is where it gets interesting. Because it’s visual – you can come up with the most intricate link network Google has ever seen When building your diagram out – you drag a “node” to the blank page (nodes available right now are target pages, blog pages, feeder pages which are the same thing as blog pages – it’s just another label you can use, profile links, and bookmarks) and it then will ask you what you want it to be, ie. what site to use, using what account, and depending on the type of node, what article to use, what keyword to use as anchor text if its a profile link, etc. Then you can click and hold the node, and drag the cursor towards another node, and it will draw an arrow signifying that you are linking it to the other node. Then a pop-up asks you what link to use (remember you setup LINK1′s and LINK2′s and so on, in the article content). It’s intelligent to know which anchor text or links are being output from the spun content so you will never be choosing a link that won’t be there (very important!). Another note – when you drag a blog node and set it up with the site details – you can also right click on it and select “blog properties” – and it will pop up showing the details of the blog but it also allows you to select the RSS sites you want it to submit to. Right now, if you don’t do that, no rss submissions will get added to the task list so remember to do this. Again, automatic RSS tasks are in the works (in a future release).

About bookmarks – each bookmark node can represent more than one bookmark site. So you only need to drag one per target (that you want bookmarked). For instance, if you want your livejournal site bookmarked, you drag a bookmark node out – and then click and hold to draw the arrow to target the site you want bookmarked. Then you right click it and you can choose the bookmark sites and accounts you want to use to bookmark that target. So if you want 4 bookmarks for a blog on your diagram, you don’t need to drag 4 bookmark nodes out, just one, and select 4 accounts. You can even select multiple accounts of the same bookmark site – to make it look like multiple people are bookmarking your sites (this is completely natural and normal if you have quality content). Another feature is Auto Bookmarking. How this works is when you are building your network – and adding web 2.0 nodes – you can drag a bookmarking node and connect it to the web 2.0 node and as long as that blog node has not been created yet – it will automatically bookmark that web 2.0 site (with all the bookmark accounts you have setup) once it gets posted with no intervention on your part whatsoever. If the web 2.0 site is already posted, you can of course, still bookmark it, but you have to specify which accounts to use, and submit the tasks just like all the other tasks.

ALSO!! The most important feature of this program is the SCHEDULER. Think about it – you could build a network 5 layers deep – and have it add a new layer EVERY DAY. Even more so – have it add bookmarks and profile links day after day, or week after week. THIS IS VERY POWERFUL. This is the most desired feature of any SEO link builder. And I have to say – this program does it very well. When you create your network – you’ll be dragging various “nodes” onto the page and linking them up, and choosing the article to use (I suggest using at least one article per “layer” – spun), and choosing the bookmark nodes to link to them (there will be an option in the future, to toggle automatic bookmarking and profile linking to all nodes – or you can still do it manually if you want to add more to one area of the network) – every time you add a node and link it to another node or target page, you are creating a “task”. Then you can open your task list and submit the task right away or you can choose a specific date to have it completed (I will submit the first layer of sites immediately but anything after that gets “scheduled”). Think about it – create your blogs – have them link to a target page, then the next day you can have them bookmarked, then the third day you can have profile links created and linked (which by the way – the profile sites’ accounts and any other sites’ accounts can be created and confirmed one day and you can add links to them in the FUTURE. Because the account creation is one task, the confirmation of the account is another task, and the adding of links is another task – and you can schedule every aspect of this. This is PERFECT for naturally letting your profile “sit” before spamming it with your links. One tip about the scheduling… When you are looking at your network diagram – it’s easy to tell which sites you would want scheduled, etc.. But when you go to schedule the tasks – it’s not so easy to tell. Because it’s just a list of accounts and site names… But you can double click on an item to see the relative information, like email profile, and account name, etc…

The only thing left for you to do is to submit the tasks for completion. Assuming there aren’t any problems with account creation and confirmation (it’s been going pretty smooth for me with a few exceptions) – the tasks get completed within minutes (sometimes faster). You then get any finalized URLS in the URL manager. What I’ll do is take those urls and create a new project and add them as target pages to build out even bigger networks.. There is no limit to what you can do. I’ve been beta testing this since the beginning and I have to say – it’s been getting better every day and it will continue to do so. Another great aspect about having the tasks completed at offsite servers is that the developer can monitor any issues… So if accounts aren’t getting created or a web 2.0 site changes their registration page – he sees that there are problems and fixes them to make sure everything is running smoothly. This way, the developer sees and knows about the problems before anyone even submits a bug report or support request. Just the other day, Propeller changed something about their registration, so instead of the tasks failing, the developer saw that they weren’t working, and even before he fixed the problem, he made sure the accounts were created. Now that is good support!!

So you have your accounts created and confirmed, your articles setup, spun and linked, and your diagram drawn out (you’ll love that part). Once a task gets completed, the associated URL gets added to the URL manager. There you can double check to make sure all your links are how they should be. Just FYI – I haven’t had any problems with this. It’s fantastic – After completing a very complex link network – I checked all the articles/blogs and they are linked to each site exactly how I wanted them to be.

There’s no other program that does this. PERIOD.

You can also set the general options in the program to auto ping everything. You must either add your own ping server URLs (you can find ping lists everywhere – just google it) or you can just turn on the “pingler” option which is a ping aggregator – but remember that pingler will use a lot of decaptcher credits and you only get 200 for free per month. You can always add your own decaptcher account though – and I recommend you do so (because you will go through the free credits very quickly).

Another good feature is the export feature. You can export your diagram and/or complete project – so you could give them to others to duplicate or grow upon (think: outsourcers).

There is one limitation but it has a sort of a plus side to it. As it stands right now – you can only create 2 sets of accounts (of all the sites) PER project and only 8 total per day. BUT you can still SCHEDULE other account creation tasks for future days. This is subject to change depending on user needs, etc. I was initially bummed out from this but then I realized one important thing… It forces you to GROW your network naturally. You can still build out your entire network all at once – it’s just that the accounts for the outer rims of your network might not be created right away and they won’t get posted right away… but that’s a good thing – you don’t want to build too many links in a day anyways.. You can get around this limitation by using your own proxies (the limitation is because there are only so many proxies available – which by the way are always used and are included in the subscription cost. Plus the dev is always getting new proxies to avoid account banning).

The only other downside is that there is only so many targets available right now, but that will definitely grow. Think about it – Senuke only had like 10 when it was in beta – now there’s hundreds. This will be similar. And when the site list gets updated – you don’t even have to update the program. The site list gets updated from the central server. You just might have to reload your program (which by the way, there’s no reason to even keep the program running since all the tasks are performed on a central server).

Also – there are MANY more exciting features to come. Like a button where it will literally build you out a random link network so all you have to do is upload your article content and that’s it! And a button to auto-set the scheduling to have all the tasks be spread out randomly over a week or whatever you set… (as it is right now – you need to select multiple tasks and choose a date or select one task and choose a date).

One more note – When submitting tasks (especially posting tasks) – remember to check your task list every so often – because right now, the RSS feed tasks and the pinging aren’t completely automatic. The pinging tasks do get created automatically but you still have to submit the tasks – but the RSS feeds – you need to right click on your blog node and select the RSS feeds that you want it to submit to. Once the blog has been posted – your RSS feed submission tasks will be pending and you have to load the task list to submit them. I’m guessing that this will all be more automated in the future – since there’s no real reason why you wouldn’t want the RSS feeds to be submitted. Keep something in mind though (about RSS submissions) – RSS aggregators do NOT like feeds with one item in them. Some will accept them, some won’t. It’s better to have multiple items though – that’s what a feed is – a list of multiple posts… So what I do, in addition to the normal submissions, is I take the RSS feeds (the RSS feed URLs do get added to the URL manager) and mash them together to create one big feed – and then submit them at the same time with RSS Submit (another program). Perhaps something like this will get added to SerpAssist. The best part about this program is that the developer listens to his users and testers – so if there’s a feature missing or something isn’t working right – it will get added/fixed. I am thinking of some amazing features and I speak to the developer all the time (through beta testing, etc) and he also has some amazing ideas so I really think you need to jump on this program right away. With all the additions that are going to be added to this program, there’s no way he will be able to keep the price so low. Plus you get a $20 discount if you use my link below. It’s selling retail at $97 a month – but for my subscribers and people reading this review – it’s only $77. I guarantee this price won’t last though, so I definitely recommend you act soon.

I highly recommend this program and it’s just in its infancy. I gave it 9 stars out of 10 – and the only reason it’s not 10 stars is because of the site list. There needs to be more targets – but rest assured, the developer is actively working on this and will add more sites as soon as possible. I am confident that this program will become a 10 star Larceny rating real soon!

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To be honest – I thought it was amazing at first. The theory is good, and it executes it extremely well. The only problem was the lack of services it allowed. Bookmarking? That can only take you so far. Sure, it increased my traffic a LOT at first – but that slowly died, due to getting links from the same sites.. It was limited to like 10 bookmarking sites, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, and Twitter (although now I think they increased the bookmarking sites to 15 or 20). That’s great to get the “buzz” out, but it has diminishing returns in the long run. And it’s a little expensive (although not as bad as some).

I actually let my account go recently. I just wasn’t seeing the returns I wanted. And it’s probably my fault. See, I only have so much time, and I was just trying to limit everything I was involved with and this didn’t make the cut. I have since renewed my account due to these upcoming changes, and I didn’t want to get stuck with a higher price (the price will most definitely go up with these changes come about).

This is about to change….

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There’s a few updates coming out in a month or two that will increase the # of services that this program can perform for you. HUGE improvements… Here’s what they have in store (from an email I received from them):

Article Distribution Module (tentative June 15th release)

This is article distribution to the top 10 article networks that have an impact on SEO. You’ll be able to assign spinning tags to your articles so that unique versions of the article are submitted to each network. This is a great tool to help build incoming link love to deep pages of your website or blog for specific anchor text key terms.

RSS Aggregator Module (tentative June 1st release)

The Synnd RSS Aggregator will submit your latest content to the top RSS aggregators on the web. This will allow your new content to get indexed very quickly and also boosts your search engine juice.

Pinger Module Module (tentative June 1st release)

The Synnd Pinger Module will ping your new content to the top update services on the web that the search engines crawl on a regular basis. This will help get your content indexed faster and will allow the search engines to crawl even the deepest content on your website or blog.

Video Distribution (tentative June 15th release)

With the Synnd Video Distribution module you’ll be able to have your video automatically distributed to the top 30 video networks. Submit 1 video to Synnd and Synnd will then upload your video to the 30 networks automatically while you do other things.

Video Viewing, rating and commenting (tentative August 1st release)

Already have a video distributed? … Well how about now increasing the visibility of your videos by getting views, ratings and comments on your video. For example… In YouTube it is proven that the more views, ratings and comments a video gets, the higher it ranks in YouTube… The higher it ranks in YouTube, the higher the video ranks in the Google… Simple.

That feature is really cool. Getting youtube views is not as easy as it once was, and this will do it for you.

Content Spinning (tentative July 15th release)

We will be introducing a system which will allow you to automatically create spun variations on your Synnd bookmarking and article distribution campaigns. With the click of a button your title, description and tags will be spun FOR YOU. No more hand coding tags or using outside services to create the spinning syntax for your bookmarking and article distribution campaigns.

– There’s also a blog commenting module that will have people comment on your blog posts. They are selling “professional writers’ comments” at $2 a pop. Personally – I think that is ridiculous and would never pay for such a lame service. BUT you don’t have to use that feature. I won’t.

These updates are huge. I think this is going to be a fantastic program and will greatly increase your rankings if used properly.

When I have played with the features enough – I’ll write a report on how you can use this service to the best of it’s ability. There’s so many things you can do with it (soon).

NOTE: The current price is $67 a month. Once those other features are released, I would almost guarantee this price will be increased so get in NOW while you can at such a low price. This is not some tactic … it’s not my product.. Before these updates were scheduled, I probably wouldn’t tell you to buy this. But I truly, honestly believe that the price WILL go up when those features are released – I just can’t imagine them not increasing it.

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When you first sign up, and get the program to install on your wkstation (it runs in the background and you’ll never know it’s running – all it does is tunnel traffic through your IP so that the services think it’s being run from your wkstation, but it’s not – it’s ran on Synnd servers) and you’ll get several tutorials. **READ THE TUTORIALS AND GUIDES** They are very helpful and you will not be using this program to it’s full potential if you don’t. Trust me – I’m always the one that messes with the program before ever looking at a manual, but I benefitted greatly once I did read them and so will you.

Also – the program is based on credits. You get X many a month – depending on the option you chose (you can pay more monthly to get more credits or you can pay for a lifetime subscription, which, if you can afford it, I highly recommend it! And it won’t give them all to you at once. It gives you so many a day. What you can do to get started quickly, is to assign jobs to your account and it will give you more credits. The more jobs you assign, the more credits you can use to create campaigns. You’ll have to do this at first, but only in the beginning. Once you get going, you’ll start getting auto-credits and you’ll have enough to run your campaigns.

Try it out – It’s really going to be great, and I highly recommend it. You get a free trial (I think it’s a week or something) – so if you don’t like it, just cancel your subscription. It’s easy.

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Serpassist Full Version –

SerpAssist first released a program that allowed you to develop diagrams for your link building networks. Helpful I guess, but this was just a test I think. Because they soon released a beta (not to the public but I was lucky enough to be one of the ones testing this interesting software) – that allowed you to not only diagram your network, but it actually created the network as well. It allows you to enter your spun article, setup your diagram, and it will actually create the accounts and post the content with your links, and it links the network together exactly how you create your network diagram. It’s just starting out so I’ll release more details when it’s getting closer to release date. But so far, so good. Very interesting stuff. You can actually design a network FIRST, and then it goes and builds it out FOR you. Very cool – but so far, a little buggy but it gets better daily. I’ll keep you posted.

When it gets released – I’ll come up with a full review so you can decide for yourself if this is worth getting.

Anyhow – go to Google and enter this into the search query:
site:http://www.aweber.com/archive/

You’ll get a long list (when I did it there was 14K) of Aweber broadcasts. Usually these are made public (it’s up to the Aweber user). These aren’t the emails you would get if you signed up to all these lists – those are different. These are “broadcasts”. The difference being that they aren’t put into a series – (just like I don’t put my weekly site lists into a series because they are time-sensitive) they are just broadcasted to everyone that is in their list at THAT time. So if you signed up a day later, you’d never see those messages.

I just thought it might be useful to someone. I’ve found some interesting things in there, like “exclusive bonuses” and “discounts for THEIR members only”, and much, much more. I can’t believe Aweber makes these public – I guess for usability purposes…

Anyhow – I figured I’d let you guys/gals know about this, if you didn’t know already.

One of the strategies I use is to monitor the search results related to the big pharma spammers. These guys (the pharmaceutical product promoters, ie. via.gra) know their stuff and are always doing incredible things regarding search engine manipulation. I use some tools that help me monitor these specific keywords (I’ll write a post about the tools I use) – and what it does is show me the sites that they are using to help rank their sites. So what it’s telling me is basically – what sites does Google like that week (it changes day to day), and by utilizing these sites, your rankings increase a lot quicker than by using sites that just aren’t that interesting to Google. The pharma guys/gals know what works, and why not ride their coat tails, right?

So I’m going to be sending my newsletter subscribers the sites that are working that week (it won’t be a part of the “auto-responder” series because these sites change daily so it might not be useful or relevant to get this information late) – so make sure you keep your subscription active, otherwise you’ll miss this important information.

Here’s an example of the kinds of tips and tricks I will be sending you – This email below was just sent today. Of course, I’m not going to mention the specific site I’m talking about below – because I don’t want this information in the public – I want to continue using loopholes like this, and if I mention the site’s address – then they might patch their site!

This email is about a trick I use to benefit from no-follow sites. Many sites add a “rel=nofollow” tag to links people add to their uploaded content. It makes these links not pass page rank, thus the spammer won’t benefit from any link juice that site may have provided. No follow links are still beneficial if you post them on a high traffic site, because you will get actual traffic from it, you just won’t get increased rankings from them. Some sites contain a loop-hole that I take advantage of.

One of the new sites that Google likes this week is: http://****** (subscribe to my list to see the site)

This site – after you sign up and create an account, you can create a user blog. When you post an article and insert a link, it will add a “rel=nofollow” to that link. Sucks eh? Well, good thing you are on my list, because I have a way around this. Just edit the post, then click the “xhtml” button on the rich text editor toolbar, and it will pop up a window where you can edit the HTML of the article. Find your link and you’ll see the “rel=nofollow” tag added to it. All you have to do is take the “no” off of “nofollow” so that it reads “rel=follow” and hit save. Make sure you save the post. Reload it, and you’ll see it’s now a regular follow link!

I use an SEO plugin with Firefox to have it highlight no-follow links to verify this, and you can also just check the page source to make sure your rel=follow tag stuck. I’ve done this several times with this particular network so I know it works. I don’t know for how long though. So take advantage of it now!

Many other sites have this loophole. Check them out – any time that you can edit the actual html, a lot of times it will work. (not every time though, some programmers are pretty smart!)

Just another tip from Marketing Playthings. I hope you find this information useful!

Many affiliate marketers get into this business because it fits their ideal lifestyle (sitting in a room, typing on a keyboard 15 hours a day and hoping to make living doing so). I’m guessing a lot of affiliate marketers like the fact that they won’t have to go into an office, or deal with customers, or even getting dressed!! I definitely was intrigued by the idea of waking up and kissing my daughter, brewing a cup of coffee, and then be able to walk down the hall, flip my monitor on and start my work day. Very cool.

But isn’t this idea of selling your services offline (to local businesses) sort of going the opposite direction? In a word (or three), yes it is. You have to put your salesman cap on and sell yourself (at least, at first). You’ll actually have to talk to people, sometimes a group of people (like your local chamber of commerce) and you’ll have to sell yourself, your skills, and sometimes even the idea that internet marketing WILL help their business. Many times people don’t even realize or believe the idea that their business could gain from an online presence or increasing their online presence. And the services you sell – Some of them are not very easy to identify a return on investment. Of course, there’s ways to do this, like generating leads, or just watching their website analytics, or using a special phone number that only you give out, etc.. I’m not going to go into these details on this post though. There’s many products and packages out there that put all this together for you, in forums, videos, pdfs, and more. I’ll get to that later.

Basically – you need to come up with your brand, your image. You need to make it sound exciting. If you are boring, you will not get the # of clients you could. Most computer stuff is boring to the average person. You start talking about backlinks and anchor text and keywords, you’re going to bore people. They don’t care about that – they care about results. They want more sales, or more customers, or more leads, or more brand recognition. Whatever it is – you can probably provide it. There’s a huge difference between trying to target keywords for affiliate products, and targeting local markets. Take ANY keyword, and add a city or state, and you eliminate 80% of the competition right there. It’s SO easy to dominate local markets. There’s always easy targets/keywords when you are targeting a specific location. It’s like taking candy from a baby. Show your client that they have the top 5 spots for their chosen keyword with the city appended to it, and they will be happy. Get your client onto the local listings (the map listings) and they will be happy. Setup a lead capture page, and when they start seeing all these new leads, they will be happy.

How do you get clients? That’s the hard part, at first (after awhile, assuming you’re good – many of your clientele will be from word of mouth).

There’s lots of ways, but the easiest way to start is literally by walking around in the neighborhood and walking into businesses and asking if they’re interested in making more sales, or more leads. Chances are, they’ll say yet, and at that point, you can start giving them your unique selling point. Tell them how you will dominate the market, how they will be #1 in Google, show them statistics about local marketing and how many businesses are moving towards an online local marketing strategy (there’s lots of documentation/proof on this).

Check the yellow pages – anyone that’s spending good money on the yellow pages <-- those are EASY targets. They spend a ton of money on something that they can't account for - they can't see if it's doing anything for them (because it usually isn't). Show them how the Yellow Pages don't work anymore. 90% of all purchases start with a search online.

Cold calling - No one likes to do this, but there's a reason why it's still around. It works. You might call a hundred places, but if just once person listens to you for more than a minute, it's worth it.

SEM Marketing - market your own business (PPC and organic). Sometimes people will just search for online marketing in [City] and if they don't see your business listed, chances are they'll never think to use you (if you can't even do this work on your own business, why would they think you can do it for them!).

Craigslist - It's still a huge marketplace. Make sure you are listed everywhere.

Workshops or Webinars - Create a video, or start a free workshop. Explain how local marketing can help their businesses.

Chamber of Commerce - Join your local chamber of commerce. When you go to your first meeting, you should stand up and introduce yourself to everyone. You'll exchange business cards (make sure you have a business card!!!) and you'll probably gain at least one client there.

Work on your PITCH. You *need* to sound like THE expert in the field. If you say "I don't Know" even once, you've lost that customer. Know what you are selling. The second they doubt you, you might as well walk out of their office then, because you lost them.

Return on their investment – This is difficult but there’s different ways to prove it, although a lot of it will take time if you are just doing SEO work. So generally you tell them that you need them to sign up for at least 3 months, or work on a per job/project basis. Be honest! Sometimes it takes time to see good results, depending on the keyword competition. Chances are they’ll see results in days though (if you’re any good).

Depending on the size of the company, you can easily get $500-$6000 a month. Take that times however many customers you can handle, and you can really make a good salary.

There’s a couple programs out there that help you along the way. There’s a LOT of tricks with local SEO and different ways to optimize your (or your client’s) site for local seo. One program I personally recommend is Howie’s IM Leadership. I am a member of this program myself and there is a TON of information here. It has videos, and some docs and pdfs, but the majority of the information is in the forum. Martin is the main guy there and he knows everything there is to know about local marketing. If someone had a question about this stuff, I’d point them in his direction, knowing he would be able to help. IM Leadership does case studies all the time, and have some of their star members tell others how they did it (lots of hard work in the beginning usually, but it PAYS in the end).

Another new player in this market is Main Street Marketing. Disclaimer – I have NOT used this product so I don’t know how good it is. It does sound interesting, and I will be reviewing as soon as it gets out (I’m very interested in local marketing because it’s just so easy to get fast results with it). I don’t know that much about this program but it’s all the hype right now so I thought I’d mention it. There’s some videos that the link will take you to – which are free, so I suggest watching them to find out more.

There’s another program – SEM Business Blueprint. I’m a member here as well. This one is a little more basic than IM Leadership. It’s got some great information though – as well an awesome powerpoint presentation that you can use or edit – to show your potential clients what you can do for them. They also give you some good ideas on where to find clients, like going to web designers – these guys are great to sell to. Basically you tell a web design firm – “Look, I’ll give you $200-$400 for every client the you send me and becomes a customer of mine” and they will usually start sending you tons of new clients. Why wouldn’t they? You can benefit from this, because you’ll be making a lot more than that after month 1 for the client, and they get a quick $200-$400. It’s a great partnership. You can learn great tips like that, from SEM Business Blueprint.

So I hope I have given you some ideas about local businesses. It’s real easy money once you’ve landed the job. The trick is to look good, to look like you ARE the “Go-To” guy for internet marketing, and that you will help them grow their small business. Do this, and you will do well. Feel free to contact me on my contact page if you have any questions.

I’ve been finding that this just isn’t working as well as it used to. What I’m talking about are choosing the right keywords that will bring in the RIGHT traffic – the kind of users that will actually find my site useful and do whatever action I want them to do. I’m not just talking about buying keywords… For example, I have a site – where I started targeting a keyword that was about the niche, was not too competitive and had a decent amount of searches. Now I’m on the first page of all three main search engines, some of which I’m #1. Great, right? Not really. Does it bring in traffic? Yes.. Is it converting? Nope. Not to the level that I want it to. See, the site I’m promoting is about selling (or pre-selling) a video tutorial product. It “Do It YourSelf” videos about the niche. So I targeted the keyword. But that keyword really could mean anything – they could be looking for stores that sell the product (not looking to make the product themselves).

So I have to rethink my strategies. I really have to start thinking of keywords that will bring in the right kind of traffic. And with this particular niche – I can’t target “buying” keywords, because I don’t want them to buy the product! I want them to MAKE the product using my videos. So I have to target DIY keywords…

It’s just a little different. When people teach keyword research – I just want to warn you that it’s not telling you everything. EVERY niche is different. Get into the user’s shoes and try to think what THEY would be typing in the search query. And it’s not always buying keywords.

Once I find keywords that I think are going to bring in the right type of traffic, and they have the right stats (# of searches and # of competing pages … And there’s probably not going to be a lot that fit into all this criteria) – then I manually check out the serps (search engine result pages). Basically, I’m looking at the top ten positions; what types of sites are listed, are there any web 2.0 sites there, are there huge, highly trusted sites that I’ll have problems outranking, and most important – is there at least ONE position there that I KNOW I can take. If there isn’t at least ONE position, one site that I *know* I can outrank and replace, then I won’t bother. If you can’t get in the top ten, there is no point in trying to compete in that keyword.

I’ll usually use Market Samurai to check the pages I have questions about – to see if the domain is there purely because of the size of the site (# of indexed pages makes Google think it’s an authority <- hint – larger sites are easier to rank) and the trust factor. If none of the sites are optimized (in title, in url, in meta keywords, etc) for that keyword, it’s *possible* that you could outrank them if you’re page is completely optimized AND you do good link building strategies.

The point I’m trying to make is that every niche, every project, every keyword is unique. There’s no rules that will handle every situation. I take every project I am involved with, and look at it completely differently than I would another project. Also – tools won’t tell you everything. I don’t care how much data they provide. You need to actually look at the SERPS. See what Google sees. Look at what google is considering relevant to that keyword (it’s suggestions, the sites that are ranking, the ads it’s showing, the type of content it’s displaying (maps, videos, images, news results <– hint – if it shows any of those, definitely consider that in your promotion strategy, ie. if it shows videos in the top ten, make sure you put out videos EVERY WEEK… etc, etc). Do this and you will learn how to get in the top ten quicker.

Back to the topic at hand – using Scrapebox to find high page rank PAGES. Let me clarify this a little bit. There’s a mis-conception with page rank. I’m sure you’ve all seen the link packs being sold all over the web, like Angela’s Packets, and Paul’s packs, etc, etc. They market their products, stating that they can get you high PR sites linking back to you! This isn’t necessarily a blatant lie, it’s not the truth either. They are showing you high PR sites, but the pages you create (usually member profiles) have absolutely NO page rank. They aren’t indexed since you haven’t created them yet, so they couldn’t possibly have a page rank value. There is a HUGE difference between getting a link on a high PR *PAGE* compared to getting a link on a profile page (that has NO rank) that sits on a high PR *DOMAIN*. The links you get from creating a profile page on a high PR DOMAIN have NO rank, and you do not really get that high PR juice that they claim. I’m not saying they don’t work. A link is a link is a link. And sure, getting a link on a higher PR domain is better than getting a link on a site that doesn’t have any rank. Why? Mostly because if a domain has a high PR value, it’s probably getting spidered more often and you have a better chance of getting that profile indexed. Also – there’s some authority and/or trust factor that Google places on sites – so yes, it’s better than nothing. Another potential benefit is that some of these sites show their new member profile links on the home page. The home page DOES have PR (usually) and as long as it’s not a “no follow” link (50/50 chance there) – you might get that juice flowing to your profile – but usually that’s only a temporary placement, since new members will bump your link off the page quickly, and the SE spider has to have visited the exact moment that your link is shown for you to get the benefit (and it will only be temporary since the next time it spiders that page, it will see the link gone and potentially lower your rank due to the link velocity but that’s a whole other topic). Sorry for going on a rant there.

Okay – so now you know the difference between getting a link on a highly ranked PAGE versus getting a link on a highly ranked DOMAIN. There’s one other factor that will make a difference – and that’s the OBL – or outbound links. The more outbound links a page has, the more that link juice is getting divided. Let me explain; Let’s say there’s a Page A – and it has a rank of say 8. It has two outbound links on the page. Each one of those links get’s a value of 4 (more like 3.2 or something like that since it’s not going to send 100% link juice because some of it just evaporates but again, that’s a whole other topic). Let’s take that same page, Page A – and it now has 4 outbound links. Well, now each one of those links is going to have a value of 2. If that page has 50 outbound links on it, then you’ll only get 0.16 value. Get my drift? The more outbound links a page has, the less value those links are.

So – assuming I didn’t confuse you too much, the goal is to find high page rank PAGES, but also find those pages that have a LOW # of OBLs. Don’t worry though, it’s not that hard (especially with Scrapebox).

The easiest place to find high PR pages that will actually let you put your links on them are blogs and forums. The problem with both those platforms is that because it’s so easy to place your links on those pages, they are spammed heavily and therefore have a very high # of OBLs, making their PR value almost pointless. So you have to do some research to find the diamonds in the rough. Trust me, there are a LOT of them (you just need to know how to find them – which I’m teaching you now).

I’m going to take the diet niche as an example. I like to use forums for this exercise because it’s more likely to find gems and sometimes it’s easier to get a forum link than it is to get a blog comment approved.

So I just do a manual search in Google for “diet forums”. You use to be able to just search for diet forums, and then you could just click on forums on the left hand side, but now, for some reason, forums doesn’t seem to be an option to drill down. I don’t know why. Anyhow – I found http://www.caloriesperhour.com/forums/ and it was one of the top results so it seems to be trusted by google (as the diet niche is pretty competitive). What I do next is harvest all the indexed pages from that site. I do that by using Scrapebox’s custom footprint – and this is the footprint I use:

site:[domain here]

So for this example, it would be: site:http://www.caloriesperhour.com/forums/

Keep in mind – when you are doing a custom footprint with no keywords – Scrapebox will only use one connection per search engine. Why is this important? It means it will only choose one proxy to use per SE. If that proxy is banned, you will get NO results (for that search engine). So you either need to use private proxies, or just keep trying to harvest with different proxies (public proxies may be blocked because other people are scraping google too). Another way to get all the urls of a site is by seeing if they have a sitemap – but I always use the site query because if the pages aren’t indexed, they are worthless anyway. Also – if it doesn’t come back with a lot of urls (you want at least 50 – a good site will have several hundred to several thousand) – then it’s not a big site and probably not that authoritative so I would move on to another site.

Once I harvest all the site’s links, I remove the duplicate URLs (NOT the duplicate domains because they all would be duplicates). Then I do a page rank check. You’ll want a lot of proxies for this (I use public ones because of the # of proxies you can utilize) because when checking thousands of links for PR – your IP’s might get banned (temporarily) and you won’t get good data.

So after checking the Page Rank of that site’s url list – I’ve now uncovered several PR 3 and PR 2 threads (remember – this is just an example and I’ve done zero research. If you take your time and look around, you’ll find forums and blogs that have much higher page rank threads and pages). So any one of these PR3 thread urls is worth a hundred times more than a new profile that will have NO page rank, even on a domain with PR8. So the next step is to import only the high PR urls into scrapebox. Export your list that now has the PR associated to each url – and make your edits. Remove all the n/a ranked pages and all the PR0 pages.. A PR1 page is still a good link if it has low # of OBLs so I’d keep those on the list. Also – there’s going to be a couple at the top – the index page of the forum (or just the domain name – the root URL) will have the highest PR value. You should remove that one too since there’s no way you’ll get your link on there unless you pay the owner. So now you have your list of high PR urls. Import that back into Scrapebox.

Now you can go to your add-ons in Scrapebox and run the Outbound Link Checker. It will tell you how many links there are on each page. You want to focus on the external links mostly. Every site is different so there’s no magic number to go by, but you should filter out the pages that have a lot more OBLs than the average. For this particular site, all the high PR pages have VERY little # of OBLs. This could mean two things – One: It’s a GOLDMINE. Meaning it hasn’t been found or just hasn’t been spammed much. Or Two: It’s very well moderated. Meaning it’s really hard to get your links on a thread. Some forums will put posts that contain any link, into moderation, and will not be public until a moderator approves it. So you really need to contribute useful content in order to get approved. Or it could mean that external links are just not allowed on the site. You’ll have to do some more digging and just try it out.

Go on the forum and create an account. Edit your profile and make it look as normal as possible, add an profile image, answer the profile questions, and try to add your signature with your links in it. I usually will always post a introduction post in the appropriate forum category to look more normal. Some forums won’t let you put a live link in your signature until you’ve been around awhile and have posted a certain # of posts. If you can’t put it in your signature – there’s a trick I use: It’s the fake signature trick. Go on the forum and see what the signatures look like. Usually there’s a line above the signature, below each post. So I’ll create a reply to one of the threads, and after the post, I’ll add my own fake link and then put my fake signature with my links in it below the line. Sometimes it works, sometimes the post will get moderated because there’s a link in the post. There’s a trick to that as well. You can create a reply, and put a “helpful” link to some other site with useful information about the topic somewhere in the post. It will get moderated because of the link, but hopefully the moderator won’t see your ‘other’ link that you have added. Your other link can be hidden, like create a hyperlink from a period at the end of the sentence – you can put your backlinks in places like that, and sometimes the moderator will see your “useful” link and not your other link and then approve the post.

I’ve gotten AMAZING links this way, many, many times. PR5 and PR6 links that people pay lots of money for, I get them for free, just by doing what I’ve explained above. These types of links are worth a THOUSAND un-ranked profile links you get from those Angela packets… Go ahead and get a link using the method above, and then use a tool (there’s online tools) that show you how much your backlinks are worth and you’ll see the difference. It’s worth it to take the time to do this type of promotion.

There’s tons of tricks you can do to try and get your links on these types of forums, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. Sign up to my newsletter because I’m going to be sending my subscribers some useful tricks like this.

First – I wanted to share something about my personal business. For the past five years, I’ve been doing everything… Let me explain this further – I have a full time job, 7am to 5 or 6 pm Mon-Fri – at a printing company that I’m part owner of. I manage the IT department (which is me) and the marketing department (which, again, is just me). On top of my day job, I work online – obviously involved with internet marketing. I, for the most part, promote niche sites. I also run an ecommerce site that deals with drop-shipping real products, as well as pure affiliate sites. I also have a relatively new family (a 22 month old daughter and another girl on the way in August). I just wanted to let you know a little bit about myself before I got into the point of this post (which is outsourcing).

Obviously, I’ve tried outsourcing before. I’ve mostly used scriptlance, but I’ve also used Elance and Rent-a-Coder. All of those types of sites are great. I suppose there’s a place and a need for everything. But if you want to expand your business – to grow and earn more income, you’re going to need more than temporary help (if that’s what you want to call it). If you need an assistant, or someone you can count on – forget about it. Sure, they can help you create a program – or create a header, or do some link building for a couple months (trust me – it probably won’t even last that long). In fact, I’ve used two guys (and I still do!) from those types of programs and they’re great. One guy helps me build links to one of my sites, another has a team and helps me create LOTS of accounts on various sites (I also sell their services to others)- but I got lucky. I’ve also hired about 20 other people that no longer work for me. There’s a saying, “Hire fast – Fire FASTER”. Make a mistake? Fine, no problem – here’s what you did wrong, and try not to do it again… Make that mistake AGAIN? Bye…. Here’s your check and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. It may sound mean, but that’s what you need to do to succeed in this business… If you think otherwise, go ahead and try it. But don’t forget to bookmark this post

Okay – yes, I’m talking about the Philippines. But that’s not all I’m talking about. There’s an *amazing* program called "ReplaceMyself" and it’s all about hiring Filipino employees to help you grow your business. It helps you free yourself to utilize what they call a “4 hour work week” or more realistically a “15 hour work week”. Considering my work week is on the average, about 60-80 hours a week – this is a HUGE improvement. I’ve just started utilizing full time employees (from the Philippines) this way – and it’s night and day.

When you sign up, you’re not going to get 80 hours of videos, telling you how to make money online (thank goodness!). You’ll get access to a site, a repository of information, helping you help your employees. The training? It’s not for you! It’s for your employees. Training includes, but is not limited to, creating email accounts, FTP programs, copy writing, WordPress training, Video marketing, article marketing, web 2.0 marketing, mini-networks (link wheels), the concept of getting links to your site, MSN Loophole training, Script installation training, basic and advanced SEO training, and MORE. Again – this is NOT for you – this training is for your employees. You can obviously watch it for yourself, in fact, I’d recommend it since you should know what your employees are learning.

So – first things first, you need to hire someone. They used to use bestjobs.ph – in fact, they still do use them, just not in the same way, because the owners of bestjobs.ph decided to not allow foreign companies/accounts sign up and/or hire from there. I’m not sure why, but they apparently decided to only want local businesses use the site. But don’t worry – when you sign up to ReplaceMyself – you get access to this site. In fact, signing up to Replacemyself is the ONLY way to access this site. If you use proxies to sign up (and they’ll have to be located in the Philippines), they’ll take your money and cancel your account and you won’t get your money back (it’s been tried). So you get access to bestjobs.ph – which is a great place to find Filipino employees, but it’s not the only way. Replacemyself created their own Filipino hiring site, due to bestjobs.ph closing down to the international public. It’s called onlinejobs.ph. It’s fantastic, and you ALSO get access to onlinejobs.ph for free (it’s included). Right there, you are saving yourself two site’s monthly fees by joining Replacemyself. Oh – and they also have “pre-found” employees, which are ones that people have used themselves, and would recommend. Filipinos that have been tried and tested and excel at a given skill. You pay a fee for those, but I’m sure it’s worth it for some people. You have to remember, you’re dealing with people, so nothing is going to work 100%. You’re still “outsourcing” but it’s just at a different country and a different level. Every single applicant I’ve seen has at least a bachelor’s degree (obviously I can’t prove that, but it’s on their resumes) and most speak pretty good english. The ones that don’t, you’ll notice right away (sometimes not in their resumes, but in email conversations before you hire) and/or they will tell you so. I put on the job description that they’d be doing a number of things, but one of them was article writing and they straight up told me that they could do everything but the article writing. They’re honest people that usually will work very hard for you.

There’s a LOT of helpful information on the site, and it’s all about hiring Filipinos, how to pay them, how to talk to them, what programs to use, how to file taxes after using international employees like this, tips and tricks, what to avoid when dealing with overseas employees, and so much more. It’s a fantastic program, and you will benefit and earn SO much more than what it costs.

So the number that you’ve been waiting for – how much do you pay them? If I was to say $200, would you believe me? You’re probably asking for how long… That’s per MONTH! $200 per month – 40 hour work weeks. Not bad! OF course, some you’ll pay less, and for more experienced ones, you’ll pay more. Some people pay a lot more – depending on what you are looking for. But as long as they speak good english, you can train them to do anything you need – you don’t need to hire someone that already knows everything (it will cost more!). This isn’t that bad where they live. In fact, it’s pretty prestigious to be working for an overseas company, especially an American company. And that salary? The cost of living and the comparison of USD to PHP (Philippine Peso) is around 45. That’s 45 php to 1 USD. So a 10,000PHP a month salary isn’t that bad.

Replacemyself does one more thing for you – it GIVES you the project management software (Active Collab) to use with your employees. This is a $400 software (I know because I own it myself). It’s a fantastic piece of software that will allow you to communicate with your employees, and also give them the training they need. Every month, ReplaceMyself gives you (your employees I mean) a new training module (which you can pre-pay for to get the ones you need quicker) – and it uploads the training to the project management software.

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Here’s just a few methods I use with the fantastic tool – Scrapebox. Most of these methods are pretty basic, but sometimes just seeing exactly how it’s used by others, it puts it in a more clear perspective and allows you to take these ideas and replicate. Although I urge people to try and put your own spin on them. What I will discuss here, is by no means earth shattering, however these methods work, and work very well. One thing to keep in mind is that with Scrapebox (or any other automated spam tool) – I use private proxies for comment spam, and I’ll use at least 20 of them, but for other features like pinging, harvesting, and rss submitting, I’ll use the harvested public proxies because you can get so many. Also – make sure you know how many threads your private proxy provider allows you to use and adjust your connection settings in Scrapebox. Some companies will suspend your account and your connections won’t work if you go over the max # of threads/connections.

The obvious way to use Scrapebox is by automating comment spam, which it does very fast and very well (this post will stick to comment spam – I’ll talk about other functions of Scrapebox in future posts and in my newsletter). There are many ways to use comment spam to promote your promoters (I never mass comment spam directly to a money site). For the most part, I use 2 main methods. First – there’s the targeted method. It’s generally accepted that its better if you get links from related sites in your niche. How true that is, I don’t know but it seems logical that if you had links from authority sites in your niche, you would do better than if they were from sites that are completely not related. So taking this into consideration – the first method, the targeted method – we will harvest sites that have something to do with your niche and/or target keywords.

Basically, I’ll start out by harvesting wordpress blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and AOL. There’s a lot more wordpress sites than Blog Engine or Moveable Type – and they work better/faster (although you find more unmoderated with the other two so it’s good to use those too). I’ll use my main keywords that I’m trying to dominate – but usually those are too specific to harvest enough sites, so I also throw in a bunch of more general, but RELATED keywords. The more keywords – the longer it will take to harvest, but this is a numbers game – you want to get thousands or hundreds of thousands of urls. The more the better, because many will be duplicates, many will be moderated and unless you write some amazing, on topic comments, they won’t get approved. That’s one benefit to doing a keyword/niche targeted campaign, because although there’s less targets, more comments are more likely to get successfully posted because you can write comments about the niche. If they are on topic with the blogs you are posting on, it’s more likely they get approved.

So harvest your blog list with targeted and general niche-related keywords. Hopefully you’ll get a nice big list. If not, use different but related keywords. Remember, this is just to get a big list of blogs, it doesn’t have to be the exact keywords you want to target. Then I’ll of course remove the duplicate URLs. Now – removing the duplicate domains depends on a few things – how well my comments are spun or how many comments I have, and also the # of proxies.. I remember doing a run a few weeks ago, where I actually spammed my own blog – FOUR times with four different posts… BUT when I was looking at the comments – they were from different IPs (from diff. parts of the country) and the names/emails were different, AND the sites that were being promoted were different, AND the comments were completely different (not only do I spin the comments using The Best Spinner – but I use LOTS of completely different comments). So it really looked like different people commenting on my site. So if you do spam the same site’s various blog posts – just make sure you are able to make it look different from each other. And this varies depending on how much time I have… So sometimes I’ll remove duplicate domains, sometimes I won’t.

About the comments used – this varies a lot with me as well. It depends on a lot of different factors: the amount of time I want to spend on this project (usually not a lot – remember, this is just mass comment spam!), whether I’m doing a targeted campaign, or whether I’m just going for lots of links, and so on. So for doing targeted campaigns – I use on topic comments – comments that have my keywords in them. Sometimes I’ll write a bunch myself (again, depending on how much time I want to spend), or sometimes I’ll do a method like comment extractors. When you use comment extractors – just remember to go over the list and remove the pointless ones (you’ll get them), remove the vulgar ones, remove the short ones, remove any with URLs, etc… Then I’ll take my comments and put them through everyone’s favorites in The Best Spinner. Then I put it up in Scrapebox and let it rip.

About the websites list in Scrapebox. This is the list of sites you are promoting. You don’t want to put too many URLS on there. You just won’t get the # of links per url to make it worthwhile. So it might mean you have to do a few runs, but that also gives you more/different blogs to spam (since you will harvest using other keywords) so it’s a good idea anyways. I always keep it under 10. But the # will vary depending on how many blogs I harvested. If I’m doing Blog Engine, or Moveable Type – there’s going to be a LOT less, so I’ll probably only promote a few (3). The other thing you have to keep in mind is Akismet and other tools like that will ban a URL from being promoted, so if you only put 1 URL in there – you probably won’t get a lot of successful posts because it will get banned (I don’t know how fast it bans a URL, but why push it). Or it may work fine that one run, but if you try to do more runs with that URL, they may not be as successful. Anyhow – it’s good to have a few urls promoted, but not too many.

About the names list – some people use the names generator to make it look more normal, and some use keywords since that is where the link will be on. If you use keywords, your success rate will go down. How much, I’m not sure, but it will definitely be less. I do both. I use the regular names, and keywords – and I mix up the list.. I definitely use more regular names than keywords though. With the emails – I have it create about 20 emails with one fake domain name, and 20 more with another fake domain name, and I do that about 3-5 times so that it’s not all using the same domain name. That’s another way it could block you and lower your success rate.

So now you have your targeted blog list, your website list, your names and emails and comment list. At this point – you can use the new blog analyzer to remove the bad urls (some of the harvested urls will no longer be pointing to a good page or site)… or you can let it rip.

That’s it for the targeted comment spam campaign. Now let’s go for the bigger numbers game.

There’s only really two big differences between the two..

First – it’s the keywords… This won’t be a targeted list. Targeted lists limit your scope. Here, we want to get the biggest blog list that you can. So you’re going to want to use VERY general keywords and you’re going to want to use a LOT of them. Remember – when scraping/harvesting Urls, you are limited to 1,000 results PER keyword. That doesn’t mean you can only get 1000 results, it means you can only get 1000 results for every keyword you scrape. So the more keywords, the more results – but if the keywords are too similar, you’ll get a lot of duplicates which is just wasting time. So you want to come up with a big list of varying, completely different keywords… Keywords like: celebrity, computers, entertainment, education, money, sales, sports, games, work, etc… Hopefully you get the picture. Come up with as many general keywords as you can. And you can have Scrapebox scrape more using those keywords to get more, but just remember that it will produce more duplicates that way – but you will get a little more. Using those types of keywords, you will get a LOT of blogs to spam.

Second – the comments. Since you aren’t targeting a specific niche, it’s hard and/or pretty much impossible to come up with on-topic comments since you are spamming such a broad selection of blogs and niches.. This is where you want to stroke the blog author’s ego.. I always mix it up – I include comments related to my niche I’m promoting because a lot of blogs aren’t moderated and the comments will get through so you might as well have your keywords in the content. But on moderated blogs, those probably won’t get approved since it’s probably not related to the blog post. So I mix it up. I’ll use pretty generic comments, talking about how great the post is (you can now add things like %BLOGTITLE% to the comments and it will put the page title there – its good to make it look like you are actually writing the comment), etc.. There’s two schools of thought on this – come up with really ingenious comments that will get approved, or just put whatever, keyword stuff, and a bunch of links since only the unmoderated sites will allow them.. I try to do both.

Third – depending on the size of the list you harvest, you can add more sites to the website list. If you have a huge list, you might want to because of the sheer volume of comments you’ll get. If you get 5000 links to a Squidoo lens, you might get complaints, your lens might get deleted, or the links might get discounted due to the speed and volume of your link velocity.

That’s it for now. I hope this was helpful. I’ll definitely be writing about some more methods on how to use Scrapebox, in the future… (or I might save them for my newsletter subscribers, so don’t forget to sign up! )

Back to the point of this post – Comment Spam. It’s a fantastic way to get your 2nd and 3rd tier sites some quick and dirty links, making them that much more powerful (read my post about promoting niche sites to know what I mean about my tiered approach to promotion). But unfortunately, to do this right, you need a lot of comments written, preferably unique, and keyword rich, and this of course, means writing. I hate writing! And I especially hate writing for comment spam, when you are trying to stroke the blog author’s ego, to get them to approve your comment and give you your link. So I found a quick and easy way of producing thousands of comments in mere seconds… Comments that are already written for you! So what am I talking about? Scraping other services for comments of course! And what better a way, then to use a couple programs that do just that. I found these great programs, (which are free by the way) at BlogPig.com. So go there now, and you’ll see a sign up link in the upper right hand corner. Once you’ve signed up – you will get an API #. You need this # to use/install the programs. There’s also some other great wordpress plugins on that site, so I’d check them out. I haven’t used them personally, but they look good.

There’s four comment extractors that you can download for free – YouTube, FriendFeed, Twitter, and Yahoo Answers. So far, my experience has been that FriendFeed and Twitter don’t provide very good content for these purposes. Friendfeed just didn’t give me many results, and the results I got were unusable – but that can vary based on the keywords you are scraping so I’d test it just in case – it only takes a couple seconds to find out if it’s any good. And Twitter – the content was too short, not keyword rich, and the majority had other people’s links in them. As far as YouTube and YahooAnswers goes, you need to choose the right keywords to get the type of comments you’ll want to use for this exercise. You need to choose keywords, that of course are related to the blogs that you are comment spamming on, but you also need to choose keywords that 1) will actually have enough comments to scrape (so more general keywords), and 2) ones that will contain your target keywords in the comments (and you can do some basic find and replace functions in your text editor to make sure you have your keywords mixed in the comments if they aren’t in there to begin with).

So what these programs will do is ask you for your keyword that you want to scrape, and how many comments you want it to find. YahooAnswers asks for a Yahoo Developer API ID #, but it has the default YahooDemo API ID # selected when you open the program up, and that works fine for me – although it’s possible that, depending on how much you use this program, it might require you to get your own API ID, but its free and easy to get so it doesn’t matter. Depending on the keyword, you can find thousands in a few seconds, or just a couple hundred. You really don’t need THAT many, but the more unique, keyword rich comments you use, the better. It will export them to a csv file. I recommend that you go through the CSV and remove the ones that don’t make sense (there will be some of these) and the ones with links (that probably aren’t yours – unless you spam these four services already .

The next step is to get it into a format that Scrapebox can use. Which is one comment on it’s own line, with a blank line in between it. Another good idea is to import this text file you just created, into a spinning program like The Best Spinner to get even more unique variations. Copy it into The Best Spinner (or your favorite spinning program) and hit “Get Everyone’s Favorites” and it will add spintax to your comments so you’ll quickly have thousands, upon thousands, of unique variations of the comments you just scraped. This is important because when comment spamming, if you spam the same text to thousands of blogs, Google or any other search engine may discount the links because of the exact/duplicate nature of the link (same words before and after the link, all done at the same time, etc, etc). It’s always better to have multiple versions (spun) of your comments so every time Scrapebox (or whatever engine you use) posts your comments, they will be a unique comment.

You now have thousands of unique comments, pre-written, to use for your scrapebox campaigns. It’s that easy. You’ll have to play around with it a bit, to get the comments that you can use. Specific buying keywords might not come up with much, so I typically enter very general keywords – and then just throw my keywords into the comments with a text editor. Even after scraping, and doing some manual editing, you’ll still be saving TONS of time by doing it this way. Granted – these aren’t all going to be great comments. But it’s a quick and easy way to get the job done. If I’m comment spamming and promoting my 1st tier sites (I don’t do this too often, because these sites have my money site linked on them, and it’s possible that you might get spam complaints but you will generate some good traffic this way), I will typically hand-craft my comments to get as specific as possible, related to the target blogs I’m spamming, so that they will get a higher approval rate. But if I’m comment spamming my 3rd tier sites – that are mostly profile sites, or whatever, I don’t care as much, I just want links, and most of them that are successfully posted on are sites that aren’t moderated, so it really doesn’t matter what the comments say, as long as it gets me a link with some keyword rich content.

So assuming you already harvested your list of blogs to spam, you can import your newly scraped comment file into Scrapebox and fire away! It’s real simple. If you have any questions, or comments – I’d love to hear them in the comment section. I’m planning on posting tips and tricks on this blog every weekday – but I’m definitely going to have some great tips for my subscribers of my newsletter, so you better sign up!

Basically – there’s a thousand different ways to go about this. Everyone will tell you something different. What I’m going to tell you is my basic guideline or map that I use, and I’ll go into more detail about specific strategies I mention here, in future posts. There’s a great resource – http://www.jigglingtheweb.com/. It basically states that Google likes to find your sites/posts from other sites – and when done right – you get more “juice” or “credit” then if they found your page by being pinged. This seems to hold true – because I employ these ideas in my basic strategies and it works every time. Some tools I use to help automate these processes are: Senuke, Slick Social (note: you can get a better price if bought through Warrior Forum), Scrape Box (a tool I use every day and highly recommend), Xrumer, and a few others.

First – know your keywords. I’m not going to delve into this right now. Rule of thumb for easy domination – Keep the competing pages under 50K (exact match) and don’t go too far below 500 searches a month. Of course, with more time, employees, more tools, etc, you could work on keywords much more competitive, but I’m just trying to keep this simple. A great tool to do a quick check on competition for particular keywords is Market Samurai (It’s good to use a tool like this, because the # of competing pages isn’t the only factor when judging how competitive a niche/keyword is).

Second – have your content ready. When promoting a niche/money site – here are some general rules I go by: any sites/links pointing to my money site directly will be using unique content. Now, do I do this every time? Nope. These are just some basic guidelines and sometimes I don’t always follow them 100%. It depends on my budget, the amount of time I have, etc.. If I’m working on one site/niche for that whole week, and I have unlimited budget (like if I’m doing work for a large client), then yes, I’m going to buy NUMEROUS unique articles to be written, all targeting specific keywords. If I’m just maintaining 10 sites I’ve had for a year already, no, I probably won’t stay true to all these rules. It just depends. They’re just guidelines… So let’s just assume I have a decent budget and will be concentrating on this one site. I’ll probably buy at least 20 unique articles. They will be targeted to probably 5-10 keywords I’ve already researched.

Third – So you have your keywords and your content. On the money site – you should have at LEAST ten unique, grade A articles, targeting your main keywords. Make sure you have your basic on-page SEO covered (ie. URL has the keyword in it, the title has the keyword in it, there’s an H1 tag with the keyword in it at the top of the page, the first paragraph as the keyword in it, etc.). Now for the promotion. What I do is a basic THREE-TIERED approach. The further away from my money site, the more automation and spamming I do. Note: When I say “spam” – I’m *NOT* talking about unsolicited e-mail. That is illegal, and I definitely do not do it and would never recommend it. It’s just not needed or wanted. So when I say spam – I just mean posting links on other sites with the intent to either directly promote another site of mine, or for the backlink juice I’ll get from that site. That’s it.

With the unique articles on your money site – if you have a plugin like Slick Social installed, your sites will already have some bookmarks/links pointing to them. If you don’t, it’s not a big deal – just make sure you do a few manual bookmarks to EACH url. And follow the rest of my strategy and you’ll be fine.

1st Tier Sites – These are sites that directly link to my money site. They can be anything, but the most valuable are sites that allow unique content (more than descriptions – preferably whole articles or blogs or more) with your anchor text links within the content. So for the first few days – I’ll create around 10 (it can be less, like 5 or it can be more, like 15) 1st tier sites each day… I’ll always include a digg post, a mixx post, a reddit post, and about 5-10 web 2.0 sites. Those web 2.0 sites can be anything… (viddler.com, wordpress.com, hubpages.com, blogger.com, livejournal.com, whatever) sometimes I like to use some tools that research what the pharma-spammers are using and see what’s working for them (Howie has a tool in his Black Hat is Back program that does this). But it’s not that important. Just get your unique content posted. For the most part (again, this is a loose guideline) – a site that’s directly linking to my money site, I usually do manually, meaning I don’t use an automation tool. I’ll basically create one 1st tier site for each of my unique articles/posts on my money site. And each one of those is targeting one specific keyword. This is important. Every web page you ever create, no matter where it is, should ALWAYS be targeting a main keyword.

2nd Tier Sites – These are sites that are promoting the 1st tier sites. You can use link wheels or just regular, normal one way links. Doesn’t really make much difference in my testing. So this is where I use SENuke. I’ll take a unique article – spin it usually using a tool like The Best Spinner, and have Senuke create more web 2.0 sites pointing to my 1st tier sites. I’ll basically just let it rip – I’ll do one run to each of the 1st tier sites I created that day. Now – depending on how much time I have, I might have it promote more than one 1st tier site at a time but the more OBLs (outbound links) there are on a page, the less the links are worth. Each run I do – it’s mostly just web 2.0 sites… Sometimes I’ll take the time to do the article sites, but usually not – because they’re more picky, some of them have to be approved, etc.. When doing these types of runs with SENuke – I won’t pay attention to the ones that don’t post. I don’t have the time.

Bookmarking and RSS – I’ll have Senuke bookmark both the 1st tier and 2nd tier sites. By now, I’ve run Senuke’s account creation module for bookmark sites so many times, I’ve got dozens of accounts on each of the bookmarking sites, so it’s okay.. I suggest you either outsource the account creation or have Senuke create dozens of them. It’s always good to have a bunch. Makes the links come from more than just a couple accounts and seem more natural. Another way to bookmark or “jiggle” the web is by using ping.fm. It’s a fast way to get your links bookmarked and out on the social sites.

3rd tier sites – This is where I get real spammy. These are the sites that are promoting the 2nd tier sites… These are your bookmark profile pages, more senuke runs that have spun or duplicate content promoting several 2nd tier sites throughout the article or at the bottom. Here, you can just try anything. I usually do a lot of profile creation (senuke has a web 2.0 profile spam module that I use). I create tons of profiles and point them to the 2nd tier sites… Make sure you record all these urls (I mean all of them, 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier sites). I don’t care about the content here… It can be full of links, duplicate content, the same as the 2nd tier sites… Whatever.. Link directories, profiles, pligg sites, guestbooks…

And Finally – The Spam – Here’s the fun part. This is where I take those 3rd tier links, and spam them to hell. I mainly use 2 programs for this part. Scrapebox and Xrumer. I’ll go into more detail with exactly how I perform these darker deeds, but for now – here’s some basics. With Scrapebox – I’ll take my main keywords, enter them into Scrapebox’s keyword harvest and have it create an even larger keyword list. Then I’ll have it harvest WordPress, and Moveable type sites (separately of course, you want to keep the lists separate because it doesn’t comment on both at the same time AFAIK). Once I have those lists, I’ll remove the URL dupicates… (I don’t remove the domain duplicates because I have a lot of proxies so it looks like it’s several different people from all over the world hitting them). Now I have my lists, I create about 10-15 completely different, but relevant to the keyword, comments. Then I take those comments and put them through The Best Spinner to get spun content. Then I just let Scrapebox rip – In the end, it will usually get several thousand CONFIRMED (I check with Scrapebox’s check links tool) links – which usually makes a few hundred to each url I promote. I generally only promote about 5-8 urls at a time. Otherwise the # of links is spread too thin to make as much difference. With Xrumer – I only promote my 3rd tier sites but I really let them have it. For the posts, I usually just write a paragraph or two of “useful” tidbits about the keywords I’m promoting… This is a whole discussion on it’s own though – so I’ll go into further detail in a future post (same with Scrapebox – I’ll write more details later).

Now you have an army of a network – in just one day (assuming everything was setup prior). You’ve created hundreds of sites/links, yet only 5-10 of them are directly linked to your site so you won’t really be getting “too many links at one time” (whatever that means). If you do this every day for a few months (you can lighten up as the days go on) – I *guarantee* your money site will be at a PR of 2 (assuming it was new) and hopefully will have made many sales by then. When I first started testing this technique, I literally started getting sales THAT DAY. That was an exception, but it DID happen. I hope this has helped. Like I said – I’ll be going into more detail about specific techniques, in the future. I just wanted to give a broad strokes idea of how I promote my niche sites.

No – it’s not just another Twitter tool. It’s an autoblog plugin for WordPress. In fact, you don’t even have to use the twitter features and it’s still an amazing autoblogging tool. Here’s the basics (I’ll go into more detail below):

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What WPTweetBomb does:

• It pulls content from various sources (Google News, Google Blog Search, Yahoo News, Yahoo Answers, Ezine Articles, Digg, and Custom RSS Feeds).
• Trends: You can have it pull content based on some general trendy keywords (either from Twitter Trends, or Google Trends, or both), or you can create custom keyword lists. If you want to get more targeted blog content – I definitely recommend using the custom keywords ONLY. It seems to work better for more general keywords, but you’ll have to test this (WPTweetBomb provides great testing tools to see what content the keywords will bring up). But if you are creating blogs for a private network and just need some content going, the Twitter/Google Trends will work great – plus bring in some great traffic.
• Twitter functionality (obviously it has some amazing twitter features, hence the name): It will tweet all your posts. But this is what separates this from an ordinary post-to-twitter plugin: It posts to NUMEROUS accounts – and also will FOLLOW other twitter accounts every time it posts. You can set how many accounts to post to (per post) and how many people it will follow (per post). Its recommended to have at LEAST the same # of accounts imported, as the # of posts you plan to post on a daily basis. In other words – if you have this post 50 times a day, you need at LEAST 50 twitter accounts imported. The # of posts per day is set by your cron job’s schedule (it tells you how often to have the cron job run for X amount of posts/daily). Of course – since you are posting to multiple twitter accounts every single day – you’ll want to have proxies setup (this requirement is dependent on how hard you plan to hit twitter – and again, WPTweetbomb gives you a handy “safety calculator” to test this). I recommend just buying a hundred twitter accounts (you can find sources to buy them from the wptweetbomb forum you’ll get access to)
• Auto Indexer: On the top of the setup page – you’ll see your site’s statistics, which are # of pages/posts indexed out of total # of pages/posts, your page rank, # of posts done daily/weekly/total, and your backlinks #’s. What the auto indexer does, is for all those posts that are not yet indexed, it will tweet them more, on a random basis. A Lot more… The idea is that twitter will help get your posts indexed. This plugin definitely does a good job of getting sites’ indexed so it appears this theory is correct, although I haven’t done extensive testing yet.
• Content Blocks: You can create content blocks – which is just telling the plugin what content to pull, with what keywords, and to which categories. You can have the posts include images, remove or keep in links/emails, videos, tags, credit the source, and even de-duping the content. What’s cool about the content block feature is that there’s an advanced content block creator syntax so you can create mass amounts of categories and content blocks all at once, by following a simple syntax:

  Parent Category Name # keyword1, keyword2, keyword3
  – Sub Category Name # keyword4, keyword5, keyword6
  – Sub Category Name2 # keyword7, keyword8, keyword9

  And so on…

  It then creates all the content blocks, using those categories (that it will create for you), and those keywords you assign. It allows you to create an extremely organized blog (more so than I do manually, that’s for sure!)

• Ad Blocks: You can create ad blocks using Amazon, Clickbank, Adsense, Commission Junction, and any other custom HTML ads – and you can create complex rule systems. For example, you can have clickbank ads showing for on the sidebar for this category, but html ads on the post for another category, etc. It can get as complex as you want it – so you can specify the best ads to target certain posts…
• Bonus Tools include an instant links tool – where it will take your domain and post it on all the stats sites. Usually will help to get your site indexed. Again – I haven’t done too much testing on this, but from my experience, these links don’t help that much. As usual, test for yourself. Another great bonus is the Twitter account checker. When you purchase bulk twitter accounts – it’s incredibly boring to check all the accounts to make sure they are valid, and not deleted. With the account checker – you can check them all in a few seconds. It even tells you how many people are following/followed and how many tweets there are in the account. Very handy.

WPTweetBomb is a fantastic plugin. It’s incredibly easy to use, and there are videos and a forum to help you if you need it. It’s pretty easy to get traffic depending on the keywords you are targeting, but just like any other site – the plugin isn’t going to do everything. You still need to promote the site to gain traction. The promotion strategy will be the same as any other site you do. I’ll post some of my general strategies I use for every site I create, in an upcoming post.

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