Blackhat SEO Chats                 

On Monday, in the WPBlackhat chat room, we had a discussion about Xrumer – we covered the basics: homepage-profile spamming as well as creating new threads and using fake signatures. Also, I demonstrated some real examples: one spammer using smileys to link back to his site, building links slowly to a Hub page (not to raise a link-spamming red-flag) so it moves up the SERPs steadily, and, spamming links hard to a Hub page as well, so it moves up the SERPs then falls – aka Googlebowling.

We also briefly talked about rgen.exe. This tool converts an Xrumer DB into a list of forum threads that can be posted to instead of creating new thread for every post. This is the most effective way to use Xrumer!

One thing became apparent during the discussion, many Xrumer owners barely knew how to use the tool properly! If you are struggling with Xrumer, try this: write some quick articles and post them on free blogs – Wordpress, Blogger, and others. Now spam varying amounts of links to the articles, and watch what happens in the SERPs. If you do this quite a few times, you’ll begin to understand how to use Xrumer effectively.

In future chats, we intend to discuss Xrumer again, as well as cookie stuffing, advanced link building, Craigs List, and other stuff, so keep an eye on the calendar in WPBlackhat.