I created this little tool early last year when I was playing around with referral log spamming. I’ve modified it now to help get backlinks from blogs. Also, a short while ago I remember someone asking about such a tool on Jon’s affiliate forum.

So, here’s the tactic.

Find a blog in your niche who you’d like a link from. Write a favourable review of their blog or a post on their blog and include the relevant link. Post the review on your blog and use the tool below to spam the referral log of their blog. Then follow up with an email a few days later if you don’t get a backlink. This may sound complicated so I’ll explain the concept behind the tactic.

Imagine if you check your Webalizer stats and find you have hundreds of hits from some blogger who’s written a favourable review of your blog, would you be inclined to link back? I suspect in most cases the answer would be yes. So that’s the idea behind this tactic: write a favourable review and spam the referral log of the target blog, if they don’t link to you in a few days time, send them an email requesting a backlink.

Here’s the referral log spamming tool and the screenshot is below. It’s written in vb.net and I’ve included the executable and source code so you can have play with it. If you haven’t already got Visual Studio 2005, you can download it as a torrent.