SEO From the Dark Side

If you’re not already aware, Busin3ss (the guy behind YACG) has fairly recently launched a sexy new tool: Link Farm Evolution (LFE).

So what does LFE do?

LFE is the tool that allows you to harness the power of social media platforms such as Wordpress MU, Pligg, Blogspot, Tumblr, etc, to build a vast link farm. Open-source and wide-spread, those platforms allow you to get quality links on thousands of unique domains in unlimited quantities. And the best part is that you don’t have to pay a thing or do any manual labor to do that. You can have an endlessly diverse link farm providing links to all of your sites — WhiteHat or BlackHat alike.

Read more about about LFE on Wickedfire: http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo/67017-link-farm-evolution-professional-grade-link-building-wh-gh-bh.html

So, is it worth buying?

Here’s some comments from members of WPBlackhat who bought it:

“LFE has been going pretty good… there is a learning curve and some work to put in. I want to set up blogs for a future seo empire so Ive been putting the time into posting heavily spun articles onto wpmu hosts. Ive found the best way is to select as many wpmu’s as possible, around half the selected hosts survive registration and then ive found quite a few have been deleted/disabled before even posting content. So I have about 50 that have survived with content on, im not going to link out untill ive built links to them. All the blogs are there under one roof and one click and your logged in which is cool.”

“I hesitated buying it but really like it. It builds the blogs on WPMU sites and others and I have a lot of them sticking and post to them regularly.”

“I didn’t realise till just now but theres no need to add your own content to blogs as LFE will scrape and add other blogs, associated content and pics from flicker. Setting the cron job to finish registrations / captchas while you sleep is cool. This thing is really powerful.”

“I got LFE set-up pretty quick and was creating blogs on tons of hosts soon afterwards… it really is set and forget. Great tool”

What makes LFE such a useful and powerful tool is the SUPPORT. They jump on every bug almost straight away and are continually improving and adding new features.

What can I say, I recommend you grab a copy before the price increases as I suspect there is a major update on the way (all future updates are free BTW). Read more here: http://linkfarmevolution.com/

Before I post the LFE review, I want to know what kind of free bot my readers would like?

What’s a bot? Xrumer is a bot, BF SEO is a bot, SE Nuke is a bot, you use bots to game MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and many other 2.0 sites. Bots are automated or semi-automated tools that carry out repetitive and mundane tasks – such as account creation, verification, scraping, captcha solving, blog commenting, etc, etc.

The guys behind UBot (Seth and his team) have given WPBlackhat members a huge discount, so we now have 4+ developers creating all maner of bots for WPBlackhat members. And we will create a bot for you. So tell me what kind of bot you want, I will release the source as well so try to keep it simple.

I know I haven’t posted much recently, because I’ve working on WPBlackhat a lot. The improved GH Review Plugin – which turns PLR into unique articles as far as the SEs are concerned – is working fantastically in the SERPs! The feedback from the beta guys is awesome!

We are closing the doors to WPBlackhat permanently, for a number of reasons but I’ll cover this in another post.

Seth from UBot (http://botsoftware.org/) is a member of WPBlackhat. We are now using his bot development platform to create bots to automate all the manual tasks we can think of – including account creation, link building, email verifying, etc, etc, etc. Soon, we’ll have members creating and sharing all manner of bots - if you’re a member of WPBlackhat, read more here: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56

My next post (which I wrote up a while ago) is a review of Link Farm Evolution.

Ok, let’s move onto the purpose of this post: Try this Anchor Text Experiment

In the next few days I’ll post about aggressive link building but how to avoid link-building penalties too. But, for now, try this experiment.

Instead of getting relevant anchor text to your sites or internal pages, get generic anchor text. Such as:

click here

read more

this post

he said

learn more

do you agree

I was reading this

he has a good point

great post to read

etc.

If you carry out the above experiment a few times and monitor the SEPRs position of your sites/pages/posts, you’ll get what I’m hinting at

After much development and testing, I’ve just released the much anticipated Greyhat Review Plugin. And I had some reservations about releasing it because it works so damn well, but it’s totally undetectable and I try to give the guys and gals in WPBlackhat the best resources and tools to make money.

What does the plugin do? First, realize the EASIEST and most PROFITABLE way to make money online is via product review blogs – they are easy to create and easy to maintain. Each product review blog can only be 5, 10, 20 or whatever small number of posts – that’s it! Most of us can probably knock-up one or more of these in a day! Personally, after developing and testing this plugin and seeing how well it performed, I’m now working on a large network of product-review blogs! Why? Because product-review blogs need very little maintenance unlike normal sites and are very profitable – in other words, they are exceptionally easy to create and run and generate passive income!

I know I’ve mentioned this plugin several times before and there are a few readers of mine waiting to get their hands on it. So, as a treat, I’m opening the doors to WPBlackhat for 10 new members only! Once the ten spots are filled, I close again! Also, realize this plugin is worth many times the life-time membership fee… I won’t say any more

Doors are open for 10 new members only: http://wpblackhat.com/member/signup.php

If you are already a member, get the plugin here: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2047

As an additional treat, I’m doing an online chat all about the plugin, its powerful features, tips & and tricks, etc, on Monday evening – 9 pm GMT, so don’t miss it!

Update. I recommend you read this: http://www.donandjeremy.com/THINGSCHANGE.pdf The Game is changing again!

I’ve moved all the chat logs into a new section: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=52

So far we have:

 Xrumer Basics:  http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1438

Pharma Opportunities via Parasites:  http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1512

Using Parasites to Promote Info Products:  http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1571

Promoting Info Products 2:  http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1764

Rapid SEO Part 1 of 3: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1856

Cashing in on Dating Niche with Splogs/Emails: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1948

Rapid SEO Part 2: http://wpblackhat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2032

Recently, another great revenue-stream we’ve added to WPBlackhat is review blogs – blogs reviewing Clickbank products, CPA offers, eBay/Amazon products, etc, etc. However, we’ve developed some novel angles on these, and even Blackhat review blogs!

If you’re into Clickbank, you may know that one of the all-time popular CB products is: Fat Loss 4 Idiots  - there is some seriously, successful psychology going on with that sales page!

Review blogs are the easiest and most profitable way to make money online. Reviewing only popular products that sell, can save a lot of time, testing and guesswork. If you’ve never built a review blog before, here’s your chance. I’ve had custom-made a Fat Loss 4 Idiots Wordpress theme – see image below.

With this theme, you can write review posts and include your affiliate link. Download below:

http://www.contentgeneration.org/FL4I.zip

Upload the theme to your WP theme folder and upload the plugins to your plugins’ folder, then activate.

If you don’t already know, KickApps is a social networking/online community script and becoming very popular. But, as far as we are concerned (Blackhats/Greyhats), it allows us to insert numerous links with relevant anchor text. So, to abuse them, all we have to do is sign-up with websites that use KickApps and insert our links… to do this manually would be a pain in the ass, so we automate it with iMacros. Read more about iMacros.

Here’s an example of a KickApps’ site with my link inserted: http://pickinparlor.nationalguitar.com/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=9982967&as=51645

Instructions from the readme file in the Zip below:

KickApps Register & RSS Link Posting Scripts

These scripts will only work with IE6. (Maybe IE7, I havent tested)
They will not work with firefox/mozilla/flock because it handles SAVEPICTUREAS differently.

Requirements:

You will need a http://www.beatcaptchas.com/ account ($8 for 1000 captchas)
The freeware version of imacros for internet explorer from http://www.iopus.com/download/

Installation:
Unzip the archive to your C:\ drive so the files will unzip to c:\kickapps\

Instructions:

Edit c:\kickapps\regandcaptcha.iim so your beatcaptchas.com key is being used. Replace “beatcaptchaskey” with your key.

Edit the registration.csv file with the email address, password and random name you want to use.
Just use find and replace all to change the values or load it up in excel.
Load the regandcaptcha.iim into imacros for internet explorer (You can just cut and paste it in)
click run & it will run through our list.

Wait a couple of days for your new accounts to settle.

Edit rssandlinks.csv so it contains your email address, password and links.
Load the regandcaptcha.iim into imacros for internet explorer
click run & it will run through our list adding 1 RSS feed & 2 links.

Notes:

http://www.beatcaptchas.com/ will on occassion be overloaded, just pause the script for 10 minutes when this happens.
The accounts in this list do not need email verification. This script will not work in the stand alone version of imacros but can be easily edited.

Download the KickApps automated link-building script below.

http://www.contentgeneration.org/kickapps.zip

After a lot of research, I’ve come to the conclusion that the easiest to build and most profitable websites are niche product review sites. Combine product-review sites with Rapid SEO (a new concept I’m developing) and you have the ultimate winning combination for making money online with organic traffic.

However, recently, Google has been slapping review sites that use Adwords – the quality score dropped dramatically. I suspect this is just warning – almost a shot across the bow for webmasters to clean up their content. You may or may not be aware, Google is very AGGRESSIVELY combating link-sales, and all this started with a simple warning too. So, I think it’s inevitable that affiliate-link-loaded-content sites in the SERPs will be hit too – sooner or later.

If you follow Google’s webmaster guidelines to the letter, you’ll probably make very little or no money – Google DO NOT condone active link building; no links means no money! Thus, to make money online, you have no choice but to dabble in the dark side. Sooner or later, you will convert completely because the Force (the profit potential) is much, much, much greater on the dark side.

Now, to slap Google back, use the Wordpress Search Engine Link Cloaker (SELC) plugin below.

This is how it works: the SELC simply identifies visitors – either search engine spiders or humans – and displays authority links to the spiders and affiliate links to humans. To use, simply add your affiliate links to your blog posts as normal. Then go to the SELC user-interface in Wordpress, enter your affiliate links in the boxes provided (on the left) and authority links in the boxes on the right. Then, enter your IP to test the plugin – it’s really simple to use.

This is a lite version of the one to be available in WPBlackhat. The full version allows you to significantly improve ranking in the SERPs by adding content (videos, authority links, images, etc) which are only visible to the SE spiders.

It all started here: http://www.perrymarshall.com/product-review-google-slap/

I got word from several affiliate marketers that Google dropped the hammer today on affiliate review pages. Many pages went from quality scores of 10 —> 1 overnight.

And these were NOT skinny sites, rather well build out, consistently updated blogs with good navigation above the fold, xml site maps, high click through, hyper-relevant keyword mapping, low bounce rates, long average time on page … everything else Google loves.

When we analyzed which pages survived, and we take it in combination with other information, it seems pretty clear they’ve added code which screens for affiliate links on the landing pages.

Then spread:

http://www.netfrontiermarketing.com/glenn-livingston-interviewed-on-latest-adwords-slap-for-affiliate-review-sites.html

http://www.profitsentinel.net/blog/google-affiliate-marketing-adsense-adwords-and-alternatives

http://www.leofogarty.com/affiliate-marketing/google-slap-affiliate-review-sites.html

http://askjamesholmes.com/marketing/affiliatemarketing/new-google-slap-for-thin-affiliate-review-sites

http://www.johncow.com/google-adwords-slap-on-review-sites/

etc.

The more I delve into product review sites, the more I love them! A network of 20+ product review-sites could easily generate a quarter of a million dollars a year with organic traffic – a nice passive income stream!

Although there is a lot of speculation about content quality, Google’s algorithm cannot tell whether content-quality is good or bad, that’s why it relies on inbound links. But, it can tell if an article is laden with affiliate links and can also follow cloaked links too! I think it’s inevitable that Google will slap review sites with content loaded with affiliate links in its organic search pages.

A solution? Instead of using a link-cloaker which Google can follow, use a Search Engine Link Cloaker. A Search Engine Link Cloaker can turn affiliate links into authority links, which may lead to a better position in the SERPs ;-). But, where do you get one of these elusive Search Engine Link Cloakers from? From here of course; it will be released as WP plugin in the next post - but WPBlackhat members get it first.

This question has probably been asked many tens of thousands of times, if not more. Most of us have built sites, got traffic and spent countless hours trying to monetize the traffic only to spectacularly fail. A while back, I was reading about a blogger who spent 30+ hours per week working hard on his network of quality blogs and was only earning around a $500 a month from Adsense! And this is very common.

So, the question again, how to be successful online? The simplest and most effective way to be way to be successful online is to replicate existing success!

Forget:

Re-inventing the wheel;
Being novel;
Experimenting with different monetization strategies;
Creating a forum;

If you want to be successful online, if you want to build a network of money-making sites, if you want to increase your revenue month-in and month-out, copy successful websites!

Study these examples:

http://flippa.com/auctions/70884/815-00-per-Month-000-Hours-Work-Clickbank-Site-Since-2005-1-NO-RESERVE

http://flippa.com/auctions/71381/Established-Highly-Profitable-UK-Cashback-Site-Very-Well-Known

http://flippa.com/auctions/65867

You don’t have to copy successful sites exactly, similar is often good enough! Inside WPBlackhat, we have been identifying more and more successful sites, so our members can easily replicate them. The biggest hurdle in replicating successful sites is getting targeted traffic. We accomplish this by using a new and rapid SEO strategy:

Creating a SEO Empire (borrowed from Eli)
Building website trust (for faster indexing and easier ranking)
Simulating viral linkbait (getting in the top 5 for the desired money keywords)

Watch out for a future post which explains these concepts more (if you’re a member of WPBlackhat we will schedule these for a detailed chat): Taking Online Money Making to the Next Level