SEO From the Dark Side

If you link spam (using Xrumer or similar tools) you’ll probably be aware of the risk of some crazed WH webmasters – who you spammed - on a mission to expose you, ie, complain to your hosting company, domain registrar, or even get your address and send you a bomb – only joking! But more likely, filing a report with Google’s spam team.

Interestingly, if you check out that link, you’ll find:

“We work hard to return the most relevant results for every search we conduct. To that end, we encourage site managers to make their content straightforward and easily understood by users and search engines alike. Unfortunately, not all websites have users’ best interests at heart.”

Really Google? You make billions of dollars a year from scraping webmasters’ sites, you pay pea-nuts to Adsense publishers, and screw them when your Adsense monitoring algo says so! Also, have you noticed how more prominent in the SERPs YouTube is now since Google bought it? So to paraphrase G’s spam team:

“We work hard to scrape the most relevant results for every search we conduct. To that end, we encourage site managers to make their content straightforward and easily understood by users and search engines alike so we can maximize our profits. TBH, we do not have webmasters’ best interests at heart but our shareholders!”

If you are into link spamming to give you sites a nice boost – either new sites or existing ones – here’s a little trick that dramatically reduces the risk of webmasters making complaints.

It’s a temporary cloaking plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to display a simple message to visitors, such as “Account Suspended: Please Contact Support”, but allows the search engines spiders to see and index the whole blog. In other words, humans see the “Account Suspended” message while spiders see the blog. This works with blog’s homepages, individual posts, categories, archives – in fact every page on a blog! This trick will dramatically reduce the risk of complaints for spamming links!

Download below.

Here’s the user-interface.

How to use:

Upload the plugin to your blog’s plugin folder and then activate. Set the plugin active to Yes, add a simple message, or use the default one. Now, if you view any page on your blog, you’ll see your message. However, if you add your IP to the box and save it, then view the blog, you’ll be treated as a search engine spider and see blog.

So, before you do any link-spamming to your blogs (or splogs), activate the plugin, link spam (especially deep links), and leave the plugin active for a while so any persistent webmasters checking your splogs see the message. Then a little later deactivate the plugin.

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