The Basic Information :
Spamming shouldn’t be a new concept if you are reading the SEO section of my blog. For those who are not aware, spamming is basically pissing of other webmasters by ruining the feel of their website and at the same time banking loads by outranking your competitors.
When we (excluding me) spam, we write shit load of awful content (full of grammticla mistakes etc.), place our links with few images and spam every other web-page of the internet which has the fields :
1) Tell us about yourself
2) Post your comment
3) What do you think?
The Requirements :
1) An age old domain (10+ years old is much better)
2) Few tools which can actually spam and are fast
3) Your main site (or any buffer site) which you are trying to rank
4) A backup plan for fail
The Method :
!) For an age-old domain you can always buy one from godaddy or flippa but make sure that after the transfer has been done, you try to build the website exactly as it was before being transferred. This is important.
The actual requirement is that the google cache should be old and not change after the transfer. Go for private whois and read the old cache to see what the website was talking about. Put same content and images and links. A little html tag change is alright if you must redesign the website (the theme might not be available). The best thing is to purchase the hosting account with domain.
2) How to Spam : The worst fail in spamming is that people don’t realize the importance of keyword diversity and those who do take 3-4 keywords (with most of the traffic) and blast them. NO!!. You need atleast 50+ keywords related to your website.
Do not spam your website. What you do is wait for 2-3 weeks after the transfer and slowly start changing the age-old website according to your main site niche. Add a post every second day and slowly convert the whole theme of the old domain. Now you start spamming.
Gather like 20-30 deep-page links from the age-old domain and the 50+ keyword list and pair them randomly and then blast them. Keep blasting for like 3-4 days continuous with maybe hundreds of thousands of links.
While linking make sure you link using both URLs and keywords. What i mean is use your URLs as keywords to make sure you maintain a true diversity.
3) Redirecting : After a month of blasting almost the majority of links will get indexed and your age-old website will start getting a good boost in authority. Now is the time that you actually redirect the age-old website to your main site and see the results. It will be brilliant.
4) Rinse-Repeat : If you can afford try to do this with atleast 5-6 age-old websites and redirect them. I have myself seen the power of just one website. 5-6 would be smashing the records. But again try to maintain the relevance of the old domains till 2-3 weeks and make sure the transformation is slow.
The Results :
I have tried this myself on 3-day old domain which had a redirect from a 13 year old domain for a term with 50K exact search (actually way more but faked less to make sure i keep my rankings) related to fitness. The ranking before redirect was NIT 100 and the ranking after 3 days of redirect was 8th rank. @ more sites and i reached 1st rank on multiple data-centres.
Caution : If you see your website falling immediately remove the redirects. Although it won’t happen – not with the current SE checks in place. But just so that iam safe – Do this at your own risk.
How I would check for such tactics :
:Iam a naughty boy:
What most of the spammers do is focus on CMS systems which allow easy posting of content. Sites which are easy to focus upon have these common features :
1) A brand name – These are mostly like “powered by” footnotes etc. which makes these CMS systems easy to find.
2) Easy registration system – CMS like PHPfox, vbulletin, SMF, wordpress etc. ask for a username, password a simple captcha and done. Are you kidding me? With over 10 million websites powered by these CMS alone, spamming is easy.
3) Easy access of posting page : Once you have found that the post page has a file name like post-info.php, all you need to do is to directly call the function page with relevant information and holla – post has been made.
How To Check Whether information is Spam :
1) Time of Occurrence : Most of these CMS have a time-stamp. The users created on vbulletin and SMF have registration dates, wordpress has post time etc. I would make use of these time-stamp to ignore spam. I mean you find 1000 vbulletin registrations in 4 days and you have no clue what it is?
2) Common CMS Backlinks too fast : People usually build profile links in a matter of hours. I would check for the type of pages and their HTML structure linking to the websites. I mean If you see a page getting more than 1000 backlinks in a week for a keyword which gets like 1000+ exact monthly searches, look for the pages which link to it and find patterns. Patterns like time-stamp, footnotes, username, keyword-URL pair etc.
3) I will write more on how to stop SPAM later. Keep reading my blog.
Tags: 301 redirects, ageing domains, comment spam, profile spam
Spamming and Redirecting – The Old 301 Redirecting
October 18th, 2011 by Gavin Buress | Posted under SEO.The Basic Information :
Spamming shouldn’t be a new concept if you are reading the SEO section of my blog. For those who are not aware, spamming is basically pissing of other webmasters by ruining the feel of their website and at the same time banking loads by outranking your competitors.
When we (excluding me) spam, we write shit load of awful content (full of grammticla mistakes etc.), place our links with few images and spam every other web-page of the internet which has the fields :
1) Tell us about yourself
2) Post your comment
3) What do you think?
The Requirements :
1) An age old domain (10+ years old is much better)
2) Few tools which can actually spam and are fast
3) Your main site (or any buffer site) which you are trying to rank
4) A backup plan for fail
The Method :
!) For an age-old domain you can always buy one from godaddy or flippa but make sure that after the transfer has been done, you try to build the website exactly as it was before being transferred. This is important.
The actual requirement is that the google cache should be old and not change after the transfer. Go for private whois and read the old cache to see what the website was talking about. Put same content and images and links. A little html tag change is alright if you must redesign the website (the theme might not be available). The best thing is to purchase the hosting account with domain.
2) How to Spam : The worst fail in spamming is that people don’t realize the importance of keyword diversity and those who do take 3-4 keywords (with most of the traffic) and blast them. NO!!. You need atleast 50+ keywords related to your website.
Do not spam your website. What you do is wait for 2-3 weeks after the transfer and slowly start changing the age-old website according to your main site niche. Add a post every second day and slowly convert the whole theme of the old domain. Now you start spamming.
Gather like 20-30 deep-page links from the age-old domain and the 50+ keyword list and pair them randomly and then blast them. Keep blasting for like 3-4 days continuous with maybe hundreds of thousands of links.
While linking make sure you link using both URLs and keywords. What i mean is use your URLs as keywords to make sure you maintain a true diversity.
3) Redirecting : After a month of blasting almost the majority of links will get indexed and your age-old website will start getting a good boost in authority. Now is the time that you actually redirect the age-old website to your main site and see the results. It will be brilliant.
4) Rinse-Repeat : If you can afford try to do this with atleast 5-6 age-old websites and redirect them. I have myself seen the power of just one website. 5-6 would be smashing the records. But again try to maintain the relevance of the old domains till 2-3 weeks and make sure the transformation is slow.
The Results :
I have tried this myself on 3-day old domain which had a redirect from a 13 year old domain for a term with 50K exact search (actually way more but faked less to make sure i keep my rankings) related to fitness. The ranking before redirect was NIT 100 and the ranking after 3 days of redirect was 8th rank. @ more sites and i reached 1st rank on multiple data-centres.
Caution : If you see your website falling immediately remove the redirects. Although it won’t happen – not with the current SE checks in place. But just so that iam safe – Do this at your own risk.
How I would check for such tactics :
:Iam a naughty boy:
What most of the spammers do is focus on CMS systems which allow easy posting of content. Sites which are easy to focus upon have these common features :
1) A brand name – These are mostly like “powered by” footnotes etc. which makes these CMS systems easy to find.
2) Easy registration system – CMS like PHPfox, vbulletin, SMF, wordpress etc. ask for a username, password a simple captcha and done. Are you kidding me? With over 10 million websites powered by these CMS alone, spamming is easy.
3) Easy access of posting page : Once you have found that the post page has a file name like post-info.php, all you need to do is to directly call the function page with relevant information and holla – post has been made.
How To Check Whether information is Spam :
1) Time of Occurrence : Most of these CMS have a time-stamp. The users created on vbulletin and SMF have registration dates, wordpress has post time etc. I would make use of these time-stamp to ignore spam. I mean you find 1000 vbulletin registrations in 4 days and you have no clue what it is?
2) Common CMS Backlinks too fast : People usually build profile links in a matter of hours. I would check for the type of pages and their HTML structure linking to the websites. I mean If you see a page getting more than 1000 backlinks in a week for a keyword which gets like 1000+ exact monthly searches, look for the pages which link to it and find patterns. Patterns like time-stamp, footnotes, username, keyword-URL pair etc.
3) I will write more on how to stop SPAM later. Keep reading my blog.
Tags: 301 redirects, ageing domains, comment spam, profile spam