Blackhat SEO – Esrun

I tried my hand at a bit of C programming a good few months back and it was a bit of a nightmare. It reminded me of when I use assembly on PICs; having to declare everything and be so strict. This really makes you realise how slack your PHP code is!

Anyway it was coded for use on mac os X and basically reads data from a bluetooth gps device and then compares the data against a speed camera database and prints out how close you are to a camera and what type of camera it is. It is ran within the terminal.

All I wanted to say is I hope people who code in PHP realise how fortunate they are to use a language which is so laid back lol.

I have attached the code just incase anyone wants to see it. I am certain it could have been coded better but it was the first thing I had written with in C.

Download: mac speedcamera detector

I am thinking about going away to france and then drive through to germany. My idea is to leave Dover(UK) and get a ferry with my car over to Dunkerque(france) and then drive through to germany. I’m just curious if anyone can offer an insight into any potential problems and the time it will take.

I intend to leave tomorrow evening and return Monday night.

Any ideas readers!?

Google maps suggests just over 6 hours..

Update: I have just booked my ferry tickets and ordered a new sat nav. Way wah woo wah!

Going for typos can be great if you are knocking out pages in bulk. For example if you had the original keyword “blackhat seo” then the script would bring back typos such as vlackhat seo or blcakhat seo. Obviously these terms will have less competition but the bottom line is people do make typos when searching so its an easy bit of traffic.

Go to the typo generator page to download the script.

Lately I have felt that things have been building up on my mind and when I got home friday I decided that I needed a break. A couple of weeks ago I went swimming at one of my friends indoor pools and one of the girls there was welsh and I absolutely loved the accent. I decided pretty much then that I wanted to goto Wales at some point!

So I got home at about 6pm friday and started looking around online for things to do in Wales. I found a lot of sites that suggest activity breaks in Wales and decided that I’d do something like kayaking or quad biking or just something a bit exciting! I started calling several different places but most either didn’t answer the phone(out of hours) or couldn’t help me at such short notice until finally I got through to a guy in north wales who runs an activity place and said he had some people doing some activities on the Saturday and that I could join in with them if I wanted and stay at the place on a B&B scenario.

So I went and got a sat nav unit from someone I work with and left Essex at about 8pm. I arrived in North Wales at about half past midnight which is pretty quick. I drove into St Asaph and asked a couple of local lads for direction, unfortunately they didn’t know the way but I couldn’t help but smile when they started speaking welsh to each other lol. I ended up talking to a couple of girls who had been in the pub and we drove around a bit looking at stuff like ‘tha vallaaay’ lol. In the end they showed me where the place was and I took them home and then arrived at the adventure place at about 2am.

Where I was staying was a big mansion type place which was so large that I kept getting lost walking around it! On Saturday I did some quad biking, mountain biking, archery and in the night I went up into the caves with one of the guys(staff) I made friends with.

Wales is an amazing place! The water and air are just superb and the people are amazingly friendly. I will definitely be going back but for a longer time, maybe a week.

I dropped a couple of people off in Birmingham on my way home which unfortunately added a couple of hours to my journey, taking about 6-7 hours to drive from north Wales to Essex.

I’d highly recommend that if you have never been to Wales before you should go!

I seem to hear from a lot of people who seem to have their heart set on spamming but simply have no idea where to start. Generally you will find that if you have an idea of where you could link spam then so have a hundred over people but don’t let this put you off! The links will still be of value.

There are many many places to spam and in this post i’ll try and go through some of them.

Trackback spamming – Trackbacks are generally used on blogs to let another blog know you have written about one of their posts. For example if you liked a post written by Anne on the Spamhuntress blog and decided to post about it on your own blog then you’d send a trackback(your blog software will usually do this automatically) to the specific post on the Spamhuntress blog, the blogs way of saying “Hey, I have blogged about what you have written.”. There will now be a link from the post on Spamhuntress back to your own post. Now it is obvious to see how this system can be abused, you can send a trackback with the URL of your own post being any spam site you like and not even blog the topic. Many people however have security now days which check that your suposed URL is actually linking to their blog and such like. Some people go to the length of creating cloaked blogs to trick trackback checks but others just spam in such bulk that it doesn’t matter if only 50% of their trackbacks stick.

Guestbook spamming – I don’t know many people who havn’t tried their hand at guestbook spamming. You may remember DITY which was a free guestbook spammer I created and is still widely used. Generally people will search around to find out which guestbooks are popular and then find footprints which allow them to find large amounts of people using them on search engines. For example if the guestbook always said “Powered by SpamBook Pro” then it would make for an easy scrape. Whilst this can be an effective method of building up links, it is a hugely saturated practice now with every man and his dog spamming guestbooks.

Blog Comments – Comment spamming on blogs has really taken off in the last couple of years. Since there are only a handful of popular blogging packages such as wordpress and movable type it means it is extremely easy to hit thousands upon thousands of blogs without modification to your code. Whilst there have been huge advancements in anti-spam plugins there are still such a large amount of unprotected blogs that it can really pay off to use this method. Many people comment on older posts in the hope that admins will not notice. Another trick is to scrape someone elses comment and then use just a small part of it in the hope the admin doesn’t look too closely and thinks its genuine.

Directory Submission – You can automate the submission of your sites to directories which is a very easy way to help get a site indexed. It’s not generally a mass solution but it can help.

Referral Spamming – Each time you visit a website, your browser sends a referral tag which tells the website where you just came from. For example if you were to goto google and click through to this website (you wouldn’t because this site is banned on google) then my stats software would log that you came in from google.com. Many people makes these statistics open to the public and search engines meaning you can trick thousands of websites into thinking you came to them from your own spamsite.com which will then show as a link back to your site in their stats pages.

A few more to look into but I don’t have time to write about right now:

Social bookmarking

Social networking sites (myspace etc)

Classifieds

Article submissions