Negative SEO – Duplicate content

February 25, 2008 on 2:39 pm | In Negative SEO | 14 Comments

Duplicate content has been a problem for people for a long time. The basic idea is to create many copies of the content on someone elses website to confuse search engines about which one is the true author of the content and force them into supplemental results. Generally this method is unlikely to work on a large, long standing authoritative website but for reasonably newly launched websites, sites with low authority (low links, low quality pages etc) then it can be an effective method of keeping them out of the serps.

If you’re unsure why you’d want to do this then maybe you’re on the wrong website! Lets say you have a couple sites up high for the term “office printers” and you see a few new guys pop up, you’d simply get as many other sites indexed with the same content as these new guys to confuse the search engine about who is the real owner of the content and have them penalised. The more links you can point at the proxy urls to get them indexed and healthy the better.

Spreading the content out over different sites can be an expensive and time consuming process, especially if you want to replicate a lot of content. One way around this is to use a web proxy url maker just like the one I created. This works by using a list (right now, about 1000) of different web proxies and generating a list of web addresses based on the address of the content you want copied.

So for example if you were to enter the address http://www.esrun.co.uk as the address you wanted to be duplicated then the software would output a list like the following:

http://fatmonkey.ch/index.php?q=SFR0UDovL1dXdy5lc1JVbi5jby5VSw
http://hidewebsites.com/index.php?q=aFRUcDovL1d3dy5Fc3J1bi5DTy5Vaw
http://compensates.info/index.php?q=SFR0cDovL1d3Vy5lc3J1Ti5DTy51Sw
http://unblocking.cn/index.php?q=aHR0UDovL1d3dy5FU1J1bi5DTy5VSw

There are actually other benefits of using this software. For example if you were spamming a social network and was fed up of having your spam detected based on the same constant URL then you could simply generate a list of web proxy urls to use instead.

Check out the Proxy url creator now :)

ukskydiving.com moan

February 21, 2008 on 2:31 pm | In General | 5 Comments

Update: I have now made a few trips to the north london parachute centre without being able to jump. They stuff many people into each day then send a bunch home each time. AVOID THEM!

So 2 days ago I book a sky dive with ukskydiving.com who are “North london parachute Centre”.. North london my arse, it’s in March, Cambridge and cost me a ridiculous 4 hours travelling (1 hour into London then 3 onwards) and the ticket from London to March station was £77! What a joke, they want people to use public transport but its dog slow and costs a fortune. Fuck the environment, I can’t afford to care for the environment with prices like these.

The guys at the airfield said the weather has been terrible and unsuitable for days so I’m not sure why ukskydiving.com let me book it just 2 days ago knowing full well it was absolutely more than likely I’d be wasting my time and money. What a load of bollocks.

Scraping adlabs search funnels

February 20, 2008 on 6:57 pm | In Blackhat SEO | 2 Comments

Just uploaded a new script for scraping keywords from AdLabs search funnels, go ahead and check it out :)

adlabs keyword scraper

Download: AdLabs keyword scraper

Keniki

February 17, 2008 on 6:52 pm | In Blackhat SEO | 238 Comments

Well Keniki, you were successful! You finally managed to get a whole post dedicated to just you on my blog :D

Keniki (Greg) popped up quite some time ago, I first encountered him on Matt Cutts blog and at first he seemed like your average do gooder anti-spammer, fair enough me thinks. However unlike your average spam hunter who tries to gather some proof and actual facts about spammers, this guy simply throws wild accusations around like seo is some kind of dangerous cult and hopes that he might catch something slightly along the line of truth.

According to Greg, I own several large web hosting companies, I have multiple online (well known) personalities and I’m an all round bad guy! Or to put it in Kenikis words, I’m a prick ;)

Keniki has had a go at just about everything and everyone and has had run ins with the likes of cutts, dave naylor and seoidiot. For just a sample of this wierdos ramblings check out this Keniki post.

I have spoken to Greg numerous times on the telephone he seemed drowsy and was slurring his words. Does anyone know if he has a drinking problem? Or is he mentally ill? I couldn’t determine for sure He often posts random abusive comments at throughout the day and night and appears to set alarms for odd hours to get up purely to post a comment and then go back to sleep, that’s the way I understood it after speaking to him anyway so yeah to be fair the guy does have problems in his head. Each time I speak to Greg he says he Is going to back off and stop making up random things but each time he pops back up with more comments.

So Greg, I called you today after your most recent tirade and it seems you don’t want to speak to me anymore… you were quite obviously available and then I’m patient enough to wait and you simply hang up the call on me! Then when I call back you refuse to answer.. poor show buddy. I saw you were trying to get Seoidiot into a boxing ring, lmao! SES London is on this week, why don’t you come up and say hello to everyone? Maybe you’ll like us ;) OR Maybe you could just do like you originally said and just move on and stop trying to harass people? No one is interested in you or out to get you (regardless of how paranoid you get), just leave people alone and everyones happy.

£1 UK domains

February 16, 2008 on 7:24 pm | In Blackhat SEO | 1 Comment

Just a quick post this one. Signup as a new customer at uk2.net and you can use the voucher code CJ20080331 to get a UK domain for just £1.15! Just process each domain you want as a new order and use the coupon code each time :)

Create unlimited gmail accounts

February 14, 2008 on 11:13 pm | In Blackhat SEO | 7 Comments

Well last time I wrote about a simple Gmail account creator I made and I talked about how I would be improving it and releasing updates. Unfortunately I don’t think I will be simply because I can’t be bothered. I didn’t use it myself and only made it as a little something to give out since a lot of people were talking about wanting one.

Anyway for those who encountered the limit of how many accounts they could create per IP address there is a way around it. When you create too many accounts from one IP address then google start giving you a captcha image which says “Sorry, we are unable to handle your request at this time. Please try again later.”

Make the captcha request from one IP address but then submit the signup information from a different IP. Google will only block the IP address that is used to submit the data and the IP address is only blocked from making a request to the captcha, not from submitting signup data. Therefore with just two IP addresses you can make unlimited gmail accounts. There is currently no cross checking to make sure the account used to request the captcha is the same as the account submitting the signup information.

So mod the script and go make your unlimited accounts :)

I couldn’t remember where I got this tip from because it was quite a long time ago but have since had a good smack round the back of the head since I wasn’t meant to out it.  Props goes out to Seocracy.