Blackhat SEO – Esrun

In May 2010, Facebook (in collaboration with many mobile/cell service providers) launched 0.facebook.com – a completely free to access, mobile version, of Facebook.

There are absolutely no data charges applied when surfing 0.facebook.com! Unfortunately it is a somewhat limited experience considering it doesn’t allow access to any pictures. You can still post status updates, comments, messages and so on.

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The Facebook Like button allows people to share interesting sites they find, with their friends on Facebook. You can place a Like button on any web page and when a user clicks on it, a story appears in the user’s friends’ News Feed with a link back to your website.

Using some clever CSS, you can disguise the Like button to look like something else and trick people to click on the button

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Like my post on cheating Alexa, this post is a revisit of a subject I covered years ago; Referer spamming.

When you visit a site, your browser includes additional information with the request, this allows the site to serve a customised page based on the data passed. For example, it might serve up a different pages depending on whether you’re a Mac of Windows user.
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This post shows how I use multiple IP addresses to create fake Slashdot accounts and have them automatically vote on stories. It’s similar to how I cheated Reddit but with an extra step – using and checking valid email accounts.

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In this post I show that cheating/influencing Alexa traffic rank and associated data (pageviews, bounce rate etc) is very much possible. If you already know about Alexa, feel free to skip straight to the How to cheat Alexa section.

What is Alexa?

I’d hope that anyone reading this blog already has a good idea about what Alexa.com (Alexa) is and what they offer. For those that don’t, here’s a brief overview:

Alexa was founded in 1996 and is now a subsidiary company of Amazon.com. They primarily collect and share information about websites, such as related links and traffic rankings. They collect this information from users who install their toolbar. After installing the toolbar, sites the user visits, how they found those websites and such like is passed back to Alexa.

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