Hosted blogs spaces (MSN Spaces, Blogger . . . etc) are beginning to combat splogs (spam blogs). They are starting to look at what properties make a blog “spammy”
Today, we will look at two factors that raise a red flag that a robot is blogging for you: Blog Post and Ping Frequency. Intelligent Black Hat SEO means staying below the radar. Your computer generated sites and zombie blogs must appear “natural.”
It may seem obvious, but humans do not post exactly every 5 minutes for 100 hours straight. It just doesn’t happen. If your robot is pinging every service on yesterday’s ping list every 15 minutes or hour, that’s a huge red flag.
Few services appear to check for it yet, but fixed interval posting and pinging will probably be a problem within the next 6 months. For example, if you post /ping exactly every 6 hours, odds are you are a robot – and your blog will be banned.
Random posting and pinging times (within a stated range) would be ideal and much more difficult to detect. While we have do have a windows app (an RSS2B extension) that posts and pings at random times, in LAMP environments, we have to use cron jobs.
Ideally, you’re splogs should update no more than 6 times per day – with 2-3 being closer to ideal. For splogs, you really don’t need to ping more than 2-4 times / day / blog to alert the search engines.
I recall giving this advice a while back and having one of my associates note that “it will take forever to index my site with just 3 posts per blog per day.”
I responded “I guess that means you don’t have a large enough army of blogs.”
Blog aggrogators and search engines will ban entire IP address for excessive/ abusive pinging. So, make sure you are using some discretion.
2 Responses to “Blog Post and Ping Frequency”
how could it be possible to have an army of blogs? sometimes it’s so frustrating to come up with words or stories…
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If anyone knows how to sufficiently randomize a LAMP cron job (or ability to build equivalent functionality) - please e-mail me. quadszilla[@]seoblackhat.com
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Run a script/program by cron/scheduler every minute/second. Use randomize function inside the script/program with desired chance to run code (ping/post).