Comments on: Roll Your Own Black Hole

By: Gotan Raider

Gotan Raider — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:24:07 +0000

So my client is a big ass directory. Should we put link condoms in all our listings?

By: Blackhole SEO And Your Internet Business | Andrew Wee | Blogging | Affiliate Marketing | Social Traffic Generation | Internet Marketing

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:22:05 +0000

[...] Likewise, Quadzilla defines a black hole and gives you some ideas for rolling your own blackhole. [...]

By: TheWayoftheWeb » Should you stop linking to Wikipedia? (Black Hole SEO)

TheWayoftheWeb » Should you stop linking to Wikipedia? (Black Hole SEO) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:28:54 +0000

[...] There’s more on SEOblackhat, and they use examples from mainstream media, including the New York Times and Business Week. Daily Blog Tips has an open discussion on whether to boost your own sites in this method, while SEOBlackHat gives a ‘how-to‘ guide. [...]

By: QuadsZilla

QuadsZilla — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:35:33 +0000

when i say real estate i mean virtual real estate. You can rent out a subdomain or folder from some highly trusted sites if you actively seek out the opportunities and pitch it right.

By: remi2611

remi2611 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:13:04 +0000

@quadsZilla you quoted :

“This really works: Rent out and develop some valuable real estate property on digg.com/dvd-rentals/, twitter.com/diet/, or reddit.com/wedding/. Stuff like this is already being done all over the Net but rather under the radar . . . and not with the sites named above (to my knowledge).”

what do you mean by real estate property ?? do you have examples ?

By: Open Discussion: Are Mini Niche Websites Dying?

Open Discussion: Are Mini Niche Websites Dying? — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:24:18 +0000

[...] On a follow-up post, Quadszilla claims that this phenomenon could put a bane on the “mini niche websites” strategy. That is, you would be better off trying to create 1 or 2 mega websites rather than trying to create 100 mini niche websites. [...]

By: Pagespank

Pagespank — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:01:46 +0000

100% agreed – this situation is one of the unintended consequence of unleashing nofollow upon the world. As more big sites start turning into black holes, Google may find themselves having to revise their nofollow strategy.

I came across a nice example of 2 spam Bebo profiles appearing at #3 & #4 for [airline tickets] yesterday:

http://www.pagespank.com/2008/09/10/over-powerful-domain-authority-in-google/

If it’s that easy to rank for such a competitive term on a semantically unrelated site, what’s happened to Google’s so-called relevance algorithm?

By: RtnOfTeaSippingScum

RtnOfTeaSippingScum — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:42:10 +0000

I be honest,

When I first started reading this I was kinda pissed off, annoyed, angry at one part in particular, “the micro niche site is dying”. Mainly because I have 80+ of these and I don’t want to hear that kind of info!

However, after reading through your entire post… and calming down after the thought of “fuck, I can’t catch up”, it then dawned on me after remembering such posts as ‘Fortune Cookie’, ‘What Do You Need To Make Money Online?’, which then lead me on to remembering ‘Good vs Perfect’, which then takes me on to today’s tedious link; ‘ http://seoblackhat.com/2007/01/29/do-it-fucking-now/ ‘

At least I can change my *own* strategy, in my own time, where as my boss, heh, no chance of company SEO strategy changing!