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November 29th, 2005 
QuadsZilla I went over to pascal vanhecke’s weblog to read Social Engineering in Comment Spam:
“I Googled for something completely different, but found your page… and have to say thanks. nice read.”
Wouldn’t you immediately hit the “approve” button?
Looks like pretty good Spamouflage to me.
He even included some social engineering in the footnote of his post:
Seo BlackHat is an interesting (and entertaining!) resource on all kinds of web spam – he hasn’t written on this yet, so maybe it was his?
It wasn’t mine – but I like the way they were thinking. That’s probably one of the better mass comments I’ve seen. I may have seen better: but if it were really that good, we wouldn’t even recognize it being comment spam. Right?
Comment spam has a couple of penalty pitfalls associated with it: the unvaried anchor text can trigger a spam flag in the engines. But when part of a healthy diet of other spamming and link dumping can help a bit in the SERPs – especially when used in moderation.
Here’s the challenge: Pick a Niche – (technorati tags work well) then create the comment spam most likely to get approved by a blog in that niche. For off topic comment spam, you have to tell me the Niche / technorati tag of blogs to be spammed.
If it doesn’t suck, I’ll approve it.
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Free Cloaking Script
You’re broke as a joke but want to cloak: So what can you do? How about a free cloaking script?
Let’s say you’ve used widgetbaiting or the markov chain to create 30,000 pages of unique content about bacon polenta recipes. Of course, no human surfer wants to read those pages but they are great spider food.
Well if you don’t want to use IP delivery like you’re supposed to, you can use this code to send your surfers to a sell page with text written for human consumption.
Now, this is not some unsneaky java redirect that will get you banned in the Search Engines. * If you use this code, you may get banned in some search engines.* Rather, it’s a error loophole designed for you to exploit:
<img src=nofilehere.gif onerror=window.open(’http://seoblackhat.com’,'_top’)>
Just make a page with any kind of spider food / keyword spam that you want on it and then add that line to the page.
When surfers visit the page, they will be sent to “seoblackhat.com” because the requested image file does not exist (therefore there will be an error). The spiders and search engines, on the other hand, will all see the original page.
This free cloaking script is inferior to premium cloaking software for many reasons. If you are scraping content, this method does nothing to help you get past duplicate content filters. This free cloaking code does not protect your code from surfers or your competition. Surfers will briefly see these spider food pages load. They may, in turn, report you to the search engines who could decide that using this code in the manner described is abusive. So, I would not recommended it for sites that you cannot afford to have banned.
Many high profile sites and fortune 500 companies use Cloaking to send different content to different IP addresses. But they don’t use code like this or cheesy redirect scripts – they use sophisticated cloaking software – IP delivery is the safer and preferred way to cloak. Honestly, I’ve never even heard of someone actually getting banned just for IP cloaking. I know that people do get banned for using crappy JavaScript redirects but in my opinion, getting banned for IP Cloaking is one of the great Black Hat SEO myths; it just doesn’t happen.