Computer Generated Content

The Complaint letter Generator can be used to create ramblings complaints about anything. These complaints, and ones like them, are making the rounds and will soon be in a comment spam near you. Because, well . . .

Unless you want to accumulate a long list of examples of Comment Spammers’s acts of corruption and depredation, this letter may become a bit monotonous. However, I unmistakably do hope you read it all the way through because Comment Spammers, who has posed as Savior of the World, is nothing else but the world’s seducer, its destroyer, its incendiary, and its executioner. What follows is a call to action for those of us who care — a large enough number to make a genuine contribution to human society. I frequently talk about how Comment Spammers’s pranks are precisely the kind of thing that will give lunatics control of the asylum by next weekend. I would drop the subject except that it says that a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity. That’s a stupid thing to say. It’s like saying that diseases can be defeated not through standard medical research but through the creation of a new language, one that does not stigmatize certain groups and behaviors.

I am deliberately using colorful language in this letter. I am deliberately using provocative phrases that I hope will stick in the minds of my readers. I do ensure, however, that my words are always appropriate and accurate and clearly explain how the point at which you discover that whenever a will-o’-the-wisp of Chekism, however unreal, turns up anywhere, Comment Spammers is off at a trot is not only a moment of disenchantment. It is a moment of resolve, a determination that no one has a higher opinion of it than I, and I think it’s a bleeding-heart hotheaded-type. If Comment Spammers thinks that divine ichor flows through its veins, then it’s sadly mistaken. When was the last time you heard Comment Spammers mention that its animadversions are merely a sideshow exhibit in the circus of narcissism? Probably never. That’s why if you read its writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that Bulverism forms the core of any utopian society. But if you read Comment Spammers’s writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it’s clear that as long as the beer keeps flowing and the paychecks keep coming, its shills don’t really care that it is entirely gung-ho about obstructionism because it lacks more pressing soapbox issues.

By comparing today to even ten years ago and projecting the course we’re on, I’d say we’re in for an even more unsympathetic, insensitive, and feebleminded society, all thanks to Comment Spammers’s half-measures. Well, sure; Comment Spammers’s crotchets are a masterpiece of uneducated classism, but that doesn’t change reality. It’s easy for us to shake our heads at Comment Spammers’s foolishness and cowardice. It’s easy for us to exclaim that we should straighten out Comment Spammers’s thinking. It’s easy for us to say, “Comment Spammers’s subliminal psywar campaigns are a vehicle for the expression of prejudice, ignorance, and enmity about people who are different from Comment Spammers.” The point is that it’s easy for us to say these things because Comment Spammers’s reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth but only neo-damnable answers, prolix resolutions to conflicts. Lastly, I can’t end this letter without mentioning that we ought to teach Comment Spammers a lesson.

Works pretty well: but the word letter may have to be changed to “comment”.

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From the creator:

Sure thing, you can download a fresh copy It’s completely free for
the next 3 weeks or so, to EVERYONE. We’ve had an absolute horde of downloads in the past few days (who can
say no to free? and the response to the new interface and features has been really good.

So give it a look and if you want to do a post on it, the sooner the better as we’re still in the free period where anyone can try it for nothing.

Scott

 

The price is right - might as well grab a copy while it’s still free.

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RSS Magician just launched with the ability to combine and rewrite RSS feeds on the fly to produce new feeds.

The result will be a feed that will contain a maximum of 10 FULL articles for one keyword at a time, from one of the articles directories. This is NOT like using the regular RSS feed that the article directories give you. By and large, their feeds will only give you a tidbit of the article to update your site with. RSS Magician allows you to grab the full article. You can use them on your sites, blogs or any other way you want (while of course complying with the free article’s terms of service).

 

RSS Magician also includes on the fly language translation, word substitution based on a synonym library, adding random text and sentence shuffling. While most people serious about BlackHat SEO will code their own content generation programs, at only $49 for the package, RSS Magician is a great way to get your feet wet without putting up much cash.

You can check out the details of RSS Magician here.

And as a bonus for SEO Black Hat Forum members, we’ve worked out a $10 discount on RSS magician so you can pick it up for only $39. The discount code is in this thread.

Happy Spamming!

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This is the story of Bill the Navy Guy. Bill learned a battle plan that worked like a charm:

(computer spun content) + (aged domains) + (Adsense) = $ Money in the Bank $

Bill worked his way up where he was purchasing hundreds of domains per day and was hosting thousands of domains across more than 65 dedicated servers. He was pulling in more than $60,000 per month from Google Adsense.

$60,000+ per Month . . . on 1 Adsense account.

Here’s the kicker: All his content across his entire Network of thousands of sites was spun from a total of about 45 sentences. So you could Google one of his sentence fragments and find his entire Network.

What could possibly go wrong here?

The curator of a Western art museum commissioned a local artist to paint a mural-sized painting of Custer’s Last Thought. The artist was told to make it highly symbolic of Custer’s mindset during the debacle at the Little Bighorn. Deep in thought, the artist went to his studio. After many false starts, he proceeded to paint an enormous oil painting.

Finally, after months of work, the opening of the exhibit drew a crowd of people for the unveiling of this, the centerpiece of the exhibit. The canopy came off revealing the artist’s large painting:

In the foreground was a beautiful crystalline blue lake with a single fish leaping. Around the fish’s head is a halo. In the background, the hills and meadows are covered with naked Native American couples copulating.

The curator was both disgusted and baffled by what he saw. In a rage he turned to the artist and asked, “What the hell has this got to do with Custer’s Last Thought?”

The artist replied, “It’s simple. Custer’s last thought must have been, ‘Holy Mackerel! … Where did all these fucking Indians come from?’”

 

Unlike General Custer to the Indians, Google had an answer to Bill the Navy Guy and Torpedoed the Admiral’s lone Adsense account: $60,000+ a month revenue to $0. Overnight.

Google Battle Lessons

War Buffs and Search Engine Spammers alike will want to learn from Bill the Navy Guy’s critical mistakes. Here are some of the lessons we can glean from Bill’s defeat:

1. Diversify and protect your supply lines. Redundancy is the law of the military; you never want a single point of failure. In fact, that’s why the DoD invented the Internet. Even if you love Adsense, you should never have all your sites under the same Adsense code. Multiple Adsense Accounts + other PPC Engines + Affiliate Revenue makes it so that a hit to any one of your supply lines does not cause a total system failure.

2. Troop Diversification. Did Alexander the Great have just light cavalry? Did William Wallace have only pikemen? Does the US Navy have only submarines? No! By spinning all his content from the same 45 sentences, Bill the Navy Guy went into battle with all the same type of troops. Don’t make that same mistake; build your sites from multiple content sources.

3. Never give the enemy your battle plans or the locations of your troops. You think the landing at Normandy would have been as successful had we sent Hitler the battle plan and troop locations 2 weeks before the invasion? By using the same Adsense account and leaving such huge footprints, Bill the Navy guy might as well have sent Google this email every day:

To: Google Spam Team
From: Bill The Navy Guy
Subject: Please Ban Me

Dear Google,

I am spamming your index and using Adsense to monitize. Please ban my sites and Adsense account at your earliest convenience. Here is the complete list:

[list of every site]

-Bill the Navy Guy

PS: Don’t Give up the Ship

 

Even if you’re not an SEO Black Hat, there’s a good reason not to use the same Adsense account across your network of sites. Let’s say you want to interlink sites in your 300 site network. With all your sites on the same Adsense account, Google can and will discount the value of intra network links. Instead of a potential 299 quality backlinks, you’re probably looking at a value closer to several on site links (closer to Navigation links).

Don’t lose the War do to tactical mistakes: Get multiple Adsense accounts and diversify your online income to other sources.

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You know that the best SEO Black Hats are doing something more than scraping, using a site generator, comment spamming, and pinging to be raking in more than $100k per month.

But what is it?

Right now, there is way too much good stuff that I simply can’t publish on the SEO Black Hat blog. If I posted these tactics and exploits they would immediately get all the wrong kind of attention. The detailed conversations about how exactly to abuse search engine algorithms, generate massive traffic, and what other Black Hats are doing must remain underground to retain their effectiveness.

But what if I told you that you could discuss these exploits with me without paying my $500 an hour consulting fee? What if I told you there was a way to join in on the private, cutting edge discussions with some of the best Black Hats and web entrepreneurs in the world?

Would you be interested?

Because now you can . . .

Today is the official launch of the resource you’ve looked everywhere for but never found:

The Private SEO Black Hat Forum

Normally what you get on forums are people who don’t know anything talking with people who don’t want to say anything. You can occasionally find amazing tips on some forums: but you have to dig through 400 crappy posts just to find one post that is useful. That becomes a huge time sink.

How are the SEO Black Hat forums different?

Quality: We’re not going to have any contests to see who can make the most posts. That just creates tons of crap that no one wants to read. Our focus is on quality over quantity. Our primary concern is with succinctly answering one question: “What works?”

Sophisticated: Many of the topics we discuss are very advanced and require a high level of technical or business acumen to appreciate.

Expert Discussions: The SEO Black Hat forums are not for everyone and they may not be right for you. If you are relatively new to SEO or building websites, then do not join the SEO Black Hat Forums: you will be in way over your head. There are plenty of newbie forums out there for you – this is not one of them. Our forums are for successful web entrepreneurs to develop strategies that drive more traffic and generate more revenues.

Forum Membership Benefits

Access to Expert Advice and Discussions
We have both White Hat and Black Hat Experts that are already benefiting from new tool development, techniques, scripts and the sharing of ideas.
Some members you may already be familiar with include:

* CountZero from blackhat-seo.com (Black Hat)

* RSnake from ha.ckers.org (Web Security Expert)

* Dan Kramer from Kloakit (Cloaking Expert)

* Jaimie Sirovich from seoegghead.com (Token White Hat / SEO Geek)

There are several other members that you are certainly familiar with who are using handles for anonymity. We have others who are more focused on security, vulnerabilities, and coding. There are still more that you are likely unfamiliar with but are nevertheless web millionaires.

Databases – Large Datasets
If you want your sites to have massive amounts of unique content you need large data sets. The trading, discussion and posting of large data sets is going on right now on our forums.

Expired / Deleted Domain Tools
Want to use to use the same domain Tool that I used to get a Page Rank 6 site in the Gambling Space for just $8? This domain tool is available for members to use for free.

50% off on Kloakit – The Professional Cloaking Software

Scripts – Several useful scripts have already been posted – interesting thing you may not have thought of before are being discussed and developed.

Exploits and Case Studies: The really good stuff I can’t talk about on the SEO Blackhat Blog is being discussed on the SEO Black Hat Forums. Right now, some of the conversations include beating captchas, domain kiting, data mining, hoax marketing, XSS vulnerabilities as they relate to SEO, and much more.

Pricing: $100 per month.

The price will soon be rising significantly as more databases, hosted tools, scripts and exploits are added. However, once you lock in a membership rate it will never go up and you will continue to have access to everything.

So, if you think you’re ready for the most intense Black Hat SEO discussions anywhere, then here’s what you need to do:

1. Register at the SEO Black Hat Forums.

2. Go to the User CP and select Paid Subscription.

I’ll see you on the inside!

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Last Thursday, the boys at the ‘plex announced that they would be releasing 10 gazillion keywords for statistical analysis and other research. That perked my ears up right away. We love large data sets because they are the cornerstone of building massive spam sites targeted niche aggregators.

The fine print is that you have to jump through some hoops to get the data - details are to be released, but you will likely have to be a member of the L.B.C.

“So tell me wuts up wit dis LBC thang?”

Wait . . . make that the LDC, the Linguistic Data Consortium. Their annual membership is $20k and they sometimes make you pay more for certain data sets.

The almost invisible print is pointed out by greywolf and confirmed by Matt Cutts in this threadwatch discussion.

When people sell a mailing list it’s extremly common for sellers to seed the list with some names that only exist for the purpose of catching people who are misusing it. I would have to assume the boys and girls at the plex would do the same. - Greywolf

 

graywolf, you have a devious, devious mind. How many other people would consider seeding the terms with some nonsense phrases? I ask you–how many other people would come up with an idea like that?

Well, I guess I can think of a couple people.. - Matt Cutts

 

graywolf, yes you should take it as a compliment. Not to worry, I’m familiar with the practice. My favorite is Lye Close, the fake street in London: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs

billhartzer, sshhh. I was just watching boogybonbon find out about “google monitor query or googletestad” today. Don’t ruin the fun. - Matt Cutts

 

referring to boogybonbon’s post on keyword research.

That’s right, it’s a trap.

We know about poisoning seasoning keyword lists - in fact sometimes we’ll do it ourselves. However, this exchange confirms what a few of us have been thinking all along - that the search engines are on to this tactic and use it as well.

Are you using wordcatcher, overture, the google keyword suggestor or any data directly from the search engines? It seems there’s a good chance that it could be a trap. If you’re using poisoned data, that could certainly explain why your sites are only lasting 6-9 weeks in the SERPs.

Understanding this kinda puts a damper on the 400+ meg file (update:mirror with data)that contains all the AOL searches of 500k users for the last 3 months.

“Jacta alea est!” - Julius Caesar

It’s a war. Develop your own supply lines so you don’t have to get food from the enemy.

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The simplest way to create pure orignal spam content, that can bring you millions of visitors if you are using this properly.
The code is really, really simple. You need:
1) webserver, supporting php / or in advanced mode - php+mysql
2) text file with words (you can just copy and paste 100 articles in this file)
3) little technical hand to adjust the code to your specific needs.

The script generates 2 strings:
- title (or the main random keywords, for title, meta keywords, description etc)
- the content (random words)

For 5 minutes this can be integrated into your database - just create a table, name it whatever you want,
add 3 fields (ID, title, content) and you are ready to gamble on the SEs
The coolest thing is that actually the SEs will see the same text when they reffer to specific ID, so the only thing you have to do is some basic on-page seo.

Here is the code
< ?php
#define the text file
#we will get the words from
$content_file = "content.txt";

#split the string, using each space as a pointer
$words = split(" ", join("", file($content_file)));
srand((double) microtime()*1000000);

#define how many words can
#be in the title (actually,
#thats the string we are going to optimize for)
$bh_title = rand(4,13);
$bh_real_title = " ";

(more…)

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Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory:

our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of “hits” (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.

 

Kevin Marks looks further down the tail and notes:

A true long tail business is one that copes with the ultimate niches - where there are just one, or even zero customers. You need to be sure that your submission model can cope with these limiting cases and not choke, especially as you do not know a priori which ones are going to garner customers. So, what businesses fit this model?

 

Answer: Black Hat Search Engine Optimization (AKA Search Engine Spamming).

Many SEO Black Hats create millions of pages over hundreds of domains using some form of automated website creation software. Each page is optimized for an obscure keyword phrase - perhaps one that is only searched for 50 times per month.

Just one of a Search Engine Spammer’s spam sites could have 30,000 pages. This site might receives just one unique visitor on less than 10% of the pages per day. Of those 3,000 visitors if only 2% (60) click on a 10 cent Adsense word, this site would generate $6.00 per day or $180 per month.

So does the smart search engine spammer stop at 1 or 5 site? Of course not. A true SEO Black Hat has hundreds (and in many cases thousands) of these sites operating at once.

As a black hat automates more steps in the site creation process, the time investment decreases dramatically. Recently, I spoke with a Search Engine Spammer who told me that he has automated EVERY step in the process from domain registration to Keyword selection, to new CSS design, to splog indexing. He claimed he can create and index a 50,000+ page website with less than a minute’s worth of incremental keystrokes.

As the cost of page creation, hosting and advertising (production and distribution) approaches zero, the number of customers required for a profitable search engine spamming business drops to much less than one per page (or micro-niche).

Search engine spamming is a business that “copes with the ultimate niches - where there are just one, or even zero customers.” It will therefore be interesting to see if Anderson devotes a few pages to Search Engine Spammers in his upcoming Long Tail Book.

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If you are a black hat search engine spammer, odds are you’ve heard of Article Bot. Article Bot is one of the most recognized brand names in Black Hat Search Engine Optimization. During the past few days there have been some discussions about what spying the Article Bot Software might do on its users.

Now, it would be easy for me to just look the other way on this story and push Article Bot by puting up an affiliate link. But I’m not going to do that unless we we can get to the bottom of all this.

Throughout the day, I watched as http://articlebotscandal.blogspot.com/ went from:

Tons of Information that included: Cached version of Blogger Article Bot Scandal Blog.

1 .Article Bot connects to a domain owned by Andy Skinner to do a license check
2. Article Bot creates and uploads a copy of the first spun file to his domain
3. Article Bot deletes the uploaded spin file from the user’s local machine
4. Article Bot creates and uploads a copy of the user’s sitemap for the project
5. Article Bot deletes the uploaded sitemap file from the user’s local machine

As you can see, Article Bot has been receiving a copy your templates and keywords from every project you’ve created. This has been going on at least from build 1114, and most likely the full life of the software. Article Bot is getting a copy of everything you do.

 

The blog was trimmed to this version by 6:00 pm on 8/19/2005

I am removing everything that tells you how to test it out. I’m removing the instructions on how to safeguard yourself. I’m removing the proof of everything.

 

to

it’s current state. (almost nothing)

We have archived the information in the original posts on SEO Black Hat as a service to you, our readers. If you own Article Bot, please do your own due dilligence on this one and tell us if the information in these archives is true or not:

SEO Black Hat’s Archive of how the Article Bot Scandal Blog existed at 1:00 pm 8/19/2005

SEO Black Hat’s Archive of how the Article Bot Scandal Blog existed at 6:00 pm 8/19/2005

Your thoughts and comments on this one will be greatly appreciated.

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Here are two more examples of Search Engine “Spam” by big name companies. The first is classic SEO Black Hat spam. Syndic8.com Computer Generated almost 200,000 pages at sub domains of their main site, stuffed them with keywords, and stuck adsense on the pages. For details, check out the Syndic8 gets Wiped by Google - WordPress Style threadwatch discussion.

<applauding>Fantastic Work boys!</applauding> (except for the getting caught part.) However, when they were caught and banned by the search engines, they just took down the black hat spam pages and their site was unbanned - just like what happened when Wordpress was caught.

The lesson is: if you are big enough, you can get away with anything when it comes to Search Engine Spamming. What are the Search engines gonna do? Not list Wordpress and Syndic8? yea right! It’s like having diplomatic immunity - the normal rules / laws just don’t apply.

So why do these reputable companies engage in SEO Black hat strategies?

The answer is obvious. We’ve all seen the business model:

Step 1. Make a Website
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit.

In case you were wondering, Step 2 is Implement SEO Black Hat Strategies and Tactics.

Next, I would like to take a moment to welcome Yahoo to the SEO Black Hat Fraternity. We know their representatives specifically call hidden test / color on color text in a page spam.

Highlight between the “different code on the next code on the next screen” and the close window button on this yahoo link and you’ll find white on white that reads:

Visually impaired or blind users: We can help you register. So that a customer care representative can contact you, please provide your phone number in addition to your required email address when you contact us by pasting this URL into your browser:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/edit/cgi_access

 

If you’re like “that’s not Spam - that’s for the text readers the Blind use, you jackass!” Then could I write in black on black text:

“Visually imaired or blind users: This site is about Keyword, Keyword (verb), keyword (noun) . . . etc” ?

hmmm . . . i might try that!

Now while I don’t call this Spam, (for me SPAM is SEPRs Positioned Above Mine), it does fall into Yahoo’s definition. So Yahoo only get’s a technical addition to our club.

Yahoo - consider yourself on probation. While, technicaly, you are an SEO Black hat, you’re going to have to step it up a notch to keep your SEO Black Hat membership card.

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