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XSS Security Tool

SEO Egghead has created a security tool to scan your web pages to check for Cross Site Scripting / HTML injection vulnerability.

It’s not designed for you to scan every site on the net. It’s more for checking select pages . . . probably because he doesn’t want his servers to assplode!

The Most Cutting Edge SEO Exploits No One is Publishing

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!

Hogan’s Not a Hero . . . Yet

I’m sure you’ve read the wired article about Shawn Hogan deciding to stand up to the MPAA:

Of course, the MPAA isn’t backing down either. “I hear Mr. Hogan has said, ‘I’m absolutely going to go to trial,’ and that is his prerogative,” says John G. Malcolm, the MPAA’s head of antipiracy. “We look forward to addressing his issues in a court of law.” Look for a jury to weigh in by next summer.

The MPAA, in a Jury trial? They don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell and they know it. Shawn from digital point says he’s not a hero. True, he’s not a hero . . . Yet. He has to see this thing through – then he’ll be a hero.

Specifically, he has to countersue and win damages so it sets a legal precident for a class action lawsuit against the MPAA. If he does not countersue, the MPAA will be free to drop the case right before trial and continue to extort widows and children.

But if he countersues and wins, his team of lawyers will forever be known as “Hogan’s Heroes”.

Random unrelated funny post.

Recycling Front Page Digg Stories

1. William George of pugetsystems.com writes an article about dual Dual Processor vs Dual Core. It makes front page of digg 111 days ago.

2. Frameworkx.com reposts the entire article and gets it to the front page of digg today.

Here’s the kicker, if you check out the farameworkx article, they are even hotlinking the images from the original article. LOL. Now that’s ballsy.

From the Digg Comments:

Dude, all they did was just repost *our* article! http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=23

They did attribute you in the bottom of the article – the poster just didn’t see that or chose to use the ‘Framewokx’ repost for whatever insidious reason he might have.

They are stealing bandwidth for those images as well. They didn’t even have the courtesy to ask they were too lazy to try and make it look like they wrote the article.

Well, then the solution is to go in and do a little mod_rewrite magic in your apache config. for these guys. :)

Amen, Seumas. 111 days ago! http://digg.com/hardware/Dual_Processor_vs_Dual_Core

Indeed, why rack your brain trying to come up with something that can make the front page of digg? Just take anything that is 4+ months old, post it to a legit looking site, digg it about 60 times and you should be in business!

Although, I might avoid hotlinking any of the original images ;)

Help Wanted: Wordpress to Drupals Conversion

Have any of you successfully done a Wordpress to Drupals Conversion? My biggest concern is keeping the old urls where they are. If it can be done, I will be looking for a desinger who may want to design the Drupals theme for seoblackhat.com in exchange for a prominent link.

Also, I have a really good idea for monitizing myspace themes on this site. . . “Myspace” is my number one search refferral. So, if you can design really nice myspace themes and want to partner on a project, let me know.

SEO No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament

On Saturday, May 27th at 12:15 Eastern, SEO Black Hat will be running a private No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at Party Poker for the SEO and Blogosphere Community. The entrance will be $110 and prizes will be paid out based on the number of entrants.

Some big names in SEO have already agreed to participate including: Jeremy Shoemaker (AKA shoemoney), Jim Boykin (we build pages), David Naylor (AKA DaveN), and Jason Duke (Strange Logic). You can listen to DaveN and JasonD on Strikepoint and shoemoney here.

As we SEOs are always battling the search engines, I invite Matt Cutts, Jeremy Zawodny and Robert Scoble to play: I will pay their entrance fees should they choose to participate and, if I am knocked out of the Tournament by any of them, I will donate $10,000 to a charity of their choice. (note: They must accept in the next 7 days for the bounty to apply).

No limit means there is no limit to how many of your chips you can bet on a given hand. It will be a $110 dollar buy-in and everyone will start with the same number of chips. So, $110 is all you could loose. If we get more than 100 entrants, 1st prize will be more than $2,500 with payouts down to 20th place or more.

If you would like to play poker with some of your favorite Bloggers and SEOs – here is your chance. Everyone who signs up will be put on the Tournament Participant list along with a link to their websites. This way everyone will know who they are playing against.

It’s going to be a lot of fun. I’m sure they’ll be some colorful table talk, some great networking and I expect a healthy turn out. So what are you waiting for? Sign up now.

Update: Tournament Moved!!

Tournament Moved here.

When: Saturday May 27th June 13th at 12:15 Eastern (9:15 AM Pacific, 4:15 PM UTC/GMT, 5:15 pm BST) Worldclock

Where: Party Poker< - the World's Largest Online Poker Room.

Buy-in: $100 +$10 entrance fee (entrance Fee Goes to Party Poker)

Who can play? Anyone with a website, $110, and a Party Poker

Tournament Structure: No limit Texas Holdem. Each Player starts with 3000 chps. The blinds go up every 15 minutes.

Who’s already signed up? Tournament Participant list.

How to Sign Up to play. You need a Party Poker account with at least $110 in it. Once you have one, e-mail me with your party poker username, your name and the website you would like linked to from the participants list.

My email address = quadszilla {at] seoblackhat.com

How to Play No limit Texas Hold’em Poker

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Respected No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Books

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Poker Calculator

We need all entrance by May 21st and the names will be posted on the Tournament Participants list in the order they are received. Again, Just e-mail me at quadszilla [at} seoblackhat.com with your partypoker Username and the site you would like me to linked and you too will get the chance to play poker with your favorite SEOs.

Matt on Ranking in Google

http://performancing.com/node/397

Q. Can you give the Performancing readers a few tips on ranking in Google?

I wouldn’t bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I’d just use the first few words from the title of the post in the url. Don’t try to rank for a huge phrase at first–pick a smaller niche and get to be known as an expert there, and then build your way out and up. Controversial posts are sure to build links, but too many controversial posts may undermine your credibility. I think you attract more links with a conversational style, humor, and doing your own research to produce new insights or tidbits of info. In my opinion, just commenting on other blogs isn’t as useful. There are a lot of ways to build a reputation, from having a great blog to producing a unique service to speaking at conferences. A single creative idea that catches fire in the blogosphere or digg.com is probably more useful than just chasing/buying/trading links. Original information or research is great bait to attract links. :)

Well, it´s too much of a pain to switch out on seoblackhat, but on future blogs, I won´t have the date in the post´s URL. Matt could be saying that the extra characters of a date in the URL actually hurt in the SERPs, or this could be just a red herring.

My appologies for the post scarcity as I´m still without broadband.

Wow – Something NEW in Search from Quintura

Check out the demo of Quintura’s search product. It’s actually something Different, and dare I say, better.

If Microsoft comes out with somthing like this in the Vista OS, it could have a major impact.

Have You Been Focusing on the Wrong Traffic Engine?

I don’t mean you should be focusing on Yahoo or MSN.

I talkin’ about Myspace.

Via nivi’s del.icio.us (which is insanely good!) we find paul.kedrosky post on myspace stats:

  • 150,000 new users a day during the first half of November, up from about 100,000 a day last summer
  • 24.2 million unique users in October, up 12% from 21.6 million in September
  • 11.6 billion page views in October (up from 9-billion in September), displacing eBay as the fourth-busiest site on the net
  • More page views than any Internet destination except Yahoo, AOL, and MSN.
  • Twice the page views as Google which logged 6.6 billion in October.
  • It dawned on me a few weeks ago that I should start focusing on Myspace when I saw myspace.com/blogthings, a profile with 17340 friends that leads to blogthings.com.

    Clearly Myspace is not the right demographic for SEO black hat or for many of the blogs in this neghborhood, but for consumer focus it’s pretty sweet.

    Of note on blogthings:

    1. The focus of the syndication buttons:

    AOL, Myspace, Livejournal, Xanga.

    2. The Alexa rank (2,266) and

    3. How it’s reach shot up from nil to ~575/million in about 7 months.

    I understand that Alexa is not that accurate, but it doesn’t suck as much as you might think. Once you get into the top 50,000 it’s OK and actually gets pretty accurate under 10,000.

    4. Consumer focused “Link bait” geared towards Myspace type sites.

    5. The prominent Adsense ads in the hot spot of the site.

    Spamming Marketing to Myspace is nothing new . . . but it’s new to me.

    Right now, Sammy IS my hero. But I don’t even want 20,000,000 Myspace friends in 28 hours.

    I just want to pick up about 200 Friends per day on ~500 different accounts – (automated of course).

    Is that so much to ask?

    Default Passwords

    Default Passwords are powerful because often users are too lazy to change them. Perhaps you “forgot” a password from one of these 313 vendors and left it as the default password.

    For whatever reason, it just seems like it’s good idea to have this list of 1520 Default Passwords.