Many SEO experts suggest that Whitehat SEO is the way to go. However, it seems that Google doesn’t really want us to go whitehat anymore. Here’s why.

Google changes its ranking algorithm on regular basis. No problem. Google hates web directories. No worries. Google faves quality content. A-okay.

Now, the thing is, Google wants to keep us ‘honest’ by controlling what can and what can’t in search engine optimization and link building.

Exercising control, to a certain extent, is actually necessary. But limiting website owners’ movement in doing SEO and link building is like Google trying hard to make our lives miserable, especially in making money online.

Some evidences:

Google favoritism toward big brands

This webpreneurship article on Google’s love for big brands explains it all – brand reputation is emphasized by Google in determining importance in its search engine result pages.

Now, the question is: If you own a tech site news, how to compete with, say, TechCrunch with whitehat methods?

TechCrunch has the money; it also has the authority; it has humongous numbers of backlinks – both in quality and quantity. How to compete with it?

Google says that the best way to get ranked high in search engine result pages is by creating quality content that attracts backlink from other sites referring to the content.

Right. Now suppose I can create top-notch content that is even better than those in TechCrunch, will my article page rank higher than those of TechCrunch? No.

Again, TechCrunch shouts authority. MyOneAndOnlyTechBlogThatContainsQualityContent.com is not (yet) – and to compete with TechCrunch, we have 2 choices:

1. Secure million of dollars in venture capital money
2. Go blackhat

Let’s be honest here – we need time and money to compete with the big guys in search engine result pages; unfortunately, not many of us have plenty of either or both.

Google is slapping web directories and affiliate sites

There goes the glorious days of web directories and affiliate sites.

Google slaps web directories – reducing their value and ranking in the process, and eventually reducing web directory owners’ income in such a way that they need to find other ways to make a living. Web directory submissions are also no longer effective, making link building a more challenging task. Article directory submissions? Expect the same in the near future.

The same story goes for affiliate sites – Google slaps sites containing affiliate links – if those links are not there, how on earth affiliate marketers can make money? The consequence: Landing pages are no longer effective; this equals less money for Internet marketers.

There always be ways to comply with Google. But Google fed many of us up – it’s another reason for some of us to go blackhat.

Many left Google – for good.

For those who are honest and are not willing to go blackhat, they left Google, even abandoned make money online/online business/internet marketing arena.

The resilient website owners are pushed to be creative. They left Google for PPV (pay per view) strategy implementation; they forget SEO/link building and start focusing on getting web traffic, and focusing on the traffic strategy to build a business and make a living.

The big question: Should I do blackhat?

I can’t help you on this (if I suggest blackhat, I risk myself to be banned by Google – oops!)

But consider what the webmasters say in consensus: The money lies in the blackhat techniques.

Even successful Internet marketers are resorting to blackhat (or at least, greyhat) to help them grow their business empire.

If you are in doubt regarding blackhat techniques, never get involve in it. It’s clearly not for everyone. There are still plenty opportunities in doing whitehat – all you need to do is to be patience (and hopefully you can secure that investment to build yourself a nice web business.)

Any views to share?

Webmasters and site owners: Are you fed up doing SEO/link building and content writing to get your blogs rank well and make you good amount of money? Well, you should take a break and start to think “greyhat” money making online for a chance.

Playing honest with whitehat methods can be tiring, because those methods champion long-term efforts. In the other hand, playing dirty with blackhat methods can be depressing, because you always wonder whether you will get caught by Google and the likes or not.

Well, here’s a solution for you: try this greyhat methods in site building and make money online – courtesy of Rob Benwell’s Blogging Espionage.

Of course, I have purchased the ebook with a hope that I can increase my income and decrease my effort in site building; I have to say that I’m impressed.

Rob Benwell – one of the top product launchers – claims that he will give you $100 plus a refund of the ebook purchase price of $47 if you have heard this money making techniques before. Never-heard-of guarantee, and I thought, he must have something to offer here with such strong claim; so I did buy the ebook.

Reading through the 40-page ebook is like having a revelation – sure, I’ve implemented part of the techniques before, but I never think about some of the techniques. This is silly because the loopholes are there under my nose, but I can’t simply hit that “Eureka!” moment, until I read Blogging Espionage.

Loopholes?

Yes – Blogging Espionage shows you greyhat ways to monetize your blogs through loopholes found inside the systems, in such a way that your blogs can make the most money for you. The interesting thing is, the loopholes are not obscure – they are there for you and I to discover; no Easter eggs here.

Rob guarantees that you’ll get $1000 in the first week after implementing the techniques, and all I can say is: he speaks truth. I’ve done it, and it worked (and will continue to work in the future.)

So, if you are dying to learn how to make way much more money from your blogs, I genuinely recommend Blogging Espionage for you.

Click here to get Blogging Espionage now!

Is SEO Real, or Simply a Figment of Big G’s Imagination?

Firstly I should point out that I am a proud “SEO’er”, spending 7 days a week (or more!) on Google. It is in this schedule I have had several years, which I have begun to question Google’s need, priorities and underlying meaning.

Before I start on my thoughts, I want you all to question what SEO really is. It’s said search engine optimisation is simply “the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results, as opposed to other forms of search engine marketing (“SEM”) which may deal with paid inclusion”.

In my opinion, SEO is “identifying, researching and implementing whatever is needed, in order to gain the rankings your site/blog or company needs to deliver its online sales plan.”

So here’s My Angle…

The search engines themselves, ultimately decided SEO would be the description of gaining rankings through strategic changes to a website, in order to ultimately affect the way in which the site is viewed by the search engine. This leads me onto my first gripe…

Why would a search engine want to dictate the overall strategy behind manipulating its own algorithm?

You are Mr. Yahoo or Mr. Google and you want to display in your SERPs, the best results for each individual search, you judge this by using hundreds of algorithmic specifications that deem whether a website is worthy for each search. But, and it’s a big but, you have hundreds of thousands of people around the globe who’s prerogative it is to understand, interact and manipulate your specifications, in order to gain an advantage over their competition. What do you do? You can’t beat them, it’s a fact.

No matter how much Google changes its algorithm, its people or its process, people like you and me will always be able to gain some advantage by understanding how it works. It’s the same as a million other things in this world, you can’t cook Spaghetti Bolognese, so you watch Jamie Oliver cook up a storm, you read a recipe book and look online. Now you know how to cook spag bol, or at least you have a better understanding of how to do it.

This would be the same as telling a child they are not allowed to play computer games and giving them an Xbox.

Here’s why, in several of Google’s guidelines, you will see SEO good practice, good practice for page title tags, how to make best use of the “description” Meta tag. These go on and on, surely this is messed up? Google’s objective is to:

A. Make money by making it harder to rank naturally and so switching people onto AdWords.

B. Make AdWords more “clickable”, as we have seen by recent size, position and some colour changes.

C. And thirdly to deliver the best results possible for a single search by a single searcher.

Google’s Hidden Agenda

Fair play to Google, they are very clever, they have the market cornered and short of a huge push by Microsoft’s Bing, they will continue to the market leader for years to come.

But really, do you think all the “carrot dangling” is for our benefit? No. Big G has basically told us they will penalise anyone’s site that tries to optimise too much, this is stupid in the real world. It is common sense that people are going to try as hard as they can. Will people who try their best in the World Cup be substituted?

Unless your site is dabbling in the dark art of SEO you will be fine, though please do not try too hard, whatever too hard is!

Let’s look at the real point behind this.

G has us by the balls! With billions of searches every day worldwide and even more billions of results, I would guess 98% of these have been manipulated in some way by an SEO guy. We all use Google, we all search and most of us have Analytics, AdWords accounts, web master tools and Gmail. All of which, in my opinion, are Google’s armoury, a defence and a pro active means of understanding people who manipulate its SERPs. Who better is there? Google can make all the tweaks they like but in the end we will find a way, we are the real meaning of SEO, SEM or whatever it is called these days

So what should you think?

You should think whatever you like, after all this is only my opinion. But in my eyes Google has 2 options, stay exactly the same, but spend more time concentrating on the websites that show a blatant disregard to the visitor or are ultimately being naughty in SEO terms rather than penalising lots of sites on a daily basis simply because they change their title tag.

The second option would be to stop telling us how we should do SEO and then judge us when people try too hard; obviously I am only talking in an innocent manner.

Anything else?

Luckily for you guys I am not going to refer you to my SEO site for more information, I don’t even have a site, I don’t believe in wasting my time promoting how good I am at SEO and trying to rank for “SEO”. I believe in doing the best for my clients, spending all my time on their gains and preaching my opinions on SEO. But what I will do is leave you with a couple of links that you can use to find me if needed for any reason. Thanks.

dannychapmanseo@googlemail.com

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Original article: SEO Tactics

XRumer, blackhat SEO tool in nature, can help a site rank better in search engines. What it does is actually post (a.k.a. blast) your site to Forums, Blogs and any web properties you can think of.

Despite it is proven to be able to boost your search engine rankings, there are some pitfalls you CAN actually avoid, such as Google ban, web hosting account suspension, etc.

Now, have you ever think to use Xrumer to get your competitors getting banned by Google? Hmm… *eeevil*

First of all, read this FAQ from one of XRumer service sites regarding Google ban:

Will Google Ban Me?

If by using xrumer you could get a site banned from Google, then competitors would xrumer away to get there competition banned, So the answer to this myth is certainly not.

However new, unestablished sites without existing backlinks or PR can get sandboxed by Google, But again by doing a little manual work and gaining some quality High PR links to your site will get your site out of Google sandbox.

Well, it seems that XRumer won’t get your competitors’ site banned from Google, or is it?

Behold – the weapon of mass destruction

Well, here’s an almost unanimous conclusion: Google knows when you do excessive linking in a short period of time – this is why many SEO people suggest for us to do link building on regular and ongoing basis, not a one-time bulk linking and months of non-existent link building. The aftermath: Your site can be sandboxed and/or have your backlinks’ value decreased considerably.

Now, many survive the Google ban, and like what is mentioned in the FAQ above, even if your site sandboxed, you can get your site out relatively easy.

However, here’s a real life story: A client of mine tell me that his friend’s site is getting ‘killed’ by one of its competitors, allegedly using XRumer software. The site’s backlink is growing enormously with unrelated and questionable originating sites (a finance site is getting links from a drag racing site, for example?)

The results so far: The site’s once top 10 in its target keyword now has dropped to page 2 for the same keyword – this is also happen to the overall site rankings in multiple keyword phrases – devastating, indeed.

So, is XRumer cool?

To some, yes. Many resent using such tools and prefer whitehat SEO methods, but again, we must see this case by case.

Using XRumer blasts sparingly could keep your site under the radar. All in all, try at your own risk

• $35 XRumer blast service
• Download XRumer free trial from CNET.com
• Learn more about XRumer from Wikipedia

I have noticed a ebook that is floating around  the webmaster forums and I thought I would share some of the contents of it with you as I have seen people paying a stupid amount of money for something that doesn’t really give much of a return plus it can get you into to some bother if you do it to the wrong sort of person.But read on and comment if you do have success!

As you know Facebook probably is the biggest social networking website on the internet at the moment and more than likely to be in top place for quite a while. Jump over to Alexa and check out its rating and you will notice it’s in the top 10 websites in the world. (Impressive, considering the idea was stolen in the first place).

Have you ever wondered how you can earn from this craze and get traffic flooding to your website at all?

Well I’m going to breakdown this ebook and show you how and the idea behind it and you can make up your own mind if you want to try it! Of course to get started you will need a Facebook account and do not use your main account if you have one as you will get banned sooner or later. Click here for Facebook.

Once you set up your new account make sure you leave a link  to your website or affiliate link on your profile , and then get ready to start a Facebook group that will be about your website, business or whatever. You really need to make sure your group is looking good and not just spammed with your domain name or affiliate links. Once you are happy with your group you will need to start adding people by the barrel load and you need to get thousands of users to sign up to your new group right?

This is where your thinking ” I dont have any facebook friends” so how can I do that?

Well this ebook that is floating around simply explains on how to get emails and thousands of them, you simply use a decent email harvester and crawl the internet but targeting emails using the keyword of your choice. There is no point  getting as many emails as you can as you will be wasting your time, if you are selling a “Teach a old Dog new Tricks” ebook then is there any point using emails harvested from the keyword “Body Builders”? You need to target your audience the same as you would promote a website or business! (dont email me asking about harvesting tools but look here).

Once you have got all the emails you like you need to start using them for inviting people to your group and this is where Facebook gets interesting, You would think that being the largest social website in the world and on the internet you would think they would have good privacy and spam protection right?

This is where you can abuse a major flaw in the mighty Facebook, Go to your new group and select the “invite more people” and you see a section where you can just cut and paste emails into Facebook and it will then email those emails a invite to your new group. The good thing about using this method is that once your group gets a couple of thousand of people then it will pretty much grow very fast indeed as your new members will keep inviting new members for you. Now just think to yourself how much traffic you can get to your website by just using this method?

I did try doing this myself and I didn’t really have much success to be honest, I found Facebook quite buggy and slow so I did give up quite easy, but I did get the group to about 300members in a few days and then gave up but you may be able to get a very big group!

Anyone else tried this method or going to try it?

Please do let me know how you get on.

I have given in and decide that I would give in and give  Twitter a chance and see what all the fuss is about. The truth is I did try it a long time ago but didn’t really understand it at all, I still don’t but I do know that it can drive alot of traffic your way indeed.

When I joined to Twitter I got bored with it shortly after joining up, So I started some research………….

I found out the best way and defiantly the fastest way is to use a mass follower tool or script that you simply put in your user name and password and a keyword for your targeted niche. This will then scan Twitter for people to follow and the idea behind this is that you follow as many people as you can and they will then follow you in return, this means every time you “tweet” you have posted to a large audience in one go. (That’s the theory but read on)

I have only found one Twitter tool that I like and I have uploaded here for you. Its a very basic tool but its small and does the job perfect and its not full of crappy spyware. You simply load it up and put your username, password and keyword and leave it to do its stuff and once its done you will see a list of the people you are now following.

So imagine, you have used the tool and following 5k people but you notice after a while out of those your following you only have 1k people following you. ( In my eyes they are a waste and disposable).

Nothing worse than seeing a Twitter account who follows but doesn’t really get followed as it is quite blatant its a spam account so people wont want to follow you!

I have the solution but you will need to use firefox for this to work and you will need to install a plugin called greasemonkey and once you have installed GreaseMonkey you will a script that you will load into greasemonkey and you can get that HERE once you have installed jump to your Twitter account. Once on your twitter account you need to click your following lists(top right) and then look for the little monkey logo in your firefox browser which should be on the bottom left and then right click and choose “Twitter Remove Non-Followers!. This wont show up if you are not on your following list!

Now your ready to get rid of the non return followers and punish them for not sharing the tweeting love.

Now you should be on your following list you should see that some of the twitter accounts are greyed out and these are the ones that are not following back and you simply scroll down and hit the “remove marked”  and then just work your way though them. I have found the best way of doing this it to use the following tool and add say a 1000 accounts and then wait for a few days, then use the grease monkey script to delete non followers. I wouldn’t just add thousands at a time as it will take you ages to delete the non followers.

I hope this helps you out with getting traffic to your website in a couple of days I got a twitter account with over 600 followers so it does work, Ill keep doing it till I hit a few thousand!

Some of you may remember my article regarding getting indexed within 24hours using a hand full of websites while getting a few back links at the same time. I still find what I wrote quite usefull but I have found something that completely blows my previous article out of the water.

I was checking out digitalpoint freebies section and came across a post boasting about a new SEO script that will get you indexed within 24hours while getting your new domain backlinks from websites with pagerank 6 and upwards. The post also claimed that it can get back links in the thousands all with good pagerank. I read the post a couple of times thinking it was a load of crap like most of the rubbish that gets placed on the freebie section of digital point, after all it was claiming something it could give you something for nothing…………. Indexed, backlinks that are from high pageranked websites which of course can improve your own page-rank when Google decides to update itself… Sounds to good to be true does it not?

I thought ill give this magic script ago by using a domin that I wasnt to bothered if it got dropped or not so why not?

I checked out the website and gave it a go, you simply type in your domain and make sure you have “new browser” selected and set how many pop up(new windows) you want to open at the same time. I had opted for 50 windows to open to see what it does, this gets annoying as you really do get 50 windows open up with all these websites that you have just pinged but never mind that was my choice and wont do that again. You can select less windows to open or do it manually by just clicking the links but that will take hours to do as you can get 100s of websites queing to ping your website and some of them leave a record on their website so you can get a backlink also while using the tool…………….. quite handy hey?

I must admit it took me a while to work out how the tool would force a website to make a backlink on the “pinged” website but it works the same as princiable of my last article so overall it gets a 8/10 from me. The main downside to this tool is that the websites it pings are mainly Chinese but they do have alot of websites with good pagerank and they are not adult websites or warez websites so you are pretty much safe from having bad links to your new website. The developer of the website has stated he wanted to clean up alot of the websites that the scripts uses for pinging and getting backlinks so hopefully there will be more English websites.

Anyway, I tested the script on the domain that wasnt indexed and hasn’t been in use for at least 3 months. The domain was indexed pretty much in the 24th hour which i was quite suprised about but I have yet to check out the backlinks but I will edit this post once I have done a proper check as half the decent backlink counters on the Internet have stopped working.

I would be careful using this tool if you are planning to use a domain as a new business or website as it is quite new and I myself haven’t checked out the side affects of using this script, I will be checking the back-links very closely over the next couple of weeks while also giving the domain a few more blasts.

If you looking for a quick fix to getting your website indexed and have a few backlinks then this tool is most definatly the way to go!

This is a rather crafty method that could be used for making money. What it’s based on is that you make a webpage saying that you’re giving away, for example, a 42 inch television because you’ve “just bought a new 50 inch television”. You say that you want to give it away to a good cause so you ask people to fill in their Name, Reason why they deserve to win, E-Mail Address and then a submit button. However, the E-Mail Address and the submit button will be simply an iframe from a CPA Offer – An E-Mail Submit offer. This means that they’ll fill in the details thinking they’re entering a competition when they’re filling in their E-Mail Address and submitting it. The minute they submit, you’ve got your £1 – £2 commission and you no longer care about them. To do this though, you’ve got to blend in the submit form with your webpage. You will learn how to do that.

Step 1 – Signup to a good affiliate program. The best one to use for this method is Affiliateer. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll need to find a good affiliate which pays just based on the E-Mail Address submit and not after extra information submits afterwards. These normally pay around £1 to £2.

Step 2 – You have a decision to make now. The first thing you could do is to make your competition a “personal” competition. You could setup a free hosting with a free domain (Deliberately, don’t use a paid domain) and you could say that you’re one person just running a competition and you’ve “setup this webpage just to store the entries easier”. The second thing you could do is to make your competition a “business” competition. If you’re running an online business, you could run a professional competition that you’re giving away great prizes for visiting your website. This will increase traffic, also!

Step 3 – If you’ve decided on the personal competition, you need to make a small webpage with form fields Name and Reason why you want to win.  Youo can get free domains and hosting very quickly indeed the building and playing with iframes I will leave for you to work out.

Step 4 – The only problem left is the fact that you’ve got to get the CPA offer to fit perfectly with the design, and to only show the E-Mail Address and submit button and not the rest of the page. This is why you’ll need to mess around with the values of the iframe to get it working. An easier solution can be found in the tips for this method.

Step 5 – Once your submit page has done and seems to be all working, you can start to promote it. If you’re using the business competition, this should be really easy because you can make Press Releases and blog posts and forum posts all about the competition. If you’re using the personal competition, this may be slightly trickier. You could do newspaper advertisements, Craigslist submissions, forum posts etc… The list is endless, just try it out and see what works.

Tips!!! ·

Use a software called GodCPA. This makes the whole process of making it a LOT quicker, because it creates it all for you. You could purchase the software, or you could find a warez version of it. *cough* A simple search on Google will help you find one. *cough* · If you use GodCPA, you can make the submit button take the visitor to another page. On this page, you could put something like “Sorry, but the details weren’t submitted correctly. Please submit again.” And on that page, you could put a DIFFERENT CPA E-Mail Submit offer on there. That way, you get paid for two offers by one person. Now, it’s time to work on another method.

This is a rather basic method, quite well-known that you may not know. It is based on sharing files (Could be any sort of files, doesn’t even need to be illegal) through certain Pay Per Download programs. You could get paid around $10 – $20 per 1,000 US Downloads. It doesn’t sound like much, but if you share many files which are really popular, you’ll get a lot of money for very little work.

Step 1 – Find a program that you’re going to use. A good example of this is http://www.uploading.com . Signup to one of the payment programs and get ready to upload files.

Step 2 – You’re going to need to find some good files to upload. You could download some scripts or applications from torrents and then upload them to your file sharing site. Some good examples of files to share are new programs released and movies.

Step 3 – Find the download links for your files and then start posting your files on warez forums. Once again use Google to find a forum of your choice, I wont help you on that one !

Tips!!!
• On some Pay Per Download programs, they pay based on the file size. That means you should upload bigger files if possible.
• Try downloading porn, uploading it to your upload site and then share in on porn forums. These are guaranteed to get high downloads because of the high demand for this type of content.
• If you create products and give them away on your website, you could upload the files to these download sites instead of hosting them directly on your website. You’ll make more money then.

If this make you feel uneasy then dont do it

This is very blackhat but this is a very effective method to use if you know how to use it properly. This technique  involves making money from sharing adware. Yeah, once again it’s blackhat. This method involves downloading Pay Per Install EXE files and merging them with other downloads that you’ve downloaded (So that people open the download they’re wanting but also open the Pay Per Install EXE too, therefore giving you commission) and then sharing these files through torrents, filesharing or warez forums.

Just a quick note, you 100% be banned from torrent sites  for sharing these, so be careful if you want to keep your account.

Step 1 – You will need to sign-up to a Pay Per Install provider. I wont recommend anyone but Google has plenty for your picking.

Step 2 – Download the .EXE file from your provider.  This will be a small file, maybe no more than 30kb in size.

Step 3 – Start downloading files of new software that everyone wants and just released, quickly download it. This is what will be used with this method.

Step 4 – Click Start on the taskbar, then click Run and type in iexpress . This will start the merging process of your downloaded files. Don’t panic, it isn’t difficult and you should get quite used to it after a while. Use the following options through the process:

“Create new Self Extraction Directive file.”
“Extract files and run an installation command”
Type in any Package name
“No prompt.”
“Do not display a license.”
Then add the two EXE files into the Package files (The PPI EXE and the install EXE)
“Install Program: [PPI EXE] and Post Install Command: [Install EXE] ”
“Default”
“No message.”
Browse to where you want to save the new merged EXE file
“No restart”
“Save Self Extraction Directive (SED) file.”

This will now create you your new EXE to share. Don’t try running the file or you’ll ‘infect’ yourself. It does work. Sometimes it can take a while to merge, but it depends on the sizes of the files you’re merging.

Step 5 – Time to “package”  a torrent with your new .EXE I would suggest putting your .EXE into a zipped file to make it seem less odd to start with. This step now depends on the torrent client you use. The recommended client is uTorrent. Search around there is plenty of them out there.

Once sorted, you should have a completely working torrent running in your torrent client, You should also have your original file and a .torrent file.

Step 6 – This is probably the most difficult part of the process. Sharing your torrent. You should upload your torrent to as many different torrent sites as possible to enable you to get the most downloads.

You just need to remember to keep the torrent “seeding” on your computer so that people can download from you. If you stop uploading when there aren’t many seeders, many people may not be able to download and you may lose downloads because of this.

Tips!!!

• If you get banned from some torrent sites, try uploading the torrent again through a proxy or another computer. Don’t give up.
• The way to make money through this method is not to upload 1 file. Upload as many merged files as possible to make the most money.

Ill be posting a new method within the next week so keep coming back and please do ask any questions.