Hurt – Black Hat SEO Version

I hurt myself blogging secrets again
to see if I still feel Google.
I focus on the penalized link
the only thing that’s real
Google tears a hole
the old familiar sting
trying to kill black hats away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest Google;
every white hat I know
goes away in the end
and Google could have it all
my empire of spam

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar’s chair
full of link footprints
I cannot reverse
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
Google will be replaced
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest Google
every white hat I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of spam

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million killed links ago
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Nine Inch Nails (Fight Club Video) version

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Johnny Cash Version

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The competition has a basic rule.

The goal is simple to rank for a keyword no matter what right?

Here is the 4 steps to victory.

1-Create a blog post within your blog with the title tag being the desired keyword.

2-Install SEO for Firefox Plugin (thank you Aaron Wall for the best plugin ever)

2-”enable commentluv” (copy paste the command in the left to the google toolbar in your firefox browser with the SEO extension switched on). The goal is to identify blogs that use the commentluv plugin with dofollow tendencies.

3- Go down through the list and leave really nice and thoughtful comments on the blogs that do not have red highlights. Some people remove the dofollow capability of the commentluv by removing the below line from the plug in (thus the SEO for firefox plugin step)

remove_filter(‘pre_comment_content’, ‘wp_re l_nofollow’).

4- It will probably take you a while but a weekend of commenting in blogs should get you the coveted #1 spot in any SEO competition in addition to the extra bonus of a few hundreds links to your blog (if the commentluv is in a dofollow blog, you get the extra bonus of getting a link to the blog’s homepage.

Greg is a great SEO. I have no doubt of it. One of my first posts in this blog was about him talking about not leaving footprints for Google. Greg just pulled off a great marketing stunt for his Property town site through a SEO competition that he and I criticized (below quote from that post).

The thing that most contest participants don’t consider is the fact that everyone is watching. (Including search engine engineers).

That great marketing move also created not a footprint but a Big Foot imprint in the snow for Google and your competition. Next question is from a great admirer who himself is an SEO. Is Property Town really worth it?

simply type http://www.www.sitename.com . If you have a google toolbar; this will allow you to see the page rank of the site without having to actually enter the site. OK, OK I declare myself the king of useless seo

Above is the standard vbulletin file adress for a smile emoticon on any vbulletin forum. I put myself in the mind of a black hat SEO over a smile. I said to myself, what would I do if I was a hacker who found a dead forum (there are plenty out there). I would simply put a different link to the less used of the emoticons on the smilies folder and move on. You could check the link command to see how often the emoticon is used. Ironically, if the owner of the forum changed those files to contain a link to a page on your site that makes people purchase something so that they are happy (even with an alt tag.) .

Weird thoughts pass by my mind everyday. Not that, I would do it….. (a big grin comes to my face.)

The goal: Lowering of a Wikipedia article in Google rankings for a specific keyword, where it seemed simply unbeatable before, in five steps.

1. Create multiple credible editor usernames in Wiki
2. Randomly select five wikipedia articles and properly wikilink any word that is not related to your subject on those articles and make sure to write “wikilink” to the comment box with a check box on minor edit selection below the comments section. Try to mix in some erasing of spam commercial links or correct a spelling to make it look like you are not always doing the same activity. Always comment in general terms of what you did in the comment box (usually with the minor edit checkbox highlighted if they are minor changes)
3. Click on the “what links here” on the targeted wikipedia article and then go to the first article that links to your target wiki-dnapping victim article.
4. WIKILINK TWO OR MORE WORDS in that article and slyly erase the wikilink to the keyword that targets the victim article that you are targeting in the same edit and make sure to write “wikilink” to the comment box with the minor edit box checked.
5. Switch to a different “credible user” you created in Step 1 to not to get attention of Wiki admins on your activities which are done in a short amount of time and repeat Steps 2 through 4
6. Repeat Steps 2 to 5 in a cycle until you are satisfied. Also if possible try to do these edits in multiple IPs to make sure that the trail is harder to follow.

The above lesson will not hurt the general Wikipedia PR as they use nofollow tags with the exception of Wikia and other affiliated sites, but it will certainly give you a long deserved peace of a Wiki free search engine for your keyword’s first page by kidnapping the PR away from that specific wiki-article.

P.S. The knowledge of this tactic is not through personal implementation experience (as I write this blog to be a white hat). My expertise comes from being a long standing legitimate spam fighting wiki editor who knows the ins and outs of wikipedia. I gave up on the ideal of Wiki when Jimmy Wales decided to overturn a Wiki-citizens vote and implemented Wikipedia nofollow tags to all external links with the exception of his other “commercial” companies (aka Wikia search engine). I honestly do not care what happens to Wikipedia any longer. Have fun creating havoc in wikipedia.

#1 Always log on to your wiki accounts before editing anything.

#2 Always have multiple wiki accounts for different purposes (one for spam fighting, one for category A, one for category B etc., one for wiki-jacking etc.)

#3 Initially be fair to wikipedia and fight others’ spam, wikilink and edit small things using different editor usernames creating a legitimate and positive wiki trail for yourself. Do everything possible initially to sound like every one of users are legitimate crime fighting and contributing wikicitizens. MAKE SURE TO REPORT WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN THE COMMENT OF EVERY EDIT.

#4 Let User A Give Barnstar awards to User B and make a circle of users awarding each other for great input or fighting spam or something. Make it sound legitimate. Create unique user pages with different “user boxes” that describe your fake users as legitimate and different individuals.

#5 Start new article stubs if possible and make a note of what you have started or did substantial edit to in your user pages to make you look legitimate.

DISCLAIMER: If you are a white hat SEO like me, you will get disgusted… Guaranteed. But honestly, I do believe Wikipedia is the ultimate Black Hat SEO itself because of the selective nofollow strategy (which does not apply to Jimmy Wales’ own commercial ventures) so I felt justified to create a Wiki Black Hat guide to remove Wikipedia from the SERPs or at least lower them in rankings to give others a chance.

Wiki-Jacking is simply wikilinking (internal linking) any wikipedia article from other wikipedia articles with the keywords you want them to rank for to make one or even two top spots for wikipedia. This is a white hat tactic (if not used to change the meaning of the original articles in wikipedia) to do negative seo acts against competitors in keywords in which you are running a pay-per-click campaign or just to punish a site you do not particularly like.

These eight ways are

• Wikijacking
• Google Bowling
• Tattling
• Google Insulation
• Copyright Takedown Notices
• Copied Content
• Denial of Service
• Click Fraud