I knew I would get in contact with this Black Hat crap sooner or later
Oh! my! God! I tried a black hat method just for fun and I was so impressed of it that I have to write about it here. First of all I would like to point out that I don´t ever do Black Hat SEO myself and nor do I want to promote it any way… But it is a problem for Google therefore it is important to remind you all that it exists and you don´t need to be a computer wizard to make it work.. that´t the most scary part!
So there are a lot of Black Hat techniques out there and the one I got involved with was this “Automatic Content Generation” or as we also call it spamdexing.
Basically what you need is a few programs about 2-4 and some webdesign + SEO skills + a whole lot of domains to store all this crap you get auto generated.
Now the big bad black hatters usually bulk register domains 100-500 at the same time to get a discount…. Your not going to believe this but there is also software for making domain names that matches your also autogenerated keyword list, nothing advanced really all it does is that it adds a hyphen between eventual spaces in keyphrase and also adds a .com or a .net in the end of the keyword.
What amazes me so far is that every single little step is fully automated and made for a huge amount of sites.
Ok next step was the keywords! there are several ways of finding those keywords for example overture sr or wordtracker….. Now the list is complete and next step is the layout and design etc.
What it´s all about is really like white hat seo when it comes to page structure, but then again all is automated! (scary). There are several ways to make good page structure using all you know. For example FEEDS and guess what that is also automated, the software imports a highly related feed from a high ranked site and mixes it into your content… Some other things are included such as PHP commands that calls random quotes etc. Man! there are a lot of other things to but I am not sure if I want to write all of them I just want you to understand what it´s all about. What I am trying to say is after doing all this stuff you have a highly optimized site for the search engines because you form the template + design yourself and if you know SEO pretty good you can make it as perfect as you wish.
So anyway I made all modifications needed to be done and then started to autogenerate my sites, I went for a snack a when I got back I had 21,000 pages all about SEO (which was my selected main keyword) all sites was optimized for specific terms and I thougt well the pages must look like crap now! So i uploaded some of the files + templates and css etc. to my test domain.
The Results of this Black Hat crap
It actually works! all pages where different and with some more modification you would never guess that the site was auto generated. Of course I didn´t spend to much time on this to perfect my templates etc but the general idea about how this works was now clear to me.
What is needed to be done to stop this?
Well you tell me? this is actually a real big problem to the search engines as I see it.
Something needs to be done about this! that is crystal clear but the big question is how to do it?
I am not in to this Black Hat SEO crap myself but I can imagine what the Black Hat Pro´s are up to.
There are much more to be said about this, but hey! I will let someone else find out about the rest of this mess… To messy for me!
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So what results did you get. You said it worked, but how? I am curious to see how you ranked with simple automation with a competitive keyword like SEO.
The ranking is not important in this example, the weight lies within the number of sites created…. Are you thinking about joining the dark side? Lol
Not for any of my sites, but I’d be willing to experiment with dummy domains and dummy servers. Hell, there is profit to be made everywhere, but it will catch up with individuals eventually.
Hell, I’m looking into it.
You could generate 25000 + odd pages and optimized it too? Looks like some real workaholic stuff by the automated engines.
How did you manage to get all the work automated? Also, how was it possible for you to have the RSS feeds and your own stuff both mixed? I mean, did you use some program for it?
Wonders of wonders!…