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Grayhat SEO

How to Create Duplicate Content on Someone Else’s Wordpress Blog

May 31, 2006

Recently on this blog I went through the process of moving from a dynamic URL structure to static looking URL structure (ie example.com?p=100 to example.com/foo/). Along the way I learned a little bit more about how wordpress works and discovered a way to use this to create duplicate content on someone else’s wordpress blog.

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SEO Scrapers over at cocoonworks.com

May 30, 2006

If you’re going to be a scraper news aggregator, I don’t know that I’d start with the high profile people who could make things difficult for you:

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Shoemoney

May 22, 2006

Can you outrank Shoemoney?
The Official Outrank Shoemoney Contest: click here
Sign-up for all ShoeMoney contests: click here
ShoeMoney on Digitial Point: click here
Shoemoney on Typekey: click here
Shoemoney on MSN Spaces: click here
Shoemoney on Pimp my Blog: click here
Shoemoney Media Group: click here
Shoemoney doing Google Video: click here
Shoemoney on Digg: click here
Shoemoney on Threadwatch: click here
Shoemoney on V7N: [...]

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MSN Easy Lover

May 19, 2006

So I did a little test of some domain spamming reputation management for a friends company. I used the MSN URL submission tool and in less than 30 days I “owned” the 9 of the top 10 spots. There are only 250,000 other pages listed so it’s not really competitive by any measurement, but man [...]

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Petco.com Banned or MIA

May 16, 2006

So we’ve cleared up the algae bloom in my freshwater tank and ready to start restocking it with fish, and I go to check the hours of the petco nearest me and find they aren’t listed online:

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Cloaking in the Blogosphere

May 9, 2006

One of the more useful plugins for wordpress is Bad Behavior, basically it looks for people or spiders who are “misbehaving” or “acting strange” bans the IP and send them an error page. It works well in keeping troublemakers out, however it creates problems with services like Technorati, and if you change your useragent to [...]

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SEO’s Without Hats

May 4, 2006

Unless I’m especially bored or am looking to stir up trouble somewhere I try to avoid white hat/black hat or other ethical debates like the plague. Basically they are time wasters and you’re never going to convince someone to change their mind. I’m sure somewhere someone out there considers me a “white hat”, also Senor [...]

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Dark Alley’s of MySpace

April 27, 2006

In part II we looked at legitimate Marketing Examples on MySpace however it’s hard to take a complete look at all that MySpace is without acknowledging that it does have a dark and seedy district. There are some adult areas with lots of nudity however as of this writing none of the pages linked to [...]

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Google 301 Redirect’s Completely Messed Up

April 26, 2006

So I have been getting about 2000 searches per month to my blog for a not even remotely search related posting. Last month I finally got annoyed by the whole thing, so I bought a new domain, moved the content there and set up a 301 redirect to it. Now Google has found the 301 [...]

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Tips for Controlling the Top 10

April 21, 2006

While this strategy is never going to work for anything that’s even moderately competitive it can usually help you score the majority of the top 10 serps for your company name, your clients company name, or the CEO/CFO/COO’s name.
1. companydomain.com
2. profile.companydomain.com
3. Googlebase
4. Google page creator
5. companyname.blogspot.com
6. companyname.wordpress.com
7. squidoo.com/companyname/
8. companyname.newsvine.com
9. spaces.msn.com/companyname/
10. myspace.com/companyname/
Just don’t forget to “water [...]

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Spamming Google Calendar

April 14, 2006

Want some groovy nofollow links from a google subdomain? Go start a calendar put a web address in the comments field for an appointment and make the calendar public.
Update:My Bad you’ve actually got to be logged into get the nofollowed link, not sure what the spiders are going to do with the XML file when [...]

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Scraper Sites and Publicity

April 9, 2006

I run some scraper sites, there I’ve said it it’s out in the open. Even though I’m constantly refining my scripts I just don’t think it’s cool to be bragging about them. It’s kind of like dirty underwear, we all have it and know everybody else does too, but nobody’s sharing the URL’s with [...]

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Update II: Alexa Site Association

April 4, 2006

Lat week I received an email from Alexa stating they were going to remove the false data that associated my blog with some adult websites (see Update: Alexa Site Association Data :) . Today I received a response from them regarding my other sites. For continuity purposes here is the original letter I sent to them:
I [...]

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Prada Shoes and Handbags

April 2, 2006

So now that’s springs in the air maybe you’ve decided to update you wardrobe with some new Prada shoes or maybe treat yourself to a new Prada handbag. Well don’t expect the search engines to point you in the direction of Prada.com or PradaParfums.com, because you won’t find anything there. See all the really interesting [...]

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Google Finance: Get Yer’ Game On

March 30, 2006

Unless you were completely asleep or under a very big rock you no doubt heard about the launch of Google Finance. However since I’ve given up on regurgitated news I’d like to talk about ways to use Google finance for fun and profit.

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Update: Alexa Site Association Data

March 27, 2006

After 2 emails threatening legal action, Alexa has removed any and all site associations with this blog (see
Alexa (claim to) know your networks. | Threadwatch.org and Alexa: Now showing other sites owned).

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Graywolf on Googlebase Test

March 25, 2006

Lets see what happens Graywolf.

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There’s No Crying in Black Hat SEO

March 17, 2006

SEO is clearly an emerging industry every day more and more people decide to try their hands at learning techniques to increase their rankings. However many of these newbies give in to the dark side thinking it’s faster, quicker, and easier. However many of these same people end up getting their websites or their clients [...]

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Getting More Out of Article Distribution Websites

March 1, 2006

At this stage of the game syndicating your content with article distribution websites is still a fairly effective strategy for building links. However as engines continue to tighten the grip on duplicate content and become more sophisticated at detecting patterns I think it’s a tactic being addressed by search engine algorithm’s. So here are my [...]

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ASK and Mortgages

February 28, 2006

Seems Barry Diller’s “be evil” quip my not have been that far from the mark, check out the search for [mortgage] over at Ask.com (Google [mortgage] for comparison). Screen shot after the jump.

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