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I received some response from yesterday’s posts. I know it’s a topic that might confront some people. Today’s posts will be about some Black Hat SEO techniques.

Am I encouraging you to use it?

No. I’m posting this to give you more knowledge about Blog SEO and how to avoid being banned. If you want to use them, use it at your own risk.

So, sit straight and get ready to be amazed by how Black Hat SEO has evolved!

1. Doorway Pages

These webpages are generated by software automatically. Doorway pages are not for visitors to read but for search engine bots. If your website have lots of pages, it means that you have lots of content. Google and other search engines will rank your site higher and mark your site as an authority site.

Where does all these content came from?

Obviously not written by the owner nor the software. The software will go to the world wide web to syndicate content and post in on their site. Sometimes, the owner got to do this by themselves manually.

“Hey! I heard Google penalize or don’t index duplicated contents.”

Yup! Black Hat SEOer and not stupid too. After they syndicate those content, they’ll turn some of the texts into different text. They’ll also add few sentences randomly picked by the software. They turn those content into contents that look original.

2. Hidden Text

You still remember keyword stuffing right? It is a method that is trying to boost the keyword density of a webpage with the keywords the SEOer try to rank for. They will keep the keyword density to below 6%.

But how they hide it?

They hide it with special html codes that are used for special purposes. These codes are ‘comment tags’ and ‘no script’ code. Human can’t see those keywords but the search engine bots can. They will take those text as keywords of the page.

Of course there’s a technique in stuffing keywords. Don’t try to repeat all the keywords in a sentence. Separate them in different blocks all over the page.

3. Blog Farm

The next few Black Hat SEO Techniques will all be link-building cheats.

So, have you heard of blog farm?

Blog farm is basically a very huge group of blogs. When I mean huge, I mean more than 10,000 blogs. These blogs are not under the same domain name the SEOer plan to rank for.

He or she will buy 10 or more domain names with different name and host them on host which is registered under different name too. This technique is very important not to use the same name because you don’t want search engine to catch all your blogs and ban them forever.

Next, you’ll use a software to generate hundreds of sub-domain name and install blogs on them. Next, syndicate contents from the internet and post one or few times everyday.

Lastly, the software will automatically create 20 or more blog posts that link to their main site everyday. It is important for their blogs to link to other sites as well to make all the blogs look natural. The software will also randomize the publishing time of each blog because it is very obvious when 10,000 blogs update their content at the same time with similar contents.

With blog farms, the Black Hat SEOer could easily get 20 or hundreds of links without doing anything.

Is that genius or what?

4. Comment Spamming

As long as you are a blogger, you can’t avoid comment spamming on your blog. However, the spammed comment that can easily be filtered by Akismet is the one I’m talking about.

Akismet is basically a wordpress plugin that can filter comments that looks like spamming. What about those comments doesn’t look like spamming at all?

I used to receive lots of comments that are from a similar I.P. Address. All of these comments have no links within the comment. It is a simple “Thank You”, “I found your blog very interesting…” or “I used to hate your blog because…”. These comments have different name too.

I get to realize they are spams when I see the same sentence repeating in all my blogs. This is how the commenting software works:

The software will quickly go on the internet and search for blogs that have similar topic with their website. They’ll go to the latest posts and give a comment that looks like it is from a human visitor. These comments are pre-written by the SEOer and randomly picked (or picked with a system) by the software. The software probably have 10 or more of such comments.

You might heard of “Dofollow” and “Nofollow” blogs. You’ve probably learned it from my blog. A comment on dofollow blog will count as a backlink. But you’ll realize that nofollow blogs are also targets by the software.

The reason the SEOer do this is to make all his backlinks look natural. If all his links are dofollow links, the search engines will suspect him too. The software will help him to get natural links that will not be suspect by Google or most bloggers.

Another smart move?

5. Proxy Server

I’m not very sure of how this works since I haven’t use it. The SEOer will use a software to register many accounts with social bookmarking sites and bookmark his or her own site.

There are basically hundreds of social bookmarking sites on the internet. If they create 10 or more accounts on each of those sites and bookmark their own sites, they will build thousands of nofollow and dofollow links.

This move won’t get caught easily because they use different proxy servers to register those accounts. When they register through proxies, their I.P. Address will look different. It looks like visitors from different countries are registering for the service.

“How about ‘captcha’ images? To register an account with social bookmarking sites, I’m sure they need to go through the captcha image that anti-spams.”

That’s true! Black Hat SEOer are not stupid too. They already cracked many of the captcha codes and register their accounts quietly and smoothly.

Did you learn something new here?

I told you that these techniques are amazing and shocking! Hope you enjoyed reading and don’t use them. Google has improved their algorithm many times and their bots are very human nowadays. As long as a Black Hat SEO technique is used by more people, the big G will realize it.

If you still choose to use, use it at your own risk.

Tomorrow, I’m going to post something about Grey Hat SEO (since someone brought this up). It’s a very grey area that most SEO experts couldn’t easily classify them into Black or White.



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