
Published: Aug 02, 2008 - 01:31 am
Story Found By: Lisadit 4595 Days ago
Category: SEM

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Thanks for the submission Lisa, hopefully people will find this useful from both sides.
Nice read, the black-hats seem to keep coming out with this clever stuff... wonder how many $189 sales are needed to make their time investment back? might keep my eye out for the torrent ;o)
Erm, not a good idea to torrent a black hats app. Sometimes you come off pretty bad, not that Id know :o)Thanks for the bandwidth,Rob
All this just because of the obsession with links.
ChrisLang:The thing is if you are using it for BH perposes then you EXPECT your site to get banned at some point. Churn and burn is the name of the game and this tool will help you to get indexed quickly and a ton of back links in a short period of time.Besides you could use it very conservitively for a steady build up of links.
Automation isnt necessarily BH. Take spam deletion for example, most of us are happy to use a time-saving plugin which will detect and delete this stuff instead of clicking through it manually. I can see how this tool would be useful if you publish marketing articles and want to submit them to 20-30 relevant sites at the same time. Chris is right though, this is a complete re-run of the FFAs/guestbooks/directories story we have already had. If you pick up enough poor quality links your ranking will eventually suffer, so not smart for brand sites. If Earl wants to send me a review copy though, Id be very happy to see how useful it can be for WH/GH sites ;)
@ChrisLang - the problem is that the search engines cant blanket penalize people for having lots of social media links, even if the footprint is clearly identifiable. What would stop a black hat from creating a social media avatar that did nothing but submit YOUR site to every site available?The search engines can discount external links, but they cant penalize a site for having external links. I suspect well see social media links heavily discounted in the future, so the utility of this type of software will diminish. But you cant deny the short term effectiveness of putting out a bunch of social media links. Drop a link on Digg and you get crawled within the hour.
@LtDraperEver since Terry over at TW coined the phrase "Google Bowling" weve known it was possible to sabotage a competitor by means of off-page tactics. Remember when Google changed their webmaster help section from there is "nothing a competitor can do to harm your rankings or have your site removed from our index" to there is "almost nothing". MattCutts admitted in this Forbes article that piling links onto a competitors site to reduce its search rank isnt impossible, but its extremely difficult."So yes, the ability for negative SEO does exist and if anything has become easier as Google tightens the screws. I even read one well known WH/GH blogger suggest that you test out links by pointing them to a competitor, if they drop rank you keep them there, if nothing happens you switch them across to your own site. Its a win either way. Tounge-in-cheek but shows the mindset now, even outside BH circles.
Yep, Nick is spot on. The days of external links not having the ability to adversly affect your rankings in the big G are long gone. I have personally seen more than a few sites get slapped for things such as to many sitewides and/or to many links with the exact same anchor text.
Sounds like a cool tool for black hat SEO but Id never pay money for it.
so the question is do you "digg" it or do you "pligg" it?
Interesting tool, but eventually someone will come up with an idea that makes it obsolete/useless.