In the previous installment, we discussed how to go about creating a base link profile that leverages the work of your competitors to your own advantage. In this installment, we’ll do the fun, easy, and black hat part. Since we have a list of our pre-existing links as well as the new list of links that we’ve just created, we’ll want to utilize tools like xRumer, AutoPligg, LinkFarmEvolution, and our own Forum Generator to begin blasting links to the sites that link to our sites.
Organize your links blasts by the anchor words you’re using on each second tier page so that we’re using these automated tools to link to the second tier links with the same anchor words as they are using to link to our sites. Utilizing these kinds of tools in this fashion removes one element of danger, mainly the possibility of your link networks being recognized and being directly connected to your own money sites. By diversifying in this manner, you have the ability to spam the hell out of other people’s sites and take advantage of the windfall without worrying about the ranking slap directly.
The beauty of this method is that you can repeat it on a large scale by taking the links you’re generating to link to your own links and then linking to them again (do you have a headache yet?) These sorts of large scale, multi-leveled link bombing efforts are very effective, especially in older, competitive keyword spaces. It is important to remember that the name of the game is “link juice.” The more you can gain over the long run, the better your sites will perform.
Our apologies for the delay.
It is a common belief among Eastern cultures that Western culture has forgotten the basics of “good work.” The idea being that before things get easy, they must be hard. With that said, today we will be doing the “hard” part of growing our link profiles by imitating the link networks of our competitors. From our last installment, we know what keywords we’re looking to rank for, what sites are currently linking to our competitors, and our own link base. We’ll begin by analyzing our competitors links for possible links that we too can leverage.
Since you have a number of different keywords you’re hoping to rank for, when you’re identifying possible link targets, make sure that you’re targeting different keywords than your competitors on those pages. This will ensure that you’re competing in similar but separate keyword spaces on each individual page. Most likely your competitors will be using contextually similar keywords, but you want to avoid competing for the same keywords on the same pages. A little creativity here can go a long way.
WordPress and similar blog comments are a good start. Make sure that when you’re commenting, the content of your comments is on-topic and appears to apply directly to the post that is being commented on. Blog owners are much more savvy than they were even a year ago. You’ll want to utilize the keywords that you’re attempting to rank for in the “name” section of the comments, so that the outward links have the anchor text of the keywords.
If your noticed that social bookmarking comprised a great deal of your competitors’ links, then you’ll want to “parasite” off of them by either commenting on their bookmarks with links to your sites or creating bookmarks for your site on the same bookmarking sites. You may also find that your competitors are using other Web 2.0 properties to link to their sites. In these situations it is easier to imitate them then attempt to parasite.
The reason for the effectiveness of these sorts of link profiles is that the sites targeted by your competitors will change frequently. Rather than be forced to spend your time researching new sites to post on, let your competitors do the hard work for you and leverage their research to your own benefit.
Keep in mind that the deep link can be a powerful ally when you’re linking to your own sites. Avoid linking only to your index page, as this can be quite unnatural. In some cases it makes more sense. For example, when making blog comments, it is best to use your index page, because savvy blog owners may be more wary of URLs to non-index pages.
A very important hint: As you make each comment, you’ll want to make a note in something along the lines of a text file or spreadsheet of the URL’s you’ve posted to. This will make the next step in this process quite easy.
This post is just a reminder that blackhatzen will effectively be shutdown between September 16th and 20th.
During our brief absence, we’d like to leave you all with something special from the past:
After a number of issues with our former digital shopping cart provider, we put together a custom solution and are now offering Forum Generator 1.5.1 to Forum Generator customers. If you are a customer and didn’t receive an email with the download information, please check out this thread in our support forums for more information. If you do not have support forum access, you’ll need to follow the instructions in the forum to sign-up for it.
We’ve also included a download link for an upgrade-only version of Forum Generator 1.5.1 which will allow you to update older installations with ease.
We’re really excited for Fall 2009 here at the brand new blackhatzen office. The last week’s beta launch of the newest version of Forum Generator (1.5b) seems to be getting a great reception. With the help of our customers, we’ve been able to identify a few bugs and optimizations we can make. Expect 1.5.1 in the near future!
We’re also currently in the process of creating a list of possible features for future versions that we will be allowing customers to vote on. We encourage all customers to sign-up to the blackhatzen product support forums so that you can get more involved in our development process.
In other exciting news, we’ll be announcing the launch of a new product we’ve been helping a friend develop later this week. Along with that announcement will come the opportunity to receive a significant pre-launch discount. Stay tuned for more information!
We’d also like to take this opportunity to announce that one of the blackhatzen family is getting married this month! Due to the wedding and associated travel, expect delays in support response between September 16th and September 20th. We’d like to apologize for any inconvenience these delays might cause ahead of time.
Expect to see the conclusion of the link building tutorial in the next week as well. (We swear!)
We hope this blog post finds you as excited about the coming months as we are and would like to thank all of you for making the last 15 months of our lives interesting.
