Last Friday’s WP Guardian launch was well received and had an overwhelmingly positive response. We’re very happy so far and have taken some of the initial feedback of customers and started work on the first set of add-on plugins for WP Guardian. They will be priced very fairly and run between $5-15. They will require WP Guardian to function.
The first two add-ons that will be released will be:
- Referrer Control – This add-on will be used to blank and cloak referrers from advertisements. We’re going to make it as easy-to-use as possible and its functionality will be built directly into WP Guardian’s admin interface.
- Registered Users Only – This add-on will allow blog owners to force their visitors to sign-up as WP users to receive access to posts.
Our plan is to release these add-ons as soon as they are finished. We are also planning a release of WP Guardian 1.1 which will include some optimizations and a new feature currently being voted on by current WP Guardian customers. If you’re a customer, definitely join the support forums and get involved in the vote!
Last but not least, FG customers should expect a Forum Generator update by the end of next week. We’ve made a few optimizations and fixed a few bugs that effect some users. The update announcement will be made to the mailing list, forum, as well as posted here on our blog.
As always, if you have any questions, post them as comments here or click that little Questions tab on the left-hand side of your screen.
A few months ago, we fell in love with the new WordPress API and decided that we wanted to put together our first commercial plugin. We worked on it with a good friend of ours and right before we were supposed to launch, we ran into issue after issue and decided to delay. The wait is over and we’re proud to announce that we’ll be launching WordPress Guardian later today.
WordPress Guardian is an inexpensive, powerful “code breaker“-style plugin for WordPress (2.8+) that gives blog owners the capability to easily monetize their content by combining the tools that make the new web work with the simplicity of WordPress.
This simple-to-use, but powerful tool offers:
- Simple ad customization
- 2-click Ad-to-post assignment
- Thoughtless ad rotation
- Geographical targeting on an ad-to-ad basis
- Control ad’s distance from top of browser window
- Color wheel control for overlay color
- Control overlay opacity
- Control delay before unlock
- Optional right click locking
- Optional scrollbar locking
- Custom “teaser” ad delays
- Control how long users have access to blog
- Allows ads on the index, pages (about, etc), categories, & searches
- Ads work on almost all modern (and not-so modern) browsers
- Doesn’t negatively effect SEO
- Works with new and old blogs alike
Whether you’re looking to monetize auto-blogs you started yesterday or breathe new life into well-indexed blogs you started years ago, WordPress Guardian is the right plugin for the job.
Act now and opt-in for the launch announcement to receive an exclusive discount!
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.
