Paul posted 18 nasty ways to get backlinks.
Some of them are just plain funny, and I noticed he missed a few of the more recent techniques that have been ‘outed’, but it’s defiinately worth the read:
Also, he has compiled a massive list of the more ‘vanilla’ ways to gain some backlinks, so check that post on his website assertica.co.uk
18 Nasty Ways to Get Backlinks
- Hijack domains at the registrar level
- Refer spam
- Comment spam anything that allows comments, not just blogs
- Hack sites and insert hidden links in the html
- Become a host and cloak links within customer pages
- XSS injection
- SQL injection
- Find exploits in well known scripts
- Find demo accounts, default passwords, or unpassworded accounts to a CMS
- Bait and switch
- Eg. frame/proxy a quality site, get links in the ‘white hat way’, then switch to own money making machine that no one wants to link to
- Buy domain similar to competitors, frame or proxy competitor site, contact places where competitor has backlinks and tell them to link to new url since you are moving domains for X reasons.
- Lie – eg. Make out it was you who placed a backlink to a site and request they link to a 3rd site of yours
- Redirect domain to high PR site, when PageRank changes start a link exchange frenzy before it disappears
- Give away scripts with backdoors or hidden links
- Give away templates with hidden links
- Join a link exchange program, and cloak the links on your site from search engines
- Capture abandoned free hosting
- Capture expired domains
If I were to throw one out to the list, I’d also suggest creating wordpress themes and putting something like this in the footer:
<?$bots=array('googlebot', 'yahoo', 'live', 'msn');$y=0; for($i=0; $i<sizeof ($bots); $i++) if(strstr(strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]), strtolower($bots[$i]))) $y=1;if($y){ include('your_links_file.html'); }?>
Try something like gathering some wordpress themes into ‘theme packs’ with this code in the footer of each, and then redistributing it for free.
By the way, I just saw that piece of code on a funny blog post, called Search Engine Marketeers are the Next Script Kiddies.
Interesting tips. I know PR just got updated and some major sites took major hits, with their PR dropping. I saw mine go up, even though I've never really attempted any major backlink building.
Do you think this techniques would pass muster with the G-rankers? Or does it not even matter?
I dont really know how to answer your question wtih a straight face, since Im feeling very contentious when it comes to the SE's and their kleptocratic practices………….
All I can say is, if you choose to live in fear of Google, that's your perogative.
I don't choose to live in fear of Google or any such entity. It was simply a question. No offense intended.
Nice list of hacks
this is just wrong, but cool
This is an awesome list of tricks, especially the code to only display footer links to SEs, never thought of that but it seems so obvious!
Is there is a way to add this to the index.php file of a wp template but have the links display in the footer without placing any code in the footer.php file? I reckon its likely to be stripped out when placed in the footer file but ppl tend to fuck about less with the rest of wp templates
Quick question,
Say you find an exploit where you can inject html via a $_GET statement on a PR4 domain. Would it hold any value getting the exploited url indexed and gaining a back link?
Can see a screenshot here: http://www.talkingrhino.com/2008/09/url-exploit-carry-any-seo-value/
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Lmao at the hacking one. I’ve seen someone do it to a PR6 site. The link was there for around 6 months before the guy bragged on a black hat forum and someone grassed him up.
Ha Ha. That is a classic.
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Thanks for getting secret backlinks.
thanks for the direction