March 2008
The Archives
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03.27.08Taking Content Generation to the Next LevelI just read two blog articles echoing the same sentiment. One by Mark on Digerati, and one by SlightlyShady. These two articles both highlighted the most obvious epiphany one could glean from the Google Spam Docs: The algorithm cannot be perfect. Google needs a huge team to catch the spam that fools the algo. They need humans. And as SlightlyShady wrote "Humans are easy to fool.". There are many aspects of a website that might indicate it is spam: design & layout, imagery, links (and linking patterns), site architecture, age, TLD, and of course, content. Content is probably the greatest stumbling ...
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03.26.08Using Twitter to Collect Email AddressesWant to collect peoples email's using Twitter? Why not? COLLECT GMAIL ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT HOTMAIL ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT LIVE ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT YAHOO ADDRESS TWEETS Ok, I promise I'll stop posting about twitter topics...soon....soon.... Until then, if you are a sucker for punishment, you can always follow me on Twitter UPDATE: This loophole in the twitter/tweetscan system has been fixed. See ladies and gents? Disclosure DOES work. I just know some of the more righteous among you are shaking your head and thinking that Im destroying good exploits by blogging about them. To which I say: ...
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03.11.08Amplify your blog farm with Twitter and TwitterfeedOK, let's continue on in the same vein and talk a bit more about Twitter. Specifically, let's talk about using Twitter to amplify your Blog, or (better yet) your blog farm. If you're using a tool like Datapresser, then you already have a healthy blog farm that is autoposting content and links for you. Let's say we've got 100 new pages of content going up everyday, and everything is running smoothly. Of course, we're always interested in ways to get easy links to our new content, aren't we? Well, using Twitter and Twitterfeed.com, we can automatically get a twitter ...
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03.05.08Exploiting Twitter for backlinksAs most of you know by now, I <3 Twitter. I use my main twitter account for legitmate purposes, but I've also been tinkering with ways you can exploit twitter for your own gain. You see, Twitter is easy to automate because their API is so easy to use. There are TONS of different sites and services out there that leverage twitter, republish tweets and so on. A good example is twemes.com. Twemes aggregates tweets that employ the same phrases preceded by hashtags - also known as an Octothorpe, thanks Luc :) - for example, right now a ...
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