Beating Wikipedia, MSN, Etc. ARRGGHH!!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Flamerid, Nov 11, 2007.

  1. Flamerid

    Flamerid Active Member

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    #21
    This is sort of a dirt technique, but..

    what if you link to the wiki article from a bunch of black listed and warez sites?

    :p
     
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  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #22
    Wouldn't do much at all but be a waste of time, Wiki has to link back to feel the negative wieght or everyone would do this to competitors in SERPs.
     
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    #23
    Essence of truth here. Restricted sites wouldn't work, but red flagged sites would. Some day, if you have a site you don't care about, search google for "viagra guestbook" (w/o quotes), and post your link to a few dozen. Watch yourself run backwards through the rankings. I know in theory, and technically, it shouldn't be like that, but in reality, it is. I know it first hand.
     
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #24
    It does not work this way, if that was the case you would be able to attack your competitors quite easily.

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356
     
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    #25
    I'm well aware of that page. But I've also sat at the computer with that page open, then right next to that page, my ranking page.
    Remember, I'm a blackhat, so link spam is an acceptable method here. I've ran this test with 4 different domains, similar content, clean history, only 1 or 2 inlinks. All sites on the same topic, ranking within 2 of eachother.
    List 1: Guestbooks/Message Boards, the full list. Approximately 180k entries.
    List 2: Message Boards only, any PR below 1 eliminated. Eliminating the spammed out ones+guestbooks. Approximately 100k-120k entries.
    When list 1 was sent it resulted in a drop of 130 for one site, and another site going clear off the top 1000.
    When list 2 was sent, it results in an increase of 110, and 150. The one that increased 150 was frontpaged.

    I'm struggling to find a reason for that, but really, all that happened was that the super spammy pages were eliminated. That was the only difference, and why I've come to believe in red-flagged pages.
     
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    #26
    Hey we could always stuff some affilate cookies onto Wilki!!!!
     
    Valley, Nov 12, 2007 IP