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#4, RE: IM Automation
Posted by Kurt on Sep-15-10 at 11:04 PM
In response to message #3
LAST EDITED ON Sep-16-10 AT 01:56 PM (PST)
 


Misc. Automation Tips

For link building and account creation, there's two basic strategies:
Deep or wide.

Deep - Creating a bunch of stuff with the same footprint, such as making 100 Twitter accounts.

The automation for "deep" is pretty easy. You can use Ghost Control to make a Twitter account creator in about a minute. You can even add proxies if you want to spend another 1/2 to figure it out.

The problem is when you try to create a lot of accounts at the same site, like Twitter. In this case you'll also need a lot of email accounts of the type that you can also automate email verification link clicking.

Wide - This is creating one account a multiple sites, such as social bookmarking sites. You only need one email address, but each site is a little different so automating it becomes harder.

Deep and Wide - This would be making 100 accounts at different sites that all use VBulletin.

In this case, you only need one email address AND automation is pretty easy, at least account creation is.

But...I have a theory. If you and I can use Scrapebox to find fingerprints we can use to get links, I'll bet a coke that Google can too.

I'm not saying 1000 profile links all from VB forums is bad. I'm just GUESSING that 1000 links all with a common fingerprint will have less value than 1000 links that don't share any common fingerprints.

This is discussed in something called "Hilltop", which I've talked about for years and years and I finally saw it mentioned, although not by name.

Hilltop is a concept Google is known to be very fond of, and it's the relationship of links or "affiliation". It means if Google can tell if pages are owned by the same person when one page links to another page, that link won't count as much as a "non-affiliated" link.

Makes sense. And the concept of Hilltop is actually fairly well known with the most hard core SEOers.

I believe "affiliation" could also mean "footprints". If all your links come from pages that say "powered by wordpress" and "leave a comment", your links may not have the same value as they would if they didn't share common text stings that should be well-known to Google.

If you agree, what you need to do then is to go "wide", but still go just a little deep.

For example, get some footprint links to pages that are similar. Create an account while using Ghost Control to record your action.

Open up a bunch of similar pages in different tabs and run Ghost Control (speed it up in the macro editor).

But instead of doing 100's or more, just do about 20. Don't worry about the ones that don't work, just make sure some work and keep using Ghost Control.

After you've done about 20, find a different footprint and repeat and repeat.

This gives you unique "footprint footprints" and I think you'll see a real benefit from the engines doing this.

More to come...