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Finding Abandoned Blogs

This is an old technique and tougher to use than it once was...But I'll post it as it may create some ideas. It may work for some of the social networks, etc.

The goal is to find abandoned third party pages, blogs and profiles that already have backlinks and  PR and see you you can't take control of them.

1. Visit a blog host or social network provider

2. Figure out the syntax they use for their URLs...Is it a subdomain?

3. Create a "404 error" by typing in a URL that obviously doesn't exist, using a "username" that doesn't likely exist. Refer to #2 to figure out where the User name is located in the URL.

4. Go to google and do a Search in this format;

intitle:somethingfromtitle site:bloghost.com "text copied from error page"

5. Look to see if any old blogs or other resources now display a 404 error or deleted message and are still indexed by google

6. Go back to the free resource host and see if you can create an account with that user name.

Assuming you can find some accounts that work, you may be able to pick up resources that already have PR and inbound links, and is already indexed in Google.

If everything works well and the blog provider frees usernames after the account is deleted, you should be able to register a blog that already has pagerank, backlinks and has already been indexed by Google.

Below is an example for Blogger...But I don't think Blogger (Google) let's you register using used user names, as they did before.  I just posted these to give you an example of how to find these abandoned resources on other sites:

Blogger
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+requested+URL+was+not+found+on+this+server%22+site:blogspot.com+intitle:%22Blogger:+404%22&num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&hs=qHq&filter=0

Here's an example using Blogster...Again, I don't think this still works for Blogster, either.

Blogster
http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:Blogster.com+%22The+blog+or+page+you+tried+to+reach+does+not+exist%22&num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

Note: These searches will find abandoned blogs on each service...The problem is, I don't think Google will let you register and take over these blogs any more. Again, I just posted these as examples you can try on other resources.

However, I'll bet there still some resources out there that this can exploit.