Black Hat SEO Money Making Techniques Part 2: The Myth of Duplicate Content
Tuesday
May 26, 2009
I know there are a lot of SEO Experts out there, but the reality is this: What kind of Super Computer does Google have that they can check for duplicate content on each and every website on the web? I mean, that is millions of websites right? The reality is: They can’t.
What does this mean? You might say: I have been hit by the duplicate content bug and my sites have received the Google SLAP. Why in the world would you say that you can use duplicate content?
Let’s use Autoblogging as an example. I use Autoblogged all the time to run websites on autopilot. Autoblogged uses RSS Feeds to Auto Post to my Wordpress Blogs. These blogs are all very successful. Isn’t the content from RSS Feeds duplicate content? Yes. So how can I possibly get this to benefit me with SEO?
I guess the best way to show you is by showing you an article I wrote a few weeks ago. It was posted on May 6, 2009. It usually only takes Google a few days to maybe 2 weeks to crush a duplicate content site right? Wrong.
Here is the article: SENuke Revisited: One SEO Tool, One Bookmarker, One Answer
I won’t even use my personal sites as an example. Let’s look at a few of the sites which are Auto blogging the content from my site. Today is May 26, 2009. Here are the Google Search results for the article listed above using the keywords: senuke revisted.
Click here for the Google Search Results: senuke revisited
What you will see is that while my site’s article is listed first, there are 2 other sites listed within the first 4 results which have the identical article listed in the Search results. Not only are they identical, but when they first were published, they were listed above my search result and I wrote the article. In normal SEO terms, this seems impossible doesn’t it? No? This might seem reasonable in the first few days after it was published, but not almost 1 month later. How are these sites defying Google’s duplicate content policy?
Easy. They are using every other SEO Optimization tool to ensure that when the GoogleBot (Google’s Search Spider) comes to their site, it is focused on four main things: The Title Tag, The Description Meta Tags, and H1/ H2 Title Tags on the site. Plus, they all use Image Alt Tags.
You are probably saying: Everyone doing SEO uses this same stuff; What is different? The difference is how the Meta Tags are built. Here is Braincell.ro:
<title>SENuke Revisited: One SEO Tool, One Bookmarker, One Answer | braincell.ro – Information HQ</title>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Information HQ” />
<meta name=”description” content=”Information HQ” />
The tags here are telling Google that this is an Information site. You can also tell Google you are a News site. The Spider then knows that you are consolidating information. Here is the key however; you must also include a link back to the source article. This appears as a “trackback”, thus giving the originating source credit for the article. Yes, this will generally only work with Blogs, but can be used with static sites using RSS PHP Tools which are available for using both Trackbacks and RSS Feeds on static sites. But it doesn’t matter because the duplicate content penalty is largely a myth. It is how you use duplicate content that makes the difference.
So how do you benefit from this technique? As I said in an earlier Post about Autoblogging, you need to have a lot of Content on your site. Google loves sites with a lot of content. In fact, site’s with a lot of content will out gun sites with a lot of Backlinks. Wikipedia is a perfect example of this. If you have a lot of content, you can use this content and the website traffic it brings in to monetize your site with Affiliate Programs and Google Adsense. I like to use both since Adsense isn’t as profitable as it once was.
If you are looking to use content from Article Directories or PLR Articles which have been used a lot, this technique does not apply. You have to use site’s which do not have their RSS Feeds populated all over the web. Right now, my RSS Feed has a little over 100 subscribers with only 5-6 using the Feed for Auto blogging. This makes a differeence. If a site has 100,000 subscribers and 1000 are autoblogging, then you will not do well. You have to find small niche sites to use for your Auto Blog, not mainstream sites. Also, if you are building up one of your main sites with content, you can use Articles from Article Directories and PLR articles, but you must use an original paragraph that you wrote before the PLR or Article Directory article, so that the Spiders see that first as opposed to the recycled article. Write a paragraph that details why you are publishing the recycled article on your site. Provide an introduction to the article in other words. By doing this, you can use all of the duplicate content you want.
Try this technique and let me know in the Comments section here how you made out. This works. I am doing it every single day. There are a few tools which make this technique foolproof on top of using a tool like AutoBlogged.
Check these out:
Here are a few Resources for adding RSS Feeds to Static HTML or PHP sites:
RSS to HTML Converter - Great resource. Especially if you already have CARP.
RSS Content Builder - A great way to easily add any RSS Feed content to your static site.
RSS Ground - This is a membership site ($19.98 per month). RSS Ground provides you with a full time RSS Agregator which pulls content from over 50 online sources based on your keyword input. You choose the source. Plus, you can pull video and other multimedia feeds as well. Clickbank, Amazon, and Ebay Affiliate Feeds are also availaible for your use. Each can be modified for your requirements through advanced settings. RSS Widgets can then be added to any website based on whatever you want. Great resource!
Blog Slammer - Much like Autoblogged, Blog Slammer will auto post RSS Feeds to your blog. However, Blog Slammer will actually help you build an entire Blog Farm. Help make Non-Duplicate RSS Feed posts and help add Google Adsense and other items to your Blog. It doesn’t have the scope of tools that AutoBlogged has, but it is a damn good tool for what it does. Especially if you want to create and manage a large number of Auto Blogs.
If you want to create an RSS Feed from any site that you have that currently does not have one and you want to use your content like a blog, read the article here: 7 Tools to Create an RSS Feed on Any Website
Now, if you are looking for tools which help you Auto Blog without using RSS specifically and add a lot more dynamics to your Wordpress Blog, you can Auto Blog with the following tools by themselves and bring in an immense amount of traffic and cash.
WP Video Tube - Easily auto post You Tube videos to your Wordpress Blog with this awesome Wordpress Plugin. You can pick 3 keywords or even pick videos by author and then set it and forget it. It also has a “humanize” function which posts haphazardly to make the posts appear natural and random.
WP Answers - This Wordpress Plugin is by the same author as WP Video Tube and it is a great companion to any Auto Blogging effort. This plugin will automatically post Topics and the associated comments from Yahoo Answers topics based on your keyword input. You get the Topic post (which is your Blog Post) and then all the “Answers” become your Comments. The Comments get randomized to make them appear like new content to Google.
Using these 2 Plugins in conjunction with Autoblogged or Blog Slammer can put any number of Blogs on Autopilot.
You can also create an unlimited number of Wordpress Blog setups with: Wordpress Auto Installer & the Wordpress Cloner.
Note: There are a lot of tools listed here, but the bottom line is that once you put together a Wordpress installation with these tools, you can set it on Auto and watch it bring in Adsense and Affiliate profits.
One More Tool….
I just happened to be surfing the Warrior Forum today when I stumbled upon a Warrior Special Offer (WSO) that offered an Auto Blogging software which auto blogs using article from ArticleBase. I thought this would be an awesome companion product to Autoblogged, WP Answers, and WP Video Tube. It would litterally create an unbeatable Auto Blog Solution. It is called: Automatic Blog
The Warrior Forum WSO had a great offer on the this product. It was originally being offered for $27, but now it is up to $47. You can get it for $67 on the main site linked above. You can access the WSO here: Automatic Blog WSO
The WSO thread has so many Positive user reviews that I jumped and purchased it right away, so you can expect a review here in the near future. I am currently working on 2 projects which show how to optimize a blog for profit with the first product and then create Back Door cash from it with the second product.
Stay Tuned.
Create Multiple Automatic Profit Streams with AutoBlogged
Thursday
May 21, 2009
As many of us look for easy ways to make money without using a lot of effort, AutoBlogged provides an answer for a seriously low price. I have several reasons why this Wordpress Plugin is the current best option.
First; let’s take a look at what AutoBlogged does. AutoBlogged is a Wordpress Plugin which allows you to point RSS Feeds at categories in your Wordpress Blog and have the RSS Feed manipulated into a Blog Post. Yes, it is an auto blog poster, but it is an auto blog poster that is also an RSS Feed agregator. AutoBlogged will take any number of different RSS sources and turn them into usable Wordpress posts.
Here are a few of the ways you can use RSS Sources with it:
Configure multiple RSS feed sources with the ability to enable or disable individual feeds. Support for RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom 0.3 and 1.0 feeds. Integrated feed caching, HTTP Conditional GET support, and support for GZIP-compression to improve performance and reduce bandwidth usage. Support for dozens of RSS modules including Dublin Core, GeoRSS, ITunes, Media RSS, RSS 1.0 Content, W3C WGS84 Basic GEO, XML 1.0, and XHTML 1.0. Numerous pre-defined searches to locate articles via Google Blog Search, Technorati, Blogdigger, Blogpulse, MSN Spaces, Yahoo! News, Flickr, YouTube, and others.
When you find the RSS source that you want to use, you can then choose from many options which allow you to select the category associated with the RSS Feed and how many articles to post from the feed and what parameters to use when selecting the post. Plus, you then decide how often you want this RSS Feed to post to your Wordpress Blog.
So you are probably thinking; ok, this is great, but how can I make money from this? Easy. You use one of the many other Wordpress Advertising Plugins to fill your blog categories with ads which match the category. Keyword matching. Maximize your niche by including affiliate links in the posts themselves. Inline ads from OIOPublisher or keyword ads which automatically use links in the articles are great for this.
Now you ask: Won’t my site be hit by the duplicate content monster. Yes and no. You need to bill your site as an information source. A news hub or something along those lines and you need to put that in your site description. For example:
The Marketing Resource Index is the most comprehensive collection of Internet Marketing information on the web. We consolidate information from over 20 Internet Marketing sources to make this Internet Marketing’s only true Information hub.
Google and other search engines look for keywords like this. A scraper website which uses this same methodology and has many high ranking pages in Google is: braincell.ro I hate the site because they scrape content from this site and actually rank for articles I have here higher than what I do sometimes. It is a crime, but who I am I complain considering my site’s focus here.
The bottom line is that Autoblogged is just plain effective and the most well constructed Wordpress Auto Blog Plugin of it’s kind. Once you set your Wordpress Blog and add in your advertising streams, these Blogs become truly set and forget Profit Machines. Try it and you will see. This Plugin pays for itself fast.
WPReviewEngine Review: Create a Wordpress Affiliate Review Site
Monday
May 18, 2009
There are alot of Affiliate Review sites built with Wordpress, but there are not a lot of Wordpress Review Plugins built specifically for Wordpress which actually work well. Well, that is no longer true. WPReviewEngine is a new, but highly effective Wordpress Affiliate Review Site Plugin.
What sets WPReviewEngine apart from the competition?
The feature list is simple, but it is more about the execution than anything. Sometimes pictures show you better than anything. Here is what you can do with WPReviewEngine:

Out of the box (so to speak), WPReviewEngine breaks down into 3 Wordpress Plugins. A CSV Plugin for Mass Importing of reviews, an Affiliate Link Cloaker, and Review Engine (the heart and Soul of the Program). The first 2 I didn’t really bother with as I already have a good link cloaker and tracker, but the Review Engine is worth it’s weight in Gold.
You can use your own Wordpress Themes, or you can use one of the two themes included with the Plugin. The picture show above is based on one of the included themes. When you use their themes you do not have to select the “embed” option because the code is already written into the themes.
You can easily add Reviews and choose to either Rate the Posts/ Products/ Services yourself, or you can choose to let the visitors to your site Rate the items and leave their Comments. If you rate the posts, the Rating will always stay the same. You can choose to show the Rating Table which shows the current order of the Rated items from #1 to whatever. If you let your visitors ratings decide the order, the items can and will change their order in the Ratings Table based on the results. I like this as it begs for return visits. (You do not have to show the Ratings Table if you do not want to.)
If you already have a site filled with Reviews, you can setup your Rating Criteria (you can set an unlimited number of Rating Criteria) and Mass Apply it to every Post. You then only have to input your “Editor” Ratings if you are using your Ratings, or you can let it sit and wait for visitor input.
Most of your options are built right into the Add New Post area of Wordpress which makes this very convenient and easy to use. I created a cPanel Hosting Review site in about 15 minutes: The cPanel Host (still adding reviews).
I initially had some issues with the activation.php file which comes with the program, but within 2 hours, Customer Support had me taken care of. I was pleasantly surprised.
Overall, this is one of the most feature rich Wordpress Review Plugins I have had the chance to use. I like the fact that they provide excellent themes with the Plugin, but you don’t have to use them. I can’t think of an easier way to make Wordpress Affiliate Review sites fast.
For more information on the WPReviewEngine, click here: WPReviewEngine
Exit Fantasos JV Manager 2, Enter Delavo: FREE May17, 2009
Monday
May 11, 2009
If you read this Blog on a regular basis, then you know I am not one for pushing a lot of Marketing hype. On May 17, 2009 however, everyone should be hyped. If you have ever wanted to centralize your entire online marketing business with a product delivery/ membership/ complete affiliate solution, then on May 17, 2009 you should be ready because John Delavaro is releasing his next generation Internet Marketing platform that day and giving it away for FREE.
Let me explain.
John Delavaro is one of Internet Marketing’s Big Guns. He has dominiated with his Turbo Membership empire for the last couple of years and has done it with the single best Internet Marketing Membership and Product delivery suite on the market. It was originally called JV Manager, progressed to his monster platform called Fantasos (or JV Manager II). Now he is releasing Delavo.
If you have read my article on what I consider to be the 3 Top Membership site software products on the web, then you will know that the only reason I said that Fantasos was not my number #1 pick was because of it’s cost and because it was a “hosted” solution. This kept it out of reach for a lot of new internet marketers. Plus, with a hosted solution, you didn’t have any independence from John’s business. You had to stay with him. I didn’t like putting all my eggs in someone else’s basket.
That has all changed.
John has listened to the market and is now releasing what is expected to be the next generation in Internet Marketing software. It will allow you to centralize your business and affiliate programs, regardless of what server your websites are on. It will give you every option imaginable from shopping carts, to single sales page sites, to complex memberships, to a complete payment and affiliate solution for your business which will allow you to run your business from one single software script. John is touting this as the only solution anyone will need. based on what Fantasos could do, I believe him.
So how much is it going to cost? Well, here’s the deal. For one week and one week only, John is giving this new Internet Marketing Platform away for Free. Yes Free. Absolutely Free. What’s the catch?
The only catch is that you have to sign up in advance here: Delavarian Marketing
When you get to the site, it will have a video to watch. I watched two of the videos and I can tell you that they made almost no sense to me whatsoever. The important thing is to click on the sign up link, submit your information, and then confirm by clicking on the link in the email you receive. After you confirm, you will receive an email outlining that you are now eligible to receive 1 Free License of Delavo.
Here is what I received in my email:
By just being a subscriber to this list you are entitled
to 1 free license of DELAVOtm – John’s new turbo platform,
based on Fantasos(R) core machine.You will receive the instructions on how to get this bonus
through May 17 to May 24.
After this event, John’s website says that Delavo will only then be offered through his Turbo Membership site. Even if you are just a tad bit curious, you should sign up. As I said before, I am not one for a lot of hype, but this is beyond hype. This is a must do for any Internet Marketer.
If you are wondering why all the text in this post is crossed out, I have several striking reasons that will definitely enlighten you.
First: After receving the email that was for my free copy of Delavo. (It didn’t say that it was for Delavo. It was an email from the Use-Sell.com website that is the hub for all of John Delavaro’s business. The email just had a link to the Updates page for JVManager 2.) Well, the email link didn’t work. I contacted Customer Support and was told my link would work eventually. Once the link did work, I read through a very confusing system that finally led me to my download of Delavo. Now, be advised that before you can register your license for Delavo, you have to pick a top level domain and you cannot switch your installation of Delavo from this Domain unless you pay a $47 domain change fee. Nice huh?
Now, if that wasn’t enough, the user forum for Delavo was just shut down yesterday (May 31,2009). It seems that Free and limited information given to Free users was too much for John Delavaro and his associates. They didn’t like that people were using the Forum to share information about Delavo. I know; it shocked me too. People sharing information in a forum dedicated to a product. Nonetheless, John Delavaro shut down the forum, so now Free users will have to rely on another forum (like the WarriorForum) to help each other.
Here is the real kicker. After getting Delavo and installing it, I found that it is indeed the base installation. If you want to use it for your business, it is ready to go. If you want any special functionality; you are gonna have to pay for it. I just received an email telling me how I can pay a nifty $997 to revert my Delavo install back to the last (and what appears to be final) version of Fantasos (JV Manager 2). Fantasos 1.18.
If you were looking for a true Freebie here, well then I guess we were all snookered. I believed it too. I was wrong. All the Free Release of Delavo was for was to get you to install it, see the huge potential, and then get you to pay the large fees which the Plugins will cost you to add increased functionality. That being said. Delavo is a high quality product. But if you want to add special features to your products like One Time Offers and other neat Marketing tools, you will have to pay for the Plugins. If you are happy with Delavo the way it is, which is a fine product, then you will not have any problems. Except maybe support.
I also tried the Turbo Membership and I have to say that I was extremely unhappy with it. I will be writing a review here about it in a day or so, but the bottom line is this: They took away some of the features like hosting and the Autoresponder account and increased the price from $97 to $147. I don’t see where this membership is even close to being worth $147. Most of the products you get to resell are just plain junk or rehashed PLR products. My opinion. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I’ll let you be the judge.
You can Still Sign up here if you think it’s worth it: Delavarian Marketing
BlackHatSoftware.net Hits 75,000 Alexa Ranking and It Shows
Wednesday
May 6, 2009
It is great to see that this very unassuming blog here at BlackHatSoftware.net has gone below the 75,000 Alexa Ranking mark. I am shooting for an Alexa Ranking below 50,000, but so far, so good.
I can tell the site is doing well because the content here is being scraped and leeched by every Black Hat pirate you can shake a stick at. I have had a good taste of my own medicine, that’s for sure. Enjoy the content, because with my content you get a little surprise with every nugget. I have incorporated a backlinking strategy which allows me to benefit from leachers by increasing backlinks to my posts with every page that is stolen. Not a new idea, but a good one.
Now that the site is creeping up in the Rankings, the number of comments to the posts here should hopefully increase as well. Enjoy!
SENuke Revisited: One SEO Tool, One Bookmarker, One Answer
Wednesday
May 6, 2009
I have been using SENuke since it was first released and if you are like me you have seen it change and add features over the last 6 months which have really made it a cut above the rest as far as using Web 2.0 to maximize Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Traffic Building.
I have now switched from using all other SEO Tools (except Boomarking Demon) to only using SENuke for my website SEO tasks. I do still use the Unique Article Wizard Article Marketing service for my article marketing efforts, but this is supplemented by using my articles from this service with SENuke. I am doing this less now because SENuke has incorporated an automated Article Spinner with their membership.
SENuke has now added a few top tier Web 2.0 properties to the software; making my promotion efforts go a lot farther. They have added Blog.com, Xanga, and a few others which are all PR6-PR8 web properties. Plus, SENuke has now announced that they are completely rewriting their software from the ground up to make it faster and more functional with an slew of additional features to be added in the new release.
If you haven’t used SENuke, then you should at least try the Free 7 Day Trial and you will see how easy it is to auto create memberships at over 100 Web 2.0 sites for Bookmarking, Blogging (article marketing), and Video Marketing. You can use the built in article Spinner or the Spinner service to create multiple unique copies of one article and then automatically pump those articles out to the top tier sites on the web like EzineArticles, GoArticles, Zimbio, and many, many more. You can submit your RSS Feeds to the top tier RSS Feed syndication sites and you can submit every site and sub site page to over 30 of the top tier Social Bookmarking sites. It is really a one stop shop for all of your SEO efforts to include submission of your videos to the top tier video marketing sites. All of this is automated and easy to use with a “Blueprint” included to show you SEnuke’s best practices for success.
The conclusion here is that right now, there is not a better single source product for SEO and traffic Buling on the web. If you can find one that is better, please post a comment here and I will be happy to review it.
For more information on SENuke, go here: SENuke

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