Re: Hypothetical Question: What is the best way to link a splog farm?
Asked by analyticmatt

Question:
Obviously this question is for educational purposes only .

If one were to create a splog (spam blog) farm to promote a certain set of niche keywords for a website what would the best linking structure be between those splogs.

With the criteria of getting the most link juice to your money page but maintaining a level of anonymity for each blog so that if one gets burned then not all will be eqally burned.

Diagrams of good linking structures would be apreciated.

My Article:
Ok. So. Interlinking splogs is actually a pretty debated topic nowadays within some blackhat communities. It's a tricky balance. If you interlink all your splogs, one of them getting nailed can result in the downfall of the entire network of splogs; dying with them is all of your money sites.
So there's a few different approaches have emerged.
Eli of Bluehat SEO has talked about creating essentially a pyramid of interlinking sites(I believe he allowed people to read between lines, not sure if he actually mentioned splogs). The concept is that you create a base of sites at the bottom, promote them in sketchy ways, then link those to a smaller number of splogs, one level up on the pyramid. Those, in turn, all link to another tier at the top, which can effectively funnel all of the link juice from the previous lower levels.
This however, can be spotted in some situations, and lead to the demise of the entire network.

Now, if you want to dodge that, you have to use some pretty shady techniques. AKA massive amounts of forum registrations, where the "URL" in the profile is yours. To speed the indexing of these, you can make a link-less comment(generic), and allow Google to follow your profile link back to your profile, and then to your splogs. Obviously, you're insane if you do this by hand.

Another method that has a large amount of short-term success, is the blog-and-ping strategy. Rapidly post and ping. Like 5-10(or some say more) per day, each time pinging a variety of services. You can actually get indexed like that, but if they detect abuse, prepare to get banned. However, by combining it with the next method, you can blog/ping less, and still obtain link-powa.

The last method[that I'm going to share haha] is a necessary supplement to any of these, but perhaps the most artful. The elusive spam trackback. That's right; all of those annoying little trackbacks akismet catches. The trick is to formulate content that would make the blog owner believe it's possible a real vouch from a real writer. Targetting is essential. The other trick behind this, is ensuring akismet and other anti-spam plugins won't catch you. Multiple IPs, proxies, and other nefarious utilities are needed for this. But it's ultimately what supports a splog.

Always remember to keep them as disconnected as possible. Different C-Class IPs, Varying domains/tlds, obviously varying content.

Glad to be of help.
-XMCP of SlightlyShady SEO