If you haven’t heard of Drip Feed Blasts (DFB), well then thank your lucky stars that you read my dang blawg. This is one of those tools that a handful of SEO’s are using the dickens out of, but most are hoping to keep quiet so that it doesn’t get adopted by the bumbling retards of the SEO world and subsequently become worthless. Since we all know only the elite read my blog, and the folks from places like Warrior Forum think this place is immoral and far too realistic, it is of course safe for me to promote DFB here.

Those of you who hang out at Wickedfire (the true WF) know about Guerilla. When he’s not schooling people in political/economic debates, he drops golden nuggets of wisdom. He is one of the people behind this awesome new service. If you are growing impatient, you may check out the DFB sales thread on WF…but only if you promise to come back here and read the rest of my post.

What it Does

Ever heard of Xrumer? Of course you have. You already know that it is a somewhat pricey link spamming utility, famous for leaving buttloads of pharmacy type links (not exclusively, of course) on forums all over the internet. Some traditional white-hat SEOs (read: bitch niggaz) frown on this software because they believe it is a one-way ticket to Google purgatory. You already know how I feel about link blasting.

The trouble with Xrumer is that the learning curve is a bit high. Another problem is that, well, you have to use it yourself. F-that, right? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a service where you could just enter your URLs with varying anchor text and schedule it to run daily? Dang…that sure would be nice. But where the shit are you supposed to find such a utopianistic service?

Tha’ts right, DFB. What a smarty pants you are. The DFB interface is about as easy to use as it possibly could be, and it allows you to blast 500, 1000, or 2000 links per day (depending on your subscription level). Pricing is $49/mo, $67/mo, and $99/mo, respectively. Anyone who has ever paid for a single Xrumer blast already knows what a ridiculous value that is. You can create different blasts to run on different days, and you can combine blasts to run together. You can mix and match URLs and anchor text to your heart’s content. I haven’t seen a truly valuable link building service like this available in a very long time. Get it.

Support
Phenomenal. There is a forum where the creators of DFB not only respond to questions, but also contribute valuable SEO tips and strategies.

Pinging
DFB does currently include their own in-house pinging service, but it is still being worked on and isn’t yet 100% functional. In the future I hear there are plans to release a custom pinging solution within DFB from the creator of MegaPinger.

What is this MegaPinger You Speak of?
It is exactly what it sounds like. If you need to ping a ton of URLs, you need MegaPinger. It has proxy support, unlimited URL support, and can support up to 500 threads at once. That’s a lot of support.

Wait Why do I Need to Ping my URLs?
Whether you are building lots of backlinks with DFB, manually, or with some other automated system, it is a very good practice to ping the URLs that contain your backlinks in order to get them indexed efficiently. MegaPinger is by far the best and most cost effective way to do this. Currently you can get a lifetime license for only $27.

This is pretty much as white hat as it gets. Or at least as white hat as I get, in any case. It is also incredibly effective. I’ve been implementing this technique for a few weeks now and the results have been phenomenal.

You can’t beat relevant, authority links. You just can’t. Especially if they’re do-follow/one-way links. Of course, reciprocal ones aren’t so bad either. So, what’s the best way to get them? Well, you could of course simply email the webmasters of sites that you’d like to have a link on and ask. In some cases, this will work. It usually helps to be polite, throw in some flattery about their site, and maybe offer a link back in exchange. But, depending on the niche, you’re going to have varying degrees of success. Despite your advanced charm, some emails will still be dismissed. I’m going to teach you a simple method to drastically improve the success of good old fashion link-panhandling.

What You Need
Aside from a computer, the Internet, and your incredible powers of persuasion, you will need to install this Firefox plugin.

What You Do
Step A: Find a juicy site or blog in your niche with high PR and tons of inbound links. Ideally something ranking for a keyword you’re trying to dominate (or maintain). Do they have a links page? Perhaps a blogroll? If yes, proceed to step B.

Step B: Navigate that mouse of yours to your Tools menu in Firefox and select “Check Page Links”. This will activate that new plugin you installed. You will see the progress at the bottom. If there are lots of links on the page, it may take a couple minutes. Go roll a cigarette or perhaps get briefly involved in political debate on Wickedfire. When you come back, you will notice all the links on the page have been highlighted. Proceed to step C.

Step C: Look for red and yellow highlighted links. These links are the problematic ones. Most webmasters don’t have time to check their blogroll often and are usually linking to a few dead sites. Every now and then the plugin will mistakenly mark a working site as a problem site, so in the name of being thorough, we’re going to manually check these. Open up a notepad document so you can catalog the URLs that are broken. Make a list. Proceed to Step D.

Step D: Find the email contact for the site. Create a new email. Proceed to Step E.

Step E: Now it’s time to sweet talk the pants off these bitches. Let them know that you are so-and-so from yourspammyasssite.com. Tell them you were browsing their links and happened to notice the following links are bad: badlink1.com, badlink2.com, badlink3.com, etc. Casually mention that Google tends to frown upon dead or broken links, and it can often hurt your search engine rankings when you are linking to resources that don’t exist. After all of this, mention that if they feel that your site is relevant, you would appreciate it if they would consider linking to you.

I Dunno Dude, This Sounds Like Too Much Work
How dare you. First of all, Rome wasn’t built out of hay, okay? When you shoot out a handful of these emails, you’ll see how well it works. Every single person that has responded thus far has agreed to give me a link. One-way links. One site even gave me a paid spot for free, out of gratitude (for six months). Of course, not everyone has responded. In all likelihood, some emails are probably never even read. That’s just the nature of the game. But it is still very effective and very much worth it.

And if that doesn’t convince you, I’ll have you know that within the past couple weeks I have moved onto the first page (not quite #1, but getting there) for a keyword I had been targeting for a long time. A highly competitive keyword that gets 90,500 searches/mo, according to Google (yes, exact match). I attribute this sudden success to the links I’ve acquired in this short period of time.

You want that SEO money? Hmmm? Do you!? Wanna sit around all day playing video games and drinking Mtn Dew while your sites keep making you money? Well you gotta do the leg work first. Stop reading my whack ass blog and go try this. You may send me gift baskets later if you’d like.

A Dark Twist
Sorry. Thought I was done blabbing. Not the case. It just occurred to me that you might be able to dirty up this method. I don’t really like advocating squeaky clean white-hat SEO methods because they make me feel like a square. So I’m just going to throw this out there.

Let’s say you have a site outranking you for a particular keyword. One of the first things I do in this situation is figure out who is linking to them. You can do this easily by using Yahoo! Site Explorer. Now, for the sake of this example, let’s say you determine that ABCsite.com is linking to your competitor, XYZsite.com, in their blogroll. This would work best with a site with a lot of links. You would use the method detailed above, everything the same way. Find the broken links on ABCsite.com, and contact the webmaster with a humble request to have your site included. Only difference is, in this case you would casually interject your competitor site, XYZsite.com, into your list of broken sites, after listing 3 or four legitimately broken/dead sites.

The idea is to trick the webmaster at ABCsite.com to not only add a link to your site, but remove the link to your competitor’s site, after you’ve convinced them that it’s a dead link. Perhaps after the webmaster sees that the first two or three links in your list are in fact dead, they will assume the rest of your list is accurate. How devious. What’s the worst that could happen? If the webmaster notices the link is in fact still good, he/she will most likely just assume it was a temporary outage or a simple error.

There. Now I feel off-white again.

First of all, if you haven’t already, you need to read this post, which was the inspiration and the foundation for this method I still currently use to build links. And I’m not the only one doing it.

Trouble was, after I read that article, I was left feeling sort of confused still. How do I take a womens shoes site (or something like that!) and turn it into a piece of useful software? Well, one answer is in the title of this post, now isn’t it!?

Screensavers are usually in either one of two formats: .exe or .src. If you don’t already have the software to compile screensavers, you might want to “buy” some. I’m currently using a program called “Screensaver Factory 5 Enterprise”. If you already have some images, you can literally build and compile a simple slideshow screensaver in about 30 seconds. In the womens shoe site scenario, I would probably put together a nice little slideshow featuring the most sought after womens shoes. By default, the program adds little fancy transitions and what not. Not that they really matter too much. If you really want to get maximum benefit, you might want to watermark your images with your URL (yes, people actually download these things).

Distribution
Now, you’ve got your screensaver. It is time to distribute it. Just about every software download site has a submission area. At this point, if you’ve never authored/distributed software before, you might be thinking about outsourcing this part. Well, that’s not entirely necessary, thanks to a little something called a PAD file.

What the Shit is a PAD File?
I’m glad you asked! PAD stands for “portable application description”. Basically, a PAD file is an xml file that exists on your server (or wherever) that contains all the necessary information about your software such as size, version, links to download and more. The idea is that instead of having to manually make updates all the time when things change with software (like updates), you simply update one PAD file and the sites offering the software usually poll their PAD files regularly for changes. Now, the beauty of using the PAD file is that most of these software sites that accept submissions will ONLY ask for a link to your PAD file because it already contains all the information they need. This means your time spent on each site is quite minimal.

I Can Haz PAD File?
Yes, you can. I use a simple utility called PadGen that you can download here to create my PAD files. Keep in mind that not all fields are necessary so don’t spend all afternoon on it. Just get the important ones covered. Some sites do have requirements about what information needs to be contained in a PAD file before it is accepted for inclusion or review.

Hopefully I don’t need to tell you that you need to include your URL to the site/page you’re promoting in your PAD file.

How ‘Bout Some Sites?
Of course. I live to please you. I’m going to give you some master list of software sites that will accept your useless ladies shoe screensavers, but I will give you a few. They really aren’t hard to find, and there are tons of them. And of course many of them just scrape data from the other ones so there are plenty of links to be had, here. There are also distribution services in the business of charging you for distributing your software, but I don’t think they’re necessary for this sort of task. Now, about them sites…

1. Softpedia.com
2. Windows7Download.com
3. FreeDownloadManager.org
4. DailySofts.com
5. PCWin.com
6. FileBoost.net
7. FreeWareTown.com
8. Files54.com
9. A ton more…get your Google on

Alrighty. Have fun. Please don’t take my method (which is obviously just an interpretation of Eli’s Method) and run it into the ground. Thank you.

That’s right, I’m about to post something useful. Hold on to your off-white hat.

In our never ending quest to build links, posting comments on relevant (or even irrelevant) blogs with a link to your site is still a powerful tool. However, how many times have you stumbled upon a great post that is just BEGGING for your comment, only to discover that comments are strictly moderated? Or worse, they’re moderated AND the blog hasn’t been updated in forever, indicating that it may have been abandoned by the owner altogether?

Don’t give up. There is still hope.

When someone goes to leave a comment on a WordPress blog, they are presented with four fields:

• -Name (Required)
• -E-mail (Required, not visible to anyone other than site admin)
• -URL (Optional)
• -(Comment)

If the site owner has elected to hold comments in moderation (many do), your comment will not appear immediately after submitting it. It will be held in the moderation queue. Unless, of course, you have had a previously approved comment and you use the same email that you used the first time. Raise your hand if you see where I’m going with this.

The Strategy

…Is simple. Check out the existing comments on the article. Find one with a hyperlinked name. Follow that link to that person’s site, and look for a contact email. Once you’ve found it, return to the article and use the same info to leave another comment. You are now impersonating someone with a previously approved comment. The comment field should allow you to use html. Go ahead and leave your link with whatever dang anchor text you want in there.

As you might have guessed, this will not work 100% of the time. The main reason being you have no way of knowing what email was actually used to leave the comment. However, in all likelihood, the person that left that previously approved comment used the same email that they display on their website. This method also of course depends on the fact that the site owner has a publicly displayed email address.

And now the FAQ…

What if I Can’t Find Their Email?

Move on. Find another comment leaver. Depending on how much you want that link, you may or may not want to spend 20 minutes trying to find one that works.

Is This Unethical?

Sort of, but  it’s not that bad. Actually I think it perfectly reflects the theme and intent of this site.

Will it Work with Other CMS’s besides WordPress?

Do I look like an internet scientist to you?

Will this Post Upset the Natural Balance of the WordPress Universe and Destroy the Internet?

Yes.

Will this Shady Shit Work Even on This Site?

Probably, dick!

When I’m on a quest to manually build relevant links, there are a couple tricks I employ. One such trick is what I call the “recent comments” trick. Oooooooh, fancy.

Let’s say I need to build some relevant links for my marbles site. My bad ass marbles site. Obviously, I want to drop as many links as possible in as little time as possible. Doing it manually ensures that the vast majority will stick, but it can also be slow as molasses.

So, what I do is execute a quick google search for “marbles” “recent comments”. Note that each keyword is in its own quotes yet in the same query.

Basically what you’re looking for are blogs with a sidebar widget that displays the most recent comments, along with links back to the author’s site (if any). If the blog has 400 pages of unique content, and those little crawlers just happen to come by while your link is there (good chance they will), then you get a butt-load of backlinks.

Be aware that not every page with the text “recent comments” is going to have what you’re looking for. Fairly often you’ll come across something like “recent comments from marble enthusiast Dwight Fiddlerbachen suggest…” bla bla bla. Similarly, people using this method may very well end up on this site due to the title of this article. Sorry, guys.

If you’d like to narrow it down even further and only look for do-follow blogs, then that’s another story. But, as far as I’m concerned, I’d much rather have 400 no-follow backlinks with proper anchor text than one crummy do-follow backlink.

I hold “no follow” in a similar regard as the alleged 1969 moon landing.

Oh, and if you’re looking for a decent piece of software to aid you in the manual link building process, check out Fast Blog Finder.

Peace be with you.

Alright, here is my first contribution as an expert super affiliate guru genius overlord.

Everyone knows that when you try to link to something from a MySpace page, it gets redirected to some bullshit warning pop-up that says something like “Are you sure you want to click that fucking link? Do you really know what you’re doing, dumbass!?”

And on top of all that, user created links on MySpace are no-followed. Or so you thought…

Check out a MySpace music page. As an example, we’ll use Dr. Dre (talking affiliate marketing gets me feelin’ gangsta). Take a look on the left under “Dr. Dre General Info”. Next to “Band Website”, you’ll see a link to “dre2001.com/“. Now peep the page source (with FireFox, that would be right-click–>view page source). Then how about a little Ctrl-F action to search through the code? Search for the URL, dre2001.com, and see for yourself that there is absolutely no “nofollow” attribute to be found within the link.

The beauty of MySpace Music pages is that they are easy as shit to boost in terms of PR. All you need to do is befriend super popular MySpacers (like bands and celebrities) and leave them a few comments. Of course, there is plenty of software at your disposal to automate your MySpacing.

Before you know it, you’ll have a PR3 (or more) link to whatever site you want. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a music related site, but that may be more beneficial to you.

And that concludes the first GEM excretion from OffWhiteHat.com. Click here to sign up for a MySpace Music page. No, you don’t actually need to upload any of your grunge garage band’s demos from the mid 90s.