Just read this post about how to spot people with fake follower counts on twitter.

Interesting article but as usual the boy scout brigade arent thinking it through.

Its not as easy as they make out, to illustrate that let me show you three graphs from twittercounter then ask you to guess which is faked…

I know these stats because I am in control of all three accounts here (and many more hehe)

OK now 1 of those is real… but its not necessarily the one you think…

Just been pointed out to me that Syndk8 – everyones favourite blackhat SEO forum – and a place I used to spend an awful lot of time and where I still moderate – appear to be bidding on SEO names.

And its not just me, Dave Naylor and Esrun get ads too

But they dont seem to be bidding on people like Earl himself, Perk, Irishwonder, Bompa, Dianne88, TheKaptain, Vsloathe and many of the other high profile members.

I assume that this is another attempt to sell the Autopligg tool (Im not a big fan of that)

If it is its odd they arent after phrases like: -

Link spamming

Odd but made me chuckle – see if you can find anyone else I have missed.

Just noticed this tweet on twitter that seemed a little odd to me.

This tweet appeared saying “We wrote something new today…”
I think this is from the excellent wordpress to twitter plugin but I cant see any mention of them mentioning me on that site?

So I had a poke around and I am confused…

They dont seem to mention me anywhere, I thought perhaps it was a scraper being bold but I cant see that anywhere and if they had I would expect to see something here

So perhaps its just a way of attracting attention on twitter by mentioning sites that may appear in peoples searches in the hope of putting your site in front of peoples eyes.

If it is it seems odd that they would use my site

I miss the old days of creating made for Adsense sites then sitting back and watching the free money roll in. The reason most of us had to slow down from doing that was that Google started banning accounts for very soft reasons and taking all the money back.

But today they opened up a new way for us to get free cash…

Google have announced that they have opened up their Adsense for Domains to normal publishers

And now ill show you what I will be testing so you too can have some free Google cash…

One of the reasons why Google may have banned accounts in the past was that the traffic didnt have any referrer (so Google didnt know where it came from) or it took a spammy path to get to the ad page.

Now Google lets us chumps in their Adsense for domains programme we have some advantages again: -

They expect ‘undeveloped’ sites so we dont have to have anything other than a crappy holding page with reference to the domains subject
We dont have to create crappy MFA style content anymore
Many people reach parked domains through a simple type in method – thats where people type in something like “cheapcarinsurance.com” in the address bar rather than searching for it.
So we can ‘gather’ our traffic from any crappy source (spam spam spam) and then as long as we clean off the referrer we make it look like type in traffic

So heres the plan
Have a look through your domains or buy a new domain like iwantacheapmortgage.com
Put a parking message on the page that includes the line “i want a cheap mortgage”
Add Googles Adsense for Domains code.
Hope their targetting doesnt blow as much as it did
Send traffic from any spam you can through a page that ‘cleans’ it

I would also keep your CTR down to something low for a while as Parked domains will have a really low CTR – we will have to find the level that gets us in trouble..

Let me know how you get on but thanks to Google we are back in the Adsense easy money game..

Honestly if you are a user of Xrumer for forum spamming then please try to use your brain a little.

I am completely ok with the numbers game that is forum spam and that you have to try to throw as much out as cheaply as possible on the knowledge that some will stick however please try at least and do some quality control.

When doing a mass run of link spamming I would suggest that investing the time in checking what has stuck is probably a good idea before you repeat the same run again. If nothing else it tells you whats working and whats not.

Heres a snapshot of my inbox from 10 minutes ago…

Honestly these are all fake Xrumer members looking to spam Affearners. You cant do it.. I dont approve you and even if I do the site is spam tollerant. You cant drop forum profile links, they dont count. You cant drop links in posts as it gets removed automatically by my scripting.

All you are doing is showing me you dont know what your doing