Journal: Sk4rlet doesn't know WTF she's doing

sk4rlet

sk4rlet

Commencing.
Oct 10, 2013
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I've decided to copy Marzzz and others and share on WF about my network building nonsense in the newbie section as I go. I personally hate reading or hearing about other peoples' life stories when I'm sober (life is hard, no shit), so I'll get right to it:

Paid tools:
Majestic
Ahrefs (check maj's work)
GScraper (support sucks holy shit. but wow so fast)
Scrapebox
Custom scraper (will report on that later)

May dump scraping for dead domains for auctioning. Juries out on that (waiting for a friend that's good at it to get back to me). I'm sticking to building the networks on expiring/expired domains, either way. My niche seriously doesn't have too many options sadly so this is by far the best bet I think. Either way things are moving super fast so even if I made the wrong decision as far as a marketing plan, it'll have been worth it to acquire the knowledge.

What I've done so far:
I've picked up 20 domains in the 20-30 cf/tf range (~30-100 referring c class ip domains) with super clean link profiles. I know those stats aren't as good as what most here go for, but I'm unable to identify domains that are better so for the sake of not wasting time I'm using these. Some of the domains came from the AOL leak that I cleaned up--but totally cannot even come close to going through, feel free--and some came from webalizer and awstats log dumps. Despite scraping G with GSc nearly 24/7 I still haven't found almost anything worthwhile. I'm definitely outgunned by seemingly the entirety of Japan, China, and Russia. And I'm footprint-retarded and have no creativity.

I paid someone on fiverr 5$ to make me an excel doc that basically takes a random value from each column and puts it in sheet 2. Each column is like: registrars, dns, hosts, software, and like 17 other things that Google could ever possibly hope to create a footprint from. Naturally I can just randomize this shit in my head but I want an actual button so someone I delegate it to doesn't have to use their brain (at $3/hr that's probably more likely to hurt me than help me).

5/20 domains are up and fully functioning. 4 of those are getting indexed by G fast. I bought two bad domains for testing and unfortunately the 5th is one of those, and it's not indexing. I'm going to put WMT on it later through a VPN'd gmail and see if I can request to put my mouth on someone's penis over there. :love-smiley-083:

Found out earlier today that one of the domains also had a blogspot to go along with it that I was able to grab and it had more links than the domain. Super!! I also remade the guy's email and got his twitter account (his FB was on something else sadly). The guy died from cancer but not very publicly so I'm still contemplating if I want to email his friends and try to get more done without this backfiring and/or going to hell. Usually I can make expedient decisions but this one isn't easy, thus I'll probably just pass and save time.

I realized archive.org will disallow others from searching for content if you use robots.txt so I bought a couple domains that had almost no links but a ton of kickass content that's not indexed so I could block others from taking it. Threw about 200 totally unique articles from that into a word doc and threw that into evernote for later. Problem is G obviously has that content in it's DB, I just don't know if they'll care if I spread it over a bunch of domains 9 years later lol... all this footprint shit I'm worrying about and I get whacked for some fucking content I ripped. Ehhhhhhhh. Maybe I'll just rewrite it all or pay someone on fiverr to.

Current standing:
+ 5/20 domains up and running, 4 indexed.
+ 200 articles for later use (that may not be usable)
+ 0$

Over the next few days I plan on finishing up the remaining sites and disallowing myself from any domaining (shit is addicting, it's like Diablo 2). I have all the nameservers pointed, just have to setup the hosts, a little software, rip/write content, setup social accounts, and a few other things on my build list. I need to spend at least a few days finding footprints for finding dead web 2.0s as well... I have a laptop sitting here doing jack shit but since I'm clearly not cool enough to come up with footprints for discovering good dead domains, I can at least do it for web 2.0s (I think anyway, however my stupid levels as of late are spiking. Thank god I don't stream this shit - if anyone saw me use excel I'd have to change my name and move).

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For a gal, you are quite a badass...I am visualizing you with black lipstick and nail polish.

Hope you did your keyword research right...no point in going after tough keywords when starting. But as you can easily rank for easier keywords, that's a confidence booster.

Good luck.
 
Are you setting up this network so that you can point it to a single money site? or are you trying to rank each individually, like a type of adsense farm?
 
metalshark said:
Are you setting up this network so that you can point it to a single money site? or are you trying to rank each individually, like a type of adsense farm?
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Single money site. It's going against advice of many people better than me-- it seems to be a consensus that getting caught is inevitable so just churn. No body does this full time though, they all consult on the side, or they've never really tried, or blah blah blah. Does it work or doesn't it? If it works why are you all consulting instead of scaling? Do you like working for clients?????????

Just have to do it and find out. Not disrespecting said people, they do know more than I do, but I also think everybody's very jaded. Subjectivity and sample size are also screwing with perceptions. Maybe I'm optimistic because I haven't been fucked in the ass by Google 1000 times. Back to sentence 1.

I forced myself to sit out for a couple days but short update...

* 5th domain got indexed. (Ship it.)
* Setup Twitter/FB for 1 domain
* Bought likes for said domain's T/FB
* Ripped/rewrote/scheduled content for about a week out for said domain
* Added a few things only medium/large companies have (I'll cover it next post)
* Re-organizing my build in Excel to include social and outsourcing of content (not because I'm going to do that now, I just want to keep iterating for future)
* Decided every single domain will be on a unique host. Even 2 links from 2 sites on the same IP is a dead giveaway (think about how often that happens naturally? never) and won't work long-term.

Paranoid schiz time

* Dumping chrome for safari
* Never searching sites in any SE without using vpn/rotating ips on dsl
* Each site will have it's own VM with a random browser so hashes/super cookies/[insert something] some crazy programmer invented doesn't own me

I'm already caught just from the last two if they make use of the data. If they're smart they won't come down until they get more too, so at this point my results could all be for not. Either way this is just a test network.
 
So you do have your money site developed pretty, err, thoroughly correct? Reason I'm asking is because this seems like quite a bit of work and it would be a shame if all of this was pointed to something shallow.
 
kill yourself. none of what you just typed makes any sense.

sk4rlet said:
Single money site. It's going against advice of many people better than me-- it seems to be a consensus that getting caught is inevitable so just churn. No body does this full time though, they all consult on the side, or they've never really tried, or blah blah blah. Does it work or doesn't it? If it works why are you all consulting instead of scaling? Do you like working for clients?????????

Just have to do it and find out. Not disrespecting said people, they do know more than I do, but I also think everybody's very jaded. Subjectivity and sample size are also screwing with perceptions. Maybe I'm optimistic because I haven't been fucked in the ass by Google 1000 times. Back to sentence 1.

I forced myself to sit out for a couple days but short update...

* 5th domain got indexed. (Ship it.)
* Setup Twitter/FB for 1 domain
* Bought likes for said domain's T/FB
* Ripped/rewrote/scheduled content for about a week out for said domain
* Added a few things only medium/large companies have (I'll cover it next post)
* Re-organizing my build in Excel to include social and outsourcing of content (not because I'm going to do that now, I just want to keep iterating for future)
* Decided every single domain will be on a unique host. Even 2 links from 2 sites on the same IP is a dead giveaway (think about how often that happens naturally? never) and won't work long-term.

Paranoid schiz time

* Dumping chrome for safari
* Never searching sites in any SE without using vpn/rotating ips on dsl
* Each site will have it's own VM with a random browser so hashes/super cookies/[insert something] some crazy programmer invented doesn't own me

I'm already caught just from the last two if they make use of the data. If they're smart they won't come down until they get more too, so at this point my results could all be for not. Either way this is just a test network.
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A word of advice. You're being paranoid about things you don't understand. Like most people who talk about global warming.

I'd try to focus on doing positive stuff with obvious paybacks. Stuff that you can see and measure getting a return, rather than buying a lot of insurance for something that may or may not happen.

It's not that your paranoia is totally outrageous, but if you cover your tracks and don't make any money, was it worth all that effort to cover your tracks?

Make some money. Get something ranked and earning. Then you can worry about being paranoid, although I'd still advise you to avoid thinking that way because it is a scarcity rather than an abundance mentality.

hth
 
guerilla said:
You're being paranoid about things you don't understand.
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It seems logical that G would try to tie individuals to websites just as they tie websites to other websites.

Would really appreciate clarification on what I don't understand. Thank ya. :thumbsup:
 
for all we know you're an extremely fast worker and have the potential to don the biggest hat known to SEO. If you're OK with the extra steps and they aren't taking up much of your time, then what's to lose. You could end up with something that will having you stacking cash for years.

Go for it!

p.s. is it too soon to ask for a spoon pic?
 
AdamC said:
If you're OK with the extra steps and they aren't taking up much of your time, then what's to lose.
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That's sort of why I wanted him to clarify-- if it's a legitimate concern about time, it really isn't more than a few clicks to do what I'm talking about (I droned on about it a little much, I'll admit). I have to do this a lot for that other stupid site I posted about.

AdamC said:
p.s. is it too soon to ask for a spoon pic?
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sk4rlet said:
It seems logical that G would try to tie individuals to websites just as they tie websites to other websites.

Would really appreciate clarification on what I don't understand. Thank ya. :thumbsup:
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Google is an uncaring sort of god to worship.

That is to say, they give much less of a fuck about you than you'd like to think, and while it's true that they certainly have the resources to foil private network builders from Brooklyn on any given day, the webspam team is actually a very small part of the mountainview apparatus, and they are mostly concerned with what they consider to be big "nasty" networks like SAPE.

Take G's advice, you'll get more done and be happier for it.
 
sk4rlet said:
It seems logical that G would try to tie individuals to websites just as they tie websites to other websites.
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When you leave the house, do you always being an umbrella? First Aid kit? Spare tire? A picnic lunch? Cash? etc?

You could. Everywhere you go, you could roll up in your survival van, and you'd be prepared for all sorts of possible outcomes.

But you don't, because it's crazy, a pain in the ass, and expensive.

Google probably knows all sorts of things about you, but unless you believe there is some sort of sentient AI running webspam (CuttsBot2000) then you are saying that out of the 10s if not 100s of thousands of people doing slightly shady SEO, some person @ Google is actually going to pay attention to you, I doubt it.

Get some stuff ranked. Make some money. Even $100. Get income coming in. Revenue solves all sorts of other problems.

Two mistakes I see new people in SEO make, is that they (1) try to scale before they know what they are doing (building networks before they have a single #1 ranking for a term with any competition) and (2) they get paranoid about Google, buy into a lot of the absolute nonsense bandied about on this forum, other forums, skype etc.

My point is, cut out the middlemen of "over preparedness" and "paranoia" and just get to the point where you make some money. Even if it is a modest amount.

You'll learn more by achieving something than you will preparing for a disaster which may never come.

hth
 
AdamC said:
for all we know you're an extremely fast worker and have the potential to don the biggest hat known to SEO. If you're OK with the extra steps and they aren't taking up much of your time, then what's to lose. You could end up with something that will having you stacking cash for years.

Go for it!
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This is the worst form of vapid answer that dominates this forum.

I realize you're just trying to creep on this poor person but seriously fuck off in the Newbie section with this bullshit. Give these folks some real help, or stay in STS.
 
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I wasn't trying to seem like I have delusions of grandeur or that what I'm doing now is worth more than 5 pennies, it just seemed like the right thing to prepare for.

Very glad to see you gents think G is less skynetish than I presumed.

And duly noted regarding time allocation @guerilla.
 
As you progress in IM, and maybe life at large, opportunity costs (trading off choices for how you use your time) becomes a bigger deal.

It's not money that's hard to make, it's time that is impossible to get back.
 
Just adding that I didn't flake out, I just haven't had anything to say.

All the sites are up. Some have a lot of unique content, some don't. Anything I say beyond that will most likely be incorrect and as a result completely unhelpful and pointless, so I'll shut my mouth and just wait to see what happens. I'll be providing full results once all the links are added.
 
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