BlackHat SEO News & Reviews

As “Blackhatters” we all need fresh content for our sites.  Here are some links to find content to “Borrow” as needed:

FreeBase - Creat content from this collection of GPL databases.

Content Rover - Search and find content form multiple paces with this content search engine.

Search Creative Commons - Another search engine aggragator that finds “Free” content, pictures, etc.,  without having to ask permission or pay.

Leave a comment with any others you find.

So here I am talking about Auto Social Poster again. That’s probably because it’s one of the best tools I’ve ever invested in. I really can’t say enough good about this plugin. I absolutely love it. Here’s the review I wrote about it before: Auto Social Poster Review

The skinny of it is, the tool automatically bookmarks wordpress posts to many of the major social bookmarking sites. That means hands off, free automated keyword backlinks and targeted traffic. That’s what every webmaster is desperately trying to get!

So what’s new in version 4.0?

There are several bookmarking sites that have been added to the tool, among them newsvine, dzone, excites, feedmelinks, and shoutwire. The most important addition is license protection. Now ASP will be much more secure from people who obtain pirate copies of the plugin. Without a license, it won’t verify. This alone will deter 90% of the pirates. Others will share licenses or find a way to crack the tool, but it just got more valuable to buyers (which I proudly am and which I implore you to become.)

Auto Social Poster is highly recommended!

Here’s a shot of my BlogRush stats:

Let’s analyze the BlogRush widget, now about one year after its initial release.

Here’s what BlogRush claims:

“a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog.”

This has proven true. I have gotten free traffic and more readers for my blog from BlogRush.

“By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs.”

This is true as well, but since the quality control is tight, your feeds don’t get syndicated across as many blogs as you would hope for. I applied with a few very good white hat blogs that the BlogRush team turned down. In their efforts to control quality for the syndication, they err on the side of refusing too many blogs instead of wasting their members’ credits syndicating on spam blogs.

“Users can automatically refer others to BlogRush via special links on the widget, as well as through the promotion of a special referral URL they are given.”

This is good, since you can build your syndication credits through the roof with a lot of referrals. This is a good alternative to trying to set up a spam blog to build you more credits. Play the game right, just get tons of referrals.

Overall, BlogRush is a good free option to content network advertising. Since it is free, it’s nowhere nearly as sophisticated as Google Adwords or anything like that, but it works and it’s free. It also makes you part of a “club” of respected bloggers since BlogRush’s quality control is so strict.

BlogRush gets an 8/10 from me, since good free tools are hard to find these days.