Random babble by Paulh

Following on from ways to get links here are some blackhat nasty ways i have seen people use.

The people who use these techniques wont use them on a domain they can’t afford to lose; some of these techniques may be long dead, and some are illegal in most countries.

1. Hijack domains at the registrar level
2. Refer spam
3. Comment spam anything that allows comments, not just blogs
4. Hack sites and insert hidden links in the html
5. Become a host and cloak links within customer pages
6. XSS injection
7. SQL injection
8. Find exploits in well known scripts
9. Find demo accounts, default passwords, or unpassworded accounts to a CMS
10. Bait and switch
    • Eg. frame/proxy a quality site, get links in the ‘white hat way’, then switch to own money making machine that no one wants to link to

11. Buy domain similar to competitors, frame or proxy competitor site, contact places where competitor has backlinks and tell them to link to new url since you are moving domains for X reasons.
12. Lie – eg. Make out it was you who placed a backlink to a site and request they link to a 3^rd site of yours
13. Redirect domain to high PR site, when PageRank changes start a link exchange frenzy before it disappears
14. Give away scripts with backdoors or hidden links
15. Give away templates with hidden links
16. Join a link exchange program, and cloak the links on your site from search engines
17. Capture abandoned free hosting
18. Capture expired domains

This was going to be 25 nasty ways -  but a few scumbag hacker types had objections.