Net Brains

As I mentioned in a prior post about my early days trying to reverse engineer other seo’s stuff, to learn the tricks or figure out at least some proper building and linking strategies, I stumbled across a way to make it into yahoo’s back door. Yahoo search results weren’t what I was expecting to get either, but was a sort of side-effect of how I built my early pages. For a couple reasons, Yahoo’s bot really loved my stuff.’

For almost 3-4 months, I had reverse engineered some of the top seo’s rankings, I scoured over the first pages of serps and studied, big dick pages, blowjob sites and any other web pages i saw ranking in the top 10. I had wrote down websites I figured were all in the same persons networked, and basically mapped out all the players. It was fairly evident that back then, just a few years ago, that there was only about 4 or 5 major players, and then hundreds of “one offs”, people who ran single sites with deep rich, authoritative pages.

Now although I was getting a real good idea how the networks all worked, I didn’t have link power or page history to work with (wasn’t smart enough then to buy old sites), but I had all the other pieces, I had unique text, relevant links and was utilizing a new thing called blogs to push my content out to the masses through many different means. I actually solidified it one week when I built a bunch of blogspot.com blogs. Using the blogspot domain I added something to my domains and sites I couldn’t make. I added some trusted domain and aged links to the sites. Of course the sites and links were new, BUT they were on an old trusted domain, blogspot.com.

Now doing all them sites on blogspot really bumped things for me in a couple ways. Like I mentioned above, it gave me a trusted domain to push links from, and it also gave me this new neat thing called Atom, or RSS to syndicate the content to users. So after completing a bunch of fresh blogs, I headed out to several sites that were just beginning to offer services that allowed users to monitor and be updated, when an RSS feed was updated. One of those places who first offered this type of service to users was Yahoo.

This is where it all got interesting for me. I was running links and building sites to Trafficcashgold.com sites. Seehersquirt, CastingCouchTeens, Tinysblackadventure and ispycameltoe. And had not only built blogs for each site, but was using the blogs to all point to one major site for each niche, a money site so to speak. So I create these blogs and make my way across the 10 sites or so i found, that let you add RSS feeds, Yahoo was one of them, it was one of MyYahoo’s new features. So i added about 10-12 blogs to myyahoo that night and thought not a whole lot about it. I expected to get spidered by yahoo at worst, and maybe a few clicks somehow.

The next night, about 20-22 hrs later, i started to receive traffic not only to all the blogs i listed the feeds for, but to the sponsor. In less then a day, the blogs had been indexed, and listed in the yahoo search engine. And the listings weren’t 8th or 9th page, they were top 10. It was evident that adding the RSS feed to my yahoo, forced the yahoo spider to visit and cache the page, something that wasn’t so evident was that they gave major weight to any site that was added then, almost classifying all RSS Feeds as news sources, and listed them in the serps as such.

I had found a backdoor into the yahoo search index, and it led right to the first pages of results. The week following is when i quit my long time job/career in construction, and pursued my online earnings. Things were very weak still back then. It was still hit and miss with some results in yahoo, and they were very quick to fix the backdoor, and stop giving such massive weight to feeds, after all, it wasn’t just news sites and press sources using them anymore. But the 300-400$ a week i pulled from them for a few months was more then enough to convince me i shouldn’t be working outside, freezing my balls off for 20$ an hour.

Well its been a fairly long road, and finding the road seemed to be the hardest part. In November of 2003, and the several years before that, I was working on various job sites throughout Northern Ontario Canada. Now being on a job site is work itself, but being on a job site in Northern Canada in November is painful just due to the weather, -20 Degree mornings, icy street and tools, etc, the northern environment is very unforgiving and some of the most dangerous and tough job sites in the world.

It was one of those cold icy mornings, that i made a solid commitment to developing an income source, that didn’t require me to leave the house at 5-6 AM everyday, to go slave in the winter weather. I had been looking at websites and how they generate their traffic. I had been studying which traffic sources had historically created the most revenues, which sources turned clickers were buyers. It was pretty evident even at that low level, that the best converting and most targeted traffic you could hunt out was good old Search Engine traffic.

Now of course, reading about how to get ranked in the search engines and actually doing it, are 2 very different things. There is literally so many different factors that are brought in and have weight in the ranking, that’s its almost impossible to put a site into the top 10 for any searches. There was a few guys who i kept noticing in the serps, a few guys who held search terms for massive searches like blowjobs, big dicks, and porn. And it seemed to be the same 3-4 guys/companies, held all the top results.

This is where I had been spending the last 5- 6 months, reverse engineering my future competitors websites, and results, hunting down through web page after web page, exactly what they had been doing. Checking how their pages were constructed, following back links to sources, monitoring the Page Rank from incoming links and measuring how much each link effected the target site. All those things, plus dozens more factors I never mentioned. And after months of research and attempts, I started to see some of my web pages, getting listed high in the yahoo and google search engines, I was actually making a few dollars off them.

The significant thing in these early days for me was the Yahoo search engine. I had stumbled across a back door into the yahoo search results. At the time the only was to get included was to have some solid links from indexed pages, and wait your time for yahoo to add and then rank you, OR you could pay 600$ for a paid inclusion. Well back in the day, 02-03, RSS was a new thing, and even blogs were less popular then now, although i could see that they were the webs future.

So on one of them cold November mornings, I awoke and noticed that i had made 140$ since I went to bed about 7 hrs earlier. Supposedly adding my rss feeds off my 5-6 sites to yahoo the morning before had launched the said blogs to top 3 for a handful of terms, and it had happened overnight. So without links, without submission and without any real effort, i had found a way to send my new pages up to the money ranks.

I drove to work that morning and DID NOT bring my tools or pouch, and had quit my job by 7:00 that morning. The rest is basically history, quitting my job and returning home to spend all my time on websites, I focused on exploiting yahoos rss feeds (myyahoo) and getting as many of my pages listed in the serps their.

Learning that back door into yahoo sealed my deal on my career, it changed everything in my life, and introduced me to some of the Seo’s businesses most influential and powerful people. Learning that back door sealed my fate.