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If you have been looking for blackhat tools now is a good time to shop for some of the best tools available in this industry. I have negotiated a special discount for my blog readers with nobody other than the great Fantomaster, the maker of the best cloaking tools out there. Generally speaking, for those who might not be aware of it he has a lot of tools but he is most famous for his cloaking technolodies.

Cloaking, strictly speaking, is not a 100% blackhat technology. There are many totally legitimate reasons why people cloak their sites. Add IP delivery into the mix and you get a great technology allowing you to target your site visitors better, depending, for example, on their location. But cloaking or IP delivery done incorrectly can do a lot of harm.

The key to successful use of cloaking technologies is the correct information. Fantomaster surely has it - their spiderSpy™ botBase is updated every 6 hours - can you imagine the resources and server capacities it would take YOU to match their base?

So here’s the deal: surely Fantomaster’s tools are expensive, but all you have to do is enter this exclusive promo code:

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- in the “promo code” field on the purchase form and you will get a 10% discount on any tools on their site.

Go get it while the offer lasts and see how it will save you a lot of headache.

Thanks for sending me your comment spam with your site map - saved me an extra step looking for it and the keyword selection is really high quality, looks like you manually filtered it to exclude all the meaningless scraped keywords. Great job. I was just considering generating a MySpace related site or 100 as I have an affiliate program to monetize them properly.

However, there is one thing that makes me wonder - I don’t suppose $99.95 for the Basic membership at iDisk, even less so $179.95 for .Mac Family Pac - so it must have been the free 60-day trial. The part that worries me is “60-day”. You put all this effort in spamming your links only to lose your parasite hosted site in 60 days? Hmmm… All parasite hosting is surely a gamble, it may or may not last, but KNOWING exactly that you would lose it in 60 days? Did that PR9 tempt you so much?

Those who know me also know how much I like all the comment spam I am getting on this and other blogs of mine Really folks, could I wish for more than free research delivered straight into my moderation queue? You just gotta figure out how to use it, make a few steps to implement it - and you’re set. If something is being spammed there is money in it to be made.

Sometimes the spam I get is weird, sometimes it is funny. Sometimes I can’t help laughing at the broken tools the spammers are using (e.g. the one that splits their keyword list into single separate meaningless keywords and spams that - just one of the recent curiosities I came across). Sometimes, however, my comment spam really makes me wonder.

I’ve been getting “tramadol dog” spam for ages now - and it always made me wonder if that’s just uncanny scraped keywords that have never been filtered from complete nonsense or if it’s a legitimate keyword for those pharma guys. Today my curiosity took over and I decided to do a quick check.

The Google search for “tramadol for dog” has revealed that this infact is not a made up keyword. In the top 10 results, I have noticed some vet sites, some .edu sites - and I don’t mean spammed by parasites but a legitimate research on a College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences site, Yahoo! Answers - and the question/answer seemed legitimate as well… It appears that tramadol is prescribed to dogs to relieve pain, e.g. after surgery or in case of arthritis or other chronic conditions.

I have noticed that Google only lists 565,000 results for this search - hmm, not too competitive is it? What’s interesting is that there’s not that much spam in the top 10 either - I have only seen two outright spammy results and one a bit spammy looking blog seemingly written manually but for the sake of placing AdSense onto it. I wonder why, considering that I do get all this comment spam for this keyword? Maybe the search volume is not that big for spammers to target seriously?

I checked Google Trends and got this:

Your terms - tramadol for dogs - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.

OK so that could be the answer - but still I guess as a long tail keyword it might be of some interest to pharma spammers, no? Actually, ranking for it should only take an aged domain (at least 2006) and a few thousand links… If you are/were a pharma spammer would you go for it?

I’m not telling you where to stick it and it’s not even my idea - AdSense folks have come up with it themselves - go have a look to get the complete story. Pay the shipping and handling and stick it all you want

Among other news, AdSense is experimenting with ads - I have noticed recently these arrows next to the AdSense ads on one of my sites that still has them:

Other people have been reporting seeing these arrows since December 2007 and I have found explanations in Google AdSense forums that this was an experiment - well considering that there’s still no official word on it anywhere in AdSense it probably still is an experiment.

Recently I have noticed that Google has become much more sensitive towards automated queries sent to it. It bans the IP very fast - much faster than it used to before. What’s funny is that the tool that got caught when I discovered it wasn’t even a site geenrator of any kind scraping the SERPs - it was a simple position checker Previously, it was possible to solve the problem by simply increasing the wait time between the queries sent to Google - not any more it seems!

Just another example of Google creating a problem for itself - if there was API for search still publicly available who would have queried the human interface SERPs directly?

As to the solution - I am now simply sending queries from multiple IPs instead of the same one