Gaming Twitter for Thousands Of Backlinks
Posted on March 31st, 2008 in Link Building
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Nickycakes started using twitter like a week ago, and already, the potential for using it to automatically build links to a site has become pretty obvious.
A few things to note when trying to game twitter:
- Twitter has millions of indexed user feeds. A simple search for site:twitter.com on google shows over 3 million.
- Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They even suggest doing it with their twitter api, which is easily done up in curl.
- Twitter no-follows links posted on your feed. If they are over a certain length, they are shortened to tinyurls. Even though they no-follow, there are websites that scrape and post all the twitter feeds that may or may not be do-follow.
- There are tons of applications that allow you to easily post to twitter, and when you use them to post, a do-follow link is shown to that application:
So how can we game this functionality for tons of do-follow links? Slightly involved process, but really not that hard.
In order to have your application name and link posted when your app is used for posting, you have to first create an app, and then submit the webpage for approval with the twitter staff. Any old app will do. Just make some crappy php code that can be embedded on peoples webpages that lets them post to their twitter or something, throw it up on a webpage to let people download it, and then submit it to twitter for approval.
After it’s approved, it’s pretty easy to write up a program in curl to create accounts, follow random people, post whatever. Make a few hundred/thousand accounts, and automatically post some random messages on them.
When you feel comfortable with the number of messages posted, use a 301 redirect on the page that you originally submitted as your application’s url, which will now be indexed on thousands of pages, to the page of your choosing, and watch the link juice bombard your site to the top of ze serps.
There are dozens of other ways to game twitter, and this is probably one of the more complicated of them. So get to work before it’s too late!
Keep it real.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Its somehow fitting that you would show nofollows in PINK.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:04 pm
haha. it’s a plugin called search status for firefox =P
March 31st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
So much for reformed…
March 31st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
hey i said mostly!
March 31st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Thanks for this post! I’ve been waiting for a “how to market on twitter” guide that is actually useful!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:07 am
Nice tactic, thanks. I think an application per website you want to promote could easily be done. Do other twitter clones have a similar functionality? It’d be nice to make one app for a few clones and distribute the backlinks between them.
By the way, funny comment of yours here: http://nerdd.net/2008/04/01/affiliate-marketer-extortion-racket-probe-top-affiliates-targeted/. Heheh.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Or better yet, cloak the redirects so that only Google sees them redirecting back to your site. That way people keep posting with it
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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June 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
“I’ve been waiting for a “how to market on twitter” guide that is actually useful!”
I see the wait continues…
June 24th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Ahhh, if only people worked this hard at doing things the right way…
June 24th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
echoing Mack and Rachel here….
if you spent this time actually conversing with people twitter, you’d gain a heck of a lot more than thousands of links that Google’s gonna eventually tag as for what it really is (ya know, spam?). Just kind of silly to do this for links that really aren’t worth that much - and btw, who’d follow this on Twitter, if you aren’t having a true conversation?
June 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
“I’ve been waiting for a how to market on twitter”
This isn’t marketing.
Do we think that these links will get you any better ranking than posting your every webpage to every known bookmarking site?
I have a feeling that Google will know, or will soon figure out, that the links are spam.
Then its back to the drawing board!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Ah… now we’ve corrupted something before it was making any of the creators money. Isn’t that the way it works?
June 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
you guys are a bunch of pussies
June 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
“I have a feeling that Google will know, or will soon figure out, that the links are spam.”
It’s the same for any “source” that is “gamed”.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
oh how wrong you are
June 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Why redirect the whole website? You could just put a link back to one of your main projects.
And if you let your fake-accounts write about things relevant to your niche it would be a relevant backlink!
July 19th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
The trouble with mass link targeting is it will always have a short life, then you need to do it all again, far better to use under the radar, quieter methods, taking small license , it annoys less people and may be “allowed” longer , good read regardless
July 31st, 2008 at 9:43 am
Thanks friend but i will never do that becuase i am sure google will catch anyone immediately.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Twitter has plugged that leak.
Read : http://www.blogtactic.com/2008/09/no-backlink-viagra-from-twitter.html
Regards
June 25th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
sharing such helpful information is great it can help me at my backlinks tnx!!!!