Domains + Botnets + Parking = $$$

Posted by k | Posted in Black Hat | Posted on 21-10-2009

If you subscribe to this blog, you know I don’t post frequently. And I like it that way. Some say you have to post regularly or else you’ll lose your subscribers. I don’t agree.

I have unsubscribed blogs before not because they don’t post but because they post too much. They post everyday because they have to and not because they have something to say. To them I say: Our time is precious, stop regurgitating the same thing over and over. And there are a lot of those out there on the SEO area.

Unveiling real unique good black hat info is always a dilemma. You’ll keep your readers happy but you sentence to death the method exposed. It will only last on the direct proportion on the number of readers you have, and how pro-active they are. That’s also why black hat blogs don’t get a lot of link love from their readers: the smaller the number of people who knows about it the best.

Congrats, you’re one of the few who reads this blog, as today I am going to unveil a technique you have never ever read anywhere on the Internet before. It has been used by black hatters for some time now with great success.

Its success comes from three main factors:

  • - you can implement it in 10 minutes and with almost no tech skills
  • - you can earn a lot of money, passively!
  • - no one can accuse you of black hat schemes

As you know, since spam started bringing people to jail, professional spammers have turned their attention to other methods of spamming: posting on blog comments and forums.

XRumer is often designated as the top tool to do it. But it is not. It pales compared to using botnets of zombies. There are even IRC channels fully dedicated to botnet renting.

I am not endorsing these practices anyway. I am just pointing out they exist and we are going to profit from them.

Here’s what you need to do:

  • 1. Install some forum software, the older the best: phpbb, punbb, smf. Any of those will do. Make life as easier as possible to bots, disabling CAPTCHA and other similar functionalities. Real old forum scripts don’t even have them.
  • 2. Let the word know about your forum, but don’t use spam techniques. Just register on some directories. Optionally you can simple do nothing and wait. The previous step was just to speed up the process. Soon you’ll find your forum full of spam posts. Don’t worry its part of the plan. Let the spam bots feel at home.
  • 3. When you think there’s enough activity, park the domain. That’s all. You can easily earn $50* or more daily from each of your domains. This value will decrease as bots will lose interest on your forum. When that happens, it’s time to put the forum up again…

You see, most of these bots are using zombie computers to spam: so, it’s not easy for the parking companies to indentify it as spam, since there’s not a proxy, a TOR node, or a gateway IP to put against their db of spam hosts. The smaller the Parking company, the less protected it is against this. So, parking companies take note.

If they ever contact you, what should you say? Easy, that you had a forum once (take some time to configure it so that it will look real), lost interest but kept it online. Recently you have discovered it was being taken over by spam bots and decide to remove it and park the domain.

Sure, there must be a lot of fraudulent clicks but you’re absolutely covered and cannot be blamed.

Last, but not least, and this is the best part: even your parking company can profit from you and have nothing the ad provider can point on them, as they were just parking your domain.

Yes, it’s the ad feed provider responsibility to detect and invalidate the fraudulent clicks. So, in the end, you are cheating the big sharks, so sleep tight at night. I can assure you those values are already being assimilated on their balance sheets.

* Aprox value for 10000 spam posts, 50% conversion ratio (yes, it’s that high as bots click everywhere) and 0, 01 clicks (expect this to be real low).

Comments (5)

  1. Agree with your ethos about posting regularly/not so. I’d add one thing to this post.

    A lot of forum spam is done by programs such as Xrumer, which update their lists of active forums, so couple of tips to maximise revenue:

    Make forums around topics that you know has high spam activity: such as medical/pharma blogs

    Set up a rotation: Use lots of domains / rotate every few months between live forum / parked page (automate this) to keep an active listing in spam programs.

    Host forums elsewhere: Attracting lots of spam bots / old PHP forums will attract exploits/hacks, don’t get your server tagged as malware pit.

  2. Why would bots click everywhere? :S

  3. Just curious because I tried this before with SEDO. It didn’t work _that_ well. Which Parking Service works well for this?

  4. Do these bots actually click the links on the parking page?

  5. They do click and this trick is still working as I write this.

    Don’t go for the major players like SEDO. Use the small fish. Can’t post them here or else I would get in serious trouble.

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