Dark SEO Programming
SEO Tools. I code ‘em.

I’ve been looking back at when I was in hospital with heart palpitations. It made me think that at 21 if I died tomorrow I’d be alone. I’m trying to conquer everything at once right now and not focusing on life and living like there’s no tomorrow.

I feel like a douche for doing this but I gotta wave the white flag on some of the stuff I’ve been trying to accomplish. My only hope is the community can hopefully take them and use any of the code for their own stuff. Originally I planned to incorporate this stuff with digerati, it could still be incorporated with his database potentially for auto-voting.

You need netbeans installed to view the project. I planned to make a web access backend for it. If you want to know how to do that for your own projects or whatever go find a project called nanohttpd. It allows you to integrate http services and with a bit of work https so you can control multiple instances of your apps all over the world. Here’s a shout-out to the xrumer guys that it’s not that difficult to set up and potentially means you could incorporate xrumer into your own php scripts. Maybe that’s a cool idea. I dunno.

The idea of the project was auto-voting, and a programming language geared towards form-filling and so on.

Typing server included. Enjoy life. Hope you get something out of this.

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Jon from WickedFire’s blog made my eyes water today. Son of a bitch made $660,000 in 30 days?? Wtf!?!? I honestly wouldn’t have thought that possible. That’s some damn inspiring stuff. (pointless posts stating the obvious are the best don’t ya think?)

It got me to thinking and I thought I should write a post analyzing how we can all reproduce his success. If you’d like to reproduce his success you can buy my new ebook entitled “how to hunt down a jew and torture him until he reveals all his secrets”. Worth $599 but I’m offering it today at only $40.

Just a thought.

Here’s my take on Quality Scores. I feel like ranting, if I’m wrong on anything send flames to /dev/null… or the comments

The name sounds good right? Google must be looking out for the quality of their advertisements to make sure to make sure the Internet doesn’t become a pile of crap. With SEO spam they generally assume that big long standing sites produce quality information and should rank higher than a little guy who is more likely to be the one producing crap. This is a partly natural phenomenon anyway because big companies have the resources to allocate to SEO but I’d say it’s also enhanced Google’s algorithm. Spammers rank because it’s a product of the time investment learning Google’s algorithms, but there are a ton of small site owners who never rank anywhere.

Anyway Google quality score is a rip-off. The idea behind affiliate marketing is to use other people’s marketing budgets to promote your products and either delay taking a profit or take a drop in profit per sold item. Google know that these little guys don’t have a massive choice of where to buy traffic and they create above normal numbers of campaigns so they can add yet another premium on advertisements. Google quality score should be renamed Google’s hidden charges or Google’s extra dividend for shareholders as you have to ask why does it cost money for small advertiser’s to receive a good quality score.

Per campaign.

In essence they just jacked up the profit they make per ad because now you have to bid higher to raise your CTR so you can reduce your bid, as well as make extra pages on your site to make it look more useful. Wtf!?! If they were really interested in the quality of your ads they wouldn’t rank them based on your budget. We should check Google’s income statement before and after QS.

Or maybe I’m just pissed off because Google QS screws me up every time. Anyway,

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My last post was a major screw up. I admit it. Maybe I was high, but whatever I posted some shit, someone called me out on it. Ah well, big deal. I post some good stuff I reckon. Totally for free. If you can’t read through some of my bullshit to get to it then I will clean you up the proper info for a small fee of $600. But I guess you’re all just going to have to read my shit along with the good stuff. Am I retarded? Hell yeah. But I don’t give a fuck.

Anyway instead of rebooting your pc everytime you want to compile a program for windows it’s actually possible to compile straight from Linux with wine. This includes ImageMagick programs. Now I’m not sure but I think some other folks have tutorials on similar stuff but it’s a pain to get imagemagick included as well. Here’s how you do it.

Go download dev-cpp we’ll use this as our IDE

Now go get the latest MingW. You’ll know you’ve got the right one because in dev-cpp/bin/ you’ll find a load of same named files as in MinGW/bin/.

Copy the files from MinGW/bin/ over the dev-cpp/bin/ directory. This is basically an update of MinGW. Oh yeah copy over the libraries (lib/) too, I’m pretty sure you need those. Something about gettimeofday() not being present in older versions of mingw.

Download the ImageMagick for MinGW install. It’s listed under the unix binaries but runs on windows. No idea why. Anyway this will install a directory with some libraries in it. Libraries are files that have an .a extension like libMagick.a

Ok right if you’ve done all that you can go ahead and run Dev-Cpp. Like this (Make sure you’ve installed it using wine:

user[~]$ cd .wine/drive_c/Dev-Cpp/

user[Dev-Cpp]$ wine devcpp.exe

and make a commandline C++ project and set the include directory to C:\ImageMagick…\include\ and add these three libraries in this order:

C:/ImageMagick-6.3.7/lib/libMagick++.a
C:/ImageMagick-6.3.7/lib/libWand.a
C:/ImageMagick-6.3.7/lib/libMagick.a

That will now compile perfectly but when it comes to linking it will complain that there is a billion functions missing. That’s because they didn’t include all the other libraries you need. Which is what this tutorial is really about. Basically I went in search of them all and now I’ve got them I’ll zip them up for everyone. The other files you need are (you can probably just paste this into your project properties):

C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libfreetype.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libjbig.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libjpeg.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/liblcms.dll.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libpng.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libtiff.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libtiffxx.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/otherlib/libz.a
C:/Dev-Cpp/lib/libgdi32.a

Incidentally Dev-Cpp does come with libgdi32.a, which is handy.

Here’s the libraries. Enjoy.

Other Libraries You Need

All my programs so far in c++ will compile to a windows .exe from linux using this method. I find it handy. Especially as windows refuses to install because linux is on my first hard disk.

So what’s a good idea not to do when you scrape someone’s content. Link to them? Yeah that’d be a good start.

http://seosandbox.com/2008/07/25/user-contributed-captcha-breaking-w-phpbb2-example/

Type this twat’s URL in and you’ll have flashbacks to March 2008 and a post on bluehatseo.com except someone swallowed a very small thesaurus. Bluehatseo.com got ddos’d for posting that article. I think this guy should get a dose of the same.

On the plus side he didn’t use markov’d content, he simply replaces certain words with others. He doesn’t reorder the sentences. What we need is a site with a captcha that says “write this sentence to mean the same but in a different way”. Put some porn on the site, take the answers and use them in our content rewriter. Filter for dodgy words etc etc.

Anyway I was gonna make a post about how to compile windows programs from linux as I’m getting success with it now, but this guy made me hit the trigger button.

Windows is a total pain. I spent ages trying to get this phpbb3 code to compile on it. The code is messy as anything. It was written pretty fast just to do the job. I might release piratebay if people are interested which has a lot cleaner code in it. I actually used separate modules .

The code just runs through the entire phpbb3 captcha and fills in areas until it finds a small area. It assumes that any small area must be part of the letter. It then blurs all the little squares together, spaces the letters out better, rotates them and dumps a file that can be read by gocr.

The windows executable barely compiled. Hopefully it works, but since I don’t use windows. I have no idea really .

Here it is. PhpBB3 Crack tool

If you would… Here’s the plan.

Make some ridiculously shit web page that does nothing except it looks cool. Maybe you answer a test and get some shit answer out. Make sure whatever it is people want to include some kind of pointless widget on their blog. Whilst you’re there squeeze a sneaky link back to your real site in it.

Then you’ll be wanting to buy or bully your way into a review on a top site. Let’s say… John Chow… That sounds cool.

Oh no wait. It’s just been done. 

It has come to my attention that GOCR has its shortcomings. The problem is that small adjustments in pixels from surrounding noise cause it to recognize h’s as b’s and little things like that. Most of these OCR packages were never designed to learn new alphabets. If you open the source code to OCRAD up you’ll see that it breaks the letters down into a list of features which are then used to assign a probability as to the most likely letter. None of it is trained. It is all pre-planned and hard coded into the program. I’m not 100% sure how GOCR training works but I think it happens at the pixel level.

Now a while back I did a post on training a neural network at the pixel level to recognize characters. It took a long time because it was php (please use the C++ libraries for training unless you have a lifetime to train the neurons) but it started to work, although not as accurately as GOCR. The problems were obvious things like h’s get picked up as b’s again. You can see why the neurons failed to recognize the character.

The nice thing about neural networks is they’re pretty simple to use once you get to grips with the number of layers you might want and so on. The other nice thing is that we can stack them together in a similar way to how a full adder works. I.e. you can pass a carry flag from one adder to the next.

So the reason our neural nets are failing is because the pixels differ a little here and there and without some knowledge about exactly how a letter is formed it’s difficult to know which letter it is. So if we take a step back from the pixel level there’s a couple of things we can analyze. We can look for hills & valleys. Like an ‘n’ has a space inside it. If we calculate the base of the text we can also identify if the word has lines that dip below the baseline or go very high above it. Just using these features we can train a neural net to guess at a range of characters. Then we can feed the output into our second neural net which works at pixel level or concatenates the output of a couple of other nets.

The idea behind this is that feature extraction is a proven technique that gets very good results until the characters deviate from the norm. Using multiple nets we should be able to combine the ability to train a new alphabet with the power of feature extraction.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you knew all the searches they typed into google even though it’s not on your domain. With Internet Explorer 7 now you can! I haven’t checked this vulnerability out properly so I’m not quite sure of the details but it looks pretty severe.

I think you may need to have your page still open for this to work, so navigating away *may* destroy the recording, but if they click open a new window then it should work I think. The scammers will be having a field day anyway.

Click Here unless you use Internet Explorer in which case…

Click here for Disney and ignorance

I feel like writing right now. Weird. But anyway. Cookie stuffing works. Cookie stuffing is unethical. Cookie stuffing should be solved. Why don’t the big companies seem to care? Maybe they make too much to even notice, they just factor it in as an inevitable loss with affiliate marketing. On to solving. Cookie stuffing can generally be done two or three ways.

hidden IFRAME

cross-domain browser bug

an image pointing to site with affiliate URL

If there is a cross-domain javascript browser bug then you are fecked. Nothing you can really do to solve that.

Ok so the easy one. An image is the easiest way to cookie stuff, you can do it on any forum, blog, etc. It’s easy. Instant traffic with no work. But. It’s a CSRF (cross-site forgery request)! It simply needs a two-step process from the affiliate merchant’s website. He loads the affiliate url but then on that page is another HTTP request to a token based on the user’s session cookie. Remember we can’t read a cookie and we can’t place a cookie because it’s not on our domain. All we can do is basic HTTP requests. So if the tokenized URL is never loaded then that must mean that page has never been parsed by a browser so we don’t give the user a cookie. Simple.

Ok now before I started writing this I thought the IFRAME method could never be algorithmically detected. You’ve got the obvious checks such as checking referrer URL that sends a bot to make sure the page isn’t breaking rules, but that’s a laborious process. However if I remember correctly according to browser security rules it is ok for an IFRAME to read information about the parent frame from javascript but not the other way around. So if javascript is enabled then it should be easy to check that the page has not been IFRAMED. If it has been IFRAMED that’s a big red flag but I think javascript can also test the IFRAME to make sure it conforms to the rules right there and then.

Cookie stuffing solved. Anybody going to do anything about it?