Dark SEO Programming
SEO Tools. I code ‘em.

I’m pretty busy working on some code, hence the minimal posting. But I was thinking last night about getting a power user digg account without actually having to go and interact with the community because that is horrendously boring. Indians are pretty cheap right . I wonder how much it would cost to get them to build you a power user account on a social bookmarking site. Just layout a plan to follow every day listing how many hours to do each task for and then pay them by the hour.

Anybody done this? Is it economically sound? You’ll be paying for an asset (or a liability depending on if it works ), the account, that you can use more than once unlike when you purchase diggs.

I haven’t installed any plugins since I installed this blog. I was lazy and rushed and didn’t really think it through. I meant to install feedburner and forgot. I just got this well crafted comment which made me think:

“Hahaha, you have “nofollow”

No wonder you have no readers!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHA”

He’s probably right. So notice the dofollow plugin, top commentators, and a contact page that actually works.

Update: I just got spammed…Plugins go back off, however I’ll leave the contact page working

So you’ve cracked that phpBB2 or phpBB3 captcha registered an account, and now it wants you to verify your account by email. Foiled again.

Actually this is pretty easy to get around. All you need is a free email service that supports webmail, and a page scraping utility. Hmmmm… Guess what, my page scraping code will work excellently with webmail services. What’s really handy is as long as you point the cookies string to a proper empty file it will keep the session details allowing you to log on as if you were using a normal web browser. So then you would just use preg_match to find important parts of the page (like login buttons, inbox, and so on), follow these links, until you find the link that says “Confirm your email address” or similar.

Or you could use temporary email…

$output = scrape_page(”http://www.mytrashmail.com/myTrashMail_inbox.aspx?email=” . $temp_email_name);

That’ll dump the html of your temporary inbox. You can even delete the email promptly to save them space.

If you’re really good you can download a POP3 PHP class and log into GoogleMail directly