If you haven't seen The Dark Knight you should go and see it...

Ok, since i am in a good mood tonight i am going to pull out of my magic hat another small trick used more for entertainment purpose - (but also quite effective).

In short: spam forums or blogs or comments and link back to your site using a smiley as an anchor text. Your hidden link will go unnoticed but it will help you as far as seo is concerned - despite not having a proper anchor text.

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If you click any of the above smiles it will lead you to another website.

You can post on forums and include a smiley backlink, or you can leave a comment on a wordpress blog and include a smiley backlink, and the mods will have a hard time detecting your hidden link cause the smiley will look just normal.

You can create an image of a smiley, and then cookie stuff with the image method using a innocent smiley, well... you know.... a lot of possibilities.

Oh yeah, for the noobs the codes:

For forums

Code:

 [ U R L = " h t t p : / / w w w . g o o g l e . c o m " ] : ) [/URL]

For wordpress blogs comments

Code:

 <a href="http://google.com">:)</a>

Message for the whitehatters:

Why so serious about spam? Blackhatters are always a step ahead of you...

Thanks, I used this on flickr a couple times, but i didnt want to go overboard.

Do you think there is a number of how many to use a day or just do it so often or screw it and use it always.

thanks

holy shit.... thats genuis.just reply, dont post new threads.... get the do follow plug in for FFox and you will know which boards are do follow.

smilies do you completely normal on most boards.... especially if its a more common one...

use

not


As far as going overboard..... i dont think you can get too many links.... so theres no overboard unless you are using automated software and doing 10 posts on a 10,000 boards.

Get a smiley hotlink and you can add your anchor text too, so when you hover over it will have your keyword.

maybe alt="cookie stuff"> lol why so serius !!

Simply Brilliant! This is my kind of BH. lol

As usual, another nugget of pure genius from Nick Flame ! Im going to put this into use tonight !

hah, this is so simple its ridiculous. I hate how sometimes when you're thinking up new ideas, you tend to overcomplicate thngs when stuff like this is right in front of you. I think its time i write a comment posting curl script

Good idea Nick Flame..LOL

your ideas are pure genius..!!

one post of yours is worth get $100k for me!! literally!

Originally Posted by gundamwing

maybe alt="cookie stuff"> lol why so serius !!

HA HA, yah don't forget the alt tag

Brilliant and simple - as some of my forum sigs have got smilies in anyway, no one will notice the differece!

Thanks for the slap on the head with this idea!

Nick,dude you always use brilliant titles - Suppose this thread's title

damn. so simple and genius at the same time!

ahahah Good idea Tnx Nick Flame

So ingenious... snagged it.

How freakin awesome is that, something so simple yet deadly effective. Thats what happens when you think outside of the box, sometimes we all get so narrow minded in our efforts, we forget that the people who make the most money here are the pioneers in the trenches, testing and manipulating new ways to conquer IM.
Thanks for that nick, by the way, why stop at smiley faces, take this same concept and use it a hundred different ways.

Hey don't get this thing leak to some other forums,hopefully

whats the best way to add the alt tag for forum

Great stuff!

Maybe you could take this further and use .htaccess and a few php tricks to cookie stuff the smilie?

Edit: Just realized you could even stuff the smilie with several affiliate cookies at once...although that's probably been said already somewhere else.

wtf blogger don't accept IMG code

Can't seem to find the image method to use this with. Found a thread by harro but can't really get my head around how he's doing it.

Is this right? How do i set a cookie in my affiliate link.

Code:

[ U R L = " h t t p : / / w w w .MYAFFILIATELINK. c o m " ] : ) [/url]

 <a href="http://MYAFFILIATELINK.com">:)</a>

Sorry for these dumb ass questions but i just discovered this post and can hardly see straight where i haven't slept for 26hours.

Thanks

Originally Posted by whynot

Can't seem to find the image method to use this with. Found a thread by harro but can't really get my head around how he's doing it.

Is this right? How do i set a cookie in my affiliate link.

Code:

[ U R L = " h t t p : / / w w w .MYAFFILIATELINK. c o m " ] : ) [/url]

 <a href="http://MYAFFILIATELINK.com">:)</a>

Sorry for these dumb ass questions but i just discovered this post and can hardly see straight where i haven't slept for 26hours.

Thanks

adding a linked image in a forum that supports BBCode is easy. Just do this:

Code:

[u r l= http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com]
[i m g]http://www.yourimageurlgoeshere.com/hi.jpg[/img]
[/u r l]

Great idea. I used to put up a funny pic on comments in myspace with a link back to my site. Goog used to love it especially for new sites.

Nice one. "Tadaaa!"

Hiding backlinks within innocent smileys is really a smart idea. Thanks for that!

HA!

This is so easy it's funny. Genius info here Nick. You kick ass.

xRumer users could kill with this! Thanks Nick. I can't believe
I haven't thought of it.

A day without a smile, is a day not fully lived.....

Thanks for this trick, my mind is bubbling with ideas....

this is what you call

Sexy Simple....

Time to play...

Why you guys are so excited...I saw that many times on tons of spammed forums ...
The problem is that smiley is without an anchor so its only good for indexing purposes. You can use title/alt tag but its not so effective as anchor.

yeh im not sure how well it works for seo purposes but sure there are other ways to use this

Should have posted this in the VIP area now google and the rest of the world will know this :-)

Wow, that is absolutely wonderful...

thanks A LOT!

I dont think its that powerful because there is no anchor text / etc etc therfore its not nearly as powerful as you guys think

you know you can even improve it if you use your own image named the keyword you are going after too, maybe?

Hmm. I cant remember if it was skype or msn, but you can make your own smiley for it, theyre doing something special, i cant remember what though. Im gonna apply this idea right there.

Nice trick But just one query wouldn't hidden links hurt from SEO point of view?

Originally Posted by mrichards1984

Nice trick But just one query wouldn't hidden links hurt from SEO point of view?

You'll never know until you try.

thanks for this will try it now on a few blogs

gr8 idea nick.
thanks

Originally Posted by mrsix

adding a linked image in a forum that supports BBCode is easy. Just do this:

Code:

[u r l= http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com]
[i m g]http://www.yourimageurlgoeshere.com/hi.jpg[/img]
[/u r l]

Stop me if I'm wrong - but wouldn't

Code:

[u r l= http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com]
[i m g]http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com/somedirectory/smileyimage.jpg[/img]
[/u r l]

give you slightly more of an edge?

awesome idea! thanks

On reflection, how about..

Code:

[u r l= http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com]
[i m g]http://www.yoururlgoeshere.com/yoururlgoeshere/yoururlgoeshere.jpg[/img]
[/u r l]

??

thumbs up, great idea.

Is this possible on blogger blogs?