How Did This Guy Get Such A Blackhat Author Profile On His Site?

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I don't want to throw this guy under the bus, so I have separated his URL below:

https://finer homeliving.com/about/

Upon inspection, this site is relatively young, has a DA of 15 and is ranking reasonably well for some competitive keywords. It has generated a very good profile of backlinks for its age, but I don't believe this is the main reason it's doing so well, it is clearly the author page.

The site has around 200 articles, all of which are written by "Dan", however, if you look at the about page I linked in the 2nd line, there is a team of 24 people on this site (which have never written for it), some of which are doctors, architects, etc.

At first, I thought it was a high quality blackhat linkedin fake author profile, and some of them may be, but many of them appear to be real people. One of the doctors featured has legitimate medical publications.

Another example, I checked one linkedin for a home writer, which linked to a legitimate content creation website. It had no mention of working with finer home living, but had many other legit blogs on there.

Why would a successful doctor or architect agree to have their image on a dogshit blackhat blog which is writing articles about the best smartwatches for under $50? or the best bathroom mirrors?
 
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Why do you think those profiles are under control of the persons under which names they are created? All of this can be fake IMHO and implemented just for the sake of link building, ranking and authority. Names can be real, profiles can be cloned/stolen, links for another TA sites can be used for juice...
 
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OP, remove this thread. You may be screwing this guy over.
I haven't directly linked his site so it shouldn't be found by google or any of the fake authors.

He is using black hat methods, so this is fair game. I just want to find his methods and copy them. I don't owe this guy anything.

@AlexAkimbo I have checked some of the profiles and they didn't seem to be too active, but at the same time, I think it is pretty risky adding real life doctors and architects to an authors page while claiming they write for you. If you do it once or twice, maybe you'll get away with it. But he has done it 24 times.
 
Nowadays it's all about blackhat. Is there any possibility that those profiles are real but the people are not aware of this website? Even if they find out, this webmaster is probably anonymous.

This site made me laugh. They tried to overkill niche authority. In fact one of the articles read -

our interior design team who have direct professional experience of using coffee tables to make a room look bigger

Now what dawg?!! Pro experience of using coffee tables? LOL
 
Nowadays it's all about blackhat. Is there any possibility that those profiles are real but the people are not aware about this website?

This site made me laugh. They tried to overkill niche authority. In fact one of the articles read -



Now what dawg?!! Pro experience of using coffee tables? LOL
I think you might be right, but that is the riskiest way of using this method and is just plain stupid. 24 authors including doctors is insane.

His coffee table sentence is his most authorative. He genuinely has a linked youtube channel with about 4 videos - one of which is the main guy showing you this.

Which makes it even stranger, if he has stolen these author profiles, he has doxxed himself by showing his real face in his youtube videos.
 
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I have checked some of the profiles and they didn't seem to be too active, but at the same time, I think it is pretty risky adding real life doctors and architects to an authors page while claiming they write for you. If you do it once or twice, maybe you'll get away with it. But he has done it 24 times.
It all boils down to proper research. Maybe he did good job and targeted persons who are not that active on those communities but have some competence. Who in their sane minds will look upon some doctor from India or architect from Serbia just to be sure that article is written by competent person? This shit has nothing to do with them - believe me! This is just properly researched niche website.

Now what dawg?!! Pro experience of using coffee tables? LOL
Don't know anything about coffee tables but we can talk about my daily coffee intake? :D
 
Who in their sane minds will look upon some doctor from India or architect from Serbia just to be sure that article is written by competent person?
This is created for google EAT, not for people.
 
This is created for google EAT, not for people.
Exactly. Website is engineered that way so Google will offer it to more people and drive traffic to it and as consequence bring more customers/vistors to it that'll payoff by bunch of ads/offers placed all over the place.
 
It all boils down to proper research. Maybe he did good job and targeted persons who are not that active on those communities but have some competence. Who in their sane minds will look upon some doctor from India or architect from Serbia just to be sure that article is written by competent person? This shit has nothing to do with them - believe me! This is just properly researched niche website.


Don't know anything about coffee tables but we can talk about my daily coffee intake? :D

I don't think anyone means this. The point is not about researching a bangladeshi doctor.

Its the American journalist/architect/author finding their photo, profile/etc on your website and wondering why you said that they wrote articles for you.
 
I haven't directly linked his site so it shouldn't be found by google or any of the fake authors.

He is using black hat methods, so this is fair game. I just want to find his methods and copy them. I don't owe this guy anything.

@AlexAkimbo I have checked some of the profiles and they didn't seem to be too active, but at the same time, I think it is pretty risky adding real life doctors and architects to an authors page while claiming they write for you. If you do it once or twice, maybe you'll get away with it. But he has done it 24 times.
Yeah good job exposing it on the most popular blackhat forum so everyone can abuse it and get it patched.

Big brains you have...
 
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He said "will look upon some doctor from India" india is not bangladesh



Yeah he's really smart. :D I can tell OP will do good in IM ;)
It's not a point from which country doctor is. Point is that this guy is exploiting their names, titles, articles for the sake of his website and he's abusing it like someone pointed out. Also, this is a money site and sole point of it is to convert customers either via ads or offers while authors are just to build authority. How site's owner is doing it is what we discus here

Note: I don't give a dime about origins but about money and would like to find out more about this website and try to reverse engineer it :D
 
I haven't directly linked his site so it shouldn't be found by google or any of the fake authors.

He is using black hat methods, so this is fair game. I just want to find his methods and copy them. I don't owe this guy anything.

@AlexAkimbo I have checked some of the profiles and they didn't seem to be too active, but at the same time, I think it is pretty risky adding real life doctors and architects to an authors page while claiming they write for you. If you do it once or twice, maybe you'll get away with it. But he has done it 24 times.

You're welcome to do whatever you like. I'm just saying, if you don't want this method patched then it's not a good idea to post it. If you don't care about it being patched then do what you gotta do.
 
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It all boils down to proper research. Maybe he did good job and targeted persons who are not that active on those communities but have some competence. Who in their sane minds will look upon some doctor from India or architect from Serbia just to be sure that article is written by competent person? This shit has nothing to do with them - believe me! This is just properly researched niche website.


Don't know anything about coffee tables but we can talk about my daily coffee intake? :D
100% this. I'm glad people aren't grasping whats going on here. Shhhhhhh
 
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