I wonder if the inflator or similar tool could be merged with the below yahoo technique to revive its usefulness. I'm reposting from another thread (forget where):
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Also to make associatedcontent unaware of your traffic source, mask it!
I figured out an autoredirection from yahoo that goes right to your page!
1) Go to Yahoo!
2) Type in exact url of your AC article (eg. "http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1809248/how_to_effectively_and_naturally_quit.html?cat=5" without quotes) and remove the "?cat=#" at the end - MUST DO OR IT WON'T WORK!
3) If you see a search result for your article directly to yahoo (e.g.
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...fp-t-701&sao=1) then you are golden, if not then it hasn't been indexed yet or you incorrectly entered the url or you didn't remove "?cat=#"
4) View source of the page.
5) Search (ctrl-f or apple-f) the source page and type into the search the first two words of the title of the search result (following our example you would type in "how to" no quotes)
6) Now it will find the title smack dab in the middle of a <a href> link. The one from our example will show:
Code:
a class="yschttl spt" href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu9S2EghLnUUA7QxXNyoA;
_ylu=X3oDMTEyYWUzY3ExBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0Y4NjFfODE-
/SIG=13fvag2d0/EXP=1258906678/**http%3a//www.associatedcontent.com/
article/1809248/how_to_effectively_and_naturally_quit.html">How to
Effectively and Naturally Quit <wbr />Smoking - Associated <b>...</b></a>
Highlight the bolded/underlined/italicized url in the code above (obveously on your own article not on the physical example above) copy it. Then replace the article url link with the copied link. E.g:
Code:
boost("id8", "ARTICLE URL HERE");
with
boost("id8", "URL copied from yahoo HERE");
Now AC cannot say s**t to you because they will see that it is coming from Yahoo! searches and not spammy pages, even though it really is.