Comments on: Beware Of Pirated SEO Programs http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/SEOBlog/browser-software-and-search-engine-optimisation/beware-of-pirated-seo-programs.html Advice and tips from one of the UK's leading Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Companies. Specialists in SEO. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nick Bentley http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/SEOBlog/browser-software-and-search-engine-optimisation/beware-of-pirated-seo-programs.html#comment-7384 Nick Bentley Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:08:13 +0000 http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/SEOBlog/?p=1289#comment-7384 It's true, many SEO programs out there that promise the moon can get you banned or just junk traffic you wouldn't want anyway. I've seen people use article blasting software to create a couple thousand backlinks in a month, then they wonder how Google figured out they were gaming the system and got them too fast. For the patient, it's about the gradual building of quality links, especially with dofollow blogs that have articles with a pagerank 1 or higher. Quality comments that are relevant, funny, or both do the job. I don't think it takes many tries with the black hat stuff before they get sick of receiving traffic from "Bubba's Barrel O' Links". Some big names advocate this too, Felix Kelly aka The Rich Jerk even had in his book about using cloaking redirects. The real threat with stolen software is it's often loaded with a Trojan. The software that "cracks" or unprotects it itself does the same operation that a virus or Trojan would to circumvent the copy protection. Even if it doesn't have one, it'll usually set off your anti virus alarm bells. The new generation of Trojans can be pretty ruthless, just not worth the risk. It’s true, many SEO programs out there that promise the moon can get you banned or just junk traffic you wouldn’t want anyway. I’ve seen people use article blasting software to create a couple thousand backlinks in a month, then they wonder how Google figured out they were gaming the system and got them too fast.
For the patient, it’s about the gradual building of quality links, especially with dofollow blogs that have articles with a pagerank 1 or higher. Quality comments that are relevant, funny, or both do the job. I don’t think it takes many tries with the black hat stuff before they get sick of receiving traffic from “Bubba’s Barrel O’ Links”. Some big names advocate this too, Felix Kelly aka The Rich Jerk even had in his book about using cloaking redirects.

The real threat with stolen software is it’s often loaded with a Trojan. The software that “cracks” or unprotects it itself does the same operation that a virus or Trojan would to circumvent the copy protection. Even if it doesn’t have one, it’ll usually set off your anti virus alarm bells. The new generation of Trojans can be pretty ruthless, just not worth the risk.

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