Beating Msplinks.com For Easy PageRank and SEO
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(Caution: This could be considered grayhat, take it with a grain of salt)
The Google PageRank update is upon us, and everyone is scurrying to gather up links to raise their PR. As many others have pointed out, we aren’t exactly sure when Google will start updating PR for this quarter, as always. But I’ve been reading the same ol’ recycled stuff about getting a better PageRank that everyone and their brother already knows about. You’re probably just as tired of reading the same thing over and over as I am.
Well, I’m going to share with you one way to get some decent PR backlinks with whatever anchor text you’d like… for free. That’s right, there’s no need to order up a link from TLA, you don’t even have to buy a spot on someone’s sponsored Wordpress theme. We’re going to dig a little bit through Google to find some dead MySpace profiles and exploit what the kiddies have left for us.
You see, MySpace kids are kinda’ crazy. One day they may emo out and decide to delete their entire account, or even better the MySpace user’s parents may find pictures of them drinking with their boyfriend and do it for them. What happens if a MySpace kid’s girlfriend breaks up with him? He deletes his MySpace account and commits suicide, of course. But what about all of that hard work they’ve done to promote their profile? Was it all in vain? Maybe for them, but we’re going to be taking advantage of them whoring their ungodly new myspace profile template and glitter graphics all over the interwebs for something a bit more constructive (or not).
Setup a catchall e-mail account
This step is going to make it simple for us to create more than one MySpace profile and manage them all easily. Login to your domain’s administration panel and add a new e-mail user that will redirect all e-mail sent @yourdomain to that inbox(usually admin@yourdomain.com). Please consult your webhost as to how to accomplish this, because every host is different. If you can’t figure it out leave a comment or you’ll be stuck using temporary e-mail addresses which may already be blocked by MySpace, I’m not sure.
Create a new MySpace account
Once your e-mail is setup so that any mail received at {user}@yourdomain.com is forwarded to a single inbox, it’s time to rejuvenate your first MySpace profile. Once you’ve registered, MySpace will generate something like www.myspace.com/123456790 for your user name with the option to change it to your liking. Don’t change it yet, leave it numeric for now.
Lets bring some dead profiles back to life
Since we’re just looking for deleted MySpace profiles with PageRank, and after doing a bit of searching we know what default error message MySpace returns when a profile is deleted, lets do a simple Google search. Whoa! That looks like a big list of deleted MySpace profiles ripe for the taking!
There are a number of different ways to search MySpace, but I’m not going to share them all. This should be enough get your creative juices going. Since we have the PR/Alexa toolbar already installed we can tell which profiles have the higher pagerank and are worth targetting. See emo squids, all that hard work building up your profile really did pay off!
Cash in on the profile
Since we have an open account already, we can simply enter in the username of the dead profile we like, and give it birth once again! Now we have a fresh profile with white space all over the place just waiting to give us some good link-love! Freshly deleted accounts have a waiting period, so if you can’t register a particular username, just wait it out for a couple of days or move along.
Defeating msplinks.com
There is still one thing stopping us from completing our mission, and that’s MySpace’s new anti-spam system they have set up for outbound links, called Msplinks. Msplinks converts any outbound link into lowercase and then encodes it in Base 64. Msplinks has only been around for a month or so now, and promises to doom the MySpace add-on/widget industry sooner or later.
In the wisdom and power that is Tom, you can get past this entire system by simply using your hyperlink sans the http: when linking outwards. Super duper job MySpace! So, just drop the http: and you’re good to go.
There’s just one more thing for you to do: Rinse, Wash, and Repeat. Since your have your handy-dandy catchall e-mail address, registering for 200 accounts (like all the pro MySpace spamlots do these days) is a breeze. So, will you ever buy another text link?
This sounds a bit gray hat! (#)\:1
Hey Bush,
You’re right. I’ve added a caution.
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Ha ha. I hope it didn’t sound like I was coming down on your Scot! I just had a smirk on my face when I read this is all! (#):)
Thanks for the tips
Might have to give them a try
Very sneaky haha. It will work too I bet.
Bush,
It didn’t sound that way at all my friend.
BB,
It does, trust me ;). You could take it one step further and give yourself a link-back from the built in MySpace blog, to add to your Technorati authority.
Since there are hundreds of new accounts deleted daily, the trick is to find some that are old enough to register… which is pretty easy.
In the wisdom and power that is Tom, you can get past this entire system by simply using your hyperlink sans the http: when linking outwards. Super duper job MySpace! So, just drop the http: and you’re good to go.
So you’re saying we should link to “myblog.xyz” from the MySpace profile instead of “http://myblog.xyz/”? I can’t figure how that would work, since it’s going to look like a relative URL to a browser or spider.
Then again, I don’t see how this Msplinks thing works either. (I’m not a MySpace user.) Did you mean URL encoding instead of Base64 encoding?
There’s a better way of building PageRank: being honest.
Such a thing might help you raise your PageRank.
Garrett,
You would still use the // so instead of your a href looking like a href=”http://www. it would be a href=”//www..
And, to the furthest of my knowledge and research it is base64.
Hey Likwid,
I never implied you would have to be dishonest to use these techniques, where did you get that from?
Cool tips. I am just worried to do anything that would risk my rankings and/or adsense. I have really become paranoid thanks to the stories talking about accounts being closed and search results being manually demoted…
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Hi J,
Everything you do as a webmaster has a risk involved with it– small or large.
In analyzing the risk involved with this technique, I have decided that;
a)There isn’t any way Google could automate the procedure to find and kill such a technique since there are millions of MySpace pages with outbound links, and
b)There are millions of websites doing all kinds of crazy stuff for PR. With my blog being a little ol’ PR3, I doubt there will be reason or worry for a manual demotion of search phrases. For instance, with the blatant gaming John Chow has been doing since October– they’ve just given him a warning this month.
But, as I said earlier, techniques such as these aren’t for everyone. If you’re really worried, you could set up a domain strictly for this with a 301 redirect pointing to whatever site you’d like so you could just throw your other domain away if it gets blacklisted for some reason.
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That’s awesome! I never knew that about myspace and the dead profiles with usernames already chosen. Though, it seems like a great thing to try, I won’t be doing it.
I like to stay true to my roots! Thanks for sharing though…Great information and post.
-Gregg
You always have a lot of good info to give. I think I will give this a whirl just to see the effect. Thanks
Only a retard would do such thing manually. Write a script. Or ask someone to write one, it’s *very* simple using PHP and G’s search API. I’ve managed to snatch a few PR5 profiles and hundreds of PR3 & 2.
BTW, here’s another tip: create a profile for the keyword you want to rank, spend some time working on it, link all the other snatched profiles to this one and then link to your website. So, say you want to rank for “mesothelioma”. You’ll create “www.myspace.com/mesothelioma”, spend a few minutes writing relevant content for the profile, link all profiles together and then link http://www.myspace.com/mesothelioma to your website with the appropriate anchor, “mesothelioma”. This way, besides random links, you’ll also have a relevant (or authority) page linking to your domain. Belive me, I’ve been able to get to G’s first page within days using this technique. I’ve even gotten the profile page ranking better than my website on a few occasions. Ohh the irony…
Hey Guz,
Those are great tips. That’s exactly the way I would do it if I were doing it ;).
Hey Scot, I’m back!
Just to research the info you placed here must have taken you quite some time to figure out. Great idea. Wish I was as smart as you. 
Glad your site is doing well and I’m glad you decided to re-think blogging. Your absence made me miss your entries…
Welcome back!
Hey there Chuva, hope to see you around! Thanks for the welcome back
It always amazes me how many ways there are to game the system.
Good info. I’ll probably try this one.
In addition to that, you could try actually putting up content people want to read/see.
Rob,
You’re right
Great stuff. Thanks for the way to get around the msplinks.com
removing http: is no longer working anyone got any bright ideas
ditto, msplink assimilation is nigh. how about an encoded backslash al la IIS XSS? kind of like %20 equals a url encoded space.. except myspace/IIS uses another variant that ^might^ allow a malformed url with encoded backslashes to bypass that newest filter. jus’ an idea.
I’ll look in to it and see if I can’t figure something else out that works
If anyone beats me to it (which is likely since I have other priorities unfortunately right now) let me know what you come up with.
Here’s a direct link work around for profile code:
Your Site
Simply replace “yoursite” with your domain name, you can also link to specific pages via the link target.
It won’t work with comment post, but it’ll still let you “cash in on profiles”.
Cheers!
umm.. sorry it rendered the HTML.
OK one more time with “{” instead of “
Grrr…
Use the base tag to set the link root to your domain.
Hey Meow, that’s awesome. Thanks for the heads up.
Cool tip Scot! However, like J David I’m a bit worried about the risks involved.
I might try out what Guz mentioned, creating a profile for a keyword. When I find the time to do it.
by far, this is the most usefull and current information i have found!
I tried it, but not much luck finding any with PR. The handful that I did find with a decent PR had already been grabbed up by obvious spammers.
I tried typing in my website without the ‘http://’ and it no longer workd. It seems they have sussed that bit out.
Yea they’ve sussed it…
I have an idea I have not yet tested it though. What if links where inside of a flash file and then the flash file was placed on myspace. I was recently reading that google has some ability to read the content inside of a swf file now so this may work I am thinking. Let me know. Even better yet myspace would have no way of blocking this I could assume.
Hey Tony or anyone else.. whats the lastest way to add outbound links to a myspace profile??? Like tonys profile below… I cant figure it out??? Like the “Xbox” link he has in his about me… goes straight to the site no msplinks or nothing?? What am i missing?
http://www.myspace.com/elevadertek
Thanks!
-Brian
Anybody ever consider doing the same thing with wordpress and myspace? Just as easy and no “NOFOLLOW” issues. Doing that with my site.
I notice that Brian got it working. Any one knows how?
Found a Solution!!!
The following works nicecely for me:
**couldn’t insert the code here, check it out at my site:
Link here
Check the results here:
http://myspace.com/zucye
Hope this can be of help! I try all sort of things before this one. This one is easy and IT WORKS!
Works Beautifully !!