If you are a SEO then you are probably familiar with Google’s Advanced Operators for Web Search, advanced operators are to SEOs what Katana is to a Samurai. Most spammers use advanced search operators to find target sites with specific foot prints in order to build spammy links.
Here are some typical operators they would use:
- site:.edu “foot print”
- site:.com “footprint” intitle:”keyword”
- inurl:”keyword” site:.co.uk “footprint”
Below are some of the footprints that they would normally looks for:
Blogging and CMS Software
- Habari
- Loudblog
- Mephisto
- Micolog
- Nucleus CMS
- pivot
- Plogger
- pMachine
- 4Images
- Atomsite
- bBlog
- Blogsmith
- Blojsom
- BoastMachine
- ByteFlow
- Newtelligence “dasBlog”
- DotClear
- Serendipity / S9Y
- Subtext
- Textcube
- WikyBlog
- B2Evolution
- Pligg
- BlogEngine
- Vanilla
- Statusnet
- Ez Publish
- Php Fusion
- PHPIzabi
- Geeklog
- Livestreet
- Flatpress
- Lifetype
Forum Software
- FluxBB
- XMB Forums
- E107
- XenoBB
- Quicksilver
- UseBB
- AEF
- Quicksilver
- bbPress
- MyBB
- eBlah
- UBB Threads
- jForum
Disclaimer: I don’t advocate or recommend using these link building techniques. Yes they work in certain cases but this is not a long term strategy and certainly not the proper way of building links.
