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This is the first post in The Link Building Cookbook series, helping you find the best places to add links to your website to help you increase website traffic.
Update: The links are all loaded via an Iframe. It is not 400,000 unique links so it does not provide you with an ungodly amount of search engine optimizing, although you can still use this technique to increase your website traffic.
The first ‘vulnerable software’ is CBox; a Tagboard software that bloggers and website owners can add to their website. It works much like the Wordpress comment section you see below all of my posts, but it crams it into a tiny box to fit anywhere on any website. The problem I found with it is, there is no spam blocking, no comment verification/moderation, and the Tagbox is cached in the search engine results. The end result is you can use google to find over 400,000 sites running CBox and add your anchor text link to everyone single one of them!
Google query to find an updated list of sites running this vulnerable software: allintext:[get a cbox]
Proof of concept: On the first page of results (at the time of this writing), I have found 6 websites to add my link to, and one of them has a pagerank of 3. The CBox is featured on EVERY single page of their blog with over 500 pages indexed in google. With over 1000 google pages more to look through, you can see how the professionals would charge you for this kind of knowledge, or keep it for themselves, but I prefer giving it away to my readers for free. Enjoy!
This sounds a little too much blackhat for my taste. Might try and find some relevant sites using it and post at those.
Do the comments posted have nofollow tags associated with them??
The links do NOT have nofollow.
Very Cool but I think you should delete this…People will copy this too much . Maby you should read SlightyshadySeo’s take on letting out good things…http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/?p=74#comments
Don’t the links disappear after your text is gone from that CBOx?
On the popular ones, yeah. Lots haven’t been touched in years though.
Very informative post, thanks for the tips.
Matt
Thanks man!
Hi,
I have tried to find but i don´t understand it. I have searched the google for this allintext:[get a cbox] but it doesnt find a site where i can post comment and with links? Write some more about it. Thanks
@Kredittkort: You add your links to the tagbox software. Where it asks for your email/URL you add your website.
Well I’ll try it out - but it’s hard to find unpopular ones where the link won’t disappear.
Am i right that this is only temporary boosting your rank? I mean the link wont stay very long in the shoutbox?
[...] the 400,000 free CBox links, the free PR6 sitewide links, or yesterdays free shoutmix links did not fully satisfy your link [...]
Wouldn’t this build up too many backlinks too quickly?
As long as your link building efforts are consistent, no. =)
I just went to several blogs and they are all no-follow. I dont know if google would even pick them up. I mean the idea is there but if the links are no-follow do they do any good?
I’m pretty sure that shoutbox is hosted through an iframe, all on one site. So it ends up counting as a backlink off one domain.
Hey Collin,
I stumbled upon your site today, and it’s a very interesting read, congrats.
However, after researching this technique (most of the Shoutboxes and widgets seem to be this way), I think it may not be as effective as you first thought…
Let me explain:
Most of these widgets/shoutboxes are displayed with an iFrame. (instead of being server side based)
The problem is, Google and most search engines do not index iFrame contents as part of the parent page.
So let say we spam 1000 shoutboxes (from 1000 different sites/domains) with our URLs. The desired result would be to get these backlinks counted as incoming from 1000 different domains.
But what ends up happening ,is we get 1000 baclinks from the Widget provider’s domain (Cbox, or other shoutbox services).
So it’s still usefull, but not nearly as usefull as I thought it would be when I first read the article.
Still, this is just my 2cents, and I may be wrong.
good luck with your site!
You are correct. I found this out a few weeks ago and updated the other shoutbox thread in the link building cookbook, but had forgotten to update this one.
Thanks for the reminder, the disclaimer has been posted.
Thanks.
Very Good!
from where Cbox will be available to me
“from where Cbox will be available to me”….
yeah i also want to know…plz help!!!!
there are definitely other ways to take advantage of this type of link building. And its effective. You just gotta know what to look for. But i think im gonna keep this one to myself.
How to purchase CBox ???????????
How many days it will take to build 400,000 backlinks???
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Another great tip from the man!
I’m glad I discovered this post. I’m going to have to check it out and get a few backlinks to a couple of sites on the fringe.
very good thanx
thanx
thanxx
It’s not really that effective, the google results are all about sites that are talking about cbox. And if you use the “” in the string, google will flag your search and show you no results.
I got pretty excited at first. But it’s obviously not gonna be as effective as i first thought
I shall try it out though. thanks you.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to try it out
~Katie
oww! great post
thanks
Thanks for the tips.
great post - thanks for the tips
thanks for the tips
This is great, thanks for the info!
Informative post..
I have learn some new points.
Again Thanks..
how can i attract relevant back links to my website thanks phillip
it’s usefull, thanks for sharing
So what’s the verdict? Are multiple CBox links not able to give the intended amount of backlinks?
your articel copied by this man : th0r.info/?p=96
without any credits to you.
i made some screenshot
proof : http://i281.photobucket.com/al.....rtor-1.jpg
Nice info !
@police
I dont think it’s totally the same
maybe just they use same words..
not a big problem right?
CMIIW
How i use the Cbox?
thanks for sharing lol
nice resource, thanks
Very useful post thanks!
Kind of shady, but cool.
Do you advise against using this linking method on our whitehat trusted sites?
Roby
It won’t help for SEO, stick with the dofollow listings in the link cookbook.
All greek to me ……. we’ll try almost anything once .
Very interesting. I think I’ll look more into this.