Referral Bombing
October 10th, 2008 by Scot, under Making Money, Revvenue Toolbox. 3 Comments
For the Webmaster
Nothing catches a webmaster’s attention more quickly than a referral domain sending traffic to their website. If you’re like me, I like to check my referring stats at least once a day to see who is sending traffic my way.
For Free Links
Have you ever seen a website that tracks and ranks the number of referrals to that particular page or domain? Lots of sites (image and video hosts mainly) have this to give some love back to who sends them the most traffic.
There are thousands of pages out there with free link-love just waiting for you to take advantage of the opportunity to inject your URL! Many of them are do-follow links with high PageRank.
Handing Them Out
If you’d rather assign a casual referral to every page you visit, there is an extension for Firefox called RefControl that allows you to enter whatever domain you like and will automatically drop it as a referral on any page you’re viewing online.
Lets get a bit sneaky with this trick and let our browser do the work while we’re away!
Autoit is a program (free!) that lets you create a “video” of sorts or macro, (with a few lines of code) and it will automatically replay that action over and over again for you automatically while your browser is open and running (while you’re sleeping). Combined with Stumbleupon, you can easily target any niche you like (using Stumbleupon as your pilot) and let Autoit drop your referral information throughout repeatedly. (You can find tutorials out there for programming Autoit and when I have some more time I’ll personally take a look into it but it seems a bit more advanced than what I had originally thought when I looked at it for the first time).
Referrals en masse
Just dropping one referral won’t get you on any of those “Top Referring Sites” lists. So, we need to do something a little more drastic to reverse-engineer these little boogers. In comes MagicTraffic Robot.
MagicTraffic Robot simply allows you to enter any domain for a target and any domain for the referral, and once you click submit you can spam to your little heart’s content. Pretty handy!
Wait for Revvenue Tools to be released, I have a copy of MagicTraffic Robot that will be included in membership. If you haven’t signed up already to be notified when it goes live, do so now! If you’re already a member of Revvenue Tools Beta, this program is available for download now.
Interesting read…any more details on how to use Autoit and Stumble together? Does someone need to be able to code to make this work
Thanks
Hi Yiorg.
I haven’t personally coded in Autoit but I will look into it a bit further and see if I can find a script that will automate this. It does seem like it’s going to take a bit of coding to get the job done though.
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Hi,
Like your blog very much.
One warning though, if you do use adsense, be careful not to overuse referral bombing, you may get a warning letter from google and some domains disabled for adsense.