This post is dedicated to our Link Farm Evolution customers. Special thanks to discodog and guerilla for providing us with cool tips!
You guys fucking rock. We fucking rock. Link Farm Evolution rocks.
Without further delay, we present you: Link Farm Evolution: Best Practices.
1. Create batches of 200 blogs at the same time
When you create blogs on WordPress MU hosts keep in mind that some of them will fail due to errors on the hosts, not on LFE. Based in our tests and users tests we have found that when you create blogs on WPMU hosts, you will experience a success rate of 50% – 60%.
Bottom line, aim for more to reach your goal.
2. Tag your blogs properly
Tagging your blogs the right way is a key factor to the success of your linking strategy. Having your realstate organized has many benefits, one of them is doing interlinking the right way.
Let’s do a little exercise:
- Create 200 blogs with the tag “halloween 1″
- Create 200 blogs with the tag “halloween 2″
- Create 200 blogs with the tag “halloween 3″
- Export all the blogs under the tag “halloween 1″ in .csv format.
- Go to your LFE and select all your blogs with the tag “halloween 3″ and click “Put links on my blog xx”.
- Paste all the exported blogs (The ones with the tag “halloween 1″) to add them into the blogroll of the blogs tagged with “halloween 3″ via the “Put my link on Blogroll” option.
Using this strategy your blogs tagged with “halloween 3″ will randomly link from their blogroll to the blogs tagged with “halloween 1″. You can use the same strategy to link blogs tagged “halloween 2″, but remember not to interlink too much.
3. Don’t interlink your whole network
If you have a big network of blogs (>10k), never ever interlink them all. We can’t stress this enough, so we will repeat it one more time: Never interlink your whole network!
A better approach would be if had small niched networks of blogs (around 100-300 blogs) and then you interlink them with other similar niched netwoks. (Remember the past exercise?)
In this case, if you get bitch-slapped by SERP’s you only lose a small amount of blogs instead of your whole network.
4. Set your cron job to run every 10 minutes.
Each time the cron job is triggered, it checks batches of 50 activation emails. That means that if you create 200 blogs, the script will will need to run 4 times to check all the activation emails. Less time between each run may risk you losing a couple of blogs because of delayed emails, more time will waste a lot of time.
Remember that you can also run your cron job manually by accessing http://yourdomain.com/pathtolfe/cron.php
5. Create your own catchall domains
Link Farm Evolution has access to many catchall domains for activation emails by default, but it’s more likely that your realstate won’t stick since you are using the same domains as everybody else. This point is even more important when targeting hosts like WordPress.com, Blogger and Tumblr.
We will be adding more catchall domains every once in a while but we strongly encourage you guys to install your own. You will stay under the radar this way.
Of course as you all know, we offer the script and all the necessary support to create your own catchall domains.
6. Get free domains for your catchall domains
Don’t waste your dollars on .com or .net domains for your catchall domains. Go ahead and claim your free .co.cc domains.
You can get them at [www.co.cc]. They limit it to two free domains per account, but if you create more accounts you get more free domains (We know that you guys thought of that before reading this, so don’t give us that look!)
7. Allow a few days before publishing the first post
We have heard from a bunch of users that they leave their created blogs alone for a few days before posting something. This is because many times the webmaster of the host receives an automatic notification whenever a new blog is created and they might check it to see if it’s spammy. However, it’s is highly unlikely that they will check it down the road.
8. Start with a “clean” post and wait a few days.
Google is always crawling new sites and may recognize obvious spammy content. For your first post we suggest you to add something not spammy, like an introductory post and a couple of pics from Flickr.
Yes, we know it’s not interesting… But lets be honest, it will be more interesting than all your dirty spam 
9. Contextual Links: Smart link on your posts
Make contextual links. You can use the integrated content spinning tools to create relevant links on your posts.
To do that, change the editor mode to “HTML CODE” and use:
<a href=”{ http://someblog.tumblr.com | http://someblog.blogger.com | http://someblog.wpmuhost.com }”> {anchor text 1 | anchor text 2 | anchor text3}</ a>
Export the links into .csv from LFE beforehand to choose the links you want to create.
10. For the love of God and everything that is pure in this world, spin your content
You can use the content spinning on several levels, for example:
{Today it is fine to Paris | In Paris today it is nice | It’s a beautiful day in Paris}
And you can also do recursive spinning like:
Today : {Today | This Morning | The afternoon | Tonight | This lunchtime}
Paris: {Rome | Paris | Prague | New York | Tokyo | Las Vegas}
Fine: {Fine | ugly | Cold | Hot | right}
And if we add the spinned words to the spinned sentences:
{{Today | This Morning | The afternoon | Tonight | This lunchtime} it is {Fine | ugly | Cold | Hot | right} to {Rome | Paris | Prague | New York | Tokyo | Las Vegas} | In {Rome | Paris | Prague | New York | Tokyo | Las Vegas} {Today | This Morning | The afternoon | Tonight | This lunchtime} it is {Fine | ugly | Cold | Hot | right| nice} | It’s a {Fine | ugly | Cold | Hot | right|beautiful} day in {Rome | Paris | Prague | New York | Tokyo | Las Vegas}}
Your posts will have a similarity of about 10%-15%
11. Create links to your blogs
To have a killer blog network, you need to drop some juice to your realstate.
50 links from some juicy domains spread around your blogs will do the job. You can use our integrated Pligg tool to post your blogs to thousands of Pligg sites, or you can use the old-not recommended-boring but still popular spammy techniques like guest books, referrer spam etc.
You could also use commercial tools like Bookmarking Demon and Onlywire to submit your blogs to social bookmarking sites.
12. Link to other sites
In order to stay under the radar, you must look legit. Have you ever seen a site without a single link to another site? No. So don’t be cheap and send some linkjiuce to related sites such as Wikipedia articles or other niched sites.
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