Nope not me, still have 20 or so more projects before I do anything in PDL. I do like to keep an eye on it, though, just for fun. I might change the niche slightly as I don't fancy investing money for it to be in vain. I'd at least rather make a little bit of it back, but seems like it's not really an option with my limited knowledge.
Not sure if it is the case with this example, but if you spam a 301 redirect hard enough it will sometimes take on the persona of the site that it is redirected to (meta data, and all), and sometimes (depending on the authority of the target site) will actually rank in the serps in the target site's place (with the target site all but disappearing from the index).
This shouldn't be how it works, but I've seen first hand that it can be (and is also the reason why a certain variation of the 301 trick was invented).
Thanks 2Take2. Update after day 1: M$ has moved up 3 spaces in Google. Page 3 now. No sign of the spammed URls ranking. I did about 20k submissions. Probably just coincidence. Will report back if I see more movement
@markdoe830. I have done 2 separate projects. One is just a simple 301 domain to my M$. This one is currently doing better than the second project, which is a 301'd domain to another domain that keeps Googlebot on the page (it's basically a shitty WP blog), everyone else is forwarded to my M$. I've setup htaccess user-agent and googlebot IP detection. I've spammed them with everything I've got (even exploits), looking at about 100k submissions now in total. Domains are brand new and broad match.
@ron thanks, I've not done much by way of SEO since December for personal reasons but now ready to go full throttle again.
@coneh34d yes user-agent detection and also I did some IP ranges. I don't think I got anywhere near all Google IPs, though. But that'll be my next attempt if this dives, buy a list of IPs that are going round and are updated a lot. I'm sending googlebot user-agent to a Wordpress blog, with unique content (the theme is a bit sh*t though but Googlebot shouldn't care!). One thing about this method that appeals to me is, Google can only surely de-value 301 redirects, it's simple for them to follow a 301 (or two...) but a whole different kettle of fish to start analysing and penalising 301 spam via a Penguin update or whatever.
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This shouldn't be how it works, but I've seen first hand that it can be (and is also the reason why a certain variation of the 301 trick was invented).
Nice to see you back on the forum BTW spunko.
+1 for being the coolest thread in 2014.
@spunko2010 I really missed you brother. I'm glad you crawled out of your bunker fully armed and ready to kick some ass!!