Note: Phantom Pages - General Outline Phantom pages are ordinary static HTML pages that derive their name from the fact that they are not intended for human perusal. They are intendend for search engine spiders only who will crawl them. By contrast, human visitors will be redirected in realtime to your main or Core Domain. Input wise, phantom pages are generated from predefined elements: - Keywords/Search Phrases - Descriptions - Fillertext The fantomas shadowMaker program can generate an unlimited amount of unique phantom pages by randomizing the choice of fillertext which, on the phantom page proper, constitutes the body text, to be augmented/"innoculated" by your predefined keywords/search phrases to your predefined keyword density. This is the basic structure of a phantom page: HEAD - title - META Keywords - META Description BODY - description - cross links - random content (processed to feature keywords/search phrases in predefined density) Field: "Shadow domain (http://...)" Enter your Shadow Domain's full URL in this field. E.g.: http://www.yourshadowdomain.com/ This entry will be required for building the URLs in your search engine submission list. [ Close window ]
Checkbox: "Generate index page(s) only" Select this option e. g. if you want to generate fresh index pages in a subsequent run. This will allow you to optimize your index page(s) for additional keywords, etc. Checkbox: "Overwrite existing index page(s)" Select this option to overwrite any existing index page(s) generated in a previous run. If this checkbox is not selected with previously generated index pages on your system, the following error message will pop up: "There are already existing index pages. Please choose overwrite before you start creating new ones." To remediate this situation, return to Step 4 and select the overwrite option. [ Close window ]
Field: "Title of index page" Enter a fixed title for your Shadow Domain's index (home) page in this field. You may optionally select "Choose keyword of index page" here. (More on this function further below.) Now, if you enter a title with the placeholder symbol "#" here, e. g. "We offer great # stuff!", the placeholder will be replaced by the pertinent keyword or keyword phrase during page generation. If you don't select the option "Choose keyword of index page", the placeholder will be removed. In the example above, this would simply generate an index page with the text "We offer great stuff!" in the title tag. Text area: "Body text of index page" By default, the body text of your Shadow Domain's index (home) page is exempt from randomization and must be entered in this text area field. IN STANDARD MODE: If you select option "Choose keyword of index page" but fail to enter text for "Body text of index page" in the textarea field, the index page's body text will be generated randomly from the fillertext file as for any other phantom page. The program will also include a selected keyword or search phrase into this page's body text. (See pursuant description.) [ Close window ]
Checkbox: "Choose keyword of index page" When selecting this option, the index page will be optimized for a keyword or search phrase. As the program cannot know of itself which particular keyword or search phrase you want to optimize the index page for, you are offered three possible options to choose from. Radiobox: "Select randomly from keyword file" Select this option if you want the keyword or search phrase to be selected randomly from the standard keyword file as defined under either "Keyword flat file (name)" or "Keyword CSV file (name):" above. (Choice of keyword file will depend on which of these two options you have selected.) Radiobox: "Keywords for random selection" (with text area) This option allows you to manually define a separate list of keywords or search phrases for your index page only. Each keyword must be entered in a separate line. Example: keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 search phrase1 search phrase2 search phrase3 Radiobox: "Additional keyword flat file (path/name) for random selection" (with entry field) As a third "Choose keyword of index page" option, you can have the program pull your keyword from a dedicated plain text file. Define this file's name in the entry field. If you enter a file name only, the file in question must reside in directory "input/input_keywords". Else, please define the full system path along with the file name. [ Close window ]
Field: "Title of phantom pages" The phantom page titles will be generated according to a fixed mechanism, integratng the relevant keyword/search phrase with a text to be predefined by you in this field. The keyword/search phrase will be represented by a place holder. Example: -------- Best # here We offer # Find infos about # During phantom page generation, the place holder # will be replaced by the keyword/search phrase relevant to the phantom page in question. Thus, the final titles in our example might look like the following: Best online casinos here We offer security solutions Find infos about search engine optimization Tip: For optimum ranking and traffic generation results, we recommend using short, snappy titles of no more than two to max. four terms (plus keywords/search phrases). Field: "Text above cross links" On the phantom page, following the page description right at the top of the BODY section, selected cross links to other phantom pages will be listed. By default, the first two links will point to the Shadow Domain's index page and the sitemap (which will be generated automatically), followed by 4 additional links selected randomly. This cross linking mechanism ensures that all phantom pages are cross linked multiple times across the whole Shadow Domains, thus avoiding possibly orphan pages which are viewed unfavorably by the search engines. You can optionally include further text above the cross links section. (E. g. "printer friendly copy", or similar.) [ Close window ]
Field: "Text under cross links" Text optionally entered in this field will be added immediately below the cross links section. Field: "Max. links per sitemap" If generating a large number of phantom pages for a domain, it is recommended not to feature all internal links on a single sitemap page. (In an attempt to weed out mere link farms, some search engines will limit the number of links their spiders may follow per given page.) This parameter lets you define the maximum of links to be featured on your domain's sitemap pages. In accordance with this parameter, the program will create multiple sitemap pages which will then be linked to in aggregate from a top sitemap page. To accomodate very large numbers of links, the program may also generate multiple layered sitemap top pages. Checkbox: "Include Title attribute for links" Check this box if you want to include title attributes for the links on your sitemap page(s). This will create title tag entries in the following format (example): <a href="key-phrase-01-01.html" title="key phrase">key phrase</a> Field: "Content text weight (kB)" In this field you can determine the size of the randomized body text to be included in the phantom pages. Note that the actual file size will be somewhat larger due to additional overhead being added by HTML tags and JavaScript code. Tip: When generating several phantom pages per targeted keyword/search phrase in varying keyword densities (recommended), we suggest you also experiment with varying content text sizes for optimum ranking results. [ Close window ]
Field: "TARGkd" Enter the targeted keyword density in this field. To achieve the predefined keyword density, the phantom page body text is basically processed as follows: First, any occurences of predefined listed keywords/search phrases possibly already included by chance in the fillertext will be deleted and replaced by place holders. This avoids the issue of inadvertently increasing the density of any given keyword/search phrase beyond the predefined mark. Next, the place holder will be replaced by the keyword/search phrase desired for the page in question. Finally, the text will be processed further to fine tune the exact keyword density to the desired value. Checkbox: "Include Cache Buster" If you want to cloak for Google, you should implement a cache buster (JavaScript code) on every phantom page redirecting human viewers to the target URL. Note that this won't provide you with 100% security - if someone turns off JavaScript functionality in their browser, they will still be able to see your phantom page code! However, this is the next best option to being stigmatized by Google for using their own proprietary NOARCHIVE tag. If you select the checkbox "Include Cache Buster", a JavaScript section wiil be included in every phantom page with the respective target URL. [ Close window ]
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