CBox – 400,000 free backlinks using Google

November 17, 2007 by
Filed under: Link Building 

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!

Comments

171 Comments on CBox – 400,000 free backlinks using Google

  1. Shareware on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 12:59 pm
  2. This sounds a little too much blackhat for my taste. Might try and find some relevant sites using it and post at those.

  3. Mystery PUA on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 1:21 pm
  4. Do the comments posted have nofollow tags associated with them??

  5. Collin LaHay on Tue, 20th Nov 2007 9:39 pm
  6. The links do NOT have nofollow. :)

  7. Joe24 on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 1:18 am
  8. 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

  9. Nick on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 10:37 am
  10. Don’t the links disappear after your text is gone from that CBOx?

  11. Collin LaHay on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 10:39 am
  12. On the popular ones, yeah. Lots haven’t been touched in years though.

  13. Matt on Wed, 21st Nov 2007 12:57 pm
  14. Very informative post, thanks for the tips.

    Matt

  15. perfumer on Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 1:27 am
  16. Thanks man!

  17. Kredittkort on Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 2:30 am
  18. Hi,

    I have tried to find but i don

  19. Collin LaHay on Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 10:39 am
  20. @Kredittkort: You add your links to the tagbox software. Where it asks for your email/URL you add your website.

  21. Consoles on Wed, 28th Nov 2007 1:12 pm
  22. Well I’ll try it out – but it’s hard to find unpopular ones where the link won’t disappear.

  23. Online psychic on Mon, 3rd Dec 2007 2:47 pm
  24. 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 [...]

  25. Free Image Hosting on Sat, 8th Dec 2007 12:01 am
  26. Wouldn’t this build up too many backlinks too quickly?

  27. Collin LaHay on Sat, 8th Dec 2007 9:02 am
  28. As long as your link building efforts are consistent, no. =)

  29. Fadi on Tue, 25th Dec 2007 3:35 pm
  30. 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?

  31. Fadi on Wed, 26th Dec 2007 2:36 pm
  32. 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.

  33. DanyO on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 4:47 pm
  34. 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! :)

  35. Collin LaHay on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 5:17 pm
  36. 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.

  37. Kartal on Sun, 13th Jan 2008 3:26 pm
  38. Thanks.

    Very Good!

  39. sandeep on Thu, 17th Jan 2008 11:39 pm
  40. from where Cbox will be available to me

  41. LiverpoolMad on Fri, 18th Jan 2008 6:58 pm
  42. “from where Cbox will be available to me”….
    yeah i also want to know…plz help!!!!

  43. Brendan on Mon, 21st Jan 2008 12:22 am
  44. 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.

  45. Shark Tooth on Mon, 21st Jan 2008 4:12 am
  46. How to purchase CBox ???????????

  47. Shark Tooth on Mon, 21st Jan 2008 4:14 am
  48. How many days it will take to build 400,000 backlinks???

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  51. infectedbybugs on Thu, 31st Jan 2008 7:25 am
  52. Another great tip from the man!

  53. Affiliate Confession on Thu, 31st Jan 2008 8:20 am
  54. 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.

  55. php on Sat, 2nd Feb 2008 9:50 am
  56. very good thanx

  57. php on Sat, 2nd Feb 2008 9:50 am
  58. thanx

  59. ask siirleri on Sat, 2nd Feb 2008 9:51 am
  60. thanxx

  61. Danny @ MarketTreasure.com on Wed, 6th Feb 2008 4:27 pm
  62. 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.

  63. CashJuke on Sat, 16th Feb 2008 5:15 am
  64. 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.

  65. Katie on Wed, 20th Feb 2008 8:30 pm
  66. Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to try it out :)

    ~Katie

  67. Sagmalcilar Lisesi on Sat, 23rd Feb 2008 9:00 am
  68. oww! great post
    thanks :)

  69. Katalog Stron on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 7:44 am
  70. Thanks for the tips.

  71. heavy lift on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 4:09 pm
  72. great post – thanks for the tips

  73. limitsiz on Fri, 25th Apr 2008 7:15 am
  74. thanks for the tips

  75. Hakukoneoptimointi on Sun, 4th May 2008 11:11 am
  76. This is great, thanks for the info!

  77. brij on Tue, 13th May 2008 6:02 am
  78. Informative post..
    I have learn some new points.
    Again Thanks..

  79. phillip mentor on Mon, 19th May 2008 6:35 pm
  80. how can i attract relevant back links to my website thanks phillip

  81. landy234 on Wed, 21st May 2008 7:14 am
  82. it’s usefull, thanks for sharing

  83. Hulk vs Iron Man on Sat, 21st Jun 2008 4:10 pm
  84. So what’s the verdict? Are multiple CBox links not able to give the intended amount of backlinks?

  85. police on Wed, 25th Jun 2008 10:55 pm
  86. 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

  87. retro on Sat, 12th Jul 2008 10:10 pm
  88. Nice info ! :D

    @police
    I dont think it’s totally the same
    maybe just they use same words..

    not a big problem right?
    :D

    CMIIW

  89. MrMike on Wed, 23rd Jul 2008 9:27 am
  90. How i use the Cbox?

  91. John P on Fri, 8th Aug 2008 2:43 pm
  92. thanks for sharing lol

  93. absinthe on Wed, 13th Aug 2008 8:20 pm
  94. nice resource, thanks

  95. Funny on Sat, 16th Aug 2008 2:54 pm
  96. Very useful post thanks!

  97. Dieta Personalizzata on Mon, 1st Sep 2008 2:45 pm
  98. Kind of shady, but cool.

    Do you advise against using this linking method on our whitehat trusted sites?

    Roby

  99. Collin LaHay on Mon, 1st Sep 2008 6:20 pm
  100. It won’t help for SEO, stick with the dofollow listings in the link cookbook.

  101. Bernard McClay on Thu, 18th Sep 2008 4:19 pm
  102. All greek to me ……. we’ll try almost anything once .

  103. James SEO on Thu, 25th Sep 2008 12:32 am
  104. Very interesting. I think I’ll look more into this.

  105. Jerry Davids on Tue, 2nd Dec 2008 4:42 pm
  106. Do The links are all loaded via an Iframe means that you only get one link?

  107. queellawamy on Fri, 19th Dec 2008 4:52 pm
  108. The good resource is informative and actual

  109. Money on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 1:41 am
  110. Yeah, to make this work traffic-wise I guess you’ll have to put something clickable as your anchor text…

  111. johnie123 on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 2:32 am
  112. Very useful, thanks for sharing !!

  113. johnie123 on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 3:22 am
  114. cool, very interesting thanks!

  115. William on Mon, 29th Dec 2008 10:20 am
  116. Thanks for the tip. After struggling to find the place and way to load the html, I seem to have it showing up on my blogger site.
    I’ll monitor it. What should I look for next?

  117. test on Sat, 10th Jan 2009 2:47 pm
  118. I’ll try it out on my seotest.net site and se if it works I am already 85 for seo test let see what happens

  119. suround on Tue, 13th Jan 2009 3:54 pm
  120. Thanks for sharing it but, what is this can guarantee the blog traffic increased dramatically.

  121. Mortgage Broker Scotland on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 10:23 am
  122. Great free backlinks using google development list, I have a few links on some you have listed. I will have to look at some other sites as I may have some to part with.

  123. Arthur on Sun, 18th Jan 2009 10:07 am
  124. Good information, thanks

  125. Ivan on Wed, 21st Jan 2009 10:48 am
  126. It will help for more links

  127. Freelance Website Designers on Thu, 22nd Jan 2009 9:02 am
  128. Thanks for the heads up…

  129. Di on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 8:00 am
  130. But, isnt that the whole idea?

  131. ardacan on Sat, 31st Jan 2009 5:34 pm
  132. wowwwwwwwww very interesting

  133. Get-Listed-in-Google.co.uk on Sun, 22nd Feb 2009 2:59 pm
  134. Very interesting loophole. Thanks for sharing

  135. chou on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 12:06 pm
  136. Excellent Article.

  137. codeboot on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 9:45 am
  138. very good ! thanks man

  139. Las Vegas Nightlife on Sat, 28th Mar 2009 10:33 pm
  140. does this method still work?

  141. yuni on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 9:39 am
  142. thank for infrm

  143. Bill McCabe on Wed, 15th Apr 2009 2:22 pm
  144. thanks for the information

  145. Jobsnigeria on Fri, 24th Apr 2009 11:08 am
  146. Intresting,Thanks.I needs backlinks for my new wbsite.

  147. gert on Thu, 30th Apr 2009 6:30 am
  148. i dont no i thnk if you get so much links in to short time if its treu google will ban you

  149. ???? on Fri, 15th May 2009 9:22 pm
  150. thanks for the information

  151. Vintage Watches on Mon, 18th May 2009 3:06 am
  152. Sound good I’ll give it a try

    Thanks!

  153. to stop sweating on Mon, 25th May 2009 6:16 am
  154. Very useful post for link building!it is effective.

  155. AbcWrong on Thu, 18th Jun 2009 2:24 am
  156. cool!

  157. harga laptop notebook on Tue, 23rd Jun 2009 12:22 pm
  158. Was a good read. thank great post, I think this article is useful. I’ll be back for more. Thanks for sharing the information . .. :)

  159. linda on Sat, 27th Jun 2009 5:41 am
  160. thanks guys

  161. Ed on Mon, 29th Jun 2009 5:30 pm
  162. Wow ! can you imange having 1,000,000 + free backlinks to your buisness website ?

    Collin Lahay, as this all work out?

    Ed :)

  163. linda on Sun, 5th Jul 2009 11:03 pm
  164. nice site. thanks!

  165. Dharmesh on Mon, 6th Jul 2009 11:55 pm
  166. This trick no longer works i think. Pls verify

  167. digital megapixel on Sun, 26th Jul 2009 2:36 am
  168. nice blog.. thanks for share

  169. Todo gratis para el celular on Fri, 31st Jul 2009 9:56 am
  170. Muy buena utilidad, gracias por la informacion.

  171. socialpartner on Sun, 2nd Aug 2009 8:49 pm
  172. Im try to search using google with allintext:[get a cbox], but on listing just website with review/post article .

  173. Kathy on Thu, 20th Aug 2009 4:14 pm
  174. DO the backlinks actually count though?

  175. Online on Sat, 29th Aug 2009 2:46 pm
  176. Good post)

  177. Joseph on Mon, 31st Aug 2009 2:45 pm
  178. Great Article Thank You!

  179. Baixar Jogos on Sun, 27th Sep 2009 4:15 pm
  180. nice Article. thanks!

  181. seguro para coche on Tue, 6th Oct 2009 4:14 am
  182. Is this method not too risky?

  183. CRM on Wed, 21st Oct 2009 5:30 pm
  184. thanks for sharing this

  185. Kelinci on Sun, 15th Nov 2009 10:48 am
  186. This method really effective. Thanks.

  187. phillipmentor on Mon, 21st Dec 2009 5:04 pm
  188. nice artcle ,but i have try everything with no luck at all

    phillip

  189. Anna on Sat, 16th Jan 2010 10:53 am
  190. Great article, but I can`t find any of thix chatroom/

  191. Attraction on Fri, 19th Feb 2010 12:38 pm
  192. Nice infomation, the only problem with this is that in high-traffic sites like kennysia.com, leaving the backlinks will only last for few minutes to hours.

    P/S: the delete the above comment, wrong link.

  193. pupung on Sat, 13th Mar 2010 10:56 am
  194. nice info..
    thx for information

  195. a website hosting on Sat, 20th Mar 2010 9:31 am
  196. Useful information, thanks for sharing

  197. Anton on Sun, 21st Mar 2010 3:41 am
  198. Thank you. to try. think will work well.

  199. john on Mon, 22nd Mar 2010 6:12 am
  200. Just out Blogging and passing the word !Check it out !

  201. Adelia on Tue, 23rd Mar 2010 3:52 am
  202. Very nice information…

    Thanks For Sharing..

  203. Novri on Mon, 29th Mar 2010 4:00 am
  204. Good info and good site… thank

  205. doower on Mon, 5th Apr 2010 9:10 am
  206. thanks for your information, very helpfull

  207. doni on Thu, 8th Apr 2010 4:50 am
  208. Nice Info, Thanks

  209. Online Games NL on Thu, 8th Apr 2010 4:52 am
  210. Great Links, Amazing….!!

  211. earring express on Tue, 13th Apr 2010 9:12 pm
  212. Very Cool but I think you should delete this

  213. alternative energy on Wed, 14th Apr 2010 1:01 am
  214. wow great idea….

  215. International cargo shipping on Fri, 16th Apr 2010 11:43 pm
  216. thanks for your information, very helpfull

  217. sisca on Sun, 18th Apr 2010 5:48 pm
  218. Thanks for sharing the information to build links to sites..it was informative..

  219. May on Sun, 18th Apr 2010 5:49 pm
  220. Another great tip from the man!

  221. earring express on Tue, 20th Apr 2010 5:17 pm
  222. I want to know what the pros cbox

    thx before

  223. anug2 on Sat, 24th Apr 2010 1:43 am
  224. thank you very very much

  225. tattooflashsets on Fri, 30th Apr 2010 2:10 am
  226. Don

  227. software for accounting on Mon, 10th May 2010 9:18 am
  228. Great article, but I can`t find any of thix chatroom. thank you very very much

  229. Brian Benson on Fri, 14th May 2010 7:59 am
  230. Thanks for this one. Im testing this now. Lol

  231. air jordan shoes I on Sat, 15th May 2010 1:49 am
  232. good nice great
    thanks a lot

  233. Indovision on Tue, 18th May 2010 2:26 am
  234. Good info, worth the try. Thanks

  235. Tattoo Flash Sets on Thu, 20th May 2010 9:37 pm
  236. I like to use the cbox, very useful to increase the number of visitors

  237. ayu on Sun, 23rd May 2010 9:18 am
  238. Thanks for sharing the information to build links to sites..its wi’ll helpul

  239. Bizhaku on Sun, 23rd May 2010 10:01 am
  240. Nice Article, Thanks For Share :)

  241. bizhaku on Tue, 25th May 2010 8:53 am
  242. This sounds a little too much blackhat for my taste. Thanks for sharing the information to build links to sites..its wi

  243. bizhaku on Tue, 25th May 2010 2:54 pm
  244. I Like You hihihi nyam.. :D

  245. huttaqi09 on Sat, 29th May 2010 10:51 pm
  246. Well I

  247. Parions Sport on Sun, 30th May 2010 7:31 am
  248. Thanks for the tip, i’ll try this

  249. puspa on Wed, 2nd Jun 2010 1:17 am
  250. good information, thanks

  251. ELVIA on Wed, 2nd Jun 2010 1:21 am
  252. amazing article..thanks

  253. Ahmad on Mon, 7th Jun 2010 10:21 am
  254. very cice info……….
    thanks

  255. kasongandigital on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 8:40 am
  256. nice info thanks guys

  257. Trinys on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 2:49 pm
  258. Very amazing info that you have it will give me link building,
    Thank a lot

  259. shammy on Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 1:26 am
  260. Thanks guys, it is good info and i want to try it.

  261. Azmi on Fri, 25th Jun 2010 8:57 pm
  262. Nice Article, thank you for sharing, and so much for this information.

    Azmi

  263. adwords marketing on Sat, 26th Jun 2010 11:09 am
  264. all about backlink hehehehe….
    i think backlink is a king and content is a queen

  265. baliboy on Thu, 8th Jul 2010 1:20 pm
  266. Lots haven

  267. genta on Thu, 8th Jul 2010 1:22 pm
  268. Nice post…usefull information about link building!

  269. chana on Wed, 14th Jul 2010 10:14 pm
  270. nice article thanks guys

  271. baju muslimah on Wed, 21st Jul 2010 5:02 am
  272. good idea gan

  273. Chris on Mon, 16th Aug 2010 3:11 am
  274. 400000 backlinks are to hard for me

  275. arif on Sun, 22nd Aug 2010 7:04 am
  276. 400000 backlink….wow …it’s great man…

  277. triani on Fri, 27th Aug 2010 9:51 am
  278. Thanks for sharing…

  279. Dodi Hermawan on Fri, 10th Sep 2010 4:44 pm
  280. This article was very good and very useful to build strong backlinks, thanks for sharing and information

  281. Dodi on Fri, 10th Sep 2010 4:52 pm
  282. atikel was very helpful and useful for improving baclink strong, thanks for sharing information

  283. Dodi on Fri, 10th Sep 2010 4:57 pm
  284. atikel was very helpful and useful for improving baclink strong

  285. Fauzul on Fri, 17th Sep 2010 8:06 pm
  286. 400,000 free backlinks using Google, I like it!

    Give me a backlink to my site, Please!

  287. todor todorov on Sat, 16th Oct 2010 9:37 am
  288. very good idea, tnks

  289. michael mike on Mon, 1st Nov 2010 10:55 pm
  290. hey…thanks for your information,great article and great job

    thanks

  291. WebCorsa on Tue, 2nd Nov 2010 5:05 am
  292. innovative idea thanks

  293. Top WP Plugins on Thu, 4th Nov 2010 6:21 pm
  294. Awesome ideas, thanks alot for sharing em

  295. saefa on Thu, 25th Nov 2010 3:07 am
  296. it’s very useful information, thx

  297. yundhi20 on Fri, 26th Nov 2010 3:05 am
  298. nice article..!

  299. Randy S. on Sat, 4th Dec 2010 6:52 pm
  300. Has anyone had any success with this? If so have you kept results from just this method?
    Thanks

  301. magic on Sat, 18th Dec 2010 8:13 pm
  302. Good, very interesting thanks

  303. dexa de angelis on Wed, 22nd Dec 2010 7:01 am
  304. 400,000 free backlinks!!! woww….. amazing

  305. dexa de angelis on Sun, 26th Dec 2010 7:09 am
  306. free backlink, wow…. i like it

  307. Peluang Usaha on Sat, 12th Mar 2011 6:01 pm
  308. Very Cool but I think you should delete this…People will copy this too much . Has anyone had any success with this? If so have you kept results from just this method?
    Thanks

  309. gele tanden on Fri, 20th May 2011 8:59 am
  310. With havin so much content do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my authorization. Do you know any solutions to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d truly appreciate it.

  311. Garmin 265W on Fri, 20th May 2011 11:44 am
  312. 400.000 backlinks…amazing..go to number 1 google :)

  313. plastic surgery photos on Tue, 14th Jun 2011 2:46 am
  314. This article was very good and very useful to build strong backlinks, thanks for sharing and information.

  315. goziee on Fri, 17th Jun 2011 10:47 pm
  316. great,,,thx for share!i like it

  317. John Albert on Wed, 22nd Jun 2011 5:00 am
  318. 0.4 million links, i cant believe it. If it is true then it is amazing, because with those many link we will crush any competition.

    Thanks of sharing

  319. toko online-ku on Fri, 24th Jun 2011 1:11 am
  320. good. I like it..

  321. adisan on Tue, 28th Jun 2011 9:47 pm
  322. Your atikel was very good and useful for improving baclink strong my website

  323. Wafa on Thu, 7th Jul 2011 2:02 am
  324. 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.it is amazing, because with those many link we will crush any competition. Very good

  325. adis on Thu, 14th Jul 2011 10:28 pm
  326. Wooo, fantastically. I am very supporting you

  327. hridoy on Thu, 21st Jul 2011 12:25 pm
  328. it’s help to us and this artical is so great . Thanks

  329. shoel on Thu, 21st Jul 2011 5:28 pm
  330. very nice. if you want backlink please visit my site :)

  331. fprogress on Fri, 14th Oct 2011 3:05 am
  332. very interesting article..and will very helpful for me to get backlink..
    thanks..

  333. Ugg on Thu, 15th Dec 2011 1:46 am
  334. scovered this post. I’m going to have to check it out and get a few backlinks to a couple of sites on the fringe.it is amazing, because with those many link we will crush any compe

  335. Greenhouses kits on Fri, 23rd Dec 2011 11:36 pm
  336. What a great tips.
    I have to try all.

    Thanks

  337. reccemaster on Fri, 9th Mar 2012 11:53 am
  338. Does this still work in 2012… the post is quite old now. I might test it a on a few searches but is it Black hat and Google hate or is it good?

  339. MelGrim on Sat, 21st Apr 2012 9:55 pm
  340. Thanks man, This was what I was looking for (also, I was looking for a comment box to throw up my link :p)

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