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There was a bit of confusion with my cycle sites technique illustrated in the SEO Empire Part 1 post. I used autoblogs as an easy to understand example. Autoblogs generate links quickly to themselves and can be cycled (redirected) to a source to push those links. Therefore by the definition:

Cycle Site-A site that automatically gains links to itself and then through a redirection passes that link value to another site.

Oh boy I haven’t done an actual product review in a really long time. Well with my effort to get back into posting regularly it couldn’t hurt to do one for the sake of catching up. More the merrier. This one was sent in by the famous Mark from Digerati Marketing. It’s called Auto Stumble. Its job is pretty apparent, it helps you get exchange stumbles automatically.

I’ve been doing a lot of stumble work lately due to my recent release of several large community sites. Stumbleupon traffic doesn’t convert very well but it has some very good advantages other than the fact that its actual traffic.

Holy cripes! It’s been awhile since I’ve sat down and written a Blue Hat Technique. It just so happens I need this one for the next SEO Empire post. I’m like blah blah talking about Keyword Spinning then I realized you guys have no fuckin’ clue what I’m yammering about. So I figure nows a good time to fix all that and luckily this one is really really easy but like all Blue Hat Techniques it works like a mofo in many situations.

Here ya go. This is the del.icio.us captcha busted in Python.

#!/usr/bin/python
import Image,time,random,glob,re,os,sys

##$$$$
train = raw_input("train? (y/n)")
if(train == "y") : train= True
else: train = False
##
fileName = ''.join(sys.argv[1:])
def getNeighbourhood(i,width,height,pixels):
	results = []
	try:
		if(pixels[i+1] != 0): results.append(i+1)
		if(pixels[i-1] != 0): results.append(i-1)
		if(pixels[i-width] != 0): results.append(i-width)
		if(pixels[i+width] != 0): results.append(i+width)
		if(pixels[i-width+1] != 0): results.append(i-width+1)
		if(pixels[i+width+1] != 0): results.append(i+width+1)
		if(pixels[i-width-1] != 0): results.append(i-width-1)
		if(pixels[i+width-1] != 0): results.append(i+width-1)
	except:pass
	return results
now = time.time()
captcha = Image.open(fileName)
(width,height) = captcha.size
pixels = list(captcha.getdata())
i=0
for pixel in pixels:
	if (pixel == 2): pixels[i] = 0
	i+=1
toclean = []
for i in xrange(len(pixels)):
	neighbourhood = getNeighbourhood(i,width,height,pixels)
	if (len(neighbourhood) < 4) : 	pixels[i] = 0

captcha.putdata(pixels)
started=False
lowestY,highestY,count = 0,10000,0
captchas = []
slant = 15
for x in xrange(width):
	hasBlack = False
	for y in xrange(height):
		thisPixel = captcha.getpixel((x,y))
		if(thisPixel != 0):
			if(started == False):
				started=True
				firstX = x
				firstY = y
			else:
				lastX = x
			if(y > lowestY): lowestY = y
			if(y< highestY): highestY = y
			hasBlack = True
	if((hasBlack == False) and (started==True)):
		if((lowestY - highestY) > 4):
			croppingBox = (firstX,highestY,lastX,lowestY)
			newCaptcha = captcha.crop(croppingBox)
			if(train):
				text = raw_input(”char:n”)
				try: os.mkdir(”/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/” + text)
				except:pass
				text__ = “/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/” + text + “/” + str(random.randint(1,100000)) + “-.png”
				newCaptcha.resize((20,30)).save(text__)
				text_ = “/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/” + text + “/” + str(random.randint(1,100000)) + “-.png”
				newCaptcha.resize((20,30)).rotate(slant).save(text_)
				text_ = “/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/” + text + “/” + str(random.randint(1,100000)) + “-.png”
				newCaptcha.resize((20,30)).rotate(360 - slant).save(text_)
				captchas.append(Image.open(text__))
			else:
				#text = str(count)
				#text = “tmp-delicious-” + text + “.png”
				#newCaptcha.save(text)
				captchas.append(newCaptcha.resize((20,30)))

			started=False
			lowestY,highestY = 0,10000
			count +=1
if(train == False):

	imageFolders = os.listdir(”/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/”)
	images =[]
	for imageFolder in imageFolders:
		imageFiles = glob.glob(”/home/dbyte/deliciousImages/” + imageFolder + “/*.png”)
		for imageFile in imageFiles:
			pixels = list(Image.open(imageFile).getdata())
			for i in xrange(len(pixels)):
				if pixels[i] != 0: pixels[i] = 1
			images.append((pixels,imageFolder))

	crackedString = “”
	for captcha in captchas:
		bestSum,bestChar = 0,”"
		captchaPixels = list(captcha.getdata())
		for i in xrange(len(captchaPixels)):
			if captchaPixels[i] != 0: captchaPixels[i] = 1
		for imageAll in images:
			thisSum = 0
			pixels = imageAll[0]
			for i in xrange(len(captchaPixels)):
				try:
					if(captchaPixels[i] == pixels[i]): thisSum+=1
				except: pass
			if(thisSum > bestSum):
				bestSum = thisSum
				bestChar = imageAll[1]
		crackedString += bestChar
	print crackedString
	#print “time taken: ” + str(time.time() - now)

Guess what I’m in the mood to talk about? You guessed it. Captchas! In fact I feel like dedicating a whole week, maybe more depending on if any downtime occurs. to talking about nothing but captcha breaking. We’ll break every captcha in the book and even by the end of this post the captchas that haven’t been created yet. Furthermore, for this week only I am accepting any and all captcha related guest posts. So if you got a captcha solved or want to discuss techniques to breaking them feel free to write up a guest post and email it to ELI at BLUEHATSEO.COM in html form. You can stay anonymous and not only will I put it up but I’m also willing to put up any ad you’d like. Pick any text or banner ad you’d like to put up with your post and I’ll include it. With as many readers as this place has I’m sure it’ll get clicked. Also be sure to include your paypal address. If I really like your guest post I may even send you a $100 as a thank you. Also, all you bloggers are welcome to repost any of the captcha related posts on this blog. I now declare any captcha related posts on this blog public domain and republishable under full rights. For some odd reason I feel like blowing the captcha breaking industry the fuck up. Like my favorite saying goes, if you’re going to wreck a room you might as well WRECK it. Lets begin by visiting one of my first captcha related posts; the Army Of Captcha Typers.