Thursday, March 3, 2011

Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO

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Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO


domain parking JV

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:25 PM PST

for domain parking JV pm me guys not only the JV is for hotkeys but for DDC,Parklogic,Domainspa and Bigjumbo Networks and best it's totally whitehat and we can make way more than 30k+ monthly.You keep 20% and we keep the rest 80% and you will get invoices too
Hit me up with your skype or gmail to discuss further

What to sell on ebay?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:18 PM PST

What are some ideas of items I should sell on ebay. I only sell completely legit items, that are not: (fake, not allowed to be sold on ebay, replicas, etc.)

I would like to bring in some income, so I would like to become a powerseller on ebay, but I need to learn the game.

Any tips?

Looking for a ScrapeBoard List

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:39 PM PST

I am looking for a good list to use with ScrapeBoard or any tips on making my own big list.

WoW Account

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:38 PM PST

Quick question. if i want to see my wow account is there a way to sell my account but still be able to reuse my account with the same cdkey i dont want to have to go and rebuy a new cdkey :S...

Anyone have some really good eBook submission software?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:36 PM PST

Looking for a way to get my ebook out into as may places as possible for link juice and promo purposes.

Can anyone recommend any good software or a service that can help me achieve this?

To be a Virtual Assistant

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:59 PM PST

Recently I have launched Virtual Assistant Service for my company. I have learnt a lot about this service and I am quite interested in this. This is popular now but not many people know about it, especially in Asian countries.
I myself have ideas about this, but in order to start, it is not easy at all. Finding a customer will be my first task
I will be a Virtual assistant in SEO, Link Building and Data Entry so your help will be much appreciated.
Thanks so much Black Hat World Members

Send Safe Enterprise

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:58 PM PST

Are you interested in mailing? If so, I'm planning to sell my send-safe enterprise license purchase about 1 yr ago.

MAKE ME AN OFFER.....

This software helped me lunch my business.

I grew out of this software to something that allowed me to have multiple users with different admin rights.

If you want to read the specs on this software visit send-safe dot com. Right now it cost 600 Euros... if you read in this forum you will realize that this software is highly recommended to send volume. You can easily make good money with this software...

Also have their send safe list manager software $200 Euro that can get bundle together.

PM me if you are interested.

Decaptcha + Bookmarking Demon Costs

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PST

Hey guys,

I just got BMD and I've been reading as many of threads on this thing as I can seeing as though it's not the easiest tool in the world to use straight out of the box.

So I set up decaptcha with this thing and its $4 per 1000 credits.

If you haven't read all the threads by scritty I highly advise you do because that guy knows his stuff when it comes to this program.

Anyways I've read that many him along with my users will have 100+ accounts.

Doing the math, that adds up to a good amount of coin using decaptcha if you use every account, 5 days a week...

Half of the top 100 PR1+ bookmarking sites require a captcha when you bookmark. That comes down to around 50 credits per blast of an account...

If you use this tool 5 days a week, that comes out to...

50 blasts x 100 accounts x 5 days a week = 25,000 credits used up per week

Since Decaptcha is $4 per 1000 credits, thats $100 per week... $400 per month.

Now I just got google slapped not too long ago so I'm pretty tight on cash and so to me, that's a sizeable amount of money to be spending on bookmarking each month.

For those of you who have used this tool....

#1. Is it necessary to use it at this level?
#2. Does the results you see justify the amount you spend with all the captcha credits?

Trying to plan my expenses with this thing and I'm kinda confused... :confused:

Simple steps to making money with youtube..

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PST

Im a total newbie here.

Could you please give me a quick step by step sort of guide with links attached on how to make some decent money on youtube.

I appreciate half of you wont give the information away but if you do it would be much appreciated.

Thanks so much!

Market Samurai Begging For Forgiveness...

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PST

I looked around and did not see this already posted. My apologies if this is a duplicate thread.

My buddy, who had previously purchased MS, received the following email a day or two ago:

Code:

Dear xxxx

I'm emailing you to say sorry.

In the last week and a half, attacks on our servers and changes to
the Google Keyword Tool have seen some modules of Market Samurai
functioning well below their normal high standard.

You may have been affected...

If so, we want to make it up to you!

=====================
WHAT HAS HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES
=====================

### Servers Under Attack! ###

If you were already a paid Market Samurai user, some of your Market
Samurai modules may not have been functioning correctly and you may
not have been able to make effective use of the software.

Since last Friday, outside sources have been overloading our
back-end servers with illegitimate requests. We detected multiple
sources attempting to commit pay-per-click fraud using our servers.

This resulted in the servers being unable to return data to our own
users.

To resolve this issue we introduced a new authentication system
into Market Samurai and tuned our servers to significantly improve
their performance.

We also located and fixed a bug we introduced into Market Samurai
earlier this month which was contributing to the load on our
servers by sending too many queries at once.

With these two major updates in place, the load on our servers
decreased to safe levels once again.

### Google Keyword Tool Update! ###

Shortly after we released the updates to Market Samurai to return
service to you, Google released a new update to the Google Keyword
Tool.

This new update led to Market Samurai being unable to interface
with the Keyword Tool, and therefore meant no data could be
gathered.

Our development team have updated Market Samurai with the required
code to allow it to interface with the Keyword Tool once again.

With these fixes in place, we have monitored Market Samurai for
several days to ensure that the issues have subsided.

================================
HERE'S HOW WE'RE SAYING SORRY...
================================

While Market Samurai is now up and running once more, we want to
make up for the inconvenience to you over the last week and a half.

AS YOU OWN A COPY OF MARKET SAMURAI...

...we've increased the number of activations on your license from 2
to 3! This means you can now activate Market Samurai on 3 computers
at once, giving you more freedom with the software.

=====================
Getting Support
=====================

If you have any questions, or if you encounter any problems using
Market Samurai, please contact us and we'll do what we can to help
you.

Our email address is support@noblesamurai.com

Finally - again, I want to apologise for any trouble caused.

Best regards,

Alex Green
Noble Samurai

Looks like those of you who already purchased MS can add a 3rd machine. For those who haven't, better make friends with someone who has...:D

Subscriber swapping

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PST

To anyone who subscribes, rates, or comments to my channel I am willing to do the same back for them.

My username on youtube is "doghogo"

thanks.

Will anybody be willing to do a blog comment exchange?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:59 PM PST

Google loves new content and that includes comments. You can tell me what you want written on your blog comment and vise versa..

Facebook Friend Request & Instant Messaging Limits

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PST

Hey BHW,

Does anyone have any info on in what intervals i can send friend requests and IM?

I need any kind of info.

THX!

How do you post on fan walls without getting banned?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PST

I tried this, but it seems it bans me after like 2-3 posts and requires mobile phone verificaiton. how do you get around needing to verify via mobile?!

My blog is getting spam attacked

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:24 PM PST

I have to review all the spam comments posted to my blog everyday! how do I put a stop to this?
I am copmletely out of ideas and it is very annoying to get tens of emails everyday with spam comments to my blog needing approval!

What's your strategy for SEO now Google has changed its algo?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:18 PM PST

Hi,

Just wanted to get some advice on how people are adapting to the recent Google algo changes.

I'm hearing many things now like Google is starting to look at Facebook page likes and Twitter followings and if you're following more/the same amount as your followers this will have an affect on your rank.

I've also read that Google is getting rid of a lot of sites/ pages by de-indexing or dramatically de-ranking them. I've recently noticed a sudden drop in traffic on one of my sites where I was ranking well for a few keywords in my niche and now I'm not ranking as well. I still have 1000's of pages indexed (using the site:www-mydomain-com operator) however my ranks have suffered.

My homepage is still ranking No 1 for my target keyword although my other keywords which were profitable are not anymore. I have also noticed a couple of other sites which have popped up and are suddenly ranking well for these keywords I'm targeting.

Hi All! I'm new here! I own a paid iPhone app! How do I...

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST

Hey guys!

amazing site. I'm brand new here and i own a paid iphone app that costs $3.99 to download.

how do I increase the number of downloads without spending any money on marketing?

I don't mind putting in the time and effort.

your thoughts and brainstorming would be VERY MUCH appreciated!

[WTB] Xrumer Zlink DataBase W Links + Anchor Txt Allowed in SIG..

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

Hi
Does anyone have this? I know there are many data bases online I need one which will allow a LIVE link W ANCHOR TXT in sig w/o needing to male posts

Anyone? Let me know...

Thanks

SPAMHAUS Kicking my ass

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

I'm a newbie. I get that its because I'm using 1 ip. Can someone point me to a thread or something... many thanks for any replies

Cloaking Browser Referrers

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PST

I checked my referrer logs on the affiliate pages and it shows

mail.aol.com/33298-111/aol-6/en-us/Suite.... 11 0 0:11
us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/dc/blank.html?bn=55... 4 0 0:4
us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/dc/blank.html?bn=55... 3 0 0:3
us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&amp... 2 0 0:2


I basically put the affiliate link inside the body of emails. Besides using a landing page is there way to hide this?

I tried 301 redirects, Meta-refresh.. All of them pass the referal urls of the free email providers

FB App Problem: Posting to Friends Walls

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

This used to work for me:

$friends = $facebook->api('/'.$friend[id].'/feed', 'POST', $attachment);


Now I am getting the error:

OAuthException: (#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action


Can someone help please?

Cloaking affiliate link with Adwords

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:48 PM PST

Hello guys,
I want to use Adwords for a CPA offer, however The CPA does not accept Adwords or any paid search, so basically any keyword bidding.

I want to use paid search for this particular offer, I need to cloak it some how.

Is there any way to do this?

I want the network to see the traffic from anywhere but not from paid search...


Any suggestions?


I was thinking of adding a website CPA related content, and trying to redirect to offer when loading, But still even thou click will be thru my site, still traffic will be paid which i dont want them to see it.

Market Samurai - discount within first 7 days $97 not being applied in sales checkout

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:45 PM PST

I want to buy it for $97 like it says in their intro email but the page they link to to get the discount redirects to their normal full paying price page.

Anyone else had this problem or know why it happens? I've tried it four times now and it seems I can't buy the bloody thing at the price they offer, grrrr!

Making money from MMORPGs?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:37 PM PST

Back in the day I used to play games like diablo 2 and lineage 1 (around 1995-2000). Anyone out there used to play?

At first I played legit and I kicked ass since I played all the time. One day I was playing at an internet cafe and I was showing another dude some of my cool items. He said, "hey I'll give you $10 for that sword." I thought about it and decided to sell the item. Made $10 and for a 14 year old that was real money. I played more and more, always selling shit to other players at internet cafes. I even had suppliers who I was buying from and then mark up the item and sell for a profit. Made like 2k doing this. For a 14 year old I was a fucken badass since all my other friends were broke. I was like a crack dealer for game items.

Then I decided to do the same in lineage. However, for lineage I started to sell my gold on ebay (back then ebay didn't care). Made a couple thousand more over the course of a couple years.

Then everything went down from there. Ebay blocked virtual game items and many 3rd party gold selling websites showed up. These guys took item selling to new levels. Writing advanced bot programs, employing Chinese sweat shop labor to run the operation etc. The price of items dropped dramatically.

So now the only way to make some decent money was to find a dupe hack or gold bug to get a crap load of items/gold and just sell all that shit as fast as possible. To say the least I don't sell game items anymore nor do I play mmorpgs anymore. But I still think back to those days.

These days however, mmorpgs are mainstream in the US especially with 10 million+ wow players and god knows how many more playing the free-to-play games like runescape and maplestory. Even if only each player spends 10$ per year on game items that comes out to $100 million. I know some are spending nothing while others are spending alot more.

Anyone out there making money in mmorpgs?

Seems like these days the real money is in making/owning the actual mmorpgs because at the end of the day they're the ones who have the power to make unlimited items/gold and sell it for money.

need CL and BP posting (outsourcing)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST

i thought to check odesk or some other place online but i figure i'd 1st try to stick with the clan and find peeps i can to give some rep and whatever else (when my acct lets me). i'm looking to pay no more than .60 per post.

i'm taking bids :p

catch: I NEED THE POST CONFIRMS EMAILED TO ME. so maybe you could set a fwd filter in your gmail acct or something? i'd throw in some xtra $$ as a setup fee for this.

starting out with 20-100, then upping from there---but i am willing to hire multiple people for low-level posting too, doesn't all have to be from one poster, though that would be preferable

local and poss nationwide too

and of course ads must stick. the stickier the better. super utmost flypaper stickiness is a must. :D

which site will pay for asian writer

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PST

Hi everyone

It's very hard for me to find site list which will pay to write because I live in asia..

I already join squidoo, hubpages, & triond & no matter I write, I only earn less than $1 per day..

Please help me, do you know any site which will pay me to write..

Thanks before..

[GET] Secret Method Revealed by IM Guru

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PST

Sales page:

Code:

http://www.buymystupidebook.com/
Download:

Code:

http://www.buymystupidebook.com/secret_path/hidden/unaccessible/public/stupid/e/book.pdf
Password:

Code:

************
Someone make a mirror please.

PLEASE click the "Thanks" button in the bottom left corner if you find this post helpful.

How to turn a physical product into a affiliate program?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PST

So I started working for this supplement company a few months ago that is quite small. I've learned so much from this forum and it has helped me tremendously in my job. In all my research of competition on the internet, it appears that we really have no competing companies doing any strong IM, instead all internet traffic is being done by IMers (duh) but to my surprise they all just link to drugstore in order to make an affiliate commission. Some research into their affiliate program appears to show they offer 10% commission with would be $.70 on an order.

I would like to offer up our product as an affiliate product and we would be willing to pay higher commission than that and hopefully have the power of the IMers blow up sales. My question is what is a good affiliate company to sign up with? We are a small company and only have one product to sell. I was looking into Linkshare, but wanted to ask the forum for any advice on launching an affiliate program.

Please help.

New Google Adwords Rules

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:07 PM PST

So I got a Email from Adwords, and after reading it i'm under the impression that there is two bidding systems for the Display network. Now I wonder how this could affect adsense revenues? Here is the letter and you tell me.


Google AdWords Update: Simplifying Bidding on the Google Display Network



Hello,

We're writing to let you know about a change in bid management on the Google Display Network. In an effort to simplify and clarify how your default bids work, we're retiring the managed placements default bid. Instead of adding two separate default bids for managed and automatic placements on the ad group level, you can now just use one. This will help you to set default bids for any ads shown on the Display Network while still maintaining control over bids for individual managed placements.

Starting on March 15, 2011, we'll be removing the managed placements default bid in your account. We're taking several steps to make sure that this will have no impact on your current bid amounts or where your ads currently appear. Here's what you can expect based on how your ad groups are currently set up:

- If your default bid and managed placements bid are equal, and a Display Network bid is not set, we will simply remove the managed placements bid. Any managed placements with individual bids will still keep those bids.

- If your managed placements bid is equal to your Display Network bid, we will simply remove the managed placements bid.

- If your default bid and managed placements bid are different, and a Display Network bid is not set, we will copy your managed placements bid over as the new Display Network bid. Any managed placements with individual bids will still keep those bids.

- If you have separate default, managed placements, and Display Network bids, we will copy your managed placements bid to individual managed placements. Note that this will happen only if these individual managed placements do not already have their own placement-level bids.

- In the rare case where you don't have an ad group default bid and are only using a managed placements bid, we will copy the managed placements bid over as the new default bid. Any managed placements with individual bids will still keep those bids.


We hope this change will help to simplify the bidding options in your account. For more information on this change, please visit https://adwords.google.com/support?answer=1143657.

Hiding data

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:02 PM PST

This is the best category I can find fit to post this. Is there anyway to hide dial up traffic from my phone provider?

Downgrade & Jailbreak iPhone 4.2.1?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:50 PM PST

Hey fellow Bhatters!

Anyone here know of an easy way to downgrade and jailbreak an iPhone 4.2.1? I searched Google and tried a few ways only to have to wait 25 minutes to restore my phone back to factory settings...any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)

Ceased domain due to servicemark. Lets forward ONLY G@@GLES IP to keep my backlinks LOL!

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:48 PM PST

I had to stop using a domain because they say they have a servicemark registered in 1928, its not in the database at the patent and trademark office, but since its so old I believe it dose exist.

So lets do this guys

lets come up with a redirect that will redirect all of G@@GLES IPs to the new domain to keep all my backlinks. But send everyone else to a blank page, or better yet to the rightful owners website LOL.

That way I really don't loose out so bad.

Is this possible ???

How to remove specific url's from a txt file?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 PM PST

i blasted half of my aa list with scrapebox and had to stop. i exported the posted entries, but still have about half to go. i want to somehow remove the links that ive already posted on from the original text file containing all the aa list. how can i do this??

[GET] Commission Crusher

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:30 PM PST

Hi guys I wanted to share another link with everyone

htxx://commission-crusher.xxx/inside/

REPLACE THE .XXX

Thats for the MEMBERS only area :)

Enjoy

REP IF YOU Enjoyed this Share

-Sitedude

Great Way to Cloak Clickbank Affiliate Link?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:23 PM PST

Hey guys, I'm about to start promoting a clickbank product and I'm not sure about using a free .tk domain that redirects to my clickbank affiliate link. Is their any risk in doing this or am I over thinking this.

I know to some of you this is a very dumb question but I just want to be sure!

Thanks

Need help to register an adsense account

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:00 PM PST

Can someone to make an adsense account, i can`t make from this PC + i tried from elsewhere unsuccessfully. I currently use an account of my ex-girlfriend, you can guess how the story ends.please help me, I'm desperate

Let me sell your products on Ebay

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:58 PM PST

I am currently out of profitable products to sell on eBay, hence why I want to sell some for you. My account is aged with 100% positive feedback.

Wanna work with someone that is fast, ships fast, and has legit products.

Thanks!

Where to buy Youtube accounts?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:54 PM PST

Im looking to buy some Youtube accounts. Does anyone know
where i can get them? I was going to trade a 15$ unverified Paypal
account. I want like 40 accounts. PM Me or just reply

Will my email plan work?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:48 PM PST

I WANT 20 DECENT LEADS PER WEEK FOR SALES CALLS.

Using PHPLIST to send COLD emails- shared hosting allows 500 emails per hour, I'm sending 300/hr which I am okay with. Using GSA email spider and verifier.

My email is to get slaes leads that I eventually want to pitch on the phone. Here is my email:

Your website looks great, but it's missing out on a lot of internet traffic due to where you rank in the search engines. Reply to this email and one of our technicians will give you a free website and target market analysis. With some minor changes you can greatly improve your rankings in the primary search engines and earn more business. Include the best way to deliver the results to you and a contact phone number.

All the best,


Scott Xxxxxxxx
SEO Tech

I got this idea from a company I've been buying leads from. I want to do it myself. I want like ideally 20 leads per week to keep me busy.

Is it better to have them click on to my site with a lead capture form for the FREE analysis or just keep it simple with the email like the Lead company does?

So far I sent 400... 3 hours later two replies... 2 response but not positive.
Would love to hear from someone trying to do something similar. Many thanks for any replies on this.

Clickbank FUCK with screenshots.

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:48 PM PST

check this out:
PHP Code:

hxxp://img25.imageshack.us/i/clickbankfuck.png/ 

talk about draining money from your account. Geez!

Clickbank FUCK with screenshots.

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:47 PM PST

check this out:
hxxp://img25.imageshack.us/i/clickbankfuck.png/

talk about draining money from your account. Geez!

EDIT: double post. admins please delete this.. thanks.

305 clicks $240

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:46 PM PST

Hey, just created a blog December 3rd 2010 . It started making about $1 a day after 2 weeks and than the next month toward the end of January it started making $5.00 - $5.50 a day. But now a lot more keywords have been indexed for my site and it is making $15.00/day here in march for the past 6 days, but so far since I've made the blog it has gotten 8,894 impressions and 305 clicks for $240.43 .

Is this good?
What do you guys make from a blog?

Youtube videos + Xrumer= Good idea or not?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:42 PM PST

Any benefit in doing this?
Can my accounts get taken down?

Looking for people with some experience with CPA and Youtube

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:40 PM PST

I have tools, servers, accounts, etc.

But I need people with good ideas.

Split:

50% of the accounts on YT will have your aff url and 50% will have mine. Simple.


PM if you're interested and what kind of numbers you are currently earning with your method.

Only somewhat experienced people please.

Full Text RSS

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:33 PM PST

I just saw this today and thought I'd share, might be an easy option for building content for autoblogs just thought I'd share. Hope it helps!

hxxp://fulltextrssfeed. com

Adult JV

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:30 PM PST

Looking to jv with some one who can just blast my site and rank it.

At this point i really don't give a shit if it gets sandboxed as i've tried just about every other traffic method i could think of and i think the only way to bank off this is to rank it on search.

Been trying to get this off the ground for the past year.


You know those movie streaming sites? Well, that's what mine is except it's adult movies and the content is real.

So if you're an xrumer wizard, let's do this.

help with monetizing

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:28 PM PST

hey guys
got this gay website almost 2k users and about 400 unique views/ day
not really sure where in analytics i can find that out

i`m looking to promote some products related to my niche :) gay in this case
any networks where i can find some products to try and put in some banners on my website?
clickbank maybe ?

thanks

I can get a/18 and /19 and /24's on demand

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:27 PM PST

So now what?
Besides the obvious with email .. what can I do with that many IP's on the SEO side to make money?

Provider is .. discret, no swift info on your name, and does not respond to abuse in general :)

What would you do with so many IP's?
Let me know !

how can i spy on competiter's traffic ?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:24 PM PST

i am looking for a way to find where my competitor is getting traffic from.
can anyone please suggest me some good website or tools where i can see the website traffic ?

i tried alexa and compete.com but they dont provde traffic source with my paying me huge membership fee :/

Tight budget and domains - What to do?

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:13 PM PST

Hi guys, I'm on a very low budget atm.

I want to start with CPA and CB.

Basically I'm not interested in SEO or anything because I will be using a website as landing pages.

For example, If I decide to promote products on twitter, by far the best way would be to have a domain name with the actual product or keywords in it. Just for trustworthiness or whatever you want to call it.
But that of course means that I would need to buy a domain for each product or CPA offer.

What do you guys think about getting something like : www.reviewsite.com and then using subdomains for the products and then on the main site have them all mixed up.

Example:
product.reviewsite.com
or
www.reviewsite.com/product


Or something generic as the domain name.. you get the idea.


Anyone have experience or stats for this?

Maybe someone has tried both and can let me know what worked best.

So, the dilemma is: Get 2 o 3 rich keyword domains for 2-3 products and take my chances with those, or option B: the "review site" approach.
Or maybe .info domains, but I believe this could be approach C.

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