BlackHat SEO News & Reviews

This video shows some great examples of what NOT to do with black hat SEO nowadays. This company creates doorway pages from the same template (footprint!) and they engage in hidden text, the stupid way, by just making the text the same color as the background. Watch as this video creator exposes the amateurish “black hat” SEO company:

Apparently, it really takes some class and style to “break the rules” of SEO nowadays. Stick with what I recommend on this blog, and what you see the guys doing on the blogs I link to. DON’T be the next loser to get PWNED like these guys did.

Quadzilla over at SEO Black Hat blogged about two new Google factors that can potentially get your web page ranked much higher. Click Here to Read Quadzilla’s post.

Any time something cool, new, or potentially exploitable appears in search engine marketing, it’s worth investigating. I dropped out of college a few years ago and had a tough time trying to come up with something “scholarly” to search on, but ultimately chose to just Google the world famous economist Adam Smith. Here’s what my results returned:

I visited that website and tried to find where on earth the author’s name was. I tried mixing the author name with Adam Smith and didn’t see anything that appeared relevant. This subject warrants more investigation, however, since if a simple scholarly citation is enough to bump you to the top, the world of black hat SEO is going to eat it up.

This is Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMOZ. He’s as white hat as they come (at least publicly) and he admits that there are big monetary benefits to using black hat SEO. Listen to the story he tells of a colleague who got screwed by his company and used black hat search engine optimization marketing to make over six figures.