Comments on: What is the Future of Blackhat?

By: Tom N

Tom N — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:54:44 +0000

The future is what happens to be. Think of myspace, youtube and facebook. Whoever learned to exploit the early shortcomings of these sites before people caught on made all the dough. The newbie-blackhats leaked the method if the admins didn’t catch on. But then that goes back to you saying how volatile this way of life is.

I say if you see a site you can piggyback on (read: parasite hosting via profiles, stat pages, whatnot) then jump on it.

By: freedom1972

freedom1972 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:29:05 +0000

I definitely see #3 as the best method for “legitimizing” BH SEO efforts. Networks of various sites (blogs, directories, forums, etc) totally under your control. This would serve as the big base of links, references, etc.

You still have to add in some high quality links from various IPs – but the bulk comes from your own world.

And with the number of ISP’s available, you can deal with the non sequential IP issue that way.

Enjoy your blog. Look forward to more post like this that are more strategy level thinking.

By: Cure Dream

Cure Dream — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:07:38 +0000

You gotta be careful about what Matt Cutts says — like Alan Greenspan, he tries to work with intimidation as much as actual power.

The basic problem he’s got is that Google’s current algorithms work pretty well on the current web. Even good sites have spammy (had to get them to beat the bad competition) or spammy-looking links (good sites get forum links too.)

A serious attack on any kind of spammy link will cause immense collateral damage, and might even make Google’s results as bad as Yahoo and MSN. So far, Cutts has focused on intimidation and making an example of those who are easy to make an example of: such as textlinkads.

On the timescale of years, however, Google is going to refine methods of descrimination that help the SERPs more than harm them, and that’s what you’ve gotta worry about.

By: Brent D. Payne

Brent D. Payne — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:47:01 +0000

Very interesting post XMCP.

I’ve added your blog to the list of white hat blogs I read daily. Your blog continues to be the most interesting though.

I don’t have any useful comment to add but did want to say I enjoyed this post and most of your posts in general.

Brent D. Payne

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:04:28 +0000

@adam taylor: I’m still deciding on a personal philosophy about those. I find them on my own pretty regularly, but I don’t use them at all promoting sites. They’re definitely going to become much more common though.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:52 +0000

I use Google Alerts for queries like that to monitor most niches and make sure I get my hand in the hottest/latest pages, threads, etc. I also monitor Google HotTrends, so I guess I’m going for #2.

By: adam taylor

adam taylor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:26:54 +0000

What’s your view on xss/sql injection ect?

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By: xlspecial

xlspecial — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:35:18 +0000

Grodey?

Don’t think I’ve heard that since around the time you were born. lol

I’m already moving in the direction you are talking about above. Better to be ahead of the game than behind the 8 ball.