Any black hat spammers here?

Has anyone tried any spamming software to post blog / guestbook comment spam?

 

I do visit a few black hat forums and the general consensus is that Google particuarly has moved on past this point. Apparently sites have been banned for this kind of thing on a regular basis.
If this is because Google can recognise a disproportionate number of links coming from sources such as these, or though complaints directly to Google is unclear. Though it certainly isn't a long term recepie for success. Though short term gains can be made out of it.

 

Also if you get caught red handed doing blackhat, Google keeps a grudge on you. Many of the times even your clean whitehat sites can get wiped as well because they are owned by you.
Though Blgdaddy never admits, they keep on banning the sites manually of big blackhat spammers.

 

Although I am not really considering doing any spamming its always been my belief that to be a good seo you need to understand how people spam the search engines.

If a blackhat can get a site to page 1 of google for a really competitive term by spamming then there are lessons to be learned by the white hats as well.

 

Exactly, there are concepts that are used by black hat spammers that you can equally well apply to white or grey hat techniques.

 

I wrote a small blog post about my Black hat experiment:

http://www.marcuswestberg.com/black-hat-seo/

Have fun!

 

I agree with your findings. Balck hat works great in the short term, but the sites will be flagged sooner rather than later by either Google or a competitor. Black hat SEO'er have to work just as hard to stay ahead of this, though some of them are obviously making some very good money indeed.

 

My advice: Stay away from it! Instead have fun and make quality pages about things you know

 

Yeh, I do some grey-hat SEO...but the more SEO I do, the paler gray my hat becomes. It's getting awful close to snow-white these days. Black hat is just not worth it.

 

i think its best to do everything you can

except messing with other peoples sites

 

sooo many morons try to spam my blog every day

hey great site!

are usually the comments, it's very obvious and transparent

 

When I optimize a site for a client I will go through the top positions and flag ALL black hat SEO sites. I recommand that everybody does the same. The Internet is cluutered enough!

 

Ouch.

That's why I suggest the following :

Always use REAL customized content.
Make sure your material is READABLE
Make sure your material is actually USEFUL
Avoid spammy links and linking patterns

 

Do people still try blog comment and referral spam, I thought most of that stopped with nofollow?

 

yup they still do..

 

Good move! But does it help really?

 

Does that actually do anything? You could do it all day if type in any financial term into msn.

 

I've never had good experiences with reporting sites to Google either. It's usually ignored.

 

Referral spam is pretty much dead, thank goodness. However, there's a new variant method targetting blog owners that's being practiced currently. Very annoying. I see it working once and the webmaster will probably be too pissed to click any more links.

 

I can help you with black hat marketing pm me.