Black Hat SEO and Now Black Hat Adsense?

You hear about it everywhere.  You hear tales of marketers effortlessly "earning" $10-20K per day.  And yes…you may have even checked out a few forums about it.  You wanted to know…what is it…

Black Hat SEO.

If you’re new to the shady world of Black Hat SEO here’s a quick run down of what it is.

Black Hat SEO, in it’s most basic form, is Spamdexing.  This means using any of the various below methods to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources indexed by a search engine.  These methods are predominantly, if not always, in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.

Although technology changes at an exponential rate the basic forms of Black Hat SEO are:

1. Content Spam
2. Link Spam
3. Mirror Sites
4. URL Redirection
5. Cloaking
6. Doorway Pages
7. Link Farms

Content Spam and Link Spam represent the two major groups of Black Hat SEO.  If you own you any website with a forum or blog I’m sure you’ve been bombarded with adult, gambling or pharmaceutical link spam…Annoying right?  Yep, but unfortunately it is very effective.

The kicker is Google may be the one to blame for this epidemic surge in Black Hat SEO over the past few years.  Earl Grey from Syndk8 states:

Back in 2003 you could launch a site, put some nice content on it and then get some traffic.  In 2003 Google decided to punish the content builders and white hat seo`s by creating something that has commonly being known as the sandbox.

I joined an seo forum to find out why I was having problems getting traffic and it turned out that Google decided to screw the white hat seo that was making the internet clean and full of content by putting a penalty on new domains, content and links.

The option to build content rich sites was no longer there for most people unless you had a real fat wallet or you were prepared to eat bread and water while the sandbox released you.

Well now it appears the Black Hat SEO underworld feels confident enough they can come public on how they rip-off the Top Dog in contextual advertising, Google Adsense.  While reading through my e-mail today I came across a product launch promoting "the seedy world of black hat Adsense".  Let’s be clear right off the jump people…

There Is No Such Thing As Black Hat Adsense.  Period. 

I don’t care what any "guru" may tell you or recommend to you.  So called Black Hat Adsense is ADSENSE FRAUD and is not a Black Hat SEO method.  I strongly urge you not to promote these Adsense Whiz Kid type of programs unless you possibly wouldn’t mind getting your precious Adsense account banned.

What’s the deal here?  Is it just me or does there seem to be a growing acceptance of Black Hat SEO among the online marketing community?  I’m even seeing some of the more recognized online marketers publicly come forward with their approval of Black Hat SEO. 

What ever happened to integrity, hard work and ethics?   Have we traded them in for higher CTRS, eCPM’s, and EPC’s?

Stephen Ralph
Top-Affiliate.com

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