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I always get a kick out of reading google’s recomended guidelines. They make stupid moronic statements like, would you be ashamed to explain to a competitor what sort of SEO tactics you are using. Me personally no, only reason why i would not like to explain to competitor my tactic because maybe he steal them and then use them for himself. I personally find this who blackhat / whitehat seo crap rather comical. But I guess i must be a blackhat , I never stuck the label on myself, others have.

Often I think that I must live in a hole, totally isolated away from the rest of the world. Recently one of my wife’s relatives came back from the USA to visit PH. While he was visiting it came up that both of us where into e-commerce (I am not sure what proper term is when u sell stuff on net as affiliate). Anyway we started to have a little chat. He then told me he was buying traffic using PPC. Perplexed I asked him why don’t you just rank your site ? He replied that takes time, not really I told him, you can probably do it in a week. He looked at me kinda funny. I then proceeded to explain to him what I would do. He then grins and tells me “That’s blackhat”. Irronically it never dawned onto me, until that point.

Anyway people always ask me what does it take to be a good blackhat. They seem to think that being a good blackhat just involves know a bunch of tricks / secrets . Or they seem to think that blackhats are extemely good coders. There also is this idea going arround that to be a blackhat you have to be extremely intelligent.

All of those things help, I will not deny that. Yes I have learned a few tricks about search engines, but all the information that is required on how to rank is publicly available. Anyone can find countless papers on Trustrank Pagerank etc. Probably because of my experience I am a better coder then most programmers, but then again I know better blackhats then me, who are not as good of coders :). As for the intelligence part, well lets just say I have a below average IQ :).

So what makes does it take to make a blackhat ?

Blackhat is a state of mind.

You know that yes google,yahoo and msn have the smartest, brightest PHDs working for them. And these eggheads have all virtually unlimited resource, and despite that you know you can beat them at thier own game, on thier playing field. Despite all the odds against you, you manage to succeed.

When you look at something on the net, immediately in your head, a little light flashes on, and you think how can i use that to rank higher in google.

Where other people tell you it is impossible, you do not get upset. You just look at them and wonder what in the world do they mean. For in the blackhat’s vocabulary, that word does not exist.

Other people may think that some canned tool they buy of the net makes them a blackhat. Or maybe hanging arround syndk8 makes them a blackhat, but no.

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