Blackhat SEO Forums

Blackhat SEO Forums

There are a lot of blackhat SEO forums it seems popping up these days.  The sophistication and also in turn the automating of activities to monitor and enact affiliate marketing campaigns or creation of websites has exploded the movement of people trying to make a buck on the web.  With comprehensive content management resources that have significantly reduced the difficulty of making a webpage, even the greenest of entrepreneurs can actually have a shot.

By and away the best forum I’ve come across for information has been BlackHatWorld.com, home of the blackhat SEO forums and so many other things.  SEO is just one concept among many that are discussed in a candid and open way.  It is called black hat but what you receive on those forums is an honest explanation of methods that work and have been employed from not just people vested in unethical deception—but by professionals who have made a ton of money.  More often than not an honest, open discussion is more likely to be had over in those forums than most professional outlets I have seen.  Rather than discuss the limitations of a white hat approach, nothing is left to the imagination.  It’s akin to the common phrase keeping all options on the table.  No savvy businessperson worth his or her salt would disagree with that statement.

Blackhat SEO forums have certainly come along way.  What was once the exclusive and dedicated group of technical aficionados has now become open to an entire new group of people?  A lot of the tools that are taken for granted today did not exist and were in fact created by programmers and other people as custom tools.  The barrier to entry used to consist of having a programming background but because of the types of content management and advances in sophistication for creating web pages, there is a whole crop of people chomping at the bit.  Really black hat methods are just another means to maximize profits on the hard work you already have put up—whether that’s creating an extensive marketing campaign and injecting your own money into it or carefully crafting content and managing that content on hundreds sometimes thousands of individual pages.

Rather than thinking of black hat methods as a core or foundation, they are more like a series of special tools.  After you have done your due diligence and put up the information and content and have managed it appropriately, sometimes it is possible to take out some special tools and tweak what you already have to make it more effective.  The black hat methods are just those special tools.  Because of the prevalence of easy to use and manage content management systems and a low barrier of entry it’s really easy to get involved and make some serious money.  Will you sit back on your heels and look down your nose at people doing the same thing and outpacing you in the same niches or verticals or will you rise to the occasion and make some money?