on Nov 28th, 2007Why you have to root for the Black Hat SEOs
I’ll go ahead and say it - I have respect and admiration for black hat SEOs.
I don’t like any webmasters that have or utilize malware or spyware - but the guys and gals that are making spamming and jamming work by breaking the rules of what the search engines deem allowable - yeah, I’ll root for them.
On the one hand you have Google - a big huge corporate entity that has taken up a defacto role as king of the Internet. They have billions of dollars and an army of PhDs on their side. They are, in fact, making and running a machine. The Internet equivalent of the borg collective. They have pushed their tentacles into nearly every corner of the world wide web: images, video, mapping, classifieds, and the list goes on and on.
Then on the other end of the spectrum, you have a small band of black hat SEOs. Operating on the Internet with speed and guile as they flaunt their Viagra spam in the face of Googlian authority.
And in the end, don’t you want the black hatters to be able to outsmart an army of PhDs and a multi-billion dollar computing system?
Wouldn’t that be a testament to the spirit and ingenuity of the human race?
It almost makes you want to chant: “‘We will not go quietly into the night!’
I’d been thinking like that lately, till malware/spamware became the object of the biggest spam attacks on Google and others. I got screwed like that and ended up having to pay nearly $300 for a security expert to clean it all up (Thanks Adam/OnSite!). For an example of how it works, see Barry’s explanation at SERoundtable: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014828.html