Black Hat Guide

Archive for December, 2009

I am changing my seo company , the new company is telling me my old company was using black hat technique ( like shadow domaining) , how may I realize if they were using black hat technique for my seo?
Thanks

Hi Ari:

I would suggest having someone take a look at your current SEO campaign, and explain to you the reasons for why or why not your SEO company is using blackhat techniques. The trick is though, to find someone to do this that is not trying to sell your SEO as a result.

I kind of look at this as taking your car to the local mechanic. If you’re not a car expert, that mechanic can tell you anything he wants about what may or may not be wrong with your car. You need a trusted 3rd party source to verify such conclusions.

If you’d like, submit your site for review on sem-tv.com. It’s a new site I put together and I’d really like to do an episode on identifying blackhat SEO techniques. Don’t worry I won’t try to upsell you on anything!

Hope this help. Cheers,

Marc

I know how to turn off overall twitter updates for my phone but I dont know how to turn on/off updates for a specific user on their site. Help please!

I know a place that could help you figure out what you are trying to do. It helped me out alot with all the Twitter applications and stuff like that

http://twitter.trafficvault.com

For instance: Let’s say I own a tar roofing company, and I have a website for it which is xyzroofing.com . Then I’m fortunate enough to get the domain name tarroof.com, which has the keywords "tar roof". Those keywords get tons of hits each month, so I setup the tarroof.com website, which contains generic FAQ’s on tar roof systems. Then I post an ad with a link for xyzroofing.com on tarroof.com, that says, "tarroof.com site sponsored by xyzroofing.com." Would this type of scenario be black hat seo? In other words, tarroof.com is an information site of useful content, that also acts like an ad for my company.

Yes. It is considered "cheating" by the major Search Engines. If you only do it once, no one may notice.

Also, once its connected to the mobile does it cost to text tweets to twitter and does it have to connect to the internet?

Hi, Can you specify which country you are from and which mobile phone company you are using..?
Because.. from my personal experience, some phone companies do not support twitter’s short code.. and is your mobile phone verified..?
You can go to Twitter website.. http://twitter.com/devices to find out if it’s connected to your device or not.