Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait-

Today is Thanksgiving, and there is a lot for blackhat SEOs to be thankful for.

(NOTE: I am not a blackhat SEO, and I do not condone / support / use any of the following techniques)

• Buying old domains is cheaper, faster, easier than building good content rich websites
• 301 redirects can fix / hide / pop almost anything
• Link spam emails are still cheap, and even at a .000001 response rate they can be worth the effort
• Fake toolbar page rank
• Scraper sites still work, and are getting better / smarter / harder to detect every day
• People still download and execute almost any script you put on the web
• Cloaking can turn any link exchange into a one way, and can scrape nofollows into or out of link scheme scripts as needed
• Affiliate program payouts continue to get higher and higher
• Autoblog scripts are free and there are tons of free blog sites that don’t require a domain
• Some dmoz editors are still corrupt, some wikipedia editors will post a page for a pinch of wacky tobacky, and some diggers will digg anything for a hundred bucks
• People still use dumb passwords
• Building your artifically inflated networks of websites often still works
• MSN

Enjoy your turkey fools, but don’t stray too far from your computer. You never know when your favorite knitting blog will be hijacked by the owner of viagra-mortgage-loan-lolita-mesothelioma-cialis-link-exchange.net. He has a lot to be thankful for today!