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1. What do you see as the line (however blurry) that seperates BH and WH? Try to give some examples.
I'm not down with spam or cloaking.
2. Do you practice BH?
Somewhat, but just as hard as it is to define either bh or wh it is to know if I am doing bh or wh.
3. Why or why not?
4. If yes, do you own both BH sites and WH sites? Which do you focus more time on?
WH
5. How do you feel about people who practice what you consider blackhat?
either a) jealous of their listings b) mad because of how their sites reflect on the industry as a whole. Like, I am a domainer also, and many people think we all just register typos to try to send kids to porn sites because people do that, but not all.
6. Check all that you CONSIDER blackhat with an X. Check twice if you've done it, are doing it, or plan to do it. Check three times if you simply consider it stepping WAY out of line.
[] Mass site generation
Comments:
[x] Content scrapers (possibly markoved)
Comments: While I don't use a scraper I certainly have copied my fair share of content. Laziness more than blackhat.
[x] Trackback spamming
Comments: I turn off trackbacks on my blogs.
[xx] Comment spamming
Comments: I used commenthut for a while. I would actually read post and reply with related comments. So not large scale or automated.
[] Blogfarms on your own domains
Comments: Not familiar with this enough.
[x] Mass generating parasite hosting accounts (e.g. blogger.com, wordpress.org) for the purpose of building links (blogfarms fall under this category)
Comments: Meh.
[x] Mass generating those accounts for the purpose of gaining many links to them in a short time, and redirecting traffic to another site
Comments: MSN is full of ringtone blogs that do this. Those are the people I'm jealous of. (See question 5)
[] Automating directory submission, including topsites
Comments: I see no problem with this, your just making a tedious process faster.
[x] Breaking CAPTCHAs, or otherwise bypassing them
Comments: Breaking and entering :P
[] Exploiting social news sites (digg, reddit, etc) to gain traffic MANUALLY
Comments: Everyone else does it.
[x] Exploiting those sites in an automated fashion to gain traffic OR links. Specify which
Comments: Not so sure about this one.
[x] Using social networks in an automated fashion to gain traffic
Comments: Same feeling as comment spam.
[] Digg rings/exchanges, stumble exchanges, or anything of the sort
Comments: Not sure, I think this is grey?
[x] Keyword stuffing (including tricks to hide blocks of text)
Comments:
[] Referral Spamming
Comments:
[x] Cloaking - showing relevant but highly "SEO"ed pages to the search engines (this includes things like scraped markoved content - please specifiy in the comments), and more friendly content to the user
Comments: If you mean redirect them to an affiliate offer by friendly content than x otherwise it's more grey.
[] Reciprocal Linking
Comments: Sure
[] Buying/selling Links
Comments: Fuck google.
[] Exploiting Widespread XSS Vulnerabilities to gain Links
Comments: Not familiar, but it sounds bad.
7. Any additional comments?
Eh, Im not a blackhat after all.
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