Before I became an inbound marketer, I once made $50,000 a
month spamming Google. I worked a maximum of 10 hours a week. And I am
telling you from the bottom of my heart: never, never ever follow in my
footsteps.
This blog post will tell you exactly why...
My Mindset in 2009
I never wanted to spam the Internet. Google made me do it.
This is what I told myself back then.
If spamming is so wrong, I wondered, how come it always works so well? Most black hat SEOs think this way. They rationalize spamming Google's index in so many ways:
- We're helping Google improve their algorithm!
- Content is king?!? LOL! Links are the only content you need. Google's lying to people. They deserve to get spammed.
- If we don't do spam, our competitors will--and then they'll beat us. We have to spam.
- We're
helping our customers--the little guy--win the battle against a big,
bad, evil empire that wants to enslave them to paying PPC costs!
Black hat SEOs: masters of ethical rationalization
But
there I was, responsible for Google adding 45,000,000 new words of spam
to its index every day. I had built a spam machine; the thing was
brilliant enough to give my clients huge SEO ranking boosts (this was
before KontentMachine and all the other spam-producing software out
there now).
Read more here: http://inbound.org/post/view/confessions-of-a-google-spammer
Another interesting related IM blog I enjoy: http://tengoldenrulesblog.blogspot.com.au/
