Confessions Of A Google Spammer...

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/