blackhat, greyhat and whitehat
All the topics on Apsense this one is the least talked about. I feel you have to know all to make good money even the almighty Google does the "hat trick" all the time. In hot water right now for getting caught now but others do it too. Facebook is the master!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then here is the run down:
Blackhat is the doing anything to manipulate Google search engines to believe your website/blog is popular in various ways. You can do this by using software that makes thousands of backlinks in a few hours. Blackhat can also be fraudulently using software to get paid through affiliate offers but that's even far for most blackhaters.
Whitehat is when you do things strictly by the book, proper SEO, backlinking and quality hand written content. In the long run this is maybe the best way to do things. Just follow Google's ever changing rules and you will be OK.
Greyhat is what I do when I'm on a serious venture. It is the combination of black/white hat. I find the deep dark tricks or software and use them as close to whitehat as possible.
Something we do and many people here on Apsense do is spin articles - its where you use a software to turn one quality article into hundreds in minutes. You then post those articles in directories or free blogs to get attention to the original for marketing purposes. This is blackhat. But most will consider it greyhat because just about everybody is doing it.
I use fiverr as second nature for many task in my greyhat journey. One thing I have done is buy a professional voice over for my video for whatever I'm promoting after I complete the slideshow video. Buy some Youtube accounts from Fiverr. Post the video on one account then buy some an Xrummer blast from Fiverr or where ever.
Xrummer is totally blackhat. It's a software that posts your link in this Youtube to thousands of places in mere minutes. It's spam but Youtube has been loving it over the last year or so. Now it seems so many people are doing it might not be the case much longer though.
Of course I have a squeeze page setup that get my list from with an incredible offer, I have friends in high places that have valuable junk sitting around. Then I send them to the affiliate link.
Collect $$$. If list is a nice size i will create a blog hire top writers for a dozen or so articles to captilize even more. I'm not the best writer so you have to take the good with the bad.
Comments (8)
Harry S.10
Entrepreneur
Yes! Then my job here is done. I want one spot on this decent sight to have not good but great info!
Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
Haha Harry I sent you a private message, your not upsetting me - we jsut have VASTLY different ways. I actually like it and I am interested in lerning where you are going to carry this topic, so I will shut my pie hole now :)
Although you have inspired me to make a post (either today or tomorrow) about going from $0 to 5 figures without going bankrupt. Kudos!
Harry S.10
Entrepreneur
Yes that sounds cool and we do see things differently I guess. Most people are concerned with Google at least if you really want to make serious money.
So whatever hat it is done for Google. As far as the same article most legit article sites frowns on repeating the same article all over the place. Ezine will squash that quick and all the rest of the article directories equals to Ezine so...
I personally rewrite each sentence of my article 4-20 times. Then I go into certain words in each sente
Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
Harry, I have come to one simple conclusion - we both see the world of marketing through very very different eyes.
For starters, blackhat marketing is any marketing method that manipulates a system to drive you more website traffic, leads, or sales. It has nothing to do with search engine marketing or google.
If I use a tool that automatically builds safelist credits and automatically sends out emails - thats blackhat and its not something Google really caares one way or another about.
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Harry S.10
Entrepreneur
Trev, I use voice overs because I do guest seminars for people and small companies they get nervous when I do public stuff so... As far as blackhat I wished it didn't exist it's the only problem with the internet. But you have to keep up with info in order to make serious money and avoid someone smashing your efforts. The key is to keep them from smashing what your doing.
The IP thing is what I use to keep the sharks away, once you make 5 digits monthly they smell blood. I do multiple niches s
Trev Pearman7
IM Coach IMMACC mbr
I like your note on hiring professional voice-over as my deep down-under broad accent does me no justice. I don't use Blackhat at all..but do border on Greyhat occasionally I mainly use Whitehat for the sakes of my profile and personal brand building... I do not use VPN so my IP is always traceable
Harry S.10
Entrepreneur
Thanks Terry, I have to learn to keep things short.
Terry Warner10
My Leads Call Me
Harry, very informative. Nice article.