I well remember good Ole days, when you put in anything on the net, give a few links from here and there, make google crawl your page and you will rule the SERPs. Eventually time changed for black hat people and it moved on to next level. Now the ranking become tougher. Still it was all game of links, links and links. You make a scrapper site, purchase 100 links from authority sites and you will rule the SERPs. Even that went into the history. Came the third phase of black hat SEO where links did matter but only in huge amount. Came in blog spamming and guestbook spamming. Black hat spammers started spamming every blog possible through every possible means. Eventually Blog software become smarter as well as SEs moved on to next level. At this point of time at SEs none of the stuff works as easily. Indeed all four above mentioned techniques are still well and valid but to make a respectable position doing black hat you really need to deal in volume these a days. And volume means say 1 Million links and not all black hat spammers can afford the expense / effort. So seems like black hat is history for good.

But wait, what will happen to the ever starving community of black hat spammers who with their hacking hat roam around and live in their own world of glory. Sure you can never take that evil spirit out of them. So now what’s the future? Seems like everyone has migrated to Spam 2.0 Social networking spam lately had caught big time fire. Seems like half of the world is trying to create fake profile at myspace, digg, delicious, facebook etc. Indeed to me it never makes sense how anyone can make money out of myspace visitors, but seems like people who are doing in bulk are making tons of money.

The white hat people always frown at these spammers, but hate them or more hate them, they are here to stay. They will always try to find out a way to spam. Key is to learn how to avoid the spam. Instead of hurling abuses (which most of the white hat people do for spam), may be better idea can be if they become civil reporter, like myspace snitcher. If you see any fake profile, take some pain. Report it to the myspace or the site. Do follow up, try to do your job to make world clean, instead to just do a generic rambling.

Nitin Tripathi

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