Mike has been speaking with Ralph Tegtmeier who is “almost legendary in black-hat SEO circles.” Their discussion is about the Black Mask Project.

“Brute force linking (quantity rather than quality) works very well in the short term. “If you can register a domain and get it live for $20 and in two weeks that domain has made $40, it doesn’t matter if it gets burned in the index. And if you do that with thousands of domains in one go, you can make a lot of cash in a short space of time.”

And…

“when something like the Black Mask Project throws a spotlight on black-hat techniques, the Web must surely get a little polluted as everyone tries the same stuff. “True,” he said. “It just takes someone to start blogging about it somewhere, and then everyone is on to it. Which makes you wonder whether they’re blogging about it after the event, as in a particular technique doesn’t work anymore, or are they blogging about it as an ego thing?”

Here? Its about ego! I wouldn’t use any of these techniques on a bet and I personally am against them 100%. Therefore, I’m following what this last paragraph suggests and my hope would be that everyone is “on to it” and it eventually goes away.

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Black Hat – Brute Force Linking