Confessions of a Search Marketer

If you haven't ever seen what search spam looks like then you've never used Google, Yahoo or MSN Search to find anything. All the search engines are loaded with bogus entries, rich with keywords aimed to take fake sites and bad information straight to the top 10 entries on any search engine with a crawler. These are often pages loaded with links and no real information about the supposed topic you clicked thru to find. Covering Search Engine Strategies provides a rather unique opportunity to meet the people behind these back handed search marketing tactics, as well as the people who work at trying to stop them. These black-hat search marketers achieve an almost rockstar like status among the search engine optimizers of the world because they've made a game of beating the system and rake in five and six figures monthly as a result. While the results suffer, the annoyance isn't as obvious to the casual surfer because these aren't the people who barrage your inbox with advertisements ...

23:05:16 March 5, 2006, Sunday (PST) Source: Jake Ludington's Digital Lifestyle

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