When trying to decide if a page is Spam, it is helpful to ask yourself this question: If I remove the scraped (copied) content, the ads, and the links to other pages, is there anything of value left? If the answer is no, the page is probably Spam.
Download it here: quality-rater-guidelines-2007.pdf!
And before you start bitching… This file is everywhere now. At [YACG]’s forum, BlackHatWorld, Syndk8, IranJava…
Guess you all know about the ongoing controversy about someone abusing Eli’s tool QUIT and a DDoS against BlueHatSeo.com. For what I’ve read I think somebody is pissed with Eli because his blog is disclosing too much information (?). Who knows what is the real motive… But this made me realize that no matter how good it seems things are going for your sites and rankings… You can NEVER get to comfy.
I know a DDoS may not seem that bad; Your sites goes offline, you burn all your bandwdith and after a couple of days your back online… right?
Well, maybe.. But what if the perpetrator of the DDoS decides to take it one step further… Like a DDoS + Google Bowling attack:
That’s right, it would be a fatality. A long-lasting DDoS attack and some Google Bowling that results on de-indexing could be the worst nightmare of your site… And if it’s executed correctly, there is no going back for your site… Ever.
Now if you want to make it suck even more, add to it some hacking and some imagination.
Interesting review, you should check it out if you are interested in buying a copy or two 
http://blackhatseodiary.org/black-hat-seo-tools/yacg-mass-installer-is-fucking-great
Vladimir and I are hosting a competition at http://forums.getyacg.com for the best post or code contribution.
The competition starts today and will last a whole month (Until April 10). Basically the best post at the forums between those dates will get the grand prize. However, there are some rules:
Good luck!
Four months into the year and I’m already convinced that 2008 is going to be a really interesting year for black hat seo.
Wordpress
Some of us love it, some of us hate it… Either way this blogging platform supposedly powers 0.8% of the internets. Whether you use it for blog farms, for parasite hosting or for scraper sites, I think most of the industry doesn’t realize the real power of Wordpress. (And those who do realize it, make a killing of it)
Hacking
As David Naylor mentioned it, nowadays black hat seo’s/hackers are starting to realize the potential of hacking/search engine optimization. Let’s think about this for a minute, imagine that a hackers gets a into your server and instead of defacing your site like old-school hackers… They decide to monetize from their intrusion. How? Well… I could think of a couple of ways:
Proxy Sites
Not so new, but I’ve seen this technique being used more and more each day. Read more about it here and here. Basically you use proxy sites to generate duplicated content of a site… And Google is not too fond about duplicated content
Botnets
I love them, and they are probably the most black hat thing out there right now. I’m not going to elaborate on this one, but some really really shady things can be accomplished with this monsters.
