Is blackhat the new making money secrets?
It’s inevitable, as people spend more and more time online they become familiar with the internet world. Terms like SEO and RSS become commonplace and people become skilled searchers and savvy purchasers.
They’ve been burnt by the get rich quick schemes or have been cautious enough to take a good look around and have found that its the same old crap in different packages. But then, during their lurking and their reading they see blackhat mentioned and it sounds a little sexy.
Everyone in the blackhat forums and blogs talks in riddles and part conversations. They discuss programming abilities that even a skilled google searcher cannot grasp and allude to (metaphoric) pots of gold found through testing new exploits and gaming new sites and technologies.
“If only I could get to know their secrets, if i could get my hands on their tools I wouldn’t even need to be able to code i could just apply my cunning and give up my day job“.
And there it is, straight back into the fire. Not buying ebooks/cd’s that contain the money making secrets of millionaire internet marketeers but buying the secret tools that rogue marketeers have used to beat the system.
“This time it will be different because I am turning to the dark side, I am cutting my teeth in an arena where the rules don’t apply. I am not buying a get rich quick scheme I am buying tools that in the right hands will make me rich.”
Do you think that the people who came up with guestbook spamming or link farming just happened upon it or bought it in an ebook? No. They were immersed in their field and saw an opportunity. Google bombing, cookie stuffing, cloaking etc etc. These were opportunities exploited by those dedicated to what they do. These were not get rich schemes they were get rich from finding an opportunity by being an expert in your field schemes.
If you want to make money online read, learn and do. There are internet marketing millionaires that haven’t been born yet. They will grow up, learn to master whatever incarnation of internet marketing there is at that time and find an opportunity.
Marketing is marketing whatever medium you happen to be using. Blackhat simply means against the guidelines of whatever search engine. Stop thinking in terms of this tool or that technique and start thinking in terms of what need can you satisfy and why it should be you that staisfys that need.