Writing posts has become a little tricky lately. On the one hand I don’t want to be over explaining basic concepts without getting to the meat of the post. On the other hand, I have been receiving comments and e-mails that I’m using terminology that you (my readers) simply don’t understand.
It dawned on me that what we need is a collaborative SEO Black Hat Wiki (you know like Wikipedia)?. This Wiki would explains terminology, basic concepts and provide a repository for everything related to Black Hat SEO.
Obviously, since my target audience is search engine spammers, we’ll need to disallow spiders in the robots.txt file or take other precautions to prevent online graffiti.
I’d be prepared to pay for the bandwidth and host the site.
My fear is that some in the Black Hat Community might not be able to resist exploiting a Wiki and destroying it’s value. What do you think? Would this be helpful? Would you contribute? Would you help police it?
If it worked it could become a far deeper and broader repository of SEO / Black Hat / Tools / Definitions and Concepts than currently exists anywhere.
Who’s up for it?
12 Responses to “Black Hat SEO Wiki”
While it’s probably the antithesis of the spirit of a wiki, I think charging for it would be the best way to overcome the problem. Something small, like a few bucks, to ensure that there are enough participants in the community. Also there are many people who have shyed away from publicly discussing black hat tactics under the belief that the value of those tactics diminishes the more people use it (because it becomes more visible to search engines); payment would make it more inviting to them.
I’d definitely be willing to pay, and I think there is a sizable enough crowd that would be into it.
Perhaps to overcome the problem of greed and big business culture (meaning the focus shifts from education to profit) the money from the proceeds could be put towards the cost (so that it is self-funding and not requiring sponsorship) and profits are invested into a fund (could be an investment fund, a charity, a think tank….anything) that is collectively determined via a poll or something. That would help preserve the community aspect of it.
this would be a fair amount of effort, but community-type things always are.
First, love your blog.
Second, if you go to wide, won’t it possibly:
A. Dilute the effectiveness of the techniques.
B. Alert those who work for SEs what the techniques are and allow countermeasures?
Just wondering.
If you’ve got ppl pissed at your blog then expect bucket loads of misinformation.
Wikis are proving their ability all over the web - no reason a Black Hat Wiki won’t do the same. 
Sounds like a great idea. My knowledge in the subject is limited but I would be more than willing to help anyway I can.
I agree with Just a guy. I think a good black hatter needs to be slighty parnoid for survival. This is a fabulous idea, but make it private, by invitation only. Then do IP tracking on everyone who logs in to police it. If the info becomes public, the SEs will develop countermeasures (or at least they will try)!
ill do it for a backlink
i kinda think sites like this are bad enough, paranoia is key in BHSEO
I’d like to see such a wiki
And you could institute editors to monitor posts to ensure they aren’t promotional, or try to otherwise harm the wiki - that’s what wikipedia is doing now. Of course it would mean people volunteering to become editors, so guidelines would have to be developed
And then you’d want to make sure the editors didn’t turn into ODP editors who are only doing it for their own good.
I think it’d be a great social experiment as well.
I think… search engines obviously know almost all the method´s to exploit them, but wit out this becoming mainstream, they keep their ppl working on more important stuff (for their profits)… if you start making most BHinfo available here, and you start getting tons of traffic, they are going to take countermeasures.
my 2c.
Sounds like a good idea. Other than syndic8, I can’t really find good reliable BH info. Everyone plays their cards close to their chest.
With the changing SE algos and filters, you have to find counter-measures to survive.
I do agree that it should be by invitation only, with the ip addresses logged for tracking purposes to keep potential spies out.
Black Hat used to be a “dirty” word (and still is, in some circles) and was rejected. With the new changes in the SE’s, it doesn’t matter WHAT type of website you have, WH, BH, GH…they are all at the mercies of whatever new implementations the SE’s throw at us.
We need to devise new tactics, methods, and strategies to use in the SE wars.
Interesting idea - could certainly be the next generation of SEO exploitation in the making (ie more organised info distribution)
I’m thinking that if ppl were pissed at your blog they will be even more so at a wiki!
Stop exploitation by black hat SEOs? Most wikis I see these days have the no-follow in all off-site links.