Last month, David Naylor wrote:

I have been getting some flack, in private emails and in public places about the lack of seo advice been given out in public places.

Well the reason why I stopped was all the fŭcking idiots that decide that because their 8 page website on some hardware shop in some backwater town selling gay pink hammers didn’t get a penalty for hiding text in a hidden div, or the fact that they only have forum – blog – guestbook links has IBL’s, then I must be wrong. To be honest I don’t care that much whether they believe me or not, It’s advice nothing more nothing less..

I know how you feel, daveN:

What’s the title and domain of this site? Look at the favicon. Perhaps black hat is dead? Is it really all about networking? Is that the algorithm that really works best? Is that the conclusion I should make and call it a day with this site and move one to
GladHandingAndBackSlapping.com?

Give me a sign. Keep the favicon you have and tell us how to beat the search engines or change it to a bunny rabbit, because its fluffy like these posts. – Joebanner comment yesterday.

At the end of the day, my job . . . and the job of all SEOs . . . is to get links. If I spam them to this domain, I’ll get banned faster than (we’ve covered this).

So our job is to get links. You, the blogosphere, have voted with your links on what kind of posts you want. SEOblackhat didn’t get 30,000 links by blogging about black hat SEO, it got them by writing link bait.

Sure, I could go into why others are failing with Digg while I continue to have success like I did on the Forums but I’d rather do a link bait piece that becomes one of the 50 most dugg stories of the year.

I could write on the blog about sniping spammer domains and an apparent glitch in the Google algorithm like we did on the forum . . . but how many links would it get?

None. (like these four examples)

Instead, people would flame me for releasing too much information to the public.

Yes, we could do Parasite Hosting Q&As like we did on the forum.

But then why would anyone want to join the forum?

When the seoblackhat blog was focused on the more technical aspects of spamming, those posts would get no link love. In January of this year, I had 8742 unique visitors to seoblackhat.com for the entire month.

Now I’m getting more than that per day.

Here are the stats for the last 9 days:

With 10k people per day, the thing that will be most helpful for the greatest number of readers is to learn how to link bait.

I’m showing you how to link bait both by example and with explicit instructions. The thing that the greatest number of people will enjoy is helpful information spliced with humor.

If you want a more technical drill down or to chat with me via IM, that’s why the forum memberships are available.

Anyone who does more than 2 searches per month knows that Black hat SEO isn’t dead. But writing about black hat SEO for links sure is.