Every day I find new and exciting stuff on the Internet to do with marketing. The majority of the cutting edge stuff is in search engine optimization. SEO guys are getting bigger, faster, stronger and better every day and since the advent of web 2.0 and the growth in communities that have started its getting to be a real hotbed of intelligent thought, debate and just plain scary stuff.

Black Hole SEO

Today I started digging into some stuff about “Black Hole SEO“. You get white hat SEO - the right side of the tracks for long term SEO, black hat SEO - pushing the limits of what will get you search engine results, and today I started reading about Black Hole SEO - take black hat SEO stick it in an SEO tardis and start exponentially building websites.

From what I’ve been reading it can build 100’s of links an hour (that some link velocity) to have to deal with when it slows down if you believe that Google pays any attention to link velocity.

Does Black Hole SEO Belong in the SEO X-Files?

See if four years ago someone had told me you could do this I would have been in shock - now it seems kinda scary but not unbelievable. I still get the creeps from Markov generated content. This is kinda beyond the realms of what I think could, should and really will exist within my SEO sphere of reference.

Maybe thats what seperates us guys on the ‘ethical’ side of the fence from the guys on the other side. I understand the theory, and its not too far from ideas I’ve had/discussed with other SEOs in the past, but I’m too scared of what could happen if I did go through with it. Sometimes knowing that the SEO X-Files exists - and knowing roughly whats in there is far easier than messing with what lurks inside.

The thruth is out there - Black Hole SEO could/probably does work but I, for one, ain’t going to be getting anywhere near it. I saw what the dark side did to Anakin Skywalker and anyway I prefer Yoda.