Whoa! Black Hats have YOU in their sights!

In the SquidU forum, one of our group members followed a link that showed up in his stats. He posted this link to a internetmarketingguru's forum.

Probably because of MP, this leading lensmaster was found. The group explored his lenses, dissected his techniques and content.

Conclusions?

1. Black Hat SEO people are using MP to find 'profitable' niches that don't take too much work, in order to duplicate content.

2. As our favorite SEO Expert said in his blog: "Black Hat SEOs know what they are doing is defined as BAD, and do it anyway for specific reasons (not usually including “get banned”). I like to think of Black Hat SEOs as opportunists. They see an opportunity to gain, and take it, managing the associated risk. Please don’t confuse ignorant SEOs with Black Hat SEOs… the ignorant ones are those who execute on Black Hat (evil) tactics without managing the risks (either out of ignorance or folly doesn’t matter to me here)."

3. The opportunists aren't particularly thrilled with the flood of like-minded individuals they have brought to Squidoo with them, so they have thousands of other lenses and lensmasters using their same tricks. Gil has done great things to diminish the motivations to spamdoo Squidoo. So many of their antics up to now won't work anymore. What's next?

Now they are looking at YOU and your work, and which are making money.