I just want to clear something up that most people are not understanding. BlackHat SEO is not taking shortcuts. Most of the people that talk about BlackHat SEO in such connotation usually have never done it themselves, or even seen the code behind one of the tools.

Ok, I’ll admit that the newbie-ish BH tools like pre-made doorway pages, etc are pretty lame. Those are shortcuts. Those are people that really have no idea what they’re doing on a grander scale with writing their own code. The whole point of doing BlackHat SEO correctly is that when someone looks at your page and/or site they can’t go “this looks blackhat”. They will look at the page and it will appear to look whitehat on the surface.

Let’s look at the reality. If BlackHats only were for shortcuts, the methods and techniques would be completely dead by now. Automation is key. How you go about your automation, is the lock. Anyone can have the key to their success, but how many put it in the right lock and turn? That really sounded like a “how to make money online” eBook and I apologize, but I’m sure you get my point.

The whole reality is – if you’re one of those people that states that BlackHat SEO is taking shortcuts – I invite you to try it out for yourself. After you take 8-9 hours writing a scraper to correctly parse results, 4-5 hours to learn how to make a good automated link spammer and countless other hours learning other details – get back to me regarding how much of a “shortcut” it is. The whole point of being an automated-based BlackHat SEO is to create a system that will reap long term benefits and/or short term massive benefits. That’s just of course my opinion on it.

Heck, I’m just ranting – but you know what. Sometimes it just gets me wiled up when I hear about some people saying such things. Anyway, I’m in the Fort Lauderdale airport writing this waiting for Dave from ScarySEO to pick me up – so my apologies for rambling.

On another note, updated stats for the EPN Redundancy experiment:

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Going along quite nicely. Only crashed the Dual Xeon about ~15 times now. SoftLayer, you ROCK!