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These downright sneaky and underhand tactics to optimize for the local search space are bound to be highly effective – so don’t miss out!

Propeller mouth Jason Calacanis aka Mr SEO Is Dead, founder of Mahalo, has been caught red handed dabbling in what is generally considered to be blatant black hat SEO techniques

So we won’t be heading for Rio this year, after all…

Black hat, white hat, no matter: if you have plenty of content, you’ll want to publish it somewhere, and if you need links for ranking, submitting it to article directories, RSS aggregators, social bookmarking sites, press release sites, video directories etc. will be your daily fare. Strangely enough, good mass submission software is actually quite rare and you won’t find a lot of programs or services that cover the lot reliably. Here’s what the pros use

In a push to discontinue all unprofitable activities, Internet veteran Lycos will be closing their Lycos Mail and Tripod services mid February. Both white and black hat SEOs focusing on parasite hosting will probably regret losing this long established conduit.

While the jury is still out on the question to which extent bounce rates and behavioral factors will actually impact search engine rankings, there seems to be a general consensus that it’s bound to come. If so, it’s equally likely that we will soon witness the emergence of a new super duper black hat instrument: the SEO Surfbot Net (SBN).

When spam turns political, it tends to get knighted with a new tag – psychological warfare. Could very well be that negative SEO may hit it big on the political front rather sooner than later now, too. Of course, the media being what they are, they’re more likely to dub it Cyber Warfare.

Here’s an overview discussing five low cost black hat tools to assist your link building and automatic content generation efforts.

Like it or not, despite its bad reputation amongst the ethics junky crowd, going for cloaking (IP delivery) can actually be an utterly rational and profitable business model, provided you play it right.

We’ve been invited as experts to SEO de Janeiro from Feb 20th through 23rd 2009 – and boy, did we have a hard time deciding on whether to accept the invite or not!

In case you haven’t come across it yet, and even if you have you may want to take a gander at just about every hilarious “black hat” trick in the book back in 2002

There’s always been savvy online marketers who didn’t fall for the mainstream media’s hypnotized focus on the Mountainview ‘Plex crowd – chances are that your Yahoo! and MSN traffic, while possibly puny compared to Google’s, will achieve an astronomically higher conversion rate – certainly nothing you should knock too lightly as it may well prove to be the costliest mistake of your life!

This is arguably one of the best and funniest promo videos ever launched on the Internet – and it’s all about SEO, too!

Here’s a funny mix between a tongue-in-cheek parody of Eastern European black hat gimmicks (including some excruciating English copy, albeit quite reflected) and a bona fide rewriter tool.

While the news of yet another Googlebomb (an issue supposedly addressed by Google once and for all months ago) has been around for a day or so, here’s a screenshot for history’s sake.