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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.

What’s up in terms of spamming and hacking at Google’s all-time darling, Wikipedia? Essentially, it’s the old Dmoz story all over again: A long, sordid tale of broken dreams, tainted trust, misguided zeal, faked concerns and, barring politics, some of the sleaziest social engineering extant.

Installing Wordpress blogs on a mass scale is onechore you’d rather want to avoid. It can be daunting enough on a one-time basis, especially if you’re not of a technical bend, but rolling out tens, hundreds or even thousands of WP blogs positively sucks if you have to do it manually. Now, there’s a no-brainer solution available - and at a 25% discount, too, with our special promo code

In what’s evolving into something of a collaborative effort, Pablo Palatnik on Palatnikfactor blog has started out with a mindmap analyzing the typical brains of a white hat and a black hat SEO. Good fun stuff.

There’s more aspects to black hat SEO than you can shake a stick at, it can be applied to anywhich type of the gaming search engines in order to drive traffic and sales, and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is certainly no exception.

Earl Grey of Syndk8 forum is conducting an SEO experiment targeting what is arguably the most competitive market of them all: pharmaceutical spam, specifically Viagra.

Operating in (aka: gaming) the social network space, going for effective link building via forums, blog comments, wikis etc. will typically involve setting up slews of different personas and identities - for most of which you’ll need an operative e-mail address to verify your registration these days. So enter The Mailbot: This recently launched tool is a desktop based application that allows you to create as many valid, functional Gmail accounts as you like

If you’ve fallen for all the recent hoopla showered upon Blogrush you may either be devastated or delighted to learn that this pathetically blatant pyramid scheme of a blog link exchange for the mathematically challenged and blog illiterati has been cracked from no less than two top notch black hat quarters, enabling you to game it to your heart’s content until the cows come home

Should Google actually go for buying GoDaddy, as the search market grapevine is anticipating, the impact on black hat SEOs could be huge. Here’s a list of viable options allowing you to hedge your bets.

Here’s an eye opener on how to push your promotional video on YouTube to top status. Pretty sneaky and dead easy to implement!

When it comes to gaming the social networks black hat style, there’s really no infamous secret sauce involved in gaming the social networks, so no need to cough up money for expensive e-book reports trying to sell it to you. Simply follow the rules outlined here and adjust them as required, employing your #1 resource as an SEO: your head!

A Russian black hat SEO reveals how to get 100K pages indexed in Google without spamming their links directly. Use at own risk.

It’s obviously the interview season here at fantomaster.com. Now, it’s our old friend Mike Grehan who has posted his piece on ClickZ, explaining the return of the Nefarious Search Engine Spammer industry. And as always when Mike’s signed his name to an article, it’s a ripping good read.

Want to see successful black hats’ SEO techniques served on a platter? Need to analyze what they’ve done to outrank you? This site gives you the raw data.

Monetizing your participation on social media platforms such as Digg, Netscape, Squidoo, StumbleUpon, Facebook etc. can be a tedious and even tricky affair. This new service will actually pay you for doing so.