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Since September 2009, together with our partners at fantomaster.com GmbH, we have been working to further develop the already impressive range of bSeolized fantomas shadowMaker™ products.   It is generally acknowledged as the most powerful cloaking software of its kind (in fact it is probably the ONLY software of its kind!) and we intend to maintain [...]

So we’re not much into PPC + affiliate marketing ourselves – but if you are, this is definitely your #1 option!

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).

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.

Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially componentized IP-Delivery – a highly sophisticated and fairly complex technology that will enable black hat SEOs to truly push the envelope in terms of well nigh undetectable cloaking/IP delivery to an unprecedented degree of efficiency. It will also effectively dissolve the hitherto clear cut borders between cloaked and non-cloaked pages – Web 3.0 at its very best

The decline of the dollar has been hitting European vendors and producers selling stuff in the dollar space pretty hard recently. Being based in Belgium, we’re no exception, and so we’ll regrettably have to raise prices for some of our products from midnight tonight

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.

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.

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.

Yes, it sounds trite, elementary, overly obvious – and yet, we’re encountering this almost every day: People who inquire about our SEO services who don’t seem to have an inkling of what online business is all about in the first place. This is the age of the clueless webmaster and the inexperienced Web entrepreneur. So what to do about it? More often than not, what you may need isn’t SEO at all – what you need is a business plan

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 interesting piece covering how to leverage systemic flaws and weaknesses Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter to your advantage – and trick-treat your competitors to oblivion in the process.

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.

After having been offline for almost two weeks, Threadwatch follow-up Threadwatcher is up and running again.