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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

As these posts illustrate beyon doubt, Googlebowling not only still works, but - more importantly - so does negative SEO. Indeed, your competitors could easily get your sites ranked for totally irrelevant spammy terms, incurring all kinds of “bad neighborhood” penalties.