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What No Longer Works in Internet Marketing

February 2, 2010
Internet marketing and SEO has finally grown out of its infancy. Over the last few years, several strategies have been developed that have allowed online businesses to market their business and increase their market share. Many of these strategies still work well, however, technology has changed, meaning some of these technologies are not as effective as they once were.
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What is Black Hat SEO?

June 22, 2009
Black Hat SEO tactics are practices used by unethical SEO companies, and online marketing sites to trick search engines into giving them a higher ranking than they deserve. Black Hat SEO delivers fast results, but is ultimately very bad news for the users. So why is Black Hat SEO frowned upon, if it works (albeit temporarily)? Black Hat tactics are considered unethical, because they almost always break the rules of search engines. In addition to that, sites that use Black Hat SEO techniques make for a near universally bad user experience. There also some pretty severe repercussions for using Black Hat techniques. When search engines discover that these methods are being used, they will often block those sites from search results, rendering the site essentially useless.
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