Hidehisa Watch

There is a great thread over on SEOmoz by Matthew Inman about how some Googlers consider any of his future attempted linkbaits and widgetbaits to be off topic spam, based on his aggressive misuse of widgets in the past.

With hundreds of comments many of them are noise, but some of them are spot on with Google’s current trends, especially those from Jeremy Luebke and Jim Boykin. Jeremy wrote:

Google is determined to make any scalable link building process blackhat. It won’t be long before all off topic linkbait, including articles, is considered linkspam.

And Jim wrote

And the blackhat club gets bigger…. and the waters get murkier and murkier…. if you’re an SEO, you’re a black hat. Only those who don’t know what SEO is are the white hats…. Don’t try to rank high on purpose….if you do then you’ve broken a google guideline

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