Recently I visited the Affiliate Summit East and got to meet some Black Hat SEOs from WickedFire. I won’t go into a review on the summit in this blog, but I will talk about some interesting conversations I had with the black hats. First of all, I have to admit conferences like these are not great because of the things you “learn” but are great because you finally get to meet the people you read about. There is just something about shaking another persons hand that a blog, article, email, or anything else can’t top.

I considered myself as white hat as it gets. My goal was to grow a “legitimate” publishing business. I had a whole business plan laid out where I would hire staff writers and product blog style content. I figured with my white hat SEO tactics and original content it shouldn’t be tough to start making some serious scratch. Well I was dead wrong and the blackhats have helped me join the dark side. Let me explain white whitehat and blackhat are the same thing.

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I love when I find hilarious things when searching the Interwebs on the Google. I decided to search for “best search engine” to see does the Google think that it is the best search engine ever. Apparently Google is suffering from a case of low self esteem. Who do you think is better than you Google, is it Yahoo? No, it can’t be aren’t they in some kind of financial crisis, maybe MSN? Nope, they just recently rolled back indexing and algorithm changes because they pissed off so many webmasters. So tell me who is better than you Google? DOGPILE LOL

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Ask.com the little search engine that could, has finally come out with another progressive feature to separate itself from the pack. The feature is called Ask Eraser, and unlike other search engines, it is an opt out feature to make sure your searches are not saved in their database. With the recent Yahoo! Leaking Data and even more recently Facebooks Beacon debacle this is a great step by Ask.com.

If you want to keep your information safe then I strongly recommend you start using Ask. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are not currently allowing for this feature. Lets see how quickly they will follow suit.

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