Google’s Matt Cutts posted a twenty minute video summarizing two presentations he gave last year. The video goes over what he considers to be virtual “blight,” or when a site or community becomes stale with spam. In addition, Matt shows us how to put on a “blackhat” and think like a spammer.
The video is pretty interesting to all levels of SEOs, so I embedded it below. In short, he summarized the three types of blight, including link spam, open landing pages and hacking. He then goes into how to think like a blackhat, in the “blackhat mindset” segment.
He also cross posted this video and presentation at the Google Webmaster Central blog.
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I think the risk to twitter is significant from spammers and MLMrs. I think the risk to Twitter is that spammers/phishers/MLMrs etc. are motivated to invest in trying to hack the site to spam it.
http://experiencecurve.com/archives/why-mlm-will-kill-twitter-hint-because-they-have-a-business-model
Matt, I hope you continue to do this video tutorials. This one was very helpful especially about black hats and trying to think like them. As for renewing domain names, I can relate to that. One of my first clients neglected to renew his domain and afterward couldn’t retrieve it. It wasn’t just the PageRank he lost, but all the print advertising and yellow page ads that pointed to the site that no longer existed.