I am always amused when reading a marketing forum that talks about the different color hats we wear in this industry.  White hat, gray hat and black hat are the 3 colors always bantered about with different personal takes on all three or widely made accusations being thrown at one forum member or another.  Personally, I rarely ever see any of my true BH friends hanging around the most popular and/or traditional Internet marketing forums.  That part is quite unfortunate for the overall Internet marketing community.  My experience has been that some of the most innovative strategies and great intellect come out of the BH community.  Of course, reality is, hardcore black hatters would never feel comfortable sharing some of their wisdom publicly (outside their traditional channels of communication). (…)

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Over the past couple of years I have been repeatedly asked for the secret to building a successful online business.  It is funny, because every time I give my answer, the questions is usually just repeated again like I had never responded in the first place.  Now I realize that a question like that can have lots of different answers, but, my online business success has been based on organic search traffic, so my answer always revolves around a search business strategy. (…)

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