Blackhat SEO techniques are something that can not be eliminated. It’s especially frusturating to webmasters such as myself who work really hard and know their SEO only to get our ranked by SPAM sites that do not deserve to rank at all to be quite frank.
Even though search engines get smarter and smarter in eliminating these SPAM sites webmasters who use blackhat techniques will always find away to beat the search engines. Since the algo’s for major search engines such as Google, Yahoo & MSN don’t have any human factor with respect to how sites rank in the SERPS there’s always going to be a loophole.
Webmasters who use blackhat techniques shouldn’t expect to say around for too long as many webmaster complain about the poor results when ever there’s an update to an engines index.
Content, Content, Content… If there’s one thing that can be said content is still by far one of the most important factors in ranking well in the engines. There’s nothing like quality content to feed a spider and keep it coming back for more… In the end you’ll end up with a great site with lots of relevant content which in conjunction with a decent amount of quality links (not quantity) you shouldn’t have a problem ranking well long term.
If some of this stuff doesn’t make sence or is pretty vague… I’m sorry it’s late over here!
Anyways all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year…
P.S. If you want to complain about the current listings in Yahoo seach for “online casino”, “online casinos” which 98% of the sites listed in the top 10 are spam, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Send us Feedback” link. Fill out that form there.
Any feedback to Yahoo right now is very important as they’ll likely be launching a completely new algo in the New Year.
Best Regards.