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Aaron Wall interviews David Naylor (otherwise known as “comments spammer”) in a Q & A series on Search-Marketing.info. Interesting or frightening? You judge. I particularly blinked at answers such as:

We tend to run 2 or 3 different programs at a time and live by the sword, whether it be blog spamming, scraper sites, content driven sites or just plain old clean SEO sites. I’m a great believer that Google only want to kill one idea at a time, so there’s never a massive loss of revenue.

and

As for rules for playing in infested waters – there’s no rules, the gloves come off and you come out fighting. As for tips – don’t hold back… use every weapon in your arsenal. To me infested waters are much more challenging and exciting.

Read the full interview here, and draw your mind. Can we see a bit of some bravado attitude here, or complete seriousness?…

This isn’t about SEO in general, but more focused on blogs and how to build (good) links networks and get some viewage along the road. Aaron Wall from SEOBook hands out a few pieces of advice, as well as links to posts and resources illustrating the point:

With blogs you can just whinge on about whatever, and so long as it is usually on topic some people will read it. Sometimes the smallest things, like mentioning a 20 pound AdWords coupon can get you multiple free links from other regularly updated channels, and the attention of people who read those channels.

If you are looking for resources to cite you can use a tool to look at topical trackbacks (which also point links your way) and help get you noticed by some of the leaders of your community. Of course you can go too far and be labeled a spammer so you want to use some caution / restraint.

A few tips that are likely worth to be taken, here.

While browsing news from the past week, I found an article written by Cari Haus on WebProNews.com, titled “The Biggest SEO Scam of All”. Intrigued, I decided to read, and here’s what I found:

Read the rest of the article here, and in her own words, “beware of any SEO firm that:

• employs a boiler room full of telemarketers
• automates most or all of their services
• insists on gaining and retaining control of the url to be promoted
• focuses on lengthy and obscure search strings
• touts sites that are garnering a mere 100 hits per day as examples of their success.”

Everyone who wishes to employ the services of a SEO firm can indeed benefit from this advice, as it can be easy to fall for such ploys.

Moreover, I especially agree with Cari Haus on the 100 hits bit. I can do that myself without even having worked extensively on promoting my website and not being a specialist at SEO tactics. This is indeed a ridiculous promise!