Before I became an inbound marketer, I once made $50,000 a month spamming Google. I worked a maximum of 10 hours a week. And I am telling you from the bottom of my heart: never, never ever follow in my footsteps.
This blog post will tell you exactly why…My Mindset in 2009I never wanted to spam the Internet. Google made me do it.This is what I told myself back then.If spamming is so wrong, I wondered, how come it always works so well? Most black hat SEOs think this way. They rationalize spamming Google’s index in so many ways: We’re helping Google improve their algorithm! Content is king?!? LOL! Links are the only content you need. Google’s lying to people. They deserve to get spammed. If we don’t do spam, our competitors will–and then they’ll beat us. We have to spam. We’re helping our customers–the little guy–win the battle against a big, bad, evil empire that wants to enslave them to paying PPC costs! Seo_spammers Black hat SEOs: masters of ethical rationalization But there I was, responsible for Google adding 45,000,000 new words of spam to its index every day. I had built a spam machine; the thing was brilliant enough to give my clients huge SEO ranking boosts (this was before KontentMachine and all the other spam-producing software out there now).
Source: Confessions of a Google Spammer
This article took a while to read but it was very interesting. I understand a bit better now about spammers. I wish he had talked more about his legitimate job now though. He sounds like he’s got the right career path now.