David Krug over at College Startup pointed me in the direction of a fabulous blog on advanced SEO topics called Blue Hat SEO. The blog wades into Black Hat, etc. but is extremely rich with deep-analysis that even white hat SEOs can use.
And best of all, there's a tool that you can use to get your new blog indexed quickly.
it's great
For anyone here that hasn't seen it, Bluehat SEO is an incredible site. It is occasionally technical at times, but on the other hand, there are lots of very accessible posts about improving your blog's ranking, traffic, revenue, etc. They are all solid ideas, some of which I'm on the verge of implementing. And lots of tools, or how-tos on how to build them.
Yeah, I came across Bluehat
Yeah, I came across Bluehat a while back, via Matt McGee's blog (I think), and it's been a real eye-opener. This guy walks the line between white and black hat techniques, and it's always an interesting read.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm slightly trepidatious about trying out some of those techniques, much as I enjoy reading about them.
exactly
Gerard my thoughts exactly. Not all of them are legit. I.e., copyright is maintained on your website's content even if the domain falls out of registration. So while Eli's tip about picking up content from archive.org's Wayback Machine (for domains about to expire) is clever, it is copyright violation.
I suspect he doesn't care
I suspect he doesn't care too much about that, nor do the bulk of his readers. However, I've picked up a nasty case of ethics, and I just prefer to keep my nose clean when dealing with websites. I think the absolute worst I would be prepared to do would be to use a fairly good article, but to completely rewrite it with my own spin and possibly cover slightly different areas of the topic.
Imagine, writing content manually instead of using a scraper. Now that's old-skool....
possibly
I think old-school can't keep up, but this will be temporary.
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