Hey People, What Do You Want From Me?

February 14th, 2008 | Blogging

This blog has 340 RSS subscribers, so I am asking all 340 of you. Plus those who visit the website instead of subscribing.

Why did you subscribe?

What do you want from this blog?

If you took the time to subscribe I’m sure you can spare one minute to reply to this thread and let me know what it is that you want to read about.

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25 comments ↓

#1 study5 on 02.14.08 at 6:33 am

I’m one of your subscribers and I very like your posts.
Frankly, I want to learn some black hat skills to make money online.

#2 Kass on 02.14.08 at 6:36 am

Some tips and tricks from black seo field.
Thats all what i’m waiting for

#3 emonk on 02.14.08 at 6:43 am

How you get links? How you keep links? How do you avoid the inevitable lawsuits?

#4 Anon on 02.14.08 at 6:43 am

> Why did you subscribe?
Stumbled upon your blog (literally, not using this stupid service), read something i cared about, subscribed.
Thinking of it I remember that you used to block german traffic at that time. Made me curious.

> What do you want from this blog?
Entertainment. And if you could write about something IM/AM/SEO/SEM/…-related, that is _not_ totally retarded or targeted to absolute beginners I would be glad, too.

#5 Gotan Raider on 02.14.08 at 7:34 am

Thanks for the comments. Keep them coming.

@ Anon, that’s what Im trying to figure out: the level of knowledge that my readers have. Beginners/Intermediate/Advanced?

#6 Paul D on 02.14.08 at 11:03 am

I’d like to see you avoid the same rehashing of the news that 95% of the SEO sites out there do. “HOMG Google’s Matt Cutts left a cryptic reply to a comment that *could* mean that Google uses toolbar data to better understand intent” (or something along those lines)

#7 Gotan Raider on 02.14.08 at 11:22 am

You just made me spill my drink

#8 Trophaeum on 02.14.08 at 12:15 pm

Give us some more random advanced seo toys!!! If people aren’t upto the advanced stuff you give out then work backwards and find where most of the readers are at and go from there. If people want basic seo stuff they can always hit up seobook…

#9 CD on 02.14.08 at 12:57 pm

alert(’I want to see a site called “blackhat seo diary” actually discuss blackhat seo. Possibly even in a diary fashion…Maybe in vague terms discuss things you are working on. Use the blog as a refresher for things you might have forgotten, ask for advice about things you don’t know. Looking back, it appears only 4 out of the last 15 posts have a direct bearing on the processes, ideas, techniques, etc. of running a successful BH SEO campaign. Out of those 4, half are just affiliate ads for crappy/semi-crappy programs that could easily be coded in a couple of hours of php. Why did I subscribe? Not sure. I think it was the domain name. Why am I still subscribed? Not sure, but I think I’ll keep the site on feed a couple more weeks to see if things improve.’)

Feel free to delete this comment. I just wanted to give you some honest feedback.

#10 Gotan Raider on 02.14.08 at 1:34 pm

CD, I wouldn’t have started this thread in the first place if I was going to delete hard criticism. Thanks for the feedback, it’s all taken into account.

#11 b0n0b0 on 02.15.08 at 2:20 am

Knowledge.

#12 frankie on 02.15.08 at 4:47 am

I’m reading your blog because I hope to get some nice blackhat tricks, some more ideas for abusing g**gle for an intermediate black hat and so on…

#13 Corey on 02.15.08 at 9:25 am

I think most people have said it, came here to learn about black hat. I read a few others, some things I would like to see would be program ideas, coding, etc. how to identify a need for a tool, then the coding and development of it, updating it, etc. how to stay a head, hope this helps a little

#14 TJ on 02.15.08 at 9:33 am

I subscribed after following a link sent to me by a friend.

I think Paul D’s comment is good…

Yeah, send us original stuff that doesn’t follow the herd.

CD mentions he’d like to see something in diary form…

Sure that sounds cool too!

I think I just want to have a fuller understanding of white, grey or black ‘pointy’ hat tactics.

Laters

#15 extreme webmaster on 02.16.08 at 4:30 pm

- More blackhat techniques for earning $
- More techniques for getting an avalanche of traffic

#16 protos78 on 02.17.08 at 5:46 am

I just want to get an idea of what fellow blackhatters are doing. It would be great if I can learn 2-3 things that could make money.

The whole thing is about money. I am not looking for detailed instructions. Ideas are more than enough.

Thanks,

#17 Steve on 02.17.08 at 3:21 pm

>Why subscribed? Stumbled across it, at the time wasn’t sure which sites were of use or not. Figured I’d work it out on my own, rather than go off the masses’ recommendations: This blog’s been in the ‘trials’ folder of my reader for some time. But for this thread (and the hope things will get better), I was about to unsubscribe.
>Want:
Post becuase you’ve got content, not to keep your rhythm up. As TJ above said, we’re here for a fuller understanding. Posts with new, creative, or at least thoughtful, approaches & techniques that are well-researched are key. Shorter rather than longer, too.

#18 Dark Crystal on 02.20.08 at 7:54 am

I think everyone is hoping for some good insider knowledge about blackhat seo. Allthough we all know, that you’re probably not going to write down the best tricks. (Because if you do that, probably they wil not work anymore :-))
But we are still hoping for some good hints

#19 Flukey on 02.24.08 at 7:14 pm

One word - inspiration. If you’ve got some old ideas that you don’t use anymore but recon they’d help n00bs develop some ideas of their own, then share em.

#20 aidan on 02.25.08 at 5:42 am

Why did you subscribe?

Because I don’t know shit about blackhat.

What do you want from this blog?

To understand the mindset of a blackhatter. Maybe also learn how to live without a conscience.