Today I randomly got an IM from a guy who I guess I had contacted a few months ago when I needed some data entry work done.  He owns a company in India and when we initially went over prices and his teams ability we decided it would not be a good match so we passed on him.  Now out of nowhere he just contacted me today, not remember who I am or what we had spoke about. So I decided to have some fun…  Enjoy.

godieswari: hello sir
me: hello
godieswari: how ru sir?
me: good
godieswari: any project work avaliable now
me: nope
godieswari: what works are now doing
me: What the fuck are you talking about?
godieswari: now what work u have doing
me: nothing. little stuff that we are fine with
godieswari: any work in future
me: no actually we went bankrupt and are closing next week.
godieswari: ok, My name Godieswari and your name
me: Rick Astley
godieswari: nice
me: do you know my company site?
godieswari: Plz free singup this and earn money http://stupid-affiliate-site-removed
me: cool, check out my site http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y
godieswari: Is that you sing Rick?
me: yes it is.
godieswari: nice song
me: thanks, remember i am never going to give you up.
godieswari: thank you, let me know if more work comes available
me: never going to let you down.
godieswari: goodbye sir Rick
me: never going to run around….
Sent at 3:23 PM on Thursday
godieswari: if we do increases the youtube views we can help make you more famous RICK

Now I guess its out of desperation of the need for work that he would have his team click on a youtube rick roll all day long if paid to do so. To be honest I was tempted to hire him to do this, but under the condition that he films his team doing this and sends me the video.

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like wtf? I did another post on my SEO Super Star’s blog. Urging her to post some more.  Please comment on that post and make her drop some bombs!?!

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Growing up in an urban area you would have groups of friends who you would hang out with, initially called your “clique” then as time went on, you got older and became better friends this became your “crew”. In my area they way crews distinguished themselves was by graffiti.  Each individual crew member would usually have a tag name which he or she would put up in highly visible places in order to show their ability and in most cases how nuts they were.  Now each tag would always give a call back to the crew that they represented. Now lets say I had beef with another crews member, and I drew a big X over one of their graffiti pieces or even worse, I just use my spray cans to tag directly over their piece. Now what would happen? My crew would now have beef with their crew. Meaning x’ng out all of their pieces or directly tagging over their pieces.

So what the fuck does this have to do with anything?

In the SEO/SEM world (as well as most industrys), their are crews or cliques. People might not in fact take shit like I do or look at things in the street mentality that I do, but if someone is stepping on a member of my crews shit, talking crap publicly about them & then wants to try and pop shit off on me - its on. Especially when this person has no reason to & posts useless dribble to a blog claiming to be in support of “ethical marketing”.

Now way back when on the Sphinn, i had a run in with this person, where it ended when I was compared to a rapist & murderer. Which in all honesty, I could care less.

I get an instant message from a friend the other day with a link. The link was to a stumbleupon page and one of the comments said this…

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/ankitrawat.com/blog/

Now no biggie, nothing crazy right? Just a track back link to a blog. Nothing derogatory.  Brush it off your shoulder and keep it moving…

Then this came up…

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/melaniephung.stumbleupon.com/

On her personal page on StumbleUpon. Now my question is this, we all know that StumbleUpon hates SEO’s and Search Marketers - so why in fact would a so called SEO flame another SEO on SU?  This doesnt seem like “ethical marketing” to me…

Nothing was said after this…  Let it slide. Then Mel writes an amazing post which goes to the front page of sphinn & is actually some good stuff. Like informative, the kinda shit I try and stay away from on this blog. This is the post here…

So I check the SU reviews and low and behold, the “ethical marketing troll” has dropped her 2 cents of useless dribble. Which totally makes no sense if you actually read the post…

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.all-about-content.com/2008/07/how-not-to-use-social-media.html

Please note, Kim’s statement was SOOOOOO amazing, she had to bold the entire thing.  So I have highlighted her original comment in red - not to get it confused with what she wrote after I wrote my comment (which the 2nd part is in bold).

Now in her last post she made a comment about “Treating people like grown ups” - this trolling that has been going on doesn’t seem to grown up like to me.  Name calling and mud slinging is grown up?

Actually also you are not using SU as its designed, because you are flaming another SU member & posting derogitory things about them. Which is, last I checked, a violation of the TOS.

So now I check my Stumble Upon page and I get this in my comments…

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/streko.stumbleupon.com/

Kim, im going to answer you here.

In all honesty - I dont give a fuck about my stumbleupon profile & I really don’t give a fuck about stumbleupon. I don’t use stumbleupon - I am a regular cut and dry organic SEO - not a social media marketer, my company actually has a department for that. I have something called “clients”, that do something called “pay me” to consult them on ways of making their sites rank organically. Unlike 95% of this industry I know my roll & I keep to it.

Now I respect Bill, which is why I will dead this here, I just wanted to say my piece and stop playing this whole pissing match with you on stumble upon. So honestly, do me a favor, go scrape some more content from other SEO’s blogs for your blog & then post your ocasional 400+ word banger about “ethical SEO” and keep it moving. I actually “work” all day and I dont have time to keep this crap going…

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So much debate over this black hat crap again now that the SMX “give it up” session has been released.  I just figured I would help everyone out and make some ways to tell if you should consider yourself a “black hat seo”.

• If you ask for links - You are a black hat
• If you buy or sell links - You are a black hat
• If you have a social media profile that is not your own - You are a black hat
• If you sat in on the “SMX Give it up session” - You are a black hat
• If you have ever left a comment in a blog, then said your name was something other then your real name - You are a black hat
• If you are on twitter - You are a black hat
• If you are also on plurk - You have to much time on your hands & you are a black hat
• If you have ever tried to see if you could buy a miss-spelling of “google.com” - You are a black hat
• If you are reading this blog - You are awesome & a black hat
• If you use any kind of 302 redirect - You are a black hat
• If you own a black hat -You are a black hat
• If you have anything to do with affiliate marketing - You are a black hat
• If you call yourself an SEO -You are a black hat
• If you put miss-spellings in Meta Tags - You are a black hat
• If you own a website - You are a black hat
• If own a blog - You are a black hat

I hope this helps clear the air.

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