Here is a post I just put on another SEO blog:

SEO I believe has to be the key to online success as adwords are now way too expensive.

But what if you do all the SEO stuff and it works but your site conversion doesn’t work for all the traffic you now have?

Site design is such a subjective thing and how do you know if, when you decide what to use and do, it works or not really?

BUT it is so important to get it right as if you do it’s worth a fortune and if you don’t it could cost you a fortune.

I am so happy that I have discovered this web marketers tool for example and I am just so excited to have finally found a tool like this I can’t begin to tell you!

It is free for a good single site owner user and you only have to pay if you use it on more than three sites.

Without a doubt it is the absolute best tool I have ever seen or used and because of the free test I got I am now using it on everything I do.

It is so insightful I am now going to redesign my sites (with confidence!) as finally I can see what needs doing because of this tool.

I can’t say more than that except that if you have a site and you care about getting it right then you really need to consider this tool http://budurl.com/musthavetool
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So what do you say?

My believe is that I found a product we should all know about as it is such a difference maker to REALLY know what people do when they hit your site and to have a chance at tweaking because of the evidence you see..

If that is spam then there is something wrong with the world

For instance you often see people post comments on marketing forums about how much money they’re making, and if they’re actually making more than you it can be extremely tempting to join them on the other side in the pursuit of higher profits.

mikerambling

Very nice article but, I do somewhat disagree with the “Its actually a big bold line”. I feel it is a thin line that isn’t always straight but curved.

In today’s world oursourcing has made it all to easy to hire someone to do our writting for us. I know as a fact that ghost writers will write articles, blog posts, testimonials, and even term papers (thats scarey).

I feel that if an article or posted content is relevant and useful to the subject/niche it has served it’s helpful purpose. Then it is up to the publisher/marketer to decide how it will be published.

The use of multiple accounts doesn’t change the content. Should it matter to me who wrote the information I read that helped me decide of my own free will to either purchase or not? As long as I the buyer am not held captive I can still purchase from anywhere I choose.

Now if, I’m hijacked or had affiliate stealing software installed on my PC without my knowledgable consent then the marketer is operating in a non-ethical way. By “knowledgable” I mean not buried in the super small fine print of some cool tool software license agreement that I downloaded.

Anyway, at the end of the day business is still a competitive arena and the objective of the business is to earn a profit. Anything else would be considered a hobby.

Al

Very interesting read. I like the white/grey/black examples you give.

Josh

How do you classify links that are placed in blog comments or in the main body (not sig file) of a forum post?

With that in mind I think the choice to be white, grey or black hat is largely a matter of what you yourself are comfortable with and what it is that you would like to be know for.