Chico_Loco - 9:18 pm on Feb 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

G knows if you've been blackhat bad

I beg to differ. For this to be a valid statement they'd know the converse (when you've been whitehat good).

If this were true, then the latest update would not have seen many whitehat sites completely disappear from the SERPS. Now, I can't verify that these sites were whitehat, I'm afaid you'll just have to trust me.

I always always stick to the guidelines, but I have some very complex linking structures designed which Google would probably NEVER be capable of detecting (it's all mathematics). If I were to implement those, I could almost certainly be number 1 for the keyword of my choice, with some work.

I have no plans to put these plans in motion, but when I look at the results, I see spammers doing pretty well and have to question why I don't bother doing it - they make a pretty penny from it, so why bother being so whitehat anyway, because in the end you usually get screwed anyway. If you were blackhat, you might make a mass of money in a short time, get banned - move on with the money made, do the same and some forth - you'd probably make more with a good idea.