Do you know what I learned from them? Well, they simply hates Google. I asked them why, and they just told me that Google is playing God in the internet. They are trying to control all the things especially the traffic.
They showed me a lot of reasons to convince and they even told me that why should I wear my white hat when Google is there doing bad. The said, that I should play with Google or else, I will be left behind.
So, they're telling me to do the black hat method of getting traffic. But, I still don't have ideas what black hat is.
They told me building links of my own for my own blog is already a blackhat. This confused me because Sustines is also telling me that not all link building are blackhat like links coming from my own blogs, links coming from social bookmarking and links coming inside the blog.
Well, I think, they just misunderstood Google. I was reading few articles of Matt Cutts and we know that Matt Cutts is the main engineer who designed the search engine in fighting spams. Matt Cutts said that it was okay to build links from Social Bookmarking sites. So, if this is so, then it is not blackhat in contrast what my friends are telling me.
If I will base everything to the declaration of Matt Cutts and Sustines then I can say that as long as the source of link is relevant to the topic of my blog or webpages, then it can be considered whitehat. But course, I need to avoid things like exchange linking, irrelevant links and other things that are considered by many as unethical. I think, by doing this, I can stay in the safe side of the road.
