As I study more and more competitors, few of my competitors in numerous market use the short term solution for acquiring immediate traffic to their website. The e-commerce industry also calls this phenomenom “Black Hat” marketing. Overall, using black hat marketing can also be assimilated to the use of steroids. Steroids to cheat and beat competitors in search engine rankings.

is it intelligent to use steroids on the internet? You decide. But the reality is that they both have there peculiar positive results. Using the correct legit way of achieving high ranking results on Google, Yahoo and MSN through the honest, ethical and moral way according to tradition is using white hat techniques.

This is the way my commercial sites are all used, including videogamesmystery.com as you may have notice. The interesting situation is when you receive competitors that use black hat techniques to cheat the search engines from your own hard work. It happens, most often the results are short term Google results once you have discovered all their techniques and how they are cheating the search engines to steal traffic from every other commercial site that is competing the right way.

But here is the good part, once you know something is wrong on how your competitor behavior on search queries has been over a period of a few moths, don’t care to report him – study the website. Don’t bother reporting it to Google or Yahoo without knowing how the site is performing under the lazy marketing.

Why? So you may be able to do in other niches. Of course, you’ll have to study quite a few hours and understand a few concepts for getting everything in grasp, however, with websites that you might be able to re-direct traffic to your main central website – you don’t care of losing the website. By then you had received 1,000′s of visitors and sold numerous items.

Here is a technique I used to discover few of this sites. Check regular link exchange directories. Link exchange directories is where most sites exchange links with other website in order to gather search engine popularity. Now, once you have seen how regular link exhanges are install this particular firefox add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Once you have installed it. Substitute the user agent of your browser and set the user agent to Googlebot/2.1 . You’ll be able to see it through googlebot eyes. Surprise, no outgoing links. Only links pointing to it. Furthermore, the site has so many footprints that I am shocked to see Google not responding and banning the website. Sweet? For the owner indeed. Not for all the others that are doing the right things.

On the short term if you know how to eliminate footprints, that is any associated sites in the same server, change your I.P address or have a unique I.P for such site and can fly under the radar under keywords that are not popular..it’s up to you to practice it. However, it’s not the way to earn a living from the internet…there are other ease ways to cloak but are way to expensive. These is the easiest and most cheapest way to get traffic in the short term.

You get to judge if you want to use it for your wholesale niche site or not.

John