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I have been invited here by a friend for whom cryptocurrencies are flesh and blood.

First time on the internet - my story in a public place! Hope you are going to like it!

Be advised the dates and numbers may be +/- right, i really dont remember what happened exactly and when but other than that - we are fully right on the milestones and the story.

Treat my picture with blink of an eye but why it looks this way, you will learn from the article - so have a read :)

2009 SEO and Internet Marketing

From when i remember i was always excited abou two things - making money and doing things out of the box. Then i heard of Adsense and ways to make loads of money from having websites and people clicking the ads.

I have started studying this. I remember i read that mesothelioma was one of top keywords for adsense with 10-30 USD per click. So what did i go for? Mesothelioma. Of course i wasnt the only one to know this keyword (internet was buzzing then) and i couldnt outrank specialists.

I made almost nothing but i have found communities that REALLY help each other to make money. This kind of reminds me of what cryptos do now - people tip each other, help when you are in trouble. Really - this was the same.
People making money were giving tips and methods to newbs and helping them make money.

Soon i reminded myself its not about working hard but about working smart - finding loopholes in alghoritms to rank websites fast and make money in no time.

We could say this was like hacking, but in white gloves, 100% legal just against some rules of Google. It was a real type of game between mice and a cat. Cat tries to catch you and you try to take as much food as you can before he starts chasing you.
From 2008-09 i have started making really nice cash and became a known nickname in blackhat seo communities.
To be clear - blackhat just means finding sneaky ways to rank websites not hacking or anything that hurts people.

2009 to 2014 - BackhatPwnage.com blog creation.

So i was known among communities, had lots of followers there and people asking me for help or opinions on things and their methods. I have decided i need to have my own place - i have made a SEO blog - http://blackhatpwnage.com
On start i was just sharing there really decent techniques, that SEOs wouldnt share even on closed forums. People were coming to the site insanely.
Soon almost any blackhat/linkbuilding software that existed wanted to have my review and were giving unique discounts for blogs mailing list. It was times when i had such good discounts that people would subscribe to my blog just to know those coupon codes.
The section had password, its link was changed weekly and passwords changed monthly.

What special i was doing that people followed me in SEO niche? I was capable of ranking sites in hardest niches - pharmacy, casinos and payday loans. It was creme de la creme of Google rankings.

Of course i was not working alone, but this time i had really strogn hookups among other big boys in the game. We were owning Google SERP any ways we wanted.

2011 - Creating own products

As i said i had access to 90% softwares coming out, yet i was still finding my own loopholes or ways to maximize profit. There was alot of software missing on the market.
I have started delivering my own programs and selling them. They were really useful, i was attaching money making methods to them. Everybody was happy. For example we had one of biggest and most massive bots for Pinterest when it just came out and started to be the big thing. Maybe it was even the first bot of this kind on the market, cant remember.
Around 2013 i have decied to add paid section to the blog and just pass people stuff there instead of making products or selling methods. It was another good move - had loads of quality subscribers and loads of "thank you" emails.

2012-2014 - Google went on rage

Google started snitching the forums, reading our methods, trying to catch our websites. To be clear, we were all bragging about what we do but not in direct ways - nobody was mostly showing their websites, we wasnt using twitter at all to be recognized and such. We had ways to proove we do that we say but withotu gettign compromised. Somethign liek signing messages now up in cryptos.
Forums started going underground with small super verified communities. To this day i have twitter with just 1000 followers and i was literally ignoring this medium to promote myself. We had fame and customers in the underground and coming to the light was meanig gour methods can die too fast.

2015 - Stopped blogging

In 2015 i have stopped blogging for whole year. Google was really killing all methods fast, alghortims changed so much it was taking a lot more work to rank then before.So i literally had no time to help people and i have pretty much lost interest in that due to Google seeking out for all hints.
Yet people were still sending emails, keeping subscriptions to the blog and renewing them asking when i will come back. So.. i couldnt let them trigger me more with paying me for not updating the site..

2016 - igl00s back!

Their method worked :)
This year i have decided to come back with my old style. At least once a month im posting something, keeping parts of the posts for paid memebers or 100% of posts hidden, for example now i run course to make Private Blog Network that Google cannot saturate or kill.
SEO and IM changed too. We dont have to stay hidden anymore, now theblackhat thing is called Internet Marketing, its fully legit (even tho google claims manipulating results is illegal) still they allow SEO companies to exist and i can go with my face anywhere i want and do courses or interviews if i wanted too.
The thing that was black then, now is mostly considered white. Now just hacking of websites or auto clicking adsense scripts are evil rest is pretty allowed and went mainstream.

Hope you liked the read, took me some time to write this post :) Seeya on STEEM fellow users!

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