If you are like me, you read a lot of webmaster and SEO blogs. While reading Aaron Wall’s SEO Book blog today I can across an amusing post with a bit of truth to it:

Anyone ever notice that the black hat SEO blogs typicially have both higher content quality and more original content than the typical white hat SEO blogs?

This rang true to me after reading a post at SEO Black Hat today — crossing my fingers, I hope linking to them doesn’t hurt this Blog’s Google rankings

I can’t speak for everyone, but many of the strong black hats that I know are using their black hat loot to finance a diverse portfolio of Internet ventures. The reason we are “stepping into the light” is to cover all the bases: to diversify. People get wrapped up in ethics when the real question for web entrepreneurs is: what works best?

As a web publisher myself, I can tell you I live by the question — what works best? People who can answer that question, with an answer that meets both their short-term and long-term goals are the ones who succeed in this game. When SE spammers want people to actually read and use their sites they’ll do it. If they don’t have the skills at least they will have the money to pay people who do.