It's my first real new post in a while .... but this question has been bugging me for a long time now. I am, by nature, a designer and an artist, but have recently (since dec 2010 / jan 2011) been placed in my Internet Marketing Position, which I love, don't get me wrong, but it has me at an ethical crossroads atm.
The reason I say that is I am a proud white hat marketer, nothing BH has ever crossed my PC or laptop, and If i have the common sense, never will. What bothers me is that there are so many things on the net that people talk about on a daily basis that make no sense to me and I automatically label it as black hat. People talk about scrapers, blasting links and you name it and I feel like a nun looking at a child that said a cuss word. (literally, lol and I am petrified of nuns
)So let me ask you this question about ethics. Using software to help you build links, using bought proxies, scrapers to build a list for blog commenting etc. Would you ever consider doing this or using these tools? and why?
Maybe I am just completely wack, but I believe that things that stop the natural growth of back links are ethically questionable. Or maybe its my designer mentality stopping me from seeing the big picture?
