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Does Bluehatseo Suck?

For the one or two people who read this blog sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been very, very busy past few days and never had the time to sit down and blog something.

Without further delay I am going to blog about why bluehatseo is underwhelming, or sucks to be blunt. Bluehatseo as many people know is a popular SEO blog. It is run by a programmer extraordinaire named Eli and in the past six months its readerbase has exploded. It isn’t uncommon for one of his entires to get fifty or more comments. Yes indeed that is a lot of comments and indicates that the reader base must be staggering.

While Eli’s growing army of sycophants and disciples are blinded by the bluehat hype, I’m not. There are three three main problem with bluehatseo which I want to address. My previous attempts to criticize the blog on various forums & b logs have been censored but I figure that since is is my own blog censorship wont be as easy as just logging into an admin panel and deleting my posts.

The first problem with bluehatseo is that most of the techniques Eli writes about are difficult to code and only work in theory, not in practice. Other times they are completely wrong and demonstrate a lack of understanding about the mechanics of the major search engines such as Google. While I have nothing against originality, but the line must be drawn when his ‘ideas’ become flagrant.

Eli’s most popular post is how to make a $100 a day which got a staggering 284 replies. His method involves setting up a wallpaper site and getting a paltry 25-30 cent commission for each download through zango. 250-300 downloads a day and presto..$100 a day! Sounds pretty good huh? Um maybe not..The major problem is that there is TOO MUCH completion for wallpaper sites and the vast majority of readers lack the ability to market such a site. Angelina jolie and 50 Cent wallpapers? Wow who would have thunk that one up? You and 1000000 other people. Good luck driving thirty people to it let alone the 300 needed to make 100 a day. He recommends using some $60 promo software to help drive traffic, but if it is so effective why do think the programmer is selling it?

Another problem is the significant decline in posting, which ties into the release of his $100 SQUIRT tool. Usually Eli will blog one or twice or week, but his last entry dates back to July 31st. It has been over two weeks of inactivity, and his most recent entires have been lackluster. Any professional blogger will tell you that inactivity is a sure fire way to lose readers, which doesn’t bode well for his blog should this trend continue. Considering how many loyal readers bluehatseo has wouldn’t it be in Eli’s best interest to blog more often? But maybe Eli has already cashed out having, which leads into my third point…

About one and a half months ago Eli along with a business parter released a widget called SQUIRT. From the SQUIRT sales page here are the most important aspects:

>>you can read this whole sales page here: http://cloakingforums.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8886009592/m/4491036323

What is SQUIRT?
SQUIRT stands for Super Quick Indexing & Ranking Tools. SQUIRT is an all in one and easy to use tool that helps your sites get indexed, deep indexed and ranking faster in the search engines.

What Does It Do?

SQUIRT utilizes over two dozen techniques to get your sites both indexed and ranking very quickly. Many of these techniques range from easy to complicated to very secretive. It is very easy to use and is 100% safe. Every site you submit gets thoroughly analyzed and custom promoted to best fit it’s promotional needs. Everything is 100% automated and all you have to do is tell the tool your URL and what keywords you want to rank for. SQUIRT does the rest.

So in nutshell, for $100 SQUIRT allows you to submit sites to improve its rankings and traffic through various automated blackhat methods.

The problem with squirt is there is no concrete evidence that SQUIRT actually works. I browse many webmaster forums and I have yet to read any testimonials praising SQUIRT. Even on bluehatseo, the blog which SQUIRT originated from, contains no positive testimonials from any of its readers. I am not too surprised by this. SQUIRT appears to be marketed to readers looking for an easy, out of the box solution to rankings and traffic as promised in the sales page, but from what I gather if falls significantly on that promise.

Think about it this way: If such a widget could to what squirt promised why would the programmer sell it? He would use it for himself to rank for competitive keywords and make lots of money.
Thats enough for now. I’ve made my point. With everyone constantly praising bluehatseo as some sort gift from god there is nothing wrong with presenting an opposing view when it is justified.

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