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Thanks to @INCC for raising this question recently. This is a feature we've had for a while now, but we haven't explained exactly how to use it. So here we go. Let's say you've were chatting to someone in the past and you want to pick up where you left off. Rather than scrolling through your...

Announcing: the BHW design competition! We want to shine a light on the members of this forum who are also talented designers. After the global pandemic, we thought it was high time we had something positive and creative to focus on. So for all you designers, this is your chance to strut your...

Earlier this week, @Gogol mentioned that he would like more reaction icons on the forum. His thread got a little traction, so we thought it would be useful to do a poll. These are the options you get when you hover over the 'Like' button under each post. Currently we have a thumbs up and a...

Due to demand from the forum suggestions and feedback section, we’ve released some functionality that will allow sellers to reply to their customers regularly, without bumping their marketplace threads more frequently than the rules allow. We’re always on the lookout for ways to keep our...

Sales Thread Update ⚠️ This sales thread has been permanently closed!⚠️ Original sales content and contact information have been removed to protect our members and maintain the quality of the Marketplace. ✋ Click here to find similar active and tested services! ✋ Check out our Marketplace...

Keep an eye out for the newsletter that's dropping into your inboxes this weekend. We've added something new. Starting this week, we're including featured threads in the 'Latest Marketplace Threads' section of the newsletter. It's just a trial for now, to see if members find it useful, but if...

This week, we've moved our Social Media section and given it a sub-forum of its own. This has been a long time coming. Keeping Social Media within the Black Hat SEO sub-forum hasn't felt right for while. Social Media is such a massive part of IM, it makes sense to give the discussions their...

This week 13 years ago the domain BlackHatWorld.com was registered. That’s right, this forum first graced browsers in 2006, and has been feeding ideas and starting conversations ever since. 13 is the minimum age for contributing to forums, so now that BHW is officially old enough to post on the...

We all know that CryptoCurrency is volatile. That's part of the draw for a lot of people. But a week or so ago, news hit the headlines of an unexpected development for one bitcoin company. Quadriga, based in Canada, have lost all of their customers' money. Not in the sense that someone has...

Once you've been on BlackHatWorld for a little while, you might find that you're clicking around the forum a lot to get to the sections and forums you use the most. We admit, some things can be a little hidden around here, so we thought we'd pull out some of the most useful links into one handy...

Have you guys seen the outcry around GPT-2, OpenAI's latest language model? Apparently, it's so convincing they won't release it to the world, despite their open access business model. What they're claiming is that this AI can spin content that sounds so natural, everyone would believe an...

SEJ have just published an article about Bright Local’s survey looking into how much SEO professionals earn annually, what they bill per hour, and how many hours they work per week. Bright Local surveyed 650 marketers for this report, which is now the seventh one they’ve done. So what are the...

There have been a few discussions around the forum about TLDs, and the consensus generally seems to be the same: the TLD shouldn't have any impact on ranking, no matter what it is lesser known TLDs could effect your CTR negatively, because of a lack of trust local TLDs are best in their own...

2.0 Update! Changing your profile picture (or avatar) is easy. Click on your username in the top menu, and then click 'Account details' in the drop-down: You will be taken to your Account Details page where you can click on your avatar to change it: The avatar editor then pops up...

Sometimes we get spam on this forum. It sucks, but it happens. When we do get spammy posts, our members are great at reporting the content or the member, so that mods can take the appropriate action and deal with the spam. However, we do also see people getting a bit carried away and posting...

2.0 Update! Once you're ready to upgrade your membership, the process is nice and simple. For anyone interested in Marketplace Seller membership, you can upgrade at any point after you've registered on the forum. If you've been a member for 60 days and you've reached a post count of 100+...

If you want to sell successfully on BHW, you can’t just stick up any old Marketplace Thread and hope for the best. You wouldn’t just publish a website and expect amazing traffic from nowhere, and the same principle applies on the forum. We get so many threads each week, that your service or...

You’ve probably heard about this in general terms already, but there has been some interesting chatter about the EU’s Copyright Directive, and I wanted to get the BHW opinion. For those that aren’t aware, here’s a brief summary. Hot on the heels of GDPR, the EU is working on a plan to try and...

It looks like we’ve got more fun and games to come off the back of a Google update. Chrome 71 launched last week and it’s currently still rolling out. This time, Google are tackling what they consider to be ‘abusive’ advertising. They’re going to be blocking anything that they deem to be...