The oldest BHW Member?

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Saw this man called old salt i think he is a very old member here
 
TarArAis said:
wdym?
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GGadvert said:
What was the main posts back then? I presume it was most focused on SEO?
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Laaaawan said:
Lol, why did you say that?
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I am going to quote a post of @X from another thread - Which has brilliantly explained how things were back then.

X said:
I was a lurker back when BHW was first around in 2006, and wound up registering a year later. it used to be the wild west - IM was a very different game. Quite a few methods were discussed that would now be considered borderline illegal (though I don't believe there were specific laws for some tactics back then - and no I won't mention them as they're against current TOS), ranking was as easy as spamming with tools such as PR Storm, doorway page generators (apparently Fantomas Shadowmaker is still around but no idea how well it works anymore - it used to be amazing), Pligg and wiki spammers, and massive link blasts with Xrumer. SENuke was king. Automation was easy as bot detection was primitive across most sites.

You could paste breaking news articles on a blogger.com site, slap AdSense on it, post it to Digg and buy/trade digg votes to hit first page and make $100+ without even trying.

Blackhatting for the term "Viagra" and hitting the #1 spot for a day before the site got booted from google was considered the holy grail of BHSEO - there were rumors you could make $40k in a day from shady pharmacies - I never tried so I can't vouch for that.

Diamond Dave sold it a while back to Diamond Damien, and at that point at lot of blackhat tactics had become ineffective, there's still plenty that work but the "click a button and rank/make money" days have been fading for years, which is why a lot more people focus on white hat tactics here now.
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First Snapshot of BHW in May 3, 2006 :D

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Yeah, it was much different in the old days. Xrummer was enough to rank you for any keyword, then google patched forum profiles and replies, hence, scrapebox was created, google patched blog comments, hence senuke was created. And finally GSA! Article directories and bookmarks were good backlinks with enough power to rank keywords.

Remembering this and watching where we are now shows how monstrous google is! Like damn, its like them against whole world. Much respect to google, another company could have gone down long time ago!

There were some billiant members who shared crazy methods which would end up in the VIP forum before getting patched. Its funny how much the forum shifted since back then.
 
flprocess said:
Good stuff mate. Too bad it's the first snapshot which probably taken weeks or months after the site went live, and we can't see the true beginning.
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yes thats true, it is not really first one.
 
bluematter said:
Technically, the first member was Diamond Dave which became Diamond Damien in 2011 when Damien bought the forum.

Before that, Diamond Dave use to have another name which I don't remember now, that was the first #1 "username"
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Any idea why BHW was sold??
 
KHer0 said:
According to old owner (Dave) last post, he wanted to move on with his life and enjoy new adventures
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Oh I see and makes sense but who in their right mind would give up this amazing place!
 
Twistler said:
Oh I see and makes sense but who in their right mind would give up this amazing place!
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People buy and sell companies all the time. After all its just business. Any business is for sale if you offer it the right price!
 
KHer0 said:
People buy and sell companies all the time. After all its just business. Any business is for sale if you offer it the right price!
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Yeah I would do the same thing for the right price... But since it wasn't me, I strongly disagree with selling bhw :)
 
How much did he sold it then? i'm looking to buy it now. i have $20 in my crypto wallet
 
Kolad said:
How much did he sold it then? i'm looking to buy it now. i have $20 in my crypto wallet
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I think that might be a bit to low. Add a few bucks to your offer and send Diamond a message/email.
 
Twistler said:
I think that might be a bit to low. Add a few bucks to your offer and send Diamond a message/email.
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Diamond is a title not a name -_-

Search the forum, there was a thread about how much it was sold and people were able to get pretty close figure.
 
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