Originally Posted by DarkJedi

there is no "Black Hat SEO"

there is SE spamming.

- first of all, you have to be very good at it - know some programming, have complicated scripts, etc etc.

- then you have to work every day, because google bans your domains within a few days after getting your spam pages into the serps.

- then you need to constantly keep your edge.

it does pay off, but it's a pretty hard work and requires much skill.

personally, i like to stick to White sites.
once you get ranked in the top 10, you pretty much don;t have to do anything to stay up there, and the traffic just keeps coming in, while you devlop other sites.