What is your opinion on Alex Becker / Sourcewave?

[Edward_Sturm]

This is only meant to be a discussion. Is he legit? Is he too blackhat and the next update may make him a lot less relevant? Is he worth paying attention to?

[JordanLowry]

At first glance, he seems like a sketchy affiliate marketer. However, I could be wrong. If you want to find out if he is legit you could always purchase a domain and try out some of his techniques and see how they work and if Google destroy's your new site.

Could be a fun experiment.

[Edward_Sturm]

Thinking about it. I hate how it brings no value to the world though.

[JordanLowry]

Not necessarily, it depends on how you look at it. His specific site brings value to others looking to optimize and learn SEO. You can apply those same techniques to a blog on a subject you feel passionate about to test out some of his techniques.

[Edward_Sturm]

I most want to see if buying aged domains with a bunch of backlinks and then repurposing them into blogs still works to create an authority website.

Example:

http://www.stabilitypact.org/

Look at the wayback machine on that.

[JordanLowry]

I say go for it and test it to see what sort of traction you can gain with it. Personally I wouldn't do it for a client website or anything but it would make a neat project to test out.

[Edward_Sturm]

Yeah definitely not with a client website lol