In the last 2 weeks alone I have been talking with a few people that i got to meet at ASE. It is pretty interesting when you compare Black Hat to White Hat SEO and listen to the different opinions that people have.
From my experience, I have not ever had any major success in designing sites and getting them ranked high on the search engines. In the last week I have used some methods that are considered ‘Black Hat’ to build, promote and in some cases, cloak my websites.
I am experimenting on a few .info domains that I can throw away if they get banned from google. I am putting adsense on the pages and affiliate offers that are targeted toward the specific genre of the domain. I use a a sitemap creator to generate a list of pages within the domain (that are all generated with the software i am using) and then i ping them out via trackback URL’s and i do some submitting on social bookmarking sites.
I am not looking to make a few dollars getting clicks. I am looking to make the major money through my affiliate marketing via the Black Hat methods i am learning and continue doing my pay per click campaigns at the same time. Anywhere there is money to be tapped on the internet, i am trying to do.
The problem is that i get so overwhelmed with new ideas, software, discussions and applications that i cannot concentrate on one specific project at a time. Im going to take the advice I give all of my friends and pace myself. Affiliate marketing is where the money is. Keeping your friends and sanity while you are doing it is a whole other story 
I wouldn’t worry bout keeping your friends.True friends will be there always and regardless. You are a hard working devoted person. We could all learn soo much from you.