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Is it considered as back hat SEO?

by kimhannah
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A person emailed me today asking to put a link to his website on one of my post
The link will be formatted just like an image
For example
<img src="Website . com" width="0" height="0" />

I don't know whether this action will harm my rankings or not. Beside, is it considered as black hat SEO? Why did he tell me to do exactly like that (I suggest in-content link, but he refused)
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    Its clear. He wanted to get a backlink from your website easily
    Its very wonderful that a person sent this email nowadays. All people know about seo today and these kinds of suggests is amazing. I suggest you to don't do it. Even if you want to sell the link to him, its not suggested by search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
    Don't go that route, that person solely contacted you for his own benefit. If he doesn't offer you anything in return, I wouldn't even consider contacting this person again. This is not how one should go about his business.
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  • Profile picture of the author zabalex
    It will create a backlink to his site and your website visitor will see no image as the height and width is 0, but search engine crawler will see an outbound link from your page.

    Using 0 height and width image with link in it, hidden text, hidden back links are also some of the kind of BLACK HAT SEO. Do not try this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fixers
    As what has been said, DO NOT do this!!!

    G will find it and it is you that will be penalised and not them!! If you are to do this then people normally ask for a link exchange, you link to them and they link to you (but from a different domain so not against G guidelines). This is fine and is done a lot online so cannot generally be traced. So maybe go back and ask for this instead.
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    • Profile picture of the author debra
      Just for him insulting you, I would be prone to forward the email to google along with a note saying he is actively in the market trying buy hidden links.

      Is it b.lack hat?

      Nah...real b.lack hatters know better. This dude/dudette is just another arrogant amateur at best but mostly plain stupid.
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  • Profile picture of the author The A
    one short notice for you, you've just been spammed!!! and kind of amazing to me that you're bothered about such a thing. The best move would be just delete the email and forget about it but if you want that stinky spammers get some nice lesson, report his website to google webmaster. He'll be slapped hard.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimhannah
    I just want to know what is the difference between direct link and use link as image?
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  • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
    I mean it's not blackhat lol that's about as whitehat as it gets.

    Although the way he's trying to get them done by spamming others probably is.

    Also a link through an image is the same as a normal backlink if you put the keyword as the alt tag
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    • Profile picture of the author kimhannah
      Originally Posted by sovereignn View Post

      I mean it's not blackhat lol that's about as whitehat as it gets.

      Although the way he's trying to get them done by spamming others probably is.

      Also a link through an image is the same as a normal backlink if you put the keyword as the alt tag
      Do Google consider it as Spaming? And will my site be flagged as spam link
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  • Profile picture of the author hobokook
    ANYTHING you do to try to artificially increase your rankings is black hat.
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    • Profile picture of the author kimhannah
      Originally Posted by hobokook View Post

      ANYTHING you do to try to artificially increase your rankings is black hat.
      But does Google take my site to the grave if I post that link in my post?
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  • Profile picture of the author glock67
    i wouldn't do it you have everything to lose and nothing to gain from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    1. There's nothing wrong in asking for a link
    2. There's something VERY suspicious about them wanting to place the link as a non viewable image.
    3. No one is likely to get penalised, unless of course, his site, or yours is involved in obvious black hat techniques, or associated with bad neighbourhoods.

    4. Use some common sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamDermot
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    Originally Posted by kimhannah View Post

    A person emailed me today asking to put a link to his website on one of my post
    The link will be formatted just like an image
    For example
    <img src="Website . com" width="0" height="0" />

    I don't know whether this action will harm my rankings or not. Beside, is it considered as black hat SEO? Why did he tell me to do exactly like that (I suggest in-content link, but he refused)
    Here, you don't have option to use keyword so it may not be much helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author gtk29
    If you put just a normal anchor link, then nothing much can be done unless someone clicks on it. But if you put a link inside img tag, then it can be used to trigger script on their site. They can later change the code of the target page to show image, load script or load malicious files.
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  • Profile picture of the author smileverse
    It's not considered as Black hat seo but such tactics comes under Gray hat seo (gray hat seo is between whilte and black hat seo). However, link selling or link exchange is no way recommended by Google and it's no appropriate to place a link to the website when it is not relevant or something useful to your website visitors/readers.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashobiz
    Why are you considering such request from strangers??? Don't place links from unknown sites, it may affect your ranking...
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