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What Is Your Definition Of White Hat SEO?

by QWE
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It seems this definition is not so clear cut. Can anyone attempt to define it? What's your version?
#definition #hat #seo #white
  • Profile picture of the author adamjcd
    Personally I think it's getting more clear cut now then ever with Google clamping down on paid links, other black/grey hat stuff.

    I think of white hat as natural linking.

    People linking to content because it's good content .. not because someone paid them to etc.

    Another way I think of it is .. when you're link building .. do you feel comfortable explaining to Google what you're doing? .. if not then it's not white hat.
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    • Profile picture of the author QWE
      adamjcd,

      Your version is pure white hat. This is not practical for 99.99999% of all the businesses and marketers in the world. What's your take on that?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kragsig
    White hat SEO is SEO which looks naturally to Google. This means few new links to your site on a natural speed. Buying 10.000 links to be posted in one day seems unnatural to Google and they will be discounted. You need to drip feed them over a longer period.

    Anchor text diversity is a must. It does not look naturally, that every single link have the same anchor text. Use different anchor texts which are related to your keywords. This is important to rank nowadays after the penguin algorithm update.

    Also link diversity is a must. You need links from web 2.0 sites, high PR contextual backlinks, blog comments etc. to make it look naturally...

    Imagine other people who likes your site. In how many possible ways can the link back to your site and from where...

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    • Profile picture of the author QWE
      Originally Posted by Kragsig View Post

      White hat SEO is SEO which looks naturally to Google. This means few new links to your site on a natural speed. Buying 10.000 links to be posted in one day seems unnatural to Google and they will be discounted. You need to drip feed them over a longer period.

      Anchor text diversity is a must. It does not look naturally, that every single link have the same anchor text. Use different anchor texts which are related to your keywords. This is important to rank nowadays after the penguin algorithm update.

      Also link diversity is a must. You need links from web 2.0 sites, high PR contextual backlinks, blog comments etc. to make it look naturally...

      Imagine other people who likes your site. In how many possible ways can the link back to your site and from where...

      Kragsig
      Your version is a marketer's version of white hat.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasono
    White Hat SEO simply means natural traffic and backlinks to your site. What google thinks about White Hat SEO is not doing any SEO at all which is kinda weird.
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  • Profile picture of the author omenstrippers
    White Hat Seo can be defined as creating backlinks for a website in natural ways, means to say by following search engine rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    White hat SEO is ethical SEO. It's SEO techniques that search engines accept. White hat SEO techniques are beneficial for site visitors as well as for search engines. The goal of white hat SEO is to improve search engine result positions via methods that won't cause search engines to penalize the site.

    From : All about White Hat, Black Hat, and Grey Hat SEO Techniques
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Either your doing SEO or your not, no in between.
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    • Profile picture of the author QWE
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Either your doing SEO or your not, no in between.
      Yes, but what is your definition?
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      • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
        Originally Posted by QWE View Post

        Yes, but what is your definition?
        According to Matt Cutts, it's "working on site to provide a better user experience"
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Who cares?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ttone7
    Following Google's guidelines and the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

    No automated spinning/submitting/scraping/posting
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  • Profile picture of the author Blue445nm
    Originally Posted by QWE View Post

    It seems this definition is not so clear cut. Can anyone attempt to define it? What's your version?
    You don't build the links to the website intentionally.

    If someone on Yahoo! asks where can I get XXX and the answer is clearly on your website that you cannot actually type out to explain (Example of a chart) then linking would be fine. Other people linking to your site without you paying them or telling them to is whitehat to me and according to google, it is also

    BH4L?
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