Black Hat VS White Hat
- SEO |
Many new tools are coming out in the realm of SEO.
Different kinds of manual, semi-automatic, and automatic link builders.
Some examples are Bookmarking Demon, SENuke, TrafficBug, SocialMarker, AutoSocialPoster, and many others.
Now I want to ask you all. Where do you think these applications step over the line and become black hat?
Let's take a look at the hurdles the applications have to jump.
To automate, many applications may outsource under-the-hood or use some kind of web-browser scripting. Nothing too controversial here other than the Terms of Service of various sites explicitly disallowing automation.
For discretion, many applications will create mass email accounts to create mass accounts on these services so that individual accounts are under the radar. They also use proxies and anonymizers. At what point does this become black hat?
For speed, mainly technological improvements exist here. Some distribute part of the work to foreign countries, others rely on web-browser automation.
Captcha Breaking. This is where things really start to get fuzzy. In order to truly accomplish speed and full automation captchas need to find quick solutions. Many outsource this task to foreign countries VERY cheaply. Captcha breaking may also violate the DMCA and outsourcing captchas is also in court. Without this, these application never reach full potential and thus are never fully automatic. This limits the amount of noise that a user can create on the web as well as junk accounts on various services. But with full captcha automation, the possibilities are endless.
So the question is, at which point does software like this become black-hat?
Which combination of techniques, if any, make a software black-hat?
What commonly used submission services should be considered black-hat?
Different kinds of manual, semi-automatic, and automatic link builders.
Some examples are Bookmarking Demon, SENuke, TrafficBug, SocialMarker, AutoSocialPoster, and many others.
Now I want to ask you all. Where do you think these applications step over the line and become black hat?
Let's take a look at the hurdles the applications have to jump.
- Automation
- Discretion
- Speed
- Captcha Breaking
To automate, many applications may outsource under-the-hood or use some kind of web-browser scripting. Nothing too controversial here other than the Terms of Service of various sites explicitly disallowing automation.
For discretion, many applications will create mass email accounts to create mass accounts on these services so that individual accounts are under the radar. They also use proxies and anonymizers. At what point does this become black hat?
For speed, mainly technological improvements exist here. Some distribute part of the work to foreign countries, others rely on web-browser automation.
Captcha Breaking. This is where things really start to get fuzzy. In order to truly accomplish speed and full automation captchas need to find quick solutions. Many outsource this task to foreign countries VERY cheaply. Captcha breaking may also violate the DMCA and outsourcing captchas is also in court. Without this, these application never reach full potential and thus are never fully automatic. This limits the amount of noise that a user can create on the web as well as junk accounts on various services. But with full captcha automation, the possibilities are endless.
So the question is, at which point does software like this become black-hat?
Which combination of techniques, if any, make a software black-hat?
What commonly used submission services should be considered black-hat?
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