black hat seo techniques

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Hi,

Do any one still following black hat seo techniques for website promotion
#search engine optimization #black #hat #seo #techniques
  • NO idea what you are on about, but hey you got your signature in.
  • can you list what are the examples of black hat seo? does xrumer related to it as well?
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  • I would not mess with Black Hat techniques. You may see traffic in the short term, but when caught (note I don't say if) you will be banned and lose all traffic. The short term gains are rarely worth it.
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    • Now you know that's HorseSh-- HorseStall! Don't spread misinformation to people please! There is NO way you could be banned by any SE for blackhatting, if there was then everyone would BH their competition.

      You only get banned for on page bad things like CS'ing and CJ'ing.

      I know this is a WH forum, but please don't be "that guy"...

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  • Blackhat is not good to be done. You can follow the manual link building techniques and get ranked high.
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  • At least put the words together so I can get a giggle out of BlueFart.
  • Unethical use of SEO techniques
  • Black hat is the reason why there were sites that have been penalized by Google. I don't have to explain this whole thing to you, I just want to remind you if you don't want to get your site busted, never ever dare to do this unethical thing.
  • not sure what's funnier, the obvious sarcasm posts, or the warriors who think they are doing something good by reprimanding an xrumer bot about the dangers of black hat techniques

    edit: guess I got my sig in here too!
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    • So adding your link to your sig file isn't black hat then? It's an artificial attempt to fool Google in to believing that someone else is linking to your site other than yourself.
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  • In all honesty any technique that is not centered on link bait could be considered black hat. So in Google's eyes white hat = link bait.
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  • According to Google, even many of the things we consider to be "white hat" are actually black hat.

    I try not to delve too far into the BH SEO stuff. Sure, if you're looking to make a quick buck here and there, there are definitely techniques that work. But don't expect your site to stay under the radar for too long.

    Instead, I try to live in the middle. I guess you'd call it "grey hat." I use automated tools from time to time. But in moderation.
  • There is no great hat though. Either you use link bait or you don't.
  • Interesting , as I have often wondered where does the line lie for white hat verses black hat! Most of the high and mighty might want to take the signature links off when they comment before preaching.....
  • I grabbed 1000 page one rankings for Warriors last year and have already grabbed another 800 this year. We do this by spinning plr articles and submitting them to our blog network of 2000 sites. So I guess you could say I have blue fart juice up to my elbows.
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    • You sir, are an excellent BlueFarter congrats on the rankings.
  • There is an incredible amount of link juice available from posting spun plr articles with backlinks embedded on them. But most folks never get a chance to find that out because they get caught up in the endless seo debating bull**** that is floating around the Internet.
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    • The OP has managed to turn a pretty poor attempt at a spun xrumer generated post into another 'you will get your head chopped off and your family kidnapped' if you use black hat seo nitro annihilation techniques. Made my day.
  • the irony of this post has made my day as well
  • list some techniques of black hat seo. but i think this is not good for your website if google cought you definitely he penalized you.
  • Hidden text, keyword stuffing - all are related to black hat issue.
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    Hidden text, keyword stuffing - all are related to black hat issue.
  • Be careful you could get penalized. :S
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    • Hey guys , you should not think even about this otherwise.........you will be punished by the .............Google.

  • Black hat done right is fine.
    It's the spamming part of black hat that is terrible.

    What organization was quoted as saying there is a million pages of spam an hour on the Internet?

    I got to find that study again.

    wj
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    • As a newbie to SEO trying to sort this stuff out, sometimes it's difficult here to sort the straight answers from the sarcasm.

      So am I right when I deduce that creating backlinks by whatever method is not really "black hat" but hiding text and keyword stuffing can get one in trouble? Is that the gist of it?

      And what divides "keyword stuffing" from "using a lot of keywords"? Not sure of the definition of that.
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    • If that was meant for me, thanks.

      I have read a lot and have found that google links are not always the best place to learn what is good SEO and what isn't. In fact I've got a lot of purely wrong info from the net and books. That's why I am asking the experts HERE.
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  • Here are some SEO black hat techniques:

    Hidden text
    IP delivery
    301 redirects
    Throw Away Domains
    Cloaking
    Paid links
    Keyword stuffing
    Automatically generated keyword pages
    Mispsellings
    Scraping
    Ad only pages
    Blog spam
    Duplicate content on multiple domains
    Domain grabbing
    Fake news
    Link farm
    New exploits
    Brand jacking
    Rogue bots
    Hidden affiliate links
    Doorway pages
    Multiple subdomains
    Twitter automation
    Deceptive headlines
    Google Bowling
    Invisible links
    Different content for search engines than users
    Hacking sites
    Slander linkbait
    Map spam

    Most black hat SEO techniques can be used in a clean, ethical white hat way as well...
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    • Great. Now: what do all those mean?! And how are they used white hat style? :confused:
      I have a lot of reading to do!
      "Google Bowling"?!
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    There is always a big misconception of black hat seo techniques. How do you define the difference between black hat and white hat? That should be the question. Opening multiple fakes account at one site and dropping your link is BLACK HAT.

    White hat would be to simply open one account and drop only backlinks for one site and leave it that way. Commeting multiple times on other people´s blog with useless iniformation and this just to get backlinks is black hat too.
  • what is black hat techniqe
  • Black Hat SEO uses unethical ways just to get back links. They don't follow the rules and regulations. Here are some of the techniques that falls under Black Hat SEO:

    1. Cloaking
    2. Spamming
    3. Door-way pages
    4. Keyword stuffing
    5. Invisible or hidden text
    6. Link farms
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    • Thanks for this answer.
      This is one of the things I am most confused about: Link farms.
      As I understand it, a link farm is a page that just has a bunch of links, where people trade links or pay to get a link there, which google then counts as a backlink, which helps rank your site. Do I have that right?

      Okay, so when I first started reading about SEO I read that this was "black hat" and google would punish you for it.

      But then I read various sites and I found that many people are doing this and if anything it seems to help their google ranking, not hurt it. In fact some here on this forum seem to be making a living off of providing this service unless I misunderstand what they are doing...

      And a friend of mine has #1 google ranking and when I check her backlinks the majority of them are not related at all to her site, they are what I believe would be called "link farms".

      So you can perhaps understand my confusion. Link farms seem to be called black hat, yet they seem to be a very good way to get #1 google ranking. So is my friend just "lucky" google has not slapped her for this link farm backlink scheme? Or is this really "white hat" and there is no risk of being slapped for it? Or is it "gray hat" but without risk of being google-slapped?
      :confused:
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  • That's a good list itchair -- but two things are wrong..

    Hidden text / hidden links -- these cannot be blackhat - because most modern sites (or 2.0 sites) have hidden content, that is only shown when a user requests it. Most major news sites have tabs where you can select what you want to see.

    It used to be said that CSS invisible was an instant bh technique. Now it's everyday stuff. Either google has updated to allow it
    - or it never hated it in the first place. I'm sure alot bh stuff works - and is just guess work and myth that google drops your site because of it.

    Buying paid links / spamming sites / submitting your site to 10000s of directories, duplicate content -- I doubt google would drop a site for any of these reasons -- why? Because anyone could do any of these things to a competitors site and just knock them off google.
  • According to what I have searched, the top 5 black hat SEO techniques are:

    • Hidden content
    • Meta Keyword Stuffing
    • Meta Description
    • Gateway Pages
    • Link Farming
  • Many webmasters, even ones here use BH techniques but deny it. Many SEO companies use BH techniques. Their effectiveness of most BH techniques taper quickly as many are targeted and ultimately rendered ineffective by SE Algo engineers, which is fine with me. But there are some that still work quite well.

    Do yourself a favor. Focus on adding high-quality unique content to your site and you will benefit the most...in time.
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    • I disagree with this and in fact think it is very harmful advice. Maybe it depends on what kind of site one has...

      I have a real estate site for example, and I followed the advice you give here for years. I kept adding valuable content to my site, making my site nice looking, informative and making sure all the links work etc. etc.. I got some ranking but mostly NOT on first page.

      I now believe - from experience and observation - that things like link farms and other "black hat" methods are what works and unless you have a fortune to put into advertising you'd better use some of these black or grey-hat techniques because everyone else is and they'll leave you in the dust. As for google punishing you for using link farms for backlinks, I have checked my competitors and they're using link farms and they've been on page one of google for ages with no punishment.
  • Black hat SEO is not a good strategy to promote a site. Please dont follow that.
    cheers,
    ascanda

  • This forum is focused on whitehat techniques. I can assure you, as well, that blackhat techniques are not working as well as they used to (Panda update, and Farmer update). You're better off just sticking to white hat seo. It always wins in the end.
  • Wow as a fairly newbie to SEO, i feel baffled now lol

    Blackhat,grayhat,whitehat.

    Keyword stuffing in meta tags and description, what do you mean?

    is that only having the one keyword in the meat tags or somthing?

    i try and read as much as i can and get advice from warriors on here, i just try and pick a low comp keyword with good search volume get EMD, and try and do good onpage SEO and then get some backlinks.

    Like most people said on here that some of mine are probs what you would call gray or black hat, i don't use automated tools.
  • Using Black Hat techniques ON your website will hurt your rankings. However, using black hat techniques for off page optimization Will Not.
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