Apr 20

What is Blackhat SEO?

Bottom line: Don’t do it, and don’t even think about it doing it. If you are taking care of your own SEO or have hired a company or individual to take care of your SEO Campaign, it is still your responsibilty to ensure you or your hired gun are only using “white hat SEO”. You do not want to mistakingly or knowningly take part of such a scheme…ever.

Blackhat SEO is basically trying to decieve or trick any search engine spider by means of hidden text, spam, deceptive cloaking, or doorway pages that comprise results and taint the SERPs for everyone. All major search engines investigate these cases, and 99% of the time you’re site will get banned from one, then the others will soon be following suit.

Once you’ve been banned, your site gets removed form the search indexes, and your organic traffic will go with it. If you’re running a advertising such as Adsense you’re most likely going to lose all your revenue from that source as well.

There are tons of ways to get caught up in blackhat seo methods, such as keyword spamming, cloaking a site, having meta tag spam, or abusing redirects are just a few. We’ll cover more at a later date, but for now we encourage you to do some of your own research about what black hat seo is, and avoid it at all costs!

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4 Responses to “What is Blackhat SEO?”

  1. Posted by virtual assistant on April 21st, 2008 at 8:47 am |

    Blackhat SEO is a one form that are use to get higher ranking search. This actually use to be legit and also provide short-term gains in term of ranking.

  2. Posted by Alex on May 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm |

    I Agree with you, I think white hat is the rigth way…

  3. Posted by K D Mains on May 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm |

    I agree to!

    Avoid doing things that will get you banned from search engine rankings and you really ought not participate in BH SEO practices to.

    Much better to do the research and/or hire someone who has done it or will do it the right WH SEO way continually researching to ensure you do it (SEO) correctly and not partake in such black hat seo schemes than risk geting your site(s) banned seems the beter/wiser option to me.

    Black Hat SEO similar to the likes of which that got BMW temporarily banned from Google is not the best practice as if it does not lose you sales in short term it would most probably lose lose you good publicity at the very least

  4. Posted by K D Mains on May 10th, 2008 at 7:34 pm |

    Excuse my typos its late and I am tired or admin please edit the two spelling mistakes and the add the two missing “the” ’s and maybe evn delete the second “lose” to as Blogs not having an edit could be an interesting concept to easily manipulated in many ways else!

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