Why Use BlackHat SEO Techniques?


Disclaimer* These are my personal views on Blackhat Search Engine Optimization Techniques. If you disagree please feel free to express yourself in the comment section bellow.

Blackhat SEO exploits weaknesses in the search engine algorithm by breaking rules and manipulating search results. Blackhat SEO is also about misrepresenting content to search engines through cloaking and other dirty techniques.

Blackhat SEO is mainly focused on fully automatic processes like comment spamming and they also take advantage of automatic directory submitters or they will slightly change/steal peoples content to submit to article directories with links to their own pages.

Blackhat SEO focuses on earning money without even trying to provide any value to the visitors! Often times you will see websites that are covered with affiliate advertisements and/or Adsence ads that will be listed high in the SERPs “Search Engine Results Pages” for keywords they are not related to in anyway.

Blackhat = Fast but short lived search engine love and Whitehat  or Greyhat= A long-term process that will have great benefits over a longer stretch of time and the benefits will normally last for years as long as you never stop creating content, building links, and offering your visitors something to remember!

But not everything that Google says should be considered the law! There is a difference between flat out Blackhat manipulations and Greyhat SEO.

I mean really, if you don’t play by the rules that Google has set out, does that make you a bad, evil person? Or is that simply thinking outside the box? Is buying a link blackhat because Google says its bad?

In my opinion The ethical line is drawn where blackhat SEO significantly and negatively affects humans, and not just some abstract mathematical system.

What are your thoughts? Do you use any “Blackhat” techniques?


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Posted under blackhat by admin on Tuesday 23 December 2008 at 2:30 am

  • Zack
    because it works! so, you're saying article and directory submitters, scraping and slightly changing content, madlib articles etc are blackhat? oh... woops!
  • admin
    Trying to find things that go up to a certain line, but not go over that line is a losing proposition in the long run. Search engines aren’t dummies. When you think you are just up to that line of search engine spam, all the sudden you find your site over that line as the algo was tweaked, and you find yourself asking others what went wrong.
  • Will
    I don't use any black hat since my goal is just to get good solid clean backlinks to sell the domains and the sites I have. Nobody wants to buy a domain or a site that has a bad history.
  • Mak
    I don't care much about blackhat because I had very good result with white hat. And I am looking for a long term solution to ranking in search engine.
  • BHV
    Black hat methods do work!... It helps one learn a lot more than hacking...web promotion is cool
  • I agree, hacking the code and be on the top for a short span of time isnt going to help. better do the slow but sure method and it will pay off in the long run.
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