Black Hat SEO: What is it and Why You Need to Avoid it

[Alihaider]

Black hat marketing is the use of unethical (and sometimes, but not always, illegal) strategies to promote online business. Unlike the ethical "white hat" strategy, the black hat strategy uses deception and manipulation to achieve its goals (see also ethical marketing).

 

[Adasun]

Can we use this in Amazon Kindle publishing?I am really thinking of veturing into book publishing and helping others through my books.but my challenges are PC and how to go about it

 

[Kane]

Clickbait is one of the common back hat tactics used by website owners these days. The concept of independent fact check evolved on social media sites like facebook and twitter because during the corona pandemic there were a lot of misleading content shared on the social sites.

 

[James07]

Well, all white hat approaches are good. But on the other hand, not all Black hat methods are bad. There are some black hat SEO methods that are good. For example in backlinks building, when you ask for a backlinks, that is not organic, it is not natural. Thus is is considered black hat. But it is a good standard practice if you get a link back.

 

[Justin]

Black hat, as far as I know, is the tactics used by some website owners and webmasters to manipulate the search engine ranking using the methods not approved by the search engines. Black had can seriously damage your site

 

[Billy]

The updates on the Google algorithms have exposed most of the black hat activities that people used to go away with in the past. Therefore, i would say, it is important to work on your white hacks activities more than the black hat. The SEO world has advanced greately. it is not easy to fool the bots nowadays.

 

[Justin]

A lot of people are so desperate to drive traffic to their site that start using click bait tactics Clickbait is also a black hand tactics. Cickbait is trying to drive traffic by using sensationalizing titles and description, or even a fake title.

 

[Kane]

You should be using a tactics that drives steady traffic to your site. using sensationalizing title, using fake title can drive you instant traffic and your content can go viral, however, after sometime they will not fetch you trafficc.

 

[Akinwale701]

When you are learning SEO, you will hear a lot of discussions on White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO. In this article, I will analyze what exactly is Black Hat SEO. I will also give examples of Black Hat SEO that you need to avoid.
In simple terms, White Hat SEO is best SEO practices, in other words, White Hat SEO is legit SEO methods approved by search engines and other experts. Contrarily, Black Hat SEO is bad SEO practices, in other words Black Hat SEO is unethical and illegal SEO methods that are not approved by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Black Hat SEO, also called Grey Hat SEO sometimes, is artificial methods implemented on your site to improve your ranking on search result page. Here are some of the Black Hat SEO Strategies that you need to avoid.
Keyword Stuffing: Generally keywords on your content should be less than 5 percent. In other words, in an 1000 words article you can repet your keywords only 50 or less times.
Article Directories/Web Directories: In order to build backlinks, a lot of people start submitting their links on various web directories and article directories, this is also Black Hat Method. Article directories and web directories are referred to as link farm
PBN: PBN or Private Bog Network is a networks of blogs that are primarily created to build backlinks for your site. You should also avoid this.
Buying backlinks: When you pay someone to build backlinks for you, this is also Black Hat Method.

Being on this forum has opened my eyes to a lot of things which I didn't know initially and I am very glad to be here. Thank you for this lecture.

 

[Adventurer]

There are various factors involved in search engine ranking and keyword usage is one of them. The recommended keyword usage for web content is 5 percent. If your article is 1000 words, you can repeat your keywords 50 times. Imagine an article where there is 10 percent keywords or 100 keywords in 1000 word articles. Do you think this article will be readable? How does it feel to read an article where certain words are repeatedly used. Search engines like readable content. Their algorithm analyzes articles based on readability.

Ok I understand now and it's true, if I'm reading and article that keeps repeating a particular word or phrase it becomes boring and cumbersome to read

 

[Awais814]

hat made of white SEO complies with search engine standards and increases the search engine rating ethically. The tactics are aimed at improving your website's SERP ranking while also providing an outstanding user experience for human website users.

Black hat SEO tactics, on the other hand, do not adhere to the terms of the search engine companies. Instead, they manipulate search engine results to achieve higher rankings.

 

[Justin]

Ok, I understand this is not good if you are staying for a long term. However, what if I am working on a website that is primarily centered around events and will be gone in 6 months?

 

[dan2]

Black hat SEO refers to unethical methods of promoting your website in order for it to rank higher in search engines. White hat SEO is used to refer to normal, honest methods of improving SEO. I think the most common forms of black hat SEO is paying for backlinks to your website and adding irrelevant keywords to pages to try and get it to rank. Some people even try ads as a method of trying to get visitors to go to their page rather than a competitor by bidding on brand terms but that's not so much black hat as it is just sneaky.

 

[btaliat]

A blogger or a website owner should try to be aware of black hat SEO, because it can lead to black listing a blog or a website. However, it seems black hat SEO is becoming popular these days.

 

[Ralphjoe]

Black hat SEO is actually a very illegal way for way to promote their search keywords so that they can rank on the internet and I wouldn't advise anyone to make use of this strategy to promote their keyword ranking on Google search engines and other search engines in the world wide web.

 

[James]

It has some unpopular way to build traffic and good thing is you can manage it for few days so if you have shot term plans for your website than it is good way to get better results otherwise can hurt your long term plans.

 

[FreshKaz11]

When you are learning SEO, you will hear a lot of discussions on White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO. In this article, I will analyze what exactly is Black Hat SEO. I will also give examples of Black Hat SEO that you need to avoid.
In simple terms, White Hat SEO is best SEO practices, in other words, White Hat SEO is legit SEO methods approved by search engines and other experts. Contrarily, Black Hat SEO is bad SEO practices, in other words Black Hat SEO is unethical and illegal SEO methods that are not approved by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Black Hat SEO, also called Grey Hat SEO sometimes, is artificial methods implemented on your site to improve your ranking on search result page. Here are some of the Black Hat SEO Strategies that you need to avoid.
Keyword Stuffing: Generally keywords on your content should be less than 5 percent. In other words, in an 1000 words article you can repet your keywords only 50 or less times.
Article Directories/Web Directories: In order to build backlinks, a lot of people start submitting their links on various web directories and article directories, this is also Black Hat Method. Article directories and web directories are referred to as link farm
PBN: PBN or Private Bog Network is a networks of blogs that are primarily created to build backlinks for your site. You should also avoid this.
Buying backlinks: When you pay someone to build backlinks for you, this is also Black Hat Method.

Why is it that anything black is a bad thing in all over the world and they always claimed white is good,now they take it to software as well,so what do they want us the black color to think about our self.

 

[Chibson]

I don't really believe in black hat SEO because it may get your site punished by search engines. With great articles you can do white hat SEO and succeed with time.

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[Kane]

A lot of people are doing black even without knowing that they are doing black hat seo, Newbies most of the times make this mistake of doing black had without knowing.

 

[Chibson]

this is a very detailed information about search engine optimisation and how it really works. I will try as much as possible to avoid black hat SEO because it can destroy your hard work on the long run.