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

[Nomad]

If you do black hat, search engines will penalize you, which means your website will be deindexed from search engines. When that happens your website will not be found through searches.

 

[Lens]

That's a very comprehensive article. A good knowledge around SEO is very important for bloggers, as it will help rank their site high on the SERP

 

[Nomad]

Not doing back SEO and only implementing white had strategies will not guarantee high position on SERP. There are a lot of factors to consider.

 

[Justin]

SEO increaes the likely hood of your website being ranked high on search engines bit doe snot guarantee that your site will be actually ranked high on search result, is that correct?

 

[Dowenship]

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.

Paying someone to build bblacklinks for you is it advisable, or should i say is it profitable because its under black hat method from your write up.

 

[Nomad]

Backlinks should come naturally, however, paying someone to build backlinks is labeled as blackhat seo. This kind of tactics is not advisable for long term seo strategy

 

[Chibson]

It's very necessary that people avoid anything that will attract punishment and their works wasted. I don't think I will engage in black hat SEO.

 

[kayode10]

Black hat search engine optimisation tactic is born out of cheating and cutting the corners you know that to achieve faster results. Black hat are SEO is like using a steroid. Though you can achieve faster result, but It comes with a lot of negative consequences.

 

[GIFTMICHAEL]

Trying to build site traffic illegally is components of the black hat SEO marketing. We shouldn't indulge in what will bring restrictions to our account by google and other search engines.

 

[Tolumi]

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.

Building backlinks in unethical ways use to work great before but seems search engines are improving their algorithm these days and bad backlinks can now actually work against you.

 

[HayKay]

Blackhat techniques generally do not last long as they're not effective at producing long term results which is why they're frowned at. Plagiarism is also a blackhat method

 

[Monster Masterpiece]

As I read form comments Black Hat SEO is destructive tool so does they have a support to get suggestions of members to ameliorate their product or they just ignore members suggest.

 

[Nomad]

Black Hat SEO is a strategy that tries to manipulate the position on SERP by doing something that are frowned upon by search engines. Some common Black Hat SEO includes keyword stuffing, clickbait, PBN backlink, buying backlinks, etc.

 

[mcjerry]

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.

Thank you for this very important information. I want to build a blog and I trying to drive traffic to my blog. With this that I just learnt I will be careful with the way I will use keywords

 

[Setho]

With this it is clear that as a website when I you should try to employ only practices that are considered as white search engine optimisation to be on a safer side.

 

[Trexxxy]

Nice. Up until now, I didn't know they were two types of SEO optimization. My question is which one is easier and cheaper to work with?

 

[Ub40]

I want to commend you for sharing this long and useful information above. I have heard about SEO but did not know that it has black and white until now that I am reading it here. I now know the good one and the bad one and the reason(s). That is just my opinion. Thanks for sharing.

 

[HayKay]

Thanks for this enlightening article, the one thing I've loved about this forum ever since I've come is that I've learnt a whole lot. The threads are always educative and insightful.
White hat SEO methods are of course healthy and better in the long run for any internet business venture

 

[Nomad]

There is a thin line that separates white hat SEO with black hat SEO, for example, if you are doing guest posting to build backlinks, that can be also considered black had by some people because what you are doing is paying someone to publish your article with backlink.

 

[greenie]

The term white and black hat is reserved to hackers and hackers only , there are up front methods in SEO and behind the back ones ,I won't dive deep into this matter right now but what you stated is a regular regulation break case and not that serious of a matter to be declared as black or unethical ( trying to up the score artificially which is unlikely to work)