What is Black Hat SEO?

[fishpawnbroker]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is black hat SEO.

[luffy268]

Black hat SEO refers to a set of practices that are used to increases a site or page's rank in search engines through means that violate the search engines' terms of service. The term "black hat" originated in Western movies to distinguish the "bad guys" from the "good guys," who wore white hats (see white hat SEO). Recently, it's used more commonly to describe computer hackers, virus creators, and those who perform unethical actions with computers.

[stuartkspindlow]

Black hat SEO is a type of unscrupulous search engine optimization tactic used to raise a website's search engine results page ranking illegitimately or lower the ranking of a competitor's site.

[williyamjam]

In search engine optimization (SEO) terminology, black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines.

[Claire_Anderson]

Black hat seo are the techniques that are sometimes used to increase the page rank of a website but these techniques are considered illegal by the searching engines and if google finds that your website is using black hat seo to increase its page rank then google give a penalty to your websites. There are many black hat seo techniques but the famous ones are mentioned below:

1. Keyword Stuffing
2. Cloaking
3. Doorway Pages or Gateway Pages
4. Duplicate Content or Mirror Site
5. Blog Spam or Comment Spam

[Ajaysharma]

SEO means optimizing your website as per guidelines provided by Google Webmasters - Now, if you don't follow those best practices and guidelines but using techniques which are not approved by Google is known as black hat SEO. Black hat SEO includes techniques like Over optimizing website, hiddent text, redirects, automated back links, content spam etc

[lolipop99]

put your website on top wwithout obeying the gooogle guide is kind of black head

[PTC]

If you don't want to be penalise by Google - you shouldn't use Black Hat SEO techniques.

[sophiejoel01]

Black hat SEO tactics can get your website penalized or banned by search engines.

[simon606]

In site design improvement wording, dark cap SEO alludes to the utilization of forceful SEO systems, methods and strategies that concentration just on web crawlers and not a human group of onlookers, and typically does not obey web indexes rules.

[willhunt]

In search engine optimization (SEO) terminology, black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines.

[AshokDixit89]

Black Hat SEO exploits weaknesses in the search engine algorithms to obtain high rankings for a website. Such techniques and methods are in direct conflict with search engine guidelines. It may give you a quick but short lasting growth in search engine ranking.

[banhuhoian]

Black hat SEO refers to a set of practices that are used to increases a site or page's rank in search engines through means that violate the search engines' terms of service. The term "black hat" originated in Western movies to distinguish the "bad guys" from the "good guys," who wore white hats (see white hat SEO). Recently, it's used more commonly to describe computer hackers, virus creators, and those who perform unethical actions with computers.

[RH-Calvin]

Black hat seo techniques help to rank your keywords faster in search engines and generates more traffic in shorter time. But the methods followed are not supported by Google and hence your website can get penalized for following such techniques.

[charlielucas]

Black hat SEO is largely characterized by ploys to appeal to the machines in search, not the people doing the searching. In a way, it’s “cheating the system” to get quick turnaround results. But, if you’re found using these techniques, your site can be penalized—and in some cases, de-indexed altogether.