What is difference between grey hat and black hat technique?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by kittyluver, Nov 16, 2007.

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    Will anyone care to share what is difference between grey hat and black hat technique? Thanks for your help!!!
     
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  2. sufi

    sufi Well-Known Member

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    In my opinion:

    Black Hat Tactics: Driving a visitor to a website by unethical SEOs and the website has no real content & the visitors do not find it useful.

    Grey Hat Tactics: Driving a visitor to a website by unethical SEOs but the website does have real content which a visitor can find useful.
     
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  3. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    Black hat : well and truly over the line of acceptability
    Grey hat : borderline
    White hat : playing by 'the rules'

    Can be applied to anything in life.
     
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    Black Hat using your 3l33t skills for gaining profit in a unethical manner.
    Grey Hat I consider to be if someone steals your account you will do everything and anything to get it back.
    White Hat is just pen testing, so you find a hole in googles security and you alert them.
     
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  5. mhaye_01

    mhaye_01 Banned

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    Black Hat - also known as search engine spamming. Its a seo that pushes the boundaries of ethical practice. Example: cloaking,doorway pages and link-farms

    Gray Hat: almost seo falls in this category, its in between, not consider as white nor as black hat. Example of this is duplicate content.
     
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    joebert Well-Known Member

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    Grayhat is stuff that should be considered Blackhat, but since alot of advertising dollars are generated from it & it can't definitively be called Blackhat it's tossed in the gray area.
     
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    aira Active Member

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    Gray Hat - is in between Black hat and white hat;a technique not following the guidelines but still avoiding to get banned from search engines..

    Black Hat - a technique used due to a great desperation...often used to manipulate rankings
     
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    zangief Well-Known Member

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    Blackhat : High Risk Level
    Gray Hat : The user thinks that the risk is low but can be high :D
     
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    blackhat technique: spamming, link farming etc..
    greyhat technique: in between, not consider as blackhat and whitehat..
     
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    A grey hat is a skilled hacker who sometimes acts legally and in good will and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between white and black hat hackers. They hack for no personal gain and do not have malicious intentions, but commit crimes.

    Black hat - search engine optimization is customarily defined as techniques that are used to get higher search rankings in an unethical manner. These black hat SEO techniques usually include one or more of the following characteristics:

    * breaks search engine rules and regulations
    * creates a poor user experience directly because of the black hat SEO techniques utilized on the Web site
    * unethically presents content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine spiders and search engine users.
     
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    Every Search Engine has a set of Guidelines, Following those guidelines comes under "White Hat" Technique and Ignoring Guidelines comes under "Black Hat" Technique. Apart from these two techniques, there is a Technique called "Grey Hat" Technique which follows some guidelines and ignores some. Following "Grey Hat" causes your website get banned from the SERP's.
     
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    Good thread great info
     
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    black hat is a direct way to get banned from the search engines...
    Grey hat is to avoid banning from search engines in the light of white hat seo.... its a mid way, means not good not bad
     
    espsol, Apr 26, 2010 IP