What is Grey-Hat SEO

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by d.alam, Apr 9, 2010.

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    About Grey-Hat SEO
     
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  2. eatinfish

    eatinfish Peon

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    have you heard of black hat? It's "underhand" SEO/marketing - eg back in the day people would have stuffed their (very basic) html pages with keywords which were the same colour as the bacground or used 1px images with keyword stuffed alts and anchor text. Spam of sorts; using bots to auto post on forms etc to build incoming links Pushing your product or page to people who probably are not intested, lots of popups...

    white hat is following best practice : being good & following guidelines

    grey hat is somewhere inbetween....edging on blackhat....perhaps a little sneaky
     
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  3. Dave 2012

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    Whitehat = doing exactly what Google says you should do (follow their webmaster guidelines).
    Blackhat = doing stuff that Google don't want and if you get caught you'll face their wrath.
    Greyhat = the normal SEO stuff that everyone does anyway and won't get you banned, but Google isn't happy about.
     
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    Thats a new one.
     
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  5. seolinks99@gmail.com

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    Thanks for the info..I was not aware of greyhat seo!!!
     
    seolinks99@gmail.com, Apr 9, 2010 IP
  6. zexy

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    I would say greyhat SEO is anything that is somehow shady but you still get away with it (no google penalty).
     
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    Don't attempt on grey hat as you may end up using black hat eventually, without you knowing...
     
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    something shady but not illegal I guess
     
    cheaplaptops, Apr 9, 2010 IP