Are black hat methods punishable?

Black hat methods of search engine optimization are indeed illegal. Are they punishable also? If so what is the kind of punishment meted out to the doer?

 

Of course they are punishable LOL.
In the best case you get sandboxed and worst case scenario you get banned by google with no change of geting unbanned.
So do the old fashioned seo, don't even think about black hat seo.

 

yeah dude..it is punishable..

 

You will get banned which means your site will not appear in search results, even if you search by yoursite.com then also there will be no results, so it would be great loss for your site. So better not take such big risk.

 

yes...there is a chance for your site getting penalized or banned also..

 

YES! undoubtedly

 

Punishable by LAW. Hell NO .
Punishable by Google. HELL YES! They'll ban your site or sandbox you.

 

These are punishable, These days Google is taking strict action against the sites that are using these methods. So avoid it.

 

Yuo get Banned From SE and good bye rankings for like ever ...

 

i doubt so.... like they always say - if it is punishable, then you can obliterate the competition....it will be a never ending cycle of trying to get your competition banned

 

Of course they are punishable. The worst punishment could be it might penalize or ban your website

 

Yes it is extremely punishable. That's why there are websites that vanish because Search engines punished them in using black hat techniques.

 

your website will be banned by Google and all your efforts will go to vain.

 

you will be punished by google but you will never get punished by the LAW as said by adnan

 

for all kind with blackhat method, you will not enjoy your journey, search engine must know what you do, and it not stay for a long time, i hope you can thing about this.

 

Indeed it is punishable as like what you said,, most probably your site will be banned from SE or get your site into Google sandbox

 

not in a court atleast ... but yes your site could be banned by search engine and the rankings go down to the bottom if the blackhat tactics got caught by SEs.

 

Of-course punishable, you will punishable by search engines and your site will be banned. So use only the guidelines for your seo works.

 

Results will be more cruel now. So why don't you white hat SEO?

 

Your site will be blacklisted and you will never gain any ranking on search engines. All you can do is to shut down your site, purchase another site and do SEO all over again.

If you are in a real deal online business, doing black hat won't do you any good in long terms. Once your site is blacklisted, it is blacklisted. And Google is very good in doing it. THey are not a sleeping company. They always find loopholes to be of better service to their clients.

It's like this, if black hat can fool Google some time, know that they will still find it out in the future. So don't do it.