White Hat / Black Hat / Yellow Hat - Your Hat or My Hat?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Kayz, May 7, 2008.

  1. #1
    Well ive seen a lot of people speak of White Hat and Black Hat and other things such as Grey hat. Were not talking about the Operating System Red Hat and the different products they have are we?

    Ive searched for this on the forum and couldnt find a clear answer.

    Could somebody clarify or enlighten us in the simplest of words what White Hat/Black Hat refers to? Im sure a lot of us would like to know also.

    Cheers
     
    Kayz, May 7, 2008 IP
  2. nicrune007

    nicrune007 Peon

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    #2
    Blackhat means like almost illegal way to do something. ( Eg, some methods to get free clickbank products)
    Whitehat means normal way to do something. ( Eg, making money with blog)

    Good guys are the whitehat and the darkside are the blackhats.
     
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  3. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #3
    Nope this are the methods in SEO

    White is good
    Gri you are pushing the limits
    Black = no good using dirty tricks
     
    w3bmaster, May 7, 2008 IP
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    AaRGeE Notable Member

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    #4
    RedHat = Pure Illegal
    BlackHat = Illegal but can do under some limits
    WhiteHat = Legal and Pure :)

    There is no Such thing as GreyHat .. I dont know why people use this word :rolleyes:
     
    AaRGeE, May 7, 2008 IP
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    #5
    Black Hat SEO means doing stuff that's against the search engines' rule.
    Black Hat Hacking is busting peoples' programs or systems.

    White Hat anything is being a good boy or girl and Gray Hat are people who feel they can justify what they're doing.
     
    LogicFlux, May 7, 2008 IP
  6. Kayz

    Kayz Active Member

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    lol i seee! interesting...

    Now some are talking about illegal legal.. im assuming this is on a more general level?

    Im confused others are mentioning search engines... does it apply every where or just search engines?
     
    Kayz, May 7, 2008 IP
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    SEOBusiness Well-Known Member

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    Black Hat SEO means dirty tricks to fool the search engines, Googlebot, Search engines may think your site is good and rank your site well.
    White Hat SEO means right way to make Googlebot Search engines and vistors love your site and get your site rank well.
     
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    Black Hat is immoral. White Hat is good. Grey Hat, I think is in between, but I'm not sure.
     
    warsome, May 7, 2008 IP
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    #9
    It doesn't only apply to SEO, it also applies to making money, etc.
     
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  10. Kayz

    Kayz Active Member

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    I see interesting.
     
    Kayz, May 8, 2008 IP
  11. Owni

    Owni Peon

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    Greyhat is like this:

    SITE1 (blackhat seo) --METHOD---> SITE2 (Whitehat seo)

    The method of redirecting your blackhat traffic to white hat is called greyhat... you use dirty tricks to fly under the radar, but use a different method to push the visitor to your whitehat site.
     
    Owni, Jun 15, 2008 IP
  12. nihangshah

    nihangshah Prominent Member

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    #12
    If blackhat techniques are illegal, then they should be banned in the BST sections.
     
    nihangshah, Jun 15, 2008 IP