What is White Hat SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by narayanan, Aug 27, 2008.

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    Hi all,
    what is difference between white hat SEO and black hat SEO and which method can be handled to increase the traffic of a website?
     
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  2. globalseo

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    white hat SEO-using ethical way of promoting site...]

    blackhat SEO- counterpart of whitehat SEO..such techniques they were using are: cloaking, hidden text, spamming, link farming etc.. to boost tons of traffic and at the same time to get their ranking higher in easier way...
     
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  3. tonyrocks

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    You should always tread in the "Blurhat SEO" waters...a little mix of the two :)
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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  6. salihpk

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    white hat with all legal SEO methods and Black Hat with all Illegal Methods
     
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    Don't engage in black hat techniques like cloaking, doorway pages, invisible text etc. Best you should engage in white hat only. Otherwise, if you are really a master, you can do a lot of blackhat without getting caught at all. All the best.
     
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    White hat includes on-page optimization such as title tags, REAL keyword-rich content creation, and things along those lines. Black hat includes keyword stuffing, shady redirects, content scraping, etc.
     
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    Black hat seo is dangerous because google might do sumthin and sniff it and you might actually get ur site banned on google.
     
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    just read good master rules, if you can obey its rule, then you are useing the white hat skills.
     
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    White hat is what Google will allow you to do, Black hat is what Google will not allow you to do. What's in between is creative gray had.
     
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    please explain.. :)
     
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  13. KarlMiller

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    Cloaking is not considered blackhat. It is recommended to protect ones affiliate link from being highjacked.
     
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    A White Hat SEO is an ethical SEO approved by the search engines. A White Hat SEO should avoid the following methods for them to avoid being banned from SEs: 1) Keyword, anchor text and domain name stuffing; 2)Using hidden text or links; 3) Using techniques to artificially increase the number of links to your pages, such as link farms; 4) Excessively cross-linking sites to increase link popularity; 5) Cloaking, delivering different pages depending on the IP address and/or agent who is requesting it; 6) Doorway / Gateway / Jump Pages; 6) Duplicate content taken from other sites; 7) Auto-generated content of no value to the end user; 8) Spamming forums or blogs 9)Excessive outbound links to websites that use high risk techniques or spam.

    On the other hands, Black Hat SEO is sometimes called spamdexing (the opposite of White Hat SEO). Black Hat SEO can be any optimization tactics that cause a site to rank more highly than its content would otherwise justify or any changes made specifically for search engines that don’t improve the user’s experience of the site. In other words, Black Hat SEO is optimizations that are against search engine guidelines. If you step too far over the mark, your site may be penalized or even removed from the index.
     
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    I think of it as black hat are willing to go one step further, use people's content, etc.
     
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    Ethical way of promoting site is called whit hat SEO
     
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    White hat SEO means to promote your site on search engine ethically and with organic way, while black hat SEO means to cheat SE spider and use short cuts to get high SERP and PR for temporary base. With black hat techniques you get result temporary not permanently.
     
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    Organic (Doing all seo works by Manually) SEO Strategy Called White HAT SEO.......
    Doing all seo works with the help of any SOFTWARE OR shortcut it's called BLACK HAT SEO.......
     
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    This process is the natural and organic SEO practices that are used to improve a site’s rankings and visibility online.
     
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    White Hat technique is the way to use only only SEO friendly tools which all are supported by Google.
    White Hat techniques-
    Directory
    Search Engine
    Blog
    Forum Posting
    Article
    Press Release

    If you want to know more read blog by matt cutt or googlegenie blog.
     
    jacky123, Aug 27, 2008 IP