What is the Difference between Black hat SEO and Grey Hat SEO?

Hi,
Any one explain clearly the Difference between Black hat SEO and Grey Hat SEO?
I have no idea about Grey Hat SEO.
Need full explanation

Regards,
Roger

 

White Hat SEO is ethical SEO practices
Black Hat SEO is unethical SEO - this is using techniques that are not acceptable to search engines to boost page rank
Gray Hat SEO is the fine line between white hat and black hat SEO - these are questionable techniques that are more risky than white hat techniques but are not likely to get your site banned from search engines, though might result in penalties - some of these techniques might be turned into black hat in the future

 

Black hat SEO is usually called as spam. Link builders always do the bombardier in backlining for forcing the top ranking in short time.
Google and major search engines fight against this method.

 

Black hat is totally cheat, tricky way. Gray hat is the middle of black and white hat.

 

Thanks @Jen 101. now i can get some ideas about Grey Hat technique in SEO. Could you please tell some examples of Grey Hat Techniques?

 

Hey @himanuzo will the 'doorway' pages are considered to be Black Hat technique or Grey Hat Technique?

 

i also want to know, anyone tell please

 

Search engine have set of rules and regulations if you do SEO practice against those rules it comes under black hat SEO but if you follow those rules then its White hat SEO.
If you follow SEO techniques which comes between white and black hat SEO,then its known as grey hat SEO. The techniques are unethical but your site will not get penalized after following them.

 

Black Hat SEO is an unethical procedure that helps in achieving search engine ranking positions. Lots of risk factors are there and its outcome is temporary. While Gray Hat SEO is the amalgamation of both white and dark SEO techniques.

 

Jen 101 and Jenny Dcruz have said all you need to know. Jen 101 defined the terms for you and Jenny Dcruz is telling you an important piece of information, mainly that if you follow the rules it is considered white hat and if you don't it is considered black hat. Gray hat is a term people use to feel good about doing some things that are probably considered blackhat by the search engine but not by the SEO community at large. In the end just about everything you can do for off-page SEO is considered blackhat by Google. When you do SEO you are trying to manipulate the system in your favor, that is considered blackhat by Google.

 

Doorway Link, Keyword Stuffing, Hidden text these all are in Black Hat seo.

 

actually it's something like in real life because real life isn't white or black it's almost always gray (a mix of white and black), and the same goes for seo

 

Grey Hat Techniques are
Posting duplicate content on different sites.
Using a keyword density which is sufficient to appear abnormal though not to the extent of keyword stuffing,typically used in the black hat.

 

Hey @action script thanks for the Grey hat methods. That is it or anything else there?

 

Black hat SEO:

It means follow the non ethical ways to increase the awareness of the website. Probably it helps to get instant results. But it will not be static. If the crawlers find any black hat SEO methods in your website, surely you get penalization. After penalize, not easy to recover that.
Some black hat SEO methods,
Content cloaking
Keyword stuffing
Doorway pages
Hide content
Greyhat SEO
It means follow the mixture of white hat SEO and Black Hat SEO strategies. Now, Most of the SEO persons suggest the way for promoting. But, I have no idea.

 

@roger welcome. I think so it not more than else.

 

Hi Roger – actually, the division between black and white hat (and grey hat) is not that clear.

A common definition is that black hat techniques are those which manipulate Google to try and influence your ranking in the search engines.

The truth is that you have to do manipulate Google to get ranked in the search engines – apart from the rare occasions when you can rank with complete luck (and in that case it will only be .5 to 1% of the pages you upload or create. And you might have to wait a couple of years for it to take effect).

Let's say you go off and create a guest post on somebody else's blog in which you are allowed to have a backlink to your site. What are you doing if not manipulating Google? Are you claiming you've gone to put a guest post there just out of the goodness of your heart? Unlikely.

Any attempt to get backlinks is "black hat" according to Google's terms of service.

So, that out of the way, where does real black hat kick in? You'd have to include in this illegal sites or tricks trying to get your bank details out of you et cetera - these are clearly black hat. Peppering the Internet with sheer garbage simply to feed a tiny bit of authority to your "third tier" - backlinks which link to other backlinks which then link to your money-making sites: I'd say that's in the black hat direction. Because you are manipulating your rankings by creating a ton of Internet garbage.

But creating a good number of solid, high quality backlinks to your money site – including guest posts, multi-page and high-quality WordPress.com sites, or blogspot sites, with contextual backlinks to your money site's – is an above-board way to bring authority to your money sites in my book.

And if you then add another tier to this – creating similarly high quality backlinks to those backlinks you boost the power tremendously.

This whole process certainly manipulates your rank in Google – and I don't have a problem with that. ***k them, I say LOL.

But is it ethical? That's for you to decide. If you are creating high-quality content on the Internet I don't see that can be a bad thing.

But Google's terms of service say this is against the rules; and a bunch of people who like to get on their high horses would call this grey hat if not black hat.

Your conscience; your call.

Best wishes, Malc

 

Anyone creating links to get Google rankings is doing grey-to-black hat work. There is no white hat - unless you are putting up content without optimising for keywords etc, then waiting 3 years to possibly get ranked.

 

For me both the techniques are not good for SEO. For getting better results in search engines we have to use only White Hat SEO methods.

 

If you adhere to SEO methods which comes between dark and white hat SEO,then its known as greyish hat SEO. The methods are illegal but your website will not get punished after following them.