What is blackhat and can it be used in this day and age?

Hi guys a quick discussion o what is blackhat SEO, i dont really understand as i can tell these are the differences

Blackhat:
Blog Spam
Cloaking
Tricky Re-directs
Black Hat SEO stops at "nothing" to get a high ranking.
People not following the google guidelines.

White Hat:
Content, Content, Content
Relevant backlinks
Site maps
White Hat SEO follows the Google quality guidelines (and the equivalent at other engines) to the letter.

But hasnt the search engines always said you need relevant backlinks to receive good serp positions, so in what way can blackhat help because they will still have all the hard work of geting relevant links... Or have we all been mislead too believe that links are most important when they actually are not

Your opinions?

 

The idea of blackhat is to automatically generate thousands or even millions of pages about long-tail keywords.

Even if 1% of those pages gets a half a dozen visitors per month each:

1,000,000 pages * 1% * 6 = 60,000 visitors per month

And since their covered with ads, ctr is pretty good:

60,000 * 10% ctr * $0.20/click = $1200

The SE's (google at least) ban bh sites quickly, so you need to keep generating more and more sites.

As for relevant links, BH sites work better on uncompetitive niches where you don't need much link strength at all to rank.

 

So do they use some sort of cloaking scrpt to make all these pages?

 

"cloaking" is serving different pages to visitors and search engines (in the case of BH, to keep the pages from getting banned as quickly)

But you would use an automated script to generate and upload generated pages (or use .htaccess and generate them when they're accessed)

You can get content to put on the pages by having the script scrape search results, wikipedia pages, or even generate gibberish with the keyword you want scattered through it.

 

Blackhat is a definite no no. Don't even think about trying it.

 

Yeah. It just makes it harder for the rest of us.

 

im least bothered abt black hat.. im good in white hat

 

black hat is illegal.

 

For more info about blackhat, etc. :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat

 

the black hat methods that work, are not given away for free / told on public forums.

It's not illegal lol, robbing a bank is illegal, using blackhat is legal...

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For more info on up to date black hat methods, join this forum

http://www.seoblackhat.com/forum/

 

If you mean Black-hat SEO, No it's not illegal. It's just against webmaster guidelines. Theres a big difference.

But seriously, don't use blackhat seo. Just because it isn't illegal doesn't mean it's worth using.

 

Blackhat techniques may help in the short term but don't bother... SEO is all about playing the long game.

 

black means that you want to cheat from search engines. black seo is not suggested way. when a search engines catch that you use black seo, it will punish you

 

you'll get higher rankings in no time but you have to pay the price if you get caught.

 

Black Hat should be illegal IMO. It would make the world a better place!

Imagine if getting good SERP rankings simply meant setting up your meta tags well