"As expected there are some very attractive, professional and engaging sites in the leading pack of web design companies that we compete with, most of which offer SEO as one of their key services. "Not expected is that at least three of the top 10 appear to be using somewhat shady tactics (let’s say a very dark shade of grey) to enhance their rankings… "So who are these black-hatters and what are they doing?" Full article here. Hope you find it interesting: iOnline - Musings of a Perth Web Designer
It is amazing that a good design house or experienced SEO programmer is called "black hat" after they beat you.
that's crazy i didn't expect to see hidden H1's ! that's pretty shady i'm guessing pretty soon the search engines will catch on to that and all these sites will be in trouble - manipulating isn't worth it sooner or later it will come back to bite u
I checked out your article, and then searched for the first site using text from quote. Easy to find them, but I am sure they are very low in the rankings. Pretty sad SEO for a site, and I think their black hat technique is purely due to inexperience in actual site development.
hidden text is a bad black hat technic to use in any site. google will punish any site that did hide those text. for me i will not hire them to build the site for me for sure.
set of search engine optimization techniques, considered unethical and that which should not be used as part of the search engine optimization process. hidden text is a bad black hat technics don't use!