What does BlackHat mean?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by cport1, Dec 4, 2008.

  1. #1
    I keep seeing Black hat and grey hat to generate tons of traffic. What do these even mean?
     
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  2. andyj00

    andyj00 Active Member

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    Black hat is usually a method to get for example higher search rankings in an unethical manner.
    Eventually the search engines will find you out and you will get kicked out.

    Grey hat is similar, but not quite so deceptive.
     
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    clinton Well-Known Member

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    Black hat, like red hat and white hat is your marketing appearance. If you show up at a Internet Marketing conference with a black hat, it means your a black hat marketer.


    Black hats...
    Hat is just a term for...dunno
    Are always more depressed. White and Red hats are...
    more exited about what they do and get better sex, and are just friendlier around other people.
    Bad practices are often associated with the Black Hat philosophy.

    I totally AGREE with the last person actually EDIT: And next.
    :D
     
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    Black hat is when you partake in unethical ways to promote your blog/website.
    For example participating in link farms and so on. Grey hat is bad but not as bad as black hat methods. The problem is that there's a fine line between these methods, honest seo methods get mistaken for Blackhat methods a lot of the times.
     
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    Black hat = short term profit.
     
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    what would be a good way to explode traffic to a landing page real fast?
     
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    Armaan143 Well-Known Member

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    Black hat = Working smarter then other with different style. May be peoples and SE don't likes you but you will make more money.

    White Hat = Working hard to make long term profit.

    Grey Hat = Don't know what exactly it means.

    Going to buy some colors, I need orange hat :D
     
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    Blackhat is quick simple and probaly teh lazy mans way

    Whitehat is safe long term and takes time but SE's will love you

    Greyhat is simply in between, so you use techniques from both sides. In my eyes though greyhat
    enters more white then black. (not porn related there) lol
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    You can use social bookmarking site such as stumble upon and digg.
    I'm sure after you submit it to both site,your site will received at least 1000 visitor within 24 hour
     
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    Really? Why didn't I get such result? Btw I didn't submit my landing page URL coz I've been told that people love to bookmark content, so I submitted URLs of my blog and blog posts.
     
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    and equals long term ban :D. Use Black Hat at your own risk.

    I cant agree with this, I've never had 1000 visitors after submitting to Stumble and Digg.
     
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    Black Hat means using non ethical tactics. Hiding force continuity would an example. I wouldn't go that route. Maybe it even could give You good results but usually those are short term and I like to sleep well at night :)!
     
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    i've barely gotten 1000 visitors from stumbleupon in months and i have plenty of pages bookmarked there.
     
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