What is a Gray Hat SEO ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by rohnsmith, Jul 23, 2010.

  1. #1
    HI,
    Do you know gray hat seo ?
     
    rohnsmith, Jul 23, 2010 IP
  2. eLeSlash

    eLeSlash Active Member

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    I know white an black , so or you are perfectly fine and stick to the rules you are white , if you not - black.
     
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    it is the gray area between black hat and white hat
     
    atxsurf, Jul 23, 2010 IP
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    it's a mix of white hat and black hat SEO which is kinda safe when building links for your site.
     
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  5. Seo110

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    White hat is , to do seo with a fair kinda type
    Black hat is, to do seo with _ve way
    and Grey is something which lies between both of them
     
    Seo110, Jul 23, 2010 IP
  6. mahendra rajeshirke

    mahendra rajeshirke Active Member

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    hahah gray is kinda safe, so why people use black, i think black is to hack google or other search engines. to get the not deserved site in serp :D
     
    mahendra rajeshirke, Jul 23, 2010 IP
  7. devashishseo

    devashishseo Active Member

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    It is the combination of white hat SEO and black hat SEO.
     
    devashishseo, Jul 23, 2010 IP
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    Gray hat is the mixture of white and black strategy. It's in the middle level of practicing good and bad seo techniques.
     
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    Grey hate SEO is a mixture of organic and black hate SEO. Gray hat SEO is SEO techniques that take more risks than white hat SEO method but aren't likely to get your site excluded from search engines.
     
    eoinbronks, Jul 23, 2010 IP
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    Mix the colour White & Black it will give you Gray, This is the real mean of Gray hat SEO, But don't ask me Blue Hat...... I don't know.
     
    johnk681, Jul 24, 2010 IP
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    gray hat seo , where we can use white hat techniques with lil black hat like keyword stuffing , link farming etc
     
    megha verma, Jul 24, 2010 IP
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    seo4me Well-Known Member

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    #12
    Start with white SEO, that is good on page optimization, have some gray techniqhues in middle steps during link building.
    its very good practice.
    but dont go for black hat SEO.
     
    seo4me, Jul 24, 2010 IP
  13. freeseoguide

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    I cant agree with you guys. Grey is not mixture of white hat and black hate SEO... If you have mixture of white hat and black hat what you get is still black hat... So, you maybe do 99% of white hat and that 1% of black hat will be enough for google to ban you...

    so, grey hat is not a mixture of those two, grey hat is when you do something that is non-ethical and non-natural but google still can't punish you. Let's say that you buy 100 of links, that's grey hat. Buying links is what google does not like and fight agains but usually can't punish you or that can lead that competitors can buy links for your website in order to hurt your rankings...

    you know what white hat is?
    that is when you do ONLY on-page SEO and all the rest is just usual things... when you begin to do something off-site with a purpose only to improve your positions, that's all grey...

    Black is something that is for sure what can be punished if caught. Like, presenting one content to google and another for human visitors or similar thing... or, when you have white background with white colored text and people can't see that and you stuffed keywords there...
     
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    Grey hat is partially Blackhat and Partially White Hat. Black hat is too harsh but Grey hat is medium one . You don't cheat so much :D . So its called Gray hat .
     
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    The term greyhat originates from hacking/cracking culture where blackhatters would break into computer systems to steal fioles/information, and whitehatters would break in to test themselves and find security flaws which they would fix. A greyhatter is someone thatc does a bit of both, like a vigilante. So in SEO a greyhatter uses a mixture of whitehat and blackhat techniques, it is the best type of SEO because it incorporates the most techniques and won't (if done right), get you banned from google.
     
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    Grey hat is the thin line between white hat(legal by the search engines) and black hat(not legal by search engines). Its doing both and but staying in the middle and not being too extreme on either ends of the spectrum.
     
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    Grey Hat is the mixture of White hat and Black Hat tech... Most of guys use Grey hat for SEO.
     
    ksb, Jul 24, 2010 IP
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    Gray hat SEO : These are the SEO techniques that are having risks less than Blackhat SEO but aren't likely to get your site banned from search engines . They're questionable SEO techniques but not in the same category as black hat SEO techniques.
     
    Joy mds, Jul 24, 2010 IP
  19. mahendra rajeshirke

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    well why there is black and gray. if gray hat seo is illegal by any way, why dont we call it or take it into black hat seo part.?
    does not black hat seo follow white hat or legal rules?
     
    mahendra rajeshirke, Jul 26, 2010 IP
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    Grey Hat SE-optimizers are the people who find the loopholes in the search engine guidelines and still try to fall in line
     
    Mongooz, Jul 26, 2010 IP