What would you consider a Black-Hat or Grey-Hat SEO?

Hi,
I was recently asked by one SEO person what I’d consider a SEO black-hat technique (that might get you banned), and where are those murky black-to-grey and grey areas (that might make your site loosing SERP ranks) begin and end.

Goal is simple: to avoid falling into these areas by accident, as a result of overzealous SEO (sometimes happens, you know).

Here are few trivial ones I could name: keyword stuffing, hidden text/links, cloacking, doorway pages – stuff you usually (perhaps, for an exception of keyword stuffing) cannot do by an accident.

Is it anything else? Please share your thoughts on what to do and, most important, what not to do.

Regards,
CKelvin

 

Would you tell us who is that person might be?

AFAIK, there is no easy way to optimize a site for a long-term basis. They are lots of hard work and consistency needs to be put to the site.

In brief, I would say it is always better to be safe than sorry.

 

If you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines, this would be considered White-Hat. However the more you stray outside these guidelines, the blacker your hat turns.

 

That's true sweetfunny. It is good to review and review the guidelines while working with your site.

 

if you are saying "this is not ethic" for somethink , it's black seo

 

well technically we're supposed to avoid any and all tricks that will help rankings.

would that include link-building, on page SEO, etc?

 

Hmm Here is a few greyhat techniques.1. linkbuilding.2. Removing Duplicate content from your site.and here is a few blackhat techniques.1. using linkfarms.2. wearing a ski mask and equipping your self with a tranquilizer gun and sleeping gas grenades and then break into G-plex and knock all the engineers out. after doing that you will take a close look at the algorithm.3. reciprocal link building 4. bum marketing (submitting the same article to a multitude of article directories)this was just a few of the techniques I know, there is of course also serp assassination

 

i do wonder if google penalize for grey seo?

 

I prefer the black hat one! We usually done profile linking for that.

 

I believe buying forum profile links (automated) are black-hat. It will probably get your site in the sandbox or it will be penalized by Google once they find out.

 

They do, if you get caught.So that is the reason why I can't say this enough, maximum 25 links per month. and stay away from the badguys.