What is Black Hat SEO?

[quocbinh]

Black Hat SEO is most commonly defined as a disapproved practice that increases a page's ranking in a search engine result page (SERP). These practices are against the search engine's terms of service and can  result in the site being banned from the search engine and affiliate  sites. A list of tactics and strategies employed by black hat SEO  practitioners have been openly denounced on Google's Webmaster Guidelines and Bing's Webmaster Guidelines.

"Is the work that I'm doing adding value to the user or am I just doing this for search engines to see?" is a litmus test on whether an SEO tactic would go against a search engine's webmaster guideline. If no  value is added to the user, but rankings are likely to increase, then  your decisions are highly likely to be black hat. The same test can be  applied to to paid search practices to determine whether an activity is  considered black hat ppc.

Black Hat SEO Tactics

Content Automation
Doorway Pages
Hidden Text or Links
Keyword Stuffing
Reporting a Competitor
Sneaky Redirects
Cloaking


Black Hat SEO Techniques

Link Manipulation - Buying links, advertorials, and link schemes
Article Spinning
Link Schemes
Link Farms
Link Wheels
Link Networks
Rich Snippet Markup Spam
Automated Queries to Google
Creating pages, subdomains, or domains with duplicate content
Pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing, viruses, trojans, and other malware.

[arindamdutta16]

 Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Black Hat SEO can possibly result in your Web site being banned from a search engine, however since the focus is usually on quick high return business models, most experts who use Black Hat SEO tactics consider being banned from search engines a somewhat irrelevant risk. Black Hat SEO may also be referred to as Unethical SEO or just spamdexing, as spamdexing is a typical frequently used Black Hat SEO practice.
 

[EsferaSoft]

Black Hat SEO is following wrong methods to promote your website.Like automatic generating links,doorway pages,scraped content,hidden content,sneaky redirects,keyword stuffing etc.It  is not according to the Google guidelines.

[RH-Calvin]

Black Hat SEO practices are those that do not follow Google Webmaster Guidelines. They are practiced to rank your website faster in search engines, but always stay at a risk of Google penalty.

[fpforum]

Yea - that pretty much sums it up.. I would say using dirty tactics to increase your rankings.

[jaysh4922]

Black hat SEO is the use of techniques that are not acceptable to search engines..black hat SEO techniques can get their sites penalized by or banned from search engines.

example of some main black hat technique are --

Keyword stuffing
Link farm
invisible text
doorway pages

[chandanthaver]

Black hat seo is the technique to used for getting the quick result but it not good for your website because Google penalized your website black nat seo is against the search engine rule and regulations.

[tailoredsolutions]

I just say in one sentence that "Easily achieved things wont stay for longer time" you can get high rankings through "Black Hat" will not for longer period and once you penalized by search engines you will not get recovered from it from a very not long time or may be never.

[john00]

Black hat seo shows result faster than the white hat seo but it does not keep your website in a long time in a top positions on the search engines. Because it violates the guidelines of the search engines and may be your website is fall down because of the penalty.

[Megan Brown]

Black hat SEO in simple words is aggressive SEO. There was a time during the initial days of SEO when aggressive SEO strategies were accepted; however, later it was shown as spammed and not accepted today!