Blackhat SEO
If you are like everyone else who does business on the web or is thinking of doing business, then an important issue is making sure your page has high SEO.
SEO, search engine optimization, is what will get your website the high traffic everyone on the internet desires. However, how a person goes about getting maximum SEO is important, and going about it wrongly can get a person in trouble. There is such a thing as Blackhat SEO’s and like in movie westerns the blackhats are considered the bad guys.
This article takes a look at Blackhat SEO’s and their methods.
Blackhats
The Blackhats are the bad guys of SEO. They are usually consultants or webmasters hired by web site owners to help them achieve high search engine optimization. What is the problem is the way Blackhats go about getting these results.
Methods
The methods that Blackhats use are considered to be manipulative and unethical. The underhanded tactics that consultants who are termed Blackhats are known for are as follows:
First- one method Blackhats use is called cloaking. When a Blackhat uses cloaking to get a maximum SEO what they are doing is showing one thing to the search engine spider, which is a program or script that browsers the internet in an slow, careful and automated manner, but shows something vastly different in a user’s browser.
Second- then there is something called spamdexing. When a Blackhat is spamdexing they are purposely creating web pages, which search engines will indexed and thereby increasing their chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results. Spamdexing also can be used to influence the category to which the page is assigned.
For example, if a site deals with grooming habits of pets, while another site only sells necklaces of animals a Blackhat might create a web page where people both categories will visit
Third- another method Blackhats will use is called creating doorway pages. What are doorway pages? Doorway pages are sites pages, which are packed with keywords that are put in the pages solely for the purpose of getting hits off the search engine.
Blackhats may use a spam page (pages which are used to promote another site) to pull visitors to the main site. For example, a person searches for information about clocks and search engine results leads to a site that advertise for clocks but does not actually deal with them.
Once at the spam site a person is lead into the real site thus getting them more visitors.
Fourth- Blackhats also creates hidden text to achieve maximum SEO. By creating hidden texts Blackhats will put certain keywords into web pages, but they do this without spamming the pages with certain keywords. What they do instead is make the text the same color as the background or the background so visitors can’t see the text.
Conclusion
Although there are Blackhat consultants there are also good ones known as the Whitehats, and they go about achieving high SEO for their clients without resorting to underhanded tricks.
If a businessperson needs help for their site, and many do, then choose someone honest who can help you achieve the results you want. Although, many Blackhat’s underhanded tactics work for awhile, if caught, and many are, a person can get banned from the search engine(it is possible), and lose all the potential traffic that would have been theirs if they had just done the right thing.
There are ways to get high traffic to your website without causing a person to get into trouble. If one hires a consultant who resorts to these tactics fire them and look for someone honorable.
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