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SEO – The good vs. the bad

July 18th, 2009 by


The truth about search engine optimisation

Search engine optimisation is an outstanding tool to use when a website just does not gain enough visibility. A website that employs an SEO campaign can benefit in many ways, from enjoying great exposure to getting quality traffic. Because search engine optimization is such a good tool many people try to take short cuts which have detrimental effects.

There are two types of search engine optimisation, white hat SEO and black hat search engine optimisation. White hat techniques are basically the good whilst black hat tricks are the bad. There is also a lot of debate as to how to eradicate the use of black hat tricks.

What white hat techniques are all about?

When it comes to white hat techniques, all you really have to know is that it is the proper way to employ search engine optimization. When one makes use of white hat techniques, one follows the rules and correct procedure to drive traffic. You use only ethical means to increase ranking and traffic.

This means that your link building is legit, your selection of keywords is relevant and fitting and lastly, your entire website has been edited in terms of all the criteria of search engine optimization.

Link building is a very important and allows for internet users to visit your site using another. When link building is legit, it means that no misleading ads have been placed on other websites to get people to visit ones site.

Keywords are also major players in SEO and when white hat tricks are used, it means that a particular website is not flooded with irrelevant keywords that are hidden or too many keywords that result in the sites content not making sense.

Black hat tricks is an easy way to reach the top

There are a huge number of website owners relying on black hat SEO. What this means is that these people are using unethical and incorrect ways of achieving good ranking and more traffic. Although white hat techniques can also give a site top ranking and increased traffic, people make use of these black hat SEO techniques so that they can see results quicker.

With different black hat tricks available many website owners will sometimes employ all of them to ensure they reach the top much quicker. Although it seems like a good way to get better results, these shortcuts often could get a website either restricted or banned from top search engines.

A few black hat tricks include making use of hidden text on website that is the same colour as the background. Although the text is not visible to users, they are detected by search engines.

A website that adds doorway pages is also using black hat tricks. Many website owners also make use of illegitimate back links that mislead users to a website that they did not search for.

Although black hat tricks seem like a good idea, it can decrease the credibility of a website and scorn its reputation.

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One Response to “SEO – The good vs. the bad”

  1. why do webmasters and Seo consultants even use black hat seo?
    they are just giving themselves a bad name.

    Regards
    Yoray Narainpersad

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