incredibly stupid question...

[21y Entrepreneur]

im very new to all of this. I understand that white hat SEO is basically just taking advantage of an algorithm. but what about black hat? what is it? how does it work?

 

[spazzumes]

To sum it all up:

Tricking, cheating, and/or abusing algorithms to rank highly in search engines. Anything Google and other search engines would frown on

 

[Goodi OG]

im very new to all of this. I understand that white hat SEO is basically just taking advantage of an algorithm. but what about black hat? what is it? how does it work?

Check this, https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/d...-guide-to-blackhat-seo.1134018/#post-12220250

 

[Shyout]

If you're familiar with taxes, white hat would be tax optimisation while black hat would be tax fraud.

 

[milk_and_cake]

If you're familiar with taxes, white hat would be tax optimisation while black hat would be tax fraud.

Yup, nicely put.
Basically, just lurk around forum, use search option and enjoy learning. Mostly it comes down to lot of testing to select black hat SEO methods that work. Do it with a twist and hard hard work thou.

Cheers!

 

[21y Entrepreneur]

Check this, https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/definitions-resources-a-short-beginners-guide-to-blackhat-seo.1134018/#post-12220250

this is exactly what i was looking for. I understand how this all works now (kind of). thank you

 

[Deleted member 1261634]

Black SEO can hurt your domain a lot. Not worth it.

 

[SocialManager]

im very new to all of this. I understand that white hat SEO is basically just taking advantage of an algorithm. but what about black hat? what is it? how does it work?

They are both taking advantage of an algorithm. By having knowledge of how the algorithm ranks websites, you can do things which will make Google like your website more than others, even if the other websites have better content and are more valuable to real people doing searches. White hat is considered doing things within the policies of major search engines (basically just Google). Black hat is considered doing things outside of the policies.

This is the best starter guide to White Hat SEO, because it's published by Google themselves:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en

These are the types of activities that are considered Black Hat:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6001971?hl=en&ref_topic=6001981

The most common black hat SEO activity you will hear about are link schemes:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en&ref_topic=6001971

 

[Online Crib]

Black SEO can hurt your domain a lot. Not worth it.

Totally agree..If you're not sure how to do it, then don't.

 

[21y Entrepreneur]

They are both taking advantage of an algorithm. By having knowledge of how the algorithm ranks websites, you can do things which will make Google like your website more than others, even if the other websites have better content and are more valuable to real people doing searches. White hat is considered doing things within the policies of major search engines (basically just Google). Black hat is considered doing things outside of the policies.

This is the best starter guide to White Hat SEO, because it's published by Google themselves:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en

These are the types of activities that are considered Black Hat:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6001971?hl=en&ref_topic=6001981

The most common black hat SEO activity you will hear about are link schemes:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en&ref_topic=6001971

those were all extremely helpful too, thank you

 

[Honorable SEO]

They are the same things in the end based off of Googles Terms of Service.

But one is generally a bit more risky in terms of the internet.

One is where you do generalized SEO that Google "approves".

Anyone doing SEO should just know that there is no such things.

Or at least accept that you're doing gray hat... Because all SEO
in ToS is against the ToS.

Act like a real business get yourself branded, then afterwards you can
use more of the "black hat" based techniques, such as guest posts and
PBNs a lot safer than those who just go straight to PBNs guest posts etc...

It's a lot quicker, safer and cheaper!