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What are “Black Hat” techniques?

If you are new to internet marketing, you may not be well versed with “Black Hat” techniques, which are considered to be unethical methods and are employed by webmasters for making their website appear in high search rankings.

At times people don’t know much about the bad impact of Black Hat and gets caught doing something which they find to be correct when it is considered to be a black act website marketing method.

Bad impact of Black Hat

There is no denial to the fact that each entrepreneur who is relying upon internet marketing would want his site to feature amongst top rank in SEO. And when he comes across a certain SEO that claims to place his website in top ranks, he gets tempted!!!  Here starts Black Hat and its bad impact on SEO and the society at large.

Remember that no company on earth can lend you a forefront place as far as the search engines are concerned. There is no guarantee and no sure shot method or SEO tool that is capable of bringing your site top notch place amongst the search engine results. Those who promise overnight high search rankings are in fact trying to manipulate to make some quick bucks for themselves. These tricks will never do any good to you or your website or your website marketing.

Even if Black Hat method works and your website comes amongst the top in the search engine ranking, sooner or the later the search engines will get to know about the trick played by you and will penalize you. Thus, Black Hat is nothing else but fooling yourself as well as the search engine. Your own benefit lies in not following the following methods that will only provide you embarrassment.

Surfing web pages with keywords

The search engines will ban your website as a penalty for Black Hat in case they find you cramming your website with key words, or colours or even fonts. Its not difficult for the website to locate how you have manipulated with the content and it will only bring you degradation for your website by getting banned from google or other top notch search engines.

Invisible text

Invisible text is considered to be another method of spamming by the search engines. Its nothing different from the key words cramming. This method of gaining high ranking on search engines may be really bad for your website.

Doorway pages

Doorway pages are also known as fake pages. Actually these are non-existent but get displayed if a specific phrase or a word is used. These pages are to be viewed only by the search engines so that they may be included in the search results. However, they are not visible to the visitors at all.

Thus, its recommended to use the legitimate techniques of SEO and get benefitted by the same.

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Written by: Andrew Stephens – AJSPM in Cincinnati, Ohio (http://www.ajspromotionalmedia.com)

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