What is Black Hat SEO

Here are the most common black hat SEO things Google penalizes for:

• keyword stuffing
• exchange and purchase of backlinks
• automatic content generation
• cloaking
• fraudulent redirects
• malware on the site
• hidden content / link from users (visible only to robots) e.g. white font on a white background

@tomaskonovak serving fishy content to crawlers while having nothing on the site for real visitors seems to be pretty common blackhat practice that still works in G's marginal indexes like Slovakia.

Black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines.

Black Hat SEO like doing is an illegal way of Optimizing.

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Black hat SEO does not follow guide line search engine. Black Hat SEO is most commonly defined as a disapproved practice that nevertheless could increase a page's ranking in a search engine result page.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.

Doorway page Keyword stuffing Link Farming Hidden link Spam blog Link Schemes Hidden Text or Links Article Spinning

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In essence, black hat SEO is a practice that goes against search engine guidelines. It also uses unethical tactics. Common black hat techniques include cloaking, keyword stuffing, and the use of private link networks.

@maricelfrominnzone is it a bad thing?