Thursday, September 9, 2010

Black Hat, White Hat and Gray Hat SEO

Search Engine Optimizers use several types of SEO techniques to optimize the websites which completely depends on their respective goals and objectives. There are three types of SEO:-

• Black Hat SEO - Black hat SEO is all about getting fast results. The method that the webmasters adopt to optimize their websites does get the website to the top of the search engines quickly but sooner or later the rankings are going to fall down. When the search engines notice that a particular website has used black hat SEO techniques to gain high search engine rankings then they ban the site. Black hat SEO creates poor quality websites by using several technology driven automated programs and gains inbound links from other sites (link spam). When the visitor opens the website, the website owner will try to redirect the visitor to some sales page of products etc. This is one of the goals of black hat SEO.

• White Hat SEO – White hat SEO believes in creating quality content for the website first and then optimizing it to gain high search engine rankings. They depend on their content and marketing skills to rank high in the search engine results. They believe in writing unique and quality content for their sites. They do not rely on automated programs like black hat SEO to drive website traffic. They very well understand that it takes time to acquire high search engine rankings and so they work accordingly.

• Gray Hat SEO – There are several types of gray hat SEO techniques. Some gray hat techniques may be banned by the search engines although they may not be against their rules while others which are very risky to undertake can still be used after careful considerations

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