Black Hat SEO & Techniques to Avoid

What is Black Hat SEO ? And some Black Hat SEO Techniques to avoid.

Simply, Black Hat SEO can be defined as using aggressive SEO methods and strategies to improve your website ranking . By using those methods and strategies you can improve your website ranking but not forever.

Why Black hat SEO techniques are disallowed ?
Naturally, if you use aggressive methods, that means your SEO competition is based on fraud. Moreover those techniques centering on search engine and not a human audience. Indeed there some Black Hat SEO we can use as a White hat SEO but with simple differences.
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Some Black Hat SEO techniques to avoid :
This is not the full list, there is other methods which you can discover. Notwithstanding, I recommend you to stay away. Alternatively, use White hat SEO and build your website step by step.

Cloaking :
It means to show a different content one for search engine and the other for visitors . In other words it means showing a web page to search engine different from audience web page. Sometime, hiding a heavy file (Flash, Multimedia ...) can be classified as a Black Hat SEO.

Mirror Websites :
The mirror Webstes technique is link more than one domain name to the similar content . The alternative is making redirect.

Duplicate content :
Simply, Don't insert a copied content without a source link or authorization.

Hidden content :
It means to show a content (text, link ...) for search engine spider which is not visible to users.

Page with ADS only :
This is to say a website without content but full of ADS.
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Automatically generated content :
It means to make your website generate content for itself. Usually the generated content is not coherent. So, your content must be handmade or be revised.

Keyword stuffing :
Don't fill the page with a lot of repeated keywords and don't use unrelated keywords.

Page Swapping :
If you have a web page indexed and ranked, don't change the page entirely.

Unnatural / Paid links :
Usually it means to exchange backlinks or to buy backlinks.
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Spammy Footer Links :
It means to put an unrelated keyword link which no utility for the audience .

Spammy Comments :
It means to comment on others blogs randomly and those blogs have no relation to your website content. This technique can be based on a software which generate random comment. To get a quality backlinks don't use expressions like these : (thanks, nice ...) on comments .

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