What is Black Hat SEO?

[Flex]

Black Hat search engine optimization is customarily defined as techniques that are used to get higher search rankings in an unethical manner. These black hat SEO techniques usually include one or more of the following characteristics:

* breaks search engine rules and regulations
* creates a poor user experience directly because of the black hat SEO techniques utilized on the Web site
* unethically presents content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine spiders and search engine users.

A lot of what is known as black hat SEO actually used to be legit, but some folks went a bit overboard and now these techniques are frowned upon by the general SEO community at large. These black hat SEO practices will actually provide short-term gains in terms of rankings, but if you are discovered utilizing these spammy techniques on your Web site, you run the risk of being penalized by search engines. Black hat SEO basically is a short-sighted solution to a long-term problem, which is creating a Web site that provides both a great user experience and all that goes with that.

[torreylee]

Yes, I was coming to answer the question, but you answered your own...Lol. It's basically trying to manipulate the SE's through devious tactics and not going about building a valuable website that generates traffic naturally.

[bailey.rein]

Black Hat SEO don't follow rules and regulations. It uses unethical ways just to get back links. Here are some of the techniques that falls under black hat SEO:

cloaking
door-way pages
improper redirects
spamming
hidden text
keyword stuffing

[andr78]

Are there any methods of struggling with Black hat SEO techniques? I think this kind of promotion can do more harm than profit:(

[mike40]

hidden text for only bots and not for users is mostly used but if you caught by algo you will get banned