White Hat SEO:
An SEO tactic, technique or method is considered
as White Hat if it follows the followings
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If it conforms to the
search engine's guidelines.
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If it does not involves
any deception.
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It ensures that the
content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a
user will see.
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It ensures that a Web
Page content should have been created for the users and not just for the search
engines.
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It ensures the good
quality of the web pages
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It ensures the useful
content available on the web pages
Always follow a White Hat SEO tactic and don't
try to fool your site visitors. Be honest and definitely you will get something
more.
Next chapter onward we will put light on White
Hap SEO techniques. The WHST are very simple and can be done without investing
much cost.
Black Hat or Spamdexing:
An SEO tactic, technique or method is considered
as Black Hat or Spamdexing if it follows the followings
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Try to improve rankings
that are disapproved of by the search engines and/or involve deception.
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Redirecting users from a
page that is built for search engines to one that is more human friendly.
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Redirecting users to a
page that was different from the page the search engine ranked.
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Serving one version of a
page to search engine spiders/bots and another version to human visitors. This
is called Cloaking SEO tactic.
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Using Hidden or
invisible text or with the page background color, using a tiny font size or
hiding them within the HTML code such as "no frame" sections.
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Repeating keywords in
the Meta tags, and using keywords that are unrelated to the site's content.
This is called Meta tag stuffing.
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Calculated placement of
keywords within a page to raise the keyword count, variety, and density of the
page. This is called Keyword stuffing .
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Creating low-quality web
pages that contain very little content but are instead stuffed with very
similar key words and phrases. These pages are called Doorway or Gateway Pages
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Mirror web sites by
hosting multiple web sites all with conceptually similar content but using different
URLs.
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Creating a rogue copy of
a popular web site which shows contents similar to the original to a web
crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious web sites. This is
called Page hijacking.
Always be away to adopt any of the above Black
Hat tactic to improve the rank of your site. Search engines are smart enough to
identify all the above proprieties of your site and ultimately you are not
going to get anything.