I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on SEO tactics. Mainly because, well I now own a website. So, I’ve been optimizing my SEO and a lot of of other things lately. I stumbled upon a few websites that were promoting “Black Hat” tactics, such as blackhatworld. I read through all these tactics, and to be honest, I don’t think that they’ll work, nor do I think they’re good for your website.
Black hats use a lot of different tools, such as:
- SENuke
- Gsa Auto Product Submitter
- PRStorm
- Doorway Page Wizard Pro
- Traffic Equalizer
- Bookmarkdemon
- TrafficBooster Pro
- SEO Elite
- RSS Xploiter
- RSS2Blog Mass Installer
Why am I telling you this? Well I think it’s important for webmasters to know these tools are out there, and people are using them. They often target websites/webmasters. Also, users might benefit from knowing these programs, so they know what to look for to see when a site is not trustworthy. Will they help get your site to the top? Not likely. In my opinion, you will be banned from Google after a certain amount of time anyway. If you’re very careful, maybe they will help, but probably not very well. I don’t like spam, so why would anyone else? They might get you traffic, but most likely it’s garbage traffic. Some features in those utilities aren’t necessarily black hat, so they might be useful, but for the most part those tools will get you nothing but banned, or crappy traffic. I’ve not used any black hat tactics myself, so I can’t speak from personal experience. I don’t intend to, either.
There are also forums where you can pay people to submit your site to directories, that I don’t see a huge problem with, personally. Getting people to write your articles, however I’m against. (if you’re going to put your name on it, contributors, however are fine, I might even accept contributors here.)
So, personally, I’m going white hat. I don’t know about the rest of the Internet, but I don’t really care.
Interesting look at SEO. I can’t believe it is classified as Black Hat and White Hat. I personally feel that SEO has blown up way too much, traffic is traffic.
Yea, but black hat SEO relies on mostly spam to get the traffic – which I don’t believe in, personally. My site is almost brand new, and yet already I’ve had a spam post.
Interesting thought, very informative. thanks for sharing it
hmm… interesting thought. dont forget to visit my site too
SEO Elite is not a blackhat tool – its a useful piece of software which allows you to see where your sites rank for your keywords and also what backlinks any other site has pointing to it – you can do all the same for free but seoelite is a lot quicker! Book marking daemon can be used for spam – but is not designed as a black hat tool – mind you neither are comments – but people spam those!
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Yea, I kind of pointed out that not all of them are 100% blackhat in the post. SEO Elite I now know is not blackhat. I made this post back when I didn’t totally understand the programs
Thinking back I probably should have done more research before making this post. Oh well.