Thread: White Hat, Grey Hat or Black Hat?

Which is your proffered method of improving your websites SERP, in case you don't know the difference I'll explain briefly:

White Hat - Taking time to increase your websites rankings with safe methods
Black Hat - Increasing ranking fast with methods that may lead to blacklisting from search engines
Grey Hat - In between the two, less risky but not as fast

Some Black Hat techniques may include methods as such:

• Cloaking
• Doorway Pages
• Link Farm (Lots of links within selected sites)
• Keyword Stuffing
• Invisible/Hidden Text and Content
• Improper Redirects

i use black hat to get my sites out there, i then leave it and use white then if the sites looks as if it it is going down hill back with the black hat i have never used grey really

Originally Posted by Nicky s

i use black hat to get my sites out there, i then leave it and use white then if the sites looks as if it it is going down hill back with the blach hat i have never used grey really

You kind of have then, greys when you mix them to try and not get caught out, black is when speed is the essence but you don't care about long term serps because you expect the domain to be blacklisted.

Originally Posted by Silver89

You kind of have then, greys when you mix them to try and not get caught out, black is when speed is the essence but you don't care about long term serps because you expect the domain to be blacklisted.

ahhh ok well im playing it safe but being bad at the same time hehehe

black Of Course, Because it suits my image

grey here, I don't want to earn today 200$ and tomorrow been blacklisted.

We'll, I am purely a white hat guy. I don't like to use any blackhat or greyhat method because it's too risky for me and I don't like my website to get blacklisted for sure. Just keep your site safe and never use it in an illegal way.

I would vote for White Hat method for getting SE traffic and improving SERPS. Its best suitable for my application and so I find it easy.

I do mainly white hat and a little bit of black hat.
I wouldn't suggest going the complete black hat way because if you get caught you lose everything. If you have some white hat promotion, you can be sure that atleast some amount of money is rolling in.

I have never used black hat methods. Because I'm sure that Google is very good at detecting (And penalizing) the known ones.

I try to use relatively safe yet effective methods (Grey hat/White hat).