0 Black Hat SEO Techniques to Stay Away From

At some point you might be enticed to try and venture out into the black hat SEO area but do it with great caution. It might sound great to achieve results quickly but you run the risk of having your website simply disappear overnight. What will you do when the website you have been trying to build up for many years simply disappears?




Black hat SEO techniques that I recommend STAYING FAR AWAY FROM:

Buying Links: The search engines hate this and they have already said that it is not allowed yet people still try and do it. It might sound nice to buy a link but if it gets traced back to you and how you acquired that link you could quickly see a penalty appear on your website.

Link Exchanges: Link exchanges where very popular years ago but they are very frowned upon at this point. If they happen naturally they are fine but once they are forced that is when you run into problems. For example, you do a write up regarding a viral marketing campaign occurring from company XYZ that you like and in return a week later company XYZ is so flattered you decided to write about them that they write in their blog how you wrote about them leaving a link behind to your website. This is a natural pathway for exchanging links.

Automation For Anything: Some people swear by automation and some think it is very unethical depending on what you are using it for but using it for things like Facebook or Twitter have been known to be a bit unethical.

Article Spinning: Taking an article and re-writing it 47 times is just bad practice. Actually re-writing it a few times and taking a different approach or stance on a subject is one thing but submitting essentially the same content numerous times is just a blatant attempt to really spam the search engines.
Try to avoid any type of black hat SEO attempts if at all possible. Black hat techniques almost always lead to something bad at one point or another. Plus if you follow guidelines and search engines change their practice you don’t run the risk of receiving any future penalties from search engines.