Penguin is aimed to remove web spam and combat what they view as black hat. It has been a while since I last touched up on the topic of Change, Convergence s more, I also had the great pleasure of interviewing two leaders in the SEO technology...
Link building tactics once considered reasonable – or at least not black hat – are clearly on the wrong side of the line now. You need to diversify your SEO strategies – a 2012 upgrade to your link building, if you will.
It wouldn't hurt to keep a tinfoil hat handy as well… Look no further than this Microsoft patent that talks about spying on SEO forums. We can intimate that Google has eased that stance by trying to define white hat and black hat, but at the end of...
If the company refuses to release this info, that means they are either hiding something that they don’t want you to find out, such as black hat tactics or they really don’t have much to show you. We also looked at site SEO and duplicate content as...
Negative SEO & Black Hat SEO The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO Black Hat SEO: Killing Your Competition With Google Other instances of negative SEO have included such tactics as hacking a website to inflict some sort of malicious...
Or is it just that whole black hat/white-hat thing? Try and deny it, young SEO. Search Engine Optimization: SEO Wars This is the earliest mention of SEO wars I could find (that wasn't spammy). SEO Wars
Some websites are out to make a quick buck (not thinking of their customers/visitors), or they have been misguided by an agency or by some black hat SEO magician that it’s OK to use tricks. As an in-house SEO, thinking of how to create value for...
Best Black Hat SEO across the whole of the web? First place went to Alex Moss for his entry 3 Rules: What not to do as an SEO. Alex's film is a cautionary tale about boasting of your SEO achievements at a networking event.
What do black hat SEOs eat on Thanksgiving? Black hat SEOs have made a living exploiting them, paying the price, and continue on repeating the process. Why do white hat SEOs always live in a good suburb?
Black hat SEOs have made a living exploiting them, paying the price, and continue on repeating the process. Have you seen the National Car Rental commercial that talks about improving ROI through SEO by COB?
Now that’s black hat creativity adapting to a changing marketplace! Much has been written lately about SEO and its convergence with social media, content marketing, and other inbound marketing techniques.
Best Black Hat SEO across the whole of the web? The best script overall, as judged by Linkdex and SES, will be announced at the black hat / white hat event on 20th March, and will receive an iPad 3 And look out for the Black Hat / White Hat event...
Twitter – Ralph Tegtmeier: A top notch black hat SEO better known as fantomaster. Black Hat World: I'm not suggesting you join the dark side but these folks know a few tricks that you should probably know about too.
For many a year we have seen white hat vs.black hat debate. In 2012 it could be that we will see a new argument – perhaps inbound marketing vs.black hat social media? For others, developmental improvement has been a continual process, with the...
Could anti-piracy legislation be a new instrument for black hat SEO’s to commit sabotage? Greg Jarboe, president of Internet marketing company SEO-PR, isn’t buying the MPAA line that not passing SOPA will kill off millions of American jobs; at the...
Ideas like certification failed in black hat/white hat debates (which is an entirely different issue from delivering value). As SOPA protests, largely driven by social media rage on around the web, another influential player threw their hat in the...
Previously, I had written mainly about methods of manipulating rankings by keyword stuffing and other black hat type techniques of the time. I've said many times over the years that, most books about SEO have a section called how search engines work.
If you're an SEO Jedi, black hat tactics undoubtedly tempt you on a regular basis. In an earlier post, SEO Wars: Forget Black Hat, White Hat - What Color Is Your Lightsaber, I introduced six unique SEO styles (and respective lightsaber colors) for...
Now I know you’re going to have your hands full delivering coal and stuffed pandas to all the black hat SEOs – you know, the ones that are doing their best to damage the reputation of SEO for their own shortsighted gain, but if you could see your...
The first thing I did was take advantage of the pretty photoset interface on Google+, so I uploaded the pictures from this year's Black Hat / White Hat event which was the most awesome yet, thanks to a completely new format based on Angie...
