Comments on: Reviewing Black Hat , White Hat and Grey Hat SEO

By: Kelly @ Backlinkage

Kelly @ Backlinkage — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:28:39 +0000

Although the names might imply otherwise, I think each person has to make their own choices concerning how far to take their promotion tactics.

I, for example, would never consider using adware to promote a site. On the other hand, if I find a blog with “follow” comments, I’ll do my best to try to post a relevant comment. Is that link spamming? Some might say so – especially if the blog has nothing to do with the content of my site. Again, I’ve made my own choices and I can sleep at night.

Good food for thought, regardless.

By: Review Bluehost

Review Bluehost — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:49:37 +0000

After years of experience with SEO, I found out that it's better not to group SEO jobs in to hat's color, but rather grouping up the SEO trick that works. People often get confused that White Hat's good and Black is bad – which I think it's very wrong. When you're doing white doesn't mean you're the good guy; but more often, you are the pity guy that couldn't get enough traffic to survive your site.

That's the cruel reality that I see.

Nonetheless, this is an informative post! Thanks~

By: Dilson Decano

Dilson Decano — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:03:29 +0000

i dont know how to use blackhat method, i am wearing whitehat in seo. what about Pink Hat SEO?? I really heard about that.

By: UK Insurance News

UK Insurance News — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:44:38 +0000

I think I’d have to agree with the Otooo regarding MFA sites being grey hat.

For example, I have no problem using the allowed 3 sets of Adsense ads on a site but some sites have three 336 x 280 ad units one on top of the other so you have to scroll way down to see any content.

In that case yes, this is arguably grey hat

By: Games

Games — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:19:48 +0000

White hat is the right thing to do but grey hat sounds tasty

By: Shannon Lilly

Shannon Lilly — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:28:52 +0000

Thanks for the great post bud!

By: Meka

Meka — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:15:56 +0000

I didnt know the difference until you explained it all. Great post. I like white hat seo personally.

By: JustinB

JustinB — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:08:53 +0000

Yea whitehat all the way. It does get dissapointing to see black/grey hat seo doing better sometimes

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:17:53 +0000

I will go the white hat all the way.

By: Otooo

Otooo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:45:50 +0000

I’m gonna disagrre with u on one of the grey-hat techniques
How are MFA sites grey-hat – sure, they are designed to get clicks but they are doing nothing wrong – all good content is there