While we are well-informed of the different techniques in generating traffic into our blogs, both the good and bad, a lot of bloggers still tend to use some methods which experts consider dangerous, these techniques known as black hat SEO. Indeed using the forbidden methods can bring in instant positive results to your blog, but in the long run they can cause harm especially when search engines have figured out your dirty deeds. But is it actually possible to build a successful out of black hat SEO?
If you’ve got both the talent and ambition, yes it is.
In reality, there are only a few things readers hate in blogs. These are:
- pages overloaded with ads
- spammy content
- pages that take a long time to upload due to bandwidth concerns
You can easily get away from the “hate list” by feeding your blog with quality content, fixing the design template, and lessen the posting of images and videos and other attractive nuisances. Since the main concern in blogging is providing quality, informative content, then you can incorporate a few black hat SEO schemes without getting in the way of sensible write-ups. These include:
- keyword stuffing
- link farming
- article spinning
The above mentioned techniques can be used effectively when done in the right strategy. You can construct highly informative and helpful entries while at the same time going a little higher than the recommended keyword density percentage, gather a lot of incoming links through comments, as well as rewriting articles which you have previously featured. In the internet, information is shared by different people among different communities, hence while browsing websites of the same niche, you can find articles with similar content but written differently. This is common, since the information found in the articles you read are the only ones available at present; your job then is to create changes. Unless you are an SEO geek with the burning passion to go beyond what’s available, then it’s best to stick to what the community currently has.
What you first have to consider is how to satisfy your target audiences, and giving them what they want. You can easily fool the search engines, but you can’t afford to do the same to your audience, since they keep your blog alive. However, it is also recommended that you abide the rules of SEO for violating their laws may put your business at risk.
When playing the smart guy over search engines, here are things you have to look for:
- search engine spiders/web crawlers
- too much incoming spam links
When you entertain incoming spam links on to your blog, chances are that search engines would find you a suspicious spammer as well. Hence, while you may use sending spam links on to other blogs (if you really are that desperate to increase your incoming traffic), it is best that you do not accept incoming spam. This will only make your comments section look rather annoying, filled with words and characters that do not make any sense. Spam comments can already be moderated automatically using the Aksimet spam filter software, which is available on Wordpress blogs.
You must also watch out for spiders, or web crawlers. Web crawlers are automated scripts that examine web pages according to freshness, policy and relevance. Web crawlers monitor the activity of web pages as to whether they are abiding the rules of SEO, and if not these crawlers alert search engines to take appropriate action against these sites or blogs. Although web crawlers go over only around 16% of the total web pages that exist in the internet, you’ll never know when it comes to check on your blog. Hence, here are some pointers in order to get one step ahead of web crawlers:
- do not use black hat SEO on a daily basis
- try to change your schemes after a few days
- cleanup your blog from black hat SEO methods at least once a week
It is also recommended that you use black hat SEO methods only one at a time; like you are doing an experiment. You cannot rely on these techniques for long term success, we all know that. Hence while you intend to add keyword stuffing on your articles for today, do change the method after three to four days, so that they will not be noticed by search engines. If you are that meticulous, perform a blog maintenance every other week and remove all the forbidden ways that you have used.
Most of all, be prepared to take the risk when using black hat SEO. While you are bound for instant success on your blog due to these techniques, your business can be at risk once detected by search engines. It is also best that you have a backup blog so that when your main blog is caught and closed, you already have a new one up and ready. So, happy blogging!
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December 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
yes, black hat technique will definitely work, especially by rewriting content (copywriting or article spinning). In fact, most of the website that rank high in search engine can't get there without playing dirty
December 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I do believe it is possible. you do have to be careful what you talked about.
December 14th, 2008 at 4:43 am
My opinion is that don't spend too much time on Black Hat SEO. But creating good content and communicating with other bloggers in a natural way, we will get the bust results.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:55 am
I think that this method is not good. Blogs must be built slowly, but qualitatively.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Black Hat methods typically work but usually only for the short term.
December 20th, 2008 at 2:26 am
I would say black hat techniques do work but for me personally they didn't work for long. I won't bother with them in the future as I hate having sites banned.
I guess I am not too bright when it comes to using black hat techniques. I get slapped down way too fast.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:38 am
if you want long term success in my opinion you have to put the work in, these quick cheats as previously said ony work for quick stardom, have content on your blog that will bring your visitors back, there is no point having 5000 people come to your restaurant that sells junk food they will not come back and also not spread the word, have 100 people come when serving great food they will come back and will tell their friends….
December 31st, 2008 at 10:45 am
What is black seo
January 7th, 2009 at 11:58 am
The thing I dislike the most is that sometimes a blog has spam filters really tight. You can refer a couple of websites and all of a sudden you are over the threshold of the url filters and all of your posts get deleted, and this really sucks if you were the top commentator at the time with over 40 posts.