WHAT IS BLACK HAT SEO

Black hat SEO is the practice of manipulating and going against the guidelines of search engine. It is a way of making your page rank higher in the search result page by approaching disapproves ways which might affect your website in the future. Black hat techniques are used to increase a page's rank by violating the terms of a search engine. Exhibiting black hat SEO might make your page rank higher quicker, but eventually it will get your site banned from search engines.

Black hat SEO mess with the search engine's algorithm and tries to make it way up into the result pages. These methods will not be helpful for a long running business and will not stay in the search engine for long. Google will eventually find out the practice and will remove the website.

The strategies of Black Hat SEO is:

    1. Content Automation
    2. Keyword stuffing
    3. Doorway pages
    4. Hidden Text or Links
    5. Reporting your competitor
    6. Sneaky Redirect
    7. Cloaking
    8. Link Schemes
    9. Guest Posting Networks
    10. Link Manipulation
    11. Article Spinning
    12. Link Farms, Link Wheels
    13. Rich Snippet Markup Spam
    14. Creating Pages, subdomains, or domains with duplicate content
    15. Automated Queries to Google
    16. Pages with malicious behavior , phishing, and viruses
    17. Clickbait
    18. Scraped content
    19. Negative SEO
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WHY BLACK HAT SEO SHOULD BE AVOIDED

Black Hat SEO may seem like a quick way to get your page ranked in result page. It will provide you only with short-term success. It will hurt your long term success by decreasing your traffic and ultimately disappear from the search results. It creates poor content and untrustworthy experience for the audience. 

Don't try to optimize your web page by practicing black hat SEO because it will not last long and will never give you the success you want.