Differentiate Between The Black Hat And White Hat SEO

Hi Everybody,
Here we discuss the Black Hat and the White Hat individually :

Black Hat SEO

The Black Hat SEO techniques are now defined as the illegitimate ways to get higher rankings. Many methods of Black Hat SEO were initially known as the White Hat. But few webmasters practiced the in utter unethical ways that now these are looked down upon by almost all webmasters. The methods help in gaining short term benefits. However if by a mere chance the search engines detect the usage of the Black Hat SEO techniques, your site can get immensely penalized by them. The process aims at providing a short term solution to a lengthy problem.

Black Hat Techniques :

1.Stuffing the whole site with keywords
2.The usage of hidden text (text of same color as the background), so as to detect the search engine crawlers.
3.Using cloaking to show a page to the search engines and the other to the visitors.
4.Creating doorway pages to attract huge eyeballs.
5.Using too much redirect links
6.Using clone sites
7.Having excess of links i.e., too much link building techniques.
These are techniques that must be avoided if you want a good ranking and retain it.

White Hat SEO

On the other hand the White Hat methods are ethical ways to gain the ranking. Although it takes time to show up the results, but it would be authentic and sustaining.

Below are some of the White Hat Techniques discussed :

1.Your site will be grown organically.
2.You will receive targeted traffic and visitors.
3.Each of the pages is optimized according to the contents of the pages.
4.Using Tags in the title, Meta tags, image tags etc.
5.Usage of the social media and marketing tactics.
6.Opting for the blog posting and placing links in it without spamming it.
7.Use natural keywords for optimization.
8.Create pages rich with contents that are unique.
9.Create a sitemap and RSS feeds.
10.Make use of a Robot.txt file
11.Submit your site to various directories of your own niche.