John on 16 February 2024 “We have no record of ever having received a violation notification from Google before last week when the unauthorized links came to our attention. If we had, we would have worked quickly to remedy the situation, as we are doing now. Obviously, we are disappointed that Google has reduced our […]

As with everything else in life, there is white, black and grey in search engine optimisation. As always, grey areas and in this instance grey hat SEO, is legitimate in certain cases, but can also make your life as a webmaster incredibly difficult. There is a fine line between black and white and unless you […]

Excess is not a topic brought up very often in the world of SEO. Usually, SEO professionals are anxious to explain the range of techniques that can be applied to a site. The restrictions that should be placed on a search engine optimisation campaign are very rarely discussed, if ever. Yet there is always a […]

There have been uncountable articles written on the subject of black hat SEO practices. Just as many warnings as reputable optimisers give website owners, their efforts are undermined by those that tell you any black hat optimiser worth his salt will counteract each of the search engine measures put in place to stop these practices. […]

Peter on 29 July 2024 Search engine optimisation experts are constantly advising against the use of black hat SEO methods and yet there are still some business owners which choose this approach. One of the reasons why so many site owners still fall into this trap is because unethical SEO companies make black hat SEO […]

Jonathon Oates on 27 June 2024 Yelp is the Yellow Pages of the future; no more are phone numbers and Web addresses the only information available on the move,  now a wealth of contact information, customer reviews, maps and more are just a click or tap or two away! “So, Yelp’s not new!” you say? […]

‘Black hat’ is an old-fashioned term that comes from the early days of movies, particularly westerns. The guy in the black hat is the bad guy, taking advantage of the weak or naive, and doing his best to foil the hero in the white hat. This is quite a dramatic picture. It certainly doesn’t seem […]

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If you strictly pay attention to search engine rules, there are only two ways of avoiding putting spammy content on your site. The first is to only do what you would do if search engines didn’t exist. The second is to get written permission from the search engines to do what you want to do. […]

Jon Hogg on 11 May 2024 Even though there is a considerable amount of information available advising against the use of black hat SEO methods, a number of businesses still end up running unethical SEO campaigns. Black hat SEO can be tempting for business owners because a number of the methods claim to be able […]

Jon Hogg on 11 January 2024 Often in the world of SEO, the difference between what is allowed and what breaks the rules is intent. The ‘grey hat’ idea came out of this – a list of techniques that can be used for good or bad purposes. There are a number of techniques that come […]