What is whitehat,black hat and greyhat seo ?

[yellowsapphire]

What is whitehat,black hat and greyhat seo ?

[24x7servermanag]

Whitehat SEO technique will follow all the guidelines defined for the proper SEO. It will target the human audience instead of search engine.

This technique uses the SEO strategies as keywords, and keyword analysis, doing research, rewriting relevant meta tags, backlinking, link building and writing the contents for the human readers.

The result of this SEO technique is long term. So the main focus of this technique is writing the quality contents.

It's always recommended to go with the white hat SEO.


Blackhat SEO is done by breaking the rules of SEO world. This technique will not follow the rules defined by the good SEO practice. You will get the higher search ranking, no doubt in that. But it just quick return, there are no long term results provided by this technique. It will target the search engine instead of human audience.

This technique uses the SEO strategies as keyword stuffing, link farming, hidden texts and links, and blog content spamming.

The main dis-advantage of this technique is that, your site can be banned by the search engine and will be deindexed.

Grayhat SEO technique is practice of using technically legal methods to improve your site rankings, but which are ethically dubious, and could one day become black hat.Grey hat SEO involves much more creativity than Black hat SEO

[friendhrm]

White Hat SEO - White Hat SEO is the best approach to optimizing a website. The overall strategy is to create a well-coded website for search engines to read and understand.


Grey Hat SEO - Grey Hat SEO is the tricky approach which does not break any search engine rules but bends them, to say the least. It is a mix of both White Hat and Black Hat makes you a Grey Hat practitioner.

Black Hat SEO - Black Hat SEO is the illegal approach which breaks search engine rules but tries to hide this fact so the website is not banned.

[sadianisar]

White Hat SEO: It is a type of SEO which follows the rules of search engines.
Black Hat SEO: It is a type of SEO which violates the rules of search engines.
Gray Hat SEO: It is a type of SEO which is the combination of Black Hat & White Hat SEO.

[RH-Calvin]

Black hat seo techniques help to rank your keywords faster in search engines and generates more traffic in shorter time. But the methods followed are not supported by Google and hence your website can get penalized for following such techniques.

White hat seo techniques are those that follow search engine guidelines. Hence following these guidelines keep your website safe from any Google updates.

Grey Hat SEO is the practice of using technically legal methods to improve your site rankings, but which are ethically dubious, and could one day become black hat. Think of it like legal highs.