What is Grey Hat SEO ?

[hamzakarim]

Hi I am just starting learning seo. i am confused between black hat seo and grey hat seo. can anyone clear my query. thank you

[rickylarson]

Black hat SEO means the illegal ways to rank up the website and grey hat SEO means that to rank the website with half legal ways and half illegal ways.

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[Dreamworth]

Gray Hat SEO is an SEO practice that's riskier than White Hat SEO, but one that may or may not result in your site being banned from search engines and their affiliate sites.

[sevencreations]

Grey hat is the combination of White hat and Black hat SEO. Grey hat SEO is important because it could improve your site's ranking without negative consequences, or it could cost you thousands in lost traffic.

Grey hat consists of techniques such as:

Cloaking
Purchasing old domains
Duplicate content
Link buying
Social media automation and purchasing followers

[Maria Jonas]

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.

[Theodre]

Grey hat SEO techniques are a combination of Black Hat SEO techniques and white hat SEO techniques. It is basically making use of white hat techniques up to a level where it is just about to become a black hat SEO technique.

For example:- Let's say link building. Link building comes under white hat SEO - SEO that search engines love. But link spamming comes under black hat SEO - which search engines hate. So, grey hat SEO will be creating lots of links and stopping just before it comes under link spamming.

Similarly with keywords. Having a good number of keywords is good for SEO, but stuffing too many keywords is bad for SEO and will be penalized. Gray hat SEO is just finding the right amount of balance between the two.

Coming to the next question, is Grey hat SEO bad for your website. And the answer is it actually depends on which side you are tilted more. If you are more towards the Black hat side, you are not in a good position, but if you are avoiding those black hat techniques, you are good to go!

Hope it helps :) !

[GeethaN]

Basically, grey hat SEO is a combination of black hat SEO and white hat SEO. It is making use of white hat techniques up to a level where it is just about to become a black hat SEO technique. ... Having a good number of keywords is good for SEO, but stuffing too many keywords is bad for SEO and will be penalized.

[John-Smith]

I wonder that you just started learning SEO but you don't have any idea about white hat SEO.
Instead, you are asking questions about black hat & grey hat!

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[nancy07]

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

Generally, there are three types of SEO
1. White Hat - Using techniques that are under search engine rules.
2. Grey Hat - Using methods that are not a black hat but can become black hat in the future.
3. Black Hat - Using methods that are not appropriate and against the search engine rules.

[stallonemanorre]

Gray hat SEO techniques

Add Length to Your Old Content
Buying Expired Domains
Taking Advantage of the Right Keyword Density
Careful Use of Social Bookmarking Sites
Submitting Your Website to Web Directories
Having Several Social Media Accounts
Getting Positive Reviews
Building a Microsite or Blog
Link Building Using Web 2.0 Submission

[ravikiran]

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.

[RH-Calvin]

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.

[efusionworld]

Gray Hat SEO is not something between Black Hat and White Hat, but rather "the practice of tactics/techniques which remain ill-defined by published material coming out of Google, and for which reasonable people could disagree on how the tactics support or contrast with the spirit of Google’s published guidelines."

[nikki shah]

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.

[punjabdentistry]

Gray hat SEO mixer of black hat SEO and white hat SEO


White hat SEO Techniques in 2020

Quality Content
Serve The User Intent not search engine
Mobile First
Google local Business Listing
User Experience (UX) a Priority
Keyword Research
Content Marketing
Schema Markup
High Quality Link Building

[RosieYingling]

Grey-hat SEO could be the tradition of using technically legal procedures to enhance your site ranks, but which can be dubious, and can one day become shameful hat. Consider it.

[ehostingpk]

Gray Hat SEO is an SEO practice that's riskier than White Hat SEO.
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[yuva12]

Gray Hat SEO is an SEO practice that's riskier than White Hat SEO, but one that may or may not result in your site being banned from search engines and their affiliate sites.

[knitotticacloth]

Grey Hat SEO is used to rank our web pages on SERPs quickly. Grey Hat SEO is riskier than White Hat SEO. Grey Hat SEO is a combination of both White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO.

The following are the techniques used for Grey Hat SEO.

Copy content.
Spin content.
Social media profiles Automation.
Personal Backlink Network(PNB).
Cloaking.
Using Old Domains.
Fake Reviews.
Keyword Stuffing, etc.,

[GeethaN]

Basically, grey hat SEO is a combination of black hat SEO and white hat SEO. It is making use of white hat techniques up to a level where it is just about to become a black hat SEO technique. ... Having a good number of keywords is good for SEO, but stuffing too many keywords is bad for SEO and will be penalized.

[godwin]

A grey hat is a computer hacker or computer security expert who may sometimes violate laws or typical ethical standards, but does not have the malicious intent typical of a black hat hacker. The term came into use in the late 1990s, derived from the concepts of "white hat" and "black hat" hackers.

[sandra125]

Grey Hat SEO is a combination of Black Hat SEO and White Hat SEO. This technique neither Black Hat and nor White Hat.

[juliaalan]

It is what its name suggests. It’s somewhere in the middle of white and black and if used by a professional, can still be effective. However, it’s safe to say that taking a grey hat approach is playing with fire if you’re not 100% sure of what you’re doing and since we’re predominantly content-led now, it’s not something I would recommend.

Grey hat consists of techniques such as:

Cloaking
Purchasing old domains
Duplicate content
Link buying
Social media automation and purchasing followers


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[drjagpal]

Grey hat SEO techniques are a combination of Black Hat SEO techniques and white hat SEO techniques. It is basically making use of white hat techniques up to a level where it is just about to become a black hat SEO technique.
Grey hat consists of techniques such as:
Cloaking
Purchasing old domains
Duplicate content
Link buying

[jesica]

Grey hat SEO is the combination of both white hat and black hat SEO. It is an illegal method to increase page rank and traffic.

[Propertyseo2020]

Gray Hat SEO is difficult to define. In the words of SEO Consultant John Andrews, Gray Hat SEO is not something between Black Hat and White Hat, but rather "the practice of tactics/techniques which remain ill-defined by published material coming out of Google, and for which reasonable people could disagree on how the tactics support or contrast with the spirit of Google’s published guidelines."

[aasthabeauty]

Gray hat SEO does not follow guide line of search engines.

Add Length to Your Old Content
Buying Expired Domains
Using Private Blogging Network
Careful Use of Social Bookmarking Sites
Submitting Your Website to Web Directories

[yuva12]

Whitehat+blackhat

[TataWiron]

There are two techniques in SEO.
1. Whitehat SEO Technique: Techniques and the best practices, which is adviced by the search engines to rank higher in search engine results page.
2. Blackhat SEO Technique: Techniques and the practices which is not adviced by the search engines. Manipulating the search engine with blackhat techniques to rank higher in results page but there is a chance of being penalized by search engines.
3. Greyhat SEO Technique: It is a mixture of both whitehat and blackhat techniques to rank in the results page without being penalized.

Hope it helps.

[GeethaN]

A grey hat is a computer hacker or computer security expert who may sometimes violate laws or typical ethical standards, but does not have the malicious intent typical of a black hat hacker. The term came into use in the late 1990s, derived from the concepts of "white hat" and "black hat" hackers.

[Propertyseo2020]

Grey hat SEO techniques are a combination of Black Hat SEO techniques and white hat SEO techniques. It is basically making use of white hat techniques up to a level where it is just about to become a black hat SEO technique.