Ya, I know this is a very bold statement. I’m a blogger that loves white hat SEO. However, I realize that I’ve achieve very little success in SEO until a meet a guy.

Many months ago, I met up with a guy who is an expert in Black Hat SEO (sorry that I can’t mention his name). I enjoyed the conversation with him. From the conversation, I get to know that he has a PR7 site by applying the techniques and he no longer doing Black Hat SEO anymore.

I asked recommendations that helps me increase blog traffic too. He actually shared with me some useful Black Hat SEO Techniques. I don’t mean to scare you. All the techniques are extremely powerful.

After that meeting, this is what I think:

All bloggers should learn Black Hat SEO Techniques because White Hat Gurus only teaches you how to insert keywords, use meta tags and build links. Learn it to understand the fine line between the white and black. And, of course avoid getting penalized by Google. When I first started using SEO, my site got banned many times. I wasted money, time and effort that brings no results.

“There is actually a very fine line between white hat and black hat. In fact, there’s no difference. When Google don’t like it, people start calling it Black Hat. No one set the standards of the black and white.” The Black Hat SEO Guy told me.

By learning and experiencing Black Hat SEO techniques, I learn many things about SEO especially the fine line between Black Hat and White Hat. These are the things I’ve learned:

  1. Sometimes White Hat approaches will slowly become a black hat technique without you knowing. When we learn White Hat SEO Techniques, we only learn what to do without what we shouldn’t do. When I try to build more links, I didn’t realize those links slowly looks artificial to the search engines. That’s how I got penalized.
  2. With the experiments with Black Hat SEO, many people know that the keyword density should not exceed 6% if they don’t want to get penalized.
  3. When you are building links with your keywords, do you think it’s natural everyone link to your blog using the same keywords? It looks artificial and this is where Google ‘jailed’ some sites for couple of months.
  4. I wrote a post about ping spamming. Many Black Hat SEO experts know the power of Ping, they Ping their sites regularly to fool the search engines and get their pages indexed quickly. I wouldn’t know this if I didn’t get one of my blog banned from Ping.
  5. The maximum increase in the numbers of backlinks should be less than 20 for a new domain name. Sometimes I used 10 because I was penalized before by building hundreds of links per day to a new blog.

“I learned all these lessons from gurus.”

That is a false statement!

I learned it through painful experience and the failure of using Black Hat SEO techniques. I’m not encouraging you to use it. But it’s good that you read from other places and learn how to avoid some serious mistakes.

Tomorrow, I would like to post some interesting Black Hat SEO techniques. It is a bit outdated but it’s good for a Blog SEO lesson.



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