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If anyone who read this was like me and generally unfamiliar with how SEO people self select into hat color I did a bit of googling. It would seem that some tec
by trotsky 15y ago
If anyone who read this was like me and generally unfamiliar with how SEO people self select into hat color I did a bit of googling. It would seem that some techniques considered "grey" would be paid link building, cloaking - the act of showing the crawlers one thing and visitors another, and purposely duplicating your competition's content so that all locations of it rank worse due to unoriginal content filters. I'm sure that's no where close to a complete list, but it gave me a sense of where he's coming from. I would have thought that stuff would have been "black", but apparently that's just reserved for SQLi's, comment spam and what not.
- dhimes 15y agopurposely duplicating your competition's content so that all locations of it rank worse due to unoriginal content filters I've been a victim of this. I would have classified it as "black" also.
- krisroadruck 15y agosome of the stuff you listed there is VERY grey. The medium to lighter versions are more like self created links. Example registering at 50-60 different web 2.0 sites and link dropping. Doing mass article submissions for the purpose of links. Creating mini-nets (or link wheels if your brave lol). Basically its like this. The big G says all links should be naturally attracted and editorial in nature. So if you are pounding the ground creating links yourself technically thats "grey".