Comments on: White Hat SEO vs Black Hat SEO http://netwoozy.com/white-hat-seo-vs-black-hat-seo.html Super Serious Blogging Strategies, Video Tutorials & More Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:22:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: smuigal http://netwoozy.com/white-hat-seo-vs-black-hat-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-1267 smuigal Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:39:06 +0000 http://netwoozy.com/?p=163#comment-1267 Yes, you know I have to say I agree here. Google is frustrating the heck out of me with the SEO updates. There is simply no way to reward the best blog or site like Google wants to. My clients promote physical products on their websites. There is no need for weekly newsletters or blogs or tweets. If you sell bricks, you don't need a blog. However, I still like to deliver quality SEO to my clients so I keep up with the trends. However, I do agree, we should be looking for traffic from a wide variety of sources other than Google. But these sources can also create frustration and losses. Ah well... we still gotta try. Yes, you know I have to say I agree here. Google is frustrating the heck out of me with the SEO updates. There is simply no way to reward the best blog or site like Google wants to. My clients promote physical products on their websites. There is no need for weekly newsletters or blogs or tweets. If you sell bricks, you don’t need a blog.

However, I still like to deliver quality SEO to my clients so I keep up with the trends. However, I do agree, we should be looking for traffic from a wide variety of sources other than Google. But these sources can also create frustration and losses. Ah well… we still gotta try.

]]> By: Samuel Symes http://netwoozy.com/white-hat-seo-vs-black-hat-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-1264 Samuel Symes Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:46:34 +0000 http://netwoozy.com/?p=163#comment-1264 There’s a pervading myth in the SEO industry that if you practice "whitehat" or "ethical" SEO, Google will pat you on the head and will reward you with excellent rankings. It's simply not true and not only does it confuse the real issues involved, it also attracts all sorts of gut level so called SEO experts with religious and moralistic overtones. If you rely on Google organic traffic for your online business model, you should realize that there’s a serious conflict of interest at play: your business model requires good rankings to achieve revenues, while Google couldn’t care less about your revenue. All they care about is your labor intense content to expand their database to create more attractive search results. As an online business you’re always being shortchanged: if your business goes belly up because Google updated their algorithms, Google will simply feature someone else in their SERPs without thinking twice about you. The convoluted debate that blackhat is risky and whitehat is safe is ludicrous to the extreme. There is no guarantee by Google that whitehat SEO will provide you good rankings. Like there is no guarantee that if you have good rankings, Google will ensure that you enjoy ranking consistency after an update. Ethical or whitehat behavior only makes sense amongst equals. So, as an online business, are you really an equal to Google? No, you're not – the odds are stacked solidly against you. In fact, as long as SEO experts and search engines cannot agree by mutual consent on rigorously enforced TOS, worrying about the so called "ethics" is in reality a mere pastime for self-appointed prophets whom enjoy self-righteously sermonizing others. There’s a pervading myth in the SEO industry that if you practice “whitehat” or “ethical” SEO, Google will pat you on the head and will reward you with excellent rankings. It’s simply not true and not only does it confuse the real issues involved, it also attracts all sorts of gut level so called SEO experts with religious and moralistic overtones.

If you rely on Google organic traffic for your online business model, you should realize that there’s a serious conflict of interest at play: your business model requires good rankings to achieve revenues, while Google couldn’t care less about your revenue. All they care about is your labor intense content to expand their database to create more attractive search results. As an online business you’re always being shortchanged: if your business goes belly up because Google updated their algorithms, Google will simply feature someone else in their SERPs without thinking twice about you.

The convoluted debate that blackhat is risky and whitehat is safe is ludicrous to the extreme. There is no guarantee by Google that whitehat SEO will provide you good rankings. Like there is no guarantee that if you have good rankings, Google will ensure that you enjoy ranking consistency after an update.

Ethical or whitehat behavior only makes sense amongst equals. So, as an online business, are you really an equal to Google? No, you’re not – the odds are stacked solidly against you. In fact, as long as SEO experts and search engines cannot agree by mutual consent on rigorously enforced TOS, worrying about the so called “ethics” is in reality a mere pastime for self-appointed prophets whom enjoy self-righteously sermonizing others.

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