After reading the comments on Rand’s question about should he cover blackhat I am amazed at the misunderstanding that is out there about what “blackhat” really is. Blackhat means you break search engine guidelines for optimization and ranking. It also could mean using other tricky techniques for generating traffic, say exploiting other traffic generating sites in a way they were not intended. That doesn’t inherently mean a blackhat practictioner breaks the law, beats up little kids, or steals from old people.
It simply means other optimizers and I sometimes use techniques that are frowned on by search engines to generate traffic.
Think of it like this, say I hire a young ladies to wash cars topless at my car wash. Does the rest of the business community frown on this ? Sure, probably. Did I break the law or hurt someone ? No ( depending on the state/province that is.. lol ), some would argue I did indirectly but thats a different discussion. I simply used a technique that some find distasteful to generate traffic.
Further more blackhat doesn’t mean that you have to do something that is detrimental to community or user. In example, I have scripts that automate many tasks that I would otherwise have to do by hand, some would consider that black hat. However none of my scripts do anything that hurts user experiences, some people have those ( ie. ie blog spammers and people cloaking pages and redirecting users to porn ), but I do not.
so.. please please please try to understand what blackhat means, its just a tactic..
I don’t kill kittens, honest!
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