Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'black-hat'

This is a great video posted at SEOptimise on what should Google do with black hat SEOs. The video interviews 50 SEOs at SES London. Really funny stuff - great job! Forum discussion at Sphinn....

Posted on May 21, 2009 9:13 AM

There are different levels of search spam. Some search spam involves creating spam on sites you control. Some spam involves injecting links into third party sites, hacking sites, infecting computers, phishing attempts and so on. Where does search spam cross...

Posted on March 5, 2009 8:32 AM

Last week was the SES Chicago show, we were unable to make it, but I am hearing a lot of buzz about it from the community. As someone who has been reporting on the industry for over five years now,...

Posted on December 16, 2008 8:05 AM

A WebmasterWorld member is surprised Google is allowing ads with the titles "Blackhat SEO" to show up in AdWords ads for searches on seo. Here is a screen capture I took yesterday, but it is still showing up today. The...

Posted on December 5, 2008 8:01 AM

Vanessa Fox blogged about her experience at SES San Jose last week. She attended the highly talked about White Hat, Black Hat session and explained her findings from the perspective of an individual who worked at a search engine. When...

Posted on August 26, 2008 9:15 AM

Black Hat/White Hat: Playing Dirty with SEO Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:15p - 5:30p Speakers: Jill Whalen, HighRankings.com Bruce Clay, BruceClay.com Dave Naylor, Bronco.co.uk Todd Friesen, "on sabbatical" Greg Boser, 3 Dog Media Moderator:...

Posted on August 20, 2008 8:25 PM

A WebmasterWorld member asks if there's any penalty for adding H2 text (4 words) for the search engines because his logo is displayed in an image. The answer seems unclear. Tedster responds that he's asked Google twice about this --...

Posted on April 25, 2008 10:02 AM

Last week, at Pubcon Vegas, the SEOmoz crew threw a Werewolf game night and Matt Cutts turned out to be a black hat. Not familiar with what a "Black Hat" is? Well, in the search engine optimization industry, a black...

Posted on December 13, 2007 9:10 AM

In a recent blog response to his own post, Matt Cutts has responded to allegations about the open dispute about Aaron and Google. In a nutshell, Matt says that there were some blackhat practices intertwined with whitehat sites and that...

Posted on November 20, 2007 9:31 AM

Rob Kerry, a contributing author to Search Engine Roundtable, has recently written an article on Search Engine Watch about black hat PPC tactics. He shares information about how by circumventing the human moderation filter, advertisers can display a different URL...

Posted on August 27, 2007 8:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks, Can any SEO company be black hat free from google view? Well, we know from a Yahoo! employee's view, what makes for a Luminescent pearly white SEO. Tim Converse from Yahoo! explains; Luminescent pearly white: This...

Posted on November 2, 2006 7:24 AM