Black hat

Black hat meaning in English

Black hat

What is Black hat SEO?

Black hat SEO (also see: White hat, Grey hat) refers to SEO techniques that that are high risk and aggressive.

Black hat SEOs frequently use combinations of (among other techniques) spam backlink acquisition and bulk site creation methods to try to rank highly in the search engine results.

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