Questions tagged [blackhat]
Unethical SEO tactics that are used to get higher rankings.
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It is considered black hat SEO to use 1x1 <img> images to make CSS background images crawlable?
According to Google, GoogleBot does not index CSS background images.
Using standard HTML image elements helps crawlers find and process images. Google can find images in src attribute of element (...
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Is it black hat SEO to add content (self hosted ad images) after window onload
There are about 12-15 Ads:Images(mostly GIFs, self hosted on same server and domain) and appear on all the pages. Since the file size of GIFs are relatively larger(some upto 2 MB), they have started ...
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Moz DA spam hack - how it works?
I've seen couple websites that has High DA (50+) but when I analyze them on ahrefs it shows LOW DR and some links form google redirects from all domain extensions that belong to google.
I do ...
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How can Google know if a site has paid for links
I know that Google penalizes sites that participate in link schemes. I imagine PLNs are very easy to detect, but like if someone contacts another website that that doesn’t publicly offer guest posting ...
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Backlink extortion scam - what to make of it?
I received an email through a clients web form, and - while I have no intention of complying, I am not sure what to make of it. Does anyone have any insights into this kind of spam? I'm curious ...
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Site gets spammed through internal search
I used to use only search console and Google analytics for website data. But recently I decided to try out Bing webmaster tools when I heard about Microsoft Clarity.
In the Site explorer, I noticed ...
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Did click farms make a cloned site out-perform our real site in an SEO attack?
I do a lot of work for a company in a very competitive legal services niche in the UK. Its website does well on search engines because of a healthy (and white hat) backlinks profile and content by a ...
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Unknown Spam Backlinks Linking to my Website, affecting rankings
From the middle of February 2019, I started noticing drop in the traffic we generate for our website. I heard that some Google SE updates are around and I don't really know if my traffic drop is ...
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Would Google consider it door way pages to create pages for each menu item that are very similar and allow online ordering?
Let's say I have a food delivery business that offers pizzas, hot dogs, ice cream, burritos, etc. My website has a page titled "What food do we offer" and that page has a list of food types each ...
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Is this far-right tabloid newspaper successfully gaming Google's news search results?
If you search for "weather uk" in Google's news tab, the top-three result fields look fishy. The only non-tabloid newspaper appearing there is The Independent:
There no highly-acclaimed ...
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Google index spamming with our company name
One of our competitors has somehow spammed our full company name into the Google index like this:
http://www.competitorwebsite.example/our-full-company-name/
When we visit the link, though, it goes ...
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Registering domain name, but there were old sites
I am going to buy a domain name to build a WordPress related business. When I search my desire domain name I found that it is available.
But when checking the domain name in the Wayback Machine, I ...
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A domain is 301ing all its URLs to my site - will it affect my sites SEO?
A random domain is 301ing all its URLs to my domain.
When you request a URL to the domain in question via https, it responds by 301ing to my site (also https) with the original request URL intact. ...
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When somebody is creating bad back links to my site from forums in other languages, what should I do to prevent SEO problems?
I have a site and somebody is creating bad back links in different types of forum sites. They are creating new links every day using comments and signatures. The sites with these back links aren't ...
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Can I prevent competitors from finding the links to my site by linking through an intermediate domain blocked from SEO tools?
I'm facing a problem where competitors constantly trying to steal my links by outreaching. This is also useful in a black hat scenario.
Create an intermediate domain, and redirect it to my main site, ...
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Blackhat - Copying competitor content before it is indexed
The title pretty much sums up the question. I am in a very competitive niche.
Despite having a relatively strong site my content does not always get indexed straight away.
I have recently had a ...
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301 redirect from high DA sites to current site
Currently, a high DA site is going to be decommissioned. Although separate entities/organization, but related topics, is it advisable to purchase the high DA site just to 301 redirect to the current ...
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Is it considered blackhat to show structured data to search engine bots but not humans?
Is it considered blackhat if the JSON-LD structured data is only shown to search engines? The content is still present on the web-site for users, but it's only marked up as structured data when we ...
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Owning multiple unestablished domains and redirecting to one domain
If I was to own multiple unestablished domain names such as abc.com xyz.com hij.co.uk etc... for the purpose of keeping them away from my competitors, and then I was to 301 redirect them to one domain;...
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How can report to google that the reporter of a DMCA request not copyright owner?
For a removed URL by Google DMCA report, how can report to google that the reporter of a DMCA request not copyright owner?
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Does Google punish pyramid linking and does reverse negative SEO exist?
There are thousands of online companies that sell various linking building services, such as:
Private Blog Networks (PBN)
User Generated Links (forum signatures, blog comments etc)
Pyramid Link ...
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Should I nofollow banners that leads to internal pages?
I know there is no use to nofollow links that leads to other internal pages, but my banners appears on every page of my site, and they're both linking to two articles in the same site.
Should I ...
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Is finding and using expired domains for backlinks considered Black-Hat?
http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/build-expired-web-2-0-networks-increase-rankings/
This guide shows how to identify and generate backlinks for a website.
If one was to follow this guide:
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Make Clear to user which areas covered without keyword stuffing
Hi we have a catering website one of our main niches is birthday party catering. One of our main selling points is that we cover all suburbs and towns.
It is essential for us (or at least for my boss)...
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How to solve Google cache displaying links to other websites [closed]
Google's cache is mine, but the cached page link is somebody else's when I view Google's cache
My website http://www.hldressbandage.com/
I've been unable to solve this, does anyone else know?
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Can I use completely different keywords in a long-tail without affecting my rank?
The example:
I need to rank for free x123456 templates and free y123456 themes, but I don't want to use two different long-tails, so can I use it like this free x123456 y123456 templates themes, ...
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Why Analytics showing non existing pages in active pages?
I am facing weired suitation in my analytics tool ,
My website getting referrals from a porn site and I can see some porn related pages in active page section in analytic report ( both in real-time ...
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What is the purpose of spam registration bots?
I have been intrigued by this for a while, and haven't been able to find a solution elsewhere, so I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer:
Since I have set up my personal website, I have ...
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Hidden link For SEO and back link for our clients site we developed
We are a web design and development Company. We create many site and we have lot of portfolio items.
Normally we put link in footer of sites for we developed as very small text. Some client and US ...
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Why does AVG complain with Exploit Blackhat SEO type 1703
I installed "AVG internet security", opened a page in internet explorer, and AVG complains about "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1703)" for object name
Action sports stock footage
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Can third party content on sub-domains harm the main site's search rankings?
I have a site that is a "portal" or "directory" for service providers.
We opened every service provider's own page on our site, but now we get a lot of applications from those providers that want ...
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Is it bad to hide content for SEO?
I'm designing a mobile CSS file for my website. It normally has a top navigation bar, like in here, Stack Exchange's sites. In my mobile version, I plan to hide the topbar, and put a button, which ...
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Are links from all pages in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B considered black-hat?
I own two sites which hold different content that is targeted to different target markets.
When Site B launched, I added links in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B. Each page on Site ...
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Blackhat SEO/Spam? Backlinking-blog entry has nothing to do with our site
I'm seeing some weird backlinks to our site.
For example, there's a blogger with a site that is several years old and looking pretty legitimate, but he has links to our e-commerce home page site ...
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SEO affect of a small sister site
I have a client who is keen to add a small landing page style site, since he has had a very popular URL purchased for a number of years but never actually used it.
He wants to add some content and ...
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Are creating websites for backlink blackhat?
The problem
I have been looking for a reputable company to help a client of mine generate some backlinks.
Now I thought everyone these days would try and talk us into good content and competitions ...
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Why do hackers inject hidden links?
I discovered a hacked site recently which has a div in it with a bunch of links to casinos at the top and the div is display:none;.
I understand that black hats may hack sites in order to gain ...
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Toggling between hidden divs instead of two links
For each entity in my site I have a 'joint' section (~30%), and a sub-section (~70%) which has two different options, meaning I only display ONE of them at a time. Currently I have two different links ...
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Anyone heard of 'tank tracking'?
Someone I know told me about some seriously cutting edge blackhat SEO that he called 'tank tracking'. He said that it is some sort of code (he believes written in Python) that 'sits' around the ...
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Why do Blackhat SEO Websites Rank high? [closed]
Why does this website ranks so high in SERP and also has a PR 3. As the name suggests, it promotes black hat seo and the hits on the website are also very high. Why is it that such websites which ...
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Is there any possibility somebody can down my search ranking?
If my rival site decides to go unfair way to outrank mine they can do it?
For example, like by linking mine to bad(?) sites or something?
Because people often talk about SEO but I just started being ...
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How do websites with no content rank so high?
I was just searching for, how to close a sim and I got the website (shown below) on the first page of Google. The website does not have the solution to the problem. there is just a line written about ...
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Where should I report sites that have obvious signs of black hat abuse?
I have found several sites that are using black hat techniques to rank higher in search results. Where can I report those sites.
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Is the implementation of a temporary "blackout" like Wikipedia's considered black/white/grey hat SEO?
Currently, Wikipedia is participating in a blackout and going to any content on their site produces a result like this (cropped slightly to dissociate the example from the message behind the example):
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Can a Google Penalty affect other sites with same owner, and how not to be recognized as the owner
i have a website with some pretty good ranking and SEO that I don't want to hurt, I have an SEO consultant that is working on it and I know he doesn't do any black-hat stuff.
Now I'm launching a new ...
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Adaptive websites - considered keyword stuffing by Googlebot?
I work on a SEO-dependent content website, and we are in the process of making our site adaptive/responsive. More technically, we are using CSS media queries to apply different CSS styles as the size ...
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Reset / Remove - Google Keywords
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My site is ranking for filthy keywords and i would like to remove them from google ranking/keywords.
Background:
My server was hacked using the timthumb exploit/security vulnerability, ...
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changing <b> tag style to font-weight normal
I am highlighting key words on my web pages using the <b> tag. I have set all <b> tags to font-weight: normal in my global stylesheet and was wondering if this would be considered a 'black ...
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using Accordion, Jquery ,will it affect SEO? [duplicate]
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How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?
I am planning to use Accrodion and Jquery in My website. previously to animate the contents in the website i used Flash but content (...
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Is there any server or software that legitimately improves a site's SEO?
I started to learn about SEO in last four months. Before that I was just a freelance web designer.
Since I am new to this industry, I contacted a SEO company to optimize our client's website which I ...
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