Comments on: When White Hat SEO Turns Black

By: SEO White Hats

SEO White Hats — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:31:46 +0000

Great point Nelson! White Hat SEO isn’t just about the techniques that you execute, but it is also a overall way of how you run your SEO company.

To this point, we have an internal moral committee that will review the business that we are potentially doing business with AFTER our initial sales call but before we submit a proposal. I am not trying to say that we are above ‘reproach’, but we not try to stay White Hat with our SEO, but also with our business relationships.

Great Post!

By: Email Marketing Tools

Email Marketing Tools — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:05:09 +0000

Useful information for SEO beginners. This is really a great topic, improving my PR. Thanks for sharing

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:22:51 +0000

I guess it comes down to the individuals morals. Personally I wouldn’t work for gambling or tobacco companies, they’ve been deceiving people for years.

By: Nelson James

Nelson James — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:49:48 +0000

Interesting thought. I think that “white hat” spans a little further than just creating something of value that people will naturally link to. If that were the case, would any type of off-page optimization be considered black?

We have a lot of clients that have something of value to a particular niche, but they struggle to build natural links because they either have no visibility or their particular demographic isn’t internet savvy enough to link out. For these clients, it becomes almost a necessity to supplement the ‘natural’ links with what I would define as a white hat link building campaign.

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:03:53 +0000

If some page is on first page of Google thanks to white page SEO techniques, this means it received lots of natural white hat backlinks. The only way to receive natural backlinks is to have something of value that people will link to. So if ther eis no content of value that you’re promoting, you’re not actually doing white hat SEO, or are you?

By: Brett Widmann

Brett Widmann — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:48:07 +0000

I am happy you decided to dig deeper on this company. I get the feeling that this will become a rising trend for scam companies trying to make a quick dollar. If I were given the opportunity to work with a scam company, I would turn down the offer and state that it impacts my moral and ethic integrity as an SEO provider. Let the company attempt to find someone else to do their dirty work. Karma will return the favor in the future.