Listed below is a list of black hat SEO techniques:
Trying to achieve ranking improvements that are disapproved by the search engine and/or involve deception
Redirecting users from a page that is built for search engines to a page that is more human friendly
Redirecting users to a page that is different from the page that was ranked by the search engine
Serving separate versions of a page for search engine spiders and human visitors. (Cloaking)
Putting in hidden or invisible text or with the page background color, with tiny font size or hiding them within the HTML code such as “no frame” sections.
Repetitive use of keywords in metatags or using keywords that are irrelevant (metatag stuffing)
Deliberate placement of keywords on a page to increase the keyword count, variety, and density of the page. (keyword stuffing)
Adding web pages to the website that are of low quality, contain very little content, but are stuffed with similar keywords & phrases. (Doorway or Gateway Pages)
Mirror websites by hosting multiple websites – with similar content but different URLs
Building a cheap knockoff of a reputable website that shows similar content to the web crawler but redirects web surfers to unrelated malicious websites. (Page hijacking)
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