What can be considered 'white hat SEO'?

Birmingham · 13-11-2006, 16:56

Please say as much as u honestly believe can come under the bracket of white hat SEO.

**monaghan** · 13-11-2006, 17:23

A few to get your list started....

Anything that's not a deliberate attempt to hide things from the search engine spiders

Links and body text that relate to the actual subject of the page rather than high ranking keywords.

URL rewrite

Birmingham · 17-11-2006, 10:38

thanks monoghan, any more specific things?

charlesgan · 25-01-2007, 19:43

directory submission, and forums signature is a few white seo.

Birmingham · 09-02-2007, 12:09

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Originally Posted by charlesgan

directory submission, and forums signature is a few white seo.

But some people would call directories as directory spam or link farms and some people would call forum sigs as forum spam, so surely it's more grey than white?

Any pure white hat SEO techniques out there?

**monaghan** · 09-02-2007, 13:36

I don't know that you can rule out a properly written directory or forum sig as these will generally have page text relating to the user's interests. A general interest forum or directory will probably have lots of different key words in the text so provide little value to the links though, however if you post regularly in a specific subject then you may get a bit more weighting to your sig links. Dumping the same text into loads of directories is likely to get weighted low on duplication.

I think it's up to the spider to find the links and the engine's algorythms to determine the value of each link. Obviously anything designed to give a spider a different view of the site is where the grey / black areas come in.

charlesgan · 06-03-2007, 15:14

if the link is originally posted/created. then its ok for me.
its white hat seo to me :P

Mxhub · 26-03-2007, 13:53

white hat SEO is where you don't do doorway links etc.

MaanDAW · 09-01-2008, 14:03

White SEOs are those people who use pure clean optimization in both on page and off page optimization...

13-11-2006, 16:56	#1 (permalink)
Birmingham Cool Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Birmingham Posts: 26 iTrader: 0 / 0%	What can be considered 'white hat SEO'? Please say as much as u honestly believe can come under the bracket of white hat SEO.

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monaghan Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Herts, UK Posts: 1,030 iTrader: 1 / 100%	A few to get your list started.... Anything that's not a deliberate attempt to hide things from the search engine spiders Links and body text that relate to the actual subject of the page rather than high ranking keywords. URL rewrite __________________ Alex Monaghan - Monaghan Consultants Ltd Web hosting, ADSL, IT & Database consultancy Custom Web hosting on UK or USA servers using Linux (cPanel) or Windows (DotNetPanel) Mobile Phone Ringtones, Logos, Java Games & more

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09-02-2007, 13:36	#6 (permalink)
monaghan Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Herts, UK Posts: 1,030 iTrader: 1 / 100%	I don't know that you can rule out a properly written directory or forum sig as these will generally have page text relating to the user's interests. A general interest forum or directory will probably have lots of different key words in the text so provide little value to the links though, however if you post regularly in a specific subject then you may get a bit more weighting to your sig links. Dumping the same text into loads of directories is likely to get weighted low on duplication. I think it's up to the spider to find the links and the engine's algorythms to determine the value of each link. Obviously anything designed to give a spider a different view of the site is where the grey / black areas come in. __________________ Alex Monaghan - Monaghan Consultants Ltd Web hosting, ADSL, IT & Database consultancy Custom Web hosting on UK or USA servers using Linux (cPanel) or Windows (DotNetPanel) Mobile Phone Ringtones, Logos, Java Games & more

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Mxhub Cool Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 37 iTrader: 0 / 0%	white hat SEO is where you don't do doorway links etc. __________________ Joseph MXHUB.COM since 2001, UK & US based Hosting cPanel Shared Hosting - Reseller Hosting - Shoutcast Hosting - Dedicated Servers

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charlesgan Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15 iTrader: 0 / 0%	directory submission, and forums signature is a few white seo.

06-03-2007, 15:14	#7 (permalink)
charlesgan Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15 iTrader: 0 / 0%	if the link is originally posted/created. then its ok for me. its white hat seo to me :P

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MaanDAW Newbie Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: at the hauz Posts: 11 iTrader: 0 / 0%	White SEOs are those people who use pure clean optimization in both on page and off page optimization...

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