Comments on: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers

By: Alicia Edward

Alicia Edward — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:53:05 +0000

white hat seo may take some time to show its results but it is more effective than black hat…

By: smith steve

smith steve — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:26:23 +0000

This is very informative post. I like the way you defined the material and that makes your post more interesting and easy to understand. I would conclude my words by just saying three words “well done Matt”.

By: Anoop Menon

Anoop Menon — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:03:55 +0000

There is a lot of controversy about whether Black Hat SEO is really “bad” in the ethical sense.

By: Frederick Gimino

Frederick Gimino — Sat, 21 May 2011 06:53:45 +0000

I think it is hysterical taht a black hat SEO has come to this forum to get a link. Wow Matt things must have really been cut in your engineering department. When site A lets call it “l8m.org” 301 redirects to site B with stealth DNS. And, then site B gets “authority links” from sites like “www.4caresolutions.com” and from comment spam like “www.blurty.com/talkread.bml?journal=tommysasu&itemid=387″ or the 500 other spam link blog comments that site B posted. I say oh just another black hate SEO trying to beat the index. But when site B lets call it “psychicreviewonline.com” gets a number 1 rank in Google. Something is truly awry in the search engineering department. These archaic black hat SEO techniques really need to be revisited, in a big way. Oh by the way it is truly ironic that site B posted about white hat Seo on this very blog post. I am surprised it did not burst into flames after that burner posted (lol).

I am also sad to hear about the inabilty to flag spam links tha Black Hat SEO’s like to use to disparrigae reputable sites (You know the type GotLinks, Telalinks…). I tried to make sure I blocked any site like this in my .htaccess and in my firewall, but I am not sure that actually works to block incoming bots from following links to my site. Anyhow, good luck with the hiring Matt! I know I am not a perfect web master, but at least I try to play by the rules.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:06:47 +0000

Although it’s an old post I guess the advice is more relevant than ever – especially after the recent Panda update…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:16:51 +0000

I was actually wondering the same thing as Paul Benoit above. I came across this particular post as I was searching the backlinks of a few of my client’s sites. This actually proved to be a great lesson in white hat SEO and I’m glad I stumbled upon it. I wish I would have found this sooner before I migrated a 580-page site over from underscores to dashes! Argh, oh well. Thanks for the solid 411.

By: Mary McRae

Mary McRae — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:00:48 +0000

In my view there are money makers and there are business builders. Those who use black hat tactics are just a flash in the pan. Those of us doing things the right way will stand the test of time.

By: Deecoup

Deecoup — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:48:17 +0000

hii Matt cutt one question for u

here are many “SEO Gurus” that will tell you commenting on blogs can boost your pageranking a lot. These gurus are also the ones with page rank of 0.
You might be asking this question to yourself, “Why should I even bother with commenting then?” Because you want to get noticed! Posting comments like “nice post!” will not get you noticed. You want to add value into the discussion, and that will get the author of the blog to notice you. Ask good questions or let the author know about something that was missing in the post. Those two are just basic ideas.

is this true for Blog commenting

By: Lawrence Walker

Lawrence Walker — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:14:50 +0000

White Hat techniques are the only way to guarantee on going sales and traffic figures. There is no point in trying to play with Google, you just have to stick to the rules. When your competitors try to use Black Hat they will soon be tripped up by the Google Algorithm!

By: Paul Benoit

Paul Benoit — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:05:48 +0000

I’ve been researching a number of sites to see who links into them – having seen comments for a number of the sites I’m researching from this very blog post I thought I’d check it out.

I’m curious Matt, do you review the people who comment on your blog to see if they are blog spamming as well? I was a little worried about putting my site in the website field but figured it was worth the risk to get an answer.

You do great work and we appreciate it – we’ve been fighting the stigma of seo’s who are really just looking for the short cuts (and they subsequently hurt their client’s business) rather than working with you in order to help the results be more relevant so that people who are actually INTERESTED in our pages are finding the right content.

Thanks!