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Sep 21.2013

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Please let me about gray hat seo techniques. ?

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@jessicarobinSep 23.2013 — Gray hat SEO is a Search Engine Optimization strategies that fall in between White Hat SEO & Black Hat SEO. Gray hat SEO techniques can be legitimate in some cases & illegitimate in others. Such techniques include Doorway Pages, Gateway Pages, Cloaking & duplicate content etc.
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@garyson00Sep 23.2013 — Grey hat seo means a SEO Techniques which follows the search engine guideline & rules partially.
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@MobiDevSep 23.2013 — Gray hat tactics is in between black and white. It includes such techniques as duplicate content, cloaking, paid links, automated social media etc. This technique is more hazardous than white hat SEO, but unlike black hat it has less chances to be banned by search engines.
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@alice2691Sep 24.2013 — Gray hat seo techniques is something that lies in between white hat and black hat techniques. Yet it is more risky than white hat technique.

Some of the gray hat examples are:

Having higher keyword density.

Duplication of content at different websites.

Less relevant link building.

Paid links, etc.

It is actually an ill-defined technique and does not fully support the guidelines of search engine.
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@saktoriaSep 24.2013 — Pupils are generally thought that Gray hat SEO is the mixture of Black hat SEO And White Hat SEO, But From My point of view There is only one hat called White hat SEO or say natural way of generating back links for a website. Because after the Google penguin update we need to do work with relevancy and quality. Avoid any black hat or unwanted techniques for generating quick results.
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@aliceriaSep 24.2013 — Gray hat SEO walks the line between the white and black hats of search engine optimization.Itis SEO techniques that take more risks than white hat SEO.but if we follow gray hat your site will not banned from search engines
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@users007Sep 24.2013 — Each whitehat become grayhat if you don't follow search engines' guideline completely. So be updated to avoid grayhat.
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@eliza189Sep 25.2013 — Gray Hat SEO is nothing........... its just another form of black-hat seo.
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@rohit03_catalysSep 26.2013 — Gray hat SEO is SEO techniques that take more risks than white hat SEO techniques but aren't likely to get your site banned from search engines. They're questionable SEO techniques but not in the same category as black hat SEO techniques.
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@AK_SharmaSep 26.2013 — Gray Hat lies between black and white hat techniques.Gray hat techniques includes like cloaking, duplicate content, paid links, hidden text etc.
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@alice2691Sep 26.2013 — Each whitehat become grayhat if you don't follow search engines' guideline completely. So be updated to avoid grayhat.[/QUOTE]

Well said! Nowadays due to the spamming of the links, all white hat techniques are getting into the sea of gray hat and Google is keen on watching about how to punish us for every wrong actions!
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@nathanmiller99Sep 26.2013 — Yes i agree with him that if you want to be a white hat SEO, then you should have to foolow all the guideline.
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@danny786Oct 01.2013 — Having higher keyword density.

Duplication of content at different websites.

Less relevant link building.

Paid links, etc.
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@Honey497Oct 23.2013 — Submitting duplicate content on High PR websites is one of the grey hat SEO technique. Using grey hat SEO only gets your website penalize not gets banned by search engine.
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@priyanka444Oct 23.2013 — Gray hat SEO technique is the combination of white and black hat SEO technique. Different gray hat methods are there. use of this technique you can penalize but its less chance to get debar by the search engine. Its advisable to use white hat SEO technique rather than gray or black hat SEO.
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@markmiller988Oct 23.2013 — Gray hat seo lies between white hat and black hat seo. Use duplicate content at various website, paid link - those are call grayhat. It's not a good seo technique and avoid it for your website. Do organic seo.
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@msureshOct 25.2013 — Grey hat techniques is SEO techniques that take more risks than the white hat techniques where site get penalty from search engine but the site aren't banned.
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@kiarafernandesOct 29.2013 — Pupils are generally thought that Gray hat SEO is the mixture of Black hat SEO And White Hat SEO, But From My point of view There is only one hat called White hat SEO or say natural way of generating back links for a website. Because after the Google penguin update we need to do work with relevancy and quality. Avoid any black hat or unwanted techniques for generating quick results.[/QUOTE]

Yes it is mixture of White hat seo and black Hate seo.
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@JessicacisNov 01.2013 — It is a technique which is quite risky but may or may not result into banned by the search engines. Buying links will is one of the good example of Grey Hat SEO techniques. Using keywords excessively but not that which come into black hat SEO technique.
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@seocyrusjprNov 01.2013 — Gray Hat SEO is an SEO tactic that's truer than White Hat SEO but one that may or may not answer in site being disqualified from the search engines. Generally, Gray Hat SEO tactics belong in neither the Black Hat or White Hat group because the Term & conditions of repair regarding the matter are indistinct.
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@kpkarthikNov 09.2013 — Gray hat SEO means it is the combination of White hat and Black hat method.The techniques of Gray hat is inserting more keywords with hyperlink like keyword stuffing while doing Off page strategies.
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@miasmithmsMar 16.2020 — **Grey Hat SEO** is used to rank our web pages on SERPs quickly. Grey Hat SEO is riskier than White Hat SEO. Grey Hat SEO is a combination of both White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO.

**The following are the techniques used for Grey Hat SEO:**

Copy content.

Spin content.

Social media profiles Automation.

Personal Backlink Network(PNB).

Cloaking.

Using Old Domains.

Fake Reviews.

Keyword Stuffing, etc.,

**Copy content:** Copy content will always degrade your Rank. Google can easily recognize the copied or dummy content on web pages and this leads to the downfall of your Ranking. Maintaining quality content is a primary factor based on End-user and crawlers. If you want to maintain a copy content on-site go with a canonical attribute on URLs. This Canonical attribute will indicate the Google that the content on the page is copied. The Ranking of the website will be constant. For generating quality content use plagiarism tools. The content with zero plagiarism will in getting Rank in SERPS.

**Spin content:** Content spinning is used in re-writing the copy content. This technique is not preferable because if Google finds your content spun from original content. This will never help you in the ranking. Sometimes you may face copyright issues.

Social media profiles Automation: Social media profiles Automation will help in creating auto-tweets by using some tools. People will think that it will generate more traffic to a site but using these techniques is not recommended. Simply we can say that those profiles are in danger.

**Personal Backlink Network(PNB):** In this technique, the user create multiple websites with domain names and cross-link to each article after publishing them. We can observe the effects of crosslinking after algorithm new updates. Two-way and Three-way link building comes under this personal backlinks network.

Cloaking: Cloaking technique is mostly used to show more content on the website when the web crawlers visit our site. This content on the website will be hidden from end-users. This Cloaking not recommended by Google for website Ranking.

**Using Old Domains:** The website is not active for a long time. The owner of that left it inactive. Some users can purchase that domain which is having high domain authority, domain age, etc and these websites will help us to rank faster on SERPS.

**Fake Reviews:** Getting reviews from a fake account or multiple accounts can easily be recognized by Google using an IP address and Cookies. Google recommends avoiding these techniques.

Keyword Stuffing: Keyword stuffing is nothing but optimization of a keyword on the webpage more than the required time. This keyword stuffing is not recommended by Google. This technique will affect readability and also on our ranking.

**Why know about them??**

Most of them don’t know the difference between White Hat SEO, Grey Hat SEO, and Black Hat SEO. Many people consider both Grey Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO techniques are White Hat SEO techniques. They optimize their website according to those techniques. They will find a lot of changes on their website after some time. In order to avoid those changes, we have to know the difference between White Hat SEO, Grey Hat & Black Hat SEO.

**Will using Gray Hat Techniques will be helpful in Website Ranking?**

Of course, using Grey Hat techniques will be helpful in website ranking but if crawlers find that your website is optimized with Grey Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO techniques then you may face a penalty.

**Conclusion:** Avoid using Grey Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO techniques on optimizing the website. Implement White Hat SEO techniques for getting organic search results.

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@warwickkkOct 20.2022 — Gray Hat SEO is the combination of White Hat And Black Hat SEO. It's a form of SEO technique in which you are following both of the techniques to rank in SERP

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