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Men (and Women) with Hats

By Robert Cerff in Featured

SEO is so easily divided into two categories, the good and the bad, the yin and the yang… the light side the dark side.  Okay so it’s not all a battle between good and evil, but the Star Wars analogy is closer to the mark.  SEO is often broken into two camps those that practice safe optimisation (White Hat) and those that prefer to break the rules for immediate results (Black Hat).Much like Darth Vader, a black hat SEO will use all possible weapons at their disposal, often sacrificing a ship (site) or two on the way to gaining victory (top ranking).  This dark side of SEO breaks the “terms of service” set out by the search engines by any means they deem necessary.  The only thought is immediate results.  Sometimes these sites may show lasting results, but this is rarely the case.