White Hat, Black Hat & Grey Hat — Explained & Benefits of SEO

SEO is an exercise practiced to optimize the quality and quantity of traffic to your website via organic searches. In other words, it is a technique to improve the visibility of your website/web page to your audience who are looking for answers on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Types of SEO:

Basically, there are 3 types of SEO practices:

White Hat SEO: White Hat SEO is a highly recommended SEO practice. It helps to improve your ranking on search engine result pages (SERPs). White Hat SEO adheres to universal search engine guidelines and minimizes the risk of getting penalized by the search engines. Also, using this method you can expect a gradual growth in your ranking, but it takes some time than the rest. Some of the famous digital marketing companies like MOZ, SEMRush advise following White Hat SEO.

Black Hat SEO: If you want to get ranked in SERP quickly, go with Black Hat SEO ( We do not condone the use of this method ). Basically, it is a technique to find the loopholes in the search engine’s guidelines to get higher ranking in SERP. Some of the common Black Hat SEO practices are keyword stuffing, article spinning, blog comment spam, etc. But, the chances of getting banned for following these practices are quite high, and search engines like google, bing, etc. don’t appreciate such activities.

Grey Hat SEO: This type of SEO practice falls in between the above two types. It is a combination of both White Hat and Black Hat SEO techniques. The Grey Hat SEO practice is not well defined on any search engine’s guidelines. Though the risks of getting penalized for following the Grey Hat SEO is lower than Black Hat SEO, it is not recommended. Your website may not be penalized immediately for practicing Grey Hat SEO, but sooner or later, your website will be penalized by the search engines for following such practices. Though it is risky, many businesses are still ranking high using this practice.

Benefits of Using SEO

Increased Organic Traffic to Your Site: One of the main reasons for practicing SEO for your website is to increase the traffic. SEO brings in more quality visitors that are more likely to get converted than any other digital marketing techniques. Thus, SEO increases your potential revenue drastically.

Minimal Expenses, Higher ROI: Having a high traffic volume is a prominent thing to any website. Leveraging SEO, you will be able to generate a high volume of traffic to your website organically and thus, improve the conversion.

High Engagement: The best way to engage more with your customers is to focus on social media. Being on social media gives you an extra push where you could make a significant difference. Higher the number of shares of your posts, comments, and tweets, higher will be the engagement rate. Hence, you should consistently post on social media to getter better engagement.

Brand Awareness: Have you ever thought why most of the people are not searching specifically for your services/products? Because low-quality content affects your brand badly. In order to brand yourself, it is important to focus on the content. If you desperately want your brand to get familiar, you have to use high-quality content on your webpage.

High Credibility: Many people believe that a company being listed on the first page of search engines is reputed. Ranking on the second page or on the following page won’t give much impact. Also, if your website gets ranked high on search engines like Google, it gives your website more credibility.

Low Bounce Rate: One of the key metrics on which no business wants to be high is the bounce rate. Search engines normally pay more attention to the time spent by a visitor on a website/webpage. So, it is very important to keep your bounce rate low. Good SEO practice will help you reduce the bounce rate.

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Originally published at https://techaffinity.com on April 8, 2019.