Comments on: 4 Black Hat SEO Techniques to Avoid: How to Build Traffic the Right Way

By: Ben Ustick

Ben Ustick — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:36:22 +0000

Hey Daniel,
Great post. I think it’s important to remind people to avoid black hat techniques. These sort of strategies don’t result in any long term value and on the flip side can do significant damage to a site’s rankings. If you focus on creating quality content that adds value to your niche, everything else should fall into place. Anyway, I thought this would be useful for our blog readers, so I included your post in my roundup of February’s best social media, SEO, and content marketing articles. http://www.northcutt.com/blog/2014/03/february-round-up-best-seo-social-media-and-content-marketing/ Nice job.

Ben

By: Bekah

Bekah — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:12:53 +0000

I recently went to a creative writing conference and it’s funny to me how the simple advice of “create quality, unique content” universally applies to what it takes to achieve success. We go to all these panels hoping for some surefire way to win publishers and readers, but any and all advice is simply useless unless the content you’re creating is actually worth anything.

There is no real, lasting shortcut that will make any difference on your path to success unless you’re will to be in the effort to earn it.

By: Aahna

Aahna — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:40:03 +0000

Hi Daniel,

Google has worked very hard to deal with black hat SEO technique. So its suicidal to now use any black hat technique in hope to get higher ranking.