I've been thinking about this lately, after watching a video of Randy from SEOMOZ saying how everything they do is Whitehat and that all SEO professionals/firms doing article marketing, directory submissions or social bookmarking are basically doing Blackhat SEO.
It made me think: How can ANY form of Link Building be considered White Hat? Even if you're doing guest posting on relevant blogs/websites (which is probably considered the most "white hat" technique today), you're still doing it only for 1 reason: Get that link juice from the keyword you're gonna stick in there. You're basically trying to make Google think that that's a natural vote from that website to yours, which is NOT the case. You requested that fucking link.
IMHO there are 2 kinds of SEO: Grey Hat and Black Hat.
I guess the only thing that could be considered White Hat is On-Site SEO, but Link Building?! No fucking way.
Anyone agrees?
It made me think: How can ANY form of Link Building be considered White Hat? Even if you're doing guest posting on relevant blogs/websites (which is probably considered the most "white hat" technique today), you're still doing it only for 1 reason: Get that link juice from the keyword you're gonna stick in there. You're basically trying to make Google think that that's a natural vote from that website to yours, which is NOT the case. You requested that fucking link.
IMHO there are 2 kinds of SEO: Grey Hat and Black Hat.
I guess the only thing that could be considered White Hat is On-Site SEO, but Link Building?! No fucking way.
Anyone agrees?