White hat SEO vs Black hat SEO

[COLOR=#383B3F][FONT=Verdana]SEO techniques can be classified into two broad categories:

White hat SEO
Black hat SEO

An SEO technique is considered white hat if it conforms to the search engines' guidelines and involves no deception. As the search engine guidelines are not written as a series of rules or commandments, this is an important distinction to note. White hat SEO is not just about following guidelines, but is about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see. White hat advice is generally summed up as creating content for users, not for search engines, and then making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than attempting to trick the algorithm from its intended purpose. White hat SEO is in many ways similar to web development that promotes accessibility, although the two are not identical.

Black hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible div, or positioned off screen. Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page is being requested by a human visitor or a search engine, a technique known as cloaking.

Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review.
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I prefer to have WHITE HAT instead of black hat.

Yep it's better to use white seo to avoid problems.

Only White hat for me...

based on my understanding black hat will give you a high PR but very critical that your website might be banned by SE's while white take long time to have a good ranking but safe and very challenging task.

I agree with all of the above.

Black hat is for greedy cheats who want to take shortcuts but as mentioned above ultimately they WILL be banned. It's just a matter of time.

White hat all the way!

Black Hat SEO is optimizations that are against search engine guidelines. If you step too far over the mark, your site may be penalized or even removed from the index.

White Hat SEO techniques involve building a great website, full of unique content and promoting that website legitimately and within search engine guidelines.

I advice all to just use white hat SEO,

its safer and reliable...