On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Bram Moreinis <bram at gamefacewebdesign.com> wrote: > So, my short answer: Black Hat SEO works fine, and is worth the money if > you need to go that route. > Search engines will penalize that behavior, resulting in an endless cycle of spending your money just to stay where you are. I.e. you pay someone to spam blog comments and such across the web with links to your site. Google catches on and downranks your site. So now you need to pay more to get your ranking back. Google catches on and ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_penalty IMO, the best way to win this game is not to play. Reasonable meta tags are trivial for anyone to do and are 90% of what any ethical SEO player is going to do for you. -Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20140824/c481b833/attachment.html