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.
Gray hat techniques are those that are neither really white nor black hat. Some of these gray hat techniques may be argued either way. These techniques might have some risk associated with them. A very good example of such a technique is purchasing links. The average price for a text link depends on the page rank of the linking page.
While Google is against sale and purchase of links there are people who subscribe to online magazines, memberships and other resources for the purpose of getting a link back to their website.
Another widely used gray hat technique is a webmaster creating multiple 'micro-sites' which he controls for the sole purpose of cross linking to the target site. Since it is the same owner of all the micro-sites, this is a violation of the principles of the search engine's algorithms (by self-linking) but since ownership of sites is not traceable by search engines it is impossible to detect and therefore they can appear as different sites,SEO may generate a return on investment.
However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, their algorithms change, and there are no guarantees of continued referrals. (Some trading sites such as eBay can be a special case for this, it will announce how and when the ranking algorithm will change a few months before changing the algorithm )Due to this lack of guarantees and certainty, a business that relies heavily on search engine traffic can suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending visitors.
A top-ranked SEO blog Seomoz.org has suggested, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." Instead, their main sources of traffic are links from other websites.Successful search optimization for international markets may require professional translation of web pages, registration of a domain name with a top level domain in the target market, and web hosting that provides a local IP address. Otherwise, the fundamental elements of search optimization are essentially the same, regardless of language.
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Word of Mouth Advertising
Straight from the horses mouth ...
If you do decide to use free traffic sources then you have to understand what they can provide and how they do it.
It can be thought that free traffic sources are as simple as word of mouth advertising. You don’t pay someone to advertise by mouth, if you go to a movie and it’s the best movie that you have ever seen and you go and tell your best friend that it was so, they will more than likely go see this movie.
The actor however is not going to pay you for bringing them to you… this is the advantage to them of word of mouth.
A vast majority of companies use word of mouth as their primary source of new clientele. A car for instance is almost always a great way to give people interest in your company. If the car needed something that you were able to supply and someone’s friend got in the car and asks “Hey where did you get that?” Then you just gave yourself word of mouth clients, because that person is likely to come into your store and pick up something.
Word of mouth is all about your reputation. Keep in mind also that the inverse in this situation is also true, if you have a bad relationship with a customer you may lose potential clients because of what they tell their friends. Word of mouth is a dangers and at the same time helpful utensil that should be utilized by every small or large company.
It can be thought that free traffic sources are as simple as word of mouth advertising. You don’t pay someone to advertise by mouth, if you go to a movie and it’s the best movie that you have ever seen and you go and tell your best friend that it was so, they will more than likely go see this movie.
The actor however is not going to pay you for bringing them to you… this is the advantage to them of word of mouth.
A vast majority of companies use word of mouth as their primary source of new clientele. A car for instance is almost always a great way to give people interest in your company. If the car needed something that you were able to supply and someone’s friend got in the car and asks “Hey where did you get that?” Then you just gave yourself word of mouth clients, because that person is likely to come into your store and pick up something.
Word of mouth is all about your reputation. Keep in mind also that the inverse in this situation is also true, if you have a bad relationship with a customer you may lose potential clients because of what they tell their friends. Word of mouth is a dangers and at the same time helpful utensil that should be utilized by every small or large company.
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Finding Affiliate Partners
They’re the most well-known markets for selling your products, or eve on download.com for free products, but you also want to secure joint ventures directly with marketers who promote your niche topic, not wait for them to find you or your item on ClickBank.
Start by listing loads of sites where there’s strong interest in your niche. That includes discussion forums, chat groups, membership sites, and of course Google groups. Don’t forget the social networking sites like Twitter, Squidoo, Facebook and Hub Pages just to name a few know sites.
Listen to the W2.0 comments going around. Ask a relevant questions in somethere like Yahoo questions and pay attention to the answers. Do you get comments and ideas or product recommendations for an information website with more details?
I bet you did... use that information, go to the suggested sites. These are potential marketing partners. Even if you don’t see any affiliate products on their sites, contact them and propose an affiliation. It may be that the site owner is so focused on his or her niche that product affiliation wasn’t even thought about.
Or they may not even know about affiliates and how we banefit business. You never know until you ask. When you discover another start-up site related to your niche, propose an affiliate JV opportunity.
They may not have much traffic in the start, but if the grow you’ll grow with them. You can also propose a shared email campaign - agree to recommend their site to your list if they do the same for you with their list.
Now, here’s one source that new marketers tend to avoid: highly successful sites. As soon as you see the big site with powerful affiliate partners, don’t think there’s no room for you. An established site has a large following and repeat visitors and the owner is always looking for ways to provide value and insight to his or her community. You can offer a special bonus or discount for the site owner.
You must have heard about"keeping your enemies close?" Same principle... Identify the top 5 most influential people in your niche (you top 5 competition) and study their websites. Look at their products and promotion methods. After a thorough analysis, contact them and propose your product as an affiliate, what have you got to lose?
Send your product for a review, in fact...send it to LOTS of places for review. Most new Internet marketers avoid the big guys thinking that people so well established in the niche wouldn’t bother with a newcomer. You will be surprised at the result of simply asking.
Some of the biggest names in Internet marketing likeKyle and Carson founders of the Wealthy Affiliate University,
Travis of Bum Marketing,
Tiffany Dow of Build My Lens
Even PotPieGirl are great people who believe strongly in the “pay it forward” philosophy.
Don’t hype yourself, tell it as it is and ask for an opportunity and a chance.
When you get your foot in the door, you need to bring out the bling... present your best quality stuff with excellent customer service so they know your an operator with integrity and feel comfortable sending their traffic to your site.
