A fork of Rural Dictionary
(Somebody using) optimization tricks that artificially boost search engines rankings, using methods that usually break the search engines' TOS. Examples of blackhat techniques are cloaking, stuffing pages with keywords or links and using unnatural redirects. The term was inspired by old western movies' villains always using a black cowboy hat.
See also SEO Spam and black hat SEO.
(Somebody using) optimization tricks that artificially boost search engines rankings, using methods that usually break the search engines' TOS. Examples of blackhat techniques are cloaking, stuffing pages with keywords or links and using unnatural redirects. The term was inspired by old western movies' villains always wearing a black cowboy hat.
Ref.: SEO Spam and black hat SEO.
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