What is Blackhat SEO?

Blackhat SEO refers to a set of practices and activities that are used to increase a website’s PageRank in a search engine result page (SERP) that violate the search engine’s terms of service and can result in the ban of a website from the search engine results forever.

These Blackhat SEO list of tactics and strategies employed by black hat SEO practitioners have been openly denounced on Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and Bing’s Webmaster Guidelines.

Why is Blackhat SEO Bad?
The implementation of Blackhat SEO tactics and strategies can get hurt a business as its website can be banned from search engines and from additional traffic referral source on the Internet without the option to get it back.

Blackhat SEO Practice Example
Blackhat SEO tactics are considered include: content automation, doorway pages, hidden text or links, keyword stuffing, reporting a competitor or negative SEO, sneaky redirects, cloaking, link schemes. guest posting networks, link manipulation,  including buying links, article spinning, link farms, link wheels or link networks, rich snippet markup spam, automated queries to Google, creating pages, subdomains, or domains with duplicate content, pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing, viruses, trojans, and other malware.