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Re:Ask HN: Have you been offered money for a disguised ad on... by answerly on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @04:29PM (#2870044)
>>a widely-used 'white hat' SEO practice.

Did you mean 'black hat'?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you been offered money for a disguised ad on... by dmc on Friday August 12, 2011 @09:11AM (#2877083)
No, black hat would be more comment backlink blasts and such, using tools like scrapebox.

I think it's called "white hat" more so than "black hat" because it's usually "safe" to do so. i.e., Google will not be able to automatically detect these links which are against their terms of service to penalize them.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you been offered money for a disguised ad on... by TMK on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @05:53PM (#2870385)
black hat would be hacking websites and adding those links to he hacked websites. :)
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Re:Ask HN: Have you been offered money for a disguised ad on... by cheae on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:23PM (#2870944)
It doesn't matter what we call that but Google sees that as a black hat technique
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Re:Ask HN: Have you been offered money for a disguised ad on... by petervandijck on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:31AM (#2876859)
No, paying for text links that are not labeled as ads is black hat alright.
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