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10 Ways to Solicit Amazon Customers for 5-Star Reviews
As with any platform, social proofing a product is one of the keys to making it sell well. This is also the case with Amazon. This blog aims to uncover the ways in which we can solicit amazon customers for 5-star reviews.
Shopify Integrations That Are Proven to Increase Sales
Shopify is a common, powerful platform, vital to e-commerce. Coming in a variety of formats, this blog explores the Shopify integrations that are proven to increase sales.
Shopify applications and plugins can be incredibly useful to businesses. Not all of them may be suitable, however, this blog aims to dissect Shopify integrations and their benefits. It’s essential that, when running an e-commerce site, you know it! Some sites don’t need advanced features or know how to get the best out of them. You need to pick the right tools for the job – and this article can help!
Can You Use HTML5 Ads and Content on Google Ads?
Steve Jobs once predicted that HTML5 would replace Adobe Flash. This sparked huge debate, however, 12 years later, HTML5 is the standard for web development. HTML5 can be used across the web and holds many benefits, but can you use HTML5 ads and content on Google Ads?
This article aims to explore HTML5 and its relationship with Google Ads further.
Why A Recession Is Not The Time To Slow Down On Digital Marketing
Recently, there have been many different conversations about the fact that there might be an economic recession. So, where digital marketing is concerned, this could affect this industry, especially their advertisements.
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How to Use Google AdSense and Other Ads Simultaneously
Like all things Google, ads can be complex, and the world of AdSense can be quite daunting. AdSense is a way of getting your relevant and engaging ads out there and monetising your ad content in a simple (and free) way. However, there’s a long list of restrictions and policies when it comes to Google AdSense.
In this blog, we will highlight how to use Google AdSense and other ads simultaneously to get the best out of your ads.
Websites to Help You Monetize Your Website Traffic
What is website monetization?
In a nutshell, website monetization is the process of earning revenue from your website. The conversion of turning existing traffic into revenue requires several skills. In this blog, we prepare you with several websites and tips to help you monetize your website traffic. Who doesn’t want to earn money from their website?
Why Is Referring Keyword Showing “Not Provided” In Analytics?
Users use keywords to find your website in search engines. And sometimes site creators may want to analyse this data to see which keywords are bringing in the most traffic.
Tips To Create Perfect Autoresponder Marketing Emails
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What Is Grey Hat SEO?
If you’re an SEO savvy marketer, you will know the different colour hats stapled on SEO companies. If you don’t, you have come to the right page to learn and get to know the differences.
Depending on which guru you speak to or website you click on, on Google, the answer to ‘What Is Grey Hat SEO’ will vary. Some say the grey hat SEO techniques use a range of white hat and black hat techniques and others state it’s not here or there.
In this GrowTraffic Blog, we give our opinion on the matter and what we feel grey hat SEO is and the techniques you could potentially use.
What Is A White Hat SEO?
White hat SEO company deploys tactics to increase a website’s position on the search engine results page (SERPs). A white hat company does this by creating organic traffic, rather than paying for PPC services on Google.
What Is A Black Hat SEO?
Black hat SEO is the complete opposite of white hat. The black hat goes against the guidelines of Google or other search engines to get their website to rank higher. Unethical tactics that black hat SEO companies use include keyword stuffing, cloaking, and using private link networks.
All of these can result in a penalty to your company’s rankings.
What Optimisation Does Grey Hat SEO Use?
We believe in white hat SEO, and our techniques back that up. The reason we do so is that all of our techniques don’t go against Google’s published guidelines.
It’s important to understand grey hat SEO correctly because like black hat SEO it can improve your website’s rankings. But, it isn’t something that you would willingly inform Google you are doing. Then again, not something you should automatically be penalised for either.
It’s not necessarily a bad practice, but it is being done to get ahead in the rankings. So make your own mind up on that one.
Here are some grey hat techniques:
Increased Content
If you don’t have a blog section on your website yet, be sure to add one. If you have one, look at the length of the blog post. If your posts are 1,000 to 1,500 words, but you are in a highly competitive niche market, look for ways to expand to 2,000 words or more.
Backlinks
Creating content purely for the sake of gaining links could be considered against Google’s guidelines by the definition of link building. However, if that content is relevant and valuable to visitors to the site, is it really against the spirit of the guidelines? A grey area.
Using Expired Domains
This is a common grey hat SEO strategy that borderlines between black and white SEO.
It refers to buying a domain that the owner has let expire but still has a lot of authority because of the number and quality of backlinks still pointing to the site.
Automated Content
Automating content is when you use software to automate the manual processes required in content creation. The purpose is to feed your blog with a constant stream of content so you have more opportunities to rank higher on Google and to get traffic.
Why Should You Avoid Black Hat SEO?
Deciding which techniques to follow as an SEO company should be determined by the outcome. The colour scheme helps keep SEO practitioners in check when they are working on websites that they don’t own.
Black hat techniques, ones that deliberately go against the search engine guidelines, carry risks. As such, websites that go against the guidelines could be penalised by an outright, or partial ban from the search engine.
That’s very serious if the website isn’t your own.
You may cause a business to lose its largest source of income if it can no longer be found through its main organic source. I know I wouldn’t want my company to have such results on my back.
GrowTraffic: White Hat SEO
Our three core values here at GrowTraffic include honesty, transparency and integrity and we live by them. The same not only apply our relationship with our customers, but the work we do also.
All our SEO techniques follow Google’s guidelines. After all, if we treat Google how it expresses, your company will reap the rewards.
If you have tried white hat techniques and aren’t seeing the benefits or feel the task is too big, please contact us here at GrowTraffic.
We are a multi-award-winning digital marketing agency based in Lancashire and Yorkshire that offers a wide range of digital marketing services.
We specialise in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and content marketing! You can call us on 0161 706 0012 or send us an email at [email protected]
