Is black hat SEO legal?

It is legal. Maybe not morally right, but there really isn't anything illegal about it unless you make it that way. It is just about tricking multiple services through proxies and other services to make money quicker.
 
Yes black hat is illegal techniques.Ideal Way of doing SEO work is white hat.In black hat people are using the unwanted techniques to generate the fast results.But these results are not for long term.Once Google find then it is not good for that website.So always use the white hat techniques to generate the long term results.
 
Blackhat is illegal and frowned upon by the search engines. Use it if you'd like to but don't cry when search engines ban you for using it.
 
White hat SEO is safe and best practices recommended by the search engines like Google Yahoo and Bing. Black hat techniques are wrong doings and used to cheat search engines to get higher rankings. So what? If Google Yahoo or Bing finds out that you are using black hat SEO, they will punish you. How? They can either throw out your website from their web index or punt to the bottom of the results.
 
Blackhat SEO isn't illegal as in breaking the law. It's also not immoral. Blackhat SEO is against the term of agreement of the search engine or web 2.0 property. That's it.
 
I agree with Tara. I don't think it's morally wrong either, and you will definitely never go to jail for it. It just isn't quite ethical if you really care to preserve the integrity of the Internet marketing industry, I suppose. It's also a good way to screw yourself over if you want to maintain high search engine rankings. In the end, it will catch up to you, but don't expect to have the FBI knocking at your door or a priest shaming you for it. Just expect for your sites to fall off of the search engine rankings.
 
I think black hat SEO is an illegal technique. All techniques that are included in it are not tolerated by Google. When you implement black hat SEO to a website of course it will increase your site rank but If search engines detect that anyone has used black hat techniques for their website, they can ban the site. So avoid it.
 
NO it's not ILLEGAL. It's just a seo method where people try to have fast results. Black hat seo techniques are effective if you know how to use them.
 
It's not illegal, as long as you don't hack into someone else's site to reach your goal. It will probably get you blacklisted by Google, maybe other search engines or even some browsers, but other than that... meh.
 
The SEO rules is given by search engine's webmaster guidelines. all websites must follows that website rules and regulations otherwise search engine consider as illegal and give low rank. These illegal rules are called blackhat seo techniques, the search engine punish when your website follows such blackhat seo techniques.
 
Black Hat SEO is used for aggressive SEO strategies and techniques which focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines rules.
 
It's not illegal as in against international law. There is no task force that will arrest you for using black hat SEO techniques, unless you do something really serious like hack into NASA's servers so you can add backlinks on their site!

You may be penalised by search engines if they find out, but that just means you will be virtually unsearchable and need to rebuild your site again :/
 
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