Blackhat Edit Meaning

1.

n. (Hacker Lingo) Hacker who uses his or her skills for malicious purposes and/or personal gain. Defacing websites, writing viruses, stealing personal information, and booting people off chat programs are all considered blackhat activities.

The blackhat is loathed by many in the hacker culture, who prefer the chivalrous vigilanteism of the whitehatto the blackhat's destructive and selfish tendencies. However, blackhats generally do deserve respect for their remarkable abilities - the exception of course being the script kiddie.

2.

opposite of whitehat, a black hat is a "hacker" that does not "work" for money but for what he belives in, or just for fun...

Everytime a blackhat turns into a whitehat , god kills 3 kitten

See kurt cobain

3.

(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 Spamand black hat SEO.

4.

(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 Spamand black hat SEO.