(Entry was posted by Tim Qui on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/11/2013).
Should I go to the grey area by doing a piece of BlackHat SEO to boost ranking?
Now I`m pretty new to SEO so I may be being a bit naive here. But I`m working on my first client`s site and doing some competitor analysis has left me feeling a bit disheartened.
All of my client`s main competitors seem to owe their high rankings to lots of external links from link farms and spammy content sites. What`s more, they`ve been enjoying their high perch for several months now. Shouldn`t Google have penalized them by now?
I didn`t want to go down this route as everything I`ve learned so far has discouraged black hat methods. But in reality do all SEO`s buy a few links here and there? I`m just concerned if I do it could negatively impact my client but it certainly doesn`t seem to have hurt the competition.
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