What are white hat seo techniques?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Ryan Jones: Figure out what people are searching for and build something to solve their problem/needs better than the other things out there. Do it while using the language they use and with good clean code. Then do real marketing and people will start talking about you and linking to you
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  Paul David: what Google finds acceptable...
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  Ivan David Lippens: "Hope" is the #1 White Hat SEO Technique.
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  Adam J. Humphreys: Content, intent of search, site structure, inbound links, citations.. the list goes on and on.
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  Kjell Max Westfehling: Adam J. Humphreys What are the Citation techniques you could suggest please if I may ask, please share. Many thanks.
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  Adam J. Humphreys: I would say Local SEO is something you`ll want to Google because there`s too many things to discuss in a comment.
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  Mohammad Athar: Find long tail keywords using free keyword research tool explorekeywords.comEXPLOREKEYWORDS.COMExplore Keywords • The Ultimate Keyword Research ToolExplore Keywords • The Ultimate Keyword Research Tool
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  Chris Loeser: The opposite of black hat...
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  Zortzis Kabir: The organic strategy of SEO.