Hat SEO

What do you mean your not ‘SOCIAL MARKETING’, your kidding right…

Most of you found this in the end from ‘social media marketing‘ even if you though it was from search engine listings, even if you click a link from Google’s natural search listings. None of this has a single thing to do with your ‘not being a social marketer’. If you have any social profile at all whatsoever you are by default a part of the world wide webs sphere of social media search marketing. Period.

The true question is….

What color black hat seo smo marketer are you? Ok little joke there and if your one of the social website socializing happy go luck anti marketing types you just laughed. On the other hand I bet most of you get it for another reason. Every time you try to promote a website share a webpage buzz about a blog post, your potentially spamming someone. So back to the question, what color seo hat do you have on?

Need help here’s the listing of basic search engine optimization hats adjusted to the social networking side.

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• White Hat Social Marketing

White hat social networking is pretty basic and relatively spam free. Most people have more than one webpage or social profile and try to share with friends. Simple links on your own profile and direct mail invites would be your most common ’social marketing’ habits. While in most cases this type of whitehat marketing is not looked at in that way, on occasional emailing uncle Bubba or high school buddy Bob will get somebody irked. In general you don’t think of what your doing as marketing of anything, your just trying to ‘keep in touch’.

• No Hat Social Marketing

WOW No Hat SEO or no hat smo, what an odd concept. Yet this is the greatest mass of people online. The huge millions everyone of us who fall into any level would really want to look at what we market. The average no hat social network marketer is a normal web user. Most likely to have Myspace Digg or Stumble with mixed social or multiple bookmarks online. No hat social marketers will share sometimes at an unbelievable rate. Send emails, leave comments, post links, and really suggest everything they find cool online socially to everyone they know. Many even go so far as to blog or participate in online money making plans. No hat marketers almost always have paypal and eBay accounts to.

• Gray Hat Social Marketing

Gray hats, oh boy now this is the fun part. Grey hat social network marketing happens, it happens alot. As close to the verge of ’spam’ marketing as you can get without being a spammer. Almost any person with a blog and every person with a website will fall into the grey hat social marketer class. Why your thinking, because your not a gray hat marketer and you have one of those? wrong, every person with a website, every blogger, every person with something to gain from a website being seen, is by default a gray hat smo marketer. If you submit more than one link to any site, your actively gray hat socializing, any time you ever asked someone to bookmark subscribe or link to anything, you became a grey hat. On the bright side hats of grey in social networks are ok. Just don’t push to far and everyone is happy with your networking instead of pestered by your marketing.

• Blue Hat Social Marketing

Blue hat marketing is the last edge of decency online similar to bluehat seo. Blue hat social marketing is pretty much constant. Posting almost all links to benefit yourself. Emailing contacts and socializing constantly to promote your own ends. The field of blue hat marketing can be itself many shades of good or bad just like in seo. Blue hat marketing is more a definition of how much your marketing compared to sharing.

• Black Hat Social Marketing

Blackhat marketing once again is the very bottom of the bucket, yet in the social network scene blackhat is the worst you can get. Myspace has the worst blackhat social marketing backed up by blogs. Constant spam and trash links almost ruining your time online. Black hats social networkers send porn malware and download. They mass bulletin, blast comments and flood the social network scenes for days trying to squeeze every buck they can off the web. Unlike black hat seo’s who at least seem to have some human decency left in the majority of practitioners of blackhat optimization. Social marketers of the black hat type are pretty much bottom feeding dirt bags, not the guy you EVER want talking to the neighborhood kids.

That’s all for now folks keep your hat clean if your cant keep it light.

So remember if you have EVER told a friend, bookmarked a URL, linked an image, sent someone a link, posted a link, used a shoutbox, have any social network or bookmarking acct whatsoever. You have an SMO Hat, now at least, you know your seo hats color. ^_^