Clocking in SEO

Black Hat SEO

What is Clocking in SEO

Clocking reference to Black hat SEO in search engine optimization.

Clocking means what search engine read that would not be read by the users; how this works and what does it mean search engine read that would not be read by users?

While search engine crawling the website source due to some software techniques written by the developers search engine is restricted to read the main content on the web page what exactly the users is reading and that entire source is dumped with lot of unrelevant content likes keywords.

By doing this as search engine gives more preference to the relevance of the keyword in random loop so opportunities will be more for the webpages to show it's results on Google SERP.

However, this is now declared as black hat SEO and these kind of activities are been seriously restricted by Google and Google penalizes those websites from Google search engine.

There are 2 major concepts of doing unethical SEO

1) Black Hat SEO

2) Grey Hat SEO

Balck hat seo reference to manipulating search engine with different content that what the user see

Grey hat seo reference to generating back links from unrelevant sites and purchasing links from sites