lots0 wrote:
What you and some others call “black hat” is not really against googles guidelines, that is the point.
You put quotes around black hat like it’s made up, so I’ll use a different phrase. Unethical search engine optimization is against Googles guidlines. If they don’t hold true consistantly then they are, one could argue, using propaganda in order to clean up the internet. Hence the threads suggestive subject.