Do you use Black Hat SEO?

[Patrick_Kane]

Is anyone here using Black Hat SEO?
Why do you use it?
What are the advantages before White Hat SEO?

[RH-Calvin]

No I do not use black hat techniques as Google can penalize my webpages for such techniques.

[manisha]

No, we don't use black hat techniques. It will effect search engine rankings and get penalised by google.

[rubymedicalcenter]

Black hat SEO refers to a set of practices that are used to increases a site or page's rank in search engines through means that violate the search engines; terms of service. Click through to learn the various ins and outs of black hat SEO.

Cloaking
Hidden links
Spam blog commenting
Article Spinning
Doorway Pages
Link Schemes

[RuskinF]

We have never used Black Hat techniques but we have used, what people call, grey hat techniques.
In that get links by posting on forums. Google advises against doing that.
Google doesn't like people who try to game the algorithm.
The definition of Black Hat changes from time to time as new practices are discovered and not enough people know about it.
Some practices that were White Hat a few years ago are Black Hat now.