How many types of SEO Practices?

The SEO practices can be broadly classified into two categories – White hat SEO and Black hat SEO. White hat SEO as the name refers, is the most legitimate practice to get higher rankings in the search engine result pages. A white hat SEO practice strictly abides by Google’s guidelines for SEO. The most commonly practiced white hat SEO techniques are publishing quality content on the website, HTML optimization and restructuring of the website, link acquisition campaigns

Black hat SEO practices are considered to be illegitimate and against the guidelines provided by Google and Google’s algorithms. Obviously, Black hat SEO includes the practices that aim at finding weaknesses and loopholes in Google’s algorithms in order to rank higher in the search engine result pages. The most common black hat SEO techniques include spam links, keyword stuffing, cloaking, hidden text, and hidden links, etc that only mislead the users and redirecting to the sites that they didn’t vouch for