So I started a website in a very spammy niche about 5 months ago. The niche is mostly dominated by absolute and obvious black hats (plagiarism, fake products, survey scams) that buy links, buy facebook likes, use youtube bots, use PBNs, lock "free offers" behind social buttons, do negative SEO and so on.
While I'm doing quite alright so far I feel that I was almost forced to use some less than White Hat methods (mostly guest posts and w 2.0 links) to even get my site to rank above page 3.
So here is my question:
How do you stay absolutely White Hat and make sure you never get penalized when you are trying to rank in a niche that is literally dominated (whole 1st page) by sites that are spamming black hat techniques all day and google does not seem to care?
It seems almost impossible to me, simply proven by the fact that at this point in my particular niche there is not a single White Hat ranking on page 1.
Has anyone else experienced this situation?
