On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Saswata Banerjee & Associates scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Why do you consider SEO as a violation of ethics ? Anyone who has a website is putting it up not because he likes html coding, but because he (or she) wants others to see it.....the more the better. SEO is a process where the website is optimised and brought to the attention of search engines, without which the chance of anyone finding out about the website is slim.
Please tell why you feel Linux users should not use SEO techniques.
There is a difference between SEO for ensuring the search engines know what your webpage is about, and SEO for increasing your pagerank to increase your ad revenue. Usual meaning of the term and requests pertain to the later category.
Google usually downgrades pageranks for sites using unethical means of SEO as you are no doubt aware. Not everyone on this list is a business entrepreneur, and this is a free world.