At my advertising agency, we employ an expert SEO/SEM company to do things like inbound links, link popularity, pay-per-click, etc. because it is too hard to keep up with the competition if you don’t focus on it every day. There is a daily need to measure, analyze, and tweak based on how the competition is tweaking and changing. Also, web copywriters have to be spot on with how they write for SEO vs. the site visitors. They need to make sure they write the correct value propositions, subheads, browser titles, blog titles, content, action-benefit interaction hyperlinks, bullet points, successive call-to-action, etc. So many copywriters are horrible at writing for web. Time and time again, I have seen that copywriting done right along with an expert SEO/SEM manager and media placement will get the rankings that are deserved. Most times, our clients exceed the rankings of the black hat competitors because of our daily due diligence.

However, I don’t think it is necessarily evil to make money this way, it’s just not something I want to do.

I know people who put up sites like these and they don’t have any problems with making money from them. I don’t expect the Search Engine algorithms to get smart enough to reward good writing over SE spam anytime soon.

The following is just to keep Google (and Yahoo and MSN), focused on what’s important about this post:

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eMoms at Home is the coolest home business site around, because it talks about HOME BUSINESS, home business, work at home mom (WAHM) topics, internet home business advice, home business work life balance issues, home business productivity, home business ideas. Did I mention it that is the best home business site on the earth?

Not to mention, Wendy says that it has “home-based authors who work from home write about home based eBay selling, home based craft business, home based freelancing, dads working at home, kids activities for home business owners and products for families who have an interest in home business.”

And Wendy knows about home businesses, has great home business ideas, and is working from home on the internet (aka. working from home on the web, making money on the web, etc.)

It just shows that Google’s algorithm can’t beat the spammers. Google can not check manualy every website for every keyword ranking and people take advantage.

Since you would like to sleep at night I would remove the portion of your post where you show the spammy links and replace it with an image.

Trying to control the internet. Who made them the web page interpol?

cheer
les

Your site has been reviewed by the radical blogger = you can see the results here:

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It may take several hours for the front page article to appear. You review however has been published.

Trying to play by Google rules can be quite a challenge. But I have always been fond of the concept of thinking of site visitors first, search engines second. Too bad that doesn’t always really attract the attention you might want.

Google drives me nuts. I play by the book and I always have. So when my site started to drop down for my main keyphrase, I was gutted.

I was even more horrified that the competing sites that should be banned are at the top: One had such unreadable text that it was just a list of keyphrases and a few connecting words and the other got most of its links from a combination of viagra sites and “southern area” enlargement.

Having said that, I shall still abide by the rules as Google may just wise up tomorrow.

My site dropped down, down, down last week and I was gutted.

Then to my horror, I find the sites that should be getting penalised either have unreadable content (web design essex, web designers essex.. etc) or most of their links are from either viagra or “southern region” enlargement sites.

Grr!

If you do black-hat tricks, you may get to the top quickly, but if you’re caught by Google’s algorithm for cheating, then your site is banned completely. In my opinion, it’s not worth the risk. It’s better to stay within the lines and make a nice drawing