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Discussion on: SEO for Non-Scumbags: How to Earn Site Visitors without Selling Your Soul

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Jay Jeckel

An amazing article and it was nice to see your core advice is the same as the answer I give whenever a client or friend asks about SEO: Make quality content and don't have an annoying site.

Personally, I feel it's kinda scummy to do any SEO other than ensuring that the search engines aren't artificially lowering a site's rank, but, if you're going to encourage gaming the system, then doing so in a way that helps the community is nice twist.

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Erik Dietrich

Thanks for the kind words, and it's nice to hear other folks feel the same way.

FWIW, the things we do on a per-content basis are generally also tied in with searcher experience: have a meta description, try to find good/helpful internal links, don't have broken/bad external links, and don't keyword stuff, among others.