Search Engine Optimization Dirty Tricks….

Dear web site owner,

My distrust of your web site and product increases ten-fold when you add dozens or hundreds of search words or phrases to your web pages in order to potentially lure unsuspecting Internet searchers.

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In the example above, Word reports that there are

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487 extra words on your page (none of which are standard copyright text) and 3,472 characters total.

If you have a good web site or product, they will come. I promise. Get rid of the slimy techniques to draw traffic. You may have drawn me there, but I almost always move on as soon as I see that type of nonsense. You must have something to hide, or your product is inferior. You’ve just lost a repeat visitor and/or customer.

Signed,

Concerned about your giant footer.