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Moral Judgments in SEO
9/5/2011 As a non professional SEO - that is, I don't do SEO as a way to earn my bread - I believe that I've maintained somewhat of an objective, outside perspective. There's a tone that continues to describe the undercurrent in the SEO industry: Good versus Evil. But, can and should moral judgments be ascribed to a method such as Black Hat or White Hat?