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		daigoba66 on Feb 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Robots.txt I always thought SEO was supposed to be a cat/mouse game. The search engine tries to balance the search results fairly. The SEO consultant tries to game the system and get certain links to appear ranked higher, whether fair or not. Isn't that just how this works?

perlgeek on Feb 11, 2013 [–]

gaming the system is blackhat SEO. There's also supposed to be the SEO business where you actually improve the site's quality, indexability and speed.

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