SEO blackhat behavior

this is an interesting article on seo from a british newspaper's point of view. they actually set up a spoof site to see if seo works. they also mentioned lots of SEO blackhat behaviors. is this a no no for our community or just a liberal newspaper's hyperbole?

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1671763,00.html

 

I saw this earlier on - I think it looks like Hyberbole...

It also makes the whole industry (Aside from BH stuff) look shady.

 

yeah, it makes me feel as though i shouldn't tell people that i am doing SEO, when i thought it was actually a new, cool thing.

 

And highly over priced.

 

One of their 5 techniques is misusing Metadata... leaves me a little suspect of the article quality.

http://www.ecofriendlyflipflops.co.uk/ (this was their site I guess)

7 results for "eco-friendly flip-flops" and 11,600 not quoted - non exact search.

They SEO'ed a term with 6 results... and drew conclusions about what they did... this is not 3l33+ BH

 

ironic, the Guardian newspaper have their adsense ad here..along with seo marketing.

 

obviously not aware of the sandbox!

I think many people on here could rank top for something as small as that, they should of used their 5 year old 'blackhat' methods to try and rank top for 'real estate'!

 

haha! Their news story now outranks their site!!!

 

I see that Matt Cutts mentions the article in a recent blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ - the newspapers shi-nani-gins dont seem to bother him too much.

 

A monkey with a keyboard could rank for that term.

 

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA where do you come up with these sayings Mcfox!!!

 

{and did }

 

I found the MONKEY ... not that monkey ... this monkey

 

uh, Guardian newspaper has a page rank of 9...

 

ttv was talking serps, not PR.

 

Thanks for the advice, i'll give it a go