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Fun stuff from a german discussion board about search engine optimization (SEO)…

The case. A webmaster, say Joe, raised his voice about a competitor, say Alice, who would blatantly copy his key to success. Joe claims a lot of ingenuity, thinking constantly of new ways for his secret recipe. Just to find it a few  days later copied by Alice. That’s why Joe goes into the open. He describes a general code of honor among SEO webmasters and explains in detail that Alice isn’t acting according to it. Alice should be punished in his eyes. By Google at the best. So, you might wonder, what is it actually that Alice is copying?

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A webmaster who hasn’t heard of Matt Cutts? That sounds like a case for Urban Myth Busters. Well, really, most webmasters will have heard of the nice Googler from the Search Quality Team. Matt started a blog on private and search engine issues on a regular basis. Very soon he became something like Google’s single face to the customer, with the webmaster community reading his lips. Some of them literally, probably: since a) some webmasters or webmistresses will be able to read lip language and, b) Matt started a series of video messages a while ago. These videos became so popular among webmasters and SEOs (search engine optimizers), that they even made it to pole positions at youtube.

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