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Old 12-17-2007, 03:52 PM
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Default Re: Link Selling - Unethical or Just Unwise?

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Originally Posted by Webnauts View Post
If that is not morally wrong, why don't you do Black Hat SEO? Or do you do already, and I have not noticed yet?
I am asking whether it is ethically (morally) wrong to sell links. I would like to hear where actually right or wrong is addressed here ... not about whether it's fair that someone can afford to do so. Fairness is not a moral question.

Yet, it sounds as though you are suggesting that the unfairness of one company not having the money to buy the same links makes link buying a Black Hat practice. And that would make it equally unfair and therefore unethical for the same company to buy Prime Time ads.

This is an academic discussion, not an examination of anyone's practices. And while we might have strong feelings here, I would prefer we stick to logical rather than emotional conclusions.
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