A Search Engine Optimization contest? Say it isn’t so!

It was only a matter of time, really, before SEO consultants (mostly Search Engine Optimization bottomfeeders) cobbled together a contest to promote their dubious wares.

<hucksterism>Want to fake your way to the top of search engine listings and hoodwink the masses for a brief moment? No need to actually write about or sell or be even strongly related to the topic people are interested in (such as Nigritude Ultramarine , which you plainly have nothing to do with), just pay us the cash and we’ll tell you what to do. Ride to riches on the backs of thousands of annoyed web searchers!</hucksterism>

How better to wipe the eye of the SEO folks than to go them one better, in an honest and straightforward manner? Anil Dash would like to, and by linking to his Nigritude Ultramarine post with the phrase “Nigritude Ultramarine,” you’d be helping him show that favorable, honestly-begotten linkage and scads of clean, relevant text are the truthful non-optimization.

Naturally, you wouldn’t want to speculate too wildly about the meaning of a phrase such as Nigritude Ultramarine , since to do so might result in unlucky thoughts.

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