Originally Posted by tg989

too bad that similar content algorithm took care of that BLACKHAT SEO trick huh.

I've heard so many screwover stories from customers (who already had good google traffic to start off with) who payed ALOT of money to these seo hacks in order to get more traffic and ended up with penalized sites, ranking drops, irrelevant visitors and in some cases complete exclusion from the listings.

Some of the top sites in the world don't have "nice urls" or even meta tags and they kill it on google because the algorithms have evolved and the onset of the google toolbar means google can track where people are going. They know how many people come on your site (thanks to the toolbar) and how many people find what they're looking for (thanks to the ajax on the search results page). This makes it increasingly difficult (and impossible on a long-term basis) to fool google into sending you traffic for nothing.

content > seo.

If you have good content, SEO can help, but it can't carry your site.