Circle the wagons, we have incoming

[NFFC]

"Index spammers could harm the integrity of our web search results, which could damage our reputation and cause our users to be dissatisfied with our products and services.

There is an ongoing and increasing effort by “index spammers” to develop ways to manipulate our web search results. For example, because our web search technology ranks a web page’s relevance based in part on the importance of the web sites that link to it, people have attempted to link a group of web sites together to manipulate web search results. We take this problem very seriously"

https://www.ipo.google.com/data/prospectus.html

Sorry false alarm, none of us here are index spammers.

[seobook]

Sorry false alarm, none of us here are index spammers.

although about 3 days ago one of us here started targeting GOOG (http://www.google.com/search?q=goog). the plan might have been awesome but a site name fullasagoog has had links with goog in the link text from harvard law for a while

[eitemiller]

Now I am not sure if I am an "index spammer" or if I am someone who does SEO.

[Nick W]

***You Are ALL Spammers***

...and you know it.

It'll be all fun and games from now on, G having to justify poor SERPS to shareholders etc... who'll get the blame?

Certainly not the organization responsible for those poor SERPS, that's for certain.

Nick